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Katie McDonough

@kmcdono.bsky.social
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MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. Based in Pittsburgh these days.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Job posting here in the UVA Library's DH Center. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is searching for a "Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist." Not listed in the ad, but anticipated salary range is $85-95k. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/UO...
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Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at University of Virginia
Apply for Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Management, Services & Technology at Univer...
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 23h
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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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 30/09/2026
Fortunately UKRI are doing everything in their power to stop any research being done. #BitOfSatireThere
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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214
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Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com · 22/09/2026
no one who studies the present believes me! the past was full of sickos with their own layout conventions for printed and handwritten material!! it is not trivial to deal with even if "all you want is the text"! which by the way, it shouldn't be!!!
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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026
Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.
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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States
Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org
Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127
Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public 

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education  

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches  

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions  "
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Think of the combined CENTURIES of expertise lost here, the creativity, the knowledge, the depth and breadth of cultural learning and understanding, the generations of minds enriched and enlightened, the sheer weight of history that led to the establishment of these programmes. Purged. Destroyed.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to describe what it’s like working inside British universities at the moment is very hard. One small vignette: not a single week of my teaching this semester looks the same as any other. We have virtually no courses/modules that are taught by
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The programme I run - the MSc in Contemporary History - will be axed, amongst so many others. We've also been told our undergrad courses will need to have a minimum of 20 students over a 3 year period. The bonfire of the universities has truly come for Edinburgh.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sad to miss #fff2026 in DC even though it's just down the road, but wow can't wait to plan to go to #ff2027 in Amsterdam!
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While we are all here at #ff2026 talking about applying AI to digital collections of things I hope I can put a plug in for my new article, which asks whether or not it was a good idea to put all those resources on countless websites in the first place
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Against cultural heritage wastelands
The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Major and exciting opportunity
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When asked in the Q&A about arts and humanities he says he personally values them (seems very genuine) but that he is the Science Minister, and it’s for the DCMS Minister to make the case for those. He’s perhaps not yet clocked he is responsible for all R&D. Would Wissenschaft Minister work better?
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Taking class to special collections to see maps = one of my favorite things. Thanks to @samlemley.bsky.social for making it possible for students to see maps and geographical texts from the 15th to the 20th c. at the amazing Posner Center @cmu.edu. Next time we'll remember to take photos!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow, at @kqednews.kqed.org, I'm moderating an incredible slate of panelists who are experts and/or key actors in the politics of San Francisco/the country in the 1970s. Support local public media and come on by! www.tixr.com/groups/kqed/...
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1970s: The Decade the Bay Area Changed Our Culture tickets by KQED
Get your 1970s: The Decade the Bay Area Changed Our… Tickets from Tixr.
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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You have 29 more days to submit an application for the short-term Nottebohm Fellowships for #Bookhistory research in Antwerp! Come do research in the collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum and/or Hendrik Conscience Library! consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
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Nottebohm Fellowship for Book Historical Research | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
Every year, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus offer a short-term Nottebohm fellowship to two researchers, with the gracious support of the Thierry and Frédéric Not...
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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are hiring! Permanent position for a University Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. The application period is open and closes on 3 October 2026: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please read the job description carefully and feel free to spread the word widely.
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University Lecturer in Digital Humanities
University Lecturer in Digital Humanities
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The latest issue of French History is now online with five new research articles – from newspapers to seaweed and scouting... –, a review article on the history of sexuality in modern France, and a bundle of book reviews 💾🧐🇫🇷📸🖥️🌿👋 @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/08/2026
Amherst College is looking for a Director of Public History and Engagement: networks.h-net.org/jobs/70277/a... 🗃️
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Amherst College - Director of Public History and Engagement | H-Net
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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nothing like riding a bike in your new city to really make you feel finally at home.
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Really worthwhile CFP f/ Computational Humanities Research on "Peripheries," inviting work that uses data-driven approaches to recovering marginalized, lost voices in the cultural record/archive & what's been lost through processes of mass corpus digitization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Peripheries
Call for Papers: Peripheries
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OpenHistoricalMap @openhistoricalmap.org · 15/08/2026
We’re excited to partner with @oldinsurancemaps.net #MapReader #Allmaps to build this new pipeline for extracting information. Thanks to #NLnet for recognizing the potential in this big idea!
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British Records Association @britrecs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
📣 Booking for our annual conference is now open! All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives Tuesday 24 November Tickets £45 BRA Members, students and unwaged, £65 non-members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-mapped...
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All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives
Join the British Records Association at our Annual Conference focusing on a variety of map resources and challenges of their preservation.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇
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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lovely new cards made by friends 😍 www.etsy.com/listing/4553...
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Dine Well, Live Well- Virgina Woolf Quote Card - Etsy
This Greeting Cards item is sold by WoodPigeon. Ships from Redwood City, CA. Listed on Aug 12, 2026
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bay Area! Tickets are going fast for our In Bed with the Right live show on August 27 at Swedish American Hall! Join us for HOW TO BE A SILICON VALLEY CREEP, featuring digressions on eugenics, pronatalism, South Africa, scifi, climate change, and more. www.ticketweb.com/event/how-to...
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Tickets for How to Become a Silicon Valley Creep (In 10 Easy Steps)
Find tickets for In Bed With The Right, Adrian Daub, Moira Donegan showing at the Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, US Thursday Aug 27, 6:30PM Tickets starting at $36.64
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very excited that the MapReader team will be collaborating w/ @bertspaan.nl @mradamcox.bsky.social & @openhistoricalmap.org on some infrastructural work linking up MapReader w/OHM & Allmaps! nlnet.nl/project/OHM-...
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NLnet; OpenHistoricalMap + MapReader
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ughhhh I really want to go see this, but I won't be in London. www.oldvictheatre.com/stage/martin...
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Martin Guerre - Old Vic Theatre
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Olivier Awarding-winning musical is reimagined for the London stage
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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Congratulations to Julia Flanders, who just won the Busa prize for lifetime achievement! @juliaflanders.bsky.social #DH2026
Busa Prize: Julia Flanders (Northeastern University)

