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emily esten

@estene.bsky.social
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they/them. digital scholarship, public humanities, museums, theatre. probably listening to the mountain goats.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 20h
I love this as an example for how to end something that's sprawling, complex, and beloved. Thoughtful stewardship of the digital materials, and celebrating what this organization did with a sense of pride and accomplishment, without any shame of the "if it's not forever it's a failure" trap. 💖
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is consistent with a phenomenon researchers have documented in other contexts, namely that people believe computers even when the clear physical evidence in front of their eyes contradicts the computer. privacysos.org/blog/bias-al...
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Bias All the Way Down: Research Shows Domino Effect When Humans Use Face Recognition Algorithms – Privacy SOS
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emily esten @estene.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
accidentally requested, picked up, read, and returned a book via interlibrary loan only to realize I already own said book. apologies to the free library of philadelphia 📚
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Conceptualizing an English announcer who yells "M8888888" like Andres Cantor yells "goooal" whenever someone scores.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
Pausa de Humiliacion
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“And the building shakes in Seattle!” PNSN’s seismic stations captured the crowd response to both Alex Freeman’s goal and the VAR decision overturning the offside call. It’s #USMNT 2 to Australia 0 at half-time. #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup #SportsSeismology
Graphic showing seismogram with two big spikes at "Goal" and "VAR decision."
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 02/06/2026
a yellow background bumper sticker with black text reading: Keep Honking! I’m reading Donna Haraway’s germinal 1988 essay, ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’
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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 11/04/2026
friendly reminder that the PWHL is on YouTube outside of Canada for free and the broadcasts are good quality, if you've ever wanted to know why I never shut up about women's hockey youtube.com/@thepwhloffi...
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The PWHL
The League Legends Call Home
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...
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What football will look like in the future
Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Liminal Spaces," an academic found poem in 12 parallel acts Submitted Under Review In Review With Editor Editor Assigned Out for Review With Editor Under Evaluation Under Review Submitted Editorial Assignment In Review
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 22/03/2026
I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.
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the mountain goats lyrics @tmgbot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I got a goddamn one-way ticket to the goddamn history books
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ORCID @orcid.org · 12/03/2026
Our latest blog by @estene.bsky.social offers some reflections on #ORCID's presence at #NISOPlus26. This year, ORCID participated in two pivotal conversations that addressed how the community can collectively uphold research trust and integrity. Read more: wp.me/pcE4o3-9GA #ResearchSky
The universal interoperability of PIDs forms a necessary bedrock of trust.
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Cloud 9 | Gotham FC Supporters @cloud9goth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Shouts to the Zamboni riders at tonight's Sirens game!
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy. But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 16/02/2026
In "DSC 13: Goodbye Friends, Goodbye" I wrote about finding Scott Enderle's StackOverflow posts randomly when trying to solve a problem, even after he died. I loathe the idea of all those digital footprints of his getting turned into AI slop, and losing that trace of him in the process.
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DSC #13: Goodbye, Friends, Goodbye
May 18, 2022 https://doi.org/10.25740/jq417jv3351 Introduction (Roopsi): I literally hate this. “How’s DSC 13?” has been the perennial question in my emails and DMs with Quinn. For months, Quinn ha...
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ORCID @orcid.org · 03/02/2026
#ORCID is pleased to attend @nisoinfo.bsky.social #NISOPlus26 in Baltimore 16-18 Feb! Look for @cshillum.bsky.social, @juliepetro.bsky.social (presenter), @estene.bsky.social (presenter), and Kimberly Inniger. More info: niso.plus #Researchsky #ORCIDisEverywhere
Niso Plus 2026 Baltimore 16-18 Feb
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ORCID @orcid.org · 03/02/2026
📣 New feature alert! Researcher Connect allows ORCID members to notify affiliated but unconnected researchers about connecting home institutional systems to ORCID records. Read more on the blog by @estene.bsky.social : wp.me/pcE4o3-9zO.
Members can now prompt resarchers to connect their ORCID records with home institutional systems.
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Alex Wermer-Colan @alexwermercolan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'm thrilled to be co-chairing ACH2026 with @fronteriza956.bsky.social. The virtual conference's theme this year is Emergenci/a with a focus on transborder DH in the Americas. We've extended the deadline all the way to February 23rd, and we welcome proposals in English and Spanish!
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NISO @nisoinfo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
How can we establish trust markers for published research? alicemeadows.bsky.social Blaine Butler (@cos.io) @estene.bsky.social & John Willinsky (@pkp.sfu.ca ) will share their approaches at #NISOPlus26: nisoplusglobalonline.cadmore.media/NISO-2026-Se... #ResearchIntegrity #ScholComm #standards
NISO Plus Baltimore 2026 with Baltimore skyline. February 16–18, Marriott Waterfront, Register Now! https://niso.plus
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emily esten @estene.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
look at that byline 👀 seriously, excited to take part in launching this feature & crediting editorial service as distinct work & activity in the research lifecycle!
