At a museum conference and it’s amazing how much this piece is unheeded/still needed in a lot of museum work.

I have just the photo for this important scientific work

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

Weird modernist Shaker musical is the sort of representation in film I have needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...

Increasingly the Venn diagram of my intellectual interests & commitments—digital humanities, book history/bibliography, book arts, critical making—perhaps meet in the region "Luddite Humanities" Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

It is the birthday of the great Martín Chambi, the Quechua photographer who trained his lens on Andean Indigenous life. www.moma.org/artists/1063...

I curate a series for Current, the journal of public media. We're calling for new pieces. We pay. Your research reaches the entire sector. Especially at this moment, when noncommercial voices are under attack, research on NPR, PBS, public, community, and educational media is especially prescient.

My Grandma Nancy was the first woman on my mom's side of the family to be born in the U.S.. So much of who I am and how I talk and my many hand gestures wouldn't exist if the sorts of communities that built New York City, the good folks of Flatbush, didn't exist and persist.

also if you are in Edinburgh and want to show me a fancy secret library, archive, or museum, please reach out directly

Will you be in London on Dec 3rd? Perhaps you'd like to come to UCL and hear me talk with Matthew J. Smith about my new book, and potentially even get a book from me without paying international shipping! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-house-...

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

I must say, this looks pretty darn cool!

It's also publication day for my comrade Char Adams's new book "Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore." It's the first book to offer a comprehensive history of the Black bookstore. I found the book very readable and informative. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734577...

also if you are in Edinburgh and want to show me a fancy secret library, archive, or museum, please reach out directly

If you happen to be in beautiful Edinburgh on 10 Dec, perhaps come to the Edinburgh Futures Institute to hear me talk about developing archival imaginary digital interactives! Maybe I will even explain what that means! Hopefully by then I'll know! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-users-...

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

in the world of cultural heritage, i feel like it's time for a public debate over the definitions of community vs institution, especially when both become registered non-profits

New York, NY: Curator, Moving Image & Recorded Sound, Schomburg Center at New York Public Library

THATS THE READ

Looking forward to the discussions at Swarthmore today! Come on thru if you’re around

I’m sorry, but if your science fiction show isn’t a front for puppet makers of the world competing to become the next Jim Henson then I’m not interested.

Reading about deep human tragedy can leave you feeling despondent. For some people, helping is its own form of solace. If that’s you, this curated list by Sarah Elhassan leads to mutual aid initiatives and other verified ways to support people in Sudan. linktr.ee/bsonblast

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

Debra Levine had a theater class do "Make a Salad" (1962) at NYUAD one semester, pouring ingredients from a balcony above a dining hall entrance, and the food services team went berserk. RIP to a giant.

!! "This marks the first time that the Museum has resolved an ownership claim for works of art that were wrongfully taken under the conditions of slavery in the 19th-century U.S."

One of the most insightful political cartoons in post-civil war US history, and it remains so.

Banger of a mail day

Novgorod Church, 1903. Love how it seems so still & unchangeable yet bellropes flutter in an unseen wind. By Andrei Ryabushkin, born OTD 1861.

Thoroughly enjoying reading my fresh new copy of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archivam Possibilities, written by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social and published by @wehere.bsky.social. Immediate classic!

PRE-ORDER WEDNESDAY!! ❤️‍🔥 Pre-order the 2nd printing of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social starting Wednesday, 10/29, 3p Eastern USA. www.weherepress.org

Magic shop ad, Chicago 1905

People in the DMV have been hit hard by illegal & cruel gov't firings, RIFs, & now, the shutdown. People working for gov't contractors whose work is stopped usually don't get back pay. USDA is refusing to use $6 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits. We have to take care of each other

Now You See It...Now You DON'T! Master magician Ricky Jay was a big fan of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which recently (and briefly) caught on fire! In honor of Ricky and the ephemerality of all good things, here I am showing off the Newberry's 18th c. Blow Book like Ricky once taught me. 1/2

When I visited @lehelton.bsky.social's seminar. Every student had a copy of the book, and most of them were heeeaaaavvily annotated. Now some of it was just them being a good cohort, but one of the first questions was about the materiality. I just don't think a PDF would have had that reaction

Yesterday I was invited to do my first book talk, and to sit in on @lehelton.bsky.social's archival theory grad seminar. Completely humbling and awesome, in the trad sense, to speak with people who have deeply engaged with something you've created, to see all the underlines, highlights, and post-its

Readers! Writers! Archivists! Keepers of things! You’ll want to read this book! THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social. 1st printing sold out fast, but you can put your name on this list @wehere.bsky.social to find out as soon as the 2nd run is ready: www.wehere.space/newsletter

If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem

Yesterday I was invited to do my first book talk, and to sit in on @lehelton.bsky.social's archival theory grad seminar. Completely humbling and awesome, in the trad sense, to speak with people who have deeply engaged with something you've created, to see all the underlines, highlights, and post-its

Tonight! FINALLY! Forbidden Newberry! It's the spookiest @newberrylibrary night! Join me at 5:30 for scary surprises in our SIXTH year of outlandishly frightening fun. 💀 #MementoMori #DanceofDeath #DiadelosMuertos Tickets are going fast, like your numbered days: www.newberry.org/calendar/for...

Well, it took four days, but my book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" has sold out the first print run. It's a small press, so it was a small run, and I'm a small lady, but I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who's purchased + everyone who might

So proud to count Rhiannon among my closest and dearest friends! Well deserved and lovely profile!

You know I'm something of a Halloween decoration myself theonion.com/home-depot-i...

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”