So goth to endow a bat colony for a couple’s 50th anniversary
So goth to endow a bat colony for a couple’s 50th anniversary
Today’s hike
One important lesson of the Covid Tracking Project is that we should have more data sets created, managed, and interpreted by humanists rather than technologists.
“For life scientists, the freezer is the archive.” —Joanna Radin, with a very chewy thought on the “Data Histories of Health” panel that’s happening right now at the Humanities Center/Health, Humanities, and Society program @Northeastern
Today at noon EST, I’m moderating a panel on “Data Histories of Health,” feat. profs Joanna Radin (History of Medicine/Yale) and Dan Bouk (History/Colgate). I’ll also speak briefly about putting projects like @COVID19Tracking in historical perspective.
Love the new fire pits all over campus @Northeastern
What is the German compound noun for a social network’s embarrassing desire to copy another social network? Yonderlust?
Belle has that lazy Saturday morning vibe
A new podcast series from @CLIRnews on “the effects of climate change on cultural memory and why, amidst suffering and dislocation from the climate crisis, we should care about records, traditions, and cultural heritage.” Great guests and discussions.
Timely new @podcastwhatsnew from @NortheasternLib: “The Great News Divide”—I talk w/ @meg_heckman of @NU_CAMD (and a former reporter/digital editor) about the split between conservative and liberal media, and its origins in the history of newspapers—tune in!
Today’s hike
A little late, fortune cookie
Here @Northeastern we have many highly interdisciplinary joint appointments for faculty (and joint majors for students). Case in point: we’re looking for a tenure-line faculty member in Philosophy and Religion + Computer Science, to work on ethics and CS.
I have been reminded by my phone that four years ago today I was in the National Library of Latvia
On my evening run I stepped on a yard sign that was thrown into the road, and it flipped up and wounded me, and I clenched my fist and yelled at the dark sky, “2020!”
New issue of my newsletter is out: “Humane Ingenuity 29: Noticing the Neighborhood”—an exploration of projects that document the streets we live on, and that find the remarkable in the often-overlooked; plus: how to port Mayan hieroglyphs to the internet
Good morning
Great to see this terrific updated design for the DPLA Exchange, an ebook market built by libraries, for libraries, that provides open access and licensed titles. Go @dpla!
Look at what I have to deal with when I’m trying to work in the evening
All these months later, I still don’t know how to smize
All these months later, I still don’t know how to smize
I really enjoyed this book and its amazing tale of how Jewish families from Baghdad ended up in China, and was delighted to have its author on the latest What’s New podcast: Jonathan Kaufman on The Last Kings of Shanghai and how they shaped modern China.
A couple of weeks ago I enjoyed being on a CNI panel with @pmhswe and Tom Hickerson to discuss “Libraries and Digital Scholarship and Looking Ahead,” and a video of that panel is now up.
Fall is here, so I’ve had to up my outdoor social distancing game
Our dog has a new friend and he’s a total goofball
