Dr Tasha Kitcher

Copyright and other ethical issues temporarily aside, I do sometimes wonder if the Venn diagram of “people moaning about AI ruining our ability to think for ourselves” and “people that worried about the introduction of calculators” might be a circle

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Truly, how does anyone ever find the motivation to publish their PhD research (if they do not work in a university)

Very yellow webpage for the 'Incident Contact Centre' website from the UK Government Web Archive

The best thing about working with web archives is, hands-down, the absolutely ludicrous designs we thought were acceptable in the early 2000s

Check out the page itself to see a man fall over: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200401...

I know nothing else about any of this but wow what a time for an American pope

On today, the final day of Skype, can we appreciate my initial PhD interview was hosted on there! My PhD on convergence and dead media! This cracks me up

Tasha and Josh walk ANOTHER marathon for Alzheimer's Society! Help Tasha Kitcher raise money to support Alzheimer's Society

I’m walking 26 miles for Alzheimer’s Society next week! It’s a hard time to be asking anyone for money, but if you have anything to spare for this amazing charity that would be really appreciated (and make me feel a bit better while I’m limping in the weeks after)

www.justgiving.com/page/tasha-a...

Half-joking BUT given the overuse of GenAI in job applications... are employers now looking more kindly on typos in job apps? At least that person didn't use a bot!

Thank you! Is there an email I can reach you on? Or if you follow me I think we can chat via DM :)

Great thank you! I'll DM you

Hi Mark, that would be great thank you! I will DM you

If you’re a follower and you’ve ever used a web archive for historical work, I’d be really interested in hearing about your project and your approach to the archive. Please get in touch if you exist!

If you’re a follower and you’ve ever used a web archive for historical work, I’d be really interested in hearing about your project and your approach to the archive. Please get in touch if you exist!

Spring is here: goslings and flowers amid a day in the office

Graphic report cover: Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research: a Roadmap

🚀 Shaping the future of RSEs in Arts & Humanities! Two key reports outline a national vision - essential reading for all disciplines. Developed by the community, for the community. Dive in & be part of the conversation! 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This is BIG news!

Does the telephone in the first image give away who curated this? 😂

We have made a tool

It is perfect

What do you mean it cannot count R’s

Life sentence for anyone who eats a smelly breakfast on the 7 o’clock commuter train

Just saw someone post about REF 2029 and omg is it not still 2012

Progress bar for an online tool, step three suggests "Get coffee - take a short break while we're processing"

I wish all my tools recommended coffee breaks during processing

I wanted to tag you but you're meant to be on holiday!

Still from a video player with a red puppet hiding behind a computer screen. Below the image is a synopsis reading "Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3.00am he's unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over this social faux-pas, leading him to ponder on the nature of memory itself. Trapped in a loop, a self-imposed purgatory as the clock ticks."

Slightly strange find in the UK Government Web Archive, extract taken from a page of the British Council's website

webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202303...

These latest AI models are really clever (some of the time)

Doing some important work today

The only thing worth reading on Threads is the BeyondMeat account btw

Obsessed

My toxic research trait is that I refuse to remember the time I am reading, thinking, etc. is actually part of my job

Graphing early copyright law in Neo4J, fun!

The “tldr” version is

1. LLMs are so bad for the planet
2. We are all pretty damn powerless
3. Talking about it helps (as is often the case)

Thanks to Max Long and Anna-Maria Sichani for joining the adventure!