ConnieBDowell

On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers:
1) "go slow and build things",
2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management),
3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025

Thank goodness for summer!

Meme-style image with a background photo of a large Vandercook letterpress printing press with a Guthrie quoting "this machine kills fascists" sticker on its grey metal side, over a photo of letters rollers inked in metallic violet. The text says "don't let fascists / kill this machine / (help save Cville's community letterpress+book arts center)"

A long shot, but if yall know of donors/grants that could contribute $ and/or space to help us keep Charlottesville's community letterpress printshop+book arts program in town, please let me know? (Where I've printed ~weekly since last summer, defunded+closing in June 💔; even partial $ could help)

Registration: ACH Panel on "Publishing in Digital Humanities" April 25, 12:00PM Eastern Virtual via Zoom Please join ACH for our upcoming professional development panel: Publishing in Digital Humanities. We take a capacious approach to “publishing” in the…

Please join ACH on 4/25 at 12pm for a prof dev panel on Publishing in Digital Humanities. We take a capacious approach to “publishing” in the digital humanities to consider the many ways that DH scholars publish work for a public audience. Register and read more about this panel at:

Many data sets held by NOAA are being "retired" in may, including datasets relevant to ocean sciences and climate. If you have need for these data, or are an archivist, it would be good to download this now. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

Check out this op-ed writing workshop that ACH is running, and if you want to summon up some data to reference, look through impact.ach.org for updated info on canceled NEH grants.

An email is on its way out to our members regarding strategies for navigating cuts to federal grant funding. However, we wanted to share that information here as well. We have aggregated information for actions regarding NEH grants, which include broader strategies as well.

Call for Book Chapter Proposals for the upcoming book Data Workshops in Academic Libraries: Building Literacy and Reproducible Research Skills. Info guides.library.ttu.edu/ChapterPropo...

ACH 2025 will be held June 11-13, 2025. See our CFP here. Submissions are due March 23! ach2025.ach.org/en/cfp/

ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

Haha. It's a citronella lamp!

A notebook with two watercolor paintings, one of daffodils, the other of a bluebird on a wire, on a patio table cluttered with painting supplies.

Finally! A Sunday warm enough to paint en plein air!

Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment current...

Vaccines do not cause autism. If you need a quick reference to studies that disprove this relationship:

Commentary, how we got here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Meta-analysis synthesizing the results from studies on almost 1.3 million children: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As an #actuallyautistic researcher, I'm delighted to be giving my short presentation Autistic Representation and Advocacy Goals: A Text Analysis at #dh2025 this summer. (I'm attending and presenting virtually.)

Thank you for sharing!

ACH Public Listserve Sign Up ACH is starting a new public list-serve to connect our community. Members will be able to post job opportunities, announcements, CFPs, etc to the listserv to be shared with the community. To sign up…

ACH is starting a new public list-serve to connect our community. Members will be able to post job opportunities, announcements, CFPs, etc. to the list-serve. If you'd like to join and be enrolled on the list-serve please sign up here:

Hand holding watercolor painting of dark pink flowers in a loose, watery style.

Last night's loose, flowy watercolor. I am rapidly running through my paper. Maybe it's time to pick up 2 watercolor sketchbooks (one for me, one for my daughter).

A hand holding paper with dark pink watercolor flowers in a loose, messy style.

There's nothing like loose, messy watercolor to help me let go of perfectionism. Do I like it? I don't know. It was fun to do, and I want to do more.

Congratulations!!

Good luck!!!

These are beautiful!

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

It is just so bizarre!! But then there is a new weird thing every time I look at the news. I don't know why I am surprised anymore.

How is this real????

Punxsutawney Phil may have predicted more winter, but at least that is better than the time I drove home on a Groundhog Day only to find groundhog roadkill on the road to my apartment.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

Well, it seems the groundhog has said it will be 6 more weeks of winter instead of only 6 weeks until spring. 😏

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

I'd love to see more of this as a former library worker and current distance leaning student!!

Are there academic libraries doing outreach events for online students? If so, I'm really curious to learn more! Want to increase our outreach (instructional, but also fun and supportive stuff) to online students so it looks more like what we do for our students on-campus.