ACLS Launches Open Book Prize to Expand Access to Knowledge - ACLS https://ift.tt/h8jbt4e
I saw someone point out today that to a French speaker “ChatGPT” reads like “Cat, I farted” (« Chat, j’ai pété ») and now that is what I am going to think of every time I see it mentioned.
Update. Leaked emails show that the #CollegeBoard lied about why it revised its #AP #AfricanAmerican studies course. Thanks to @holden for calling it out: "The corruption of the College Board is appalling. It simply cannot be trusted, and academia must stop relying on it to make important decisions about education."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi4588
In this post @tkadlec writes about the intentionality of reading RSS feeds:
> “Curating a set of feeds I find interesting and making the time to read them feels like an investment in myself.”
đź”— https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2023-02-23-investing-in-rss/
After weeks of care-full work from the brilliant program committee, #ACH2023 acceptances are out! I'm sending gratitude to the committee (Caitlin Pollock, @apjanco, @alexwermercolan, Eduard Arriaga, Sarah Potvin). And đź’«especiallyđź’« to
@pam, our amazing, compassionate Chair. Collaborating with Pam on #ACH2023 has been the best part of my academic year.
I cannot wait for y'all to see the program (soon soon!). This year's @ach conference is going to be something special. And, registration is open! Join us this summer!
https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?id=20&reset=1
^^ check out the info on bursaries for grad students and contingent/un-/underemployed professionals, too.
Facing the Future: Machine Learning and #AI in Libraries, Archives and Museums
The recording of the online talk by @mia is available at
https://lbcone.hkust.edu.hk/sc-sem/
#digitalscholarship #digitalhumanities #digitalcuration
NARA's got a Digital Preservation Specialist opening.
Being on the other side of the country, I can't drop the @scholarslab with snacks to show @literature_geek & @walshbr how much I appreciate them on their Labiversary, so I wrote a blog post instead: https://quinndombrowski.com/blog/2023/04/24/celebrating-a-labiversary/ #DigitalHumanities
All Verso ebooks are on sale for 80% off (so about $2 USD) till April 26 in case that is interesting to anyone
In the first contribution to our ongoing “(Under)Graduate Perspectives” series, Dylan Du (undergraduate in History/Psychology
at UCLA), explores the historiographical debates among scholars of Fascism/Nazism regarding the question of "totalitarian" power.
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https://newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/under-graduate-perspectives/the-illusion-of-control-a-historiographical-essay-on-the-capabilities-and-limits-of-fascist-authority/
I’ll give journalists in Ukraine pro-bono cybersecurity guidance, inc. security keys for enhanced two-factor auth for email and social media. If you know folks at Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post or elsewhere who would benefit from this, please put us in touch: runa at granitt dot io.
digital initiatives librarian (faculty tenure-track) at university of idaho library,
this will be a cool job working on interesting stuff! If you like that sort of thing, well, you should apply!