Rennie Mapp

That is a seriously impressive combination of civic responsibility and self care

You speak for all of us

10 Tips For Making The Most Impact When You Call Congress Here are 10 tips for calling Congress, to ensure your message is heard.

Call first; rant on social media later. www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...

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normal and useful.

I've updated Caracal to Qwen 2.5 VL. Enjoy!!

For those who haven't used it, it's free a free-to-use zero-shot HTR and NER app with historical documents in mind.

App: huggingface.co/spaces/wjbma...

#DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning #HTR

When I explain that my mom's lung issues are due to RA to It surprises people every. single. time.

Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

this was the thing that broke me today

Smithsonian Institution Will Close its Diversity Offices The closure followed an executive order by President Trump that mandated the closure of DEI offices in federal agencies.

And here comes the effect on our trusted repositories, and our trusted information environments...

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

2025 Day of Digital Learning - Renaissance Society of America

Something for the #digitalhumanities people out there. This is the day before #RSAboston2025
@dhcertificateuva.bsky.social
@rcmapp.bsky.social
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I'll be speaking at the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship in March this year. Do feel free to register here!

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thank you for sharing this! I will read it ASAP and I've shared it with my sister. We have a strong family history of RA

I know that my mom's and cousin's DNA are stored in some db in the US bc of our family history of RA.

Developing a public-interest training commons of books Photo by Zetong Li on Unsplash Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable plan for a public-interest book training commons f…

Excited to see this news out - "Developing a public-interest training commons of books," www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...

As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life - EdSurge News Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life it’s easy to overlook. A scholarly book or article about ...

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Indeed. And it's not as though we were twiddling our thumbs before this.
But the hair-on-fire narrative is not helping.

wait, say more about Cannonball?

Small update to what I asked on #academicsky recently. I downloaded @obsidian.md, linked it to @zotero.org & started importing annotations & bibliographies. Then, I tried to come up with important points-maybe not true #zettelkasten, but I've noticed cool connections. My #medieval & #earlymodern...

Joanna Guldi, Podcast Episode · New Work in Digital Humanities · 05/28/2024 · 1h 8m

This point reminds me of Jo Guldi's argument that ongoing collaboration between the humanities/social sciences and STEM (not fleeting interdisciplinarity) yields better results (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Right? I find it weird to do most intellectual things alone now, after being part of a thoughtful, creative software development team in the UVA Library

In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.

Eagerly awaiting this!

Oh dear me. How sad it would be if it were to turn out that I had tickets but couldn't attend.

Academia: You've Got AI. Is It Terminal? Thursday's Child Sees A Lot of Threats on the Board

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Yes--thinking ahead like this is so much work for faculty, and it has to be done.