J.A.H.

Twitter Archive

An incomplete archive of my tweets from 2014–2022. I left Twitter in 2022.

8,660 tweets

2022

January

@inactinique Hi Frédéric! The definitions have not been updated since 2015, correct. I’ve been meaning to get new ones scraped and added, but haven’t had time yet.

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I’ve been using Go a lot more as part of the work we’re doing on a @chnm data API, and it’s been a fantastic language to learn.

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Echoing all of this. The @UR_DSL and the crew with @3underscores are top-notch and producing fantastic, ground-breaking projects. Go apply! https://t.co/2O6imBqZsw

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Really incredible. I’ve had this idea to write something about how the browser is where we’ll do all data analysis / GIS in the future. I really need to get those thoughts down. https://t.co/4rg9jJJErz

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.@rebecca_altman: "No end-of-the-pipe fix can manage mass plastics’ volume, complex toxicity, or legacy of pollution, and the industry’s long-standing infractions against human health and rights." https://t.co/jvfc2cUPy2

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“To talk as if we can safely distinguish between the short, medium and long term, is one of the most insidious forms of soft denial at work today. We should no longer indulge in it.” https://t.co/xTlmp7hOPc

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.@jnoisecat: “A broader humanity facing the apocalypse of climate change might have a thing or two to learn from a people who’ve lived through the near total loss of our own worlds” https://t.co/Acdf9uxywb

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@CarolineEGrego Oh nice! I’m always on the hunt for a good veggie burger, we’ll have throw this into our rotation to try.

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Biden isn’t FDR. Or LBJ. Or Clinton. Or Obama. He’s Biden, dealing with his own unique circumstances of the moment. And calling LBJ “unsuccessful” is laughable. https://t.co/CUFtDFAIXG

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Don’t just take it from me. Maybe hear from other professional historians all making essentially the same argument: - https://t.co/58JBANnhFP - https://t.co/ihyqjnxdhL - https://t.co/7yOQBaSxXl

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“If we just keep building without repairing what exists or applying lessons learned along the way, we will continue to spin our wheels as the same problems accumulate and amplify.” https://t.co/mb5LhiTOuQ

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@richardivanjobs @tlecaque @dr_tgpeterson @RebeccaPScales I’ll bring a batch of these. https://t.co/W5vKsjqzab

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This is a fantastic opportunity to help build capacity for #dighist for faculty, postdocs, and students. I’m several years out of this role, but I’m happy to chat with folks if they have questions. https://t.co/hJsMNs5s6N

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Continuing some work today on a new map for our Religious Ecologies project. We have some cool stuff coming out soon. #chnmleaks https://t.co/U0CxIU4oTa

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“We need to stop thinking of trees as objects that belong to us and come to understand them as long-lived ecosystems temporarily under our protection. We have borrowed them from the past, and we owe them to the future.” https://t.co/W0GuR3FJpr

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There are hundreds of us #twitterstorians here, Economist. We'd be happy to lend our expertise before you publish something so ahistorical. https://t.co/IcaRTeibHp

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What film have you watched more than 7 times? Reply only with gifs. https://t.co/3bcYUrp3u3 https://t.co/qG4uPoRa6x

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@dmislin Might depend on how broadly you define crisis, but one area of my work I write on is toxics, pollution, and health in Silicon Valley in the 1970s-80s.

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Inspired by @ccjones13 a couple weeks ago, I made the copycat recipe of Torchy’s queso for tacos tonight. Delicious! https://t.co/Uq8Oxk2KE3

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@ccjones13 It did! Big hit in the family. Although it might be dangerous to have this much queso around the house now…

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I see we're discussing this again on the bird site, so I'll throw in: The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars trilogy film since Empire.

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February

Another early morning calling for writing, and my best approximation of a cappuccino. https://t.co/fzZaqu6Th1

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@MaddenAmanda I’m doing a similar approach with Norwegian, so I’ll be following the replies for ideas!

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@jnthnwwlsn I had three goals in 2020: 1. Keep my family safe and healthy. 2. Keep myself healthy. 3. Don't give covid to someone else in the event I was asymptomatic, to hold to 1 & 2 plus avoid strain on healthcare facilities.

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This doesn't surprise me all that much, though. As I'm arguing in my book, governing who or what is allowed in suburban space under the guise of "the environment" is a common part of the playbook. https://t.co/lNETRAeXxd

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In the 1970s, Latinx activists tried to build high-density, low-income housing in Los Altos Hills. The town, like Woodside, was exclusively zoned residential, was very wealthy, and entirely white. The response? You can't build here because it might cause landslides.

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Latinx activists sued the city council for denying their ability to build. But it didn't work: the judge ruled in favor of the city, saying Latinx residents could find housing elsewhere; and, the landscape needed preserving.

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It’s never not stunning that someone sworn to uphold the Constitution doesn’t know anything about the Constitution. https://t.co/hKytV8LxfL

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@benmschmidt I think this is really clever and well done. Visualizing the transformations is a good way to learn how these things work imo, but I've never had a good or easy approach for doing that. I think groups, joins, and filters tend to be were people get hung up most.

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@benmschmidt And for what it's worth: I'd say, since RStudio has a keyboard shortcut that can use the native pipes, I think it's cool to teach native pipes. Especially for new students, better to jump on the latest (and long-term?) change now.

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Weird, I remember the proper handling of government records being a cornerstone of his campaign. https://t.co/WBx9La0D6L

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@quinnanya For what it's worth, we're using PostgreSQL and importing CSVs (and there's a great program called Postico for working with the database itself). On the web front-end side, we're building data APIs in Go which are then called by D3/Vue/etc.

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@finnarne Can we launch a new conference, but it’s just a bunch of us playing environment-themes board games?

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One day, someone is going to write one heck of an environmental history of this year’s #Olympics https://t.co/gbftdQQDsn

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I'm not entirely sure it was the point, but that this 1981 map of the San Francisco Bay Area chooses to display the freeways as traffic jams is an interesting commentary. https://t.co/L32yYdHUN8

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The moral panic around teaching American history and the dismantling of Black voting rights are not separate stories. https://t.co/gM9ZQ6dOlG

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I’ve been incredibly blessed with thoughtful, caring, and amazing advisors and mentors. At UNL, @dougseefeldt, @wgthomas3, @democracy8888, and those championing me when I was at Stanford: Zephyr, Richard, Karin, @cncoleman. All reflections of the best of academia. https://t.co/tup06rnPf3

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The only thing I ever say to fellow runners or those we see out running otherwise is “great job, runner!” Nothing else needs to be said. https://t.co/rf6LIrAs07

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If you’re teaching #spatialhistory and interested in discussing the meaning of the field, Amanda and I want to hear from you! https://t.co/4wDtGrxxmH

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In a fit of panic over the job market, I nearly left my PhD program the first year in. A mentor talked me out of it, obviously, but odds are good I’d probably be working in Silicon Valley rather than writing about it. https://t.co/bjE5N9jxpS

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@BoxellMark Congratulations! Welcome to Omaha. Happy to grab coffee sometime and chat about the city/the university, etc.

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@magpie @dhowlett1692 I haven’t decided yet if it beats my favorite Gilded Age show (Deadwood), but it’s very good.

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@MatthewSitman @onesarahjones We can probably add to this, a lack of any meaningful action on climate change and failures to confront growing income inequalities.

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@sgillies Well, I’m out. I don’t know what my alternative is yet, but I’m not paying them to support this.

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Now is as good a time as any: - Make sure two-factor methods are on. Use a yubikey for the most security; authenticator app otherwise. - If you keep things in the cloud, make sure to have local copies. Especially personal stuff. Remember: three copies is two, and two is none.

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@kevinbaker @varsha_venkat_ I have, from time to time, seriously considered cutting apart every book I own just to scan them and recycle everything.

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March

Oh, I like this. #Heardle #8 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ https://t.co/BY2KLyfA0t https://t.co/7nviDmF0qy

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@MenryWY 1. They will be more work and take longer than you expect. Not a knock, really, just be aware. 2. Relatedly, organization is key. For us, that meant a lot of spreadsheets and lots of emails to contributors and regular Zoom check-ins among the editors.

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@MenryWY 3. We solicited contributors directly rather than do an open call, which I think worked in our favor. They were mostly folks who hadn’t written broadly in what they were working on, so the book worked well for them as an outlet for that.

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@MenryWY 4. We also just had amazing contributors — timely, smart, dedicated. I owe them the world for the book even existing.

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@LeapingRobot @MenryWY Definitely. There were three of us, and I think our various perspectives helped the book tremendously.

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A lot going on in the world, but I'm excited to be heading to @DumbartonOaks later this week for a planning meeting on the @interstatehwys project. We're exploring possibilities and challenges of a large-scale digital mapping effort on the U.S. Interstate Highway System.

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KYE is a fantastic podcast: great interviews on a wide variety of topics. If you're after engaging and accessible explanations of modern American politics, it should be a regular listen. https://t.co/ICRX7IY9ho

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I can’t get over that we’ve launched into another multi-day debate on academia by engaging with a poorly argued op-ed, all while almost none of the attention is on the systematic underfunding of universities or legislative threats to teaching history.

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Come join us! If anyone has questions about the role or the Center, don’t hesitate to reach out. https://t.co/Lo8AeZs2iR

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@cszabla One of my favorite shows that, yeah, all feels too relevant and hits differently than it did when I first watched it a couple years ago.

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@cszabla I started rewatching the first season sometime after the January 6 storming of the Capitol and, whew, did seeing the paramilitary hit me in a new way.

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@lwinling @interstatehwys @jon_petters @3underscores @amwhisnant @DavidASpatz @balti_less @danroyles @AmyFinstein @arothmanhistory @benjamintalton @nowurbanism @rizzo_pubhist @CarmenBolt Great seeing and meeting you all! Here’s to future collaboration. Thanks again @lwinling and @nowurbanism for everything.

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Similar to Ohio's recent bill, Nebraska has recently advanced legislation to do away with concealed carry regulations so anyone can carry a gun. Vigilante violence by anyone who feels someone threatened their sense of self is the point. https://t.co/lm6QOcSDaV

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Sure seems like the complaint of free speech on the right is abstracted as a *feeling* of being unable to say something. But it’s more material than that, and led by the right: banned books, legislation targeting the teaching history, confronting protests with violence.

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“The text is what really matters—I know that. And that means the author matters. But so do binders and paper makers and typesetters and designers—all those unsung talents that go into making a book.” https://t.co/GuDg0O8ouU

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Great to see those Ferraris at the front, what a start to the season. Super curious to know what’s up with the Red Bull engines.

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Just had a flashback to a college history professor who would never mention JFK by name. He only ever referred to him as “He who shall not be named.”

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@newdougman Honestly, and to his credit perhaps, I'm not sure? He was a diplomatic and military historian, former Army vet, pretty sure he'd spent some time in Vietnam.

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@Chad_G101 I'm not sure! I'm pretty sure he'd spent time in Vietnam while in the Army, and I always wondered if it was a lingering resentment of some sort.

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@brandan_buck Now I'm super compelled to go back and see if I have any notes left from his classes. Which is a rabbit hole I don't need.

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@newdougman Absolutely. Anytime I think of this, I've always wondered what it stemmed from. I think he's still around, maybe I should write him and see if he'll spill the beans. 😁

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In the mail. Featuring @lmchervinsky @megankatenelson @mkazin @LGeismer. Can’t wait to dig in! https://t.co/2PcsDBkXgt

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@rebeccawingo @lmchervinsky @megankatenelson @mkazin @LGeismer It takes about one paragraph a month at a time.

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I don't necessarily need more sources for my book to work (and be done), but the urge to be in archives in California has been particularly strong today.

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Venures like @KnowYrEnemyPod and @thedrift_mag and many others didn't get this kind of coverage (if they received any at all) until they'd built an audience. Yet this new, unproven, right-wing magazine gets free publicity in the nation's largest newspaper?

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"Powerful economic and technological forces have combined to make the Web the way it is today. Making it better won’t be easy and we can’t do it alone." https://t.co/MltxAkKGa5

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@margaretomara I like to think part of my role as a digital historian is to help build a better web. I really love their framing here.

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What a day: DataScribe's release (https://t.co/sw7qOXFq7H), great progress on a mapping project, not breaking the servers when I had to change file ownership, and Johnny Cash song title puns prompted by @lincolnmullen. I love this job.

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Sure is great when my elected officials and their spouses portray Nebraska as a backwoods state. https://t.co/dxG5mOHATg

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I’m just going to leave the AP’s current style guide here. https://t.co/Trhfppq92E https://t.co/Oyv7TNBP0J

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Don’t worry though, the Democratic establishment won’t take any action that could be deemed partisan or political. https://t.co/jPC0TdebvT

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As someone who professionally builds digital history projects for the web, I think about this a lot. https://t.co/DAwFolkEgo

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On the one hand, it’s probably true the public doesn’t typically get their history from professional historians. On the other, the web (and I’m including social media here) is often where people go — and we should be more engaged than we are.

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According to @AHAhistorians, the web and social media are key places where people get their history. And, more importantly, those are places where we can more easily intervene (vs. television, let’s say). https://t.co/H693kxveQu https://t.co/azOlydkVEz

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[Vince McMahon meme] - American footage of the Oscars - Japanese footage of the Oscars - Australian footage of the Oscars

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As I read on, my incredulity went from shaking my head in solidarity to yelling “what!?” at my phone. https://t.co/eX32Y3Hoxg

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"If Gramsci has aged better than many of his peers, it is in part because he became a thinker for a defeated, rather than a triumphalist, left." https://t.co/g8n5Ndenwt

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@DavidAstinWalsh I mean, he took a harder line on this than MTG’s appearance at a white supremacist rally. Seems perfectly consistent, sadly.

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If I wanted to express interest in writing a review essay for this for a more popular outfit (e.g., @DissentMag @newrepublic etc.) -- could I gain traction on that somehow? https://t.co/00LTcgoW1m

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April

@rebecca_altman @KerriArsenault @ScrivenerApp You might find @zacharyschrag’s short video series on Scrivener useful, too. https://t.co/u7895j6HI1

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Cuban ropa vieja (roast shredded beef), coconut scallion rice, vegetarian Cuban picadillo. https://t.co/D1feylN6oB

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@e_b_bobadilla There was a guy in my grad program who was finishing up his dissertation about the time I started my PhD, which he had hand-written and was in the process of typing up.

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scene: 2yo putting stickers in moms birthday card. me: how many stickers are you going to put on there? 2yo: too many

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Back in college I worked at an art museum where collecting, counting, and replacing these was part of my job. A thing I’d never thought about with museums and libraries before then. https://t.co/6UP52k1s77

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In case you’ve missed it, @ghiwashington and @chnm are offering a 12-month fellowship in digital history at both institutions. Position starts in October: https://t.co/Gc44n8r6ha

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@rebeccawingo @VirginiaScharff @A_NeedhamNYU @CathleenDCahill @JeaniOBrien I’ve been doing this for years, 100% the way to go.

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@jnthnwwlsn I’ve talked to or heard from so many of us who were once conservatives but started to break from the party/movement over the Iraq War. I think you’re exactly right that it explains a lot about this era.

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Double the tweets from me this week. I’ll be over @chnm off and on this week, so make sure to follow along over there! https://t.co/ScemAIo9Fd

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Just to signal boost this a bit: if you're working at the confluence of DH + environmental / sustainability / climate history, I'd love to hear from you. https://t.co/e7hlSobBxE

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@mightylibrarian We received a little bit over the weekend, but no major amounts. Looks like the freezing overnight temperatures are leaving us at least for the rest of this week.

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Look, all I'm saying is three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and data wrangling always takes way more time than you expect. https://t.co/MkPG4QpMZw

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I find Twitter’s notification center baffling. “Hey someone mentioned you! You can find it here in All. But sometimes not, you’ll have to check Mentions. Oh and those likes that you see in the tweet but not here? Yeah, we don’t know where those are either.”

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@misssbridge Not always, though. I’ve definitely had non-private accounts never show up in my notifications. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@misssbridge Case in point: your first reply was in my All notifications. This one ⬆️ was not. 🤔 Time to bring back the Fail Whale.

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“Well, you’re right that it hasn’t happened exactly like this before, but we have seen similar things like this before. Here’s what we learned the last time this happened and why it’s worrying. In 1954, the—” https://t.co/d3v27Hbd8Q

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This game does a great job illustrating the challenges of meeting the Paris climate agreements. #envhist https://t.co/js8ontNQ7Z

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Another theme is design: how differently these high-tech industrial facilities appeared compared to the smokestacks, warehouses, and rail yards of the industrial East and Midwest. These sites were low-rise buildings, nicely landscaped, and strictly designed. /10 https://t.co/BikWYbyRyT

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The representative story here is Stanford University, which created the Stanford Industrial Park in the 1950s as a way to foster business-university partnerships, secure defense contracts, and foster entrepreneurial activity. /11

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Stanford tightly regulated design, who wanted no indication you were among an industrial site. As the university's business manager noted, the Park had "no smoke, no heavy manufacturing. Light manufacturing that is clean and electronic . . . [in] a park-like amosphere." /12

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This idea of a "green" industrialization was a central selling point of the Valley's economic transformation in the postwar era. And it happened everywhere, not just at Stanford. It was not uncommon to find industrial sites nestled among orchards. /13 https://t.co/JWMbcOQBQ8

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But this "greenness," another theme running through the book, wasn't really so green. The manufacture of chips and wafers for electrical components relies on liquids and gases that are toxic. /14

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One effect is working-class people in these facilities who are exposed to these chemicals and deal with their effects: asthma, cancer, skin burns, issues with vision. /15

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(I don't dive deeply into the working conditions of these facilities -- that's for someone else's dissertation or book. If you're working on this or looking for a topic like this, let's talk.) /16

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But it's not just working-class people affected by this activity. One middle-class family wondered in the pages of the San Jose Mercury in the late 1950s why a company was testing the radiation levels in their shrubs in front of their ranch house. /17

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And all of this development also means inevitable changes to the land: acres and acres of new pavement and asphalt that reshapes water runoff and rainwater absorption; re-routing of creeks, streams, and rivers; sinking land from subsidence; the steady retreat of orchards. /18

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Toxics and pollution make up a final thread in the book. These "green" high-tech industry polluted drinking water; leaks of chemical solvents from storage tanks were discovered in the 1980s and are likely responsible for cancers, birth defects, miscarriages, and other issues. /19

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By the end of the 1980s, the @EPA had declared 29 Superfund sites in the Santa Clara County -- more than any other county in the United States. /22

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There is, of course, much more nuance and complexity here. But one thing this points to is the complicated legacy of environmental protection: there are thousands of acres of protected open space and parks in the Valley. /23

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But, that eco-friendliness only goes so far. Environmental protections were also used as a tool of exclusion. /24 https://t.co/ugWs93VysP

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High-tech is inextricably tied up in this. We cannot talk about the Bay Area's current housing, sustainability, climate, wealth, and planning issues without recognizing what happened in the postwar era. /24

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Finally, I should note I have a (somewhat neglected but now being revised) digital project on this as well. https://t.co/2U0hF1QPuQ

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Well, I’m glad I got to be the @chnm guest tweeter before this whole place burns down. https://t.co/Ugm5fJnN0R

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@magpie @lizcovart It’s not as intuitive as Twitter. But you can use the search to find people by user name: @jaheppler@mstdn.social

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@e_b_bobadilla @FieldsDesiree I hadn’t seen it mentioned in the replies, but Linda Nash’s book fits the bill here. https://t.co/IWai2itEnc

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Great list and fantastic suggestions in the replies. I’d love to take + teach a course like this. https://t.co/vN6AtyH5BU

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This year's #DayOfDH2022 might be accompanied with a sick kiddo, but: today I'll be digging into some work on the @PlagueBills project. I was stuck in a rut yesterday, but had an epiphany this morning that might solve the problem I had.

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As Jake points out and I’m noting in my book, the use of environmental laws and regulations weren’t just about “protecting the environment” but also reflect ideas about land, exclusion, and nature at the time. CEQA is working as intended. https://t.co/CdQMD5CjqF

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The @PlagueBills project is my first time using Vue for a complex web application. Slowly wrapping my head around it all. #DayOfDH2022 https://t.co/6Q1ucyMzBP

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May

@jeffmanuel Agreed. I was (still am) a vim user for years but I also do a lot of writing on my iPad and their app is just as good there as it is on the Mac.

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@ccjones13 Happy birthday, Chris. I hope the next year is filled with less trying moments and more amazing food.

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@akiltykramer @CorinneGressang Same here! I learned on one of my dad’s company’s work truck — a dump truck from 1972 with a very picky transmission.

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Nope. And also, I suspect, my access to peer file sharing considerably expanded my taste in music. It became easy to sample a lot of different things. https://t.co/o3YDIQoKym

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I can assure you no radio stations in South Dakota were broadcasting Stabbing Westward, nor would I have found myself attending a local Joe Lovano live without having been exposed to him and others first.

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My daughter, waking up from her nap, always brings a book down from her room but then just leaves it on the kitchen counter. It’s the equivalent of me packing more than one book in my bag because I “might have time to read it.”

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The latest newsletter on our history of religion work at @chnm is out! Highlights include @scarolinegreer’s work on female preachers, our latest CTT partner, and @JohnGTurner2020 and team are (finally!) back at NARA. And more! Check it out: https://t.co/aJSazFp7Bn

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COVID finally got past my diligence. I’m on day five and feeling better, so here’s hoping I’ve turned the corner. Keep masking. Keep testing. Use the best government website ever made: https://t.co/tN2RBuU7fP

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@LeapingRobot Thanks. Today’s the first day I didn’t immediately need the aid of ibuprofen, so hopefully I’m on the mend.

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seems pretty weird to me that I'm still testing COVID positive as of this morning, yet the guidance is I can leave quarantine / return to campus / etc as long as I'm masked three cheers for capitalism?

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Stark contrast on my trip last week: when I left D.C. almost everyone was masked in the airport. When I landed in Nebraska, there was a handful of us in the whole airport with a mask on. https://t.co/tISWUFDwtS

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@crystaljjlee “the transition of many internet services to a model built around cryptographic tokens, such that ownership and/or control of those services might be divided between their token-holders” https://t.co/OZnyS7rEnC

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@jotis13 @AneliseHShrout @scott_bot between us renaming our data api Apiary and now these DH-as-flowers metaphors, I’m really liking where this is all going

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I can’t believe* after two years of this that the CDC still hasn’t managed to get a grip on how it communicates. Less 4D chess and more checkers, please. * sadly, I can actually https://t.co/6CinMtJL2t

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@HealeyParera oh no! I just recovered from my first bout with it too — hope it’s short-lived and a smooth recovery.

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tell me you’ve read few history books without telling me you’ve read few history books https://t.co/9u3Ncqarfq

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Literally a key part of being a historian? Writing engaging narratives and not plagiarizing. We do it every day.

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One last thing, about another side project of yours with a sizable impact: LaTeX. I’d like to finally clear something up with the creator. Is it pronounced LAH-tekh or LAY-tekh? Any way you want. I don’t advise spending very much time thinking about it. https://t.co/91XBL1rfba

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“It’s not a good time for Belgian-style monastic beers. Spencer came along at the wrong time.” https://t.co/FXm41xxV1E via @americamag

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I didn't know I'd be going to the grocery store today to stock up on some Spencer, but here we are. https://t.co/uuJGr7bt3z

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June

It’s striking that this is about coverage of topics, not about historical thinking + the skills we cultivate. https://t.co/cqkdmo232s

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“The best hope for reversing the societal decay driving Americans to retreat into a permanent anti-social defensive crouch, is building and strengthening organizations that can politically mobilize people to . . . fight for someone they don’t know.” https://t.co/kxJn84uBzh

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We've literally been throwing more guns into the problem for 30+ years and it's done nothing but make things deadlier. https://t.co/JPgacalMnf

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“There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any time in at least 4 million years” https://t.co/T21KT1osTH

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Weekend project inching closer to wrapped. Painted the study and replaced the sagging cheap bookshelves with track shelving. https://t.co/teecZGZBQQ

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"The story of the world's woodlands is one of overwhelming decline. Since the end of the Ice Age, Britain's wildwoods have been wholly transformed into fields, pasture and cities." Really great piece of scrollytelling and #envhist. https://t.co/rqZcfhncK9

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@NWSOmaha just had pea-to-nickel sized hail pass through near 114th and Dodge. Now just raining. https://t.co/Ajk591e043

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@pashulman Admittedly it's been a little while since I've revisited them, but I think James Ronda's work holds up well.

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“A system of laws and protections developed by and for humans, that places human concerns and values at its core, can never fully incorporate the needs and desires of nonhumans.” https://t.co/8SzzGvUxny

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@varsha_venkat_ We need to share a bourbon sometime when our conferences overlap because you have a great taste. Happy birthday!

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Compare and contrast this with the responses from the rest of the Democratic leadership’s flat response about the importance of getting out to vote. https://t.co/igWpW2KXaB

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@MatthewSitman Good luck! We always had a hard time getting our corn to grow, so I’ll be eagerly watching for updates.

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Here’s that “pied piper” strategy. The same people involved then, and who have spent the last six years blaming progressives for their losses, are still involved. https://t.co/aO111blMdm

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Mostly offline today digging into some work and just catching up on the cliff notes from the hearing. My God.

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We're hiring! We're looking for a Systems Administrator / DevOps person to join us at @chnm to help support our infrastructure and collaborate with project teams. Don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions. https://t.co/FjUSnG0O3I

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My favorite part of approaching Independence Day is people breaking city ordinance and launching loud fireworks at 11:30 at night and outside the approved fireworks days.

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"Convincing banks to stop funding Big Oil is probably not the most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis, but, in a country where democratic political options are effectively closed off, it may be the only path left." https://t.co/Jbxcffn7Dl

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Over this year’s Fourth of July weekend: 220 killed and 570 wounded to gun violence, up from 180 killed, 516 wounded last year. https://t.co/StBAOH3dUP

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@abbycabs @mozilla I’d missed the news you joined GitHub, congratulations! Thanks for everything you did at Mozilla, I’m happy and honored we had the chance to meet and work together.

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My fantastic colleagues at @EnviroDGI raise the alarm that sunsetting the @EPA's web archive would have on research and public engagement: https://t.co/sQPN1DOgnQ

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I didn't have a chance to really note this yesterday, but we launched a new project! https://t.co/QcDgkM3aA3

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There's always more to do in digital projects and there are probably dozens of things I'd like to keep working on, but I'm proud of what we made here (and over a relatively quick period of time). What I'm most pleased with is the narrative views.

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It's inspired in no small part by @scholarslab's Neatline and other storytelling / scrollytelling mapping interfaces. The idea was to give readers a sense of place by taking them to places mentioned in the text -- map and text, side-by-side.

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It's one of the harder things, I think, about doing spatial history. I confront this in my own book, too: how do I give readers a sense of this landscape and its changes? Give readers a sense of the intimacy that environmentalists felt about particular places?

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I think digital mapping like this solves a part of that problem by helping readers remain oriented in space. If a particular building or location or intersection is mentioned, we take you right there. And because it's interactive you don't lose the rest of the spatial context.

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I'll probably write up a longer piece about designing this soon. But I hope you'll check it out! And, armed with potential grants in the future, I hope we add more Virginia campuses before long.

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"BA.4 and BA.5 are more infectious than previous Covid variants and subvariants, and are better able to evade immunity from vaccines and previous infections....[Contagion] is similar to measles, which was until now our most infectious viral disease." https://t.co/8FugDpiYRR

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A feature of our political age is leaders believing that acting on broadly popular things will hurt them politically. https://t.co/r7yY25gUql

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Not only is my https://t.co/5TiNogAuj7 website the most-visited and cited thing I've made, it's also the thing that's gotten the most forks on Github.

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There’s an actual network of paid informers working for TPUSA/Campus Reform/Professor Watchlist, but not a word about them in this piece. https://t.co/6oFg9dUYbL

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@finnarne Local maps, as big as possible and perhaps on a wall; a wall with whiteboard paint; local samples of material (soils, rocks, etc), even just for display; coffee/espresso station; wall-mounted big screen that displays random live streams of animals/landscapes; lots of plants!

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@EFArnold @finnarne I love a good whiteboard, and a whole wall is even better! We had them around @cesta_stanford and they were great for both brainstorming / designing / meetings and the random artwork or whimsical things added by students.

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The latest Religion @ RRCHNM newsletter is out, featuring an announcement of our upcoming collaboration with @WinterthurMuse, fantastic work by @scarolinegreer, and a shout-out to @chnm alum @jerielizabeth! https://t.co/V1V4KravI6

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“A new study … found that climate change has pushed almost a quarter of Earth’s best-protected forests to a ‘critical threshold‘ for lost resilience — the point at which even a minor drought or heat wave could tip them into catastrophic decline.” https://t.co/XtAeewXqI1

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@MatthewSitman Once during a debate between Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein on his Israel book, AD took affront that Finkelstein accused him of not writing his own book. Finkelstein clarified that, no, he was accusing him of not having read it.

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Although I would quibble with the claim that there haven’t been similar examinations of the left—I agree the right gets the bulk attention, but the piece never mentions the work of @margaretomara or @LGeismer, to name two that immediately come to mind.

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A couple of years ago, I made this visualization of temperature anomalies across the globe between 1880 and 2019. I'm after some more up-to-date data to bring it closer to the present. https://t.co/9GLmoMmksp https://t.co/1vN0nibaIb

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@seanfraga @WhaHistory I think I started a project like this, but haven’t gotten around to finishing it. 🙃

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@LeavittAlone @MatthewSitman It’s wild to me that, when I was considering graduate school in 2005-6, a prof told me not to worry about the market because the jobs would open with waves of retirements. I still, although much less so, hear that repeated in 2022. Then again, academia is a beast unto itself.

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@MatthewSitman @LeavittAlone Sure, I suspect that definitely played a part. It’s also tied up in the adjunctification of academia and what feels like a rise in postdoc positions (I haven’t quantified that, so I might be wrong), which changed work / labor / stability / availability of jobs.

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These numbers are starkly different from polling among Americans, according to 2021 work by Yale: 57% think climate change is caused by human activity; 64% think its hurting the US; 68% think its harming humanity now. https://t.co/Do25yeDPTs https://t.co/CN1OgLYgAk

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I've always liked this newspaper cartoon from the 1950s: the parochial interests of San Francisco Bay cities against region-wide challenges (smog, transit) and the need for coordinated responses. https://t.co/9E0GwJMSPW

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LEC isn’t watching his chance at winning the world championship slip away because of his driving. It’s because of the Ferrari strategy decisions.

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@e_b_bobadilla Add to this: did you see the news Alpine had no clue about Alonso leaving until AM’s press release? And now a potential legal dispute with McLaren means they may not get Piastri to fill the seat? I love silly season.

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@e_b_bobadilla People are now reading into this and claiming we’re entering a Palou Ganassi/McLaren situation. https://t.co/iPpmlXSfpI

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“I'm working on [a tutorial] about how to parse NetCDF files full of climate data using the Python programming language to save the data to an SQL database and integrate it into a traditional web workflow. That's my DevOps!” @ftrain, speaking my language. https://t.co/xcN57vFn5m

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@thomasgpadilla I use to be Team Acronym but lately I’ve named two projects around @chnm and both are project names I’ve given them rather than an acronym/backronym. The names feel more whimsical, I suppose?

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I’m not sure the timeline is quite right here. Republicans tried to ban climate change research in the 1990s, so disbelief has been around longer than 2008. https://t.co/BntqvpqCO2

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As @joguldi has shown, a very small group of Republicans in Congress during the 1990s and early 2000s were responsible for criticizing science-based policy on the environment and demonizing environmentalists. https://t.co/bsVBj5Cl85

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@BrendenWRensink @jstuart__ It's a comfortable keyboard, it's slightly roomier than my Apple one. It's not particularly loud but you can control that with different switches. I can also hot-swap, so I can shift from iMac to iPad quickly through Bluetooth. As a first-time mechanical keyboard, it's good.

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@BrendenWRensink @jstuart__ My one "complaint" is the feedback when you hit the bottom of the keystroke isn't particularly satisfying but that's probably my choice of switches rather than the keyboard itself. Battery life is decent. Can't beat the price.

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@BrendenWRensink @jstuart__ For sure -- my other favorite keyboard is the Microsoft Sculpt for more ergonomic support. I like them so much I bought a couple in case they ever stop making them 😆

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@nirak problem is, in some of his replies from people who also caught the screenshot, I can't tell if he's mocking or serious

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"'Breaking History' is an earnest and soulless — Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one— and peculiarly selective appraisal of Donald J. Trump’s term in office." https://t.co/gATsePpS63

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All history is a history of the present, written in the present that reflects present-day issues. What an absurd argument, from the top of profession’s largest organization no less. https://t.co/1wreA6OTG0

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This is what gets me. Out of all the issues in the world and issues facing the historical profession, he selects presentism as the most pressing? Great thread. https://t.co/C1jFcalE4y

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"'We were clearly aware of appraisal discrimination,' said Dr. Connolly, 44. 'But to be told in so many words that our presence and the life we've built in our home brings the property value down? It's an absolute gut punch.'" https://t.co/4gJLJUFZ3S

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This is so cool: PARC and PARC-adjacent folks are restoring and modernizing the Medley Interlisp system that ran on the Xerox D-machines so it runs on a modern VM on any OS. https://t.co/VKSj6KvDuQ https://t.co/xhUAh41ZIh

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@drdeepthimurali Copilot is really great. For me, it can both 1) suggest ideas for solving a problem if I'm stuck on something, and 2) its ability to auto-complete for me, and thus get things done more quickly, is astoundingly good. Just a big quality of life tool.

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"The IRA isn’t like an EPA regulation that will modestly bend the curve of U.S. emissions. Instead, it catapults the country into a whole new landscape where the economics of every other climate action are different." https://t.co/DftSldVD1M

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Tell me you have no idea how historians do their work without telling me you have no idea how historians do their work. https://t.co/Pl5TelgrSl

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Typically years of work go into the research, writing, revising, and thinking that produces a single book. All of which must engage with existing scholarship and respond to input and challenges to ideas from conferences and peer review. https://t.co/Pl5TelgrSl

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@ccjones13 Yes completely agree on Rogue One, it’s fantastic. ✊🏻(And those costumes are awesome, how fun!)

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Major sea level rise is "now inevitable" according to a new study: "With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other ice caps and thermal expansion of the ocean, a multi-metre sea-level rise appears likely." https://t.co/9RQtVmQZSV

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@SamAdlerBell @MatthewSitman @KnowYrEnemyPod By the way, your Lasch episode was great (I’m a touch behind on the main and bonus feeds). I remember, back when I was a young conservative, getting handed Revolt of the Elites by one of my conservative mentors/prof. Pretty sure it’s still on my shelf somewhere.

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September

Homemade cast iron birthday pizza, with sauce and dough recipes from @kenjilopezalt. https://t.co/ULdiedNN7a

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@PubliusorPerish Fantastic thread, Jordan! Resonates with me, too, as a non-TT-but-still-academia-adjacent who doesn’t need to finish my book out of any professional/promotion obligation. But I want to! (And plan to get this thing off my desk this fall). Congrats on the publication!

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“What’s striking about the privatization of internet infrastructure is how poorly it serves everyone.” https://t.co/UCKOBTzGDY

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“Rather than being a rare exception, projects like this one fit a longstanding pattern of how the United States chooses to force highways through communities with the least political power to resist.” https://t.co/OGN2JWxwIB

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The Queen was the first head of state to send an email.  https://t.co/6HSrv7vFNp https://t.co/u8Vey1q8nn

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So far, the side-effects of this booster haven't been too bad except for the lingering grogginess into the next day.

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It's not a major part of my book, but historian Gordon Wright became something of a target for student protesters focused on environmental issues. He chaired an ad-hoc university committee on low-cost housing in the 1970s.

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A Stanford-based student group calling itself Grass Roots was founded in 1969 focusing on ecology and housing, but also reflected a New Left critique of Vietnam and capitalism. https://t.co/GVQX13B9jX

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Their slogan, "House People, Not Profits," encapsulated their emphasis on who could access Palo Alto. Grass Roots' own studies indicated that commuters were traveling from 50 miles away, where housing was cheaper. Sounds like today's San Francisco Bay Area.

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There's not a lot of archival material on Grass Roots (and their name makes searching difficult), but I do think they're reflective of a shift in environmental thought in Silicon Valley: one less focused on conservation and more on health, infrastructure, justice, and capitalism.

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@quinnanya Not to make it worse, but there were people warning as early as 1957 that housing was in shortage already.

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Stellar #envhist by @lacymjohnson: The longleaf pine ecosystems are “casualties of the single most violent and destructive force in history—the lie that the only value life has is the wealth that can be forcefully extracted from it.”

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Blame it on the head cold I’m fighting that I somehow didn’t include the link to @lacymjohnson’s piece I quoted, _and_ that I’ve only now noticed. Anyway, go read it: https://t.co/KtRYtVrggo

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me, watching the rings of power: why are they riding these horses through the middle of a meadow instead of on a well-trodden road, certainly such a wealthy island kingdom would build and guard a network of—

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October

“If these problems are intrinsically linked to consolidated tech giants like Meta, Google, and Amazon, why not embrace technologies that decentralize power?” https://t.co/vgzUXqluk8

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Pushed up some design updates for my What is DH site, including a button to retrieve a new quote rather than refreshing the page for a new one. https://t.co/5TiNogiTrz

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We have some great things coming this week, #WHA2022! Our usual lightning round session, but also a new session! Come check it out. https://t.co/IxPUS3J6NP

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@A_NeedhamNYU @thejohnlegg If it’s any consolation, I couldn’t get hot enough water this morning and I made the worst cup of coffee I’ve ever made.

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For those that don’t know, I typically aggregate tweets for the #WHA2022 conference. Past ones are up on my site, and I’ll get this year’s up next week: https://t.co/W5CpmXndtg https://t.co/N9xvcuUtyz

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Heading home today from #WHA2022 and already I can’t wait to see everyone again in Los Angeles next year. It was great to catch up with so many after three years away.

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An observation following the @WhaHistory conference this week, which I'm now digging into past programs to actually back up my hunch: #wha2022 https://t.co/G9aOMCTGYV

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It's surpsing to me that we haven't had a flowering of more work on climate and environment in the West. We're in the midst of a climate emergency, and this region--a place often defined by its aridity--is a good place for understanding the challenges of climate change.

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As Donald Worster told us in 2014: historians can "provide a useful perspective on how climates and societies have interacted in the past, how societies have tried to prevent or adapt to floods and droughts, and what worked and what did not." https://t.co/rrFiJUOpVN

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Since his presidential address in 2014, 7.4 million acres of the West burned, snowpack and water have been greatly reduced in mountains, reserviors, lakes, and rivers, cities have grown by millions, and average temperatures across the West have risen between one-to-two percent.

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In the face of all of this, there seem to be few environmental or climate panels. And in my first cursory glance of past programs going back to 2014, we've had more-or-less a consistent (and low) amount of #envhist panels or papers. Even fewer, though, on the climate.

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And it prompts me to ask why? Are these panels appearing elsewhere other than the @WhaHistory conference? Are we seeing more activity in books/articles rather than conferences? Is there something about our discipline/field currently that has led to fewer #envhist #AmWest work?

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Perhaps my hunch is wrong. I'm doing some research now to back it up or disprove it, and I'd be eager to hear from others. Depending on how my investigation goes, maybe it's worth a WHQ piece.

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I mention this here in the context of the quoted housing piece above because I believe housing and sprawl and its attendant infrastructure (roads, interstates, waterworks, waste) are tied up with climate change.

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I have less of a sense of how work on housing, suburbanization, and sprawl has proceeded at the @WhaHistory conferences but it's something I want to look at as well.

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I wrote some thoughts about AI-generated images, creativity, and the work of historians in a world where creating fake historical images becomes trivial. https://t.co/10Jv6WP7UT

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On the road back from Colorado and the extreme wind + dust + apparently grassfire smoke is eerie. https://t.co/nDASN13cJv

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Does @observablehq Plot have a way to format a facet's label? For example, if I facet on a year, I can remove the comma it places in the number?

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@benmschmidt @nomic_ai Congratulations, Ben! Can’t wait to see what’s next. Seems like a fantastic place doing really interesting work.

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@miriamkp @nirak I’m stuck in some two factor purgatory and can’t reach my mastodon account it’s been nice knowing you all 😂

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Moving from denying climate change to denying solutions to climate change isn’t the shift it’s made out to be. https://t.co/k5gKoQWK7X

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I was debating whether I’d actually leave, but honestly this is what this bird site is going to turn into and I don’t want to be here for it. https://t.co/vZaAo4ji1m

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I’ll probably be at https://t.co/nG9itl9otu more than anywhere, but I’m also here: https://t.co/ktCdtgErL9

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@magpie I haven’t seen one yet? I have seen a https://t.co/RL6UNtYiwd and a https://t.co/wjeZ9q8SgI, which are sort of related.

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November

@FredrikAlbritt1 @emilypawley I think there’s a climate justice server I’ve seen, but not anything I’ve seen necessarily focused on humanities / history / social sciences.

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“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, for $8/month” Colossians 1:13 https://t.co/r8wD3M1J4L

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.@DukeHistoryDept is hiring a TT asst prof in #envhist, area and time period open, with an emphasis on environmental justice. https://t.co/thPyVX2saq

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In case the lights go out around this place in the next 36 hours, and if you like the things I write or make, I can be found elsewhere on the Internet: https://t.co/J3ViKJgpZQ https://t.co/Cs2r3t9Ul6 https://t.co/MyaDnChtBd

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Is this a thing that’s been on Twitter a while? I don’t follow him. And it’s not a “people you follow liked this” tweet. https://t.co/Yzuyjq4QKX

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Today I was honestly picturing a future conversation with my daughter going exactly like this. https://t.co/NbBfy468pN

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2021

January

This makes it sound pretty tame. It’s not just a protest; they’re *in* the chambers. https://t.co/k47quuF4PS

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Sure is funny how social media companies are deciding there’s more they could be doing to police destructive behavior when they learn Democrats are about to chair congressional committees that oversee them.

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“Facebook’s own research revealed that 64 percent of the time a person joins an extremist Facebook Group, they do so because the platform recommended it.” https://t.co/fxQttD3Bx2

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I’m just a simple historian, but it seems to me of we’re having this conversation maybe impeachment should be happening right now. https://t.co/c7kVllLaR4

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Healing comes with accountability and justice. Simply moving on won’t provide healing, accountability, or justice.

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Five people died this week during an assault on the Capitol that threatened the lives of Congresspeople. https://t.co/2iXVgZUNyy

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The plaque on the right commemorates troops quartered in Congress during the Civil War. https://t.co/wiU9Ej68zH

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Are you passionate about open educational resources? Want to join a regional university and have a deep impact on our students' ability to attend a university? Did I mention Omaha is a super affordable city with an outstanding food scene? We're hiring! https://t.co/2te2MobIaA

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I had a dream last night I was hanging out around a campfire with @cncoleman and @anarchivist, which sounds delightful but especially now in the midst of ~everything~.

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@scott_bot Best of luck on what comes next, Scott! Looking forward to hearing what's to come. If there's anything I can do to help don't hesitate to reach out.

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“Being American is more than the pride we inherit. It’s the past we step into, and how we repair it.” https://t.co/WK94l4gLNN

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@rebeccawingo Me: DHer who writes software and typically can fix issues with my computer or home wifi network. Also me: can't use Concur or Digital Measures or Box correctly.

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I'm in the midst of trying to migrate some of my domains and DNS propagation is driving me mad, so if you've tried to email me in the last 24 hours at my primary domain you might need to try again in a day or two. 🖥

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@jean_bauer Well, now the host command in the terminal is telling me my domain doesn't have an MX record. So...progress, I guess?

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@jean_bauer I think I fixed it. I have hosting with Reclaim, but domain registration through Hover. I think I'm not understanding why I can't set up my CNAME and MX records, etc., just in Hover; I had to do it through Reclaim's interface... In any event, all seems to be working now!

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The internet has ruined my brain. Every photo I come across on this site now, I have to stop and see if Bernie is somewhere in it.

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“If the owner is explicitly saying the business itself won’t survive, keeping the building around as a cultural monument raises additional questions about what culture, exactly, is being preserved.” https://t.co/JEEzUzpfjn

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February

"It’s unclear what cities will look like in a year or more, but in many areas the landscape is already starting to shift." https://t.co/9ZmywuiVBx

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Pick a parking meter, any parking meter. (San Jose city manager John Lynch, mid-1940s.) https://t.co/m1xqsXLNpr

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You ever dream about a historical resource you wish was digitized? I'd love to have a digitized, searchable San Jose Mercury.

