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Sharon K. Goetz
@skgoetz.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Art Historian: the fragment is the norm; it is wholeness that is the illusion, and to pursue it is the condition of melancholy.
Art Historian: the fragment is the norm; it is wholeness that is the illusion, and to pursue it is the condition of melancholy.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Historian: we call that a silence of the archives
Historian: we call that a silence of the archives
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Palaeographer: It's eyeskip, a common occurrence
Palaeographer: It's eyeskip, a common occurrence
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So excited to be presenting our paper at VIS tomorrow! I have so many gorgeous examples and pictures to share from so many people. Overwhelming thanks to everyone who took our survey, and looking forward to continuing the project soon so stay tuned! #ieeevis #datatextiles #DHmakes #datavis
How do data textile creators stitch meaning into their work? 🧶 Hear from @sydneypurdue.bsky.social , Eduardo Puerta, @ebertini.bsky.social, & Melanie Tory, Thurs 11:15 - 12:30. (Rumor has it there’ll be a real piece on display 🤫)
#ieeevis #dataphysicalization #datatextiles
osf.io/preprints/os...
#ieeevis #dataphysicalization #datatextiles
osf.io/preprints/os...
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
So excited to be presenting our paper at VIS tomorrow! I have so many gorgeous examples and pictures to share from so many people. Overwhelming thanks to everyone who took our survey, and looking forward to continuing the project soon so stay tuned! #ieeevis #datatextiles #DHmakes #datavis
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✨Have YOU played powerwash simulator and then gone on to powerwash something in real life? Do you have thoughts on how they compare? I want to talk to you for a story I'm working on.
Shares appreciated!
Shares appreciated!
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
✨Have YOU played powerwash simulator and then gone on to powerwash something in real life? Do you have thoughts on how they compare? I want to talk to you for a story I'm working on.
Shares appreciated!
Shares appreciated!
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After the 2016 election I recalled a very brief history of Roman Britain that I had read, which had casually mentioned a 200-year period of decline. And I thought, ok, this is what we're living through: 200 years of decline. All capacity for knowledge systematically being torched
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
After the 2016 election I recalled a very brief history of Roman Britain that I had read, which had casually mentioned a 200-year period of decline. And I thought, ok, this is what we're living through: 200 years of decline. All capacity for knowledge systematically being torched
I liked the early CYOA books as a kid, found Sweet Valley High passe, and was too old for Baby-Sitters Club. It's nice to see Packard and Montgomery distinguished here, and cooler to learn that one agent, Amy Berkower, launched all three series
This week on The Digital Antiquarian: Choose Your Own Adventure www.filfre.net/2025/09/choo...
» Choose Your Own Adventure The Digital Antiquarian
www.filfre.net
September 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I liked the early CYOA books as a kid, found Sweet Valley High passe, and was too old for Baby-Sitters Club. It's nice to see Packard and Montgomery distinguished here, and cooler to learn that one agent, Amy Berkower, launched all three series
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the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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Farewell to WordPress, hello to @quarto.org! I've migrated my dusty blog: reqfd.net/blog/posts/w...
Nobody needs my notes on pro conference talks since 2006 (Wayback has snapshots, too), but retaining them has been a good way to learn Quarto's workflow and its Markdown flavor
Nobody needs my notes on pro conference talks since 2006 (Wayback has snapshots, too), but retaining them has been a good way to learn Quarto's workflow and its Markdown flavor
August 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Farewell to WordPress, hello to @quarto.org! I've migrated my dusty blog: reqfd.net/blog/posts/w...
Nobody needs my notes on pro conference talks since 2006 (Wayback has snapshots, too), but retaining them has been a good way to learn Quarto's workflow and its Markdown flavor
Nobody needs my notes on pro conference talks since 2006 (Wayback has snapshots, too), but retaining them has been a good way to learn Quarto's workflow and its Markdown flavor
"As with all trauma, generational trauma causes all these — hypervigilance, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem — which can appear outwardly like being a tightly-wound jerk."
"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever."
Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it.
www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...
Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it.
www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...
What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It?
Lately, I've been obsessing over the concept of queer generational trauma: the pain passed down to us from our ancestors, which we bequeath in turn to those who come after us.
www.autostraddle.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"As with all trauma, generational trauma causes all these — hypervigilance, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem — which can appear outwardly like being a tightly-wound jerk."
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Once again I am asking people writing these sorts of posts under what rock they are living that they don't just say "Golden" and then do a "mic drop" motion
The idea that each year produces a few unofficial "songs of the summer" has been rattling around for ages. But do we have a strong contender this year?
Do we have a song of the summer this year?
