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Cynthia Heider

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She/her. Public historian, data & digital humanist, would-be skee ball champion. Public Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania. Views do not reflect those of my employer. cynthiaheider.com

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 6h
Looking for a post doc? Come join us at the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, which “combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture.” www.biblhertz.it/3815269/2909...
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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History
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404 Media @404media.co · 6h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 8h
CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...
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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the activity we did with students today, and we'd love to hear your responses as well... 1. Pick an older device you have access to.
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Philly Community Wireless @phillywireless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We’re hiring! Join the PCW team as our Development and Communications Manager - leading development strategies, managing communications+marketing, and supporting community engagement with stakeholders. Priority given to applicants who submit by Oct 15, 2026. Visit our job posting - link in our bio!
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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*bangs pots and pans* NEW SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGING JOB JUST DROPPED (and it's at the University of Rochester, which is pretty great) rochester.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UR_Sta...
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Special Collections Metadata Librarian
As a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora - Ever Better. Embedded in that ideal are the values we share: equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, ...
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 18/09/2026
Any new acquaintances want to grab a late lunch today or tomorrow to complete your #WorkofRevolution bingo card @ncph.bsky.social? 😁
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 17/09/2026
Does it get any cuter than these awesome digital humanities zines developed by Now & Here? 😍 nowandhere.org #WorkofRevolution
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 15/09/2026
Cosplaying as a Serious Business Person on this Acela to Providence for #NCPH2026 #WorkOfRevolution. Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones! Message me if you'd like to meet up 🍻
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/09/2026
If you’re confused about the difference between “age verification,” “age estimation,” “age assurance,” and “age gate” — you’re not alone. Let’s help you make sense of it all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide to the
Age verification, age assurance, age estimation, age gating—they get thrown around interchangeably, but they technically mean different things. And those differences matter a lot when we're talking
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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Philly and Philly-adjacent Bluesky friends, come have lunch with me and chat about #DHMakes at @pricelab.bsky.social Mon 9/14 at noon, free to register!
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anyway, remember that things are inevitable right up til the moment they’re not. “Inevitable” describes potential, not reality. It is a nightmare of the future coming to bully those who are asleep—not a description of some kind of logical or pragmatic reality, as some would have us believe.
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 02/09/2026
🤔 Not in Texas
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 02/09/2026
Pluto TV in Canada has an All-Women's Sports Network! I just watched Alexia Putellas' final game for FC Barça! ⚽
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 29/08/2026
Hope to see you tomorrow!
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Amanda Regan, Ph.D. @regan008.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Johns Hopkins + the AHA are hosting the AI and History Conference 2026 -- Oct 15-16 in Baltimore. Whatever your take on AI (excited, skeptical, curious, already using it), there's a place for you in this conversation. Learn more at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
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AI and History Conference 2026
A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University.
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 30/07/2026
Philly folks, join us Saturday for "Preserving Your Family's Keepsakes," a free knowledge-sharing event about how to care for your precious stuff and preserve it w digitization. Presented by Taller Puertorriqueño, Penn Libraries and the U of Delaware. Register @ www.eventbrite.com/e/preserving...
A graphic for "Preserving Your Family's Keepsakes," August 1st, 2-4pm, free event at Lillian Marrero Library, 601 W Lehigh Ave, Philadelphia PA 19133. Register at tallerpr.org
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When are we going to talk about how class shapes conferencing in academia? And how conferences exacerbate the wealth gap btw folks with unlimited research funds vs those of us with the funds to attend/belong to just one org a year?
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Alison Macrina @flexlibris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
bring Library Freedom Project to your library to host these classes, or use our free resources at libraryfreedom.org/resources
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Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
CFP: Public History Projects www.villanova.edu/university/l... grants up to $7500 deadline Sept 25 @lepagevu.bsky.social #PublicHistory cc @ncph.bsky.social
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Call for Grant Proposals | Villanova University
The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest's 2025 – 2026 grant program will fund projects around the theme of “Crisis Moments."
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 25/07/2026
The ultimate nostalgia event
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 24/07/2026
We work hard for Penn! That's why we'll continue our #FightFor4!
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 18/07/2026
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Key & Peele: I Said Bitch Sketch
ALT: Key & Peele: I Said Bitch Sketch
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 17/07/2026
Folks who have spent more time in Philly than me, what are your must-do/see/eat recommendations beyond the typical lists? Bonus points for indoors since it’s unhealthy to, ya know, breathe the air
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Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Sign the petition! c.org/cVMG6VvqPS
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Closure of the National Archives at Chicago!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/07/2026
When a license plate is captured by an automated license plate reader (ALPR), it’s instantly compared against a list of vehicles that the police are actively looking for, known as a “hotlist.” EFF has learned that one of these hotlists targets immigrants on behalf of ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?
When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that police have identified
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 15/07/2026
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 15/07/2026
Kinda... concerned... that no other movies have showtimes at any of my local theaters after The Odyssey releases this Friday. Did Nolan buy out every screening room in the country?