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It’s possible that if remote work persists it will pressure rents downward. Might turn into a great opportunity if you’re wanting to move to the coasts! https://t.co/fVF8bH5znA

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@CARROT_app Any ideas why selecting “current location” is giving me the same current temp/feels temp, but a generic city search gives me the correct temp/feels? Accuweather is source for data. https://t.co/VgEGmI8ZGv

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This is sort of like that one time I tried to repair a non-working tub drain stopper upstairs and nearly flooded my kitchen below. https://t.co/pMJKRDOVUS

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Me, last night: Can't wait to work on my book tomorrow morning! Me, now: wait, it's almost 10? https://t.co/KyWnCcbBZD

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@brianleechphd @Canadian_Errant Neat! Gephi is likely my first recommendation too—lots of stats to work with, but it’s also very particular about data and the interface can be inscrutable. Palladio might work too (https://t.co/flMQeLLt0N). But feel free to drop me an email to chat more details: heppler@hey.com

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@brianleechphd @Canadian_Errant I taught a network analysis workshop at the @AHAhistorians conference a few years ago, there might be some details here that’ll help too: https://t.co/Ajx73JnY9N

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Some great talks today. First, I'm part of a three-week series hosted by @LibraryJournal on fostering an anti-racist culture in libraries.

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And now, I'm tuning into the @cesta_stanford / UCL series on the digital humanities. Up today is Zephyr Frank. https://t.co/RANLdP9y3A

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Unbelievably honored that _Digital Community Engagement_ edited by @rebeccawingo, @PaulSchadewald1, and myself received the NCPH book award! https://t.co/GeyaQGRRYU

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Successfully ran wired internet to my downstairs home office and now I have speed for days. https://t.co/F14F5Qyndl

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Quarantine has allowed me to add a whole host of new things to my repertoire including "Zoom expert" and "pre-K assistant teacher" and I'm thrilled to announce I can add "network engineer" to this list, too. https://t.co/yCX6rpAGcu

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March

We’re hiring! Interested in a mid-sized regional university with fantastic faculty and students in an affordable city with an outstanding food scene? @UNOLibraries is looking for a business librarian: https://t.co/5SaamcdzbO

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@LWieck @hangryhistorian @ashleyrattner @rebeccawingo @BiblioTejana @s_e_murray dang we should’ve patented this when we had the chance

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I know this made the rounds recently, but I just love this crowdsourced project collecting sounds from woodlands. https://t.co/0rbSMnW2U2

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Currently reading: Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display by Johanna Drucker 📚 https://t.co/daz0vBD2fr

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I’m trying out this newsletter thing. Introducing Breve, a space for me to share thoughts on technology, human knowledge, creativity, and design. I hope you’ll join me, we’ll see how this goes. https://t.co/klnNOKMDPo

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I’m trying out this newsletter thing, inspired by @dancohen @lmullen and @ayjay. Introducing Breve, a space to share thoughts and ideas on technology, human knowledge, creativity, and design. https://t.co/tdiA9H02pr

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I find the generational divide identified here too rigid (a lot of this speaks to my experiences, too), but there’s a lot in this ode to the open web I’m nodding along with. https://t.co/ApkWrQBF3f

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The four seasons: summer, fall, winter, and the dogs chased a squirrel through the thawing yard and returned covered in mud.

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@nirak That’s a great idea! Doesn’t help that the neighbor dog and mine antagonize each other and chase one another along the fence (where, of course, it’s soaking wet).

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@AndreaKGrover My poor rosemary didn’t make it — just too cold this winter — but I’ll get a new one in. Along with replanting sweet basil and dill, and hoping to add parsley, oregano, and tarragon this year!

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@AndreaKGrover Oh that’s a good idea with the rose cones. I might have to try that this year! Our sweet basil went bananas last year; we intended to just have one in a pot, but somehow one sprouted in our herb/pollinator garden and just went bonkers.

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The first issue of my newsletter is out, where I highlight the work of @RuthAhnert et al. and @opensyllabus: https://t.co/jAaCXbprrE

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@ryancordell Someday, a year from now, someone will sit back staring at an email from me and wonder “has it always been ‘I hope this email finds you swell’”?

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A year ago today was my last day working on campus and the day we pulled our kids from preschool/daycare. Today, I received my first vaccine dose. There are so many others I would’ve offered it to first. But I’m feeling very grateful. https://t.co/xqElBocW7f

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Honestly, one of the best things I probably did for myself professionally was forcing myself to learn bash, vim, and *nix environments. https://t.co/kHeLrN6TVJ

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We need to design and build tools that serve our research and methods, not adopt those designed for other purposes. https://t.co/kHeLrN6TVJ

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It was one of the reasons I so loved the stuff we were doing at @cesta_stanford — we didn’t always get it right, but it was exhilarating to design things embedded in humanities research.

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Great thread on what we miss by using only digitized sources and how, perhaps, we shouldn’t read digitized sources the same way we read physical archives. https://t.co/AQoSdJ7wlz

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@megankatenelson @VirginiaScharff I generally have been trying to teach this idea in my library instruction (the expansiveness and flexibility of keywords), and it’s definitely gotten more acute this past year.

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@megankatenelson @VirginiaScharff It’s also difficult for newcomers to archives and primary sources to think about how people in the past used language (which, of course, can range from insensitive to racist). Databases do a decent job trying to capture this even using modern language, but not always.

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@megankatenelson @VirginiaScharff That said, I’d pay no small sum to access a digitized San Jose Mercury 😄

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@JakeAnbinder Early reviews of my manuscript draft criticized me for not doing enough of this. (I mean, among other things to work on—but this was one of the big ones.)

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@tsmullaney I legit thought, from the thumbnail & the slight thumb-pointing-towards-backseat, that you were going to recommend having a very small child—which is also kind of effective (“I only have naptime to write, be efficient!”) but also not sustainable long-term. 🙃 https://t.co/zvXWkYXzTR

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Friends in #OMA and #LNK, if you have any leads on a Hamilton vintage architectural drafting table for sale or to rescue I’m all ears.

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@meg_smith0913 @rebeccawingo @bwins35 @hangryhistorian Echoing Bryan’s suggestion to check out Current Research in DH. I know the Journal of Am. Hist. was doing reviews of digital work, and my own sub fields do (or are starting to). My sense is things are pretty ad hoc yet but I could be wrong.

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@meg_smith0913 @rebeccawingo @bwins35 @hangryhistorian You might also consult the DH tenure/promotion guidelines the AHA put together a couple years ago if you haven’t. https://t.co/dq3svWieOW

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@meg_smith0913 @rebeccawingo @bwins35 @hangryhistorian For what it’s worth, the reviews I’ve written for DH projects have tended to appear in my usual field/subfield journals and are akin to book reviews (e.g., more focus on content/argument, less on tech — which I think is the right way to do these).

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@meg_smith0913 @rebeccawingo @bwins35 @hangryhistorian Here’s how the Journal of Am. Hist. thinks about such reviews, e.g.: https://t.co/0aXqFa6ITQ

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If you’re aghast at the reinstallment of Richard Stallman on the board of the Free Software Foundation, you can sign an open letter here. https://t.co/nLXSh8sDNI

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@wgthomas3 @rebeccawingo @UNLincoln @CDRH_UNL @UNLHistory Thank you! Grateful for everything you and others at @UNLHistory and @CDRH_UNL provided us as early scholars and DHers!

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Fantastic piece by Hannah Fry on the harm and the good that can come from what we decide to count and how we decide to count it. https://t.co/E4APQmDi7D

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@nirak haha no worries and no rush at all! if you'd prefer you can email me instead of using the bird website: heppler@hey.com

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In about twenty minutes join @rebeccawingo, @PaulSchadewald1, and our Rondo community partner Mr. Anderson for a book talk! Registration required, but you still have time: https://t.co/86c5YRL31v

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@regan008 @ClemsonUniv @CPHatSMU Congratulations, Amanda! Wonderful news, and you'll be working with my advisor/mentor @dougseefeldt!

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April

@Hayden_L_Nelson @tropy @jrobinmack I’ll just echo this — I’ve mostly spent time with Tropy’s own documentation and tutorials.

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Leaning on my background as a landscaper, I’m spending the week replacing our cedar fence. I’m already beat.

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Project Fence day three, inside before the heavy rains hit. Over halfway done with setting posts. https://t.co/7wtHcBgXBM

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Project Fence, day five. All the posts installed and cemented, most of the rail hung. https://t.co/gWinED3IjK

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Project Fence day seven ends with almost all of the exterior pickets hung. The longest exterior section is complete, at least.

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Also, the soundtrack for Project Fence has been Johnny Cash on endless repeat. I’ll credit @lmullen for prompting this.

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The problem with cross-posting from https://t.co/nG9itl9otu is namespace pollution for a mention intended for @lincolnmullen.

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Tell me you’re in your mid-thirties without telling me you’re in your mid-thirties. My wrist is so sore from using a hammer all day yesterday that I can’t write with a pen today.

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Wait, so the argument here is that excluding apartments through zoning laws is the way to make money off homeownership? And, no recognition here that homeownership doesn't always mean single-family homes? And . . . we shouldn't allow cities to build more housing? https://t.co/yN06YlOPRJ

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After hand-digging twenty-eight 1’ diameter by 2.5’ deep holes, pouring 2,300lbs of concrete, working with 100+ pieces of lumber, hanging over 500 pickets, and hauling away the old fence–Project Fence is coming to a close. All that remains is to hang the gate.

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One of the stories in my book manuscript deals with something similar: the gases used by high tech companies in Silicon Valley that were part of the manufacturing process for electrical components. https://t.co/BUbNtXR8dr

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In Silicon Valley these “dopant gases” were commonly used—arsine, phosphine, boron, and other metal hybrids—which, when exposed to silicon wafers gave them electrical conducting properties.

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Most of these compressed gases were stored on-site; in the wake of the Bhopal disaster, environmental activists turned their sights to these chemicals. The concern wasn’t so much oversight and regulation, but rather what, exactly, would happen if a fire or earthquake hit.

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For anti-toxics activists, gas leaks could be more threatening than liquid chemical leaks. Leaking liquids can be detected and spread slowly enough through groundwater to be detected and traced. But gas leaks are instantaneous and spread rapidly.

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One study by San Jose State University in 1984 found that a gas leak in the Bay Area could spread as far as twelve-and-a-half miles. That could encompass the entire city of San Jose, and certainly covered the narrow stretch of land between the Pacific and the Bay.

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The problem, as environmentalists saw it, was the lack of responding to such a disaster: possible safeguards and the safety of first responders, who had no inventory of what chemicals were being used by high tech.

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The response was the introduction of a county-wide ordinance that, after some resistance by industry, managed to pass. The ordinance assigned hazard classifications, required new storage and alarm systems for detecting accidental leaks, and a system of neutralizing emissions.

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For all of the problems high tech manufacturing introduced to the Bay Area’s landscape, this was one of the few successes. Environmentalists identified a potential, serious hazard for human health; and industry, already under fire for chemical leaks, had few ways to push back.

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Laying underneath all of this was the shattered perception of high-tech manufacturing being a new, green form of industrial manufacturing (vs. the steel-age centers of the East/Midwest). More than one source notes the lack of smokestacks as a visible symbol of tech’s cleanliness.

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But what it took was a recognition by grassroots environmentalists of a potential problem—and their hard, on-the-ground organizing, advocacy, collaboration, and campaigning to implement new policies designed to protect human health.

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@jackiantonovich She’s so great and delightful and hilarious! I haven’t made a jump into foraging from our yard yet, but she’s got me looking at plants anew.

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One reason electronics manufacturing so easily contaminated aquifers in Silicon Valley at the end of the twentieth century: abandoned pipe infrastructure. https://t.co/Y1f0TPDfym

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The aquifer was a key source of fresh water to support agriculture in the Valley, first piped to the surface in the late 19th century. Water wells dotted the valley.

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In the heyday of home construction and rapid subdivision development in the middle of the 20th century, many of these wells were simply buried by developers. When chemicals leaks happened, these abandoned and uncapped wells became unobstructed channels to once-clean water.

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We have a long history of abandoned (and poorly maintained) infrastructure in this country that often makes things worse.

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@rebeccawingo @LWieck ✋︎🕯︎❍︎ □︎■︎●︎⍓︎ ◆︎⬧︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ⬥︎♓︎■︎♑︎♎︎♓︎■︎♑︎⬧︎ □︎■︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎ ♌︎♓︎❒︎♎︎ ⬥︎♏︎♌︎⬧︎♓︎⧫︎♏︎ ♐︎❒︎□︎❍︎ ■︎□︎⬥︎ □︎■︎📬︎

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@foundhistory @tjowens @Ted_Underwood We recently made the switch over to 365 for everything. Up until this semester we also had the Outlook (staff/fac) and Google (students) divide. The migration from Box to OneDrive/SharePoint is ongoing.

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I’d somehow missed that @DataVizSociety has swag and now I’m going to spend way too much money. https://t.co/ne0Kwtem23

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All I’ll say about today’s tech dust-up is: in your attempt to be “non-political” you ended up gaining a lot of attention by “anti-woke” people on this bird website, and thus have become extremely political.

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This is super interesting: using SQLite in Github Pages as a backendless read-only database. https://t.co/dQM7g74195

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Observable Plot looks like a fantastic new way for generating charts in browsers. API seems user friendly, looks quick to learn, and easy to get started with exploratory data visualization in JavaScript. https://t.co/v9SUwpBkuA

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@sharonmleon fwiw I was pretty fatigued the next day and didn’t have much in the tank for things needing focus. But otherwise that was it for reactions.

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@abbymullen @ConsolPrize Funnily enough, I was listening to one of your episodes today (I’m behind!) and had the same thought about writing: that, maybe, I should try out different styles of writing to break through some of the stuff I’m wrestling with in the manuscript.

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Any supposed environmental progress Tesla made is undercut by its investments in Bitcoin. https://t.co/Gg6RZYzYjt

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I'm only being slightly facetious. Becoming a computationally-minded historian has done wonders for me both personally and professionally.

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@smallerlarge @LangeAlexandra on more than one occasion I've nearly purchased one of these https://t.co/1J0b5xz8Fc

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@Lollardfish I have a Professional Life Update announcement soon that means I get to continue doing the same as you above and I am so grateful for it.

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@quinnanya @roopikarisam @WendytheDH @elotroalex Just piling on the love for Reclaim. I host all of my stuff there.

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📢 Some news: Towards the end of June, I'll be joining @CHNM @HistArthGMU as a developer working on digital and public history! https://t.co/oBiGnvJmIJ

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tldr: I'll be helping @CHNM build out their web projects. I've missed the creative design work around data, visualization, interaction design, and software architecture I began at @cesta_stanford. I'm thrilled to be focused on this work again. https://t.co/OlM9rV7Lr2

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It's hard to overstate just how important CHNM has been to my own origins and career in digital history. Roy Rosenzweig was my entry to so much of the work I've done since 2008. To be doing this work as part of the team is a tremendous honor and wildly exciting.

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@ryancordell @zettlr @zotero Ryan, inadvertently: "Jason, have you seen this rabbit hole?" Jason: *falls into rabbit hole*

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@quinnanya @electricarchaeo @ryancordell I mean, no joke, looking into Obsidian is on my todo list this week.

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A couple of additional, great things about my new role. 1) It’s remote! My family and I will stay put, and I’ll be out in Virginia a couple of times per semester. 2) RRCHNM thoughtfully included research time in the role, so I can continue to work on my poor, overdue book. https://t.co/cOw6LGg1Ib

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I guess what I’m saying is, @SecretaryPete, let’s get a high speed rail connecting Nebraska and Virginia. https://t.co/3vj2Q2LMvk

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Washington was so concerned about the spread of a deadly disease that he had his troops inoculated against small pox. https://t.co/Lo7Yir2E2v https://t.co/N8pxYklCb1

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@seanfraga I share your broader interest here. I have a dormant-but-ready-to-revive project scraping AHR and JAH pages for graphics and maps to think about similar questions.

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Just added this amazing hand-drawn map of North America to my list of maps I need to buy. https://t.co/WaUqdtJcr4 https://t.co/oIc2PwU6xC

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@notjustbikes I made one of these yesterday thanks to your tweets—for breakfast, rather than lunch—and I didn’t need to eat again until late afternoon. So good!

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Firing up the grill for chicken tenders and beyond beef burgers. Spring potato salad chilling in the fridge, and a cold coffee vanilla stout ready for later.

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June

Look, I'm finding most debates about regionalism tiresome these days. But this map is bonkers. https://t.co/5rf5MrD2kg

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@hangryhistorian @AcademicChatter I'm on the fence, tbh, which is probably not helpful. On the one hand, I used some service back in grad school to have cards printed to bring to conferences etc., which was nice. On the other hand, I've revisited someone's business card I've received exactly zero times. 😬

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@hangryhistorian @AcademicChatter That said, I don't see a downside to having business cards on hand just because I'm bad at following up.

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@hangryhistorian @AcademicChatter I wish I could recall the service I used when I had some printed. I imagine there's a few good ones that are also affordable.

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@hangryhistorian @AcademicChatter I think we also had a service provided by our university where grad students could request university branded cards -- you might look into that, too?

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@rschuetzler My primary complaints are: Pittsburgh is not Midwest. And that offshoot of the Great Plains into the east doesn’t reflect the Plains at all in geography, culture, or history.

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Excited to be hearing from the #DMMH cohort this morning, and can't wait to work with them in a couple of weeks on data visualization.

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@drjohnaeharris @VirginiaScharff We just added three additional raised beds this year and are trying out some new vegetables. I’m eager to see what we get!

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@travis_robert Norwegian, been learning for about a year and a half now. Starting to dabble in Dutch, too.

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I sure hope so because I’m still not exactly sure what I’m trying to say with this thing. https://t.co/LOgSHGwWUU

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@llmunro @HerbertHistory My dad owns a landscape company and I learned how to drive a stick-shift on a 1972 dump truck that was absolute hell to drive. But I got good at driving a stick.

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I love seeing where my What Is Digital Humanities site pops up. This from an interview with @tjowens at @contingent_mag. (Thanks, Trevor!) https://t.co/3xtWDxrsk1 https://t.co/FGw2BFzkB0

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It’s been an exhilarating and fun—and maybe a tad exhausting—week with the #DMMH folks co-teaching with @benmschmidt @abbymullen @brandan_buck! I’m eager to see what they have up their sleeves in creating new digital military history, and I’m glad we could finally convene.

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“And so much for lush trees and greenery.” It’s like they’re trying to add things for me to include in my book. https://t.co/4pJtfoffjd

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There are a bunch of new Silicon Valley maps on the Rumsey Map Collection. This hand-drawn BART map is incredible. https://t.co/YnsrMiUTQZ

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2011, me: ok time to set up my git environment, rbenv, LaTeX, vim configs 2021, me: ok time to download github desktop and vscode

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@DarrenSpeece @KevinMKruse @TimFullerton I conducted an oral history with a Green Party candidate sometime around 2012 or so, and can confirm the conspiracy rabbit hole was already quite deep.

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“Our memory laws amount to therapy . . . In the laws’ portrayal of the world, the words of white people have the magic power to dissolve the historical consequences of slavery, lynchings and voter suppression. Racism is over when white people say so.” https://t.co/dTz8wUpIef

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@kevinbaker I remember being pulled out of a calculus class in high school to talk to Navy recruiters. Weird thing, that.

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July

@HumanitiesData @Ted_Underwood It's sort of an indie twitter-like platform, much more open web friendly than the bird website, and it also allows for self-hosting your microblog (e.g., https://t.co/AHR4jFGTJ1). @dancohen, @lincolnmullen, myself, and a few other DHers are there.

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“It’s 109 degrees in Portland right now. It’s been over 130 degrees in Baghdad several times. What kind of awareness quotient are we looking for? What more about climate change does anyone need to know? What else is there to say?” https://t.co/me7ETijFXh

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@JakeAnbinder @davidasilva I’ve started working on something similar with San Jose, nothing to show yet but hopefully soon.

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“If redlining maps were not just maps of race, then what were they? They were maps that cataloged and reproduced the spatial order of a much broader system of inequality and injustice, one in which race mingled with other markers of social disinvestment.” https://t.co/o6nBMYcaAR

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“Throughout the first two centuries of its existence, Chicago became famous as a city that pushed water around like nowhere else. Now, in the ever-warming world of the 21st century, the water is starting to push back.” https://t.co/Lg5ODht2IC

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Fellow Nebraskans, contact your Regents today: https://t.co/aHRhcsap6o tclare@nebraska.edu jackstark@nebraska.edu jpillen@nebraska.edu eoconnor@nebraska.edu rschafer@nebraska.edu pkenney@nebraska.edu bphares@nebraska.edu bweitz@nebraska.edu https://t.co/x8KkuINSlI

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@OPPDCares Site down or overloaded? Just to report: I think I see a branch dangling from a line that runs next to our yard. We’re off 114th between Dodge and Pacific.

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Another shoutout to these crews. Here’s hoping things go smoothly for them today and we get power back. https://t.co/cvfpp8wcQI

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And nearly 42 hours later, our power is back on. Sincere thanks to all of the work @OPPDCares crews continue to do.

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@nirak @OPPDCares Me too! I can’t imagine what it would’ve been like if it’s been hot and humid. Now to start tossing stuff from the fridge…

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Also props to those working the @OPPDCares account — you’ve done great keeping us informed and have had to deal with some silly people on this bird website. https://t.co/qEbdx7W15o

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“When a perceived internal enemy is a threat to the established hierarchy, the state springs into action. But when the challenge is in defense of those hierarchies, the incentive often runs in the other direction.” https://t.co/4oQseyw9Fc

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Great thread on intra-Democratic politics, voting protections, and filibuster reform. https://t.co/F5jaaoPXQn

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By comparison Grosjean’s fiery wreck last year was a whopping 67G. It’s amazing Verstappen walked away from this. https://t.co/2DBrFoZlPy

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Steak with fresh garden herbs and butter, grilled garden squash and zucchini, fresh sourdough, and a barley salad with grilled leeks and fennel. https://t.co/mE0aXbj09u

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“The barn’s existence conjures a complex set of reactions: It is a mourning bench for Black Americans, an unwelcome mirror for white Americans. It both repels and demands attention.” https://t.co/p6wKqIs8oX

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I have to say, if members of the President's cabinet cannot afford DC, I think that's pretty solid evidence of a housing affordability crisis. https://t.co/CmLMjLNx9u

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@A_NeedhamNYU @tkinias @newdougman @kevinbaker I’m glad to learn I’m not the only one that’s given up on trying too write something on wild municipal annexation laws (in my case, California.)

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@LWieck @A_NeedhamNYU @rebeccawingo @megankatenelson ok ok next time we’re all in the same place the coffee is on me

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A new work computer means deciding on a new name for it. My last several devices (phones, tablets, PCs) are named after locations that mean something to me or I find inspiring/interesting: - Muir - Tuolumne - Mariposa - Jotunheimen - and now, Drivhus

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I know I'm a dork, but I like the irony behind Jotunheimen -- it's the name of this little MacBook Air, named after the mountain ranges of Norway that get their name from the mythical home of the Jotnar (giants) at Jötunheimr.

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Drivhus, though, is a break in the pattern. The Norwegian word for "greenhouse" -- this computer is the new green iMac, and my first desktop computer in probably fifteen years.

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@terry_renaud I’ve been using Duolingo for the last year and a half to learn Norwegian and it’s worked pretty well. I’m just now supplementing with other things (textbooks, short stories, etc).

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August

This race has everything. Huge wet-track wreck in the first turn, early pit release causing a retirement, bad strategy call by Merc, and essentially starting the race from the pit lane. #F1

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Friends, come strain your eyes with me. Can anyone make out this company sign? "Palo Alto ____ Company." "Engineering," I think? https://t.co/GET981CC6Q

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@CJSlaby @erin_bartram @pashulman Or, no, maybe I’m thinking of a doc he compiled on online archives…

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@finnarne Unfortunately I think it’s sold out right now, at least on the website. But I’m watching for it to return in stock!

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Dinner tonight: baked lemon cod, roasted broccoli, cucumbers from the garden, and Lebanese rice. https://t.co/UizAoJeUza

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“And, if we believe this report, the next 20-30 years is the most important time of our whole lives.” https://t.co/nGH2VIhLkz

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Omaha Board of Education voted tonight to require face masks on all school properties. Thank you for doing the right thing to protect kids, OPS.

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@prof_gabriele You might see if you have Kanopy access through the library. I know for some libraries Kanopy getting prohibitively expensive because of the pandemic and everyone streaming content, so there might be limitations. But in my experience it’s great.

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First shot, sore arm and tired the next day. Fine the day after that. Second shot had even less of a reaction, just a sore arm for a short while. https://t.co/UArhBEl8Bi

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@TheTattooedProf A dude in a Q shirt showed up at a Nebraska board of education meeting last week and during his public comments threatened more January Sixes, so, yeah.

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@rcmidura When I was studying for comps, I had a…few books checked out. Including some that were from the 19th century and hard to replace. I went to the library one day to check out another book and that’s when I learned a bunch were overdue. And I had fees totaling $5,000.

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@crosehistorian @rcmidura No thankfully, I explained the situation. And at the time I had an office in the library so the books were literally in the building anyway.

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If you're a digitally-inclined historian, come join us for a three year postdoc! #twitterstorians https://t.co/pQ2jiXOsuu

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@CJSlaby @gbrew24 You two are in sync on my timeline. 💯 I’ve gone electric for both our leaf blower (that I use exactly once a year to gather up acorn pieces squirrels have littered my driveway with in the fall) and our mower. It’s great. https://t.co/BvfFbtocnC

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@tlecaque We have a few books we read about it, and we’ve watched a few of the Clone Wars episodes. She might be ready for A New Hope at least.

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Just finished A New Hope with the 5yo. At the medal ceremony, unprompted, she asks: “Is Chewie going to get one?” He should’ve, kid, he should’ve. https://t.co/uTStVyNMMr

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@WorldCatLady okay okay I made some but it’s not touching those cinnamon rolls @brandontlocke https://t.co/0Io6UfO9yL

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We started Empire Strikes Back tonight. 5yo sees the Super Star Destroyer: “Whoh, you could fit so many stormtroopers in there.” https://t.co/uTStVyNMMr

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@quinnanya Definitely! We’re watching it in bits over the week and I’m eager to see her reaction. I’ve specifically glossed over the reveal in any of our SW books for this very reason.

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Currently reading: The Anglo-Saxons : A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris 📚 https://t.co/48aZOVHve4

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5yo completely nonchalant about the Like/Vader reveal. Already knew the story despite my efforts. Anyway, tonight begins ROTJ.

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5yo completely nonchalant about the Luke/Vader reveal. Already knew the story despite my efforts. Anyway, tonight begins ROTJ.

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September

Started rewatching one of my favorite shows the other night, Occupied, and wow does seeing quasi-paramilitary rebels hit me differently after 1/6. https://t.co/DEFbpeLxbz

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@benmschmidt You can imagine my confusion checking Github before I logged onto Twitter. I'm glad to know, though, our long nightmare is finally over.

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@patrick_hoehne That'd be great! I'd love to chat. And thanks :) I'm really excited to see what's next for the project!

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@roopikarisam @Jpewu @DrTonieshaT @sunnygrrrl @SalemState @mscecire @pmhswe @MellonFdn Congratulations! Very excited to see this!

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@VirginiaScharff I picked up an Air with the new M1 chips a few months back and have been very happy with it.

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@JesseRitner8 Good recommendations in the replies! I would also add Andrew Busch’s *The City in the Garden*. https://t.co/ivfRooSWCi

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Paul Hollywood would give me poor marks, but I tried my hand at Swedish kardemummabullar today. Turned out pretty good for a first time. https://t.co/G7Rm0LcjS6

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@dr_tgpeterson Our toddler likes to hop like a frog and yell “a frog!” as she does. Except it sounds like she’s saying “ah fuck!”

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.@shannonmattern: “But at best this is magical thinking, a crowd-sourced form of techno-vegetal solutionism — and as such a distraction from the large-scale, systemic transformations that are required to counter the impacts of global warming.” https://t.co/IqaS1OzSZ2

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@awatson8381 @AgHistorySoc Potentially! I have some stuff on Silicon Valley’s shift from ag to high tech and changing energy needs.

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The one positive of being holed up in bed all day with a stomach bug is finally watching Star Wars: Visions. https://t.co/ZLmoXeK7mH

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October

@cesta_stanford FYI it looks like Spatial History (and related projects under that domain) are returning an access forbidden error.

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“The Vikings were great sailors and fearsome warriors, but they couldn’t have left port without wool. It provided the raw material for their clothes, their blankets, even the sails that harnessed the wind for their ships.” https://t.co/f8F1THZzut

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If you like tarragon, blitz a handful with half a cup of sugar and top strawberries and milk with it. https://t.co/xNelo0tNMc

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About halfway through @brdemuth’s Floating Coast and it’s absolutely my favorite read of 2021. Stellar global, ecological, animal, and Indigenous history woven together with terrific writing. (And it’s given me some ideas about the structure of my own manuscript, so: bonus!)

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@brdemuth I also envy @brdemuth's ability to use striking metaphors. I need more metaphors in my writing.

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Not a whole lot of new words today, but might’ve figured out some structural stuff with a chapter. Which feels like a good win. #acwri

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Just a few peppers from the garden. And we’re not even done harvesting them all yet. https://t.co/R90CvCVcO8

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Give me your recipes that use pineapple sage. I have just a…little left in the herb garden. https://t.co/aYeymVCNgX

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Currently reading: The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism by Keith Makoto Woodhouse 📚 https://t.co/5p92z8aRDd

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@scrivenix I’ll try and remember to come back to this tomorrow. I’m writing an environmental history of the Valley and might have a video rec, but I need to look up the source…

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@scrivenix Ok! If you can get this via a library, the source I'm thinking of is this one: https://t.co/UVb55B4M3u

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@scrivenix I also have a dormant-but-in-process-of-revisiting project here that could be useful: https://t.co/FBi3y5UknX

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Probably around 500 words today? And hit a wall on some structure stuff, but planning to push through and worry about any reorganizing later. #acwri

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@cjdenial @sdcroll @profkphillips @Bri_Theobald @antontreuer @nickwestes @KimTallBear I would also include @KentBlansett on this great list!

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Despite my recent tardy one (sorry, publisher!), I love doing book reviews. Great way to keep up and a nice way to give back to the field and authors. https://t.co/hbo1lCL4g1

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Coombs: How does the religious right respond to young people spreading the word of climate alarmism? Children religious testimonies have great power, but in climate rhetoric it's flipped: that adults manipulate children. #EdCDCS

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Coombs: Among religious media texts, sees two key groups: harness the apocalypse to drive home the need for better climate response; or an acknowledgement that climate change is happening but fitting that into a model of apocalypse because it's all part of God's plan. #EdCDCS

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For what it's worth, 1.5C is virtually impossible to avoid right now without major policy, energy, and transportation shifts. https://t.co/y96I3JCpf2

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.@Robert_Suits: Discussing energy transitions and decarbonization, noting that the shifts required right now have no historical precedent. #EdCDCS

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.@Robert_Suits: Tracing the evolution of the American energy economy, and how it looks when you break it into component uses (agriculture, transit, etc.) rather than the aggregate. #EdCDCS

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.@Robert_Suits: The overwhelming energy use in America in the 1800s went to the household, followed distantly by agriculture, industry, and transportation. #EdCDCS

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.@Robert_Suits: At the start of its European settlement, the US is a major outlier on very high energy uses compared to other nations. A key reason: availability of wood (taken through Native dispossession), and household stoves. #EdCDCS

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.@Robert_Suits: We can't just look at a single trend in US energy use: we have to look at these sub-sections of the economy (household, industry, and commercial) to understand how and why they change over time, which might inform how we decarbonize. #EdCDCS

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.@Robert_Suits: How realistic is decarbonization by banning fossil fuels in different economic sectors? Every economic sector would need to transition at the same time and seems reasonable by 2050. But by 2030? An unprecedented rate of change is necessary. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi is up now, talking on the history and future of global coordinated governance on the environment. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Looking at Trump rollbacks of environmental regulations indicates how vulnerable international action on the environment is to national politics. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Most international environmental regulations, driven by data-driven decision making, are non-binding and unenforceable. They're extremely vulnerable to national swings in politics. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Resilience has historically been linked to community empowerment. There are lessons here about international regulations on the climate. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Looking at the century-long land redistribution movements between 1881 and 2000, we can look at the imagined role of the UN at its creation in rolling back colonial and unjust economies. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Having a bureaucracy capable of working on a global scale, the UN looked at many techniques for sustainable farms (maps of soil, research bibliography) in trying to set values about ownership. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: The UN was denied binding power by the US and European colonial powers. This wasn't a feature of the UN, but a policy implementation. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Information infrastructures are vulnerable. A central bureaucracy with binding power makes them less vulnerable to national and international leadership changes. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Participatory information infrastructures and marked-based information infrastructures are examples of decentralized data collection. But participation without accountability, without consulting, without authority over resources is a participation swindle. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: This lets us think about resilience outside of neoliberal structures. Resilience can be empowerment or community control; they're driven by data, but responsive to the most vulnerable members of a community. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: No nation has changed its governance based on community-gathered data on pollution or climate change. There's no bureaucracy to look at their data, pay for their data, or take action on their data. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: Empowerment requires a new bureaucratic form. Reform the vulnerabilities baked into the UN. A resilient, effective government regime that can't be toppled by a single populist or nationalist leader in another nation. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: What does that require? Enlist communities; equitable and sustainable solicitation of voices and labor; analysis of the data by community and scientists; creation of accountability through centralized governance; transparent mechanisms for negotiation. #EdCDCS

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.@joguldi: (Jo outlines these more thoroughly in a forthcoming article "What Kind of Governance Does the Era of Climate Change Need?" in _Climatic Change_). #EdCDCS

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@nataliapetrzela @moiragweigel literally every time, I catch whatever comes home (even as an incessant hand washer)

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Tonight, baked potato soup with fried potato skins and broccoli, and brunost caramel apples for desert. https://t.co/CjXQnS4RSG

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Tonight, baked potato soup with fried potato skins and broccoli, and brunost caramel apples for dessert. https://t.co/QnUMaBUBIe

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“The era of setting things on fire—coal, gas, oil, wood—to produce power must end. Instead, we’ll have to rely almost entirely on the large flame that burns 93 million miles away.” https://t.co/LScyHfXKff

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Hey #dighist folks at #WHA2021, want your work peer reviewed? We have an option for you: you can submit to the open-access Current Research in Digital History, which publishes on a rolling basis: https://t.co/uq8hpgcWjl

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@gauthamrao I was singing its praises last week, but worth doing so again: FLOATING COAST is a fantastic book.

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Well this is interesting: Flickr is launching the Flickr Foundation and renewing the Flickr Commons, working with cultural heritage institutions. https://t.co/WP2kcxnQez

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I have, twice now, followed Apple’s instructions for reinstalling macOS on my MacBook Air. Each time it seems to go through the motions for about 45 minutes, then boots up…having done nothing?  This is perplexing.

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Okay, apparently this is the *intended* behavior: to keep settings and files, and reinstall the OS. Which, in my nearly thirty years of experience using computers, is not the behavior I would've expected. So. Disk Utility, here I come. https://t.co/CKA20QXjMZ

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oh good, it’s not like almost every meal I’ve made in the last week included onions wait https://t.co/AkkeBGMwvv

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“An open sign-up page allowed anyone to use the site shortly after it was revealed, sparking the creation of the ‘donaldjtrump’ account and the pig posting.” https://t.co/8D6Ru8aq9f

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I was there at the early days of Palladio and I’m so excited to see the work continue on in things like this. Nice work, all! https://t.co/uoZyD01oQJ

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@pashulman @TinaAdcock Same here, and to add one more layer to this: I use @zotero for capturing stuff I'm reading and the Zotfiles plugin to sync PDFs to a folder in Dropbox. So I can always access stuff I've recently added no matter what machine I'm on.

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@larrycebula American Panorama; if I can promote our own thing (which should have more visualizations rolling out in the next few months), American Religious Ecologies (https://t.co/owo1gww4u1); Colored Conventions; Railroads and the Making of Modern America; Digital Harlem.

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To add to this, it’s far easier than the endless fighting we’ve all done with Word files and formatting and fonts. And it’s more or less future proofed. Nor do you need to learn LaTeX. https://t.co/vChnNRs69m

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Afternoon #wha2021, I'm watching your tweets! As I do every year, I'll wrap up the conference with a short twitter analysis this weekend. https://t.co/eDYcWwO4UC

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@pashulman I don't know that @ChrisCSellers gets into this specific question in Crabgrass Crucible, but for locating nature in suburbs it's fantastic. (I should probably include something on this in my manuscript but I'm not sure it'll make the cut...)

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Good morning #WHA2021! Wish I were there in Portland this week, hope y'all have a safe and excellent conference. Your tweets are picking up. Who will de-throne the @WhaHistory account on frequency of tweets? https://t.co/P39rED5iux

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@rebeccawingo @BrendenWRensink @WhaHistory @LWieck oh weird well the data doesn’t lie tho https://t.co/PvHdzj2cNt

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I had a prof ask me a very specific question on a single line in a book during a seminar once. That, of course, I’d skimmed over. Total dread. https://t.co/7Xfi78CnvJ

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@ianmilligan1 I’ve moved most of my academic writing to Ulysses as well (though I keep trying out iaWriter too, which is where I do most other writing).

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@ianmilligan1 @ryancordell @zettlr @zotero My work-around is Obsidian for my note taking, which includes a workflow of adding a reading notes file with the same name as the bibkey in Zotero. So I keep Obsidian open on half my screen with Ulysses while I write, and if I need to cite it’s easy enough to type in bibkeys.

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OK not only does this podcast sound amazing already, but they start with The Hunt for Red October which is one of those '90s movies I will stop everything I'm doing to sit and watch anytime it's on. Cannot wait to listen to the pilot episode. https://t.co/kRMh0lbjU2

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Really proud of you all for making sure this word appeared in the wordcloud for the first time since I've started doing this in 2015. #wha2021 https://t.co/Npwzz0rfjP

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November

Them: "What are you working on?" Me: "I'm writing a book about Silicon Valley." Them: "Oh, cool. You write about computers?" Me: https://t.co/Ux7OFyPg8T

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If you think this is cool, wait until you see what we’re working on @chnm. #chnmleaks https://t.co/uophio4UPZ

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@miriamkp Can we circle back to bath. Let’s synergize our dinner. We’ll let the market decide allowance. We need to check in with our stakeholders for consensus on ice cream.

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I think I'm pretty happy with the overall structure of this thing. Just a bit mired in chapter-specific structure. But pushing hard to get this draft out the door. #acwri https://t.co/WsFob5pRj3

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Spent the day outdoors, including a long hike this morning. This evening, worked up around 600 words (so far?) trying to read HOLC area descriptions as environmental history. #acwri

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@akiltykramer Thanks to @rebeccawingo’s diligence, I can no longer use the word “disseminate” without feeling creepy.

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@profmusgrave There Will Be No Blood Batman Returns Books Dull Blade Runner The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Parlor Mad Max: Fury low-maintenance Road

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@UnlawfulEntries I do this too, but then it got me in hot water once with @megankatenelson @rebeccawingo @LWieck @A_NeedhamNYU https://t.co/aXRq660Yzs

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This is willful ignorance of the huge benefits that planting trees, subsidized e-bikes, and access to doulas will provide. What nonsense. https://t.co/3h7L1AG8w4

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There Will Be Blood is a movie about an up-and-coming entrepreneur building a family business. https://t.co/Yc0nQTa3Tv

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If you're traveling or enjoy listening to podcasts while cooking during this week, consider checking out some episodes from @ConsolPrize and @GreenTunnelPod!

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@HerbertHistory Roasting a pork loin stuffed with herbs, along with garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, broccoli, beets, and a pumpkin-bourbon pie.

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A bit of downtime before the next phase of cooking means digging into some Thanksgiving reading. https://t.co/jW7ZGQ4TPe

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Roast pork stuffed with sage and rosemary, green beans, roasted broccoli, deviled eggs, kale and Brussels sprout salad, mashed potatoes and roasted potatoes, and a pumpkin-bourbon pie. https://t.co/ZfCn3GQvUp

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Just finished Margrete den første. Pretty good drama on political intrigue in fifteenth century Scandinavia. 🍿 https://t.co/BQZm11eTT4

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2020

January

I continued my foray into public engagement, writing my first piece for the Washington Post’s @madebyhistory section. I’m aiming to do more of this kind of writing in 2020. https://t.co/QepDEC2avT

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.@heidiblackburn and I co-authored two journal articles looking at the literature on women in STEM. One of those pieces have been published already and the other is coming soon. https://t.co/ORpe6rcZuc

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.@rebeccawingo, @PaulSchadewald1, and I co-edited a volume on digital community engagement. Our contributors are amazing and I’m really excited for you all to see it later this year. https://t.co/lOLNsGlEJu

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I also sent off a manuscript draft to @OUPress. No solid release date yet, but if you’re interested in the history of #SiliconValley, #environmentalism, place-making, and environmental justice I hope you’ll check it out.

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And I have a smattering of other writing projects that should make forward progress this year. Some fun stuff on radical environmentalism, on Silicon Valley, some new work with @heidiblackburn, and a few other things in the pipeline. Plus, I hope, more public engagement pieces.

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Wrapped up in much of this are digital history projects, some which are public and others are nearly so. More on this in a future thread.

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What's the word for when you have a conference book haul, but it's created by seeing everyone tweeting about their conference book haul, and you're just make a list of books you want from a conference you didn't attend?

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@Randall_Stps Do, uh, they need anyone to talk about Silicon Valley and environmentalism? ‘Cuz I know a guy.

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@MenryAZ Mine does this all the time now. “I ate three more bites for you, daddy!” That...that wasn’t the deal, kiddo.

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A billion living beings have died in Australia while floods have killed or displaced thousands in Jakarta. I hope this galvanizes the globe to dramatic and urgent action on the climate crisis, but I fear billions more will die before we even start trying.

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@pashulman I’ve tried to visualize this, too. There’s maybe 37 years, total, where the United States hasn’t been at war. https://t.co/TocgFhry3W

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@scott_bot @laurenfklein @Ted_Underwood @sharonmleon @historying @benmschmidt As a primary source, John Fiske in 1890 credits the Civil War for this shift (https://t.co/JLUiDRYOM5): “From 1776 to 1789 the United States were a confederation; after 1789 it was a federal nation. The passage from plural to singular was accomplished, ...”

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@Curatescape Is there something special I need to do to have access to the Wikimedia Maps basemap? Maybe I missed a theme or plug-in update.

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@scott_bot @gregory_palermo @laurenfklein @Ted_Underwood @sharonmleon @historying @benmschmidt Sounds like a great course, Scott!

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“My point is that the climate crisis is not going to be solved by personal sacrifice. It will be solved by electing the right people, passing the right laws, drafting the right regulations, signing the right treaties.” https://t.co/3lUxa03YPj

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@LWieck I was just chatting with @tjoferrell last week about it, we both agreed it’s fantastic and a better movie than the first one. The indigenous perspective, powerful women, sisterhood, respect for nature—so great. Only downside: kiddo asks if we can watch “new Elsa” every few days.

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#envhist and #envhum folks might be interested: I’ve started building data visualizations focused on climate and environment. Expect more to appear over the course of the spring, but there might be some visuals here of interest: https://t.co/ExxUfoy3lH

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.@UNOmaha students! Are you registered to vote in Nebraska? If not, @unolibraries is in MBSC until 1pm today taking registrations! We’ll be running registration drives throughout the spring semester, so watch for other opportunities if you cannot make it today.

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@scott_bot Well, when you teach it again you have a new name you can title the class. “Buying the DH Toilet Paper.”

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1965: "The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious . . . . The possibilities of deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes therefore need to be thoroughly explored." https://t.co/uh9aBO0iQs

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@akiltykramer It’s hard, for sure. I mean, DH complemented skills I wanted and research/teaching I wanted. And I think (hope?) I can use these skills beyond academia. But like you, I also worked pretty hard on W/L balance.

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@akiltykramer That said, something had to give. I don’t think I was particularly competitive for history departments, if feedback from my early interviews are and indication (fears I was *too* digital, hadn’t really published print, etc).

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“Executives at Shell knew decades ago that burning fossil fuels would cause the planet to warm, . . . ‘Yeah, we knew. Everybody knew. And somehow we all ignored it.’” https://t.co/UKK88ZQVrq

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@finnarne @UniStavanger We have a similar Shut Up and Write group that meets every Friday morning. Also a great way to end the work week!

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I’ve been thinking about this quote since yesterday, and it’s worse that what’s admitted here. It’s not that they ignored it; energy companies actively promoted disinformation and doubt. https://t.co/kxn6sHO9Qo https://t.co/2NQ2TZKHe6

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There’s no shortage of evidence on this: - https://t.co/u88ZOSv6F9 - https://t.co/juEa2Ao49B - https://t.co/S3spaSbtDO

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A climate plan that involves *checks notes* a fantasy about moving to Titan is . . . something. https://t.co/dOGUI62zy2

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“So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?” https://t.co/HiIz1vpb0n

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The role of #twitterstorians in the Trump era, with shout-outs to @TheTattooedProf @KevinMKruse @HerbertHistory @KevinLevin @HC_Richardson @jbf1755. https://t.co/H2NDM2cC5b

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"The fact that the USA is leaving the Paris accord seems to outrage and worry everyone, and it should. But the fact that we're all about to fail the commitments you signed up for in the Paris Agreement doesn't...bother the people in power even the least." https://t.co/oIOaCIbTe8

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Some new graphs are up on my Observable notebooks, including carbon emissions concentrations over the past six decades. https://t.co/t0Lo9EZeGA https://t.co/pnkkX50qWz

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@pashulman @JoshuaMound @JakeAnbinder Same here. Also, during my comps at some point a, uh, few of them came overdue. I went to check out another book and learned I had a $5,000 fine. (Some of these were very old books). Luckily I 1) knew my librarians and 2) the books were literally next door.

