@austinkocher libby!

@rickirobin you know they’ve had that obit drafted for decades

🌼 It is difficult to build a platform that is truly open because large and midsized operations are limited to corporate cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, or Google by time, money, and ability.

here are some takeaways:

🌼 open access without open infrastructure cannot meet the goals of equity, quality, usability, and sustainability. Regardless of who owns them, decisions about our platforms must be transparent and community driven.

🌼 it is hard to move people away from closed infrastructure like social media platforms because we expect these platforms to be free and easy to use.

Pleased to be at UT Knoxville listening to @kfitz talk about community led infrastructure for knowledge production 🌻 a nice reminder of why I have this account!

Listening to Alan Liu talk today:

How do we show that the humanities can scale between individual experiences and global or national events?

@elleneuler thanks for your interest! What’s your email?

I have a new article!

It’s about photostats, the copying technology that transformed how libraries circulate information and set the stage for microfilm, photocopy, and digitization. I ask how librarians came to define a good copy - and what that means for copies today.

DM for a copy.

Thanks to amazing editors @wynkenhimself and Jesse Erickson 📚

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/726468

#Bookhistory @dh #histodons #digitalhumanities

Why I’m thinking about how we talk about leaves:

Hello, here's an #Otter!

@quinnanya love this so much

The kids have been working on plans with their dad for autodidact afterschool.

9-year-old: I want to study that thing where you can see the future, like, where things are going to be?

Me:... Clairvoyance? 🤔

9-year-old: No it's not that... What's the word... #Calculus!

@dan my favorite bike to work shirt is also neon pink, which I think is the best vibe 🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️

There's a tiny worm-like animal - maybe 3mm? - crawling across my computer screen which if you look at the full photo you'll see is essentially the size of a parenthesis. It slips sometimes on the screen since it's close to vertical but it seems to be extruding silk and it doesn't fall far. Any ideas of its identity? Perhaps the caterpillar of a small moth? (My wife suggested it was a computer worm...)

@ebender00 beautiful! Would love to go out on one ⛵️

@scott_bot looking forward to learning more 🙏 hope it’s not your whole weekend!

@scott_bot 👀

@nirak (of extreme heat. The work week ends today in Tennessee too 😅)

@austinkocher I think about this sometimes and I don’t think any of the things that would get me fired have to do with me doing my job badly. Poor performance is just not a fireable offense.

@nirak omg you got me excited but we have one more day