My two-year old theory that WWIII has already begun is looking less and less tin foil hatty than ever.

Reunited with #ReviewsInDH managing editor @graphtie at Brandeis, where she's speaking on a panel and I'm responding on another panel.

Reunited with my grad school bestie today at Brandeis! It is so wonderful to see her thriving in dean life 😍

Heading to Brandeis today and tomorrow to wrap up my week of four talks! Faculty today, grad students tomorrow — and being reunited with my grad school bestie who works there 😍

Coming soon: the next installment of the Digital Ethnic Futures speaker series: Dellyssa Edinboro (Bellevue College), 'Faculty Workshops and Data Visualization in the Classroom'! April 15, 2pm eastern on Zoom. Register now! digitalethnicfutures.org/uncategorized/…

Went to Middlebury today to talk about digital public humanities, not for the waterfalls and day spa, alas — but had a blast with fantastic new friends!

So excited to be in this volume with a chapter on mixed methods for migration data visualization! Thanks, Will and all the editors for your excellent advice and feedback 😍

Most on brand eclipse story: in 1986, Baby Roopsi was so flipped out by the solar eclipse that school called my uncle and told him to take me home. The poor man had to drag me through the streets, because I was scared to go outside, while I screamed, “We are all going to die!”

An eclipse PSA…

Great day in Providence, hanging out with favorite teen and giving a talk for the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown on Black Atlantic data! 😍

My villain origin story is the time a Very Eminent Professor™️ who was visiting my grad program took me to lunch to “celebrate” my first job, and said, “I don’t understand why my students at [Very Eminent PhD Program™️] aren’t getting jobs but you are.” Academia, y’all.

Finishing up my slides for my talk at Brown tomorrow, and I get to bring favorite teen along with me! When her mom said I could help with college, she clearly didn’t realize that I have deeply suppressed immigrant Desi parent tendencies just itching to get out.

Got to chat with Karen Palmer, Storyteller from the Future, about her upcoming keynote for our Data Storytelling and Ethics Hackathon on April 18th! Can’t wait for it! president.dartmouth.edu/events/event?e…

The planetary costs and the disproportionate costs to people living in the Global South keep me up at night.

Why is it that the closer I am to being done with something I’m writing, the worse I feel about it? Nearly done with something I’ve spent a year on and 😩

This Friday, April 5th at 4p: Roopika Risam, PhD will give a lecture, 'The Revolution Will Not Be Datafied: Dispatches from the Digital Black Atlantic.' Join us in person at Brown University Library or via Zoom (link in registration page). Free & open to the public: tinyurl.com/57dkdukt

Orange place friends came to the green place today!

You know you are a total higher ed geek when you are excited that you got a spot in your university’s 6-hour course on how the budget works.

Today, I lifted and carried around a 50-lb bag of grain to refill a storage container when I ran out while making dinner for 17 horses 💪🏽🏆

The Easter Bunny came!