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Another new notebook: visualizing CO2 emission reduction scenarios for the Paris Agreement, <2C path, and <1.5C path. https://t.co/auWVhxlfMV https://t.co/890JUkSDIC

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- Carbon capture doesn’t exist. - LNG increases emissions of carbon (https://t.co/YWDUzH2guB). - Good luck finding a remaining dam-able river in the US. - Nuclear power without attending to nuclear waste is not a viable solution. https://t.co/CENfgKWBiM

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Bring on the innovations through solutions we have now (solar, wind), and fund research into things like carbon capture. I’m all for getting many things on the table to help solve the climate crisis, but none of these examples get us there.

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@BrendenWRensink @kerri_clement Completely agree. I’m all for reducing emissions from cars and would love to never own a car again, but these ideas assume you live in a major urban center that has the infrastructure to support alternative transit.

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@BrendenWRensink @kerri_clement And I say this as someone who lives in a major urban center that absolutely does *not* support transit options very well. It's not even just about the distances of the West or industries that rely on transportation, but it ignores the political and economic capability of cities.

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@rebeccawingo @brianleechphd @LWieck @s_e_murray We’re not stopping there, my friend. T-shirts! Travel mugs! Stickers! Patches!

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Aahhh! I didn’t know @miriamkp was going to be down the road from me this week. I’ll be teaching during her talk, but y’all should go! https://t.co/Ct0AhXNqwX

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“The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies, becoming the first major global news organisation to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels.” https://t.co/aqbXPUDsZ0

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@MWChilders @ProfSeanMK True, I would've labeled this area Midwest instead of Rust Belt. He nailed the Bay Area, though.

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“[John Wesley] Powell’s faith in scientific management and progress made him a crucial proponent of the nation’s imperial goals at the end of the nineteenth century.” https://t.co/yc3d9mbdUe

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February

@gen_milliken @HOLCRedlining Mind if I use your dataset for a workshop on mapping I'm teaching in a few weeks? (Fully credited, of course!)

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@rands @siracusa Ok, five years later I’m finally ready to try out Destiny. So, advice? Destiny? + the two expansions? Destiny 2? (I’m on an xbox, if that matters.) Thanks!

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The 2000 Bush/Gore race. I also have a distinct memory of seeing on TV in the ‘90s HW Bush, him walking onto an airplane that I surmise is AF1, and the Gulf War. https://t.co/wGq2JXfAiv

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I feel like I might need to build some visualizations on primary winners and eventual nominees. We’re missing or forgetting a lot of historical context in discussing the current round.

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@matthewdlincoln I’m planning to use this for a workshop in a couple weeks, and have been meaning to thank you for it!

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The job market nearly prompted me to drop out of my PhD program in 2009, just a few months after I’d started. https://t.co/gYne3bnXyx

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@xicanohistorian Bonus: the state will also include a wider range of climates. Too hot in Dallas? Just go to North Texas up by the Arctic!

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I’m pretty sure John Wunder handed me back a first year seminar paper that looked exactly like this. https://t.co/4UzRf2eddF

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@suzzzanna @CSUSM Wonderful! I'm always so pleased when that little website gets used. (I've been meaning to put in an update so you can update definitions with a button click instead of refreshing the whole page...)

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I just searched for tweets mentioning my https://t.co/5TiNogAuj7, and y'all are the best. I'm so glad people find it useful and it gets so widely used.

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“Trump’s reelection campaign bought out YouTube’s masthead ad space for ‘early November’ including Election Day . . . [using the company’s] Instant Reserve that allowed campaigns to reserve ad space in particular regions on particular days.” https://t.co/rCJbX0U6Ri

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I won't be able to attend, but fellow midwestern #rstats users should make plans to attend the #uncoastUnconf in Minneapolis in April! https://t.co/L9m9Ax0owp

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Just made this for my #rstats workshop that's coming up in thirty minutes. No regrets. https://t.co/lw96MnKpGO

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Go apply! There's no other source more important for news and analysis about the West than HCN. https://t.co/1i3bciujhb

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March

@akiltykramer That dog looks *surprisingly* similar to my own. And I know that look well, too. NOMS NOW WHEN?

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In the spirit of @matthewdlincoln, I've placed my cover letter for my current role at @hralperta's @humcommons jobs docs group: https://t.co/UjuapkE73T

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Similar to my gig at @StanfordCIDR, I work on a variety of code-heavy projects and data + librarianship and teaching.

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@CJSlaby @erin_bartram Just got an email from ASEH confirming that, so far, their still holding the conference.

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This is why we spend so much time doing voter registration drives at @unolibraries. It’s not just about registering voters; it’s about demystifying elections. https://t.co/6SZSUe9Cxm

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@abbymullen So frustrating. Maybe some of us don't feel particularly excited or welcome in that movement, and there's *reasons* I chose her over anyone else.

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@mattmangels @JakeAnbinder His claim to fame is Earth First!, the radical eco group. I don’t think he was a member of the Sierra Club.

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@dataandpolitics My solution to this was to buy a Sunny bike, and subscribe to the Peloton app. Works pretty well!

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@scott_bot I should note though: I’m mostly on solo kid duties for a week, so my participation might be intermittent. Happy to evangelize on the side if that gets in the way of your project!

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“I actually wasn’t on top of that maths.” 0: 1 1: 3 2: 9 3: 27 4: 81 5: 243 6: 729 7: 2,187 8: 6,581 9: 19,683 10: 59,049 https://t.co/SCRhsBMhOV

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We’re using @basecamp to help our transition to remote work. I wrote some quick thoughts about where it shines for us. https://t.co/Y8ZaWjtfC9

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For the Monday morning crowd: we're using @basecamp to help manage our transition to remote work and support. I wrote up some thoughts about where I think it really shines for us: https://t.co/Y8ZaWjtfC9

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@abbymullen @basecamp Such a great service! I wish we could hold everything there (we're kind of spread out among a few services), but it's been great for helping the transition. We'd been using it for a couple years, but, like you, much more extensively now.

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@SheilaABrennan Agreed! I've been using Basecamp probably off and on for various things since the release of version 2? So glad we have it available to use.

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@abbymullen @basecamp Yeah, I think I started using it in version 2 off and on for various things. BC3 is fantastic. And so much calmer and more useful than, say, Slack.

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April

@EthanWatrall I shouldn’t complain too much, the week gets considerably better. https://t.co/NdYWbfRvkY

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@jsnell Hey Jason! Sorry to be a bother, but I recently re-subscribed (after a lapse) as an Incomparable member. But I don’t seem to be able to re-join the Incomparable Slack (I get an error on the invite page: user_disabled).

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“Americans have lost control over a lot as a result of the coronavirus. At least they should be able to control what happens to their personal data.” https://t.co/OzoV71LH0z

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Last night's distraction: playing around with the light/dark media queries in CSS. New light and dark theme for my website, depending on your OS system preferences. https://t.co/WPwD1FxFKR https://t.co/5cQfqQ2k7n

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Four hours of building garden boxes and prepping the space for them. Time for a refreshing beverage and sunshine before the snows return.

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I'm joining these calls starting today for the next four weeks. Great opportunity to learn how to build remote communities! https://t.co/w359v00Gb6

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"...any website you visit is brimming with capabilities it almost certainly does not need, but can be used in ways that users have not consented to — and users have little control or knowledge." https://t.co/XhsU0hjhG3 https://t.co/QeB8tlSa8D

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“Traffic accidents and crash-related injuries and deaths were reduced by half during the first three weeks of California’s shelter-in-place order, … The reductions save the state an estimated $40 million per day — about $1 billion over the time period.” https://t.co/wIRNcSKzzp

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@stroughtonsmith Hey! Maybe a bug report on Broadcasts? I set up last night on iPad, edited preloaded stations with new ones. Changes synced fine to iPhone. Downloaded Mac client this AM, but my edits didn’t sync. Then my edits disappeared from iOS. (Thanks for this app, btw!)

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A couple of open data initiatives for confronting #COVID19: - @ODIHQ is offering funding for data availability, software, and models. https://t.co/XBzErUE5CX - @Mozilla is offering funding for supporting open source projects https://t.co/pHQ4U9Mt35

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I’ve been digging, building garden boxes, hauling wheelbarrows, and shoveling dirt and wood mulch for two days. I’m just gonna go ahead and not move for a couple days. https://t.co/Bc7si7MjnT

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My amazing colleagues @CJDuLy and @lorinahni are documenting student experiences during the pandemic https://t.co/JbZytwfUlw

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@matthew_klingle @haztravrcc @MatthewMBooker I'd give a look at Palladio, which we designed at Stanford. It's meant for doing data viz in the browser: https://t.co/flMQeLLt0N. If you need more advanced capabilities, I'd look at the desktop software Gephi.

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@matthew_klingle @haztravrcc @MatthewMBooker There's also some off-the-shelf tools like @f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h or @tableau.

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@matthew_klingle @haztravrcc @MatthewMBooker @f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h @tableau Glancing over your spreadsheet, seems like something Palladio can help with. You can drag-and-drop a spreadsheet right in, but you'll need lat/lon for geographic data. A tool like RAWGraphs might be good, too. https://t.co/kbx0OJi8Iu

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May

This sounds great: @CLIRnews is looking for a Senior Program Officer for @CLIRDLF; hiring remotely in the US https://t.co/rdpszTDOcX

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I half expected LEGO making machines to be made of LEGO. Honestly, I’m a little disappointed. https://t.co/5LaZDsnSUw

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@finnarne I’ll admit I spend most of my time in the game seeking out animals for Arthur to jot down in his journal.

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@finnarne I played far enough to unlock the camp site I liked, and now just explore and seek out animals. It’s great!

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“I think there’s an argument that massive modern SUVs and similar cars can be deathtraps, too, just with that death facing out, instead of in.” https://t.co/Wv7J2sJSFp

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Sure, I miss the California valley I lived in. But man alive, my home, the Plains, are lovely. https://t.co/tIPAOKI5Lj

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@Curatescape I'm getting some JS errors I can't seem to figure out in the latest release. Have you run into this elsewhere? https://t.co/HpV13xfIDk

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“So throughout most of the country we are going to add fuel to the viral fire by reopening. It's going to happen if I like it or not, so my goal here is to try to guide you away from situations of high risk.” https://t.co/tt8abUH4YU

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Also, this isn’t the weird food export of Nebraska. That honor belongs to either the Runza, or chili with cinnamon rolls.

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@BrendenWRensink Dang. I thought my dream the other night was bad. (A job interview where they kept asking me questions about birds which, uh, was not relevant to the job. And the interview was public? Like a diss defense? In a library?)

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“By the end of April, many stores and distributors had sold out of low-end consumer bikes. Now, the United States is facing a severe bicycle shortage as global supply chains, disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, scramble to meet the surge in demand.” https://t.co/nBnhK9gewU

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.@rauchway: “Like the Great Depression, [the pandemic] demands intervention not only to resume trade and employment, but also to preserve the institutions we cherish.” https://t.co/DADt4XRgPu

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"A major study tracking more than 300,000 commuters has revealed that cycling to work can cut the risk of dying early from illnesses such as heart disease and cancer by up to 24 per cent." https://t.co/Se8VjdRRoP

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@LDBurnett I immediately think Fiege’s _Republic of Nature_; Steinberg, _Down to Earth_; Cronin, _Nature’s Metropolis_; Flores, _The Natural West_.

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"If the coronavirus has made anything clear [for urbanism], it’s that cities cannot be fixed if we do not insist on dismantling the racial, economic, and environmental inequities that have made the pandemic deadlier for low-income and nonwhite residents." https://t.co/vSG85o5UO8

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@LDBurnett Since tweeting this I'm certain there's another book in my brain I cannot recall, and the physical book must reside in my campus office. Which I can't get to. But when I bolt up at 3am remembering the title, I'll let you know :)

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Come to my office hours in Red Dead Redemption 2 and sit around the campfire with me. https://t.co/w7GQD38y6l

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@DavidAstinWalsh You probably want something lighter, but I’ve been rereading Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and his Border Trilogy.

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I mark time now by the number of days I haven't been on my office wi-fi to do a backup. https://t.co/VujBsz7pZV

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@nirak Luckily I have a second AirPort at home for backups. But macOS faithfully reminds me about the work one.

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@CathleenDCahill @LWieck +1 on this. I think it was a problem for my ms draft, and totally came through in the reader reports.

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I'm not sure it counts as "unlucky" when deregulation, union decline, legislation, and finance are structurally designed the way they are. https://t.co/rVsAvNb1Y8

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“How Can We Possibly Be Doing Dishes Again?” “Dad? DAD?” “I Just Cleaned Up This Room; or, A Story of Toymageddon.” https://t.co/2w6CEezO3S

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.@kcarterjackson: "Only one thing is clear—there is no form of black protest that white supremacy will sanction.” https://t.co/jsRD8pvc2c

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You cannot disentangle climate justice from racial justice. Elevate and listen to those doing this work. If you‘re unsure where to start, start with this list by @MaryHeglar. https://t.co/mh0B5pJaYz

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.@NanaOseiOpare: "Throughout the last century, the U.S. has projected itself as a global leader of liberty, democracy and freedom. But on questions of race, America has consistently been on the wrong side of history — and the world has noticed." https://t.co/GWPLDHgzkP

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If you find racial equality opposed to liberal democracy, it says a lot about your view of liberal democracy. https://t.co/SNPsjnVzH4

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well, that’s one way to deal with university financial troubles as they reopen this fall https://t.co/GTHQ9wiuyL

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for example, there was that time the federal government accused you of discriminating against people of color https://t.co/pzNcNeGHEV

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Seeing Rothstein’s book on the NYTimes best seller list is as good a time as any to remind folks about @HOLCRedlining. https://t.co/4fqblx5kcK

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The existence of a statue says a lot more about people that put it up than it does about history. https://t.co/YZoEdoBww8

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As Omaha debates another pilot program for scooters (https://t.co/Vy29VqwwrA), they've proposed a new $100 fine for various infractions. The infractions are not equitable vs. cars. Blocking a driveway or sidewalk with a car is a $16 fine; with a scooter, it's $100.

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Not to mention another infraction for scooters is riding them on a sidewalks, which seems to me a perfect way to make sure this pilot fails. Understandable to keep pedestrians and riders safe. But we lack safe and adequate bike lanes--where are people suppose to use scooters?

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@JakeAnbinder @margaretomara @irl_neil @_TimBarker @BigMeanInternet You and me both, Jake! Important part of my manuscript, too.

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@cbgoodman Absolutely. So many small, smart changes that can be made with no need for major investments in infrastructure.

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The Bundy's occupied a federal building, with guns, and remained there for forty-one days. And still they were acquitted. https://t.co/vmxwPztdRP

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Not that I need a project, but as the maintainer of @everylotoma, I might borrow some ideas here to include built year, sqft lots, valuation, and map... https://t.co/hRhJBj95cs

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Omaha, go support the city’s proposed Transit Oriented Development policy. Public comment period closes June 29th. https://t.co/dlofMmGRZV

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Re-upping from yesterday: Omaha friends, go support the city’s policy on Transit Oriented Development. https://t.co/QEDoERyfnY

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@car1ygoodman Timeline by Knight Labs is pretty good; just uses a Google Spreadsheet as the back-end, so should be easy to collaborate. https://t.co/lMskY4wDqx

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4yo: “It’s kind of embarrassing.” Me: “What’s embarrassing?” 4yo: “That you guys like my music.”

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It just kills me our kids aren't in school -- and not even because it has so thrown off my own work schedule. I want them learning from others and socializing with kids their age, not just us.

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@matthewdlincoln Yep. We're talking walks (when it's not 90+ degrees out...). Last week I _had_ to make a run to a hardware store, and that was my first time inside a store since March. Otherwise I'm doing curbside pick-ups.

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I know Parks and Rec is suppose to be a comedy, but they really nailed community meetings. https://t.co/Xv7MED9DHu

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Good ‘ol exclusionary politics: Price low income people out of a community, then make sure they have no say in the planning process in the community they had to leave. https://t.co/ZItRe7eVS4

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@JasonAHiggins Sure! I’m an environmental & urban historian working on a book about Silicon Valley ‘45-‘90. I trace the consequences of the post-war period’s uneven suburban growth in shaping 20th century environmental politics, concerns over social justice, and ideas of sustainability.

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@JasonAHiggins I’m also a digital historian, and run the range of digital mapping to network analysis. I’m pretty handy with a few programming languages and off-the-shelf tools for doing digital scholarship.

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@historymum77 Is the 1903 map georectified and online somewhere (e.g., the Rumsey map collection or your own geoserver)?

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I've been working through @fietsprofessor et al.'s Unraveling the Cycling City course and having fantasies of migrating. I love this. https://t.co/VrBGgGrv4b

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Our campus re-opening plans for the fall assumed community mitigation of the virus. They should rethink that. https://t.co/auNBm1JUcz

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"Cities need to be designed for the well-being and health of people, not for cars. We don’t have time to wait." https://t.co/ZW09NSZ7Jx

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.@SandovalStrausz: "Our cities and suburbs look and feel very different than they did in the depths of the urban crisis in the late 1960s. That’s one reason Trump’s attempt to revive the law-and-order playbook of that era has fallen flat." https://t.co/cqyZavdxh8

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Don't worry, Stanford promised in 1959: we won't be building high density housing outside Menlo Park. https://t.co/BnXZIokA5F

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Thanks but I have no plan to travel until this thing is under control. This is a ridiculous idea. https://t.co/ZZCTZJtwEz

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Similarly, I think one of the best pieces of advice I got from an undergrad history prof was one who would underline my weak and weasel sentences and scribble "be bold!" in the margins. She demanded more from our writing than anyone else I had, and I'm better for it. https://t.co/nSoWKDGjft

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Jan 13, 2005 -- a copy of Globalization and International Relations Theory by Ian Clark. A college textbook. https://t.co/3AYpciGm5C

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Sugar coma here I come. Buttermilk pancakes with homemade juneberry syrup from our juneberry trees. https://t.co/uNqZ52rDCl

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Out of curiosity, I wondered about Omaha's traffic calming program. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been updated or revisited since 1998.

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If you live on a street that you'd like calmed? You have to follow this convoluted flow chart. https://t.co/aigLVw7lio

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The city guidelines don't prioritize--or even really mention--one way streets, raised crossings, continuous sidewalks, rough road surfaces, narrowed lanes, chicanes, or street cuts. Of the calmed streets I've visited, they have speed bumps or occasionally offset intersections.

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The city is pretty gridded until you hit "west Omaha," which I'll take to mean any place west of 72nd--the newer sections of the city--if only because the road designs change so much. It's easy to spot the transition from grid-to-curved street designs from above. https://t.co/Np1foWpnD2

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And yet, even with this curvier designs, the streets are built for cars not people. Which is why most streets in Omaha--like many in the US--look more like highways.

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It's not true everywhere in the city, especially as you get into the western suburbs. But even here, cars get priority. https://t.co/1zRFvu6Ybd

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Another way to look at this is through biking. The bike lanes are almost exclusively in the eastern sections of Omaha, and not built in a way that would make commuting easy. The majority if this is "low volume streets," not dedicated paths or trails. https://t.co/UoyqBUdVus

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And we don't have to use the official map as the sole word on this. Just look at the Strava maps of popular rides. https://t.co/mBPSVabuCx

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Most of this is because streets are designed for Level of Service -- streets are assessed by their capacity to carry cars. Roads are given a grade (A through F) based on how well cars flow through a street. Traffic calming inherently works against this.

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Thus, traffic calming only becomes a thing if it does not significantly affect LOS. This is why even city centers can look like highways. Here's main street in my hometown--a straight line to the horizon. https://t.co/ecpM5G03Ei

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We rarely build streets with the assumption of protecting people. We don't build streets that naturally enforce speed limits, raise awareness of other road users, and slow down at crossings.

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A safety-first and multi-use approach to road design ultimately means better ways to experience the city and a better quality of life for residents.

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Digital Community Engagement, which I edited with @rebeccawingo and @PaulSchadewald1, is now out! It's an #openaccess volume of case studies exploring digital humanities, new media, and reciprocal community partnerships. https://t.co/nBUgupGJ5m

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nothing says "care for the climate" like a giant, air-conditioned structure with massive parking lots https://t.co/1C0tznnffg

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For the morning crowd: yesterday was book launch day! 🚨 Digital Community Engagement, edited by @rebeccawingo, @PaulSchadewald1, and myself, is an open-access collection on community engagement and digital humanities. https://t.co/nBUgupGJ5m

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Somehow I missed that TWBB is #HATM this week. Ranks among one of my all time favorite movies! https://t.co/mMMoZgtrNc

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A bit more here. Since I’m not watching live with y’all, I won’t speak directly to what’s happening. But I do want to mention a few things about why I like this film. Because, by the end of this film, there’s very little to actually *like*. About any of it. #HATM https://t.co/9R40ukmq3W

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I like this film, on the one hand, by the acting, set design, and cinematography alone. Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dani, Kevin O’Connor, Dillon Freasier, Sydney McCallister are so, so good. I mean, Day-Lewis rocks a mustache, cowboy hat, and vest in a way I never could. #HATM

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But I like this film because it’s a great anti-Western. There’s no real heroes here, except maybe H.W. No John Wayne figures. No typical western set pieces like quick draws or shootouts. Instead, it’s capitalism’s ruthless acquisition of power and natural resources. #HATM

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I’m no expert of early 20th century Texas history, or oil or energy history. But TWBB’s picture of the West at the turn of the century is a bit more frank about the West than what we see in a John Ford picture. #HATM

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It doesn’t shy away at the ruthlessness in pursuing the region’s resources or the exploitation of people. And it doesn’t sugarcoat hitting oil—it’s dangerous, could maim, could kill. It wasn’t glorious. #HATM

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happy anniversary to the hollowing out of cities and reinforcement of segregation by concrete strips https://t.co/rkb4ONRRwr

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Digging into some planning docs as I can this week. This, from the FHA's _Successful Subdivisions_ (1940), revises a developer's plan. The FHA plan favors winding streets, large lots, parks, and greenery. Documents like this shaped much of postwar land-use practices. https://t.co/5BEtumICnd

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I don’t know if it’s @HerbertHistory or @TheTattooedProf quality, but it’s pulled pork and grilled corn tonight. https://t.co/hqHduQnOY0

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@Jan_Ham @HerbertHistory @TheTattooedProf I cut the stalk back, trim the tassels off, and peel off one layer of husk. Then just toss it on the grill, direct high heat, and turn every five minutes for 15-20 minutes.

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After extensive work with my research assistant, we’ve determined the ranking of Toy Story movies. 1. TS 1 2. TS 4 3. TS 2 4. TS 3

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@abbymullen Truth be told, I think we had one or two false starts before we actually watched the whole thing.

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@akiltykramer @hangryhistorian This Land Bundyville Drilled Don't know if it's still free, but West Cork on Audible was interesting (a Serial-like show about a case in the UK). I'm now realizing my podcast series aren't exactly cheery... If you're a fan of The Office, Somehow I Manage is fun.

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@akiltykramer @hangryhistorian They're not series but I have a number of climate/environment/transit podcasts I listen to, also: @TheWarOnCars; Hot Take; Political Climate; Streets Ahead; Climate 2020.

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“…cities’ housing supply can determine how fast gentrification may occur. Boosting the supply of housing can slow the pace of new buyers moving into lower-income neighborhoods.” https://t.co/bHlSGyUiPc

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@EmilyWebz White, _The Organic Machine_ Worster, _Rivers of Empire_ Limerick, _A Ditch in Time_ Logan, _The Lessening Stream_ Pearson, _Still the Wild River Runs_ Hundley, _The Great Thirst_

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seems to me guidance should be extra harsh given we haven't even gotten on top of controlling the virus in the first place 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/ySaDnFhRPG

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@EmilyWebz I keep thinking of more for you! A few others: Pisani, _To Reclaim a Divided West_ Pisani, _Water and the American Government_ Righter, _The Battle over Hetch Hetchy_ Wilkinson, _Crossing the Next Meridian_

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"That’s car dependency. And it’s exactly why cities need to plan for a future of fewer cars, a future in which owning an automobile, even an electric one, is neither the only way nor the best way to get around town." https://t.co/6OYYlkjOTZ

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In my final week living in the Bay Area I struck up a conversation with a faculty member in line with me for lunch who had arrived in the ‘80s. He complained to me that this place use to be a lot better when you could get to SF in 20 minutes and there weren’t all these people. https://t.co/eCNLJGiqdj

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@westernuHistory I’m an avid gardener and love to cook, which is all the better when I get to do it with the things we produced ourselves. 🌱 👨‍🍳

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@constans @JakeAnbinder Last summer we had road construction behind our place to add a center turning lane and a new widened sidewalk with bike lane. I went to several community meetings. You’ll never guess who the most vocal dissenters in the meetings were or what they were angry about.

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@JakeAnbinder I feel the same about some of my open space preservationists: that there’s this imagined “environment” worth protecting from, say, housing. It’s an argument based almost entirely on aesthetics, rather than health, wildlife, or other, more tangible, reasons for open space.

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A 1972 dump truck from my dad’s business. It was the worst stick I’ve ever driven, but I’ve never had a problem driving any manual transmission since. https://t.co/Ruw1vSvYQ6

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@nirak You just made me flash back to my most harrowing experience with that truck. Trying to turn around on a gravel road, reversed too far, and started to coast down a very steep ditch (towards a phone pole!) Had to slam the brakes, and hit the gas, clutch, and right gear all at once.

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@hangryhistorian There’s a great bibliography here: https://t.co/4fqblx5kcK. Look for the Introduction under the sidebar (upper right icon), and scroll down to the bibliographic note and bibliography.

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@abbymullen I'm a happy Things 3 user https://t.co/FV46ZPGOLB. I'm also a big fan of Taskpaper https://t.co/rwza04Uok9. For more of a project management focus, I use Basecamp (they now offer a free personal version, which could be useful!) Another cross-platform option is Todoist.

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@abbymullen Todoist is nice. Good interface, fast, web available, hooks into other services easily (like Github, etc) which can be handy.

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(quick, one kid is napping and the other is playing by an educational game) One thing I've found hard about my book manuscript, and something I really wrestled with when it was a dissertation, is how to effectively write about Silicon Valley *as a region*.

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A lot of the things I end up writing about end up being pretty local and at the whim of city councils: zoning decisions, open spaces & parks, annexations. But this also intersects with regional (and national) policies around pollution controls, traffic, housing supply, etc.

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The topics I address--from segregated communities to environmental racism to widespread high-tech pollution to landscape change--don't follow boundaries, even though the stories I tell tend to focus on particular localities and their politics.

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And given my framing and emphasis on space, place, and place-making, I think this local stories are important; not just for the cities I write about, but what it tells us broadly about the Valley, about California, and about America.

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And yet, I still have trouble with the *region*. I write about residential segregation of Latinos in San Jose, but that same thing is happening elsewhere (and sometimes less visibly) in a way that's all too common and has its own particular nuances.

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(I know one answer here is to leave it to the next dissertation/book for someone to write, and I hope my manuscript can serve as a launching point for others.)

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Part of what I find difficult is: how to explain this region through these local stories without feeling like I've given other places short shrift, whose experiences may mirror other parts of the Bay Area but don't get the attention I sometimes feel they deserve.

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Part of the way I've tried to find focus is to give my attention to a specific county, so, San Francisco, Marin, Oakland, and other places fall away; and by focusing on geography based on the intensity of high tech industrialization, which was the western Bay.

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But even so, we're still talking about a region containing several incorporated and unincorporated places and wildly fragmented governing districts. By 1959, the nine-county Bay Area had 100 cities, 108 special districts for parks, sewage, and water, and 24 transit districts.

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Some of this feels like a forest-and-trees problem: how can I tell you this history of Silicon Valley's urban environmental history in a way that does justice to the people and places but not getting lost in specifics?

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I had a kind of case-study approach in the dissertation, with each chapter focusing, more or less, on some topic: business, housing, and land use changes; residential segregation; open space protections; the reaction against urban growth; pollution of water and air.

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But I don't think this approach worked particularly well, in part because it's hard to follow the through-lines in the history. As this has moved from diss-to-book, much of this has already been restructured and rewritten. But still needs work.

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I don't have any conclusion in mind to this thread, I'm just thinking out loud here about how I tell these stories without jumping around too much geographically, or losing readers in the particularities of local politics.

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@urbansanjose And certainly a big part of the postwar story I tell is people asking that exact question: what *is* this region and how do we want to define it? Who gets to define it?

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The pandemic has blunted my ability to engage more fully as a member of one of the working groups, but wholly endorse what Emily says here. @EnviroDGI is a fantastic org. https://t.co/sdKFmxnQNB

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@RAKarl @MinervaSchools Congratulations! Thrilled to hear this, they're lucky to have you. Sounds like a great fit, and the flexibility of living anywhere is amazing. (And, also belatedly, congrats on the launch of Research/Craft!)

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@drhonor I’m on day 230 or so with it for learning Norwegian and it’s been pretty good, but isn’t great with explaining grammar, etc. (it might be better with more popular languages 🤷‍♂️ ). Mango is good too; your public or uni library might have a license you can use for access.

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@LWieck @s_e_murray @rebeccawingo @Bri_Theobald @AlessandraLink2 @sienriquez Won’t be the same but we should totally video chat one of the days of the conference.

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@rebeccawingo @LWieck @s_e_murray @Bri_Theobald @AlessandraLink2 @sienriquez This is true we can do this anytime

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This is essentially my calendar, too, with a 4yo and 1yo and a spouse that works overnights in healthcare every other week. I'm lucky if I cross off two to-do items in a week, let alone have the bandwidth for a virtual conference. https://t.co/6hODbu7p4A

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My kids haven't seen their grandparents since Christmas. I haven't met my new nephew. I didn't get to celebrate my niece's birthday; none of my family got to celebrate my 1yo's birthday. My 4yo hasn't been in preschool since March. Our government failed us. https://t.co/mNHFHWcFnO

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"Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a major study published June 30 in Nature Research's Scientific Data" https://t.co/xF4633kBdX

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@JakeAnbinder Just wait until you rediscover your comps notes three years from now and realize how much more you once knew. Not—not that I know what that’s like.

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Some old school @LEGO_Group today. I’m amazed I still have the instructions, let alone (most) of the pieces. https://t.co/tWGh8w6qQt

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Maternal Grandmother: passed long before I was born M. Grandfather: farmer Paternal Grandmother: stay at home mother; retail sales P. Grandfather: military; county extension agent; farm supplies and feed salesman https://t.co/ziFEb9KsvL

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@abbymullen I’ve never seen this, this is great. I love a good “this place is the center of everything” map.

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What a fantastic map: a strip map from 1918 showing the rail lines down the entire length of Market Street in San Francisco: https://t.co/PtV41L4HaV https://t.co/J5tlWIuKgI

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@JakeAnbinder Can’t wait to play this game again in September when we have to close universities and schools.

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“So many of us did everything the government asked, and officials responded by doing . . . nothing.” https://t.co/u2hPcX5h8S

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“At least 6,300 cases [of COVID-19 have been] tied to about 270 colleges over the course of the pandemic. And the new academic year has not even begun at most schools.” https://t.co/S1RDR8US90

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The thing standing out to me here, though not really surprising, is that low income people don’t factor into his conception of people trying to live a suburban lifestyle https://t.co/ctl97yoVJV

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"Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself." https://t.co/3KgRRfib2U

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Take note, Nebraska— Voter registration information: https://t.co/r8y93ArWoZ Early voting information: https://t.co/D6u9MawuW8

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@OPPDCares our area still without power since 2am. I see your crews up in the trees behind our place. Any ETA on its return? Our neighborhood is 114th between Dodge and Pacific.

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@OPPDCares And update on ETR for our area? I’m getting worried about our fridge now. We’ve been without power for almost ten hours.

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“If anything, his foray into the topic may teach some moderate and liberal voters that their yard signs opposing affordable housing and denser zoning put them in awkward alignment with President Trump.” https://t.co/He0x4FpsUn

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@HerbertHistory Interesting. These days when I play RDR I'm not playing the outlaw, I'm usually tracking down animals, bird watching, etc., and just enjoying the landscape of the game (and there's a feature where the main character sketches what you discover in his journal, which is fantastic).

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@HerbertHistory I don't know that it's Florida depicted here, though; in the game there's a fictional city called Saint Denis that's meant, I think, to mimic New Orleans -- swamps, gators, etc.

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Some perspective on the President's (lack of) appeal to suburban voters, with context provided by historians: https://t.co/He0x4F7RvN

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Great looking lineup for the next couple of months. I've only managed to drop in to a couple of these live, but the Greenhouse has had a fantastic series of scholars on that greatly expanded my to-read list. https://t.co/tBSUDeKU80

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@abbymullen I have a Secret Project in mind that might lead me to doing the same thing, and I’m only barely containing my excitement about it.

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Excited to be joining the planning group with @lwinling and @nowurbanism on "Connecting the Interstates," where we'll be digging into the potential of a digital mapping platform exploring the U.S. Interstate Highway System and its impact on cities and regions. https://t.co/xN9LTKMCmn

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@EmMcGinn @LWieck @ReclaimHosting I don't remember the issue Lindsey had, but happy to troubleshoot if needed! (Also, seriously, what would we do without @ReclaimHosting?)

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@cm_parsons You might check out some of the work at @cesta_stanford. This project comes to my mind first, but there might be other relevant examples: https://t.co/xcdl0DqYv1

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@drhonor IIRC @WhaHistory hosted a webinar a month or so ago on digital archives (with a focus on Western history). I'm not seeing it on the website, so maybe it's archived on their Facebook page?

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@JakeAnbinder Agreed. It absolutely happened in San Jose and I wrote about it in my diss but I don’t feel like I addressed it well there; and I’m still wrestling over it as I work on the book.

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@CecilyRaynor @sgsinclair @ADHOrg @mcgillu @mcgilldigihum Terribly sorry to hear this. My condolences to you, your colleagues, his family, and students.

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“‘The virus is here either way,’ Frost said.” I despise this excuse, not just from Frost but from other corners too. We just throw up our arms like nothing can be done to stop the virus. We could flatten curves and get life mostly back to normal but 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/MjO4t6nqnn

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@emilygrubert I have another drive here at home thankfully, but my MBP dutifully reminds me every morning how long I've been off campus.

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Major zoning reform in Portland: - fourplexes legal up to 3,500sqft - four- and sixplexes legal (if half of units are affordable at 60% AMI) up to 6,000sqft - no parking requirements on 3/4 of residential land - 70% lot coverage permitted for fourplexes+ https://t.co/v5SZ1GAp54

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@JakeAnbinder @donewman @sandypsj FWIW I’d always read it in the sense you mention here, e.g., county planner Karl Belser using (coining?) “slurb” in the journal Cry California that CT published—that the aesthetics of the suburbs were dehumanizing and tacky.

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@JakeAnbinder @donewman @sandypsj For example, Belser in 1970 isn’t *quite* decrying “neighborhood chatacter” but is concerned about agricultural land loss. I’d argue part of what‘s happening here is an ideal of pristine orchards spoiled by urbanization fueling an environmental politic in the Bay Area. https://t.co/SwzAUknSzu

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@JakeAnbinder @donewman @sandypsj Sorry, wasn’t Belser that coined it. Alfred Heller and Samual Woods of California Tomorrow claim credit. Here’s the definition, such as it is, they provided in Cry California in ‘72. I think they use this same phrasing in the book. https://t.co/d32NWJixI3

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Close enough. Grass fed burgers, tomato chutney made by a neighbor with our garden tomatoes, dill pickles made by a neighbor and their garden and our herbs, and cast iron fried potatoes from our garden. https://t.co/VNrmmYakml

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except in ‘68 Nixon had an actual integrationist apparatus to go after; that’s largely been dismantled, which means suburbanites can feel free to vote for Democrats https://t.co/e3NMraPyPg

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@ericmbudd @MalikSalsberry We literally made zucchini bread today with one about a third that size and easily managed four loaves. So that estimate seems spot on.

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Portland, Minneapolis, and other communities *are* making these decisions themselves. How is this “unprecedented federal disruption”? https://t.co/1AN3kSCV48

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@dataandpolitics We lived in San Jose and didn’t make it up to SF nearly often enough. I sure to miss that place, though.

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@nirak I agree, and yet for some reason I still call it the William F Cody Digital Archive despite @dougseefeldt constantly correcting me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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"After white people colonize environments, they’re swift to assert themselves as the arbiters of good, respectful behavior in said spaces." https://t.co/GqI4MPFsal

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Finally trying out this spicy chickpea stew tonight, from a tip in @annehelen’s newsletter https://t.co/NFHPeEPX6x

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I suppose I should be surprised this was where Dorothy Erskine lived, but...I'm not, really. https://t.co/lX9smc3MDN

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@JakeAnbinder Relatedly, in 1999: "Now in late-’90s San Francisco, you can have all the Manhattan greed-is-good bull-economy moments you like." https://t.co/dg2itj9orZ

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So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracle And cures and healing wells.

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“The United States is forcing its citizens to bootstrap their way through a global catastrophe, saddling traumatized families with the burden of public administration and amplifying the country’s inequalities.” https://t.co/AMfFDM801B

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@kellyinkansas Recipe here: https://t.co/KZnaUYpQgB. To bake them, I used a cast iron skillet outdoor on the grill to get the heat right (and keep the heat out of the house...)

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"With no national tracking system, colleges are making their own rules for how to tally cases. While this is believed to be the most comprehensive survey available, it is also an undercount." https://t.co/LZ7HnuQtrE

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@rebeccawingo @AneliseHShrout @jackiantonovich I got these kinds of questions a lot at Stanford, and I tried pretty hard to make sure I could shut that down precisely because I didn't want that perception creeping in.

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@rebeccawingo @AneliseHShrout @jackiantonovich Yeah, I did something similar. I didn't want to be unhelpful, but I couldn't have those questions take over my actual job; we luckily had an IT liaison to our department, so I always referred to them. I would do the same now: know an IT contact they can specifically reach out to.

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@rebeccawingo @AneliseHShrout @jackiantonovich Responding to that was somewhat precarious for me, too: I was, after all, 1) still a grad student then, and 2) not faculty, so not always seen as a peer. So I really didn't want to appear unhelpful or outright dismissive. It was tough to balance.

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@rebeccawingo @AneliseHShrout @jackiantonovich You bet; I think what really helped, and what I do now (though it happens less here) is knowing an IT person's name and email they can specifically reach (or, if it's something about online learning a name/contact at the univ online learning unit, etc.)

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@JakeAnbinder On the other hand, I always feel real good when I read documents from 30-50 years ago that totally recognized the urgency of fossile fuel and climate and yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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“choosing to emulate our forefathers and mothers, who managed to welcome millions of newcomers and ride oxcarts across the Rocky Mountains to build the greatest nation in human history”—oof, that’s some class-A Turnerian history. https://t.co/dBO8cLbA64

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🤔 “‘I don't know, but I don't even vote,’ he said. ‘I'm not a racist. All lives matter.’” https://t.co/yn97OXLxRL

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@quinnanya @Adam_Crymble Been away from the Bay Area for four years now but I know just what you mean, even from pre-COVID times. I still miss my Caltrain commute.

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I’ve spent the last few days in Utah’s public lands and mostly away from this website and maybe I should keep staying away https://t.co/11tq6l1NOr

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“Four movies you’re pretty sure you like more than anyone else you know.” https://t.co/au7yWlzB5g https://t.co/WAUQFSjgNq

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@BrendenWRensink We did a socially isolated family trip to Zion/Arches/Bryce! Back in Omaha already, but were in UT from Friday to Tuesday.

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Don’t forget about the most competitive places where your money can go far: AL, AZ, CO, GA, IA, KS, ME, MT, NC. Win the Senate and McConnell is out of his seat of power. https://t.co/09EfnhvkOk

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Concluding the cold war was a good idea and we should do it again is certainly a . . . take. https://t.co/5hQrFBtrp6

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my favorite part of their vision of the future is the traffic jams and eight lanes of traffic https://t.co/ausD5BEQxo

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@JessicaMDeWitt Wow, really? I’m so fortunate for a certain undergrad prof who really drove home (with some excellent readings, too) how this history just isn’t true. He was probably one of the most impactful teachers and mentors I’ve ever had.

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“To say that we acknowledge that our college stands on what was once Indigenous land at a college that makes little effort to recruit, support, and retain Indigenous students is about as hollow a thing as I can imagine.” https://t.co/AFwQ6ZgHtw

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behold, you can now gaze upon my lackluster software development skills for eternity https://t.co/Fh5NpkLJIU

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@varsha_venkat_ If it helps I bought four roses for the first time b/c of you tweeting about it and it’s *chefs kiss*

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me waking this morning, before catching up on news: me an hour later, caught up on news: https://t.co/u34SDzzYBQ

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @VirginiaScharff please tell me you're signing your new house papers with your full name

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @s_e_murray do you need to include anything about PH mediums here? You mention academic writing, but nothing about how PH is shared/co-created/etc.

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @s_e_murray right, what I'm saying is does what that co-creation results in (exhibits, DH, etc) need to be explicit?

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @s_e_murray It may not be necessary, of course! Just wondering if the output(s) of PH should be made explicit. Then again, I know that those can take a lot of forms and maybe isn't worth the words here.

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@rebeccawingo @LWieck @s_e_murray Great point. Maybe what's tripping me up here is that phrasing of "formal writing" rather than not calling out specific PH content.

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These people and people like them are the reason I’ve barely seen my family this year and my kids aren’t in school. https://t.co/8Nn1pnASwx

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@LWieck @s_e_murray @dvhunter @rebeccawingo @berincole @material_world @DrMaryClary Sorry we made you add another sentence.

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I’m not that kind of doctor, but seems like if you’re a COVID patient deciding to go visit people, you didn’t actually learn anything about COVID.

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For what it’s worth, I loved working at Stanford and everyone I worked with at @StanfordHistory is fantastic. https://t.co/1Uko0r75dU

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.@unmc had a press release yesterday explaining how we’re going the wrong direction on COVID cases. But sure, let’s open up. https://t.co/ibu5GQP9CQ

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Okay, Nebraska. Here’s important voting info: ✍️You must register to vote by Oct. 16 🗳️Early voting started Oct. 5 📨Vote-by-mail ballot requests must be recieved by the election office by 6 p.m. Oct. 23 📝All ballots due 8 p.m. Nov. 3 https://t.co/NHo5hLXfcQ

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As a library worker I can assure you: we’re doing the best we can with the resources we have. https://t.co/qUcqtOG6Po

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@matthewdlincoln @CMULibraries Oh my, I’ve been thinking about this exact thing for a project. Can’t wait to dig in! Congrats!

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On Wednesday 9:30am CST, I'm delighted to be on a #WHA2020 roundtable with @berincole23 @allybrantley @sienriquez @rydriskelltate and Azusa Ono. We'll be talking cities, planning, politics, the environment, and more!

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As usual, even though it's virtual, #WHA2020 will be filled with panels and meetings and committees. Looking forward to catching up with friends even if we can't do so in person this year.

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Also this week, I'll be recording two sessions for the Smithsonian American Women of Science Symposium (which airs next week). The first panel, with @heidiblackburn, explores subject headings and how difficult it is to discover women in STEM materials in catalog systems.

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Second, I'm excited to be recording a discussion with @sharonmleon @CatherineMcNeur @MirianTsuchiya and Ashleigh Coren on "Uncovering the Work of Women in Science in Library, Archive, and Museum Collections."

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@LWieck *clears throat* perhaps you've heard of this digital scholarship committee of the WHA, we sponsor a digital history lightning round every year and would be delighted to include you next year cc @rebeccawingo

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@BrendenWRensink @WhaHistory also I have the power to filter out anyone gaming the system, don’t test me https://t.co/MzDQmNvsxw

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Agree completely, hats off to @EMNhistory and everyone at the @WhaHistory offices. I wish we could all get together for coffees and drinks, but y'all have put together a tremendous conference in the face of steep challenges. https://t.co/gArQZMxsYa

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When you can’t go to New Mexico, you make a bit of New Mexico at home. Canning up some green tomato salsa verde, all from the garden. #WHA2020 https://t.co/igm1EDtrEL

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Dropping into the weather in the West and the careers outside academia panels this morning at #WHA2020. So much great stuff on the program!

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I've been thinking about what's been great about #WHA2020 being online this year. Two major benefits--which is true for almost every virtual conference I've done this year--are 1) flexibility in attending, and 2) catching recordings of sessions later.

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With so many fantastic panels that overlap, recorded sessions means I can go back and catch up on sessions I would've otherwise missed. I'm getting *more* content out of conference now than I use to.

