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Alexandra Chassanoff

@amchass

Information science + infrastructures bugsinmybackyard.tumblr.com

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Sounds like a great future study…

11.02.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Historians' Experiences Using Digitized Archival Photographs as Evidence Historians' Experiences Using Digitized Archival Photographs as Evidence

If you want a historical perspective for one group of scholars (mainly, info behavior of academic historians using archives), I have covered the literature in my dissertation and some articles. cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/diss... Happy to chat!

11.02.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.02.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 8252 πŸ” 1115 πŸ’¬ 428 πŸ“Œ 145

Same. The Tillis support raised my eyebrows early on

11.02.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alums, time to organize LOUDLY on behalf of your educators.

And alums with any access to donor cashβ€” all the more so.

11.02.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus by @ashleyblewer.com
Incredible!

08.02.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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For your consideration

20.01.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FHI, Short Residency | Christopher Newfield, "The University System in the Knowledge Crisis" | John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute FHI, Short Residency | Christopher Newfield, "The University System in the Knowledge Crisis"

several excellent events in store for Durham as Chris Newfield takes up a residency at Duke

literary knowledge as anti-fascism, building the new cultural order Stuart Hall wanted 30 years ago, parallel universities,+defeating the empire of AI.

fhi.duke.edu/event/fhi-sh...

13.01.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have lots of fellowship / travel money to give and not a lot of applications yet. Applications are due January 30. Apply! Spread the word!

07.01.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

David Lynch’s house is still for sale.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

21.12.2025 14:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Context Widows or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

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Discover the new version of the datasheets for cultural heritage datasets | Europeana PRO The Working Group on Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Datasets is delighted to introduce Version 2 of their datasheet template. It helps describe dig…

On the occasion of Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025, we share the progress made by the Working Group on Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage to better support data providers in describing their data. Learn more and check out their Datasheet template - Version 2! bit.ly/3Kgd84n

01.12.2025 09:57 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hey the handbasket is 90 paid subscribers away from a huge goalβ€”think we could get there today??

thehandbasket.co/upgrade

🀩🀩🀩🀩🀩🀩🀩🀩🀩🀩

28.11.2025 18:53 πŸ‘ 426 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 16
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Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

I found this really helpful on that topic! ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...

14.11.2025 01:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My go to is echinacea tea, one packet of emergen-c and a big clove of garlic

11.11.2025 00:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For true sporting excellence, BREAD is the (1935) diet of champions. For a varied athletic diet, include cheese biscuits and tea.

(from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/... )

05.11.2025 14:23 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

10.11.2025 02:31 πŸ‘ 15186 πŸ” 4090 πŸ’¬ 258 πŸ“Œ 202
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

β€œAnd then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

07.11.2025 07:15 πŸ‘ 159 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?

students: no AI

I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

06.11.2025 06:32 πŸ‘ 1714 πŸ” 352 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 17
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

05.11.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 1606 πŸ” 627 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 88
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#iPRES2025
How many formats are there?
@anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question.

Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)

04.11.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck β€” with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others β€” are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Trick or treat πŸŽƒ

31.10.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Home - ServiceFirst

servicefirst.unc.edu

30.10.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"

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NEW PUBLICATION. The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom. UNC School of Information and Library Science. Photos of Alexandra, Elliott, and Eliscia.

NEW PUBLICATION. The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom. UNC School of Information and Library Science. Photos of Alexandra, Elliott, and Eliscia.

πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff, Dr. Elliott Kuecker, & Dr. Eliscia Kinder on their recent publication in The American Archivist:
πŸ“° β€œThe Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom.” πŸ”— american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

13.10.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing the 2025-2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates - School of Information and Library Science The School of Information and Library Science graduate students will get real-world experience by working hands-on with the Libraries.

✨ Welcome to the 2025–2026 Carolina Academic Library Associates (CALAs)! Now in its 25th year, CALA gives SILS graduate students the chance to enhance their education with experience working in an academic library. The program is a collaboration between UNC Libraries & SILS. go.unc.edu/CALA2025-2026

14.10.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
UNC School of Information and Library Science. We’re Hiring! Associate or Full Professor-Archives & Records Management. Applications Due November 24, 2025. Learn more at go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty. Photo of the Old Well on UNC campus in the background.

UNC School of Information and Library Science. We’re Hiring! Associate or Full Professor-Archives & Records Management. Applications Due November 24, 2025. Learn more at go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty. Photo of the Old Well on UNC campus in the background.

πŸ“£ Join the SILS faculty at UNC!
We’re seeking a tenure-track Associate or Full Professor in Archives & Records Management to join our internationally recognized faculty.

Apply by November 24: go.unc.edu/archivesfaculty
#Hiring #UNC #SILS #LibraryScience

17.10.2025 13:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I got my degree at SILS. It’s one of the top library and information science programs in the US. With no faculty consideration there’s no planning in the best interests of the program or students. 😢

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