Thrilled to be presenting so much Philly History on migration, urban life, policing and protest at #AHA23 later this week! Here are a few historic neighborhoods that have inspired my research on community activism and resiliency that newcomers to the city should learn about🧵:
Fascinating! @Christy_SpaceHW doing cool work w GIS in modeling enslaved freedom seekers in the Great Dismal Swamp. Struck by subversion of intended use of colonial datasets & proprietary, nonneutral (arguably imperial) tools like ArcGIS for liberatory meaning-making #AHA23#s194
As I took some time to get inspired by Digital History projects, I came across a brilliant one. “Brazilian Portraits” is housed at @BrownUniversity Library Collections: library.brown.edu/collection…. Follow my thread to get to know more about it!
Informed by a customer service rep at @MannCenter that refunds are "on hold" until it's been sorted whether @courtneymelba & @lucydacus can reschedule at this venue in the fall. Asked when the Mann will communicate this to customers or offer other options?: "Maybe next week."
This bummer website has altered my feed algorithm so that I haven't been seeing brilliant thoughts and uplifting news from my DH faves for the past couple of months 😓 Miss y'all!
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Feeling personally attacked when Google Photos can't tell my two gray cats apart even though sometimes I can't do it either with my human eyes & brain 🙀
Do you work with social science data and/or teach data skills to social scientists? Want to guide the training of social scientists in data handling around the world?
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YouTube has removed all of @Cornell_Library content because of lectures relating to On Our Backs magazine. Not content of the magazine itself, mind you. Content of people TALKING ABOUT the magazine.
“Terminated” - Susie Bright’s Journal
We'll be reviewing applications for this 2 year Mapping and Geospatial Project Specialist position @upennlib in the next few weeks, so get your app in & spread the word! Budgeted pay range $58-65k, plus you get to work with a great team of ethical DHers 🫶
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