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I wouldn't say conferences need to remain virtual, although for cost, climate, time, and plenty of other reasons I'm happy to not travel. I deeply miss seeing everyone and the impromptu conversations, lunches, coffee gatherings, and so on that happen in-person.

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But, I've been pondering what a post-Covid conference environment looks like. Do we continue with virtual formats in addition to in-person? If so, how do we ensure there aren't inequities in such an arrangement? Do we record in-person sessions allowing post-conference attendance?

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Do we stretch conferences out over more days or even weeks, to allow better flexibility for people to attend virtual sessions? I know @EMNhistory is thinking about this, and I'm also thinking of a recent thread by @megankatenelson who also pondered such things.

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Seems like we're in a rich moment to reshape how conferences work and how they can more equitably reach people.

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@akiltykramer I might've started pumping my fists when @A_NeedhamNYU argued should think of climate change as a historical structure, not a scientific debate. #WHA2020

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@traviseross Great point. My work, kids, home responsibilities, etc. don't get a pause in these virtual formats.

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A quick plug for #WHA2020: I've been on a small quest to build out some environmental data visualizations. I haven't had time lately to dig back into these, but there's a few here that might be useful. https://t.co/ExxUfoPEKh

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Absolutely. I always feel so energized following a WHA conference, and this year it’s been especially welcome. #WHA2020 https://t.co/V2qPL9Sosh

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My first one, Salt Lake City. The drive out with @DocSandersonSD and @davidnesheim. The instant camaraderie and friendships. From this comes everything else. Second favorite: last year, Timothy Nelson having to literally break down the stuck door of our panel’s room. https://t.co/XLQQoOFovH

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But seriously: the most important professional conversations and most cherished friendships have come through the WHA. #WHA2020

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Relatedly, we on the Digital Scholarship Committee are happy to either feature your work at our yearly lightning round session, or happy to help sponsor digital history sessions! #WHA2020 https://t.co/IqdzIzIOi2

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This panel on Native peoples and western public lands with @akiltykramer, @MWChilders, @greg_smoak, Lindsey Schneider, @natasha_kwe is fantastic. #WHA2020

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I’ve made it to every WHA meeting since Salt Lake City in 2008 except the meeting in Oakland: 12. #WHA2020 https://t.co/XgoBXiNSUn

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(\_/) ( •_•) / >🍺 Good evening #wha2020 Have you filled out @katebcarp’s potential panel spreadsheet for #WHA2021? https://t.co/CC6xxp8BG4

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@jbf1755 The amount of my twitter time has gone up, uh, dramatically in the last couple weeks DON’T JUDGE ME COMPUTER THERE’S A LOT HAPPENING

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Sorry, what? There’s a long and well-documented history that this simply isn’t true. https://t.co/kFIREKwbMH

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I'm sure you've all been anxiously awaiting, so here it is: the final round-up (⬅👀) of #WHA2020 Twitter activity. @LWieck outpaced us all with her tireless live-tweeting. https://t.co/TK9FcKDV5s @WhaHistory @WomensWest

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As an undergrad, the James Abourezk collection at USD back when I was doing research on the American Indian Movement. https://t.co/X8dfB5NLSs

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“Many others have made attempts to sway my opinion one way or the other. It is a time, every four years, that I perversely cherish, as well as admonish in absolute disgust. I am the most important person in America right now.” https://t.co/dhJdz8JVgX

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Probably worth remembering that Barr was once a Verizon exec, and that context might be helpful in discussing when antitrust is brought against tech but not telecoms.

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wait you mean following distancing guidelines and wearing masks works and allows you to reopen your economy? https://t.co/jFm47xjTY7

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Great exhibit from @CMULibraries: "we aim to expose our work and explore the absences in the University Archives - the voices and experiences we know are missing" https://t.co/9oCs6h5YZI

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@tsmullaney @DrLucaScholz @NewBooksNetwork @csbailey5t @clured @versae @Zoe_LeBlanc @veek @suttonkoeser @BridgetAH @amel_fraisse Thanks, Tom! Back at you, I really admire the Chinese Deathscape project. Miss y’all at Stanford.

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It’s 11 days before the election and 348,033 people have already voted in Nebraska. 831,000 turned up in 2016, a record number for the state. https://t.co/TTe7fUwhSW

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4yo, on pumpkin carving: “You guys are going to scoop them out. And carve them. I’m going to put the lights in them. That’s just how it is!” 🎃

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“So if Colorado is not a rectangle, what is it? Well, not a pentagon, (Greek for 5-sider), hexagon (6-sider) or a heptagon (7-sider), but a — hold on to something — hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon (697-sider).” https://t.co/TmLEL2ZED0

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November

@jetjocko Whiskey. Wine. Aquavit. Lemons. Limes. Soda water. Simple syrup. Sage. Mint. Thyme. Basil. Probably other adornments I’m blanking on.

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@brandontlocke the uncomplicated world of assassins creed set in ancient Greece with cults and whatnot seem so quaint

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As someone in the medical field, Ann is horrified by Trump’s handling of the pandemic and the divisions in the country. https://t.co/exG4QbjMBW

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Tom likes the celebrity and success factor of Trump, especially since it’s imaginary, but can’t commit to voting for a racist. Biden vote. https://t.co/yRIsqSizwy

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Tough decision for Ron Swanson, who believes both Trump and Biden are terrible candidates and just wants to bring all of this crumbling to the ground. Swayed by Leslie’s passion, votes Biden. https://t.co/bWDjmgnGCD

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Andy doesn’t like Trump’s attack on the FBI and, by association, his alter ego Burt Macklin. He forgets to vote. https://t.co/7XfIRYm4W1

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Chris is another solid Biden vote, believing him a more moral candidate and effective public servant (and is horrified by Trump’s diet). https://t.co/vXoFbZ7HuM

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Name confusion continues to pester Jerry / Garry, who can’t be found in a US government database even though he’d like to vote. https://t.co/XAyRKKo3Fa

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Donna worries about possible taxes increases on her lake house, but in no way can she support Trump. https://t.co/7tG6bti8xM

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Jean-Ralphio votes Trump without even batting an eye because he doesn’t want to be taxed for making over $400,000. He doesn’t make over $400,000. https://t.co/WZSezQ4yUD

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Tammy I is deeply concerned about Ron’s financial assets, and sees Trump as a bulwark against creeping socialism. https://t.co/Rp47KM97qc

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Tammy II is calling in favors at city hall and leveraging library fines to try and create bureaucratic red tape to prevent Ron from voting. https://t.co/SIIzP3kTrI

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Jeremy feels threatened by Biden’s tax plan, doesn’t believe in the capacity of governments to improve the lives of citizens, but also admires the celebrity imagery of Trump. Votes Trump. https://t.co/BYam5Vgudw

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Joan, always one to needle Leslie anytime she can, votes Trump and publicly declares so on Pawnee Today. https://t.co/Nv2EpTmBWH

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As founders of the Society for Family Stability Foundation, Marcia and Marshall find Trump to embody good, Christian ethics. https://t.co/3BajDQtSJA

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Dennis accompanies Trump’s adult children on illegal big game hunts, sees Biden’s tax plan as an assault on his individual being, and is a major donor to the campaign. https://t.co/yaGl9AdoGG

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Right, who could forget the authoritarian takeovers in places like Britain, Canada, Norway, New Zealand. https://t.co/sExenvLPtQ

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Biden is devout, practicing Catholic who carries a rosary in his pocket and attends Mass every Sunday. https://t.co/rQoKhoRX8j

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@LWieck Impressive! I need to pick up some (all) of those. Here’s my pandemic stack so far. https://t.co/oS35FsFD9R

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Thrilled to be at another #DLFForum — been a couple years since I’ve gone, and super excited to be in on sessions this week!

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There are one or two names on this list I'm not particularly excited about, but its a great list of folks for this role. https://t.co/NdAvcU1DRT

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@wcaleb I'll be honest, I haven't had a chance to crack it open yet. But as you know, I've followed your work on this for a while (including the 'ol open wiki days!) and I'm eager to dive in!

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@rebeccawingo Our latest homeownership discovery (which thankfully was very, very mild): finding an unopened laundry detergent in the laundry room cupboards from — ready? — 1994.

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“The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels also contribute to making identities, which poses risks for post-carbon energy politics.” https://t.co/ltH7dmR9YY

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In trying to recover his rug from a wealthy man, he winds up snared in a complicated kidnapping case. https://t.co/ZW7hyW8qST

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A ruthless oilman in California reveals the pitiless lessons of American capitalism. https://t.co/ZW7hyW8qST

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@LeapingRobot @virginhyperloop American capitalism is just reinventing the train over and over without actually building trains

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@andrewheiss central IT has told us not to update laptops until they check university systems compatibility, but I'm like "hey if it doesn't break outlook, zoom, and duo I'm cool right?"

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Spot on. I would *almost* argue that the central story of the Valley isn't really high tech, it's real estate. Who gets it, who acquires it, who decides land use, etc. https://t.co/qYs6JgcSld

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.@dancohen: “Our year of 2020 . . . will thus have a commensurately unwieldy digital historical record, densely packed with every need, opinion, and stress that our devices and sensors have captured and transmitted.”

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“While each of these data sets contains vast information, in novel combinations they will prove especially revealing, as correlations between activity and illness, sentiments and social movements, become more apparent.”

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“Databases are structured so as to be joined; there will be debates over such syntheses and who gets to do them.” https://t.co/QuNDBQoNZq

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I have taken in the light / that quickened eye and leaf. / May my brain be bright with praise / of what I eat, in the brief blaze / of motion and of thought. / May I be worthy of my meat. -Wendell Berry, “Prayer after Eating”

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If Christmas music is your thing, I’ve probably got you covered. How about 7 and a half hours of Christmas instrumentals? https://t.co/6bcvr1LupC

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Finally, if you’re like me and have an interest in Scandinavia or are learning a Scandinavian language and use music to help with that, here’s a growing playlist of Scandinavian Christmas tunes. https://t.co/kEgR8zo0DW

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@HerbertHistory Relatedly, have you listened to the @blankcheckpod before? They’re doing a series right now on Zemeckis films.

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@Ted_Underwood @benmschmidt @Zoe_LeBlanc @scott_bot @XandaSchofield @fdlaramee @kmlawson wait a minute where’s the JavaScript

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.@ftrain: "the lesson of the web is that people, given the choice between the freedom of operating and managing their own platform, and running a centralized platform that they do not control, will choose the centralized platform." https://t.co/HskGdY2vMR

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@scott_bot Will the timeline of content remain in chronological order, or be algorithmically sorted for “engagement”?

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A related thread short on Bhopal and how it inspired one set of American environmentalists. /1 https://t.co/NttuGPpg8o

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In Silicon Valley in the 1970s and 1980s, highly toxic and volatile gases were used in the manufacturing of silicon chips and wafers. /2

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On its own, silicon cannot carry electricity. At an atomic level, silicon leaves no space for electrons to carry electrical currents. In the manufacturing process, the chemical properties of silicon need to be adjusted by adding and subtracting electrons. /3

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Adapting silicon happens in a process called “doping” with “dopant gases” — arisen, phosphine, boron, and other metal hybrids. When silicon is exposed to these gases, it changes their atomic structure and gives them electrical conducting properties. /4

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In Silicon Valley in the latter 20th century, these gases were stored in compressed gas tanks at manufacturing facilities. And while they were mostly regulated, a coalition of environmentalists, firefighters, and health safety professionals were concerned about these gases. /5

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High tech likes to sell itself as a clean and green alternative to heavy industrialization, but the truth is their existence depends on vast quantities of chemicals. /6 https://t.co/71PyKhGQyU

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In the wake of Bhopal, environmentalists in the Valley feared a similar scenario happing in the Bay Area. One study by San Jose State scientists in 1987 concluded a sudden gas leak would spread as far as twelve and a half miles. /7

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A leak of that size would encompass the entire city of San Jose, and would easily cover the San Francisco Peninsula from ocean to bay. A gas leak would cover hundreds of thousands of people. /8

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Efforts to thwart such a possibility began in 1986 when the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and the county’s Fire Chiefs Association drafted a toxic gases ordinance for county regulators. /9

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The ordinance called for businesses to publicly report the gases they stored on site and install an alarm system to alert nearby communities of a leak. Industry, predictably, rejected the idea, suggesting that the plan was too costly and strict to implement. /10

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In response, a second draft ordinance written in collaboration with industry assigned new hazard classifications to gases and required new storage and alarm systems for detecting and responding to leaks. By 1991, every city in the Bay Area adopted the ordinance. /11

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If Bhopal taught the Valley environmentalist justice advocates anything, it was that health and environment were inextricable. Environmental and structural factors, rather than the individuality of genetics, hygiene, sanitation, or chance, caused suffering. /12

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Reminder #twitterstorians: the @WhaHistory deadline for next year’s conference in Portland (🤞) is coming up on December 15! https://t.co/5RHStt8aJE If you’re looking for potential panelists, check out @katebcarp’s potential panel spreadsheet: https://t.co/s9O3diSjU3 https://t.co/37pQfVSVZL

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I don't know where it was coined, but around @StanfordLibs we referred to this as "durable data." The tools will come and go, but if your data is in good, reproducible, reusable shape the migration to something new becomes much easier. https://t.co/dBV4OR2J3M

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Tuning in to hear @margaretomara deliver the Katz Distinguished Lecture. https://t.co/nAgduGvBTd https://t.co/JGlZ8sBDvN

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@cdc29 @KathrynTomasek I don't know if this is helpful--I don't have a guide or anything--but I think it's good practice to ask for more than your instinct feels comfortable with.

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Wild. Netscape, who kicked off the dot-com boom, was valued at $3b ($5b in 2020 dollars) in its debut in 1995. Each share cost around $28 ($47 in 2020 dollars). https://t.co/BoR1hkp9hs

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@HerbertHistory It doesn’t quite fit your preference but if it’s specific to Viking-age Scandinavians he’s interested in, Neil Price’s _Children of Ash and Elm_ is fantastic and very readable.

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I use git, symlinks, and a makefile to put everything in place (dotfiles live in a folder in the home directory). https://t.co/tKsX7OcbIG

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@sharonmleon Quick question for you -- on the Jesuit project, when you have a list of items under one of your groups pages: 1) am I right that that's an Omeka page, not an item set? 2) did you create that list through a browse preview block?

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@sharonmleon Thank you! That makes sense, seems to be working as I expected now. (I have a dormant you-inspired project I want to revive and get public soon.)

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1. Reclaim is amazing. 2. Eladio is absolutely correct. Don’t let your online academic self exist only on social media or department pages. One of the best things I did was create my own site in 2008. https://t.co/r0NF02TEt5

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1. State is misspelled as “Sate.” 2. That’s not how you spell @GavinNewsom’s name. 3. Any west coast resident would know it’s known as Jefferson, not New California. https://t.co/AaVtmKKRAK https://t.co/YijGzKl4gc

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@kevinbaker @miriamkp @wcaleb Same. I have a long form and a short form CV in Latex that I just update as needed. It's annoying, but not a complete pain since, well, it's short.

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@AmandaISeligman @JenMitcherman @miriamkp @adamarenson Echoing this--not a fan at. all. of digital measures.

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I once tried to do this sort of thing with JSON and some scripts I wrote, but got so fed up with working in JSON I just stuck with formatting everything in LaTeX. https://t.co/OZqoODur1T

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“The web, in other words, was meant to go both ways. We were meant to be both participants and consumers.” Nice explainer on how we got the word “homepage.” https://t.co/GelQuZ1q5Y

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A bit of Scandinavia for dinner tonight. A root vegetable and barley soup, joined by these: St. Lucia saffron buns (known to me as lussekatter). https://t.co/5xsvptXeDf

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“Today’s social networks, Facebook chief among them, were built to encourage the things that make them so harmful. It is in their very architecture.” https://t.co/hAAVyuwfp1

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“Somewhere along the way, Facebook decided that it needed not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size."

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@drvolts And then we were treated to Rise of Skywalker. TLJ had set up a great story, but instead of following it we got Palpatine’s return instead.

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I just introduced kiddo to this the other night, and obviously we need to watch it again on Sunday. https://t.co/4hzY6hRHTD

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Tech jobs and housing availability/affordability, which I dig into a bit in my book, isn't a new thing. Which makes it all the more frustrating that Bay Area cities continue to make decisions about housing that work against their interests.

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And speaking from experience, Bay Area cities are driving people away because they can't afford places to live (and other other necessities of life) even with a decent Bay Area salary.

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@asweetmesquite Welcome to the neighborhood! Would love to connect when things return to some kind of normal.

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Post the first four books that started you on your current intellectual journey, no matter how cringe. https://t.co/6fTo7aIa9T https://t.co/gPqPUASSKe

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@EthanWatrall There’s plenty of family traditions I’ve carried forward into our family, but getting lutefisk on Christmas Eve isn’t one of them.

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I think the first app I ever made, probably around 2000, was a hangman’s game in Visual Basic. Had done a bit of BASIC programming before that. And had already been making websites for a few years. https://t.co/xv3YiEbQkX

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At the end of today, Flash will no longer be on the web. I was never great at it, but Flash was my early entry to the interactive web and game design. End of an era, certainly. https://t.co/YLihOkRbkL

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@s_e_murray @rebeccawingo @LWieck @Bri_Theobald @berincole @AlessandraLink2 @jacksonjane14 Hear hear! https://t.co/vyTuC4J3r6

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January

Heading to Chicago tonight for #AHA19. Don't hesitate to catch me around the conference and say hi, happy to chat all things enviro. history / digital history / libraries / coffee snobbery.

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Come see @wcaleb, @ashleystreet, @jtheibault, @benmschmidt, @AneliseHShrout and I talking about cliometrics and digital humanities Friday afternoon https://t.co/D3RoqNhxHD

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@matthewdlincoln For what it’s worth, I had no issues with the filesystem for, I think, the first time ever.* *not responsible for filesystems, use at your own risk

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In thirty minutes, I’ll be at a roundtable talking about digital history, cliometrics, and computation. #AHA19 #s125

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George HW Bush on television at my grandparents house; the memory I have is him walking out of Air Force One sometime in the midst of the Gulf War. https://t.co/a7oSl3Kyu2

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New on the American Indian Digital History Project: _The American Indian Magazine_ published by the Society of American Indians (1913-1919) https://t.co/ZYNQo08ITi

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"Women are leading the trend of sustainable ranching and raising grass-fed breeds of cattle in humane, ecological ways." https://t.co/4IHZM0vEym

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Then, college: 500 words?! How on earth will I write so much about a book? Now, post-PhD: 500 words?! How on earth will I write so little about a book?

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I just ran across one of my sources referring to mid-century urban expansion into Latinx neighborhoods in San Jose as "barriocide" and I think I have a new framing device for this chapter.

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@csawula I liked the game — the environment is really well done, the story is OK. But agreed, a lot of western tropes make up the story. RDR still stands above for its storytelling.

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This morning, as I write about environmental justice activism, I'm struck by an idea to write a short piece on smokestacks as an indicator of pollution vs. cleanliness in urban spaces.

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There was a common refrain among observers in Silicon Valley as news about groundwater contamination broke in the 1980s: the absence of smokestacks meant high-tech industrialization was cleaner, and healthier, for cities and its people. https://t.co/TI7w2uPEce

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But, this clouded high tech's reliance on liquid and gas chemicals used for the manufacture of computer components, which found its way into groundwater in the 1980s. The result was widespread contamination of drinking water. https://t.co/FBi3y5UknX

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There was a kind of aesthetic quality to these industries, as @margaretomara and others have pointed out: the low-rise buildings, the landscaped and manicured grounds, and, of course, the lack of appearing like a manufacturing facility -- e.g., the lack of smokestacks. https://t.co/bTkArZEOle

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Or, at least what is *perceived* as being a site for manufacturing. And I think this perception of industry-as-clean says something about how residents viewed their landscapes (and, by some extension, their place in the American economy).

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Anyway. I don't know where this line of thinking leads yet. Just to say: I might be writing more about this soon.

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Excited to be kicking off the next round of @MozOpenLeaders! Great first call with @OpenTrons_ mentees, who are building awesome open source hardware and software for biologists.

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Do you work with public data? @EndangeredData Week is just three weeks away! If you have events you're planning (or would like help planning), let us know! https://t.co/nrfZrnNayk

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.@EndangeredData Week is in two weeks! Find events near you, or propose your own. Let @WorldCatLady, @brandontlocke, @captain_maybe, or I know how we can help! https://t.co/U3bUG5Q4au

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@khetiwe24 @mwidner @gworthey @csbailey5t @StanfordCIDR @ceng_l @Elijah_Meeks @kgeographer @clured I'm not sure I remember titles -- but I had taught workshops on Omeka, Palladio, D3.js.

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@khetiwe24 @StanfordCIDR @LivingwMachines @mwidner @kgeographer @versae @clured @cncoleman @ashleyrjester @Elijah_Meeks @StanfordLibs Me too!

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@khetiwe24 @scott_bot @StanfordCIDR @LivingwMachines @mwidner @kgeographer @versae @clured @cncoleman @ashleyrjester @Elijah_Meeks https://t.co/9EKuYy2wtr

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Hey #twitterstorians: I'm looking for some recommendations on books/articles regarding US postwar thinking around slums/blight and race.

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@nolauren Potentially! I’m re-working a chapter on urban renewal and how cities were thinking about “blight” (the areas planners identify as blighted line up almost precisely on barrios).

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@CarlPaulus @wcaleb I finally picked it up at a bookstore in Charlottesville last week. Started it on the plane and really loving it.

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We're an hour away from our first of two #EndangeredData Week Twitter chats today! Join us at 1pm EST to talk government data, records collection, use, and stewardship. Details here: https://t.co/ArNSIgeluq

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Do you work with public data? What happens when that data becomes #EndangeredData? We'd love to hear your data stories! https://t.co/enuUSN450R

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Hi everyone! Jason Heppler at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I help run @EndangeredData and have a particular interest in open local government data. #EndangeredData https://t.co/wfwfB5Hxe9

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@EndangeredData I should also note: that interest is driven, in part, from my work as a historian who studies cities and the environment. Open data helped make some of my research possible.

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A2 Short answer: yes! Several workshops in the past few years (https://t.co/9j0rmDjgUM), plus our work with @MozOpenLeaders helped introduce @EndangeredData to a new audience. #EndangeredData https://t.co/jXUHKUYetT

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This week I have two workshops introducing #rstats and its use for data tidying and data visualization. #EndangeredData

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A combination of tech skills and policy barriers. Tech skills I'm always trying to find solutions to: through workshops, meet-ups, and so on. Building a cohort of people in the community who can learn from each other and share ideas. #EndangeredData https://t.co/95okfC4rls

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But the barriers, especially for local government data, are real. There isn't a great open data portal for Omaha, for example. And local groups who generate community data don't often have a repository for the information they collect. #EndangeredData

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I also work with students and scholars who are after public data of some sort or another, and the process of finding + tidying + using that data are always harder than it needs to be. #EndangeredData

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My immediate thought is the public affairs folks I work with on campus, who often use government data sources. If you're government were to shut down for, say, a month, that's a lot of data that isn't accessible for people's work. #EndangeredData https://t.co/SaXptWLq05

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But about our community: there's all sorts of data we don't collect about our city that I think would be quite revealing. To take one contentious issue: potholes. Where are they? Which potholes get prioritized by the city? #EndangeredData

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@brianros1 @pastpunditry I have an idea for something that might fit @madebyhistory -- do you prefer an early draft, a pitch, or something else? Thanks!

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My first time to the Grand Canyon was a few years ago with @nbbauch and the crew at @cesta_stanford doing re-photography for a research project that eventually became: https://t.co/77jhlwlzOU. It was an awe-inspiring landscape. https://t.co/kp13zd1Qkv

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As this thread rolls into 140 historians and political scientists, two things: 1) I'm so damn proud to be in this profession with all of you. 2) I'm itching at a chance to join the thread. https://t.co/1PktIHGSd3

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March

Excited to join @digitalHub_CSU next month to talk data visualization and the liberal arts! https://t.co/C01LOYyIwk

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@Zoe_LeBlanc I suppose I can finally make this public since the diss is also public. There's a Makefile here that I used for generating my diss, but I haven't touched most of this since I defended the thing :P https://t.co/CtLLzuJGD2

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@Zoe_LeBlanc (In case my editor is reading: I *have* worked on the book manuscript, just not the diss files.)

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@Zoe_LeBlanc If I recall, there's probably lots of bits that aren't documented or available in that repo (e.g., the acadpaper latex class exists elsewhere in my system, and the dissertation.tex file isn't in the repo). But I could hunt those down if that'd be helpful.

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@AlessandraLink2 @drhonor @megankatenelson @CarolineGrego88 @rebeccawingo @VirginiaScharff @historying @seanfraga IIRC "knickerbocker" was once a colloquial name for a New Yorker, but I'm not sure that quite fits with the sentence you've excerpted above...

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@AlessandraLink2 @drhonor @megankatenelson @CarolineGrego88 @rebeccawingo @VirginiaScharff @historying @seanfraga It appears in _The Knickerbocker_ in 1839: https://t.co/E77FjbID8k

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@LWieck No wonder I was so grumpy this morning. It wasn't the six inches of snow, it was the lack of readings I sensed.

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@scott_bot Can I join your presidential campaign? I can’t promise and foreign contacts, but I make pretty good coffee.

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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say I wouldn’t be where I am or who I am without the web. #Web30

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I learned HTML and built my first website around 1997, which led me to become a freelance web developer for a number of years, and later applied those skills to #digitalhumanities.

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The web opened an amazing world to me: access to a wide range of music; ICQ and IRC introduced me to awesome people and communities; I found a voice as a writer, and a place to find and create art.

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I loved the web and, despite its warts, still love it. I loved that I continued to find a voice on Twitter and blogs, learned everything I could about design and development, and thrilled at the potential of digital history.

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It’s a messy place with plenty of problems, but I wouldn’t trade any moment here. It’s worth keeping, defending, and improving.

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I’m thrilled to see this interactive scholarly work released. I played a very, very small part in the work, and was in awe of the vision @clured brought to this. Congrats to everyone involved! https://t.co/Z7oGARloSF

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@AneliseHShrout My three year old saw this and said “aww I love him” so I guess that means she’ll babysit :)

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@JoshBolick @thomasgpadilla @bpfiedler Greek mythology never could’ve conceived of such delicious awesomeness.

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The good news is starting later this summer I'll get a whole new batch of memories like this. https://t.co/bRvYQhBciH

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“The scholarly journal publishing system is unique in that researchers contribute their articles with no expectation of payment; at the same time, some publishers charge ever-increasing subscription fees, restrict authors’ rights to reuse work, or both.” https://t.co/u5VQcYNwyN

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April

It’s going to be nearly 80 degrees tomorrow. Nebraska, your weather never ceases to baffle me. https://t.co/NE50XtvsHR

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Some of the most important and innovative voices in the field I know come from women. The work of @sharonmleon @SheilaABrennan @nolauren @LWieck @rebeccawingo @s_e_murray @LCChistory @jenguiliano and so, so many others is such an inspiration to me. https://t.co/xrUm9WtjLn

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And so many others have been central to the general field of digital history -- @cncoleman, Paula Findlen, Caroline Winterer, Kelly Schrum, @kalanicraig @ProfessMoravec @HistoriErin @jerielizabeth @khetiwe24 and countless others.

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Men in the field have generally done a horrible job of listening, of understanding the labor, of recognizing the talent and work and innovation and scholarship. It's no surprise that, during most of my training as a grad student, almost everything we read about...

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...the field's origins were about men. And I don't meant to downplay their contributions -- they're important. But large swaths of the field aren't listening to or citing women.

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And finally: many of those I mention above have intersected powerfully with me personally and professionally through their work, mentorship, and friendships -- there's no way I'd be doing what I do or who I am without them.

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Hear, hear. @pfzenke and I once discussed the "levels" of writing on the now defunct @firstdraftcast: A level (hands on a keyboard), B level (synthesizing notes), and C level (notes and reading). It's all writing. https://t.co/aP6osHqKYB https://t.co/ryCDUkfOWx

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By the way, @sharonmleon's essay on returning women to digital history is essential: https://t.co/R5KkE3raSE

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@berincole Not really related, just to say I was in Ft Collins last week and tried a Sad Panda Coffee Stout and I really wish I’d brought some home.

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One of my favorite projects I contributed to while at Stanford. Congratulations, all! https://t.co/SXK74osqzD

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Bummed not to be at #ASEH2019. One of the great things about Twitter is following conferences from afar, so thanks for all the tweets everyone!

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The place in California where they make computers cut down a lot of trees and poisoned the water. https://t.co/WUyJUyJP5l

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@jduss4 Agreed -- salary is obviously a major consideration for any applicant. But I'm the same as you -- I'll lose interests if I can't find it (or, if I have to do the work to find it).

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Anytime I teach programming, I tell people Google and Stack Overflow are our best friends. I think most people think I’m joking, but I’m really not. https://t.co/iXynk1NxmE

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@rebeccawingo @LWieck @s_e_murray @sharonmleon @SheilaABrennan @nolauren @LCChistory @jenguiliano https://t.co/7PPpyE1AUp

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Every once in a while, I come back to this thread on research practices. So much great advice. https://t.co/LKsVraD8sV

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1. Landscaper (HS, College) 2. Music store (HS) 3. Lawn irrigation install foreman (College) 4. Museum aide (College) 5. Teaching assistant (grad school) https://t.co/loYlm4g2lk

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I miss living in California every day. I study Silicon Valley, I write about this place almost every day. The housing crisis is a key point in my book. None of this is sustainable, it's not built for people.

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@rcmidura It is the new Scrivener, yes! I had no issues with the import, but I did keep the first edition of Scrivener around just in case (and made a backup of the .scriv file just in case).

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I write about places that are utterly transformed when they become popular and asks who that leaves out. This piece by @annehelen is fantastic, raising this issue for Waco in the wake of Fixer Upper: https://t.co/TInw9a8UUt

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Thrilled to make my @madebyhistory debut on what Silicon Valley taught us about drinking water safety https://t.co/QepDEC2avT

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"Activists cannot only successfully raise awareness about the [environmental] challenges communities face, but can also recast what is perceived as pollution and risk." My take at the @washingtonpost's Made by History section https://t.co/QepDEC2avT #twitterstorians

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Painters came today and rooms are enclosed with plastic sheets. I basically feel like I’m starting a potato farm from The Martian. https://t.co/U5vlpynNn4

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May

"It’s the time year for watery eyes and itchy noses, and if you’re among the afflicted, you may be surprised to learn that decades of botanical sexism in urban landscapes have contributed to your woes." https://t.co/tBb6L2Gcqb

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The Holland Computing Center teaches @swcarpentry as part of their outreach, to get people started with Bash, Git, and R/Python. #NUSymp19

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The HCC introduced their Jupyter Hub to help alleviate the clunkiness of doing data analysis from the command line. Now code can be written and executed in online notebooks instead. #NUSymp19

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While I agree with the general thrust of this piece that the Mountain West is growing in electoral importance, it doesn't account for how ideologies are changing the region. A few quick thoughts: https://t.co/6TT9oxfrDX

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As the piece notes, the Sunbelt is growing rapidly and Western states have led the way (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah had the fastest growing counties in the US between 2017 and 2018). https://t.co/QmfYnfmSAJ

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Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada are now possible flips in presidential elections, as even the Trump campaign concedes. https://t.co/7c54JDeKId

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But it's here that the pieces loses the thread. Because it doesn't fully tackle with the changing political realities of the region. The growth occurring in western states aren't just happening in a vacuum, they're growing because people are migrating.

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The greatest influx of migrants coming to Colorado, for example, are arriving from California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and Illinois, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Missouri, and New Mexico. [pdf] https://t.co/WIDkRnluTw

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Migrants to the Mountain West tends to be younger, middle-income earners, and college educated. https://t.co/96VDJmDre0 https://t.co/CEV67aioL6

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Places like Colorado can, seemingly, have strange politics: selecting the GOP for the Senate, but electing Hickenlooper, a Democrat, as a second term governor in 2014. Or Montana, which voted for Trump by 20.5 points but elected Democratic Governor Steve Bullock.

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The constituencies of the West are changing, and this piece doesn't really reflect on that. Migrants are coming from places that are dependably Democratic or have been trending that way for some time. Of course their politics will reshape the region's political culture.

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It also does a poor job recognizing minority populations either already present or likewise migrating. When the writer claims descendance from pioneers, they're not talking about Latinos for example. https://t.co/pZZmlzUObc

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The piece claims a "libertarianish" viewpoint and points to "less [aversion] to gun rights," "restrictions on trade or mobility," concern about "wilderness and the ability to use land to generate income," about "civil liberties," and "skeptical of government."

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But how does all of this begin to change as the demography of the Mountain West changes? As Democratic-leaning voters continue to migrate to the West's urban centers? As Latinos migrate to western states? As people flee the expenses of California for Utah or Nevada?

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I don't disagree that such "libertarianish" views exist, and perhaps are more apparent in the West than other regions. But it's not just population growth and changes to Electoral College that effect the Mountain West.

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All these people and their politics are coming from *somewhere*, and that's going to markedly shift these "libertarianish" values.

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A group calling itself Grass Roots, an environmentalist group particularly focused on criticizing Stanford's land use policies, was noting in 1969 a jobs-housing imbalance was pushing lower-income earners out. https://t.co/fSdPC4RxqH

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During the heyday of urban expansion in the 1950s, few thought Santa Clara Valley would fill up: "The great expanse of the valley and surrounding foothills gives elbow room to the individual worker after a day's labor." https://t.co/Ok7Jprd6Ew

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This blew up a little, so a request: if anyone seeing this was active with Grass Roots in the 60s/70s, I’d love to talk!

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The cities that are best for bikes: 1. Boulder, Colorado 2. Fort Collins, Colorado 3. Eugene, Oregon 4. Manhattan, New York 5. Arlington, Virginia https://t.co/zShqCIJ6K0

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It’s #BikeToWork week! Go support @ModeShiftOmaha and let’s keep advocating for transit alternatives in Omaha.

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@scott_bot @ReclaimHosting Same here. I can't believe how often I get a response within thirty minutes (usually, less!) of asking a question.

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There's a lot of room for improving Omaha's bike infrastructure, especially for commuting. https://t.co/i0bfOIx6E7 https://t.co/GPFeCr92Oj

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@VirginiaScharff @HC_Richardson I listened to the first season of the Drilled podcast on a drive to Fort Collins a month ago, and they dove into some of this history, too. Pretty interesting/infuriating. https://t.co/AqTC2uaILq

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@csbailey5t @thomasgpadilla Do you do any teaching of R with Jupyter? I've been using RMarkdown "worksheets" that I do with people during workshops in RStudio. But I've been thinking about running an R kernel in Jupyter to take advantage of the interactiveness.

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@cbgoodman I think the line chart gives a better sense of scale, but "city" and "school districts" are hard to differentiate. And "county" at first glance looks like a baseline given its relative lack of change.

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@cbgoodman The stacked chart is good, but the "count" on the y-axis doesn't make sense (it looks like, e.g., "school districts" drop from over 110,00 to just below 80,000).

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I have so many questions about this document, produced by Stanford in 1962. For what purpose I'm not entirely sure yet, but the questions asked of the university are amazing. https://t.co/5o2H30vtE1

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“…every time I catch up with someone I don’t see every day, the conversation inevitably turns to how long each of us is planning to stay — the subtext being, that clearly leaving is an inevitability.” https://t.co/sKbW4qhoel

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Just this morning I had to look up how to set up a remote git branch for a local repo. I also had to google how to get a gulp task to work. https://t.co/aIIzvrAvN6

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“Almost everyone I know is down on San Francisco these days, and for good reason. Few can envision a future here. The city is undergoing an accelerated identity transformation.” https://t.co/7VhE5TIXA4

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Joseph Priestley, creator of groundbreaking data visualizations and the La Croix I’m drinking. https://t.co/iNpjXBq43w

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The United States as viewed by California -- a smiling sun shining down on California, while dark rainclouds cover a compressed and distorted map of the nation. Created in the 1940s by Ernest Chase. https://t.co/5uzZRQdY66 https://t.co/txSZGO5417

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"Oakland is booming again. But public entities seem to have lost the ability to shape the city as a civic environment." https://t.co/q3HTutvxta

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"We will be living with climate change forever. It is heavy as hell. But we must get used to it—and then figure out what to do next. And next. And next." https://t.co/iCaApkoSmP

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“Stanford is sending an incredibly discouraging message to all of its humanities and social sciences graduate students who are either writing their dissertations right now, will do so, or are preparing to defend their work.” https://t.co/Uv9L5Skb0k

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@rebeccawingo @berincole *wanders over in earshot but pretends to keep sipping coffee so it doesn’t appear I’m eavesdropping on an interesting conversation*

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A counterpoint to the "San Francisco is now terrible" narrative: "But it’s ridiculous to celebrate a mythic golden era, when the city has been a coexisting constant of highs and lows throughout time." https://t.co/CiEyVt4VEZ

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Over the past month and a half, I managed to take about three paragraphs of my dissertation and expand it into nearly a chapter's worth of content. For the better.

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The good news is I'm probably about to do the same to another section after, finally, tracking down some material on a group I knew existed but had a hard time finding in the archives (primarily because they chose a helpful name: Grass Roots).

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@brandontlocke I use to, but don't anymore -- I think I removed it when I start pulling Google analytics off of my stuff.

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It's always interesting when one's research manages to intersect with names familiar to our current politics. https://t.co/b7pa6LnRfa

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June

“Yesterday, we were disappointed to learn that The North Face … unethically manipulated Wikipedia. They have risked your trust in our mission for a short-lived marketing stunt.” https://t.co/W3OipNOKCH

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“Vigilante and civilian patrol groups like the M.C.D.C. have existed for as long as the frontier has existed; the difference is that the perceived enemy is no longer Native Americans but undocumented immigrants” https://t.co/A0rgcKVcFL

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@rcmidura @EpistolaryBrown @khetiwe24 For point data, can’t go wrong with Palladio (https://t.co/flMQeLLt0N). For polygons, you’ll need something more advanced. Leaflet could do map + time slider (https://t.co/G8KzTLj2fd ) but you’ll be writing code.

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@rcmidura @EpistolaryBrown @khetiwe24 There’s lots of great methods on @ProgHist, too: https://t.co/FCJvyDYmWE

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@quinnanya @rcmidura @EpistolaryBrown @khetiwe24 @tableau Ack, I always forget that university affiliates perk. Thanks!

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@EpistolaryBrown @rcmidura @khetiwe24 Palladio has that kind of feature, where you can drag across a span of time to have points appear/disappear. Not automatic though. And if you need something more stand-alone, digging into Leaflet might be a good option.

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@brandontlocke @sharonmleon @tropy Every time I teach a library instruction session, I mention Tropy and Zotero. So many minds blown.

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It's agonizing to discover archival material I'd like to look at @StanfordArchive and @bancroftlibrary when I don't live out there anymore. #amwriting

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@TGAColorado @LWieck I did the same thing. It’s excruciating and I sometimes wonder who wrote this drivel. But it was really helpful.

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@rcmidura @StanfordArchive @bancroftlibrary I’ll keep that in mind — I might be able to get hands on some research funds.

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@StanfordArchive Would you digitize an entire folder? I don’t know what’s in the folder(s) I’m interested in seeing.

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@StanfordArchive box 68, folder 19 Mid-Peninsula Planning Study, 1971 box 99, folder 32 Midpeninsula Regional Park Dist., 1971-1976 https://t.co/KjMymzcdF6

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Any #rstas folks know if there's an RStudio add-in for click-and-add annotation() to a map created with ggplot so I don't have to tweak numbers to get something in *just* the right spot? (cc @dataandme)

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As someone from the midwest who once scoffed at Bay Area "heat waves" but then lived there for four years, this is accurate: https://t.co/HuOkQE2Dqk

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If you could do one thing to make the internet a safer, more inclusive place for everyone, what would you do? Bring your ideas to #mozfest and join the movement for #internethealth: https://t.co/qmSKkwgecs

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Public historians: interested in attending @WhaHistory but lack institutional support? Apply to the Louise Pubols Public History prize. Deadline June 15! https://t.co/apL23j77rX #publichistory

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@megankatenelson There’s a taco joint here that serves gator in one of their choices and I’ve always been curious but never committed.

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@pastpunditry (I’m in the midst of trying to decide if I should cut a whole section from my manuscript and it’s KILLING me. So, it’s on my mind.)

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#rstats friends: Is there a way to reposition the facet strip from the lefthand side to become the title for each row in a #ggplot2 facet_grid? I'm thinking of this as a way to handle long titles instead of shrinking font sizes/wrapping text.

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@AneliseHShrout I have two syllabi from a few years ago (https://t.co/Qbk7Ys0dpK), and (https://t.co/VT76EC474Y), plus a directed readings I recently taught (https://t.co/xC1WZt7Hb9). I also have a comps list I put together a couple years ago (https://t.co/COlR49MjGQ).

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@AneliseHShrout Couple quick notes: the comps list was, obviously, for a grad student. The two Stanford syllabi had grad students in mind, but were designed for undergrads. The directed readings was for undergrads. In case you're making distinctions :)

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@AneliseHShrout Oh that reminds me: UNL has some undergrad and grad syllabi here for classes taught by @wgthomas3 and @dougseefeldt https://t.co/WMZWfG7eWX

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@AneliseHShrout Sounds like a really interesting project! I've been thinking a lot about how we teach DH, what works/doesn't work. I need to find time to write my thoughts up once this pesky manuscript is off my desk...

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I just whipped up a small geolocation web app for a course I'm working with this Fall, in case anyone has a need to find the lat/lon of where they're standing/sitting: https://t.co/ernDQyFNFK

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Okay #rstats: Why does my bar chart have these lines in them, but only when created in an Rmd file? (I don't get the lines if I create the graphic in the plot pane). https://t.co/S0XjKitlZX

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@d_olivaw No worries, thanks for the suggestion! I'll keep hunting for an answer and let you know what I find.

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#twitterstorians: I'm after some works on American political history and gender dynamics/discrimination to help me situate some of what I'm writing about in 1960s/1970s San Jose. In particular, I'm writing about moves by the city council to isolate female council members 1/2

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such as bypassing a tradition of rotating mayor/vice mayor positions; and going so far as to lock one of the female council members out of the chambers entirely. Eager to hear any suggestions! (cc @womnknowhistory) 2/2

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Inspired by @emilybadger and @qdbui showing where single family zoning is prohibited in several US cities, I decided to try and reproduce that work for Omaha. Pink is zoned for single family; green for multifamily. Original article: https://t.co/hodlQOZ21b https://t.co/K2QtYGQ1l3

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Even near Omaha's commercial areas--Dundee, Benson--there exists few transit or multifamily housing options. Midtown is perhaps the exception. But the city could certainly build up transit and housing options to bring folks closer together. Red points here are bus stops. https://t.co/avNIZzTP6P

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Omaha isn't exactly known as a walkable or bikeable city. But it could become so, and given the city's growth in recent years in tech, financial services, and medical fields it's certainly a developing place. It's what people want. https://t.co/8qopFUOjuz

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@cbgoodman I need to do the math yet, I'm curious what percentage of Omaha's land is taken up by single-family homes.

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@HC_Richardson @KevinMKruse @kinseyholley @jbf1755 You should check out James Ronda's work: https://t.co/Z8PZQU4SSf

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This site has been noted by the @EPA as a hazardous area in the past. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, the pesticide company Rhone-Pulenc/Zoecon operated a facility here that included manufacturing operations, a sludge pond, and chemical storage. /2

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Also near the site was Call-Mac, a site that once stored hazardous waste drums. An investigation by new site owners in 1980 found arsenic in the soil and groundwater, thanks to improper handling of pesticides. Just north was Romic, an industrial waste disposal facility. /3

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The three purple points here are the three sites: north is Romic; near Weeks and Pulgas, Call-Mac; at University and Runnymede, Rhone-Pulenc. https://t.co/FBi3y5UknX /4

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In 1981, the State of California ordered the removal of over one thousand drums and 25 cubic yards of contaminated soil beneath Rhone-Pulenc; for three years groundwater monitoring wells were operated by the EPA. The extent of contamination was fairly widespread. /5 https://t.co/2EqHEjPMop

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A decade later, the state ordered the removal of another 4,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil. And further study found not just arsenic, but mercury, selenium, lead, and cadmium. Yet, the site remained a waste storage and disposal facility up until the mid-1990s. /7

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A bit further north, the Romic waste management facility opened in 1956 to process solvent wastes used by high tech industry. In 1972, tidal flooding breeched wastewater ponds causing 20,000 gallons of waste to dump into the San Francisco Bay. /8

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In 1985, the EPA initiated investigations into Romic and found various volatile organic compounds in the soil including dry cleaning chemicals, carburetor cleaning liquids, paint thinners, and industrial solvents. /9

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Romic, still in operation in 2006, accidentally released 4,000 gallons of chemicals that led the Palo Alto police to issue a shelter-in-place order. The EPA fined the company $20,000 for failing to notify the agency of the problem. /10

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Romic faced a formidable challenge from the community, specifically from a group calling themselves Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) which emerged to argue that Romic's presence constituted evidence of environmental racism. /11

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YUCA documented heightened risks for the predominantly black community of E. Palo Alto, noting higher rates of cancer and asthma. One of their studies found as many as one-out-of-four 13-to-21 year olds suffered rates far higher than the rest of San Mateo County. /12

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In 2006, the same year the EPA fined the company for its accidental release of chemicals, an explosion at Romic severely burned employee Frolian Chan-Liongco. It took Romic six hours to get him medical attention. /13

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In 2005, YUCA filed a civil suite against Romic and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, arguing that the failure to hold Romic to safety standards constituted environmental racism. A year later, the city council voted to revoke Romic's operating permit. /14

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In 2007, the state acted and formally revoked the company's permit. The company closed down shortly after. These sites--Romic, Call-Met, and Zoecon--are still contaminated and under continued remediation. /15

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Silicon Valley continues to live with this history, and this doesn't even touch on some of the potential issues wrapped up in this plan, namely traffic and competition with the existing school district.

