Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I hope you enjoyed your Trinity! Looks like a bustling sunny day 000
Reposted by Manika LambaNicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout | Fortune fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen… #AI #jobs #resistance 022
Reposted by Manika LambaHeather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Janet Swatscheno has been sharing this link and additional details on listservs: HT are offering a workshop to be held on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 3pm-4pm Eastern to describe next steps. Register for the workshop here: forms.gle/8vQ9DbYepbtj....forms.gleHTRC Sunsetting WorkshopHathiTrust funding for the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) ends later this year, and its services are expected to conclude in the fall. Since HTRC was founded, we have had the privilege to work with... 195
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Call for Papers – HICSS 2027 Mini-Track Accessibility, Justice, and Critical AI in Sociotechnical Systems Minitrack 📍 January 5–8, 2027 | Hilton Waikoloa Village 📅 Submission deadline: June 15, 2026 (11:59 pm HST) 🔗 Mini-track details: lnkd.in/gRjqQkZC 010
Reposted by Manika LambaiSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Join us for a Digital Humanities Brown-Bag Lunch Roundtable on “The Virality of Racial Terror in U.S. Newspapers, 1863–1921.” 📅 Friday, Feb. 6 | 🕦 11:30 AM–1 PM 📍 The Corner, Main Library (Room 220) Open to all. ▶️ bit.ly/4toC5we 032
Reposted by Manika LambaMarijn Keijzer @mrnkzr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026📖 Our book is out! 🎉 Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization is published, openly and freely available at doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01373-6 (1/3) #ComputationalSocialScience #Polarization #SocialCohesion #NetworkScience #ABM #TextAnalysisdoi.orgComputational Social Science of Social Cohesion and PolarizationThis open access book explores the decay of social cohesion in democratic societies through the lens of Computational Social Science (CSS) 1179
Reposted by Manika LambaThe Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 19/01/2026✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky 13825
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 24/05/2025mw-symposium2025.gitbook.io/homemw-symposium2025.gitbook.ioForging Ahead | HomeLibrarianship and Information Services in Times of Technological, Cultural, and Political Changes 000
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Call for Proposals: Join the ASIS&T Midwest Chapter Symposium exploring librarianship amid tech, cultural & political change Nov 15, 2025 | Crystal City, VA Submit by 2 June 2025 at 11:59 PM CT! Proposal Submission link: forms.gle/Afs4DBG2puSD... 230
Reposted by Manika LambaThe Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025New study by @hendrik-erz.de and Manika Lamba! Where they analyze acknowledgement sections of Master- and PhD-theses to determine which support systems get acknowledged, utilizing large language models to annotate a corpus of 1200 theses between 1960 and 2021 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 0103
Reposted by Manika LambaPolitics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 24/02/2025📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 @cbarns.bsky.social , Michael FitzGerald, @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social & @manika.bsky.social outline the trends in publishing in P&G compared to general-interest and other gender and politics journals in "What Does Politics & Gender Publish? " tinyurl.com/ym7ra5z4 0134
Reposted by Manika LambaJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 32418308
Reposted by Manika LambaHendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 14/01/2025+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++ Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!sciencedirect.comThanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in thesesResearch on acknowledgment sections of scientific papers has gained significant attention, but there remains a dearth of studies examining acknowledgm… 093
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 19/06/2024I am interested to know more about it! Did you already have a handed-coded file ready for Llama to learn on? 120
Reposted by Manika LambaGlen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Great to see not one but *two* outstanding UIUC iSchool colleagues on the ballot for @ach.bsky.social Exec! Thanks to both @wenyishang.bsky.social and @manika.bsky.social for accepting nominations. There are a few more hours to vote if you're an ACH member, so hop to it! 061
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Are you a researcher or programmer interested in Hathitrust Digital Library text data? #HTRC is pleased to announce a call for applications for our NEH-funded TORCHLITE #hackathon from May 21-23, 2024. htrc.github.io/torchlite-ha... 020
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 11/12/2023The Internartional Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS), IGI Global is looking for new submissions. Please consider submitting your work here: www.igi-global.com/journal/inte... Please contact at manika@illinois.edu if you need help with APC waiver. 020
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 19/11/20232023 Winter School: Word Vectors & Embeddings (11th & 12th December 2023, 8AM to 11 AM ET) Please register here: 📸 Look at this post on Facebook associationforinformationscienceandtechnologyasist.growthzoneapp.com/ap/Events/Re... 020
Manika Lamba @manika.bsky.social · 09/11/2023Interested in data analysis, data visualization, and machine learning using Python, particularly in the context of humanities data? But not quite ready to take an entire course. Try this inexpensive, synchronous intro. buff.ly/46IMJBy #libraries #informationscience 060
Reposted by Manika LambaJosh Brake @joshbrake.com · 02/11/2023Direct link to the conference page for anyone who might find it useful! dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l... 032