Julla Flanders has spent over three decades building and sustaining the digital Infrastructure that humanities scholarship depends on, most notably as director of the Women Writers Project since 2000. She is a founding editor and, since 2007, editor-in-chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), one of the field's flagship Journals, shaping its enduring commitment to open access, multilingual publishing, and collaborative scholarly communication. Through DHQ and her leadership roles at ACH, ADHO, and the TEI Consortium, she has helped define the Institutional and intellectual foundations of digital humanities as a field. She has also trained hundreds of scholars in text encoding and digital editing through workshops and Institutes, extending her Influence well beyond her own publications. Taken together, her sustained work as an infrastructure buil Journal editor, teacher, and scholar exemplifies the Bo Prize.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My boiling hot take on this is that, if tech companies are going to fund this kind of research (looking at Schmidt too), then the money needs to be given *no strings* to an independent arm's length research body, pooled with other funding, and treated as a donation not as direct funding.
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James Hetherington @jamespjh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Who is writing about rescuing tech-for-good from technosolutionism? I’m looking for insights on how we use the wise insights from the anti-technosolutionist analysis while maintaining a space for better informed enthusiastic tech-for-good communities and keep the space for nerd voluntarism.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Very important essay documenting & reflecting on the work of young volunteers collecting data for Britain's mid-20th c. Second Land Utilisation Survey - www.nls.uk/collections/... The collection is now @natlibscot.bsky.social maps.nls.uk/series/secon... maps.nls.uk/series/secon...
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Mapping memory | National Library of Scotland
Two volunteers revisit their 1960s maps from the Second Land Utilisation Survey, revealing the human stories behind Britain’s land use mapping.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Outstanding project and thrilled to see this article in print!
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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.
A map of Europe with many points shown in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical way-stationsA map of Europe with lines in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical travel routes
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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 23/06/2026
Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
Poster for the conference "Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies?" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 9&10, 2026. The subtitle says "An interdisciplinary conference on a field in formation."
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Starting today I have 1 month in London to do all my favorite things, like... - swimming at Brockwell Lido - walking in Nunhead Cemetery - basking in the glow of the open stack shelves at the BL ...but mostly seeing friends and saying some goodbyes 🥲
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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Being at Chalke History Festival reminds me yet again how interconnected university-based history and other forms of history-making are. The thing we do in one place explicitly supports the thing we do in another. University cuts, closures and job losses harm the entire history eco-system.
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Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is really cool #LongC18 urbanformation.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/a...
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Analyzing London’s Eighteenth-Century Road Network
Mapping centrality on the roads from London: A study of late eighteenth-century London and its environs to measure the correspondence between global radiality and local centrality I am posting belo…
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Lancaster was closer to Scotland than London, so rooting for my excellent northern neighbors tonight.
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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Publiée récemment ! Une nouvelle traduction de la leçon de @danielvanstrien.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen, @melvinwevers.bsky.social, @thomassmits.bsky.social, et @kmcdono.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.46430/phfr0041
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La vision par ordinateur pour les sciences humaines : introduction à la classification d'images par apprentissage profond (partie 1)
Ceci est le premier volet d'une leçon en deux parties qui présente des méthodes de vision par ordinateur basées sur l'apprentissage profond pour la recherche en sciences humaines. À partir d'un ...
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
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Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks. One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Want to stop some more vandals? Please sign. c.org/DBwhzq28fJ
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Kind of how I feel today, cleaning out my parents' basement and garage.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...
A hand holding a test print of a bookplate with the word DATA BY DESIGN on the bottom leftA package of bookplates labeled DATA BY DESIGN. The photographer's feet are visible at the bottom of the image. A bookplate for DATA BY DESIGN with several signatures in gold sharpie.
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