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One other thing that stands out, but I didn't mention in this thread: given the effects of climate change, is it really the best move to be building schools near a coastline not designed to hold back ocean waters? /1 https://t.co/qasPawKQey

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The California Water Board and the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) published an "adaptation atlas" earlier this year noting the probable effects of sea levels rising. https://t.co/ZTcT6nQlih /2

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East Palo Alto, like much of the Bay Area shoreline, will be under water. And while it appears the Chan school is serving a worthy goal for high-need children, the area needs to be thinking about the future as well. /3 https://t.co/hQJt1hGGCM

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And this is where @JooBilly's argument comes into focus: the solution isn't going to just come down to sea walls and built environments to contain water. Confronting the effects of climate change will mean massive, structural change and resettlement. https://t.co/y12XRkTE4s /4

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You take that and I'll take the West's urban spaces. We'll start a vlog series called History Hikes. https://t.co/3CanBXUxju

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Truth. I lived in the place I write about for four years, and there are certainly insights gleaned from my time on/in its streets, trails, sidewalks, bike paths, and community spaces that no archive could've given me. https://t.co/5QSAOESPGu

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Susan Schulten explains how the Paris Peace maps in the aftermath of World War I were made https://t.co/G1ne6oTwTD

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I’m old enough to remember when Bret Stephens thought electing Obama would mean America forgetting 9/11 https://t.co/YWDsN12GNP

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@andrewheiss I think there are wire adapters you can pick up pretty cheap for cases like that. I didn’t have one for our Ecobee but it came with its own adapter.

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@berincole So great. One of San Jose’s city managers from 1954-1968 once hoped to see the city become the LA of the north, which hit against the same slow- and anti-growth politics in 1970s California. Some of that emerged from genuine environmental concern, some from exclusionary politics.

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Public historians, take note! Lack institutional support to attend the @WhaHistory Annual Conference? Applications to the Louise Pubols Public History Prize to help offset travel expenses are open until August 1. Come join us in Vegas this year! https://t.co/5PJa8bbjeY

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No low income housing, but BART gates will crush your head if you try to jump the fare. https://t.co/FofqlniQNm

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Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier future https://t.co/PB8C7UIbIZ via @ConversationUS

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@DavidAstinWalsh (Here I mean McNeill's _Something New Under the Sun_). Fiege's _Republic of Nature_ might also work, but it's US-centric.

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Last week we gave birth to a healthy, beautiful daughter no. 2. Also, I sent off a draft of my manuscript. Big week.

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This comes just days after an announcement that due to budget cuts, the EPA will no longer track bee colony collapses. https://t.co/8frFdDPuPc

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@Elijah_Meeks Hey, at least you’ll probably get a watch right away instead of when you retire in thirty years.

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@berincole Like, sure. Open space is great! Let’s celebrate that achievement! But come on, how can you look at the history of the Bay’s environmental movement and conclude it’s a resounding success because there’s a bunch of conserved land.

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@LWieck @margaretomara If Ron Swanson can remodel a whole floor with an infant, I can read while rocking one. 📚

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Virginia Commonwealth University is after a public historian with digital history experience: https://t.co/3ERTbbefu3

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@berincole That’s right up there with my note on a folder that says “not relevant, not photographed”….only to realize later it was, in fact, relevant.

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Bring it on. Everyone else: stay hydrated and inside. If you don’t have AC, go to your local library. https://t.co/FhEOgJ8MlZ

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I won't be at #ACH2019 this week (new infant means I'm in no travel mode for a while), but I'll be following from afar!

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@Elijah_Meeks @AlbertoCairo @chezVoila @datavisFriendly Out of curiosity: at what point is the field no longer in its infancy? And what makes it “infant” if data viz has a history that we can trace, at least, to the sixteenth century?

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@Elijah_Meeks @AlbertoCairo @chezVoila @datavisFriendly Gotcha. I tried to historicize the field once but didn’t love what I produced. And I still have plans for studying how historians specifically have been data viz creators/adopters. Maybe I’ll have some small contribution to this some day.

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@Jasonforrestftw @Elijah_Meeks @AlbertoCairo @chezVoila @datavisFriendly I mean, I have a pile of journal articles over two centuries that I intend to mine for this. Just that pesky lack of time… 😆

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Glad to see outLANDish hard at work on season 3. If you care about public lands, be sure to give it a listen. https://t.co/BPoe7JJW2L

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"[The border is] a region that's home to parents and tíos and abuelas, of comadres and primos, of people raising their families, of people enduring, of people falling in and out of love, of people dreaming their own dreams. This is the border of my youth." https://t.co/ub7MtcMOS0

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So far, Bernie, Bullock, Williamson, Delaney, and Castro have committed to showing up. https://t.co/cybha3dDgW

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Hey. Historian here. We got this covered, fellas, if you'd care to pick up a couple books. Also: what do you mean by progress? https://t.co/lzTMEeMm0c

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@VirginiaScharff We just picked one of ours yesterday, too! Looks similarly sized. We were worried we'd hardly get anything after an early summer hail storm shredded our plants.

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@LeahRigueur @KevinMKruse @ClintSmithIII That said, I find it super adorable when my toddler tries to sing "Let It Go" but just repeats "let it go" over and over.

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I eagerly look forward to reading @annehelen’s newsletter each week. You should definitely sign up: https://t.co/CTle0dpuLZ

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@AppleSupport Any pointers as to why my Notes syncs are so different between my iPhone and my iPad? https://t.co/1lZhAcN28B

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@AppleSupport Brand spanking new (as of Sunday!) iPad Air. iPhone 6S. All running the latest iOS 12 versions. IIRC I was one of the crazy ones who tried an Evernote import way back when Notes got its overhaul. I thought I'd deleted most of that, though. I'll check online iCloud now.

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@AppleSupport Looks like the 800+ notes are not in iCloud. But I am also noticing a discrepancy between folder counts among iPhone, iPad, iCloud, and MacBook (I have a work folder on the phone at 282 notes; but much, much smaller amount of notes in iCloud/iPad/macOS).

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@AppleSupport For what it's worth, I don't think there's actually 800 some notes there. Some of that might be from my residual Evernote import. Also, I'd have to backup some newer notes, but I'm completely open to nuking Notes and starting fresh if that's somehow an option 😁

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“Public lands are often the only places where Native American sacred landscapes still exist since so much land was lost to conquest and colonization...” https://t.co/p51MYlBqFD

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“…and they are among the few places where Native people can practice their religions, hunt, fish or gather their sacred medicines.”

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Great thread on using digital history to visualize 19th century Customs ledgers in the Pacific Northwest. https://t.co/Hz2v08lHoT

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@seanfraga Hey Sean! I chair the WHA tech committee and we run a lighting talk on digital history every year at the annual conference. Would you be interested in participating? I can email you details.

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Wait until he finds out who was responsible for the infrastructure of the Internet. https://t.co/TYUnl93ORn

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@parezcoydigo Don’t tell @MWChilders because I have a book to finish for him first, but the next project on my mind is an environmental history of mountain biking and public lands. Which is to say, I’m eating up your syllabus. Looks like a fantastic class!

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Very cool work on public lands + public history + digital history + environmental history. https://t.co/oDN5pbSLKv

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Finally getting around to listening to Bundyville 2 by @Leah_Sottile. Essential listening on white supremacy and domestic terrorism. Painfully timely. https://t.co/W8edRGaG5S

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I’ve never considered what a cicada’s sound looked like in writing. Spot on, NPS. https://t.co/y9w9cRFzSD

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“You can afford to live in a shipping container!” is…not a winning political message, me thinks. https://t.co/ud4a0sFtre

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The Midwest stops along the ND-SD-NE-KS borders, where the Northern Great Plains begin, which then gives way to the Intermountain West. #fightme https://t.co/P4Zg2rN5ya

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@annehelen My daughter’s favorite toys right now are those Happy Meal Barbies from the ‘90s, handed down from my cousin and my sister.

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Late night infant rocking means catching up on films and documentaries. So far: - Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse - Avengers: End Game - Spider-Man: Homecoming - Dawn Wall - Drive to Survive

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Can anyone identify the font @curatescape uses in their speech cloud logo? https://t.co/PxEpY6CUzR #publichistory #twitterstorians

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@larrycebula Oh! I’m on a travel moratorium due to a new baby at home, so I’ll need to hope for (or plan?) a future one.

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Hard nope. @rebeccawingo @anwils1 @ProfSeanMK @BrendenWRensink @brentrogers2121 @brandontlocke @briansarnacki @historyequals and so many others I'm failing to tag here have become my best of friends. And so many others in our cohort never put competition above collegiality. https://t.co/QoZJpZ9h0w

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I've had to add an "American West" playlist to my podcast app. Currently includes @nativeapprops's All My Relations, @Leah_Sottile's Bundyville, @amywestervelt's Drilled, @NewBooksAmWest, @Poli_Climate, @rangepodcast, This Land, and @WritingWest.

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@rebeccawingo @rvoss @BrendenWRensink @anwils1 @ProfSeanMK @brentrogers2121 @brandontlocke @briansarnacki @historyequals Hear, hear. Rob, you, Dave, Nathan, and others of your cohort made me feel immediately welcome at UNL. Thank you.

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@abbymullen @HerbertHistory Specific to L&C, James Rhonda's work still holds up pretty well I think https://t.co/Z8PZQTNhtF

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@katebcarp @NativeApprops @Leah_Sottile @amywestervelt @NewBooksAmWest @Poli_Climate @rangepodcast @WritingWest I use Overcast, been using it for a few years now and remain happy with it. https://t.co/nzaeeMpTAY

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@ProfSeanMK @rebeccawingo @brandontlocke @anwils1 @BrendenWRensink @brentrogers2121 @briansarnacki @historyequals https://t.co/Ar5loiRzyx

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@ProfSeanMK @brandontlocke @rebeccawingo @anwils1 @BrendenWRensink @brentrogers2121 @briansarnacki @historyequals https://t.co/3D0DJuncE1

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.@unomaha students, welcome to the start of the school year! Stop by the Milo Bail Student Center between 11-1 to register to vote! https://t.co/JWJy7goWmR

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We’re registering voters again today from 11-1, @UNOmaha students! Stop by the Pep Bowl and sign up! https://t.co/fxxrHX7R7e

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@TimLombard0 Looks like a garden spider to me. Should be fine if you leave her alone. https://t.co/4yxscPO2gF

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I have a jar of Hatch chilies from Traders Joes at home, and now I really wish I could break into them. Right now. https://t.co/ZGz0D4oPNr

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@LWieck @s_e_murray Hmm. I’ve added this to my reading list, but (having not read it yet) I’d counter that space isn’t what describes human experiences. It’s how successive cultures come to define “place” as it’s encountered, renegotiated, defined. & how power shapes who gets to define.

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@LWieck Lefebvre: “Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space. Because space, which seems homogeneous, which appears as a whole in its objectivity ..., is a social product.”

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I get the sense he's not a fan of underground industrial waste storage regulations. https://t.co/lA17ey892I

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@tsmullaney @mattwaite Bingo! Scrivener. One of my favorite things is the ability to set project targets and track how I’m doing.

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@rebeccawingo Honestly, usually a few hours on Friday’s, some evenings, and some weekend evenings. And coffee.

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@rebeccawingo Of course, now I’m going after rewriting the introduction and I keep asking myself what the hell this book is about 😬

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For some reason I’m already thinking about my next book. One thing I hadn’t anticipated until today was the arrival of electric bicycles on public lands. So, adding this to the research files for the Future Project. https://t.co/NFTMj5b5hD

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Been thinking of and re-reading Hal Rothman lately, and his claim that he approached writing history as a full contact sport keeps coming back to my mind as I work through book edits.

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@Zoe_LeBlanc I have a consultation with a student today, and I'm after a more user-friendly way to map. I'll probably point to (what else?) Palladio. But for my stuff these days, yeah! Still rocking some D3 + Leaflet approaches, but I've also been super interested in keppler.

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For what it's worth, I have a small list of mapping resources here: https://t.co/aki2UFS14c. Curious about what else to include!

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@danbenjamin Hey Dan! My 3.5 yr old daughter is interested in Spider-Man right now. Might be too early, but any suggestions for shows/movies/comics that might be age appropriate?

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@margaretomara @JakeAnbinder As somebody who no longer has easy access to mountains (at least, for now) I appreciate the tic. Access to public lands was one of my favorite things about living in California. #sorrynotsorry

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{\__/} ( • . •) / > 📕yes, let's talk about history {\__/} ( • - •) 📕< \ wait, you want to discuss something O'Reilly wrote? {\__/} ( o-o) / > 📚let's start with these

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@akiltykramer I was just thinking the other day about ties between environmentalism and extremism, except in regards to Ted Kaczynski.

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@akiltykramer Yep, that kind of thing. He's all over in the pages of the Earth First! newsletters, for example. He'd grown particularly frustrated by developments near his off-the-grid cabin in Montana. His brand of eco-anarchism is why EF! considered him a political prisoner. https://t.co/dodgCNRfLl

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"[A]n unsigned press release from 'NOAA' that inappropriately and incorrectly contradicted the NWS forecaster. . . . was not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political." https://t.co/0NkyuhebjY

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@akiltykramer @MWChilders and I have a (dormant but hope to revive soon) project on Earth First! we've discussed, using digital history and the journals to explore places/themes. I need to finish my Silicon Valley book first ;)

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@scott_bot I love (worry? fear? what even anymore) that we posted the same quote at almost exactly the same time.

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Today in the @nytimes, visualizing the historic flooding across the Midwest: https://t.co/GharYzwzmn https://t.co/rNaCnxdJSc

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.@cgpgrey fell down a rabbit hole exploring how Staten Island became part of New York. The video also works as a great example of how historical research proceeds. https://t.co/PLDw2oHD6m

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@kjhealy Do you bother much with generating slides out of Rmarkdown or similar? I seem to go back and forth -- if its a talk/workshop about R, I seem to just do it all in RStudio. But Keynote is so much better for design.

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Totally the case for me, too. Exhilarating in the moment, but teaching wipes me out. https://t.co/JXi81VVF8Y

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Let's start here. This is, of course, present-day San Jose. Part of what I'm interested in looking at is how patterns established in the past continue into the present. /2 https://t.co/3ZUG5DErOY

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We know this to be the case for lots of topics. I'm especially interested in how urban policies play out over time. We know, for example, that HOLC ratings from the 1930s continue to influence urban patterns and policies today. https://t.co/dTTU1MG3LN /3

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So: here's San Jose and its HOLC ratings. Green is 'A,' or the highest rating; blue is 'B' or the next highest rating; yellow is a 'C' rating and considered, by HOLC, to be undesirable; and 'D' is the worst rating, considered by HOLC to be the worst areas of a city. /4 https://t.co/ssxZO9DesZ

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What I want to try and understand is how urban policies in the 1960s were influenced by such maps (and the racial thinking that went into them). As the map above shows, HOLC considered the majority of San Jose to be undesirable. /5

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How does that belief persist? In 1958, the planning department issued the city's first Master Plan in several decades. One topic the department focused on was what they considered "blight." The map they produced tacks pretty closely to the HOLC's undesirability ratings. /6 https://t.co/MzLHx80OlB

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Just as important to the blight map, however, is the location of the area's Latinx barrios. These barrios, the black points in the map here---Sal si Puedes, Los Calles, Posole, Piojo, and others---all fall within the city's map of blight. /7 https://t.co/9EosOmMCXx

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There's still a lot I plan to do with this map (historic roadways; extent of freeways at the time; demographic and Census statistics). But these three maps alone tell a pretty interesting story of San Jose. /8

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While it's not shown in these maps, San Jose sprawled outward quickly, mostly to the west and south (as I show here https://t.co/ps9HB8xYeA). Thanks to FHA financing, the city followed the same trajectory as so many others: build outward, ignore downtown and inner cities. /9

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The bulk of that suburban construction was sold to middle-class whites arriving to work in the area's burgeoning high-tech industries. Latinxs were largely segregated in East Side; blacks to northern San Jose; and Asians to the south and east. /10

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That the city's own planners felt blight so closely aligned with minority neighborhoods is not particularly surprising, but placing that phenomenon on a map is no less arresting. Nor is it particularly surprising to see the HOLC map line up pretty closely with the blight map. /11

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As far as San Jose's planners were concerned, these were expendable places. The city's plan? To raze these areas so: /12 https://t.co/w3LYhJwpn2

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Out of the city's 12 areas of severe blight, only 2 were chosen for maintenance. The remainder would be razed and redeveloped. /13

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The desire to raze-and-redevelop appears on the present-day map: the location of I-680 curving through the barrios. The barrios were razed in the 1960s to make way for new freeway construction. The freeway displaced Latinx families living in the barrios. /14 https://t.co/rkAR6SVu7m

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This is all to say that public policies have long lives and can persist for longer than it might seem they would. /15

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"The Court’s track record of hostility to environmental regulation, reliance on dubious constitutional interpretation, and arbitrary application of doctrine . . . suggest that climate change legislation would be unlikely to survive judicial review." https://t.co/d9OIsktobJ

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@thomasgpadilla @hralperta ok, I've linked to your project from my README -- glad you've found it useful! https://t.co/n2KiEY3GgW

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@quadrismegistus uh, I hadn't gotten through your thread I guess -- sorry to hear about the break-in, too. that sucks.

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Anyone know if there's a service that archives terms of services? I'm after Facebook's from 2016/2017. No luck with @internetarchive, at least that I could find. #DigitalHumanities

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"As we burn through our common ecological inheritance at the behest of an intransigent economic elite, the past haunts the present, transforming natural cycles and looming ominously over everything to come." https://t.co/rreXH9nnA6

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“Leading economies such as Japan and Australia will not be invited to speak at next week’s crunch UN climate change summit, as their continued support for coal clashes with the demands . . . on climate change.” https://t.co/mlsLGoe0Tq

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I’m still annoyed at North Face for their Wikipedia vandalism marketing stunt, but this is pretty great. https://t.co/WT4MwZLv4T

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@TheTattooedProf Great point. I'm also a bit concerned about the plan's reliance on a natural resource that is contributing to our ecocide.

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@rebeccawingo @kalanicraig @sharonmleon @seth_denbo @jmcclurken @historying @wgthomas3 @ChrisWells_Mac For what it's worth -- probably a bit outdated now. I created this at the request of a grad student: https://t.co/COlR4a3Uyo

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@rebeccawingo @kalanicraig @sharonmleon @seth_denbo @jmcclurken @historying @wgthomas3 @ChrisWells_Mac To your question about comping in DH: I think your irrelevancy concern is spot on, but I also don't think it's a bad thing to have a grounding in theory/method/history of the field.

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@rebeccawingo @kalanicraig @sharonmleon @seth_denbo @jmcclurken @historying @wgthomas3 @ChrisWells_Mac I'm more inclined to think in terms of certificates: a demonstration of skill/experience/specialization that can combine readings + a project.

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@rebeccawingo @anneladyem @historying @kalanicraig @sharonmleon @seth_denbo @jmcclurken @wgthomas3 @ChrisWells_Mac @chnm @HistoriErin @regan008 @jerielizabeth @celeste_sharpe Not to make this more complicated than it already is, but: *which* DH might matter when making a comp list.

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This is, basically, why I don't post pictures of my daughters on Instagram. They can make the decision about sharing their lives online as they grow, but that isn't my decision to make for them. https://t.co/Twkphc12tM

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This is, basically, why I don't post pictures of my daughters online, especially if it shows their face. They can make the decision about sharing their lives online as they grow, but that isn't my decision to make for them. https://t.co/Twkphc12tM

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@nirak I'll admit the things high on my list of specific concerns (privacy; the web; climate catastrophe) and what are probably the usual of safety/learning/development/growth consume me :)

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@historying @kalanicraig @rebeccawingo @seth_denbo @sharonmleon @jmcclurken @wgthomas3 @ChrisWells_Mac we should convene a roundtable or something

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@jduss4 Just as bad, if not worse, around Omaha. Some great bike paths, but commuting by bike is laughable. And I have enough problems with Omaha drivers while I’m in a car; it’s downright terrifying on a bike. Also: anybody who says Nebraska is flat has never biked Omaha’s streets.

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@jduss4 @nirak But also Omaha drivers are The Worst. Out of all the cities I’ve lived in, I’ve never seen so many people use the turning lane as a way to pass “slow” traffic on the left.

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@cbgoodman There's an R package that's designed to do it. I just used it for a research project with a fellow librarian. https://t.co/aI0CiYFwoh

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@RebeccaStavick Our daycare has started holding a prep rally on Friday for the Huskers. Which is so, so Nebraska.

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@hangryhistorian I mean, until deer, bison, cattle, and elk are granted voting rights, maps like that will always be easy to misread.

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@s_e_murray @berincole What's it say about me that I'd take 10" of snow over another day of 90+ degrees and humidity?

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@JakeAnbinder For sure! Unfortunately I cut a lot of open space stuff from my manuscript, in part because I never found the time to get to Berkeley and go through a bunch of material there.

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@JakeAnbinder But definitely a lot of "we want open space for people" types vs. "we want open space to insulate our wealthy community" types.

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@JakeAnbinder Yup. There's some good stuff in the California Tomorrow records at the California Historical Society. I imagine you're running into some of the same names I did (Woods; Erskine; Scott; Stegner; Kent; Heller; Belser; etc.)

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“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” — Ansel Adams

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After a cursory look at RStudio Cloud, it might completely change how I teach #rstats workshops. No more fiddling with someone else's computers.

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“The process of [machine] learning has an outsize environmental impact. . . . the process can emit more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent—nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car” https://t.co/xgiUvyQFSK

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@scott_bot Great thread! I’m teaching a network workshop next month, I’ll be sure to share this with the group.

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@tjoferrell Please tell me this was a joke about the physician John Snow. It's the same joke I use when I talk about data visualization.

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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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@AneliseHShrout @jmcclurken @scott_bot Anyway I poured a prairie bourbon in memory of Glenlivet tonight. 🥃

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@mwidner I’m trying to imagine the marketing meeting for this. ”Remember gushers? Let’s put cocktails in them.”

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @s_e_murray @BrendenWRensink do we really need a reason for whiskey https://t.co/kBb7iLLPJF

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@lwinling @rizzo_pubhist @larrycebula @aaronbcowan @WeickL I’d certainly find both San Jose and Omaha great candidates.

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @s_e_murray After...the... CRAW meeting, in the parlor, with the candelabra https://t.co/dNN7vSlu1Z

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I know it’s been two days, but I’m still scratching my head about these whiskey pods. https://t.co/Mvfif9nmso

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Omaha (pop., 450,238) has no passenger trains except Amtrak (departures are the super convenient 5:14am and 11:05pm), no street cars, and no lightrail, though rapid transit bus is coming soon. https://t.co/SizO560LZw

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Around 13,000 people commute between Omaha and Lincoln every day. There’s few Intercity transit options. Your only real option is to drive on the interstate.

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Omaha has no protected bike lanes, and paths that are somewhat safe for bike commuting are largely in the eastern part of the city. The suburban west has almost no commuter options.

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@VirginiaScharff I was quickly harvesting last night before our impending overnight freeze in two days...

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"By today’s standards, [Yellowstone's 1912] brochure would never make it to the printer, but it was an important first step in what would become a long history of bold and experimental graphic design coming out of the National Parks Service." https://t.co/Dmux0LEP9a

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This is an odd take. After all, most of the power is off in the foothills not the valley floor. Move Google into the redwoods, then, sure, it'd probably be shut off too. https://t.co/1gf87zWRRG

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"Despite growing evidence to the contrary, I continue to believe that an editor’s job—whether at a daily newspaper, a non-academic publishing house, or an academic journal like this one—is to edit." https://t.co/bGJOBiSHBf

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Planning to be at #WHA2019? Stop by our digital history lightning talks on Thursday afternoon! Here's a preview of a few of the projects you'll hear about: https://t.co/Q5bTeweASz

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @s_e_murray @Bri_Theobald @AlessandraLink2 I hope you’ll still count me in. https://t.co/kkM0ehlIYA

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@s_e_murray @rebeccawingo @LWieck @Bri_Theobald @AlessandraLink2 it’s fine I’ll just follow up with this invita...wait https://t.co/DZSlz53suR

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That sound you just heard was the collective groaning of Cold War and global historians. https://t.co/IB8bEFk8Of

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@AlessandraLink2 Oh, for a minute I thought my decision to pack coffee beans and a hand grinder was far inferior to packing adequate alcohol.

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A bit shocked that the panel I’m at doesn’t have a mic. This is just basic accessibility for conference attendees. #WHA2019

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@A_NeedhamNYU @megankatenelson @rebeccawingo I’m on central-but-three-month-old-regularly-waking-me time so I’ll probably be up anyway.

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A blog post will come later this week with higher res images, but some quick take-aways from #wha2019 twitter. (1/4)

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And overall post frequencies aggregated by three-hour increments. Unsurprisingly, the hashtag peaks during the conference. (3/4) https://t.co/eTuqq0729A

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And finally, a semantic network of users -- who at-mentions who, which we can sometimes use as an indication of conversations among users. (4/4) https://t.co/XKe9n8RZVe

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@rebeccawingo @WhaHistory Oh, I have my usual word cloud too — just forgot to include it. I’ll get that up shortly.

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@mattfockler Wish I had a better option for the network that would allow for, e.g., selecting a node and seeing its connections. Might look into other solutions later...

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I don't want to put the cart before the horse, but if #WHA2019 folks are interested in presenting at our digital history lightning round in Albuquerque next year be in touch! I've already gotten a couple of the slots filled.

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@Bri_Theobald @WhaHistory Do you want more? @EMNhistory gave me a whole pile of past @WhaHistory bags a while back.

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I really missed my chance to monetize the hot water and good coffee scarcity at #WHA2019. Somehow I was the only person with a coffee pot in my hotel room. Could've totally undercut the hotel.

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@AdamMSowards Starting out with a quote by John Wayne doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the rest of the piece, either.

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My interests in design, #rstats, and National Parks converge: an R package for color themes inspired by National Parks https://t.co/XXhNwFEWL0

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@JakeAnbinder I always find these arguments so baffling. And maybe it's a confirmation bias, but it often feels like the argument is coming from neo-natives rather than old-timers.

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@JakeAnbinder I think of Hal Rothman, writing on tourism but equally applicable: "The inherent problem of communities that succeed in attracting so many people is that their very presence destroys the cultural and environmental amenities that made the place special." (Devil's Bargains, p. 27)

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@AlessandraLink2 @akiltykramer And ways that the academic system tends to reward that behavior, starting in grad school ("do these things and build your CV! Say yes to everything!"). The feeling of never having enough going on at one time is a terrible feeling.

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@AlessandraLink2 @akiltykramer Hear, hear. I once had someone describe to me a project manager's triangle applied to academia: health, scholarship, and family at each corner, and you could only pick one side of the triangle to occupy. Which, is horrible.

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Ah yes, I remember my Professional Study of History introductory seminar where we learned studying history is just one damn thing after another. https://t.co/pLzw6Bf90N

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@DavidVailPhD @GPR_Journal @unkarchives @cas_unk @UNKHistory @u_nebraska @AgHistorySoc @WhaHistory Congrats, David!

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It finally hit me this morning that I'm getting sick of reading my own book. So, it really is time to hand it off to @akane1066 and @MWChilders once I wrap up my line edits.

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@s_e_murray @LWieck @rebeccawingo @sienriquez @xicanohistorian @WhaHistory Hear, hear to all of this. I always come away from @WhaHistory conferences so wildly energized. Grateful for the friends, new and old, I see each year, and the opportunities for getting and giving mentorship.

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@LWieck Yes! I use Hazel for automating it, e.g.: Any PDFs in my Downloads folder older than 3 days is moved to my main pdf folder (which has all Zotero PDFs) and is tagged to-read. Apps in DL folder are deleted after 4 days. Specific tags auto-file documents. &c. https://t.co/gzFK9wqfsr

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@akiltykramer When we started 5k training a few years ago, we started saying “good job, runner!” or “good job, biker!” to passing and oncoming fellow travelers. We still do that even if we’re driving somewhere, and now our toddler yells it out too.

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One of the reasons I love running #1lib1ref each year — to further enrich what Wikipedia offers. https://t.co/4JvkuGGzKj

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"Why are Americans protected from hazardous laptops, fitness trackers and smartphones — but not when hazardous apps on our devices expose and exploit our personal information? " https://t.co/UMgCrsAtQE

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I never need a tote bag ever again. 1. Subsidized child care. 2. Student travel/stipends. 3. Stocking cap. 4. Reusable water bottle. 5. Stickers and/or patches. https://t.co/um66QFwOgU

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@nirak I got a stocking cap and bottle when I was at the Mozilla Festival last year, and use both of them all the time now. They’re probably the best things I’ve gotten from a conference/summit.

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@nirak Yeah, at some point I guess I don’t need more bottles or hats. Then it becomes the tote bag problem all over again 😝

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.@ewarren’s tax calculator for billionaires includes flow options for Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg. https://t.co/6MLuGrA5wQ

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And yet, the city refuses to build dense multi-family housing that would actually help the environment. https://t.co/ffQUVkldJc

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“The real problem is that Facebook profits partly by amplifying lies and selling dangerous targeting tools that allow political operatives to engage in a new level of information warfare.” https://t.co/ZBbkyNUehA

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"The real problem is that Facebook profits partly by amplifying lies and selling dangerous targeting tools that allow political operatives to engage in a new level of information warfare. Its business model exploits our data to let advertisers aim at u..." https://t.co/olLNIo0ddV

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@miriamkp I’m thinking a lot about this, too. Our campus is seeing phenomenal growth in new data science programs and majors.

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@rvoss @historying @HSGlobalHistory @A_NeedhamNYU @katebcarp @WhaHistory @Compenderizer I stumbled onto this a couple years ago, which surveys the broad history of West-focused video games https://t.co/5LSZVvI2dz

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"Roundup is, in short, just about the last place you might expect to become a nexus of international e-commerce." https://t.co/PLcWuRGtp4

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@jbf1755 @KevinMKruse @craigbrucesmith @arothmanhistory I wondered if the AHA’s decision to not do job interviews at the conference anymore might explain part of it (less urgency to get jobs posted and we’re seeing a lag in the data, not a drop?), but I’m also not really convinced that explains what’s happening here.

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@sferna109 Congratulations! And if I can be so forward: if you’re looking for excuses to attend the @WhaHistory conference, our digital scholarship committee would love to have you present at our DH lightning talks session!

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@berincole This Land. @rebeccanagle Drilled. All My Relations. @NativeApprops Farm to Taber. @SarahTaber_bww The Neighborhood Watch Podcast. The War on Cars. @TheWarOnCars

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“The US Private Sector Job Quality Index (or JQI for short)...a new monthly indicator that aims to track the quality of jobs instead of just the quantity.“ https://t.co/te1qTh4aE8

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“The prevalence of low-quality jobs suggests that there’s still a lot of slack in the labor market—meaning, people could be working more or using their skills more fully than they currently are...”

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“...This is pretty much the opposite conclusion you’d draw from the ultra-low unemployment rate, robust job creation numbers, and other conventional headline data.” I hope we see the JQI in any report on unemployment numbers to better contextualize those figures.

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“The middle class, as our politicians imagine it, has never really existed: It is always in decline, always on the brink of being rebuilt.” https://t.co/aEpgiRUL6P

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I don’t recommend two puppies at once, from experience. But two dogs do make things great. https://t.co/eCCYRYwtSP

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Hey labor #twitterstorians (@ErikLoomis etc.) -- an undergrad is asking about the history on why folks decide to join unions. Bonus points if it's about railroad labor. Any suggestions/pointers?

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Fantastic profile of @jnoisecat: "I'm acutely aware of the fact that in many contexts that I enter, I'm probably the only native person there or has maybe ever even been there." https://t.co/036SF8uC4P

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I've created my first #rstats package: superfundr, a data package of United States Superfund sites. Contributions and suggestions welcome! https://t.co/RaGwnOEpWW

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@matthewdlincoln Ah, thanks! I have a couple additions I want to try and make yet this week, then CRAN is my next step.

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@akiltykramer I've been wanting one of those things for so long, mainly to help keep up with two dogs who shed too much...

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@s_e_murray @LWieck @rebeccawingo @WhaHistory yeah, well, I've already made one for 2030 so https://t.co/28OLEx0z6T

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Echoing this thread. I had a similar experience when I applied for the job at Stanford two days before applications were closing. Never in a million years did I think I’d be at Stanford. https://t.co/HUyZyopP3d

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I’d also say: do this for alt-ac and non academic jobs as well. You might be surprised who bites at your application, and it’s a good experience figuring out how your work and skills fit a variety of gigs.

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@benmschmidt @AneliseHShrout @jtheibault @Ted_Underwood @brandontlocke @ashleystreet I’d be on board for this.

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@mattgemmell I’ve been learning Norwegian through a combo of Duolingo and Mango. Mango isn’t free but I get access through my public library. (I can’t speak to your access from Scotland, but thought I’d throw in the suggestion anyway!)

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@whakkee @mattgemmell Yeah Mango is here. https://t.co/nSHYBQIN5P. If you go to log in, I think it prompts you about finding a subscribing organization. So you might be able to use your public library if you have a library card.

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@whakkee @mattgemmell I think one nice advantage of Mango over Duolingo is the speaker is much clearer, so I can usually understand word pronunciation more easily there.

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Reviewing conference proposals for #DH2020 and, as always, just blown away by the innovative and exciting work y'all are doing.

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@whakkee I just need to get better about knowing the gender and plurality of nouns and I think it’d click better for me.

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“Thousands of miles away, and 138 years later, the Jeannette’s logbooks ... [have] been digitized and uploaded to the web, then transcribed by an eccentric group of citizen-scientists called Old Weather.” https://t.co/2FyWFCiZuC

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Attending a mini zinefest @unolibraries for student finals, covering topics on climate change, water quality and pollution, plastics, deforestation. Really great work.

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At the start of the year, I'm returning to a project on radical environmentalism and some work I've been doing on the eco-anarchist group Earth First!

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Up, uh, first, I have to share: Earth First! member Bart Koehler, dressed as his musical avatar Johnny Sagebrush. Koehler produced "The Earth First! Li'l Green Songbook" in 1981. https://t.co/i1AWi2HUAj

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To pick this back up from yesterday: The Li'l Green Songbook was originally xeroxed sheets of paper, but in 1986 the songbook received its first printing. Among inspirations cited for the songs: James Watt, Edward Abbey, Crazy Horse, Black Elk, Hetch Hetchy, Glen Canyon. https://t.co/dAlvJV0OFM

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By 1986, the songbook also expanded on its original repertoire by Johnny Sagebrush and included additional music from Cecelia Ostrow, Bill Oliver, Greg Keeler, Walkin' Jim Stoltz, John Seed, and Darryl Cherney. Unfortunately, despite plans to produce an LP, one was never made.

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Do I really need to dig this graphic out again? (https://t.co/Ne1eBmQZF4) https://t.co/aD0BRNxzmU https://t.co/wfYZmFZ6Gj

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Someone has a sense of humor: House Un-American Activities Documents, bound in red covers. https://t.co/yIljbf4fSd

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I’m annoyed that the only two female candidates on the debate stage were compelled to ask for forgiveness.

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While we’re hocking books, @rebeccawingo @PaulSchadewald1 and I have one coming out next year. https://t.co/3IfDNZGCgZ

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Empire Strikes Back A New Hope Rogue One Force Awakens The Mandalorian Rise of Skywalker Return of the Jedi Solo Last Jedi Revenge of the Sith Phantom Menace Attack of the Clones Christmas Special https://t.co/Fb2wGOzFZG

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@berincole I just tried this a couple weeks ago, they were on sale here in Omaha. Thought the same thing, I really liked it.

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I’m a Top Reader in @Pocket for 2019! See how many words I read, which articles I saved were popular, and more. https://t.co/Ah9hRXt3xd #MyYearInPocket

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“Now that it’s one franchise among many, ‘Star Wars’ seems timeless, but the original is very much a product of the 1970s” https://t.co/TKGsrjr8ym https://t.co/OMwXhXaguc

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@pashulman In @Apple circles, there’s already a group of developers, podcasters, and journalists that refers to WWDC as “dub-dub,” so you already have some natural allies.

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0. Welcomed our second daughter to the world. 1. Sent off an edited volume to our publisher. 2. Sent off a full manuscript draft to my editor. 3. Taught and mentored amazing, witty, thoughtful students and future historians. https://t.co/YGfk5I0SgS

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Replace the whole breaking and entering, and pastries with homemade cinnamon rolls, and I’m a hard same. https://t.co/XmfGZVpg4H

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Equating your unreasonable work hours for your tech company to MLK and Gandhi is really...something. https://t.co/6kSF9eNsPM

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While I’m glad to see the climate mentioned, the utter collapse of political initiative in mitigating the climate crisis should surely rank higher than it does here. https://t.co/dFpTj6NWLj

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Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis says he is receiving treatment for Stage 4 pancreatic cancer https://t.co/zZl3A9htmx

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@HerbertHistory I picked up a copy to read over the holiday break after listening to his lecture on one of the chapters: https://t.co/gkXQ0hUySN

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@hangryhistorian For what it’s worth, I write this years ago reflecting in what I found valuable about blogging. I think most if it still rings true. https://t.co/i6MkCXiVGg

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“We may look back on the years 2009 to 2019 as the ‘lost decade’ — a time when the world awoke to the reality of climate change only to squander the chance to take the action needed to tackle it.” https://t.co/mqUcBwxDlL

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@jmcclurken I have syllabuses here https://t.co/TX3F9zePjY and here https://t.co/s9la4vP5va. And there’s a comps list and an undergrad directed readings list here: https://t.co/E14f9mYkru

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In the decade: - finished my PhD - lived in California - worked at Stanford - co-edited a book - revised my diss into a book - learned JavaScript and R - became a climate activist - had a kid - moved back to Nebraska - had another kid - bought a house

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January

. @BenSasse, @DebFischerNE, @RepDonBacon As your constituent I ask: do you find this appropriate behavior for the Commander in Chief? Useful rhetoric while our allies and enemies in the world are watching? https://t.co/d8HaYPd024

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Interested in getting started with digital history but unsure of where to begin? Stuck with a thorny issue in an on-going project and looking for advice? Drop by the digital drop-in today from 1:30-3 for help from the experts! #aha18

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Kicking off with Moshik Tempkin, who is contextualizing his reasoning behind his June op-ed about why historians shouldn't be pundits https://t.co/DeHGdcOeno #s106 #aha18

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.@moshik_temkin: Cautions that our historical analogies don't necessarily help explain the present. #s104 #aha18

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.@moshik_temkin: Our primary role is to help the public understand and explain how we've arrived at this present moment. #s104 #aha18

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.@pastpunditry: We bring a historical sensibility to the things we write, even if a column may not be deeply historical. #s104 #aha18

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.@DrIbram: Being open to criticizing our peers, changing our minds, defending ourselves "is the spice of our craft" that goes on to @moshik_temkin's meat and potatoes #s104 #aha18

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Michael Kazin: Worries about Tim Snyder raising "the f-word." Finds fascism as the worst of analogies to describe our moment. #s104 #aha18

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.@moshik_temkin: When you start putting POTUS next to fascists, it can make him look trivial and banal--can be calming, even. Because it creates a gap between what you're trying to warn about and what's actually happening. #s104 #aha18

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@faclngepopulist @Bri_Theobald I think he remains pretty wedded to the idea of Trump-as-Populist. He points out that Trump couldn't force the stop of a book publication, let alone threaten to dissolve institutions like the Congress.

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We're kicking off the digital history drop-in session in the Marriott Coolidge Room. Come stop by for help, advice, and ideas! #aha18

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Can we make arguments with digital history? What do those look like? Join us later today at #s230 #aha18 for our roundtable on arguing with digital history in Omni, Blue Room Prefunction.

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@LauraMorreale @meDHieval The AHA guidelines explicitly state that this should not be the case, which scholars should present their department if they’re asked to do this. Digital projects need to be reviewed on their merits, in their medium. https://t.co/dq3svWieOW

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1) Seeing old friends including @galarzaalex, @rebeccawingo, @nolauren, @jerielizabeth, @HistoriErin, @lincolnmullen, @kalanicraig, @jmcclurken, and others.

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3) Had a great time teaching the network analysis workshop and meeting so many people excited about digital history.

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4) Related, I'm grateful for the conversation at our roundtable on Arguing with Digital History. Thanks to @lincolnmullen and @smrobertson3 for organizing! https://t.co/KMXwfjqPIv

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5) The session on commentary and punditry with @pastpunditry, @moshik_temkin, @mkazin, and @DrIbram was excellent, and has motivated me to find new (and better) ways to engage with the public. https://t.co/er2lDvoQl8

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"To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s like looking up at the star-filled sky." https://t.co/sL9l6S9aF7

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@ffreff Would love to hear your thoughts! We just held a roundtable at the AHA organized by @lincolnmullen and @smrobertson3 to discuss it.

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Wrapping up some finishing touches on a directed readings in digital history syllabus. Looking forward to digging into these readings this semester!

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@ffreff @lincolnmullen @smrobertson3 I fear you’re right that non-DH people might ignore this. But I do hope that junior scholars can use this + AHA digital guidelines to help make their case for promotion and tenure.

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@todoist Is there a bug with due times and travel? I just got back from a trip and my due times (which I didn't adjust to the new timezone) are all over the place (what was once 8pm is now 2am, etc.).

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Good way to kick off 2018: I'm excited to announce that my book, tentatively titled *Suburban by Nature: Silicon Valley and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics*, is under contract with @OUPress!

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@todoist They're all set the same (US/Central). When I try changing it on the web app, I get the following notice. I'll also note that I have a due time for a task today at 4pm that appears on the web app as overdue, but on the iOS apps it's showing the task overdue as of 10am today. https://t.co/Acf2NiXwKu

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@lincolnmullen Heard good things about Sticker Mule, but don't have direct experience with them. Can't help with #2 except for the couple I have left over from my last UseR! conference.

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@rebeccawingo Fire and Fury: Silicon Valley and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics and the Making of Modern America: A History

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@pubhisint Would love to, but I don't know I'll have the funding for that trip. You might also ping @ffreff!

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@netlify I'm using Hugo to generate a static website, the deploy was triggered last night and seems to be stuck at "Uploading." It's been that way for 12 hours. Any ideas why? Thanks!

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I am, sadly, not surprised to see Nebraska on the bottom of this @BikeLeague ranking of bike-friendly states. https://t.co/blaYy6aCFw

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@ffreff @BikeLeague Looks like they explain the method here: https://t.co/IZYW0Nj5B1. Looking at local communities to come up with an overall state-wide ranking.

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@margaretomara @brentcebul @UrbanHistoryA There's also Walker's Country in the City -- while less specifically focused on just the Valley itself, there's some good stuff in there.

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@margaretomara @brentcebul @UrbanHistoryA And I know it's not helpful right at the moment, but @LWieck and I are working on an edited volume aimed at telling a regional history of the urban Bay Area. Just FYI.

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@margaretomara @brentcebul @UrbanHistoryA @LWieck I don't, unfortunately, know of anything right off hand specific to SV and LGBTQ -- I think it's a rather undeveloped piece of the historiography.

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@margaretomara @brentcebul @UrbanHistoryA @LWieck Maybe beyond your question, but if you're after anything on race and SV I'd check out Lung-Amam *Trespassers?*, Tsu's *Garden of the World*, and Ruffin's *Uninvited Neighbors*.

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“I don’t want a fire truck to be unable to reach my house just because you want to build some bike trails.” Ah, neighborhood public works community meetings.

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Where’s this claim that unified government has never been behind a shutdown coming from? I keep seeing it. Dems controlled Congress under Carter Admin, who saw five government shutdowns. https://t.co/m7IlUnbwwJ

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And while you’re at it, I hear there’s a new edited volume in the works. Stay tuned! https://t.co/mDdv7MJR5K

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Having a blast with my digital history independent study students. It’s been fun to re-read some DH things I haven’t looked at much since grad school. #unodh

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I'm not certain where this assertion stems from, but it seems unaware of two decades of historical scholarship. https://t.co/Gjax4LYbBF

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@hspter I teach a network analysis workshop (mostly aimed at humanities/history people) -- but my material is online. Maybe something helpful there? https://t.co/Ajx73JnY9N

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@culturedcode Can a recurring task that’s been previously assigned “evening” be automatically sorted to “evening” when it comes up the next day?

