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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

does anyone know who came up with the term “datamaxxing”?

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StFX Digital Humanities Centre @stfx-dh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

These workshops count towards the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques Details: ccdhhn.ca

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CCDHHN – Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numérique

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StFX Digital Humanities Centre @stfx-dh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

ACENET is running a series of free online workshops for humanities and social sciences faculty and students who want to level up their digital skills! Details here: www.acenet.training/courses Workshops include Intro to Python, Text Analysis w TextBlob, Text Analysis w LLMs

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 25/02/2026

As a member of @cos.io effort to build a more resilient ecosystem (see link below if you missed it), we want to draw attention to the call for feedback. Be sure to share your thoughts with us by March 2, ahead of our next planning meeting, using the survey on the post! www.cos.io/blog/buildin...

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Building a More Resilient Ecosystem for Publicly-Funded Research Data

COS previously announced efforts to develop a community-driven strategic plan for long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded data. This post shares updates on the…

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

OH MY GOODNESS. The Closing of the Tabs, August 22, 2025 version, is completely wonderful. I just submitted a fresh book chapter to editors -- gaining a few days thanks to my rescheduled AC flight had a hidden advantage in that I could take a bit more writing time -- but now I'm freeeee

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The deep, dark irony of EVERYTHING happening at once.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I can't believe I've been able to write so productively during this time of crisis in my family. It's a slow, predictable crisis, but still emotionally draining and painful. My heart goes out to friends who've endured losing a parent to slow deterioration. Not an easy part of being a human being.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

One of my favourite parts of writing is the slow, evolving learning one undertakes when doing so. This is, of course, in addition to the initial research and studies for the proposal... it's all such a beautiful process when one has the time.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Reading a chapter is a beautiful book for my almost-complete book chapter (one of two I've been working on this summer), so wanted to highlight the title for others as it's quite excellent! Apel, Dora. Calling Memory into Place. Rutgers University Press, 2020, doi.org/10.36019/978....

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Calling Memory into Place

How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deepl...

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A good rule of thumb: perform one or two invited reviews for each article you submit! I also like to review for major conferences. I enjoy editing work and this feels similar, plus it puts good energy into the universe!

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I have now submitted all the summer reviews I'd promised. A note to mention how useful it can be to perform peer review to drafts that are well-matched to one's area of research and expertise. I say that because we're in the midst of a reviewer crisis; very few academics are agreeing to review.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 14/08/2025

I teach my "Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists" class with this, and have gotten a lot out of it myself. If you're struggling going back to work at a university this fall, grab a friend, schedule some coffee meet-ups to talk about it, and do this workbook.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Good thing I have reviews to write, otherwise this day of brainfog and grief wouldn't be productive at all.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I participated in a fiction writing workshop this weekend and am surprised by how much it's helped motivate me to write academically now that I'm home, in front of my computer. I feel we forget how important creativity is to scholarly work.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I tried a ‘fashion’ yesterday. Felt nice!

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession. Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Very pleased to share my text “Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission” in Burlington Contemporary now available online in issue 12 with a number of other interesting essays. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour...

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Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission

For a few days in June 2023 the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, was illuminated by an uncanny amber glow. Outside, an orange sky hung heavy with particulate matter and the atmosphere was haz...

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Also, fellow academics, if you're rehashing an argument you've made (at length) in a previous publication in a new article, how do you handle this? I don't want to self-plagiarize but I have already done this work quite painstakingly elsewhere!

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Relatedly, any good books on public art on your dashboard?

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Thoroughly enjoying writing this article about public art. It's funny how topics that are peripheral to what sometimes feels like the 'real work' (eg the book; the teaching) feel like a clever form of cheating the system.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It might seem like a thinly veiled complaint but this is real advice! The expression "herding cats" is often bandied abt in academic admin and there's good reason!

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Want a career in academia? You might consider working as an RA or other contract worker doing some combo of communications/organizational/editorial work. It chips away at the ego just enough that when you organize anything later in your career, nothing will surprise or bother you!

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

BRAG POST: I wrote almost a thousand (academic) words today! And it's a Monday!

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 12/07/2025

I'm trying to help a family here in Boulder raise a bit of money to give their aunt/sister/daughter a funeral - if you'd consider chipping in, we'd all be grateful ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-ho...

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Donate to Help Us Honor Cindy's Memory, organized by Daniella Mota

On July 5, my sister Cindy gained her wings. She was a beautiful, smart, strong, and funny … Daniella Mota needs your support for Help Us Honor Cindy's Memory

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Also, it feels sooo good to return to my work after a few weeks of not having my time be my own. Oh wait, and also the last year of all new preps and f/t teaching. A relief to discover that I can still think and read and write, perhaps even better than before -- or at least in a new way.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Working on a book chapter about public art, memory, place, and the archive. A set of ideas I've been playing with for a few projects, always in different configurations, applied to different cities I've known. Feels poetic. The Newfoundland breeze is passing through my office as I write abt Toronto.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I am never complaining. I love writing! But, there are several people in my life who likely mean well enough, but assume that I have the summer off. No! Summer is for writing and research and conferences and preparing my courses for the Fall!

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Just in case you imagine me enjoying naps and long walks on the beach, please know that this submission is perfectly alinged with a new deadline for revision for another article lol.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I And now for my favourite part of article submission: The 👯‍♀️ C L O S I N G of the T A B S 👯‍♀️

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

C'est moi!

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It’s amazing how creating a lil surveillance environment for yourself can help force you to focus on yr work! I’m almost done 🥹

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Bonjour, friends. I am posting for accountability: I am not allowed to clean anything until this article is 98% finished. My microwave, fridge, bathroom, and laundry are immaculate tho.

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This was the conference. The recorded talks will be available on YouTube and I can't wait to watch them!

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Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A big thank you to the organizers of the 2025 @redico.eu conference! It's an impressive task to organize across continents and time zones. Great conversations and ReDICo is such an interesting project!

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

When Trump attacked Canada, millions turned to #CBC — because we knew we could trust it. Now Poilievre wants to axe it. Not reform it. Not improve it. Destroy it. In normal times, that would be reckless. In these times, it feels like treason.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And this historic assault on labor is nowhere to be found on *any* of the major newspapers' front pages today.

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