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...

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...

📣 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

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/...

+++ 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!

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!

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...

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 [email protected] if you need help with APC waiver.

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...

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

Direct link to the conference page for anyone who might find it useful! dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l...