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February

@mwidner @safiyanoble @CLIRDLF I think about that keynote a lot. Definitely one of the most powerful talks I've seen in the past few years.

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@mwidner This is great. I could write something similar about San Jose, although natural disaster is less likely.

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@todoist Is there a way to add custom headers to filter views? e.g., if I have a filter with "today & !@evening, today & @evening", can I label the second rule as "Evening" instead if it showing "Today" twice?

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Thrilled to announce that Endangered Data Week was selected to be part of @MozOpenLeaders this year! Looking forward to working with @brandontlocke, @captain_maybe, and @WorldCatLady on this! https://t.co/iPQjL8HDUq

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Relatedly, #EndangeredData Week is just three weeks away! Find events near you, or submit events you'd like to run! https://t.co/VzOC1iBG5Q

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@s_e_murray @LWieck What I like about this tweet is its either the most Canada tweet ever or the most Minnesota tweet ever.

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It’s #EndangeredData Week! Find local events near you or join us via virtual events from anywhere and help spread awareness of threats to public data. https://t.co/yXMFbPOal7 https://t.co/6tJooTqz5G

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Starting soon! An introduction to the tidyverse #rstats package for part of #EndangeredData Week https://t.co/VzOC1iBG5Q https://t.co/cie832nYIn

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If you haven't tuned in, the @DataInnovation panel on protecting government data is streaming live: https://t.co/VHJJrF2iuf #EndangeredData

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Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology https://t.co/MQDcvhV9vW

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Coming up in just a few minutes, an introduction to #rstats and the grammar of graphics #EndangeredData https://t.co/yXMFbPOal7 https://t.co/i44nYXcL0A

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@mwidner "It was pitched as a kind of Rust Belt safari — a chance for Silicon Valley investors to meet local officials and look for promising start-ups in overlooked areas of the country." A...safari?

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Hey #rstats: best way to debug this? Occurred when unnest_tokens() run on a rather large set of textual material. https://t.co/Phz3giSt04

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Tokenizing documents in #rstats: just the first 1,000 rows (out of 13,774) generates a dataframe with 16,249,561 observations. So, the entire dataframe will end up with several million lines of words. And is probably the source of R crashing.

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@matthewdlincoln That's a good idea. I was trying some of this with tidytext, but the prep might be too much for it.

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"In early 2018, Deepfakes released a unique bit of code to the public that allows anyone to easily and convincingly map a face onto someone else’s head in full motion video." https://t.co/l4DJMJlyOF

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My new iced coffee method. 1. Become a parent. 2. Make coffee. 3. Forget about said coffee while doing parenting things/playing with kiddo. 4. Rediscover coffee two hours later. ☕️

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Really excited about this series, and looking forward to working with @akane1066 @LCChistory and @MWChilders. https://t.co/KjVWC1tyTk

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My latest newsletter signup: The Morning Brew. https://t.co/IB2mVDQxMJ Funny how I've found value in these newsletters, considering that email is otherwise terrible.

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A New Yorker is using machine learning to find vehicles that block bike lanes and quantify the problem of scofflaws https://t.co/eTdaDHa6mV

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@miriamkp @scott_bot @leoba @albertocairo Echoing Miriam on Tableau and the p5.js library. D3.js is still very strong, but has a steep learning curve. Reproducible results in R or Python is always a plus, too -- I teach workshops on ggplot and the tidyverse for R, e.g.

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@miriamkp @scott_bot @leoba @albertocairo You could also check out @Elijah_Meeks's new Semiotic framework https://t.co/x1eU4veNjg

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When I teach my #dataviz workshops, I always point out examples of bad visualizations. Looks like I have another image to use. https://t.co/iWPSF7XNin

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@marydudziak I never had one last long. I think I went through three of them in a year and a half before giving up.

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@marydudziak Yeah, I don’t get it either. Their support forums are full of people reporting the same issue, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@scott_bot Makes me think of that time we recorded a show about Facebook and ethics around that creepy emotion study they conducted. https://t.co/ywT2nhPPU4 @Elijah_Meeks @pfzenke

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Using @krisshaffer's excellent package for Twitter scraping, I threw together a quick dashboard for #deletefacebook. https://t.co/nmnRuSALt9

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@krisshaffer I hit a limit on Tweet volume, so I really only have today's tweets. I'll dig into grabbing older tweets.

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Today, I'm at the You Are Here conference talking about landscape, place, and environmentalism in Silicon Valley https://t.co/yDWNaqTQLt #YAH18

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Up now, @LWieck on Google bus controversies in San Francisco’s Mission District #YAH18 https://t.co/T7WXdUlxnh

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April

@AstroKatie I moved back to Nebraska after living in the Bay Area for four years. I grew up with this kind of weather as a native of the northern Plains, but I really miss California weather this year...

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Some nice background on regionalism (or lack thereof) in the Bay Area. This kind of regional environmentalism makes its way into my book on Silicon Valley. https://t.co/Mt3mkBooU7

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @laurenfturek @Gaia_and_Clio @brandontlocke @dpmckenzie @xicanohistorian Super late to this, but I'd echo mobile white boards. Get mobile screens and a device to allow people to share their screens to them; reconfigurable workspaces; computers with GIS, Adobe Suite, perhaps pro podcasting software (e.g., Logic); a 3D printer.

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @laurenfturek @Gaia_and_Clio @brandontlocke @dpmckenzie @xicanohistorian Also get a huge video wall just because you can and put awesome maps on it https://t.co/3XVy9GgxWb

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @dpmckenzie @laurenfturek @Gaia_and_Clio @brandontlocke @xicanohistorian Humlab has a writeup on their layout and design https://t.co/imlWBb1Cyb

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @dpmckenzie @laurenfturek @Gaia_and_Clio @brandontlocke @xicanohistorian I really liked @cesta_stanford's layout, but I'm not seeing much for photos online. I'll look to see if I have any of my own from when I was there.

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo @dpmckenzie @laurenfturek @Gaia_and_Clio @brandontlocke @xicanohistorian @cesta_stanford Yep! It's amazing.

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@rebeccawingo @AlessandraLink2 @LWieck @s_e_murray @Bri_Theobald @dpmckenzie This is why we're friends. (Well, there's lots of reasons. But choice of whiskey is up there.)

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I’m citing this thread tomorrow on our roundtable when we’re asked about advancing a more equitable digital future. My experience with students reflects this, too: #NEforum18 https://t.co/7vLLS1rUnq

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@gworthey @tsmullaney Wait, wait, I can’t let that opinion pass without knowing Tom’s favorite origin for coffee beans?

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The worst part of parenting is when your kiddo gets sick and you wish you could just take it away for them. The second worst part might be catching said stomach bug from her.

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@LWieck @LMRodriguez @hralperta @CCP_org @jmjafrx @nolauren @Mary_E_Mendoza @laurenfturek @miriamkp @s_e_murray @dpmckenzie @sienriquez @MonicaMnzMtz @sherah1918 @sharonmleon @AneliseHShrout @JulianChambliss @profgabrielle @angeldnieves @JannekenSmucker @rebeccawingo Airtable might work for that.

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@BearNotesApp Might've found a bug? On my 9.5 iPad Pro, switching to the new Ayu theme doesn't change the Bear icon color to match (but *does* on my iPhone).

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May

Another wonderful @MozOpenLeaders session with @chadsansing, but now I'm listening to Viking folk-metal music?

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"The student scholars . . . developed individual research projects that share a common conclusions about defining what it means to be a successful homesteader beyond successfully proving up." https://t.co/Esj2POqnEE #dhist #digitalhumanities

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This Thursday and Friday is #mozsprint, and @EndangeredData is looking for your ideas/contributions! You can find ways to contribute here: https://t.co/ht85ceDGkW or connect with us here: https://t.co/j7PIUVYHAL

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Busy couple of weeks. First, May 10-11, @EndangeredData is part of this year's #mozsprint! We hope you'll join us to improve the curriculum! https://t.co/j7PIUVYHAL

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And next Monday and Tuesday, I'll be at @Macalester where @rebeccawingo, Paul Schadewald, and I are hosting a symposium on digital community engagement!

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Do you work with #opendata, #govdata, or #data generally? Does the loss/neglect/censorship of data affect your work, research, or community? @EndangeredData would love to hear your data stories: https://t.co/8FVpfR4U8M #mozsprint

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@scott_bot I worked on a similar issue at Stanford. We had to roll our own Leaflet map using the historic map as base map. You could then add points on mouseclick, and capture those as data e.g. https://t.co/LexkxTY0mb

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It's day two of #mozsprint! @EndangeredData wants your stories about the benefits of access and the detriments of lost access to public data. https://t.co/8FVpfR4U8M

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@LWieck @AlessandraLink2 I had a bunch of books come overdue during comps. I briefly owed the library $5,000.

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We're hearing now from Kevin Murphy, a historian with the Humanities Action Lab as part of our #digitalcommunityengagement symposium @Macalester.

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Murphy tonight is showing us States of Incarceration and the scholar-activism of the Action Lab https://t.co/nn1woYhUag #digitalcommunityengagement

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The Humanities Action Lab is a coalition of universities, issue organizations, and public spaces across 36 cities to produce community-curated public humanities projects on urgent social issues #digitalcommunityengagement

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HAL builds dialogue and engagement around contested issues of shared concern. Students and stakeholders collaborate on this project, and contribute "chapters" to a collective project. #digitalcommunityengagement

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The projects output national traveling exhibits, web projects, public programming, and other platforms to encourage civic engagement #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: What happens when you look at really local histories of incarceration, and then bring them together to explore the national problems? #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: The Incarceration projects have a rough three-year arc that begins as a course -> public project -> public engagement -> expanding stories -> new localities #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: States of Incarceration has a physical presence to help draw people in, but the system can be quite clunky to move around. We're working out ways to make this more easily movable. #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: We want to foster collaborative storytelling (e.g., students that were formerly incarcerated), to promote public history and memory, and spark a national and local dialogue #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: States of Incarceration tried to bring historical perspective to the current debate around incarceration. How did we get here? What can we learn from the past? How can we answer these questions locally and connect them nationally? #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: We want people with direct experience or directly impacted to share their stories, but also raise awareness. To facilitate dialogue, foster empathy, and identify paths for action. #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: Each partnering institution took on different questions about incarceration, sometimes a reflection of interests, sometimes a reflection of previous community engagement #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: There are many ways engagement works in the exhibitions. But it's also important to be self-critical about what's effective and what's not. Interaction does not mean its helpful / generative / useful. #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: One way engagement works with the exhibit are hanging tags, where visitors write their own stories linked to incarceration that are posted to a board for others to read. #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: The programming has caused local impact, including new Prison Education Programs, mobilization to change policies, and new courses on incarceration #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: A one-semester course at the Univ of MN designed around public memory and mass incarceration. Students identify sources and partners, develop lines of communication with partners, plan a public event, collaboratively define a theme #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: You can't teach HAL courses by being fearful. Don't control the interpretation; be willing to let students fail; you'll troubleshoot a lot. It's a kind of teaching that's about improvisation. #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: Students at the Univ of MN worked with a range of collaborators: Circle of Indigenous Nations; Black Lives Matter and Native Lives Matter; Ain Dah Young Center; Voices for Racial Justice, MN Historical Society #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: There's been almost no historical scholarship on Native incarceration, and present-day writing is likewise very thin. #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: Their project asked: how has settler colonialism shaped the carceral state? #digitalcommunityengagement

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We're looking now at Carceral Colonialism: Imprisonment in Indian Country https://t.co/nn1woYhUag #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: One set of ambitious students used Storymap to narrate patterns that have led to the disproportionate numbers of incarcerated Native peoples https://t.co/0A2w8z4UsZ #digitalcommunityengagement

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Murphy: In this courses, the digital is key. They're teaching themselves, learning new things, getting a project on their resume/CV, tell their parents about their work. What you learn and gain through the experience of digital work matters. #digitalcommunityengagement

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If I were after some #rstats hex stickers for workshops I'm teaching, how might I go about requesting some of those? @hadleywickham

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About 60% of my email in the past week has been every little thing I've ever signed up for telling me how much they value my privacy.

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Just wrapped up our final call for this year's @MozOpenLeaders. Such a great program, and I'd encourage anyone working on open projects to apply next year! #yolowolo

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@HC_Richardson @agordonreed My home state! I don't often hear people say they actually want to visit SD (flyover country, etc.), so I'm glad to hear this.

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@smrobertson3 @nolauren It just dropped today and I'm hoping to dig into it a bit more this week, but with what I've tried so far it *might* be pretty decent to teach with...

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June

@WorldCatLady I keep telling everyone this is a foodie town, but I'm not sure that "giant tater tots" help my case.

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@chealsye @WorldCatLady Stirnellas, Noli's Pizzaria, or Mulas in the Blackstone District, + Coneflower (awesome ice cream). In Benson: Ted & Wally's ice cream; the Benson Brewery. In Old Market: Upstream Brewery; Berry & Rye (for awesome cocktails). For coffee: Aromas, Zen, Mug Life, Archetype.

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If you have an open project, I'd strongly encourage you to apply! A fantastic program of awesome mentors and inspiring projects. https://t.co/vOgihrL3IA

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@elotroalex @roopikarisam @sferna109 @fronteriza956 @BACartography Sadly, I couldn’t attend #dh2018 this year. But would love to contribute if there’s a way for those of us following remotely.

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Hi again, https://t.co/nG9itl9otu! @dancohen’s move here prompted me to revisit, so I’m spending time over here for a bit.

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Bummed I couldn’t make it to #DH2018 this year! I’ll be following along virtually, thanks for all the live tweets.

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.@TomSugrue: "But those who say that the civil rights movement prevailed because of civil dialogue misunderstand protest and political change." https://t.co/qLf9YL5WA2

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My Supreme Court. Great lineup: @RadioFreeTom @AneliseHShrout @SheilaABrennan @pastpunditry @TheTattooedProf @KevinMKruse (sorry) @rebeccawingo @thomasgpadilla @brandontlocke https://t.co/Q3M6d1QA05

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July

https://t.co/SCNyq6v7Cv is not an alternative silo: instead, it’s what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network. — Brent Simmons https://t.co/nGpudILuVc

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“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication.” On the importance of a decentralized web. https://t.co/ysJNHjvVWH

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“[T]here was a time, in America, when the government paid for infrastructure and the public had a say in important local services. With Ubers ruling the roads, Birds ruling the sidewalks, Elon Musk running our subways and Domino’s paving our roads, ... https://t.co/tPgLzLhbVF

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I loved working with the team on this project, and I'm eager to see what they keep digging up! https://t.co/4hf3eantfe

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Indycar qualifying this afternoon. Dirt track racing at Knoxville tonight. Indycar racing tomorrow. That’s a good weekend. 🏎

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My week: attending a service learning seminar and thinking about library resources, partnerships, and digital humanities https://t.co/KcuPmYa78a

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“Blogging, I want to argue, is a seasoned technology that is ripe for lateral thinking.” https://t.co/DubBQeKa2K

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My review of @cesta_stanford's _Follow the Money_ is now available online, and will be in print in the Autumn 2018 WHQ: https://t.co/35OjXq16R9

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I don’t mean to brag, but I’m pretty sure I can sing the entire Moana soundtrack from start to finish at this point.

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Great to see a ride share company committed to multimodal transportation and bike infrastructure. 🚲 https://t.co/YBvROUTvJM

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I'm eager to attend @nejsconf next week! Looking forward to learning/catching up on new JavaScript stuff, and meeting folks in the local community.

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We've added forty-five issues of Honga, newsletters produced by Omaha's American Indian Center between 1978 and 1983, to the American Indian Digital History Project https://t.co/Hn21pc2qqW

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@pashulman Reminds me of my take-home comps exams six years ago, which I wrote while we were having our carpet replace with hardwood flooring.

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Breve by @HDStanford is still a favorite and oft-used tool. (I have a lot of missing data here.) https://t.co/CXcHDIL9QU

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I think I just had a breakthrough about how a chapter needs to be structured. Now to get it outlined before I lose this thread...

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That moment when your muscle memory completely leaves you when you really think about the command you're trying to type. https://t.co/sg4OP1LBwr

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Exactly how I’ve tended to teach #rstats: use the tidyverse, use RStudio instead of console, and work through RMarkdown interactive worksheets. https://t.co/zbzj77Y7or

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There’s a good chance I’ll be tweeting about JavaScript and web development throughout the day. Mute me for today if that’s not your thing.

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According to npm's survey, Javascript authors also write (in order of popularity): Java, PHP, Python, .NET, Go, C++, Ruby, C, Swift, Rust #nejsconf

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.@chantastic quoting Sandi Metz: "the purpose of design is to allow you to do design later, and it's a primary goals is to reduce the cost of change." #nejsconf

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@chantastic I didn't live tweet much during your talk, but it was fantastic! Lots of notes and things to think about. #nejsconf

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I really liked @chantastic's approach that developers are farmers, not builders. We tend code, it's not set in place; we're beholden to outside whims. #nejsconf

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.@clarissa: If you create software, you have an ethical obligation to make sure software cannot hurt people #nejsconf

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Great talk so far by @clarissa, echoing a lot of things written lately by @safiyanoble @histoftech @PopTechWorks #nejsconf

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.@clarissa: Dorsey and Zuckerberg are easy targets when we're critical of their platforms enabling Nazis, abuse, etc. But what about the software engineers that also helped enable the platform? #nejsconf

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.@clarissa We need to be mindful of accessibility. We need captions, we need screen-reader enabled content, we need to avoid blinking entities that might cause seizures, we need straightforward content, we need content that loads quickly. #nejsconf

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A fantastic interactive photo essay on the extreme mountain biking of the Navajo Nation. https://t.co/WTJCCAOoY4

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August

“These tech companies have decided to leave their suburban campuses because their employees want to be in the city, and yet the irony is, they come to the city and are creating isolated, walled-off campuses.” https://t.co/mkzgNjuaXw

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If this doesn't appear on the @AHAhistorians conference bags / t-shirts this year as our new motto, I'll be very disappointed. #twitterstorians https://t.co/zzx4Ikqytq

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Reading this again today, the more I think it’s a great idea. Any avenue for new and easier discoverability for people is a good thing, and @creativecommons is a good institution to tackle this. https://t.co/ppp9XKt9Ld

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Night number three at the Knoxville Nationals. This is my sixteenth race in twenty years since I started coming. https://t.co/ZoOt0tXM0T

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I’ve been watching dirt track sprint car racing since I was a kid, and I’m still amazed they don’t just all pile up in turn one every time they start the race. 🏎

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@dandrezner Not to mention, as @LDBurnett has noted, he wasn’t a Stanford scholar; he was with the Hoover institute. Might share the campus, but they’re worlds apart.

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@JohnRosinbum .@KentBlansett and I are also developing the American Indian Digital History Project to digitize Native community archives and important primary source material: https://t.co/7tqievfbQv

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@alexismadrigal @margaretomara @BeckyNic7 @A_NeedhamNYU @TomSugrue Unfortunately most of my focus was on Santa Clara County. Most of the time, what I've seen is farmers who sell to developers which provides space for new subdivisions. There are some cases where there are landowning holdouts who wait for land values to hit the right price.

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@alexismadrigal @margaretomara @BeckyNic7 @A_NeedhamNYU @TomSugrue I will say my Dream Project would be to dig into the deeds and titles to map this all out, to see where people go but also understand better the process of land transfer (e.g., what was the value of land sold? did these farmers just leave for the Central Valley? etc)

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@alexismadrigal @margaretomara @BeckyNic7 @A_NeedhamNYU @TomSugrue My sense is the smaller landowners had a harder time holding out, but land values were wild in the 1950s -- and taking the money could be an easy call. For example, land valued at 4k in 1951 rose to 10k in just five years. https://t.co/SieGpycCcm

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@alexismadrigal @margaretomara @BeckyNic7 @A_NeedhamNYU @TomSugrue I believe part of the reason San Jose gets so "patchy" in its boundaries in the 1950s-1960s is because those open spots are landowners refusing to sell their orchards. (There's also the problem of a lack of urban planning, and competition among cities over land control). https://t.co/jd9YlXacrY

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@alexismadrigal @margaretomara @BeckyNic7 @A_NeedhamNYU @TomSugrue I have an interactive map of SJ sprawl here: https://t.co/ps9HB8gnn2 (Don't look too close at the rest of my site -- there's a lot that needs work!)

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.@unolibraries is registering new voters today and tomorrow as welcome back students for the semester! https://t.co/B7MuHbFuXb

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@alexismadrigal @A_NeedhamNYU @margaretomara @BeckyNic7 @TomSugrue Similar things happened at corporate campuses, too. Here's IBM in San Jose, surrounded by orchards, circa 1954. https://t.co/5Q4yqKKjBQ

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@micahvandegrift @ericayhayes @ImmersivScholar I don't have an answer, but I'd love to contribute if that's an option!

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My review of Andrew Busch's _City in a Garden_ is now online, and should be in the print edition of Environmental History soon https://t.co/cemouYlrJd #envhist

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@katinalynn I keep trying the official app, but it’s a mess. And Twitter wonders why we all used third party apps.

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@rebeccawingo @LWieck @thomascauvin I'm not teaching a class this semester, but I'd be down to participate / judge / make my own memes / laugh out loud

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Thrilled to be a mentor with the upcoming cohort of @MozOpenLeaders! The project proposals are amazing, and really looking forward to meeting my cohort and mentees.

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September

I can't wait for @jbf1755's book on Congressional auctioneering in postwar America. https://t.co/2rgEqgglmd

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@brettbobley @dancohen Agreed, big fan of Backblaze as well. They’ll send you a hard drive of your stuff if you really need it, too.

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Let’s bring scooters to Omaha. They’d be incredibly helpful just on campuses alone, not to mention the entire city. @ModeShiftOmaha https://t.co/3vp1amLMdQ

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@kacinash @ModeShiftOmaha @rebeccawingo I'd love to be able to hop on an electric scooter to get between Dodge and Scott campus. Much easier than waiting for the shuttles, or riding a bike up the hill back to Dodge...

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@CLIRDLF Time. Time needed to understand things like good design (colors, placement, labels, etc), knowing gestalt principles, and effective ways to create good visualizations with either off-the-shelf tools or writing code.

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@CLIRDLF I usually teach data viz using R, and create interactive RMarkdown worksheets that we work through together during a workshop/session. I use Digital Ocean to spin up temporary RStudio Servers for each student to reduce overhead about installing R libraries.

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The death toll in Puerto Rico was nearly 3,000 people. Full power restoration reportedly wrapped up just last month, over a year after Hurricane Maria. https://t.co/MmaWdkICt5

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And we're off! @MozOpenLeaders starts this week, and I'm really excited to be working with @roomarcus, @GeekInTechland, and the rest of Cohort C over the next fourteen weeks! https://t.co/GOQw1WqdMt

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Tagged by @rebeccawingo. I practice digital public history because scholarship comes in many forms, and I believe in helping empower communities to tell their histories. I tag @thomascauvin @urbanhumanist @LCChistory. https://t.co/PSgjhW9pGY

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First call with my @MozOpenLeaders full cohort today! An amazing group of people and inspiring projects. Really looking forward to working with them over the next fourteen weeks.

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@omeka No, I’m thinking of just the default Contributor user. So, for example, if I bulk import a bunch of Items for a classroom as a Supeuser, can I then give ownership of specific Items to a student?

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October

Come by @unolibraries today and tomorrow afternoon to register to vote! #CampusSustainabilityMonth https://t.co/9pZvKow51y

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@krmaher Hear, hear. We lived in south San Jose for four years, and I'm glad I didn't have to experience that.

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Yes! We ran voter registration drives last week, and will be running more next week ahead of our deadlines. https://t.co/O6kCo4iu04

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Muze looks like an interesting new JavaScript library for creating interactive visualizations https://t.co/bvhxKxSr5v

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Today at 1:30, @LWieck and I will be hosting a roundtable on San Francisco Bay Area regionalism at the Losoya Conference Center! #WHA2018

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@rebeccawingo @BigSkyHistory @LWieck @xicanohistorian @s_e_murray You’re either unimpressed with what @LWieck is saying, or really paying attention.

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Job apps due today, but the @calgarylibrary is hiring an Indigenous Services Design Lead! https://t.co/md30oUtPbC

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Interested in how you can advocate for publicly available data? Join @WorldCatLady and I at #MozFest in London 10/28 to talk about @EndangeredData! https://t.co/8ZSgp0UBrc

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As I have for the past three years, here's some data on Twitter posts at #wha2018: https://t.co/0KJxrO46TJ https://t.co/9m1KECNiHC

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Top tweeters at #wha2018 were @megankatenelson @LWieck @brianleechphd. WHA doesn't have an exceptionally high volume of tweets, only around 550 over the past nine days.

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And I added a new visualization this year: looking at semantic connections among users tweeting #wha2018 -- a network of replies, quotes, and retweets to show interactions. Unsurprisingly, @WhaHistory leads the way here.

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And at the end of that post, I finally dug up the past three years worth of visualizations. Take it for what it's worth: I think there's *some* reflection about prevalent themes/topics, but given that most tweets at the WHA annual meeting come from a handful of attendees...

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...the topics covered are likely biased heavily towards this group's interests. That said, I'm very glad to see some themes rise up this year: on #academicmetoo, labor history, digital history, indigenous history, and students.

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@megankatenelson @LWieck @brianleechphd Oh, I hadn't even noticed that. It dropped off in 2017, too (in favor of "western").

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@LWieck @megankatenelson @brianleechphd I wish I'd collected the past year's tweets (I've only done the analysis in the moment, I don't have an archive of the data). It'd be interesting to visualize these word changes over time better than the word clouds can capture.

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@brianleechphd @LWieck @megankatenelson Relatedly, here are the top hashtags used at #wha2018 https://t.co/gr9Zfq8c1S

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Stop by the Open Leadership Zone with @nohorse @abbycabs and me! Signup to play the sticker match game and enter our raffle! #MozFest #WOLO https://t.co/1SuPN82re1

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Catch @WorldCatLady and I tomorrow at 2pm at #MozFest to discuss the challenges around @EndangeredData and what we can do to advocate for public data. https://t.co/ZqAdFrVaPn

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Want to talk about @MozOpenLeaders and why it’s such a great program? I’m hanging around the Open Leaders Zone for a bit. Bring your lunch over and let’s chat! #mozfest

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@abbycabs Thanks for your leadership in this, and everything you do for us in open leaders! Thrilled that I can play a small part in this.

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@nowviskie @mozilla @videosmithery I’m not saying I want to be a wrangler for the scarf next year, but I’m not *not* saying that either.

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I realized last night, driving home from the airport after back-to-back conferences, that I've hardly driven in two weeks. It's otherwise been public transit and walking -- which has been far, far preferable to driving. https://t.co/cxaaaK4bpO

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Looking forward to giving this very brief talk on Friday to undergraduates at @UNOmaha. https://t.co/1iMk2PWVE3

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At precisely the moment I ran a cell in Jupyter, the power cut out and I thought I'd either 1) written code so amazing, the grid couldn't take it, or 2) code so awful the grid couldn't take it.

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@nirak I'll throw in Things 3, which I think has a better design than OF3 (I was a long-time Omnifocus user) but it's not quite as powerful (e.g., custom perspectives). I used Todoist for a while, too, and liked it pretty well.

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This was my "I like to gesture at screens" slide. Which I'm, predictably, gesturing at. https://t.co/UIZSV4yns3

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“Computational methods, including machine learning, can be used to find universal or near-universal patterns . . ., but they can also be used to enhance qualitative, interpretive, and context-specific research.” https://t.co/YydSDTPA0H

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"Over the next few decades of climate change, the country’s first national park will quite likely see increased fire, less forest, expanding grasslands, shallower, warmer waterways, and more invasive plants." https://t.co/u9fxPMmsMl

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Yellowstone is a deeply important place for me. I got to know my partner's family there, on our first camping trip as a group years ago. We honeymooned there. My father-in-law's ashes are there. We've been back many times. I want to take my daughter someday.

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There's just two weeks left to apply to @MozOpenLeaders! Propose a project to receive mentorship & training on open practices #wolo https://t.co/SrTOG3PgiA

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@erreJulian Sadly, I have the same concern about its long-term prospects. I haven't found a good alternative yet, I'm afraid to say. But maybe with Shortcuts something is possible?

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“we need to include more pedagogical elements in our charts, and be mindful of our audiences, rather than assume that there are lots of people who are permanently out of reach.” https://t.co/lFvZ78hZKE

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@MaxTemkin Regarding the latest DBF after show and your discussion of books: as someone trying to get more into design, I’d love to hear your favorite design books.

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Just a few days left to get your projects in for the next round of @MozOpenLeaders! If you have an open project or want to bring openness to your org, Open Leaders provides 14 weeks of mentorship and training starting in January: https://t.co/SrTOG3PgiA

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"You should not choose your college major based on earnings potential from a chart like this. As they say in investing, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Just major in musicology like you want to and put the effort into finding a good internship." 👈 https://t.co/c8RmOgqKuL

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@Zoe_LeBlanc @scholarslab Definitely Bootstrap, have dabbled a bit with Foundation, Kube, and Bulma (doing a redesign right now with Bulma).

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@Zoe_LeBlanc @scholarslab So, some of the stuff I'm doing now it built on Jekyll -- so I'm mostly using it for UI reasons. I've dabbled a bit with Angular and React, but haven't had an opportunity lately to build a project with them.

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@Zoe_LeBlanc @scholarslab But, for example, if I were to rebuild any of the major projects I did at Stanford it's very likely I'd be using React + D3 together.

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@shawnblanc Great tip! I do something similar, but kick it over to Things. Becomes a $PLACENAME $DATE project in my Travel area, and divided into headings (tasks to do the week before / day before / day of travel, + packing lists for me & family).

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@heidiblackburn It’s cool, I figured out what was giving me a headache. It’s just a normal process of programming to swear a lot. https://t.co/6LWmTy9JMu

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Good grief, no. These frameworks -- in Java, in Flash, in Electron, in Marzipan -- have never been good. https://t.co/Yfpnx88j1X https://t.co/Qe5zD6Z56a

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Does this work well? Increasing circle size = number of articles / year. Color break-down by the author's gender. https://t.co/oItpOZY3ts

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Amazing Reddit thread from a researcher at the National Archives looking to copy 2,000 DVDs in three days. https://t.co/hoyyKbqRop

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2017

January

Excited to be heading to #AHA17 tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing old friends, making new ones, and talking/doing #dighist.

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Hoping for safe travels for everyone going to #AHA17. I’m staying off-site. Hopefully I make it in tomorrow…

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Any #AHA17 attendees have a sense of what roads are like? I’m coming in from Westminster, but the roads look rough.

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Mark your calendars for the 3rd annual Midwest History Assoc. conference in Grand Rapids. #twitterstorians https://t.co/9c7KOGTDAs

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Up first, @pastpunditry on conservative publishing and the Goldwater campaign https://t.co/SpZLZUkeK0 #s106 #AHA17

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.@pastpunditry calls for historians to understand better the fragmented world of conservative media. #s106 #AHA17

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Up now, Heather Hendershot on William Buckley’s *Firing Line* and using TV to provide proactive articulation of conservatism. #s106 #AHA17

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Precisely how @dougseefeldt and @wgthomas3 introduced many of us to DH at @UNLHistory. https://t.co/MmKbaieX3I

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Matzko: One mechanism missing in the story of the rise of the new right is a mode of distribution: radio broadcasting. #s106 #AHA17

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@seth_denbo @timstahmer Every time I teach DH in the classroom to new faculty, I start by confronting this. Doing my part!

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Sorry to be missing the #dighist panels at #AHA17 this morning (brunch plans with family this AM). Appreciate the tweets, y’all!

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“The frontier was about being frugal with our assets.” Which assets? Wildlife? Land? Frontier was far from frugal. https://t.co/C1e8aE9h8G

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Story in today’s Denver Post on the 100th anniversary of Buffalo Bill Cody’s death. https://t.co/N1ThyRHP9V

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Wonderful time at #AHA17. Great panels and workshops, & great catching up with old friends and making new acquaintances.

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Looks like a great summer institute at Univ. of Washington this summer—“City/Nature: Urban Environmental Humanities” https://t.co/TPSiu9Ud2j

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Claremont Colleges Library has received a CLIR grant to digitize California water resource archives https://t.co/h5cIfw1rbK

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Excited to see @tsmullaney’s project to get students into the archives kicking off at Stanford! https://t.co/nBtCujDGIf

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.@UNLHistory and @UNLGreatPlains are hosting the Western History Dissertation Workshop this May. https://t.co/uM2Kp14v0r #twitterstorians

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Anybody have suggestions for digital collections/archives/projects focused on women and gender? #twitterstorians #DigitalHumanities #dighist

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@ProfessMoravec Thanks! Yes, bummed about being locked behind DBs. But, trying to give students a sense of what is there/can be done.

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Some new annexation data for my Silicon Valley city expansion visualization (https://t.co/THfIZgPV9P). Hopefully, i… https://t.co/uSWotsV90u

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"Any tribute I could give the tunnel tree...would be fatuous; the tree was older than the language...I can write." https://t.co/iRBkxMdQgA

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@nirak Truth. I have so many feels about interactive/data viz. I love it, but also worry about accessibility alongside preservation...

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Want to contribute to #1lib1ref and find citations for Wikipedia articles? Here's a tool to help: https://t.co/fMOAGKSDdC

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Here are some ways the NEH benefits Nebraska. Call your reps. https://t.co/quV21uMEfX @SenSasse @SenatorFischer #savetheNEH

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Here are some ways the NEH benefits Nebraska. Call your reps. https://t.co/McGaw819Q1 @SenSasse @SenatorFischer #savetheNEH

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Good morning, #graftonline & #writingpact. Fingers moving on the keyboard for the next hour, joined by bebop and coffee.

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Come to the @joslynartmuseum this Sunday at 2pm to hear @DimitriNakassis talk about the Bronze Age World @UNOmaha… https://t.co/z9JSVzDi8L

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And Monday, @DimitriNakassis will talk on "Digitizing Prehistory" at Love Library on UNL campus @UNOmaha @u_nebraska https://t.co/aP7hzWHOL6

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February

Come hear Dr. Amy Lonetree on "The Labor of Tourism and Ho-Chunk Survivance" at @UNOHistoryDept Feb. 9 at 6:30pm. P… https://t.co/3YWma9qXkR

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Local friends, register for Info Exchange at @KanekoLib in March. I'm leading a breakout session on digital history. https://t.co/WPUb6CLiWo

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Great write-up on using data visualization to introduce digital storytelling, with a shoutout to @cncoleman. https://t.co/aN62raDUU0

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@danbenjamin @hotdogsladies Random question: you both still using HD antenna for TV? Still recommend the brand(s) from B2W 234 & 235?

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@parezcoydigo I keep thinking I need to write about the EPA for a popular venue (they're big in my diss/book). Just haven't had time...

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Excited to hear from the Making Invisible Histories Visible students and teachers today at @unocrisslibrary https://t.co/Yih5s3bsFB

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Interested in participating in #DayOfFacts? Guidelines here https://t.co/35tqDHiFBj. Would love to see #twitterstorians get in on it, too!

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@varshaoforange Have you listened to @pastpresentpod? I believe that’s part of their mission. There’s also @erin_bartram’s new blog project.

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The amazing folks at @Mapbox have created an interactive map to find when a Congressional town hall is next held in… https://t.co/obd6YH5P2L

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@EganHistory @AdamMSowards Is there a proposal process for the Sustainable Future series? Might throw something your way sometime.

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@patrick_mj Just noticed I clone what might be an older version vs. current Github. I’ll check tomorrow and let you know!

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G Dwight Eisenhower 5′10″ G John Kennedy 6′ F Barack Obama 6′2″ F Ronald Reagan 6′1″ C Lyndon Johnson 6′4″ https://t.co/NSF5QKB9bl

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Looking forward to tonight, where I'll be joining the @OmahaPlayhouse to discuss The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

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Not only do I get to talk about my favorite western, but I get to talk about western myth and popular culture.

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March

Kicking off tomorrow afternoon, the Missouri Valley History Conference. I'm giving comments at a session on Friday. https://t.co/WdhO2v1r1q

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The new Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rode to work on a horse this morning. https://t.co/obUiAl2nUW

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Delighted to be keynoting. No title yet, but it'll be about digital history, maps, and the Midwest. https://t.co/noq9mdmmmb

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@miriamkp We really liked Kaiser. Also, having a baby was astonishingly cheap. Especially compared to what it’d be here in NE.

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@miriamkp Plus the awesome expecting parents group we were with, and breastfeeding support group, and ALL THE THINGS. So great.

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"It is illegal to destroy government data, but agencies can make it more difficult to find" https://t.co/DrHCRf2ZW6

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In the JAH, Robert Lee uses GIS to calculate what the US paid to displace Native people in the Louisiana Purch. https://t.co/9WTTdXut28

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The @NewberryLibrary is looking for a Major Projects Fellow, responding to the question "What is the Midwest?" https://t.co/0HGtagQ0Xv

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Tomorrow at the Information Exchange at @KanekoLib, I'll be talking about digital history and community engagement. https://t.co/pG7leiKgQM

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It’s my first time in the @KANEKO1111 space, and I have to say I love the aesthetics here. https://t.co/WDA8OfbN55

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Sitting in on the first breakout session on data and storytelling by two members of the Omaha Community Foundation. #InfoExchange

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I'll be talking in the next session on digital history and community engagement: case studies in St. Louis and St. Paul. #InfoExchange

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Shoutouts to Andrew Hurley and @rebeccawingo for sharing their experiences. #InfoExchange https://t.co/SkJ2msrk1r

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Looks like a great lineup! Looking forward to attending and catching up with everyone. https://t.co/y8d0ilEaWz

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Some great events lined up for Endangered Data Week already. Looking for events nearby, or want to run your own?… https://t.co/XQTd6BXF5t

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@amycsc @christography I saw something recently claiming New York was the home of the Reuben. Me: https://t.co/RyEx2fa9Gs

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Well this is fun. Building footprints in Lincoln, NE, colored by the height of buildings (white smaller, red larger) https://t.co/mgBMezUWGc

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Anyone aware of a way to pull a shapefile into Neatline without having to fiddle with geoserver? #digitalhumanities

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Join us for #EndangeredData Week to discuss an alternative viewpoint. https://t.co/yXMFbPOal7 https://t.co/s81m7SzgHs

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@edsu @thomaspadilla @miriamkp @scott_bot I'm teaching a workshop on networks at another uni in a few weeks and I'll just show this instead.

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@scott_bot @edsu @thomaspadilla @miriamkp In all seriousness, I’ll share this with the class! It’s great.

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No. Carter won on energy; Clinton on the budget; Reagan and W. Bush won on taxes; Obama on the stimulus package. https://t.co/3w31DqR6mm

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My first thought while finally watching *Arrival* last night: "That's a heck of a house for a professor's salary."

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@brandontlocke Sure, I agree. But I also think it points to a problem of infrastructure. i.e., should the WH/govt have PURLs.

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@datasociety We wanted to alert you to an event we're planning, Endangered Data Week. Might be of interest! https://t.co/VzOC1iBG5Q

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Kicking off the keynote with Susan Schulten, “Competing Visions of the Great Plains in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” #GPmaps

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Schulten: Plains were competing visions in the 19th c., desert vs. pastorage. A boundary for limiting the growth of the nation.

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I think this is the third talk I’ve seen Schulten give. Love listening to her ideas about cartography and maps. #GPmaps

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Schulten: For Americans, the Plains were largely ignored, they were a place to cross over to get to the coast. #GPmaps

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Schulten: William Gilpen’s hydrologic map of the US tried to dislodge this idea, that the future wasn’t the coast but the interior. #GPmaps

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Schulten: In the 1840s-50s, govt. departments are racing to develop the field of meteorology & be the first to publish climate maps. #GPmaps

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Schulten: Surgeon General’s office wins the race in 1855, pubishing a tome on seasonal and yearly temperature and rainfall. #GPmaps

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Schulten: These maps communicated something brand new, trying to understand a region that behaved differently than the East. #GPmaps

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Schulten: The new Republican Party relied on maps above all else to communicate a platform resisting the extension of slavery West #GPmaps

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Schulten: Partisan maps appear after the Act; one by Whitman and Searl map eastern Kansas, and plot sacked free settlements. #GPmaps

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@scott_bot Interesting. I have a side project looking at similar themes, specific to the AHR though. ie., how historians use visualization.

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@scott_bot I haven’t yet, my goal is identify figures computationally, extract them, and browse. My side project hasn’t gotten much time :(

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@scott_bot I don’t know that I’d take much, actually. Plan to borrow @wcaleb’s Python script for identifying ads to instead find figures.

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April

We're just two weeks away from #EndangeredData Week! Propose your events, or find events near you: https://t.co/yXMFbPOal7

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@DevinMcCutchen Nice find! I credit my pondering Lexington Reservoir for leading me to my current research on Silic… https://t.co/3vjcgc2LYv

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How can we ensure public data doesn't become #endangereddata? Brian Forde suggests a public blockchain https://t.co/Pr7hvmT5st

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@matthewdlincoln You must be looking at the same book I was yesterday. When I discovered the same thing. #thehorror

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@marcoarment Did you ever end up fixing the problems with the Microsoft Surface keyboard on Mac? I'm in the market for something new.

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One of these days I'll do a tweet storm "digital humanities via gifs," but all the gifs will be of Ron Swanson throwing away a computer.

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@miriamkp WHAT. One of my favorite things to get at our little farmers market in San Jose was the kettle corn.

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Hearing first from Brandi Waters of Yale, on “Visualizing ‘Defects’: Crime, Disability, and Slavery in 18th c. Colombia” #dhforum17

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Up now, Christy Hyman on "Geospatial Data Processes: GIS as a Phenomenological Bridge to the Past" #dhforum17

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Verifying myself: I am jaheppler on Keybase.io. pcqwVJLPjXSyaqOPmcmDtdovf4bzl3jHydfh / https://t.co/o1K073AHXL

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@McKellogs Carto is ok, but recent changes have me worried about its utility. You might take a look at Palladio, too https://t.co/1PhJ6N9u9L

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@DoughertyJack @lincolnmullen The business-speak buzzwords packed into a confusing interface has me worried about it's future utility.

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A Forgotten Piece of African-American History in the Former Town of Dearfield on the Great Plains https://t.co/6m3QsFnkDs

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We’re just days away from #EndangeredData Week. There’s been several new events added, check out what’s near you! https://t.co/yXMFbPOal7

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Great afternoon teaching network analysis for digital scholarship at @bsudsl today! Wonderful time visiting Ball State.

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It's #EndangeredData Week! Still lots of time left to register for events @unolibraries! https://t.co/yXMFbPOal7

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When we talk about #EndangeredData, it's not just data that's threatened by loss or neglect. Sometimes it's just no… https://t.co/pCS4XTsU5q

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We just kicked off the NDSA Standards & Practices call for #EndangeredData Week. Call into listen! https://t.co/hQKT4Furhy

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Today for #EndangeredData Week I'm running a workshop on web scraping with R. It's not too late to sign up, Omahans! https://t.co/qwbiLrS1iN

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Want to get data off the web using #rstats? Come to my workshop today for #EndangeredData Week to learn how! https://t.co/qwbiLrS1iN

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@tmcw Is big-printer not working? Doesn't seem to produce results, either for my own big presentations or the sample one from your repo.

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@brandontlocke @nowviskie Plus without this week I'm not sure I would've ever learned about your lizards dataset.

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Just blaring Letters for Cleo while finishing up this Github workshop for tomorrow's #EndangeredData Week events.

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Ready to turn messy data into tidy data? Come to my #rstats workshop today for #EndangeredData Week to learn how! https://t.co/lTaN9Ake2O

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At noon, David Drozd joins us for a lunch-and-learn about Census data quality and quantity for #EndangeredData Week https://t.co/FecjvtOZbu

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Today's tasks: final prep for my #rstats workshop; attending a lunch-and-learn; and teaching said workshop. #dayofdh2017 #EndangeredData

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A few years ago I never foresaw myself teaching tidy data, R, @hadleywickham's tidyverse as part of my work as a historian. But here I am.

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We’re kicking off a talk by David Drozd on census data quantity and quality. Stop by for lunch and learn! @UNOmaha #EndangeredData

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@JimMc_Grath If you're collecting any definitions in a digital format, let me know. I'll put something together. And participate in May!