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🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊 @professorkiosk.wtf · 06/07/2026
does anyone know how to log off
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 11/07/2026
Delightful to look up from Cherry Street Pier and watch the hundreds of pedestrians crossing the Benjamin Franklin Bridge between Camden and Philadelphia, which is closed to traffic today for its 100th birthday celebration 🎂
Hundreds of pedestrians crossing the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on its 100th birthday celebrationCloser view of hundreds of pedestrians crossing the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on its 100th birthday celebration
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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you are (or you know) a recent PhD with an interest in exploring careers in emerging forms of scholarly #publishing, #digitalhumanities, or academic community building, this @cmupress.bsky.social / @library.cmu.edu role might be of interest. cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 09/07/2026
PSA!
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 07/07/2026
Buck up, US fans. The women’s World Cup is less than a year away.
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 07/07/2026
Oh hey emerging from a daylong migraine just in time to go to bed. What did I miss?
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I interviewed a former prosecutor yesterday who said this one thing that I cannot stop thinking about : “I think the most radical thing I learned from becoming a prosecutor is how much violence women face in this country and how little people care.”
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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We’re supporting We Want More History!, a coordinated day of #history programming on Sept. 26. Timed to align with #America250, "it ensures that national commemorations reflect the full, complex story of the people and places that make up the U.S.” Get involved: www.wewantmorehistory.org.
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Home - We Want More History
A national day of history in public. JOIN US Events will take place across libraries, parks, museums, and other civic spaces, featuring talks, facilitated discussions, teach-ins, programs, and community storytelling events. GET INVOLVED Events can be scheduled anytime between September 25-27. Submit Your Planned Event I Am a Host Looking for a Speaker I Am
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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Office of Management and Budget’s proposed new rule for federal grants would allow the federal government to make loyalty to the Trump administration a key factor in deciding what #history work gets funded. Join us on July 10 to take action. community.ncph.org/event/JulyCommen…
National Council on Public History logo. Federal Grants Comment-A-Thon. Hosted by the NCPH Advocacy Committee, Friday, July 10, 2-3 pm Eastern.
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Rahul Bhargava @rahulbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Funding Opp: We (Data Theatre Collaborative) wabt to see what you think community data theatre can be! With Association of Theatre in Higher Education we're offing pilot grants for faculty, students, artists, community orgs, and civic folks. 📆 Apply by Oct 1 www.athe.org/page/dtgrants
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world
William Morris designed forty-one wallpapers and five ceiling papers, working from 1862 with Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company and from 1875 with Morris & Company as sole owner. "Marigold" stes large single blossoms amid leafy meanders over a ground of smaller flowers. The forms demonstrate close observation of native flowers and the monochrome pattern was offered in blue (as seen here), dark red, or light brown. A belief in beauty, imagination, and order shaped Morris's work and the popularity of his designs helped to raise British production standards in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The cream area at the top of this sheet reveals the edges of the wooden blocks used to print the design.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 26/06/2026
Do you have screenshots of your website layouts (or links from the Internet Archice) of your 2000s era blogs/websites that you would want to share with me for a zine? I can redact any information you want, crop out domain names, etc
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 26/06/2026
👀 I can't be at #ALAAC26 but my "Ethically Making and Sharing Data" zine made it and I can see it in these photos! Congrats to those who win the raffle. You can still get a copy even if you didn't win at repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.50...
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 26/06/2026
Celebrating a successful #ACH2026 Mid-Atlantic Regional Hub at Two Locals Brewing with an ice cold beer and two World Cup matches 🙌🏻
A light-colored beer in a pint glass in the foreground, and a TV showing the France-Norway World Cup match in the background
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 25/06/2026
"Every event should have a zine-making station." - enthused participant at the #ACH2026 Mid-Atlantic Regional Hub #DHMakes
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 25/06/2026
Our local lightning talks session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Hub of #ACH2026 has kicked off! Learn about the cool projects folks are presenting on this afternoon in this thread ⬇️
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Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 24/06/2026
The #ACH2026 Mid-Atlantic Regional Hub is happening! This free event runs through Friday at Penn. More info at www.library.upenn.edu/events/ach-2.... Thankful for our wonderful volunteers! @ach.bsky.social
A woman in a pink shirt and a man in a green shirt sit behind an event sign-in table in the entranceway of Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania. A sign in an easel next to them reads in part: "Welcome! Association for Computing and the Humanities, ACH 2026 Mid-Atlantic Regional Hub at Penn"
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
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Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The NCPH #Advocacy Committee can help folks leave public feedback on the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed rule change for federal grants, which would have a chilling effect on DEI-related #history work. If you want to leave feedback but need support, sign up: loom.ly/3m7OFzc
National Council on Public History logo. Federal Grants Comment-A-Thon. Hosted by the NCPH Advocacy Committee, Friday, July 10, 2-3 pm Eastern.
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