scott b. weingart

Two University of Cambridge students are walking on the streets of central Cambridge. Copyright: University of Cambridge (June 2024)

We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can
contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September.

Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.

Organismal agency is one of today's liveliest debates in the life sciences. Our volume—published a year ago—brings historians, philosophers & scientists into the conversation, offering the kind of nuanced treatment this complex issue deserves 👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evosky #philsky

Figure 22. The luminance value in the main reading room of the Timgad library on 21 June, at 10 a.m.: (a) two large openings located on the same entrance wall, facing west; (b) enclosed space receiving diffused light from zone (a); (c) reader stands to consult the documents in the wooden bookcase.

How were ancient Roman public libraries lit? ☀️ Hana Djouadi, Azeddine Belakehal & Paola Zanovello have a new OA study of the library at Timgad, Algeria (Vici.org: vici.org/vici/7884/). Great points about library architecture & marble choices shaped by needs for daylight. www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...

I know, I followed you for the academic stuff! 🎓

I have loved the food stuff on your feed. Do you have recommendations for others who share similar?

So who's got in-and-around Richmond recommendations, now that I'm moving there?

I took a grad course on the psychology of morality with John Kruschke *many* years ago, which makes an expert to say with supreme authority: developing morality is confusing, let people study what they want. We need to (re)build (secular/not) institutions & practices to encourage an ethical life.

These aren't mutually exclusive though, right? Rebecca writes that careful study encourages curiosity and humility, but surely there are other ("natural") routes to those qualities.

It used to be completely the opposite, science as the gateway to morality. Such historical swings between thinking that science or humanities are the foundation of ethical life show that neither is inherently

I've been playing with the new Observable Notebooks 2.0 over the past days and I'm amazed. While still a preview I think it's already a serious alternative to R or Jupyter notebooks. Love that it works locally now and that notebooks are just HTML files with vanilla JS observablehq.com/notebook-kit/

Not a lawyer and doubt the judge will buy it, but just a fascinating window into the backroom rhetorical and interpretive minutiae of legal matters.

Fascinating email exchange between opposing lawyers in Authors Guild v. NEH.

Last week's injuction said grants were uncancelled, but funds needn't be disbursed (put in escrow). AG argues that if grants are uncancelled, although the judge didn't order disbursement, grant terms still require it.

See it! It was fun, and nice, and simple, and good.

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As always, you can follow along here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70243...

Not a lawyer and doubt the judge will buy it, but just a fascinating window into the backroom rhetorical and interpretive minutiae of legal matters.

Fascinating email exchange between opposing lawyers in Authors Guild v. NEH.

Last week's injuction said grants were uncancelled, but funds needn't be disbursed (put in escrow). AG argues that if grants are uncancelled, although the judge didn't order disbursement, grant terms still require it.

Thanks for the good vibes, yinz! I'm chuffed.

Good read on sustainibility of a very particular pedagogical model with lessons for those in the business of teaching DH.

You know how thousands of years of fables and folktales teach us that if you help out woodland creatures, those creatures will return in your hour of need to assist you?

That's codswallop.

I took a broken-winged bird to a wildlife rehab center yesterday, and its mother is now out for my blood.

A remake of Being John Malkovich, except Malkovich plays every character except himself, and the part of John Malkovich is played by Miss Piggy.

You know how thousands of years of fables and folktales teach us that if you help out woodland creatures, those creatures will return in your hour of need to assist you?

That's codswallop.

I took a broken-winged bird to a wildlife rehab center yesterday, and its mother is now out for my blood.

Please be advised that we do not recommend this as your only method of saving or backing up the data 🦔📚

Also: the people at LVA just seem really nice. And fun. So if you ever want to meet some nice and fun people, come to Richmond and I can introduce you.

I am *thrilled* to join the Library of Virginia. @dennistclark.bsky.social hooked me by saying he wanted to create a "digital-first state library," and we needed to figure out what that'd mean. One building can't serve 9 million people over 50k mi², and I'm so looking forward to building what can.

personal update =]

The Big News at the Library of Virginia

I'm so pleased to announce that Scott Weingart - @scottbot.bsky.social - will become our inaugural Chief Technology Officer!

I am delighted that he has chosen LVA for his next career step. Welcome Scott!

www.lva.virginia.gov/about/news/p...

This is good news for debriefings in misinformation research:

Debriefings that include fact-checks of the false claims used in the experiment reduce false beliefs, improve attitudes towards the study, and show no signs of negative effects.

👉 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Feedback much welcomed :)

Working to port VLaMy to an entirely free mode where you can just cache all your data in the browser for a project. Slowly adding all the features from the full version to this user-free version. Available now on @hf.co @danielvanstrien.bsky.social
Link: huggingface.co/spaces/wjbma...

The Development of an Issue Public: Evidence from The Eras Tour | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

We have a JOP article about how swifties ~randomly denied tickets to the eras tour due to website allocation errors changed their views on related policies
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I'm not sure if this falls under "basic citation management," and it's definitely not unhinged, but my primary use is as prosthetic memory. I annotate my readings (thesis, audience, conclusion, etc.), make sure everything is full-text searchable, etc. for years-later discovery.