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In twenty minutes, kicking off my R workshop about data manipulation and tidying! #EndangeredData #DayofDH2017

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"Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them." https://t.co/Iu2eshvXPq

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Glad to have @digitalocean around for running RStudio Server when I teach #rstats. Means I don't have to mess with other machines. #dayofdh

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Today at noon, join @UNOLibraries in Criss rm. 249 for a viewing for #EndangeredData Week! https://t.co/L9E9kAgj3B

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I could do without the Nick Cage reference, but: scholars discovered an unknown parchment copy of the Declaration https://t.co/RSYbipZ9C2

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@brandontlocke @Kathy_Weimer If it’s about the shutdown, seems a little strange to me they’d anticipate that. I hav… https://t.co/Sy1QLfjaUF

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Incoming Twitter essay. This claim, besides being nonsense given his policies, is historically untrue. https://t.co/uUdltVxdyZ

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Let's take the case of the book I'm writing about Silicon Valley and environmental politics. The boosters and promoters of SV... /1

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...worked extremely hard to link together economic growth, beautiful environments for workers, and high tech. /2

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The Valley offered many advantages: cheap homes, open spaces, middle-class jobs, space for facilities, a lack of unions, low taxes. /4

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The reputation of the Valley as a place of clear skies, cozy weather, and beauty = a place for domestic life, recreation, and business. /5

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These idealized garden landscapes were fixtures of the Valley https://t.co/iz46ter69N /6 https://t.co/oeaJrxqU8a

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Promotional material aimed at business boasted fruit festivals, temperate climate, gardens, natural resources. /7

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The promotion worked. San José grew from 17 sq mi to 137 sq mi between 1950-1970. Santa Clara County grew from 290,547 to 1,064,714. /8

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Excessive groundwater use caused massive subsidence issues, sinking buildings and breaking infrastructure. /11

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The rapid suburban expansion of the Valley meant building in flood plains, which were often sold to lower income families. /12

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Flooding became more common b/c of bad urban planning; as areas were paved and built, the city failed to account for excessive runoff. /13

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Open space and agricultural space vanished from the Valley. Journalist Leonard Downie concluded in 1973... /13

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...the only open space was "carefully tended and regularly watered greenery along the shoulders of the county's many freeways." /14

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Downie also noted the "mustard-colored haze" of the air and urban space so compact that no "open space, parks or even sidewalks" existed /15

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The proximity of industrial facilities and suburbs was unsettling. One resident wondered why Lockheed tested his shrubs for radiation. /16

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The EPA eventually declared 29 Superfund sites--more than any other county in the US--24 of which were caused by tech companies. /19

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Growth did not protect the environment. Just the opposite: there was little regard for it, except as an aesthetic (i.e., not health) /20

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But that vision failed to hold. Sure, there's lots of open space in Silicon Valley. It's a haven for health and fitness. /23

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But, the history is more complicated. There are things to be hopeful about in Silicon Valley's more recent environmental history. /24

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@freegovinfo Thanks! And thanks for all your work in this regard, too. The work of FGI was part of the inspiration.

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@jlauck1941 @HistPerspect There's also this, what I've usually called The View from California https://t.co/3gMRs4srIQ

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Hearing from one of the undergrad students I worked with this year, using @anvcscalar to annotate a Second Crusade… https://t.co/DqFCeKt1YN

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Great lineup for the Midwestern History Assoc. conference in June. I'll be there, too, keynoting on digital history… https://t.co/P1DCsyXDZe

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@ErikLoomis I've had this book sitting on my shelf for a while, waiting to be read. Sounds like I need to move it up on the list.

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Is there an archive, digital or otherwise, that has all of the HOLC area descriptions? I’m looking for San Jose. #twitterstorians

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Tossing a question to the urban historians in the room @ndbconnolly @3underscores @TomSugrue @UrbanHistoryA etc. https://t.co/B3LnTu17KO

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@UrbanHistoryA @ndbconnolly @3underscores @TomSugrue @HOLCRedlining Yep, knew about that but they don’t have San Jose area descriptions yet.

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@UrbanHistoryA @ndbconnolly @3underscores @TomSugrue @HOLCRedlining But they *did* have the best high resolution maps!

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May

For those #twitterstorians heading to @dh17mtrl, check out the pre-conference workshop on "Shaping Humanities Data" https://t.co/VFKBMbLGz8

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“I know federal staff people, naturalists and so on, who are ... afraid they’ll get shot just for doing their job." https://t.co/KY7OlhJvlW

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"They made some settlements in Utah and Colorado, and Nevada, but nothing in the way that I know of in New Mexico,… https://t.co/Wj5wF7SIgn

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"Developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled scientific racism to enter a new era" https://t.co/GMpDpkZQb0

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"The power and dominance of Silicon Valley" is "at the centre of the global tectonic shift we are witnessing" https://t.co/QzfDZ4VXmf

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Tomorrow, I'll be in Lincoln for the Innovation in Pedagogy and Technology Symposium https://t.co/K8kWLXFiKL

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Dear @ComodiniCachia: I dropped 303 in the #paperstorm. Everyone else: 2 254 190. #fixcopyright https://t.co/c3cIOGCr6h

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I'm excited to announce that @UNOLibraries will be hosting a #mozsprint! Register here: https://t.co/oNshTMiEr6 #Omaha

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We'll be coming together for two days to launch a new project, Omaha Parks, mapping the city's parks and amenities! https://t.co/2N2X6eikwK

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@HC_Richardson @KevinMKruse @divafancypants @admcgregor85 @TheTattooedProf It’s the perfect “the establishment reje… https://t.co/hbqk25gu5C

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.@UNOLIbraries is looking for a social science librarian, with a focus on data collections and services. Join us! https://t.co/Tf5CEH7gap

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Hey #BigOmaha! Interested in open data + civic engagement? Join us June 1-2, 2017, as part of #mozsprint https://t.co/oNshTMiEr6.

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The FCC today took a step to creating a closed Internet. Make your voice heard, the proposal is open to comment: https://t.co/u6nE9z7wKg

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Join civic hackers at #mozsprint and build Open #Omaha, a web app for discovering the city’s parks and open spaces https://t.co/y24wZUZF5O

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@lincolnmullen Just remember, if you start one you have to name drop the same person in every episode. #FirstDraft @pfzenke @Elijah_Meeks

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Listen up @JeanMarieCAVADA. I personally dropped more than 1 000 leaflets for EU copyright reform at https://t.co/c3cIOGCr6h ! #fixcopyright

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#mozsprint is a two-day worldwide collaboration party for the open web! Learn more here https://t.co/y24wZUI4eg

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Join us at #mozsprint and build Open #Omaha, a web app for discovering the city’s parks and open spaces https://t.co/y24wZUI4eg

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@thomasgpadilla @micahvandegrift @diplomaticaerin @datacarpentry @NickoalEichmann @shefw I'm already hosting a Spri… https://t.co/6hsJ2K4mFk

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@scott_bot @thomasgpadilla @shefw @micahvandegrift @diplomaticaerin @datacarpentry @NickoalEichmann I’ll participate in any way I can!

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@thomasgpadilla @micahvandegrift @shefw @diplomaticaerin @datacarpentry @NickoalEichmann @scott_bot Count me in, too. I'll do what I can!

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@datacarpentry @thomasgpadilla @shefw @EllieDickson @notsosternlib @NickoalEichmann @micahvandegrift… https://t.co/Osp8m0DTsl

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Hey #Omaha! Join us for two fast-paced days of civic hacking at #mozsprint. There’ll be free coffee and swag, too!… https://t.co/ns17gffcnJ

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@micahvandegrift @datacarpentry Since I'm already running a #mozsprint next week I'll let ya'll take the lead on pl… https://t.co/LrJFrd6cuV

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Join #mozsprint civic hackers at Open #Omaha! Open data + web app + city parks. 📢: https://t.co/NEZUhM973G 💭: https://t.co/2N2X6eikwK

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We're two days away from #mozsprint! Join us to build Open #Omaha, a web app for discovering the city’s parks https://t.co/y24wZUI4eg

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@omahaparks We're doing something cool this week to promote Omaha's Parks! Care to join us? https://t.co/oNshTMiEr6

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Plenty of space left @UNOmaha to join me and civic hackers June 1-2. Come for the ☕️, #mozsprint swag, & open data!… https://t.co/ssOKH6YVwN

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@cbgoodman Did you say there was an Omaha GIS layer for walking trails, too? I only see the bike trails. https://t.co/iEOxyxuN73

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""The internet isn't a healthy place,” Hull says, “unless everybody feels safe to create, to communicate.”" https://t.co/ob3f8bqed3

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I think Kevin will still be tweeting this list through Friday, but this is a great set of books. https://t.co/lkYIwmfugf

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In about ten minutes I’ll be talking about deep maps and digital history at #MidwestHistory17 https://t.co/dxq4XmRLgr

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@glrichard If you want a deep dive in theory/practice, I have a comps list I've put together: https://t.co/6PQKl7LXBb

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@JimMc_Grath Relatedly, a couple episodes back @robot_or_not talked about canonical bagel flavors https://t.co/lH5rsMHL36

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Great talk on Library Collections as Data, featuring @thomasgpadilla, @cm_harlow, and @JaimeMears https://t.co/4tZ5sxyXNJ

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Finally got around to some short reflections on #mozsprint, and, more importantly, launched our #Omaha map! https://t.co/Rnxhrpdivk

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Google has made 40 years of Earth observations available to researchers using Google Earth Engine https://t.co/wogRc3uyjE

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@historying @jerielizabeth Ditto! I started taking notes on what you did to see what I could replicate for my stuff.

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@LDBurnett One thing I really miss about California: the tamales we would get at the farmers market. I need to find… https://t.co/CRucOV0UOo

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@briancroxall @BYU That's the best kind of move. If you haven't already, you'll have to meet my friend @BrendenWRensink there.

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#writingpact I keep forgetting to check in, but I'm here for sure every Friday morning with my local writing group.

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Returning to some work on city planning documents. Looking at sentiment. Will start writing some of this up soon. https://t.co/9pqPM1EVV2

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@rebeccawingo @LWieck @JimMc_Grath @throughthe_veil @rjordan_csu @rvoss @dougseefeldt @laurrn I'll +1 what Brandon,… https://t.co/GhT2RkL2e2

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@parezcoydigo @LDBurnett I do the same thing, but then index the folders with DEVONThink. I use DT’s tagging system… https://t.co/or9V4Krqux

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Fires are burning in the West. Here's the Goodwin Fire north of Phoenix, as seen from Landsat Live taken July 1… https://t.co/5dkaytKLib

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.@ftrain: "the web is both strangely permanent and deeply impermanent, often in exactly the way you don’t like." https://t.co/vlzA06NKrR

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@nicknisi @nejsconf I have a conflict this year and can't make it, but I'll keep it on the calendar for next year!

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I know it’s been a big news day, but I don’t want to lose sight of the #NetNeutrality issue. Tomorrow’s a big day. https://t.co/lGZuNMaekS

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There have been over six million filings sent to the FCC proposal to scrap #NetNeutrality https://t.co/Sc16dn1QIi

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This might be among my favorite Twitter exchanges https://t.co/kuZeEYSpiT @miriamkp @patrick_mj @JenServenti https://t.co/xiVxLBwvaL

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@patrick_mj @miriamkp @JenServenti I was looking for a different exchange between Miriam and I, and ran across this.

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@JenServenti @paregorios @patrick_mj @miriamkp I feel like @thomasgpadilla would be really proud of these puns.

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@JenServenti @nowviskie @paregorios @patrick_mj @miriamkp When someone in a few years writes a history of digital h… https://t.co/Z1YACOr9bB

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@jbf1755 I mentioned to someone recently how glad I was I wrapped up my diss before the elections for just this reason.

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The Day of Action gave the fight for net neutrality its spotlight moment. But it shouldn't end here. https://t.co/L8nx7Wdbm7

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Reminder for Midwestern #twitterstorians, CFP for a book on midwestern politics. Due Sept. 1. https://t.co/NAzYFV0Ats

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@danbenjamin Is there a way to "pause" a subscription on @firesidefm? Taking a break from producing, but will likely come back in the future

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@danbenjamin @firesidefm For starting the pause? Anytime, really. Co-hosts are in various states of life changes (n… https://t.co/ydoRRia2Ep

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95% of the FRUS archive now "contain machine-readable dates...suitable for date-based searching and sorting" https://t.co/hoJMNbg5F3

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Tuning in today to Collections as Data. Streaming live for those who also want to jump in https://t.co/QitlTVtqx1 #AsData

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.@smrobertson3: Digital projects by twentieth century historians are shaped by the restriction of sources. #asdata

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.@smrobertson3: The future direction of visualization is maps, and the capacity to dynamically integrate maps and narratives. #asdata

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@smrobertson3 No surprise I'm in complete agreement with this argument. I'll be talking briefly about it at DH17, too.

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.@ftrain Urging cultural heritage orgs to think about SQLite. Ubiquitous, unassuming, powerful, relational data. #asdata

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Will soon finish @jmeacham’s biography of GHW Bush. Great read; his conservatism seems so quaint in today’s climate.

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Wondered if fellow historians had books to add: either similarly about GHWB, or contextual reads @KevinMKruse @pastpunditry etc

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@yrgsupp @Zoe_LeBlanc @walshbr @ProgHist @wcaleb @lincolnmullen @electricarchaeo I'm not sure what you mean by thesis peer-support here?

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@lincolnmullen @ryancordell @benmschmidt @scott_bot @Ted_Underwood @cwellmon @historying Same here. That's part of… https://t.co/ia0NUPXFNr

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August

Reminder: deadline for single paper proposals @WhaHistory are less than a month away! Panel proposals due Dec. 1. https://t.co/b1uxEjYzWI

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From our bus tour of Montreal: St. Joseph's cathedral. @ L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal https://t.co/4iIgIIKDn0

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Fantastic keynote by @marindacos. We need to think more about audiences we don’t imagine we’re writing for. #dh2017

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@briancroxall @marindacos Do those have to be mutually exclusive? Though, I suppose the end result might always lea… https://t.co/IXjigmO8jM

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@triplingual @jerielizabeth @broomgrass @irishgeek79 @melissaterras @adlangmead Yes! Great catching up and meeting you all!

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.@jerielizabeth and I were chatting about this last night, too: all visualization needs explanation; they can’t sta… https://t.co/gr6jfP61QV

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@triplingual @ryancordell @jerielizabeth @foundhistory I’m particularly interested in visualization and narrative w… https://t.co/rpZcnEORhd

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@triplingual @ryancordell @jerielizabeth @foundhistory There are so many projects that separate the viz. from the n… https://t.co/HtD6tY9NK1

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@jerielizabeth @nolauren @ryancordell @triplingual @foundhistory Yes! Separating viz & narrative takes away from wh… https://t.co/6Gz2S9HtMH

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@jerielizabeth @nolauren @ryancordell @triplingual @foundhistory an illustration rather than integral to unfolding an argument.

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Replace “network visualizations” with “maps” and my list is roughly the same. #dh2017 https://t.co/D26EAe8VzV

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As my colleagues at @StanfordCIDR taught me, we should strive for “durable data.” https://t.co/YJgwdT2uHR

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@KevinMKruse Seriously, I don't know how you, @RadioFreeTom, @TheTattooedProf, @HC_Richardson, @jbf1755 etc. do th… https://t.co/soE87X3I5x

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@laxbikeguy I just agreed to review something, too. It was only after I hit "Send" that I reflected on my poor choices.

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@LWieck Great question. I'd imagine, yes, the hybrid probably exists because of pressures. i.e., discipline wants a… https://t.co/Qo9EzjfKFR

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@jbj @sramsay @nirak @patrickcentral And yes! Brave is awesome. Also a big fan of Firefox Focus on the phone.

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@sramsay @jbj @nirak @patrickcentral Right now, I roll: NordVPN, Firefox Focus (iOS); Firefox on desktop (w/ Privac… https://t.co/uqVmNQgq5U

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@sramsay @jbj @nirak @patrickcentral And just started using Little Snitch to monitor upload/download traffic (on de… https://t.co/ls23I0YLss

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@jbj @sramsay @nirak @patrickcentral Yeah, I've really liked it so far. And +1 on 1Password! Indispensable for me.

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@cbgoodman Hear, hear. I have the San Jose data that their project doesn't have and have offered it to them for use.

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@sramsay @jbj @nirak @patrickcentral Yeah! I signed up for their free plan just recently to try it out. It's great.… https://t.co/2d9XezoQ0B

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@pastpunditry I remember this same feeling during my first seminar in our Intro. to the Professional Study of History we all had to take.

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Pre-print issue of "Practical Data Science for Stats" edited by @JennyBryan and @hadleywickham https://t.co/tKQiYb42MZ

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@pastpunditry @brianros1 Would @madebyhistory be interested in a piece about Houston, '60-70s Silicon Valley, urban policy/lack thereof?

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September

Finally got a chance to look at @Elijah_Meeks' Semiotic #dataviz framework today. Really cool stuff. https://t.co/4MpKBzqclC

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@Readdle I'm getting an immediate crash of PDF Expert on macOS. I've sent logs to Apple. Can I provide anything help hunt down what's up?

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@ModeShiftOmaha FYI I created a small web application mapping pedestrian and cycling accidents in the city https://t.co/scosk3VM4G

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"The postman is wearing a respirator. The children are inside for recess. The sun is pink and the moon, orange." https://t.co/7DOLzL6ThF

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Due towards the end of this month: the CFP for @chnm's "Current Research in Digital History" conference https://t.co/0hmotVV3ZP

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Looking forward to tackling some key issues later this week at @chnm's Arguing with Digital History workshop! https://t.co/qLjpaS2Rgo

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Pressing question for the workshop at @chnm this week: should I bring my own coffee beans and brewing method or no? @lincolnmullen

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@matthewdlincoln @chnm @ProfessMoravec @MickiKaufman There's a group of us planning meet in the hotel lobby at 6:45 and head to Rustico.

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@matthewdlincoln I think @ryancordell @nolauren @jerielizabeth and others had a similar Twitter convo at #DH17, too.

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@matthewdlincoln @ryancordell @nolauren @jerielizabeth If only twitter had a half-decent search I could find the co… https://t.co/2w9aZENrhK

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Had a wonderful and stimulating time at #ArgDH. Great to catch up with friends and tackle some key questions.

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"More large, uncontrolled wildfires were burning in 10 Western states . . . than at any comparable time since 2006." https://t.co/HIEfAVbtli

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@Zoe_LeBlanc I did! It was a lot of work :) I had two things that helped: 1) write every day, 2) find a local writi… https://t.co/ctsJt24fPi

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@Zoe_LeBlanc I also had a local faculty member who really, really pushed me to get done. Literally *every* time I s… https://t.co/pUZkjACrwk

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@sherah1918 @scott_bot @Zoe_LeBlanc @chnm Agreed! @mwidner @catoptrophile and I were all ABD when we started at… https://t.co/SzI57PtSOo

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If @FieldNotesBrand wanted me to buy even more of them than I already do, then they found the way to do so: https://t.co/ax1dkpmA3e

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Western public historians in need of conference travel funding: consider applying to the Pubols Public History Fund https://t.co/apL23j77rX

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Over at @blog_west, the text of my keynote at the @MwHWG conference I gave back in June: https://t.co/JNjxuV70QC

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@ScrivenerApp @electricarchaeo The rich text to markdown converter is everything I've always wished for in Scrivener.

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Contribute to #PuertoRico relief efforts at the @UNOLibraries #prmapathon! No experience needed. RSVP:… https://t.co/NqoU1HGmmM

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@jduss4 @nirak Here's the OSM task manager, you can check out the two Red Cross priority tasks they're after. https://t.co/UGKfuzg2E0

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"Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated 'company towns' of the Gilded Age" https://t.co/UAGyIgE8cu

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@jduss4 @sramsay Nice choice! I’m sort of in the market for a new commuter bike and have looked at a couple Salsa bikes.

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October

Tomorrow at 11am at @UNOmaha, we'll be helping aid #PuertoRico relief efforts through #prmapathon! https://t.co/oR3Q8Wm7uY

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Hearing from @TJStiles_Author on Nebraska’s impact on national conflicts in US history. https://t.co/ACMTRRynHR

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The stark racism of the past, from a 1954 SF Bay Area newspaper. #amwriting #twitterstorians https://t.co/WidqVRFq63

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This is false. Most western towns had strict gun control or banned them outright. https://t.co/U871KS1Dob

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Take a moment to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day by learning whose land you're on: https://t.co/ngbsAvGxze

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Hey #publichistory friends, due this week for @ncph: poster and working group discussant CFPs! https://t.co/VL48Ms6bj4

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I'm not sure this is an apt observation. I suspect it'd be quite different without World War II expenditures. https://t.co/HQHHwReRU0

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The world’s first "negative emissions" plant has begun operation, turning carbon dioxide into stone https://t.co/Ez7s9Nwv9L

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I listen to @pastpresentpod to help me contextualize current events, and help me think about communicating my own work. #pastpresent

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The CFP for the Missouri Valley History Conference is out, proposals due December 4: https://t.co/WdhO2v1r1q #twitterstorians

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@ffreff I frequently make a distinction between Digital Humanities and Digital History. I think the two arenas have… https://t.co/gHCUlzpHl4

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@ffreff It's interesting to note the conflation, but I think that might have to do with DH being a bit meaningless… https://t.co/BNe395l418

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@ianmilligan1 You too! We’re just coming off a back to back cold for my daughter. And it seems to have hit me today.

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@ulyssesapp I’ve had the latest Ulysses on iOS crash twice, one resulting in loss of data. Any other reports of this?

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@ulyssesapp I did; if it happens again I'll file another report. FWIW, @bearnotesapp did the same to me this mornin… https://t.co/zs0svCrBDy

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At @blog_west, @MWChilders reviews the out×LAND×ish podcast, produced by the @ForestService. https://t.co/YSt02RZVyK

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@abbymullen @tropy Great! Also, hate to be that guy, but I found a reproducible bug. Took some screencasts to demon… https://t.co/NmcJrNRjje

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The @NatlParkService received a record-breaking 331 million visitors in 2016. The budget cuts Interior funding by 1… https://t.co/e4MZP06nRi

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@NatlParkService I should also note here that @EPA's 31% budget cut also affects this. EPA is responsible for enfor… https://t.co/UJwJPBPIaK

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@NatlParkService @EPA There's a very short comment period for the fee hike proposal. Head over and make yourself he… https://t.co/6OYp8ILc0f

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@karafromTN Thanks! No, I need to find time to scrape the latest definitions. I think they’re usually all posted online.

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I just have to say 1) thanks for all the tweets #USIH2017, 2) I’m loving all the public history comments from the plenary.

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The long-term of the project seeks to provide access to rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival material from across the US.

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If you're at the @WhaHistory conference this week, track down Kent Blansett or I if you want to join the cooperative or collaborate!

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@WhaHistory There's lots more to come, including a probable redesign. But we've started with the run of the famed A… https://t.co/Y4yEEEVn9o

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@captain_maybe @WhaHistory @LaMaMaETC Great to hear! Kent and I are still nailing some of that down, but I'll be in touch!

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In the near term, we'll add more metadata to the Akwesasne Notes collection, and add maps to allow a location-based entry to the archive.

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@Rachael_Bale @googledocs Same problem here; seems like a bug or something? Seems like a few folks on Twitter are having similar issues.

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@rebeccawingo @s_e_murray @WhaHistory I should too and we’ll turn the whole panel into a pun. You might say it’ll be *wild*.

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November

Hey #wha2017! Come by the Six Shooters lightning session at 1:30 to hear about innovative work in digital history. https://t.co/Q5bTeweASz

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@megankatenelson @nfousekis @the_wrangler @jason_patterson @InThePastLane @MonicaMnzMtz @nathanmasters I'll be there! Looking forward to it.

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@akane1066 Dude. I brought my own coffee beans and hand grinder to San Diego. I didn’t know you were in dire straig… https://t.co/X9fxOFJH3N

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@LWieck @rebeccawingo Might take a bit of digging. I haven't kept past word clouds, and I never set up anything to… https://t.co/9ahx1dzIQj

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The United States now stands alone as the only country to reject the Paris agreement on climate change. https://t.co/Z3sD8Cnitl

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Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire an… https://t.co/cn7LIub2bv

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“Something is wrong on the internet” — @jamesbridle https://t.co/eyEGPL3HEz https://t.co/N4UORIu87D

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@TwitterSupport I’m not having luck downloading my Twitter archive. I’m asked to confirm my email, but I’m not receiving an email.

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I care about finding the ways we can engage and work with communities in a way that's constructive for everyone. https://t.co/MnDITjtEHA

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I also believe that 1) we can learn a lot from local communities and their histories, and 2) it's a chance to broad… https://t.co/wnLFlQ8Upb

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1. Teaching: being accessible and trying to model public engagement. 2. Digital projects: archives, maps, and other… https://t.co/mpWFQc0BWs

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3. Communicate broadly: write for more than academic venues. Reach out to @madebyhistory, @conversationEDU; or, participate in podcasts!

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My hope is it enables new kinds of collaborations that can enable communities to share their stories. #HASTACpublic https://t.co/W5V5Jbo3Mx

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We're trying to model this with our recently soft-launched project https://t.co/7tqievfbQv, where we plan to work w… https://t.co/bNBOR1HkW7

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A4: I think they can overlap in areas of access, broad audiences, collaborative history making, making scholarship… https://t.co/Hi9ctCu4Eh

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This is frustrating. There are alternative forms of scholarship beyond print. #HASTACpublic https://t.co/x4GKVGLStF

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New at @blog_west, @brianleechphd explores the history and significance behind Helena, Montana's election of their… https://t.co/2phGwwU4nF

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Over at @ConversationUS, my essay on Silicon Valley and the histories and legacies of high-tech pollution: https://t.co/Szk6nJzdwf

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@lincolnmullen The new version, as I understand, has a way to export RTF → Multimarkdown, which is a game-changer. I've otherwise been writing in Markdown syntax and compiling to .md.

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@lincolnmullen But I'm only using it for the book. Articles, one-offs, etc. are still Markdown files and vim.

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@lincolnmullen I'll note that I also tend to do a lot of book writing from my iPad, and their iOS app is really great.

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@lincolnmullen Ah, yeah. I wish there was some way to index the files so I could edit in whatever I chose, but could still take advantage of the organization structure of Scrivener.

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Western historians! This Friday, the deadline for panel submissions for 2018's @WhaHistory conference! https://t.co/6o6bQGaPOa

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Also, if you know any #publichistory folks without institutional support or affiliations that would like to attend the @WhaHistory conference, consider donating to the Louise Pubols Public History Fund. #twitterstorians https://t.co/apL23j77rX

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A hard-fought 103 words this morning (mostly, rewrites, deletions, moving things around, and edits). #amwriting https://t.co/TRUY9xAz0z

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This spring at #UNOmaha, I'm teaching an introduction to digital humanities. https://t.co/rnTNK6Mxdn https://t.co/fuq70IZZWP

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@thomascauvin @alucchesi @LegayRichard Thanks Thomas! FYI my latest digital public history syllabus is here: https://t.co/bPfqFmJMeC. My course this Spring is less focused on PH this time around since it's meant to be more of a general intro to DH.

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December

President Trump's national monument rollback is illegal and likely to be reversed in court https://t.co/JGNpm5Vjka

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@BenjaminEPark @erin_bartram This is a great idea. I've been trying to identify issues/flow as I'm working through the diss-to-book process, this seems like a great way to do that.

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Under Trump, E.P.A. Has Slowed Down Actions Against Polluters, and Curbed Enforcement https://t.co/nbEYMDAs7w

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We've added twenty-eight new items to the American Indian Digital History Project: new pages from Akwesasne Notes, 1969-1975. https://t.co/7tqievfbQv

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@parezcoydigo I lean towards ambient music also. I really love the Monument Valley soundtrack (and the game is awesome). Or a lot of bebop jazz.

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@s_e_murray @dygottlieb I really dig the Monument Valley soundtrack (all ambient music; and it's a great iOS game). Or a lot of bebop jazz.

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@s_e_murray @dygottlieb Also, big fan of Mondo Cozmo also *high five* I'll check out the others you listed, Shannon!

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@dygottlieb I'll occasionally do the same. I picked up a few era-specific playlist ideas here https://t.co/FfhhNpawBK

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@quadrismegistus @broomgrass Ryan, how did I not know you were a fan of Westerns? We totally should've had CESTA viewing sessions.

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@quadrismegistus @broomgrass Little Big Man is hilarious. I haven't seen it in a few years. It's lambasting of Custer is excellent.

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@amykohout I’m a big fan of the DT to Go! Super handy. I’d been using a wiki for notes, etc., but I’ve been slowly dropping most of that into DT and syncing everywhere.

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@OWHepley Quick clarifying question: they're ending the pilot; does that mean the program is coming to a complete end? Or do they still accept the EnergyBags, for the time being?

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@KevinMKruse Is…is that a bot account he’s citing? There’s an odd capital letter (the i) in the Twitter handle.

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1. Book contract (official news soon; manuscript due in the fall) 2. Second book project proposal (ed. volume) sent off to press. 3. Successful first year @UNOmaha. https://t.co/x1IyF4tYy3

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Hal Rothman’s _Devils Bargains_, which led me to really think about communities, tourism, and the new economies of the American West. He’s deeply responsible for my own research agenda. https://t.co/IuCzdI1f9D

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@HistoriErin Are you doing this in R? I assume there's an issue with a wide array of values? I worked around that with a population map I made with the radius_scale function here: https://t.co/MJjFPE2e6F

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2016

January

Over at @blog_west, @LCChistory revisits the Bundy family, having lost empathy for their motivations https://t.co/rNGsWRXkmY

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Enjoy #aha2016 everyone! I had to drop out this year because our due date lands a little too close to the conference, but maybe next year!

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.@JoanNeuberger: “public history has benefited from the digital more than any other kind of work historians do.” https://t.co/vCQ6cIFJO8

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For the AM crowd: some thoughts and history on federal policy, western lands, and Malheur https://t.co/i9qX03Dkgu

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An absolutely stunning project from @StanfordCIDR that I’m happy to be playing a very small role in https://t.co/X2hAzJfMZ6

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#writingpact This morning, work on a journal article: section on deep maps and #envhist. Hoping to wrap up the whole thing by week’s end.

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Anyone have suggestions of projects that do well in citing/acknowledging the credit/labor that goes into them? #digitalhumanities

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@sherah1918 Perfect, thanks! I’m sharing some example project for a faculty member here looking to acknowledge credit properly.

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@LDBurnett @HartmanAndrew Would be happy to. But, I’d rec. my friend Leisl who knows *way more* about this stuff https://t.co/ugQhtqd6yK

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Nothing endears me more to Microsoft Word than hitting save, and having to watch a spinning beach ball for forty-five seconds.

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For the Monday morning crowd, we released a new podcast over the weekend: @_overanalyze https://t.co/BKizBUArQJ @anwils1 @rjordan_csu

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Very cool interactive Google Street View of Ireland around the 1916 Easter Rising, narrated by Colin Farrell https://t.co/TtoScKiwMp

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The water in Flint is so contaminated that GM stopped using it, fearing it corroded mechanical parts. https://t.co/wbgVjsS69Q

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Starting to draft a syllabus on “Design and Digital Humanities Publishing” that I’m team-teaching w/ @cncoleman. This class will be so fun.

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Malheur National Wildlife employees break their silence on armed occupation in eastern Oregon https://t.co/XpamipjyA8

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.@clured and @jjkarganis in the @nytimes today, on “What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us.” https://t.co/sKQmbLPD4M

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@TheTattooedProf Even though I’ve joined the Coasties for now, this Northern Plains expat still chuckles at reports like that.

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Settling in to hear from Sebastian Ahnert and Mark Algee-Hewitt on quantitative network analysis in @cesta_stanford.

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Ahnhert arguing that network analysis is much more than visualization. Visualizations are intuitive, not quantitative.

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Ahnert: Many real-world networks have scale-free degree distributions. Simple measure like degree shows some structure in networks.

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.@Mark_A_H: Working on the analysis of drama, using networks to simulate plays and draw quantitative data to explore its development.

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.@Mark_A_H: Using Eigenvector and Betweenness to measure the connections among characters in _The Rover_ (1677).

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.@Mark_A_H: Rakes, fops, and conspirators seen as central actors in 18th c. plays. Seeing the best-connected characters, not most central.

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.@Mark_A_H: The networks show that metrics mirror not literary theory, but sociological theory about the dramas.

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.@Mark_A_H: The take-away: if we can represent a play as an environment of interactions, we can *simulate* plays.

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.@Mark_A_H: Building a tool to allow the simulation of plays. Right now, it only runs locally to their machine (sorry tweeps).

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.@Mark_A_H: Representing the concerns of play writers and how they model the world; but also uncovering the limits of possibility for plays.

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February

In case you’ve ever wondered about the historical origins of the #IowaCaucus, @jlauck1941 has it covered https://t.co/oJaCFffnBg

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My digital history project on Native peoples employed by William F. Cody was cited on eBay auctioning a WFC employee contract #publichistory

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Finally putting my off-and-on Jekyll-based open history notebook together. Not quite prime-time ready, but soon. @wcaleb @lincolnmullen

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The biggest missing link (no pun intended) in my open notebook is handling internal linking. post_url is OK, but not as elegant as Gitit.

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Hal Rothman’s “devil’s bargains”: public lands are good for rural areas, but are benefits > costs? https://t.co/bMXOrNNvHv @highcountrynews

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@kacinash Yep. Pretty similar since online and local are in sync. And there may be things locally I don’t put online for reasons. But yes :)

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Ironically, I just watched an episode of Longmire last night that had a similar scenario, with a survivalist playing the anti-government guy

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Ever wanted to hear @anwils1, @rjordan_csu and I nerd out over Star Wars? Now you can! The latest from @_overanalyze https://t.co/qSzipCss6N

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It’s a little surreal to see headlines in 2016 that include John Lewis, Henry Kissinger, and Harry Belafonte.

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.@DanielKayHertz suggests the mythical “Heartland” shouldn’t define the Midwest https://t.co/7navDqBOaZ

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The surprising link between postwar suburban development and today's inner-city lead poisoning https://t.co/wt1ildpvDC

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At @NewRepublic, @JoshuaMound suggests the Democratic Party learned the wrong lessons from George McGovern https://t.co/XddvwUJzoI

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March

For the #histcomm folks, a humble podcast plug: @_overanalyze, where @anwils1 @rjordan_csu and I talk about pop culture + history.

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My good friend and grad colleague @rebeccawingo talks @HistoryHarvest on Minnesota Public Radio https://t.co/zX6Bb39REB

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Rainy Saturday morning; following #histcomm, making German pancakes, French press coffee, hanging with Baby, and good music.

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#histcomm I’m capturing ya’lls tweets into a Google Spreadsheet. I’ll release the data onto Github once the summit wraps up.

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@wcaleb Once I’m back from paternity leave next week, I think I might adopt this (+ close Twitter and Slack).

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Four years ago to the day, I started my comprehensive exams. Friday, I defend my dissertation. #writingpact #graftonline

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Big thanks to #writingpact and #graftonline, my at-a-distance writing groups. Special shoutout to @LDBurnett & @cliotropic for intro’ing me.

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@lizcovart What’s your editor of choice these days? Been using GarageBand, and super tempted to drop the dough on Logic…

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.@Stanford #rstats folks, we’re pulling together some resources and contacts to build up the campus R community: https://t.co/wCZ9wRNCKq

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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is behind a new civics education game called Win the White House https://t.co/scg9IRQOPG

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West Side Stories, great digital project using #oralhistory and spatial history to examine gentrification in Oakland https://t.co/Plgbx9vqom

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Relatedly, another #oralhistory and spatial history project charting evictions in the Bay Area https://t.co/Dzcrojclvu

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In our Digital History reading group today, hearing about the use of database for historians and data organization. https://t.co/0lNCPKzZ2i

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@JulieThePH Today was more workshop-y, so nothing in particular to rec. But, an intro to SQLite and IPython, with examples of data wrangling

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April

Ithaka survey: “There is no observable trend towards a format transition for monographs.” https://t.co/IIcAm5zkz9

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@lincolnmullen @electricarchaeo I might just steal ALL THE THINGS because your `_note` directory is exactly what I wanted to do.

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@lincolnmullen @electricarchaeo Same here. I’m no expert with Sass, but it’s great having variables available in CSS.

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@lincolnmullen @sleonchnm @scott_bot @matthewdlincoln @Adam_Crymble @mcburton @adlangmead @mjlavin80 Yes please

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For #DayofDH2016 we’re kicking off week-long workshops on digital archives for our collaborators with the African Colonial Employees Project

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@Curatescape @ebellempire I figured it out. Forgot that plugin directories can’t include the “-“ in the name. (e.g., “Plugin-master”)

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Another great day of workshopping the African Colonial Employees archive with @feefifofannah. This project is going to be great.

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Slumping energy prices in Wyoming is forcing massive layoffs and cutting into the state's revenue https://t.co/PH6eUsUpGP

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Nice write-up in the Chronicle on @3underscores and @edward_l_ayers’s @americanpano project https://t.co/OVduSWqJGa

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Couldn’t make it to the opening reception of @rumseymapcenter, but will live tweet speakers when I can tomorrow and Thursday!

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@rumseymapcenter @mejackreed @mapninja Do we have a hashtag for events this week? If no, would #rmc16 work? Or #stanfordrmc?

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@StanfordLibs @mejackreed @rumseymapcenter @mapninja Can I propose #rmc16 for tweeting speakers? That hashtag uses up a lot of characters.

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Greek scholars have explored Ptolemy’s sequence of description; not a journey. But Pausanias was read by travelers. #rumseyctropens

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Parker: In what ways did ancient Greeks and Romans interact with maps? Visual maps may have been add-ons. #rumseyctropens

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If we want to know Greek and Roman map-mindedness, we need all the help we can get as we reconstruct non-surviving maps. #rumseyctropens

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These maps are encoded in texts, explored in texts like the Luke-Acts and Odyssey — implicit maps to explore. #rumseyctropens

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Looking first at Abraham Ortelius’ *Parergon*, the first historical atlas as we understand it today. #rumseyctropens

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Showing us Edward Quin’s *Historical Atlas* as a series of maps of the “known world” #rumseyctropens https://t.co/Ch8ybjuv9Z

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What’s the value of historic maps? They contain evidence not available in other mediums, & they’re multimedia encyclopedias. #rumseyctropens

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Van Duzer showing us descriptive text on maps that are the only records we have to suggest early voyages and discoveries #rumseyctropens

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When explorers named places along the South Amer. coast, saints of the day’s discovery were used to name places. #rumseyctropens

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Cross-referencing names and the saint’s calendar gives a chronology of voyage within the map. #rumseyctropens

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Van Duzer now showing us evolving illustrations of the walrus. An iconographic history of the walrus fro maps! #rumseyctropens

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@matthewdlincoln @jtheibault Thanks, John! We gave birth to our first child, and I defended. I might just take the rest of 2016 off.

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Military leaders like Lee and Grant were trained as “topogs” — experts at reading the land, surveys, and maps #rumseyctropens

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Knowles: Using maps for history is a kind of love fest. Once you unlock them, it’s like looking into the face of history. #rumseyctropens

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Knowles: There’s a seductive realism to the digital image; try not to be seduced by the technology. #rumseyctropens

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Knowles: The more modes of representation we have, the more we will capture a diverse audience. #rumseyctropens

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An afternoon discussion with the @HDStanford Fellows on digital dissertations is pulling me from #rumseyctropens. Will resume tomorrow!

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Schulten: Maps made by children uncover a word of early 19th c. life in schools, young women, & the early republic. #rumseyctropens

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Schulten: Geography central to female academies; and a central practice in geography is map drawing. #rumseyctropens

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Schulten: Men worked in the field in surveying and mapmaking; women were indoors, mapmaking an inculcation of discipline. #rumseyctropens

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Schulten: Map drawing often assigned relative to writing: practicing types of hand, precision of borders, etc. #rumseyctropens

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The practice of handwriting, calligraphy, and artistic discipline in children’s maps #rumseyctopens https://t.co/lRZqIev1Er

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Schulten: Extreme elements of competition in the female academies surrounding the creation of maps. #rumseyctropens

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Schulten: There’s a visual culture emerging among female students that turns their minds to graphic education. #rumseyctropens

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Schulten: Looking at the work of Emma Willard and her visual portrayals of time and history https://t.co/zspyNy1bug #rumseyctropens

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Wigen: The Omi province was a key area for transportation, militarily strategic, and a powerhouse of spirituality #rumseyctropens

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Frank: Discussing how we use historic maps for economic history, with an emphasis on the data you can derive from maps. #rumseyctropens

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Frank: Focusing in on the business district of Rio, to locate property values specific to individual parcels of land. #rumseyctropens

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Frank: Using GIS to visualize kinds of businesses helps us think about the logics of distribution. #rumseyctropens

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Edelstein explaining connections in networks, network theory, and the conclusions we draw. https://t.co/NBlYg9KAqZ

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.@danedels: Perhaps not so much a small world theory (e.g., degrees of separation), but a “many worlds” theory.

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.@cncoleman: Visualization of networks can be problematic because rerunning layout algorithms an return different layouts.

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May

A little one-dimensional, as though DH were a single thing. Nevertheless, this read in the @LAReviewofBooks is good https://t.co/sDWmhfYeSo

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@jordanreed14 Yeah, and as @sleonchnm pointed out in a different convo., no archivists, librarians, or curators.

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@lincolnmullen I don’t know if you are using it, but I got my notebook tags page working with _note content https://t.co/fYxADWCqAR

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@lincolnmullen Nice. I’ve been thinking about how to do the same. This looks like a good way to handle it.

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Great review of Jon Weiner's new book _How We Forgot the Cold War_, on memorializing the Cold War. https://t.co/e75gbKMLCp

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Michele Rosen at USIH responds to the LARB #digitalhumanities piece https://t.co/ScJs217q23 https://t.co/ScJs217q23 https://t.co/TEUWot2tTm

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This weekend is the #shiftctrl conference @Stanford. Be sure to follow along if you're into histories of computing. https://t.co/1aV90Unykk

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Course proposal submitted to teach Digital Public History this coming fall quarter. Now to get the syllabus fully drafted.

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A quick and dirty view on the average size of farms in the Santa Clara Valley, leading up to its rapid urbanization. https://t.co/cp1QbbHSTk

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Coming Monday, the release of Stanford University Press’s first born-digital monograph: https://t.co/9SCdE7Ou8Q

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A collaborative project on the Elwha River between @MWChilders and @LCChistory, over at @blog_west: https://t.co/enLfNrAr4t

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Over at @PacificStand, “Droughtlandia”: When climate change causes Californians to move north. https://t.co/HJRB1bH7UJ

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Today at 11a Pacific, @stanfordpress will release their first born-digital publication by @nbbauch. Live stream: https://t.co/9SCdE865xq

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Tuned in to SUP’s livestream on the digital publication of @nbbauch’s Enchanting the Desert https://t.co/ZR2vzgop47

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“Dreamers of Silicon Valley lived in anything but a virtual, place-less void empty of environmental consequences.” #amwriting #writingpact

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A report finds human developments are wiping out the American West’s natural lands https://t.co/inxJcqAFET

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@owletbabycare Been stuck on this screen for five minutes, both my & wife’s phone. Force closing the app doesn’t fix https://t.co/P6g35UkCdT

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@tdd @owletbabycare Thanks for the heads up! I can’t follow those steps at the moment since Baby is asleep for the night…

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@tdd @owletbabycare Sounds like the base station and sock are communicating correctly, it’s just an issue with their app?

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Finally fixed the issue with points not appearing on my Silicon Valley pollution map https://t.co/r7vxrTZeqd. Even works in Safari now!

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The case for removing the Glen Canyon Dam, and #AmWest state’s new attempts to grab upriver waters. https://t.co/vk00kTqpYI

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@wcaleb Speaking of jazz, I wanted you to know I introduced my 3.5 mo. old daughter to The Bad Plus last week. #aha2015

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#dighist #twitterstorians I’m teaching a digital public history course this fall. What readings/projects would you include for students?

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June

Settled in at @cesta_stanford for @matthewdlincoln on “Linked Open Realities,” on using linked open data for research.

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Twenty homes in a California subdivision are attempting to make at least as much energy as they use over a year https://t.co/tESMbtuKCY

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Lovely time at there farmers market for daddy-daughter day, enjoying some excellent @CraftVoyager coffee for there first time.

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The rumors are true. We’re actually recording @firstdraftcast today. @Elijah_Meeks @pfzenke https://t.co/3I4coLCfyo

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Conversations about lands in the #AmWest should start with the history of Indigenous lands, borders, and treaties https://t.co/VzQvZa7q4r

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The story of Hot Tamale Louie, a Mexican-food vender, Afghan immigrant, and patriarch of Wyoming’s Muslim population https://t.co/pximQT9GEU

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@lincolnmullen @HistoriErin “opening a gear store . . . something like REI in Canada” https://t.co/Dc5GElDMM3

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In case #dhsi2016 is interested in how @lincolnmullen and I are teaching interactive data visualization #dhrstats https://t.co/iW80fANgDr

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Getting hands-on with @abbymullen’s Quasi War data to build a sample #rstats Shiny app. #dhrstats #dhsi2016

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@jerielizabeth Yep. Plan to meet up with Lincoln at MacLarin after the colloquium. We talked earlier about maybe going.

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@jerielizabeth @HistoriErin Ok! Should we congregate at MacLarin around 6:00? I might head that way soon to hang out.