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
As a fascist trend, the anti-gender movement supports ever strengthening forms of authoritarianism. Its tactics encourage state powers to intervene in university programs, to censor art and television programming, to forbid trans people their legal rights, to ban LGBTQI people from public spaces, to undermine reproductive freedom and the struggle against violence directed at women, children, and LGBTQI people. It threatens violence against those, including migrants, who have become cast as demonic forces and whose suppression or expulsion promises to restore a national order under duress.
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emily esten @estene.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
today in spanish lessons: Explain the criticism of effective altruism as described in Karen Hao's EMPIRE OF AI. also today in spanish lessons: Use the imperative tense to write a recipe to fry an egg!
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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 20/09/2025
New code review response just dropped:
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emily esten @estene.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
spanish lessons in high school: let's learn all the words for eating at a restaurant! spanish lessons now: let's debate the value of European infrastructural projects and whether or not there will be world peace in ten years
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emily esten @estene.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
first show I saw at Philly Fringe was fantastic & I'm telling everyone about it: www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/phil...
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Philly Fringe 2025: ArtSake Theatre Company presents Malcolm…
ArtSake, a new Philly theater company using the performing arts to inspire climate activism, presents Roadkill Bambi in this year’s Fringe. Emily Esten…
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
student journalists saying what the professional journalists will not
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Editorial | Penn descends into fascism
The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Gritty's a librarian now thx. #ALAAC25
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🚨 For the first time since 1986, Philly’s AFSCME DC 33 is going on strike. The union represents thousands of blue collar city workers (including street pavers and sanitation workers) and is the city’s largest—and lowest paid—municipal workers union. The strike will begin at 12:01am on July 1st. 🚨
Text announcing the oncoming AFSCME DC 33 city worker’s strike, which will begin on Tuesday July 1st following a breakdown in negotiations with the city. Support the strikers!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏 @ccp-org.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @jimccasey1.bsky.social
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Matthew Carrigan @carrigmat.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I believe ArXiv and Archive Of Our Own should swap places for April 1st. I believe this more strongly than I believe anything else
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 16/06/2025
I use a spreadsheet to track all my documentation It's important to keep all your docs in a row
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 25/04/2025
I have taken the grant funds that were in your NEH account and which you were probably using for humanities research, training, and outreach. Screw you the statues will be so numerous so heroic and so cold.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Pitches are now open for our June roundtable: The Losses.
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Call For Pitches: The Losses
“But you could go work for the government! Or museums—maybe a non-profit?” Grad students and adjuncts leaving academic history in the United States have often gotten the above advice from well-meaning...
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 04/04/2025
If your grant is canceled, you don't have to just accept it. Head over to @ach.bsky.social for tips for what to do next, and keep an eye out for their upcoming town hall. Really proud of how my professional organization is showing up in this moment. Do you know what yours is doing to respond?
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bumpin’ that youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ?...
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The Coup - "The Guillotine"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
On every day, of course. But for this day especially, also of course.
David Lynch in character as Gordon from Twin Peaks: The Return, saying to David Duchovny's offscreen character Denise "And when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die."
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 25/03/2025
If you want to learn more about the history of this and why it was abandoned in the first place (along with a lot of other really key stuff on this story) listen to my podcast! We also have transcripts online: www.tested-podcast.com
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TESTED – A surprising history of women’s sports
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social! Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be mostly remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We review apps this month. Help us spread the word?
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Center for Black Digital Research Data Scientist - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 20/02/2025
I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired *directly* by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper
Two large posters on off white paper with blue ink reading:

NO TYRANTS!
& NO KINGS! 

In large wood type font. There is a large image cut of a wooden printing press with a banner of text above it reading “THE TYRANTS FOE THE PEOPLES FRIEND”
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"I get to do my best every day to support good jobs for people that really care about collecting, preserving, and providing access to the cultural record . . . in a context where I have job security as a federal employee and where I know the staff and teams I work with have that job security."
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How Trevor Owens Does History
"In all honesty, I have my dream job."
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