Manika Lamba
manika.bsky.social
Manika Lamba
@manika.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma | Earlier Postdoctoral Research Associate #HTRC, School of Information Sciences, UIUC• Author of https://tinyurl.com/3v27t75k

Research interests: metascience, human-centered AI, data feminism
Call for Proposals: Join the ASIS&T Midwest Chapter Symposium exploring librarianship amid tech, cultural & political change

Nov 15, 2025 | Crystal City, VA

Submit by 2 June 2025 at 11:59 PM CT!

Proposal Submission link: forms.gle/Afs4DBG2puSD...
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Manika Lamba
New study by @hendrik-erz.de and Manika Lamba! Where they analyze acknowledgement sections of Master- and PhD-theses to determine which support systems get acknowledged, utilizing large language models to annotate a corpus of 1200 theses between 1960 and 2021
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Manika Lamba
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

@cbarns.bsky.social , Michael FitzGerald, @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social & @manika.bsky.social outline the trends in publishing in P&G compared to general-interest and other gender and politics journals in "What Does Politics & Gender Publish? "

tinyurl.com/ym7ra5z4
February 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Manika Lamba
The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Reposted by Manika Lamba
+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++

Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!
Thanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in theses
Research on acknowledgment sections of scientific papers has gained significant attention, but there remains a dearth of studies examining acknowledgm…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Manika Lamba
Great to see not one but *two* outstanding UIUC iSchool colleagues on the ballot for @ach.bsky.social Exec! Thanks to both @wenyishang.bsky.social and @manika.bsky.social for accepting nominations.

There are a few more hours to vote if you're an ACH member, so hop to it!
Voting for the @ach.bsky.social Executive Council is now open until March 5. It's truly an honor to be included among so many excellent colleagues for consideration. Your voice and your vote are invaluable to ACH! Bios and candidate statements available at ach.org/blog/2024/02...
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March 5, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Are you a researcher or programmer interested in Hathitrust Digital Library text data? #HTRC is pleased to announce a call for applications for our NEH-funded TORCHLITE #hackathon from May 21-23, 2024. htrc.github.io/torchlite-ha...
February 10, 2024 at 12:39 AM
The Internartional Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS), IGI Global is looking for new submissions. Please consider submitting your work here:

www.igi-global.com/journal/inte...

Please contact at manika@illinois.edu if you need help with APC waiver.
December 11, 2023 at 5:11 PM
2023 Winter School: Word Vectors & Embeddings (11th & 12th December 2023, 8AM to 11 AM ET)

Please register here: 📸 Look at this post on Facebook associationforinformationscienceandtechnologyasist.growthzoneapp.com/ap/Events/Re...
November 19, 2023 at 6:10 AM
Interested in data analysis, data visualization, and machine learning using Python, particularly in the context of humanities data? But not quite ready to take an entire course. Try this inexpensive, synchronous intro. buff.ly/46IMJBy #libraries #informationscience
November 9, 2023 at 7:57 AM
Reposted by Manika Lamba
Direct link to the conference page for anyone who might find it useful!

dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l...
Hey! Come participate in an online conference on #ungrading! Present your own work or just learn from others!
November 2, 2023 at 8:41 PM