The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Somehow it's a two paper day: this beast of a paper containing recommendations for sample citation is out in Scientific Data too! This one has been in progress for years. Joan Damerow, Val Stanley and Sarah Ramdeen were the originators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New data paper out from a Zooniverse transcription project I was co-PI on at Michigan! We transcribed and curated over 100 years of archival data from the Institute of Fisheries Research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

new paper! "We find that a majority of frequently used reference managers do not adequately support data citation, obstructing uptake of data citation by researchers and thereby limiting the growth of credit and incentives for data sharing and reuse." datascience.codata.org/articles/10....

Thanks to Andrea Thomer, @iceageecologist.bsky.social, and Jessica Blois for showing the value of Neotoma. $1.5 billion in replacement cost. The critical role of community curated data resources in @agu.org’s @eos.org : eos.org/opinions/the...

New op ed estimating the replacement value of community curated data resources and "long tail" data they contain by me, Jack Williams, @sjgoring.bsky.social and Jessica Blois. We've been working on this for a while, and it now feels both timely and out of date: eos.org/opinions/the...

SaaS (sheep as a service)

Super excited (and lucky) to be part of this grant! infosci.arizona.edu/news/infosci...

How do you format your academic #bibliographies? I used to use bibtex, then switched to a hexadecimal hash, so Goring et al. 2023 becomes #ae657f. This way each set of references can be rendered into a colour palette for easier recall and use. Here is the references section of my last paper:

The U of Arizona College of Information Science will be hosting a Zoom information session on our doctoral program on Weds, Nov 20th -- please share with any aspiring Information PhD students! Our program is fully funded and we've got great faculty. Register here: infosci.arizona.edu/events/2024/...

this search is still open! Review of applications begins Dec 1 - please share!

The U of Arizona College of Information Science will be hosting a Zoom information session on our doctoral program on Weds, Nov 20th -- please share with any aspiring Information PhD students! Our program is fully funded and we've got great faculty. Register here: infosci.arizona.edu/events/2024/...

We're hiring! The University of Arizona is seeking multiple tenure-track faculty in the areas of science of science, scholarly communication, and related fields. The full ad is here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... I'm chairing this search - happy to chat with interested candidates!

We're hiring! The University of Arizona is seeking multiple tenure-track faculty in the areas of science of science, scholarly communication, and related fields. The full ad is here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... I'm chairing this search - happy to chat with interested candidates!

Jobs at University of Arizona libraries! 🌵🗺📚 - GIS specialist arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... ** come to our informational webinar for this role on Thurs, Sept 12 @ 10am AZ time arizona.zoom.us/j/89777924910 ** - Collections Management (special collections) lead arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Our cultural heritage informatics TT hire has been unfrozen, amongst all our financial woes -- applications in by March 1, please arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Our job posting for TT position in cultural heritage informatics is back up!! We're reviewing apps now but will continue to review those rcvd by Mar 1. Happy to chat about this position/the iSchool/UA. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

We at UArizona Libraries are hiring a new GIS librarian/specialist. This is a faculty, continuing-status (aka tenure-eligible) position with a minimum salary of $63k. Link to application: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Ideal candidate is enthusiastic about GIS and teaching!

There is tons of interest in this topic here at UofA and there are a lot of communities to get tapped into with these roles. I'm not involved in this search but happy to talk about life in Tucson, moving into library-adjacent landscapes, etc.

My department is hiring! We are looking scholars interested in the creative and critical application of computing in cultural heritage -- e.g. digital humanities, museum informatics, digital curation, more. PLEASE SHARE! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

hello to the three people i know on here: my department is hiring! Trustworthy artificial intelligence! Bias and equity in machine learning! UA is a great place to work and Tucson is a wonderful place to live -- apply/share!