Are you engaged in transformative institutional work at any scale that aims to foster a more supportive, equitable, just, & values-driven academy? The @humetricshss team invites you to join our virtual community convocation. Let's learn & plan together! humetricshss.org/join-us-for-en…

My dad, who became a devoted birder in his retirement, passed away two weeks ago. I’m still reeling from the suddenness and shock of it, but today I signed up for this course on birding & data viz because it feels like a connection between us—a bridge between our worlds.

Congrats to #3MTCMU preliminary round 2 co-winner, Nicole C. Auvil Nicole of CMU Chemistry at CMU Mellon College of Science! Her presentation is titled 'The Super Sniffer: Parabolic Ionization Needle Mass Spectrometry.' Come cheer Nicole on at the championship 3/14. cmu.is/2024-3MT

Getting anxious about AI literacy in an election year? Want to get together with a bunch of librarians and make remixable, openly-licensed educational resources on the topic? We’re hosting a Pittsburgh hackathon at CMU libraries in April. Join us: b.link/ai-literacy

Love seeing others building on our HuMetricsHSS work out in the wild like this. It will take a (large!) village…

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If you're in/around PA and interested in AI literacy, please consider joining us in Pittsburgh on April 3 for a resource hackathon. We'll collectively create open, remixable, & reusable AI literacy resources for higher ed. guides.library.cmu.edu/aihackathon

Here to brag about my partner Richard Nisa and his brilliant colleagues Dr. Emily Mitchell-Eaton & Wes Attewell, whose co-edited issue of Radical History Review (out now!) brings together historians, geographers, and American/Asian studies folks interested in the political lives of infrastructure.

11/3/23. Save the date! 🗓️ Explore how #CMUOpenScience is transforming the ways in which we do research in a variety of science and non-science disciplines. Topics will include tenure and promotion policies, rethinking peer review, lessons from industry, and more! Virtual event.

So IFLA chose Dubaï for the 2024 WLIC? Here are members who do not approve (help me update the list!) 🔽

Rare visit to the bird site to say that we at humetricshss.org argue that excellence should be redefined to mean the enactment of agreed-upon values (equity, kindness, community, creativity, interdisciplinarity) in a given project / department / school / institution

Watch Joan Lippincott's webinar 'Support for Digital, Data-Intensive, & Computational Research in Three Libraries', part of CNI's Directions in #DigitalScholarship initiative.

Temple Libraries The Penn Libraries Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social @jplucia #data #research #libraries

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News: In July, Richard Nisa & I are moving to Pittsburgh to take up positions Carnegie Mellon University. I'll be Associate Dean for Academic Engagement in the libraries, working w/librarians to build out new programs & services to serve the evolving needs of the CMU community. We're thrilled!