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Heather Froehlich

@heatherfro.bsky.social
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supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And while I hated this pedagogical model as a student I am shocked [unspecified number of years later] to have discovered that this in fact is *specifically* how I have learned every language I have reading knowledge of. dead languages pedagogy, you were onto something!!!
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After [unspecified number of years] since 6th grade, the last time I took any kind of Latin class, I have decided that THIS WILL BE MY YEAR to finally learn it I found the book we used in 6th grade on thriftbooks, the one where they get stuck in the ditch forever (which has delighted me to no end)
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
They are putting together a new exhibition in special collections and while I have no tattoos I may have to change that based on this little dude on the right (teaser for our new exhibit)
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I had a dream about the Cloudflare verify you are a human box last night everything is going great!
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Happy @roopikarisam.bsky.social day to all who observe
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
from the talk ...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Proofs! coming soon to an Internet Histories near you
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
if anyone is still looking to become a digital scholarship specialist, the best advice I can give you is to learn how to read OCR for as many languages as you can. I will not be alt-texting this one for obvious reasons
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This has been A Week. please enjoy this snap from the most confusing building I have found on campus:
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Temperature-tracking-weaving hits differently in Tucson
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Some days you go to a meeting and are informed that we laser-cut our own rigid-hettle loom and then you OBVIOUSLY have to go investigate
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Alright we finally agreed to start cutting into it ... amazing. we love working with Mr Allyn Haynes www.allynhaynescatering.com for all your catering needs in Tucson AZ
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The University of Arizona @douglassday.bsky.social celebration has an AMAZING cake from Allyn Haynes Catering. We may not be able to cut into it... #DouglassDay
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Tomorrow-- the University of Arizona Main Library @douglassday.bsky.social celebration! We're in B252/254, can't wait to meet everyone. Flyer + details attached: lib.arizona.edu/about/events...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If they're going to make me teach AI, they're going to get my version of AI
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Back to work with my new whale pal from @literaturegeek.bsky.social brightening my cubicle
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS AMAZING THING @literaturegeek.bsky.social MADE ME first it was a blog post, then in a book chapter (repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...) and now it is memorialized in woodcut form 🐋😍
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web" by Michael O'Malley, Roy Rosenzweig The Journal of American History, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jun., 1997, pg 134) doi.org/10.2307/2952...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Important partner update re this
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Yes our Christmas tree DOES have a mini Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition and yours could too www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I have been away for 3 weeks and the mail finally came - with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s new book from @wehere.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get stuck in
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Moby Dick is about whales & boats (only one of the two pictured below)
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Australians! 2 weeks from now, find out why I'm excited about this giant phone book from 1910 for the Melbourne region, held at the State Library of Victoria, at ANU's CEMS talk on 6 Nov cems.anu.edu.au/2025/09/coll...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
tomorrow at @scholarslab.bsky.social we will be talking about setting reasonable expectations for teaching people to read (not write) code - a meta discussion for my in-person workshop here on reading python for beginners next week
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Dugan Meyer, one of our wonderful graduate assistants on our Digital Borderlands in the Classroom initiative, took these excellent photos of me teaching Voyant Tools and achieving my final form as the Y U No meme earlier this summer
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Some days your colleague comes by and says “I was cleaning out my house and I have these two Chaucer and Jane Austen bobble heads and do you want them” and the only answer is YES
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Publishing agreement signed, so I can say that very soon my effort to condense the entire field of sociolinguistics into under 5k words for the computational text & data mining crowd will be in your hands
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Fighting Erasure project (www.archiveslab.org/home) is seeking 2-3 committed volunteers to support the construction of a comprehensive chronological timeline of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Details in screenshot + alt text below
Data Analyst - Visualizing Genocide Chronology
Positions available: 2–3

We are seeking data analysts to advise on the optimal structuring, interpretation, and presentation of the compiled timeline. The role involves designing accessible, compelling visual outputs that highlight key patterns and ensure clarity without compromising the gravity of the material.

Responsibilities include:

Advising on data structure and categorization
Identifying trends and temporal relationships in the data
Designing visual representations using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or D3.js
Supporting the ethical and accurate presentation of sensitive data
Ideal candidates should have prior experience with data visualization and be attuned to the political and ethical dimensions of atrocity representation.
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To apply: Please send your resume to [info@archiveslab.org] with the subject line: Fighting Erasure Volunteer—[Data Analyst]
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We have two big ones in our yard (garden, decidedly not pictured) and plenty more around us (including at Saguaro NP, very pictured)
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
She has sent this back in response
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Today I am working on turning "Against Cultural Heritage Wastelands" into a paper; we got a notification that our ArcGIS license is in danger of expiring in 4 days. This is too perfect but also ... 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♀️
a list of software covered under our lisence that are due to expire in 4 days
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
At my previous university we used to complain that they were too descriptive and detailed in our UAlert texts
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
coming soon - my three degrees in linguistics finally get some practical applications
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Tucson equivalent of cherry blossoms is palo verde blooming season, which I am *incredibly* allergic to
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Excited to see many of you coming to Born Digital Collections, Archives, and Memory conference in London (easychair.org/smart-progra...), hosted by @dh-researchhub.bsky.social. I promise to bring a bunch of big red Xs from Arizona.
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There is a lot of Bad in the world today but a small joy is working next to the University Press and getting to be one of the first to see your friend’s book uapress.arizona.edu/book/rainfor...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I've been doing this leadership institute and they arranged for us to get headshots and they are... great? What?
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We've got cake and a room full of keen transcribers here at #DouglassDay at the University of Arizona. Come join us until 1pm! Happy transcribing all.
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It turns out if you ask nicely you can get an old copy of the ONE BOX ONE FOLDER tag at Special Collections Relatedly this is my new digital scholarship philosophy
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We're hosting another @douglassday.bsky.social at the University of Arizona Libraries! Come hang out with me on Feb 14 from 10am to 1pm in Main Library, B254. lib.arizona.edu/about/events...
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This week kicks off with the (generously) IMLS-funded #DataSpeculations (dataspeculations.org), thinking about copyrighted collections as data. You can read my position paper as a PDF here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lrw4x... or in the images below
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It took a while but we have done a craft
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Since there is interest in this, here's some notes I am working on currently for A Thing coming up very soon next year dataspeculations.org/about/ (I'm not on the site yet... but I will be)
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I went to the Tucson Museum of Art for their contemporary biennale (which was by all accounts very good) but I cannot believe the DETAIL on this c18 Peruvian painting from their visiting “Spanish Americas” colonial art exhibit
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Took a break from my annual Where’s Waldo costume
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Next week at #ach2024 come hear about how a biologist and a linguist put together data-centric training for instructors working on the US-Mexico border
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
The world of donors is big and strange and complicated but I am especially… somethinged by the Kohls-sponsored lecture hall in our fashion technology program’s building
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Tomorrow! Learn to read python (maybe) with me at the UofA data studio starting at 9am! We are going to (implausibly) talk about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a while!
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
In a couple weeks I am bravely attempting to teach a workshop on *reading* (i.e. not writing) python 🐍 join me in this adventure at the University of Arizona Libraries' Data Studio, Oct 15, 9-11a as a special guest for Jeff Oliver's usual R training sessions
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
good afternoon from Library Fashion
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