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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 23/03/2026

Work in #archives, #OpenContent, #editing, #libraries or #OpenData? => #WikiconAustralia, brought to you by @wmau.bsky.social, hosted at the @nfsaonline.bsky.social Includes tutorials on #OpenRefine, and workshops on handling #Indigenous material appropriately. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 22/01/2026

Are you at @everythingopen.au today? Come join my tutorial after morning tea where I'll cover fine-tuning #Whisper #ASR models using @mozdatacollective.bsky.social datasets! #EO2026 #EverythingOpen

Fine-tuning Whisper using Mozilla Data Collective datasets

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 14/09/2025

The inimitable @attacus.net has been in my bookshelf! Loving her work on abstracting the complexity of reality. My faves: James C Scott - Seeing like a State Bowker and Star - Categories and their Consequences Lisa Gitelman (Ed) - Raw data is an oxymoron - esp Data Flakes #pyconau

Lilly Ryan presenting at PyConAU. She is wearing a belted black lace ensemble and has curly dark magenta hair. The slide is showing authors like Bowker and Meadows and Gitelman

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 13/09/2025

At @pyconau.bsky.social #pyconau Dr Arwen Griffioen presents an anti-oppresive framework for #AI and #data ethics - red team your models for #bias, centre the voices of the people who are most likely to be harmed, monitor continuously, for distributional shift. Use your privilege to push back.

Dr Arwen Griffioen keynoting PyConAU 2025. She is wearing a multi coloured top and blue trousers.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 07/09/2025

On Friday I was delighted to attend the launch of @karenhao.bsky.social's book #EmpireOfAI - in conversation with @kobotic.bsky.social at #RMIT, presented by @readingsbooks.bsky.social and @drwaus.bsky.social with introductions and framing from @lisagiven.bsky.social and Lizzie O'Shea. 1/4

Karen Hao (left) in conversation with Dr Kobi Leins (right0

Images from back of Storey Hall RMIT, with Karen Hao (left) in conversation with Dr Kobi Leins (right)

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 03/09/2025

With my @mozilla.org Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets. Better #AI requires better #data - authentic, human. 2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWM...

Join Kathy Reid at PyCon AU 2025 for her talk "Your datasets, under your control: Introducing the Mozilla Data Collective". Ballroom 1, Sunday 14th September, 2.10 PM

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 15/08/2025

So proud of my #ANU #Cybernetics alum, colleague and friend, Alison Kershaw, for winning the Unsung Hero of #SciComms Award at the recent #NationalScienceWeek launch at the South Australian Museum. Well done, Alison! You're a gem! 💎 whatson.samuseum.sa.gov.au/news/nationa...

Alison Kershaw, centre, receiving the Unsung Hero of Science Communication award at the SA Museum

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 21/05/2025

NEW BOOK EXCUSE-MOI, I WILL BE READING FOR A WHILE THAT IS ALL

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 25/02/2025

This is Tim Tam, he passed over the Rainbow Bridge in September, as a baby corgi in 2014 xx

Kathy Reid, left, holds a fluffy corgi puppy aged about 4 months old (right). The corgi puppy is looking at the camera, expecting a treat for his hard modelling work.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 05/02/2025

One reflection I have on #USpol at the moment is that resistance is strongly bound to #infrastructure - the technical systems, data, access and so on that can enable or thwart Musk's coup d'etat. The #Fediverse tends to attract deeply technical types. Do acts of resistance vary by platform?

Post from Kit Malone on Mastodon characterising level of resistance by social media platform https://hoosier.social/@thekitmalone/113948174029556472

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 02/02/2025

5.15am and 162 incidents on the Vic Emergency app - and it's going to be 38° C today. Worst storm we've had in decades. #Geelong #VicStorms

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 28/01/2025

It's totally surreal, but not unexpected that a train station we stopped at - Dimboola - on the Overland to #Adelaide last week is now being evacuated due to #vicfires. Every dam on the way through was nearly empty - the ground dry, parched and thirsty. Western Vic to Adelaide is a tinderbox.

Screenshot from Emergency Vic app showing evacuations in place for Dimboola (top left of picture) and the southern Grampians (left centre of picture), north west of Geelong.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 27/01/2025

🌟 The late Liz Williamson's work - Weaving Eucalypts - was a global collaboration with artists in Bangladesh, India and Australia, using silk dyed with eucalyptus leaves. The installation resembles an arboretum, and highlights the importance of connecting to the real world.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 27/01/2025

🌟 Don Dunstan's emblematic pink shorts - the act of wearing which was radical in its time, and symbolic of LGBTQI rights.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 27/01/2025

🌟 Future woven floral forms (black) 3 by GRACE LILLIAN LEE which wove culture with art, evoking the tension of constriction and freedom of inhabiting multiple cultures.

Grace Lillian Lee - future woven floral forms

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 27/01/2025

🌟 Refugee Astronaut by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, which explored themes of migration and adaptation - of both people and artefacts.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 13/01/2025

Age yourself with your first computer

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 26/12/2024

I am spending Boxing Day working on my @everythingopen.au #EO2025 talk on "Token Wars" and doing a little light reading to brush up. Your attention is all I'll need 😉 #NLP

Three books on NLP - Vajjala et al, Tunstall et al, Clark et al

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 24/12/2024

"You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 16/12/2024

I would like a new weather please, mine is broken. #vicheatwave #vicfires

Screenshot of openweathermap.org for Geelong, Vic, AU showing a temperature of 42 Celcius, with a felt temperature of 44 Celcius.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 12/12/2024

The Mozilla #CommonVoice #speech #dataset v20 was released yesterday. Keep on reading for my observations from the #dataviz below. observablehq.com/@kathyreid/m...

Data visualisation of Common Voice v20 splits by gender, stacked to 100% to better show low-resource languages.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 11/11/2024

Delighted that my abstract "Token Wars: Why everything shouldn't be open" has been accepted to #EverythingOpen, happening in Tarntanya/Adelaide in January 🎉 💪 I'll be covering #tokenization, #transformers, and the fight for #data to tokenize into #GenerativeAI. Tix: 2025.everythingopen.au

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 02/11/2024

The @opensource.bsky.social released the #OpenSource #AI definition this week, stopping short of requiring that #datasets used for training AI models also be openly available. The OSI's decision now places on having better #DatasetDocumentation approaches. blog.kathyreid.id.au/2024/11/02/o...

AI-generated image of a skyline blended with an audio waveform, with a white jigsaw puzzle piece super imposed, representing a missing piece.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 14/09/2024

#libraries, #galleries, #archives, #museums - #GLAM institutions preserve our cultural heritage, and have a key role in shaping our cultural #futures. I'll be speaking at the Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference - #FF24 - at the #NFSA in October - about #AI and the future of #GLAM Tix: bit.ly/4dgmB4T

FF24 Fantastic Futures Conference - Kathy Reid

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 20/12/2023

Well that's my duty done as both an Aunty and a #nerd

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