It's really hard to see this news about the MCW team facing redundancy risk from Exeter. They've set an incredibly high bar for participatory research & engagement with their contributors. I regularly use MCW as an exemplar for teams who want to use @zooniverse.bsky.social. Solidarity with the team.

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 11h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

New publication alert! "A Generalized Framework for Participatory Transcription: Lessons, Challenges, and Interdisciplinary Impact from the Zooniverse Platform" in Citizen Science: Theory & Practice. @zooniverse.bsky.social theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10....

GLAM Special Collection: A Generalized Framework for Participatory Transcription: Lessons, Challenges, and Interdisciplinary Impact from the Zooniverse Platform | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Ant-Man Will Return In: I Have Eaten The Plums That Were In The Icebox

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Content will never make you feel as alive as does this holy trinity of “yet agains”

This is a great student-authored short piece about, in my read, how the allure of innovation/problem solving/bragging rights has led a lot of smart people to ignore the work of archivists and historians when developing historical, archive driven tools.

@dhnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Editors’ Choice: The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI

Just finished a co-PI call for our "Communities in the Loop" Schmidt HAVI project with @snblickhan.bsky.social, @profdancy.bsky.social, @bcgl.bsky.social & Tiffanie Smith. Just AMAZING. Things that wouldn't have been possible even a few years ago. Can't wait to share what we've been cooking up!

Update, view of downtown Chicago from the Adler Planetarium at 1pm. Up to 484 (Hazardous) according to fire.airnow.gov — it smells like smoke everywhere.

sam blickhan@snblickhan.bsky.social · 3w ago

View of downtown Chicago from the Adler around 9am today. Stay safe out there everyone, and mask up if you need to go outside. Current air quality level is 284 or “Very Unhealthy” according to fire.airnow.gov

Particulate matter levels in the Chicago area had reached an index of 355 on a scale of 500, which is considered hazardous for the general public.

Air quality hits hazardous levels in Chicago from wildfire smoke and could worsen tonight

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View of downtown Chicago from the Adler around 9am today. Stay safe out there everyone, and mask up if you need to go outside. Current air quality level is 284 or “Very Unhealthy” according to fire.airnow.gov

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

well okay so the english won against the norwegians but in only a few days theyll have to face the french. anyway thats quite enough about September 25th 1066, lets look at some football news

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

Blessings to the person who referred to Haaland as “Norwegian megafauna”.

I feel like #dhmakes would love these laser-cut looms that FabLab staff are prepping for an upcoming summer camp

!!! So excited to see all of this coming up! 👀

Jim Casey@jimccasey1.bsky.social · last mo.

Crowdsourcing projects are a trip. It takes thousands of hours to research, collect, catalog, curate, convert, crowdsource, compute, check, worry, sweat, and carry on. And then one day ... poof! A sneak preview of the major changes coming soon to @ccp-org.bsky.social! 👇👇👇

here you go (art was better than doomscrolling)

Amazing Chris! Thank you, and everyone who has worked on Zooniverse. It has transformed the way some science is done. My example: if you hear about the 'wettest/driest UK period in records that go back to 1836', that statement is only possible because of Zooniverse & #RainfallRescue volunteers. 👏👏

I got so close to getting the screenshot 😂 @zooniverse.bsky.social but we’ve officially reached: 1 BILLION CLASSIFICATIONS!!!!!

27K to go! Today is the day, y’all!

sam blickhan@snblickhan.bsky.social · last mo.

Only about 100K @zooniverse.bsky.social classifications to go until we hit 1 BILLION 😱 Follow along here: www.zooniverse.org/about#zooniv...

Only about 100K @zooniverse.bsky.social classifications to go until we hit 1 BILLION 😱 Follow along here: www.zooniverse.org/about#zooniv...

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I wish more institutions would dedicate resources to home-grown critical AI experimentation, rather than ceding control and precious dollars to our tech overloads. @cunyailab.bsky.social is a model of how to do this! #ACH2026

Super excited to be presenting with @roopikarisam.bsky.social this morning at #ACH2026 on "Hybrid Minimal Computing"! Slides (for my part, the technical dimension) here: dh.tools/hybrid

I’ll do a longer post later with more photos (I’ve woven all the ends in since this was taken, for example!) but here’s the rug I shared in today’s #DHMakes share-out, complete with proof of Bowie approval!