Goal is to show them something practical in the short term, plus the tools to imagine a more code-based approach that they can aspire to, so they can grow as code practitioners and do the H part of DH work (maybe a little more slowly but still) at the same time.

Back and forth bw spreadsheet and text editor for data cleaning and column delimiting using VLOOKUP and simple /r and /t search and replace processes. CONCAT to put spreadsheet fields into (usually) a YML template. Then I demo file splitting/auto naming in Python using their spreadsheet output.

Also me, please! Thanks for organizing.

Woohoo!!!!

And here's what I feel quite certain about:

1. I will have contracts for two books (one collaboratively written/edited with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social) in the next few months from absolute dream presses. I have won major awards and fellowships, including for teaching. I don't deserve this. And--

(With an extra special shout out to #HouseAwesomesauce @jdanish.bsky.social, Medium-Sized Human and Mom for living through it with me.) 8/X

Family, friends, shrubbers, avocados, collaborators, teammates: You all have been, and continue to be, anchors and beacons. Your support through the everyday stuff and encouragement for the new things has saved my ass more times than I can count. Thank you! 7/X

So many people have advocated on my behalf, for job stability and resources, for a workplace that can accommodate change and still cohere around what it means to think together. I'll spend the rest of my academic career trying to do that for other people. 6/X

Almost all of the dossier was produced under contract as an NTT faculty, with work that blends community engagement, pedagogy and collaborative digital history. That's also proof of an academy that has become more generous (in some places). 5/X

I'm grateful, and I hope we continue to live up to the spirit of those guidelines. 4/X

At the same time, converting mid-career is an indicator that small groups of individual people can push back against big systemic problems. IU History redid its guidelines entirely to address what it means to produce new knowledge, not just for me but for ALL of us. 3/X

It's hard to be truly joyful in an artificially austere academic world that robs friends & colleagues of opportunities, imposes divisions & restrictions that harm all of us. Division mows over our strengths & unique perspectives, making it harder to contribute 2 shared exploration/understanding. 2/x

That is spectacular.