The idea that each year produces a few unofficial "songs of the summer" has been rattling around for ages. But do we have a strong contender this year?
n.pr
August 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Once again I am asking people writing these sorts of posts under what rock they are living that they don't just say "Golden" and then do a "mic drop" motion
"This sounds like work" is why I've skipped Balatro after only dipping a few times into Nethack, years ago. For me, Nethack was fun in small amounts, without regard for an ideal path; YMMV.
(Warren's point in the linked essay is a little different)
www.killscreen.com/balatro-and-...
(Warren's point in the linked essay is a little different)
www.killscreen.com/balatro-and-...
Balatro and the expected value of wonder
Balatro transforms poker into a mathematical puzzle that reveals how optimization culture has replaced genuine play, turning casino aesthetics into pure sensation.
www.killscreen.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"This sounds like work" is why I've skipped Balatro after only dipping a few times into Nethack, years ago. For me, Nethack was fun in small amounts, without regard for an ideal path; YMMV.
(Warren's point in the linked essay is a little different)
www.killscreen.com/balatro-and-...
(Warren's point in the linked essay is a little different)
www.killscreen.com/balatro-and-...
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For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein!
zenodo.org/records/1583...
zenodo.org/records/1583...
Princeton Geniza Project Dataset
Since 1986, the Princeton Geniza Lab has been studying and digitizing historical documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 fragments of paper and parchment preserved in a medieval Eg...
zenodo.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein!
zenodo.org/records/1583...
zenodo.org/records/1583...
Best xkcd.com/3118/
(I have so many questions! What is Amur honeysuckle doing in Missouri??--invading, apparently)
(I have so many questions! What is Amur honeysuckle doing in Missouri??--invading, apparently)
iNaturalist Animals and Plants
xkcd.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Best xkcd.com/3118/
(I have so many questions! What is Amur honeysuckle doing in Missouri??--invading, apparently)
(I have so many questions! What is Amur honeysuckle doing in Missouri??--invading, apparently)
I like this behind-the-scenes interview with the directors of _KPop Demon Hunters_, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCFY...
Kang and Appelhans say it's a distillation of, not inspired by, the general bodies of source material--useful distinction
Kang and Appelhans say it's a distillation of, not inspired by, the general bodies of source material--useful distinction
K-Pop Demon Hunters Behind the Scenes: What It Takes to Animate a K-Pop Battle
YouTube video by Collider Behind the Scenes
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I like this behind-the-scenes interview with the directors of _KPop Demon Hunters_, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCFY...
Kang and Appelhans say it's a distillation of, not inspired by, the general bodies of source material--useful distinction
Kang and Appelhans say it's a distillation of, not inspired by, the general bodies of source material--useful distinction
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"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
June 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
What the what
First trailer for "KPop Demon Hunters" movie directed by Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans (Sony Pictures Animation).
Feat. the talented Ami Thompson (art director) & Mingjue Helen Chen (production designer).
Coming to Netflix on June 20.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzCA...
Feat. the talented Ami Thompson (art director) & Mingjue Helen Chen (production designer).
Coming to Netflix on June 20.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzCA...
May 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What the what
"Weather Service staffing numbered more than 4,200 employees before [Jan 2025, but] the workforce has contracted by nearly 600 people" across recurring paths for fire season and tornado season
wapo.st/4k1Ha8B
wapo.st/4k1Ha8B
Where local forecast offices no longer monitor weather around-the-clock
For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer possible in parts of the country.
wapo.st
May 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"Weather Service staffing numbered more than 4,200 employees before [Jan 2025, but] the workforce has contracted by nearly 600 people" across recurring paths for fire season and tornado season
wapo.st/4k1Ha8B
wapo.st/4k1Ha8B
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Interested in exploring rangeland ecology, productivity, and sustainability? To learn about how various plants function in working rangelands (including beneficial plants and noxious plants) and to learn their Navajo/Diné names, consult navajorange.nmsu.edu.
May 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Interested in exploring rangeland ecology, productivity, and sustainability? To learn about how various plants function in working rangelands (including beneficial plants and noxious plants) and to learn their Navajo/Diné names, consult navajorange.nmsu.edu.
#DHMakes folks might like this
Took me a while to get it written up, but my Instructable for making an inkle loom from a tenner’s worth of IKEA items is live. www.instructables.com/DIY-Inkle-Lo...
DIY Inkle Loom From IKEA Parts
DIY Inkle Loom From IKEA Parts: This project shows you how to build an inkle loom for band weaving. It can also be used with tablets. The model shown is for right-handed weaving, but you can also make...
www.instructables.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
#DHMakes folks might like this
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NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
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"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
buttondown.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Glad to read this beautiful and useful zine on mending by @snblickhan.bsky.social and @literaturegeek.bsky.social
zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...
zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...
April 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Glad to read this beautiful and useful zine on mending by @snblickhan.bsky.social and @literaturegeek.bsky.social
zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...
zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...
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“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
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Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.