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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, that's my hair part in photo #1! [4th head back] Had a blast at Contributor Day, meeting people of various ages, backgrounds, skill sets, & ideas. Today I got to be a student, learn processes, & review a theme for accessibility compliance. Great to contribute in ethical & thoughtful ways.

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Friends, thrilled to share: 🎉 1) I am tenured! Thx to all who helped. 2) Hired the unicorn! Aug. 3, we welcome the CBDR Data Scientist. 3) Publications! 2 pieces + 1 shout out. 4) Advising & Consulting: 😀+❤️ to do. 5) Aug→new Colored Conventions Project Exhibits website! Full post: tinyurl.com/lrclk

Cartoon of finger pushing a celebration button on a blue keyboard.

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Nuts & Bolts went int'l! Forgot to get a photo of our Nuts & Bolts of DH Project Development class at DHSI (digital humanities summer institute) in Montreal last week but❣️seeing students stand up & chant for @kaylalib.bsky.social & me as we presented our course and outcomes at the Show & Tell.

DHSI - Digital Humanities Summer Institute - Montréal, 2026

Demystify and Empower
This is a survey course that aims to demystify the landscape of digital humanities tools and methods, covering the fundamentals of common DH methods and the development cycle, from ideation to curation and analysis to publication. This course helps equip participants with skills for project planning and development.

Course Pack
This Year Shifted and shaped in order match participants’ interests.
Introductions and DH overview
DH on Campus
Project Management: Distilled
Methods Festival! Hand on: XPath for web scraping, Computational text analysis, Data visualization, Digital mapping and GIS
Data Ethics: Centering the Humanity in Digital Humanities
Curating Collections for Digital Scholarship
Building Digital Exhibits and Collections
Discoverability, Usability, & Accessibility
Maintenance, Preservation, and Documentation
Data Repositories & Research Data Management
AI in DH and Society
PLUS: Time to work on projects or experiment with tools & methods / Daily exercise in documentation

Documentation activity
Handwritten instructions of how to draw a dinosaur (1 example) plus multiple examples of people following others' instructions of how to draw a selected dinosaur.

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Pleased to chair the search committee for a Data Scientist to: "help shape research agendas that apply data science and digital humanities to archival collections while centering community engagement, ethical stewardship, and the human stories embedded in the data." Please share! ▶️ bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hey! My piece "Being Open, Social, and Protective" is out in the Open Social Network Cookbook zine created by a wonderful cohort of community/tech from folks around the world. My recipe offers a 101 guide for curating healthy & happy social media accts. Check it out! www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/m...

2 black and white pages: one with"Open Social Network Cookbook" title page and one with a title "Being Open, Social, and Protective" on a purple background with a pink striped border.

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🙌🏽 🙌🏽 to #DreamLab2025 crew who jumped in the deep end w/ me to experiment crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to out-of-box WordPress template w/ care, curiosity & determination! Completed 6 exhibits in 9 hours (avg 11 pgs/hr) ➕documentation! 🎉

Class photo in front wall with slideshow projection

Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation

Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation with display of project documentation

DH Project Maintenance, Care, and Migration: An Experiment with the Colored Conventions Project

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🔥NEWS🔥 #DigBlk is now swimming in the cross currents of humanities and new liberatory technologies, y’all!! Thank you, @profdancy.bsky.social, for joining the team at dig@digblk.bsky.social as our new co-director!

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THiCC PI @profdancy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We’ve been planning this and waiting to announce for a minute! Excited to be officially joining the community as a co-director!

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We are excited to share that Dr. Chris Dancy, Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and African American Studies, is joining the #DigBlk leadership team as its new co-director! digblk.psu.edu/2025/05/12/w...

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CBDR Announces New Co-Director, Dr. Chris Dancy - Center for Black Digital Research

CBDR Announces New Co-Director, Dr. Chris Dancy We are excited to share that Dr. Chris Dancy, Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Afr...

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Just 3️⃣ days left to apply for this ✨FREE✨ workshop @pricelab.bsky.social in Philly, May 20-23! We'll experiment w/ crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to a new theme. With hands-on experience, we'll study, discuss, consider, strategize, & document. 📖🤔💻🔧✍🏽 ➡️ bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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 remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?

A graphic that says "We're hiring" and includes the Center for Black Digital Research website (digblk.psu.edu) and Bluesky handle (@digblk.bsky.social).

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🎉The Penn State Libraries team is ready to host events at 7 campus libraries on Feb. 14. This year, we made Valentine cards. Stop in to transcribe & send some love.👩🏽‍💻✍🏽💕 douglassday.org/penn-state/ Or learn how to join virtually at douglassday.org @douglassday.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social

Douglass Day: Annual Global Transcribe-a-thon 2025. Posters and postcards with head shots of figures from the Colored Conventions history movement.

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just 2 months left to apply for this FREE workshop in Philly @pricelab.bsky.social, May 20-23! Qs: How do we keep DH projects healthy? When is it time to transform or migrate or sunset? How to manage the process? What does it look like to center the humanity in digital work? bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024

Free workshop! Limited seats. Apply by March 16, 2025. DH Project Maintenance, Care, and Migration: An experiment with the Colored Conventions Project. Instructor: Lauren Cooper, DreamLab Workshop May 20-23, 2025. University of Pennsylvania. More info: https://bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

If you're at #aha25, stop by! I'll be sharing about my research work of item-level cataloging 73 boxes of the Howard Zinn Papers housed at @tamimentlibrary.bsky.social (completed in October!), developing the Zinn digital collection, and next steps.

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

NEW & FREE Workshop: DH Project Maintenance, Care, & Migration: An Experiment w/ the Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social @pricelab.bsky.social For DH practitioners of all varieties: scholars, technologists, librarians INFO: bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024 APPLY BY 3/15: forms.gle/uhvk9eXTvvXi...

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Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Kickin' it off on Bluesky with some of my favorite skies:

Fall trees with light and a dark background sky.

Sunlight breaking through the clouds in the desert.

Coastal ocean view of mountains across from the woods.

Double rainbow landing into desert and cacti landscape.

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