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@owletbabycare We’ve been stuck on the loading screen on iOS the last 2 nights. Restarts haven’t helped, no alarm even though base alarmed.

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@jerielizabeth @HistoriErin Not sure yet. Maybe downtown? Catching up w/ @eetempleton @GeorgeOnline @samplereality @lincolnmullen, too.

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@miriamkp We need to get coffee together one of these days. Thinking a lot about this too, + visualization. Would love to exchange ideas.

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It’s been fantastic, #dhsi2016. Tremendously good time working w/ @lincolnmullen, & can’t say enough great things about the #dhrstats class.

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@miriamkp @thomasgpadilla That’d be fantastic. Maybe there’s a special journal issue or edited book project here somewhere, too…

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As I’m working on a couple of digital history reviews, I find myself returning to this @historying post: https://t.co/g2Tipuw4ci

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William F. Cody mocked in the pages of the _Daily Yellowstone Journal_ over a theory about George Custer. https://t.co/q9IAYV59B5

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Excited for next week’s UseR conference here at Stanford. Although, I feel like I should apologize for the heat wave that’s coming. #rstats

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@matthewdlincoln As someone who grew up in the humid northern Plains, I’m glad it won’t be humid. But yeah, 90s all next week!

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@LDBurnett Great piece. I grew up in SD, lived in NE five years for grad school before coming to CA. Miss that place and it's landscapes.

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Missed day one of #user2016 because of jury duty summons, but eager to check out the rest of the week’s lineups. https://t.co/iiwCy5lfS0

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Stanford #rstats folks, if you’re interested in the campus community, @StanfordLibs wants to help: https://t.co/wCZ9wRNCKq #user2016

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At the top of the hour: the opening keynote “Forty Years of S.” Live streamed here: https://t.co/Ppnvp4LtFn #useR2016 #rstats #dhrstats

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Bummed to have missed what looked like a great session yesterday on RLadies and #techdiversity. See: @RWomenTaskforce.

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#Stanford folks, if you are not attending #useR2016, presentations stream in Green Library Room 121A. Details: https://t.co/ev8RMLIDl9

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Becker: SCS Library at Bell Labs, researchers worked with librarians, and the library offered high-quality FORTRAN routines. #UseR2016

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Some R graphics ideas stem from ideas in 1972, graphical parameters designed by John Chambers, John Tukey, Becker #UseR2016

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The idea of the arrow assignment (<-) comes from S, to indicate the value stored in association to a name. #UseR2016

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Becker: "UNIX was one of those things that I don't think management wanted it, but they got it anyway.” #UseR2016

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Sorry to miss @alice_data’s talk (professional obligations pulled me away). From Twitter it sounds great! #UseR2016

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#UseR2016 folks, has anyone tried pairing Shiny interactivity with the arcdiagram package? https://t.co/D0TAqNpH6P #rstats

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The implementation of html_notebook for RMarkdown will allow inline graphics and htmlwidgets, run Python/Bash/R #UseR2016

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Stanford colleagues: Not attending #UseR2016 but want to catch the afternoon keynote? @StanfordLibs has you covered https://t.co/wCZ9wRNCKq

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I think I might use Bookdown for my next book project. Impressed with what I’ve seen at #UseR2016 https://t.co/4ueHDy8TTH

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July

Lost Highway: Aliens, archaeology, and the atomic bomb - A road trip through the ruins of the American West https://t.co/yN5ahVa0cg

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@Curatescape How do I get multiple subjects listed like this from @CLEhistorical? Comma-separated doesn’t work. https://t.co/ETEEg2Xbca

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Chronicling America is expanding its chronological scope! Twentieth century historians rejoice. https://t.co/wURzsb9A0j

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Thrilled to have Stanford Archives offering generous support for @svhistorical. Excited to kick things off this fall.

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Leonard Peltier, Bill Janklow, and presidential politics. How AIM continues to cast a political shadow. https://t.co/u2A2SH9ZdA

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Great piece from @kmapesy and @brandontlocke in @DHandLib on whether DH Librarians need to be in libraries. https://t.co/T9ItmlNhLp

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August

Interesting visualization on the shifting U.S. electoral map https://t.co/69daZ3qjIa https://t.co/aWL3RJtuH4

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Thrilled to see this @cesta_stanford project in the latest Western Historical Quarterly. https://t.co/LaHxWPXV6B

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Getting back into the swing of things, #writingpact. This morning, coffee and syllabus revisions. Need to nail down this schedule.

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@brandontlocke For digital, can I plug my own? https://t.co/OmQXBiXMPx (grad/undergrad). I can send you the grad supplement I made, too.

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@brandontlocke There’s also @wcaleb’s methods syllabus (specific to U.S. cultural history) https://t.co/Owvbr9LDeP

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It’s fun looking back on old notes at the earliest days of my dissertation, rough outlines and ideas I felt gave the project definition /1

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Some of those ideas fell to the wayside, naturally, as the project evolved over the course of three years. /2

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But it’s fascinating, in a self-reflective way, to see which ideas stuck and carried through even as the project took on greater clarity. /3

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The environmental legacy of Western mining: a much bigger problem than just the Gold King Mine #envhist #AmWest https://t.co/nTJH5OTblh

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Landscaper, irrigation service tech, music store cashier, irrigation foreman, museum aide, teaching & research asst. https://t.co/on9Q8dt6hx

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On Alan Bogue’s importance to Midwestern history, see this interview with @jlauck1941 from a couple years back: https://t.co/LbdKD2dPcO

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@seth_denbo Are the guidelines linked at the bottom of this the most recent version of the DH guidelines? https://t.co/7ShH8H9XMq

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Couldn’t imagine a better intellectual environment than @UNLHistory and the mentorship of @wgthomas3 and others.

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The history is a little more complicated than this, but the suburb/capital divide is right https://t.co/fsoSamqKbs https://t.co/tnZlSE73vl

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Last night I had a dream I became an intellectual historian on what was probably a great research project, but now I can’t remember details.

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@sleonchnm I use mine every morning. And sometimes a second time in the morning. And maybe again in the afternoon.

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@sleonchnm Ditto, I'm decent at sticking to two. Unless it's a super early day, like today. Or Baby was awake frequently. Like today. ☕️☕️☕️

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Devils bargains, as Hal Rothman would say: "Loved To Death: The Unintended Consequences Of Colorado Tourism" https://t.co/3C92lkEcvr #AmWest

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@calhistorian @LDBurnett @_m_miles I learned its pronunciation when a ranger sang us a version of "Clementine" abt places in Yosemite.

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@s_e_murray Great points, thanks for the feedback! I'll have to give this a little more thought about how best to incorporate.

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@s_e_murray You've reminded me about this resource (put together by @sleonchnm and @sherah1918, I believe) https://t.co/dEvZCrrtDw

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Update to my San Jose annexation map: replaced the static map with an interactive basemap https://t.co/THfIZgPV9P

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@mwidner Yep! The ‘60s were the heyday of urban expansion. I’m working on city boundaries for other places to get a better view overall.

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September

@miriamkp @marika_louise Mine's here, under Research > Digital, or Public History/Humanities Exp. https://t.co/ngskSZ5KOa

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@miriamkp @marika_louise I use to include a dataviz of "tech competencies." But when I started building the CV in LaTeX, I stopped.

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@miriamkp @marika_louise I wrote about that here https://t.co/nAZm3BZmV1, but apparently I've broken the images that were included :(

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@miriamkp @marika_louise The version I wrote about in that blog post was slightly different from this, to give a sense of *when* I +

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@EdwiredMills @scott_bot When I first moved here, I had a nice 8 minute train ride & mile walk to campus. But I’d bleed money in rent.

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@abbymullen @wcaleb Agree, I don't think it's common. But I read it for comps also, and always discuss it w/ grads when talking DH's history

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@jtheibault @benmschmidt @scott_bot @sleonchnm @abbymullen @wcaleb There’s also @wgthomas3′s piece, which talks ToTC https://t.co/grzbbiisAI

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Nice reflection by @benjamingwright and @josephllocke on @AmericanYawp and mass collaboration: https://t.co/ik132bA3wT

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I am excited to announce that in January I'll be joining @UNOmaha as an Assist. Prof. / Digital Engagement Librarian https://t.co/tDPrZNB4kR

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I'm still amazed I ended up at @Stanford four years ago, and it was a difficult decision to decide to leave.

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I never thought I'd be coming back to Nebraska. But for personal and professional reasons,@UNOmaha will be a wonderful fit.

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@amycsc @unocrisslibrary I'm out of practice with the -7 temperatures, but I'm sure it'll come back to me soon enough.

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Thanks for the warm congratulations, everyone! 2016 has been big: a baby, a Ph.D., an new job. And, nearly, a book contract.

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Climate change and the Cold War: melting ice caps reveals a hidden US nuclear project #envhist https://t.co/ogMaGgOUki

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Why does San Jose have so many unincorporated areas? History and public policy provides the answer https://t.co/t5rozJzsqF @KQED

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I am writing about these issues as well, including this interactive map of San Jose's growth https://t.co/THfIZgyjLf @KQED

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@thelocalhistory I'm trying to get more annexation data from other cities, too. I'm curious about, more generally, city expansion here.

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If I wanted to talk to @internetarchive about getting a video game into their collection, who would I reach out to? #digitalhumanities

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October

At @ATXpo’s student panel discussion on technology in the classroom/research. A shoutout to @HDStanford’s Palladio from @rcmidura.

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@LWieck Oh. I thought the plan was to sip a gin & tonic while quietly rereading “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” and contemplating.

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The Univ. of Nevada, Reno, is looking for an assist. prof. of History focusing on U.S. West & environment. https://t.co/FFhMniQOSm

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.@WhaHistory attendees: interested in digital history? Or have a project to share? Sign up for Six Shooters https://t.co/iZV1pdmM0n

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Hanging with my @cesta_stanford peeps at their open reception. Going to miss this lab and it’s people’s a lot! https://t.co/eM4RMi3lkh

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@LWieck @megankatenelson @WHAGrads A couple folks have been using #WHA2016, but haven't heard anything officially.

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Excited to be heading to #WHA2016 this week. A few days of good food, good drink, and good conversation, with good friends.

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#WHA2016 attendees, wondering where to eat in St Paul? Here’s your guide (via #CoalitionWHA2016) https://t.co/n7jXx9WzK8

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@cdc29 Understandable! We’ll have to catch up again soon. The opportunity will probably be more likely, too, since I’m moving to @UNOmaha :)

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UT Dallas is looking for an Endowed Chair, History of the West or Southwest #WHA2016 https://t.co/l7Yt1qGOKF

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Congratulations to @EMNhistory, the new Executive Director of @WhaHistory, and @UNOmaha as the new institutional home of the organization!

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#WHA2016, come by Gov. III today at 8:30 for the Six-Shooters lightning rounds on digital history https://t.co/4SbH2GFbQh

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Up first, Sarah Clayton at the Univ of Oklahoma Libraries on the Great Depression and the New Deal https://t.co/8pjEYyN3B4

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The course site Making Modern America: Discovering the Great Depression and New Deal https://t.co/PInHRWckl5

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Up next, Julie Davis at the University of Minnesota on indigenous food wisdom repository https://t.co/NBY21sixwL #WHA2016

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Davis creating a repository of indigenous food wisdom, a multimodal project gathering knowledge and expertise #WHA2016

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Davis: The project is also about decolonization, highlighting of indigenous knowledge and research #WHA2016 https://t.co/qbcKRyYVoq

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Up next, @historyequals at UNL on the shared experiences of American Indians and American Jews in the Dakotas #WHA2016

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.@historyequals: Working on textual analysis (topic modeling in particular) to explore these shared experiences… https://t.co/v4p0zq5wWD

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.@historyequals: Exploring the ontological shifts among Jewish and Indian testimony #WHA2016 https://t.co/mbBCOta2VA

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.@historyequals: One big issue is the responsibility and ethics of working with indigenous lives and knowledge. #WHA2016

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Up now, Jeff Malcomson at the Montana Historical Society on developing a deep mobile app on Montana history. #WHA2016

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Malcomson: Project emerged from a Governor’s Mobile App Challenge in 2014 to make state government more accessible to citizens. #WHA2016

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Malcomson: Problems arose. Poor communication w/ governors office, lack of IT buy-in, technical difficulties. #WHA2016

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.@rvoss: One solution is to encounter DH early and often. Data entry, points of contact with DH, DH has some part of every class. #WHA2016

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.@rvoss: How do you do DH at a moderately selective, small school in the Midwest? No DH courses, no room to propose classes. #WHA2016

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.@rvoss: Also fostering collaborative teaching experiences with high school teachers to promote DH knowledge #WHA2016

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Up next, @ChrisWells_Mac at Macalester College on developing Minnesota Environments https://t.co/WcvX0PHnZv #WHA2016

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Wells: Since they were writing environmental histories, many were place-based. How could we tell the stories of the landscape? #WHA2016

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Wells: Turned to @Curatescape to develop an application for students to contribute content out of coursework #WHA2016

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Wells: The project helps make the collections of the archives available to researchers and students. #WHA2016

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. @LWieck: Focusing on the community newspaper El Tecolote published in the Mission of San Francisco #WHA2016

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. @LWieck: Mapping the spaces deemed safe/unsafe, sites of activism, businesses, public space. #WHA2016 https://t.co/iV8PdEEtZJ

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.@LWieck: Mapping the areas of crime & violence, urban redevelopment, cultural discrimination to explore community… https://t.co/bqa9OdUPF9

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Cannot wait to start reading one of my #WHA2016 hauls: Joshua Reid’s award winning study of the Makah https://t.co/A8iSFVteOQ

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@thelocalhistory I'll be contributing, but also soliciting volunteers from historical societies/archives/etc. in the area.

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@thelocalhistory Although, I may also start another Curatescape project in Omaha after I get relocated there...

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.@charmillerfour on the Bundy acquittal and the growing risk to public lands officials. https://t.co/JfSAv8oW8F https://t.co/EXlYd9vTBu

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@DctrNO Agreed. Missing some important folks I’d like to see there (H. Rothman and R. White also come to mind).

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Entering my final week at Stanford. Hard to believe. It has been remarkable working with @StanfordLibs, @StanfordHistory, & @cesta_stanford.

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@acmwilliams1 David Freund’s chapter “Marketing the Free Market: State Intervention and the Politics of Prosperity in Metropolitan America“

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I’m going to deeply miss my @cesta_stanford friends and colleagues, but look forward to our future collaborations! https://t.co/zpeauaAKuj

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The rumors are true: we’re recording the final episode of @firstdraftcast (@Elijah_Meeks @pfzenke) https://t.co/h28wDLTBeH

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@SeanKammer Trump’s first major national security decision is to dismiss a CIA report about foreign intervention. https://t.co/oI1TAuBZTV

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The CFP for the third annual Midwestern History Conference being held in Grand Rapids this summer is due January 1: https://t.co/ltiypnqv3g

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I’ve signed the @neveragaintech pledge, promising to resist the creation of unconstitutional technology used against US citizens.

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.@pastpunditry on historical analogies: "History provides lessons for the present, not spoilers for the future." https://t.co/shT3Q6tCQY

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Getting this #rstats error, anyone have an idea what’s up? @lincolnmullen @matthewdlincoln https://t.co/GkGAIeJYip

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Some workshop material, including a website, for the network analysis workshop at #AHA17 next week https://t.co/LXHIqNgWYM

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"scientists...were scrambling to create off-site copies of critical data about Earth and its changing climate." https://t.co/EC0lTT1ZIR

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January

@wcaleb That might work. My wife is coming in to NY around 5, so an 8:30p at Vanguard would probably work.

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@wcaleb I’d probably be up for a 10:30p Sunday, also; I’m playing tourist on Monday so I don’t have a need to be up early :)

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@wcaleb Bummer, okay. Unless you’re up for that late Sunday set… (My friend @rjordan_csu might be interested, too).

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@wcaleb @rjordan_csu That’s a good idea. Okay, let’s plan to call Sunday and see if we can land a reservation then.

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@triplingual I’m actually just now grabbing something at the hotel bar. But I’d be up to hang out when I’m done if you’re out and about.

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And another just-in-time for #aha2015, I’m finally releasing the early stages of my digital dissertation project http://t.co/PFOtR8qzgG

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Ya’ll are the best. Thanks for the feedback so far on the project. I added a quick update to the topics page http://t.co/lb6xR67VdW

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Terrific evening with @lincolnmullen @abbymullen @nolauren @jeriwieringa @rjordan_csu and @historying #aha2015

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@cliotropic Sorry to have missed you at the #twitterstorians reception! Perhaps we’ll get a chance to connect later this week.

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I’ll be at the #s95 10:30 Digital Pedagogy for History: Lightning Round, Sheraton lower level, Conf Rm D. https://t.co/Pk0S8JaOI1 #AHA2015

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Great evening of food, conversations, and laughs with @galarzaalex @samplereality @jmcclurken and @rjordan_csu #aha2015

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Settling in for #s158 Authoring Digital Scholarship for History w/ @historying @nolauren @YAppelbaum @adelinekoh #aha2015

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I’ll be at #s195 at a 11:30a roundtable about careers and alt-ac with @andrewtorget @EdwiredMills @janaremy @katinalynn #aha2015

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.@YAppelbaum: Hyperlinks allow us to bring our citations into the text, and drive our audiences back to our sources. #aha2015

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.@YAppelbaum: Hyperlinks lets us engage our public, increases rigor, and erodes the distinction between popular and scholarly #aha2015

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.@YAppelbaum: The internet rewards narrative, original research, compelling arguments. It matches our strength as a discipline #aha2015

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.@historying: Citing @foundhistory’s “Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology” http://t.co/BRY30Qp3g5 #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: There’s an imbalance between DH workshops, grants, labs, and the impact it has on generating scholarly claims #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: The Martha Ballard post is the most widely read piece he’s written. But the problem: nothing revelatory here. #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: People like the post because of its methodological potential, not it’s actual results. #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: Now citing his JAH article using computational techniques to study spatial history http://t.co/SsNQMvTcTP #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: The JAH article was a different audience than the Ballard post: DH is more than tech for the sake of tech. #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: Much of the feedback on the article, however, has focused on the methodology rather than the result. #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: It’s telling that many DH panels here use the words “potential,” “promise,” “possibilities.” #aha2015 #s158

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.@nolauren Her work demands the digital. Digitizing film reduces the amount of damage film receives, extends their reach. #aha2015 #s158

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I did some work a few years ago using archival TV footage. Very tough to find. I’m glad people like @nolauren digitize these things #aha2015

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Ed Ayers: These are big things we’re talking about. Digital is many branching roads, not the information highway #s158 #aha2015

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Ayers: We have for the first time in our professional discipline a potential to reach wide audiences without diluting #s158 #aha2015

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Ayers: The concern of the digital makes us aware of the means in which we talk to each other and our public #s158 #aha2015

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.@adelinekoh: Asking as a non-historian: if historians open up sources and methods, what happens to specialization? #s158 #aha2015

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.@YAppelbaum: Not denigrating the value of the monograph or journal article. But there will be more variety of form. #s158 #aha2015

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.@adelinekoh: How is history going to be shaped by something other than an academic institution? #s158 #aha2015

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.@adelinekoh: With the multiplicity of sources, methodologies, citizen-historians, what happens to the discipline? #s158 #aha2015

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.@YAppelbaum: Our greatest strength as a discipline is people read our work for the sheer pleasure of reading it. #s158 #aha2015

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.@YAppelbaum There’s some danger of blurring the lines, but that’s up to us. We have to insist on academically rigorous work. #s158 #aha2015

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Q: How are these projects evaluated for promotion and tenure? Will alternative output be given similar weight? #s158 #aha2015

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Ayers: Chairs the AHA task force on evaluating digital scholarship. A draft of guidelines will be coming soon. #s158 #aha2015

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.@historying Everyone focuses on tenure, but a bigger problem is the disconnect between hiring process and tenure process. #s158 #aha2015

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.@historying: When someone is hired in DH to do “this,” department’s don’t know what “this” is. #s158 #aha2015

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.@YAppelbaum We’re talking the outsourcing of judgment. An article in a journal gets a certain value. DH doesn’t have this. #s158 #aha2015

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Q: The rapid development of DH tools is joined by the rapid obsolescence of them. How do we solve that? #aha2015 #s158

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.@historying: We’re always thinking about this and it’s a constant anxiety. Collaboration with librarians is helping. #s158 #aha2015

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The #s158 session has been great. I was last at the AHA in Chicago in 2012. So much more convo. about digital, alt-ac, tenure #aha2015

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.@janaremy: “behaving in digital humanities ways” (Twitter, blogging) helped with getting her current job #s195 #aha2015

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Questions about digital history? Want to learn how to do something? Swing by the digital drop-in at Liberty Suite 3 in Sheraton! #aha2015

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@sgahistory I have some vague plans tonight, but nothing solid yet. My wife is coming in tonight and we’re playing tourist Mon. and Tues.

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@sgahistory Shoot, I don’t know that our timing will work out. But if we get the chance we’ll drop in. Thanks!

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In line with @wcaleb and @rjordan_csu to see @ethan_iverson and The Bad Plus at Village Vanguard #aha2015 http://t.co/IWjMFAbVVY

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#aha2015 Playing tourist today. It’s been a great week, and lovely making new friends and acquaintances and seeing old ones.

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Also, I wanted to publicly congratulate @YAppelbaum on his new full-time gig at @TheAtlantic. Three cheers!

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Hey #aha2015, if you’re still around and haven’t tried the Halal Guys outside of the Sheraton yet, go do so. They’re excellent.

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Wow. I’ve made @dhnow for a second time. The first was for The Rubyist Historian. Now for Machines in the Valley.

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Bay Area friends, I’ll be in San Francisco 1/14 6:30p for d3.digitalhumanities() talking about Geography of the Post http://t.co/MP0pB0TXCe

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@wcaleb Great seeing you this weekend! Glad we managed to get to the Vanguard on Sunday. Hope you had safe travels home.

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The more I work (and re-work) through these diss chapters, the more I think I really should engage with the history of capitalism.

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Settling in for our inaugural Games and Interactive Media at Stanford (GAIMS) seminar #gaims @GAIMStanford

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We’re hearing from Stanford’s Keith Devlin on developing video games for good mathematics learning #gaims

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Devlin: Majority of math ed video games do little more than provide repetitive practice in symbol manipulation. #gaims

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Devlin: Bad math games are sort of like combining broccoli with dopamine. Forges the idea that math has evident usefulness. #gaims

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.@profkeithdevlin: “Use the full functionality of the tablet as a representational medium.” #gaims

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.@profkeithdevlin: Representations matter. Think about the shift from I, II, III, IV… to 1, 2, 3, 4… #gaims

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.@profkeithdevlin: Other games that address the symbol barrier: DragonBox Algebra, MotionMath, KickBox, and Refraction #gaims

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Environmentalists can be described as “radical” and “extreme.” Conservationists are not. http://t.co/iq6On88Xjt

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Very nice visualization by the @nytimes (using WebGL) on free climbing El Capitan’s Dawn Wall http://t.co/DQMrWXiq0k

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“No DeLorean needed.” @wcaleb’s fantastic syllabus for his U.S. history survey, taught backwards http://t.co/FY7WMfIEA7

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Excited to see that Stanford University Press is getting into the publishing of interactive scholarly works http://t.co/wGN7u0mZom

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Bay Area folks, I hope to see/meet some of you at @sfbay_dh tomorrow at 6:30p! I’m talking humanities visualization http://t.co/MP0pB0TXCe

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Fascinating #d3js project by @enjalot for annotating, cataloging, and visualizing medieval manuscripts http://t.co/s5kVAJLrHc

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@AHAhistorians @seth_denbo Thank you! I thought I had seen these posts, I just hadn’t found them in my quick search yesterday.

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I don’t know how it happened but I started writing a script in Ruby to parse tweets and on a whim ended up writing the thing in R.

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Settled in for @Liebenwalde’s #gaims talk: “It Is What It Is, Not What It Was: Software and Digital Heritage.”

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@ctschroeder Yep! We started a new group (Games and Interactive Media at Stanford), and we’re running a one-quarter seminar this winter.

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.@Liebenwalde: Libraries and archives began to think about software as a collection object in the late 1970s. #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde: Citing Hayden White and the process by which historians can craft narratives and structure around software #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde Giving us three takes on how to approach historical software: the historian; the media archeologist; the re-enactor #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde: On Wolfgang Ernst, and his ideas on experiencing media and enacting history (access to artifacts and their operation) #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde Reflecting on the nature of authenticity in historical software, citing Howitz and Civil War reacting #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde Will the search for experiential fidelity in historical software come with shag carpet and ambient wave radio? #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde Identifies three lures and pitfalls in moving from collection to repository to researcher #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde The first is the lure of the screen, the idea that what counts in digital media is what is delivered to the screen #gaims

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@ctschroeder And these are public. They’re being filmed also, but I don’t know where those exist right off hand…

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.@Liebenwalde The final lure is the lure of the executable, accessing software based on collections readily accessible by researchers #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde There are two problems with historical software: software does not tell the user about how it was previously used. #gaims

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.@Liebenwalde is leading me to wonder: what if we prioritize the *documentation* of play, rather than the *experience* of play? #gaims

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Teaching myself some R this morning before I jump into writing. Still cleaning texts, but trying out topic modeling http://t.co/oQUIeMLmxr

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@KayleHatt @raulpacheco I’m pretty new to R, and haven’t used SPSS or Strata in the past, so I’m probably not qualified to answer that!

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On the importance of teaching: “The adage ‘publish or perish’ is outdated, almost sinister in its misdirection.” http://t.co/fI85sF3Ye3.

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@benmschmidt Fantastic work Ben, @YAppelbaum, and @MitchFraas! You’ve given me some idea to look at in my own research material.

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Finally had some time to start working on my annexation visualization. Except, uh, my missing base map. http://t.co/T9DkQowS4g

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@mapninja Been meaning to say welcome to Stanford! We met briefly at Google Geo Higher Ed a few years back. We should catch coffee sometime.

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Mapping median incomes in the Bay Area by census tract, 1980, with the location of tech companies and Superfund sites http://t.co/0H2KRcUeVW

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@geotheory The public interactive version is coming soon. It’ll have legend, data explanation, data sources, etc.

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“This is the origin of ‘region of sacrifice,’ the designation given to the Great Basin.” http://t.co/Hxs2sBmPvo

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All right, Team #WritingPact. I now have a local writing pact group, too, and we’re meeting this morning. Here we go!

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@briansarnacki San Jose has, since the 1950s, been far more a place for people to live rather than to work. That starts shifting in the 90s.

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@todrobbins Keep us in the loop. @historying and I would love to see what people do with any forks of the project.

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@lauraneckstein Thanks! I don’t likely have plans to, but you might touch base with @historying, whose diss work that map is based off.

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@mattthomas I’m hoping to join the Ranks of the Completed by August. That’s a thing, right? Secret handshakes and everything?

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@brandontlocke @briansarnacki @rebeccawingo @rjordan_csu @anwils1 I don’t think I’m even on the network.

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@rebeccawingo @brandontlocke @briansarnacki @rjordan_csu .@anwils1 and I will start our own network, then! http://t.co/CGkIxSyZlP

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@brandontlocke @dancohen @sleonchnm @sherah1918 @dpla Sounds like I need to add a Left Shark emoji to Slack tomorrow…

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Settled in for session number three of @ceng_l’s R workshop on working with spatial data. I think I’ve finally become an R convert.

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@bjoseph I wasn’t doing much with a statistical language like R. Some Python, big fan of Ruby. Lots of JavaScript/D3.js lately for data viz.

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@bjoseph I know @mwidner is a big believer in Python for those purposes, and he looks at me curiously when I say I’m learning R.

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@bjoseph Coming from D3.js, where you can do amazing things but can require a lot of work, I like the ease in which I can make things in R.

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@margaretomara @LeslieBerlinSV I’ve been meaning to catch up with you both on a SV project I’m thinking about. Maybe grab coffee soon?

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@YAppelbaum Great piece. I’ve filed it away—been thinking of my next project, which I want to do on cycling & recreation.

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@mostlyalex @jlauck1941 Did you subscribe through the Univ. of Neb. Press site? Info is at the top of the page. http://t.co/FVhyLmMl60

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@OvercastFM @marcoarment (Maybe) a bug report for you: getting a download/sync error on Twitter recommended episodes http://t.co/5mqmjJOTM1

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@tjowens @YAppelbaum @wcaleb It’s a great piece. @galarzaalex and I were just talking about it yesterday in regard to digital dissertations.

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@galarzaalex @wcaleb @tjowens @YAppelbaum I should get you all on the podcast one of these days. This would be a great convo to have.

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@wcaleb @YAppelbaum @galarzaalex @tjowens I wonder if you could combine Markdown, Jekyll, & a BibTeX plugin to manage citations like that…

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@wcaleb @YAppelbaum @galarzaalex @tjowens I have this long-running Ockham project I’ve been working on for digital publishing. Maybe I +

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@lincolnmullen I’m running a workshop in Omaha in a couple weeks about DH in the classroom. I’ll be showing off some of your things :)

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@lincolnmullen Doing a short session at the Missouri Valley History Conf. on using DH in the classroom. Looking at some courses, and +

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Local writing group, here we go! Writing this morning on a section about the suburban barrio of Sal si Puedes #writingpact #GraftonLine

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What an awesome opportunity! RT @danrademacher: Come design cool things for @stamen! http://t.co/3LCmYrmylT #datavisualization #maps

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“Nature thus permits the city, . . . blurring any clear sense of where the biological ends and the cultural begins.” (9)

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Re-reading Matt Klingle’s book on Seattle this morning. Wonderful book, and a model for the things I’m writing about in Silicon Valley.

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.@HDStanford Palladio now can use georectified maps (Map Warper, Mapbox, David Rumsey) as a basemap. http://t.co/RXIyXn4TNS

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@claytonhanson Yeah, there isn’t much out there. I’m trying to contribute to that ;-) (though, Silicon Valley isn’t less prominent…)

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Building some dot density maps. I really should try doing this in R. Interactive versions coming (soon?) http://t.co/R4a1eI1WwT

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@wgthomas3 I’m around for a few days this week (running a workshop at MVHC Thurs). Will be on campus Tues. Maybe we’ll run into each other!

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Had a fantastic time at the Missouri Valley History Conference. Had a great group at my workshop, and wonderful catching up with friends.

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Spending the morning with coffee, James McMurtry on Spotify, and the R Leaflet package, before heading out for a run http://t.co/pMyxtpDdN9

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@lincolnmullen I’d been checking out cartographer lately, too. I like that it uses d3.carto, but the Leaflet package seems great.

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@lincolnmullen Hmm. So far, in the short time I’ve spent with Leaflet, it seems to fit the bill for a lot of things I’d want for mapping.

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@lincolnmullen Then again, d3.carto does have some useful things built into it (e.g., in-browser heat maps) that might be useful.

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@lincolnmullen A time slider would be awesome. And I’ll check out @recology_’s wrappers, those sound wonderful.

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Today, writing about Janet Gray Hayes and the rise of enviro. politics in 1970s San Jose government #writingpact http://t.co/D19IkOytsW

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Watching the “Mile Mile and a Half” documentary about the John Muir Trail. Excellent viewing. http://t.co/5dpYSmavFD

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Hey, I know him: “His hiring last month is part of a five-year effort…to rethink graduate education.” http://t.co/OuZrIhADZS (@scott_bot)

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In case you’ve ever wondered how crazy the Bay Area rental market is, via http://t.co/Z4plSSLQ2o http://t.co/dvcBoOUDDw

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@electricarchaeo Is your cartogram a good candidate for trying @Elijah_Meeks’s d3.carto? http://t.co/JbEoNSRKpL

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I feel like this story about the decline of Stanford’s humanities core is ripe for @LDBurnett’s interpretation http://t.co/8h9c7368Mu

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@Brett_Fujioka @tdaxp It does help to get DH under your belt. Not to shuffle DH into the “save the humanities” narrative, but I know a few +

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@thomasgpadilla @gworthey @mwidner @nullhandle Great to meet you finally! It was great to hear about goings-on at MSU.

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@storybench @historying Can I offer a correction? There is no Digital Humanities department. We’re in the History Department.

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@storybench @historying Thanks for the correction. Your link still points to the DH@Stanford site, not the history department FYI.

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@ProfessMoravec I just haven’t scraped that data yet—I ran into a problem last time I tried. I need to find some time to get that done!

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Thrilled to have this story on Geography of the Post published in the Stanford Review @historying http://t.co/7ffzfduF8J

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.@historying: The history of the West is “as much about decline and collapse of communities as it is about growth.” http://t.co/7ffzfduF8J

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@briansarnacki @lincolnmullen @recology_ And, in fact, might be more useful than what I was planning. #rabbithole

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April

@flexibits I keep having trouble losing Google Calendar connection in F2. My selected GCals just disappear. Did I set up something wrong?

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@flexibits On the Mac, on Yosemite. I’m wondering if it happens when I get back on wifi from sleep? I haven’t confirmed that pattern…

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@abbymullen @firstdraftcast @lincolnmullen We should get him on the show one of these weeks. @Elijah_Meeks @pfzenke

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@lincolnmullen Can I bug you with another R question? Any good way to troubleshoot “fatal error” in RStudio? Getting it w/ `fortify`.

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@lincolnmullen Sure thing, thanks! And if I happen across the answer I’ll let you know. Gist coming shortly…

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My friend Sean Kammer & Ashley Hoffman use the Black Hills for why we need new @forestservice wildfire management law http://t.co/ywYfD6PqeL

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@brandontlocke @thomasgpadilla I like my iced coffee like I like my Nebraska winters: cold and dark and lacking oranges.

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Looking forward to @ncph in Nashville next week! I’ll be part of the Digital History/Public History working group http://t.co/serfUigJBB

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Excited to meet this afternoon our first cohort of grad students participating in @cesta_stanford’s new Graduate Certificate in DH!

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Why a Midwestern History Association? Iowa State University historian Pamela Riney-Kehrberg provides an answer http://t.co/soSmXZwcUf

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@Caster8 @anwils1 You could check out @miriamkp’s tutorial http://t.co/MHLjqHBEjV. Are there others, @HDStanford?

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“But most of the publishers with whom I spoke think that embargoes are really a red herring.” http://t.co/ZJpOmfBPPX

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Oh man, I’ve been waiting for this. @danbenjamin and @hotdogsladies talk The Big Lebowski http://t.co/QpWAVAi9z1

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@wcaleb Thanks :) I feel like I’m writing in circles in this chapter. It’s so close to a done draft, but still feels far away…

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@finnarne @sarahwilsn Great piece. I have some of the same issues on my mind lately as I tackle this diss chapter.

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@sarahwilsn I'm writing an environmental history of Silicon Valley and looking at the evolution of enviro. politics, 1945-1990.

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Getting ready to kick off our “Public History as Digital History as Public History” working group. #ncph2015

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@VTPublicHistory @claytonhanson @b_failing Yes. There are ways DH may not be PH, and ways PH may not work as DH. But they’re intertwined.

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Amazing dinner with new friends and acquaintances @nolauren @publichistorian @rebeccaonion #ncph2015 http://t.co/HI2IxQHhRt

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@sherah1918 @priyastoric @nolauren @publichistorian @rebeccaonion Sorry Sheila! I had to call it an early night (on my way to the airport).

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I love @theincomparable podcast. New two minute long Star Wars trailer? Produce an hour-and-a-half podcast. http://t.co/86RqgrGjnc

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“I think the West is the most misunderstood and disrespected region in the United States.” http://t.co/zmf43seL4g

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Historian Lil Fenn’s “Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People” wins the Pulitzer http://t.co/xcFojnFBoh

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.@AHAhistorians has released their draft guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship http://t.co/7ShH8GSmUS

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@mcburton And I suspect there’s a common assumption that data=complete (and @Elijah_Meeks is right about no such thing as “raw” data.)

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@mcburton I guess I’m trying to figure out differences between historical evidence vs data captured (and designed) via computational means.

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@mcburton Good call, that makes sense. Put another way, then, I stand by my claim that data viz isn’t quite right. If data is evidence for +

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@mcburton a particular claim (no matter now that “data” came to be), any visualization if it is still only evidence.

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@mcburton Or, put another way maybe, visualization isn’t inherently meaningful just because it’s backed by data.

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In case you’ve ever wondered by the podcast is called First Draft, the convo between @mcburton and I is evidence (!) as to why.

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Shoutout to @lincolnmullen’s vim placeholders idea. So useful, especially as this chapter starts to wrap up. http://t.co/vunwzfVuus

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But vim! RT @rmsthebot: @jaheppler Emacs was originally an extensible text editor I wrote, but it became a way of life and a religion

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@LDBurnett Makes me miss the Plains. I don’t think I’ve heard thunder once in the two years I’ve been in the Bay Area.

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@LDBurnett Sad truth :-/ But, we did have a small shower move through the other night! Woke up to refreshing morning air.

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Delayed, but another chapter draft is off. Now, time to nail down this final (!) chapter… #writingpact. #GraftonLine

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@rachaelsullivan Yay! I have around half of the final chapter figured out and down on paper, so hoping that it’ll wrap up quick-ish…

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@librlaurie @regan008 That reminds me of @lincolnmullen’s 2009 blog post on that idea http://t.co/IS5xdKbUhb

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Excited to see the Western Historical Quarterly is moving to the University of Oklahoma under the new editorship of Anne Hyde!

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@lincolnmullen Sustainable Sam, the friendly cowboy. The roughest, toughest, root’nest, toot’nest fastest trash slinger west of Pecos.

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@DJWrisley Largely determined by @historying’s research questions about the 19th c. West. So, temporal and geographic focus emerged there.

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The Storify from #humanitiesDT yesterday https://t.co/JbpdLwZXvm @mwidner @cncoleman @StanfordLibs @cesta_stanford @HumanAtStanford

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@ogilviewords @johnisrude @gworthey @ETreharne @JenServenti @effusivelynerdy I Storify’ed our #humanitiesDT convo https://t.co/JbpdLwZXvm

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Mornings like this make me happy I taught myself to use unix and the command line. Saving myself hours of work.

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Looking forward to the “Geospatial Narrative” panel at @cesta_stanford today http://t.co/mxbWLJNeoi. Thanks to @kgeographer for organizing!

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@Elijah_Meeks @electricarchaeo I wish we could overtake JSON with YAML. So much more human readable, and still descriptive/flexible.

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@Elijah_Meeks @electricarchaeo “Did you hear about that lightning strike? Hit the History Department, took out some digital historian.”

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Looking for historical population data? We’re trying to compile the most complete dataset we can. http://t.co/qSGyCibDrc @cesta_stanford

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Knowles et al., attempted to combine the narratives of victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust http://t.co/63LGFgLbtO #spatialnarratives

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Knowles doing fascinating work with recorded survivor testimony and abstract space to get at regional/local scales #spatialnarratives

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Up now, Erik Steiner on how the things we build relate to ways we built narrative power and representations #spatialnarratives

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Steiner: The data themselves don’t make the narrative. We need the humanist interpreter, more now than ever. #spatialnarratives

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Steiner: Yet we also need art. When data are available, we value empiricism. But when not available, we make little use. #spatialnarratives

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Steiner: Visualization comes almost entirely from scientific traditions, and we’re uncomfortable with performative viz. #spatialnarratives

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Steiner showing the evolution of SS Concentration Camps between 1933 and 1945 http://t.co/YHEIpDgZCk #spatialnarratives

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Steiner: Can we think about speculative data? Can we, or should we, generate speculative but realistic data to fill gaps? #spatialnarratives

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Steiner showing the mapping of mobility in the Budapest ghetto https://t.co/rswiEAwVHN #spatialnarratives

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Steiner: We’ve borrowed too much from the scientific tradition, and thrown out expressiveness and serendipity #spatialnarratives

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Steiner: Cites Nigel Thrift’s “nonrepresentational theory” as a way for humanists to think about representing data #spatialnarratives

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Some of what Steiner is getting at is, I think, part of what I was nodding at in the latest @firstdraftcast. But Erik is more eloquent.

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.@cncoleman Instead of visual output, interested in generating narrative through the research process #spatialnarratives

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.@cncoleman Pointing to Millica Tomic’s work to understand experiences https://t.co/rrMWOb6MAC #spatialnarratives

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.@cncoleman Citing Tim Knowles’ “Path of Least Resistance” http://t.co/CxQNzkCbUl #spatialnarratives

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.@cncoleman Thinking of data as a medium. Like pencil lead or ink. Something that’s expressive. #spatialnarratives

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Up next, David O’Sullivan on identifying “narrative arcs” to explain outcomes in resource exploitation #spatialnarratives

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.@nbbauch How are the digital humanities changing the nature of inquiry in cultural geography? #spatialnarratives

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Does historical simulation offer avenues for new spatial narratives? Or is it too reductionist to b useful? #spatialnarratives

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@lincolnmullen @electricarchaeo That’s a great point. I’ve also been thinking lately of getting more focused on a single language, if only +

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@lincolnmullen @electricarchaeo In other words, I think I’ve reached a point where I want to get really, really good with one language.

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Really enjoyed this @TlkngMchns podcast with David Blei http://t.co/sLMtGVXKOd #digitalhumanities #twitterstorians

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.@benmschmidt The visualization of whaling logs shows U.S. gov. admins. have a great interest in resource extraction in the Pacific #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Fascinating comparison with American commercial vessels and Soviet research vessels. Very different travel paths. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt The Census statistical maps are about expanding national progress. Visually, in 1890 the map fills in. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Data visualization community is intensely interested in its own history. Looks to the 19th c. as a “golden age.” #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Showing his re-created Census statistical map. Really fascinating work. I don’t think he’s made this public yet. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Why does the Census Bureau rush to close the frontier in 1890? It has to do with the interests of the State. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt One reason is immigration restriction. A closed frontier meant no more space, which meant limiting new arrivals. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Fear that the frontier line is indefensible. Those lines cannot be defended against an “Indian threat.” #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Great irony: The maps showing Indian “vanishment” doesn’t reflect the Dawes Act and how Indians become folded + #remap15

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.@benmschmidt The 1890 Census significant for four reasons. 1) The Turner Census — the frontier is closed. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt 2) The Exclusion Census — the 1923 and 1924 immigration acts used the 1890 Census as justification. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt The statistical authority of the Census allowed the 1890 schedules to be discarded. They weren’t “lost data.” #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Historians need to reinvest into statistical data collection, not left to the practices of science. #remap15

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.@benmschmidt Historians need to learn to read artifacts of statistical culture with the same care we bring to visual culture. #remap15

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Great question about whether the Census map makers saw themselves as being scientifically rigorous. #remap15

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Late to @benmschmidt at the #LitLab presenting on “Plot Archeology,” methods for describing shared structure in movie and TV scripts.

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.@benmschmidt The scripts come from Open Subtitles, which seemingly exists for the purpose of pirated film. Farsi is a large driver. #LitLab

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“I can’t understand why anyone with a love of these wild places would ever willingly give them up.” http://t.co/W8Z0jeTTR2

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For one of my grad writing seminars, we read Rabiner & Fortunato’s _Thinking Like Your Editor_ http://t.co/E41Ndhk7Hc #teamPhinisheD

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The iteration of design. We started here. https://t.co/yp4iPHbiGl. We’re ending here. http://t.co/9Dr9uGxzFl

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It’s only *just* occurred to me that I can do Gitit autocomplete for .page files in vim using CTRL+X CTRL+F.

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The American Lands Council’s lobbying to convert federal lands to the states is funded largely by taxpayers http://t.co/dq1XI0wlyF

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Catching up on podcasts this morning. Don’t miss the @digitalcampus team on the AHA’s digital scholarship guidelines http://t.co/RqQ06uO6N4

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I’ve been meaning to write up a blog post on the AHA guidelines. I probably still will, but @digitalcampus covers a lot of similar concerns.

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The coastal redwood that gave Palo Alto it’s namesake, El Palo Alto along San Francisquito Creek (ca. 1875, via SJPL) http://t.co/vGDVHvro9u

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Tackling another claim of the past’s “golden ages,” there was no golden age of railroads writes Richard White http://t.co/Du1ZPQkTLD

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@cliotropic To continue working towards joining #teamPhinisheD by finishing up a section of this chapter for #writingpact ;-)

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@s_e_murray Yes! Good choice. I’ve become a user of the Aeropress, although I started with the French press http://t.co/WE0Al4jiWs

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Sitting on the train mulling over this final chapter, I had a snap-to-grid moment. Now to get it down on paper… #dissertation

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Just realized I have a bunch of hashtags to thank in my diss acknowledgements. #writingpact #GraftonLine #teamPhinisheD

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@Ted_Underwood @wcaleb Haha! Yeah, I thought the same. Reminds me of the first time I opened vim. *Commence random keystrokes.*

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@wcaleb @Ted_Underwood It’s funny to me that becoming an Ubuntu user years ago led me to Apple. But agree, I sometimes think about it too…

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@wcaleb @Ted_Underwood Same. I’m mostly happy with my computing needs/setup. But I do jump into linux virtual machines from time to time.

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@mattwaite “An iPod, a phone, an Internet communicator, a comic book argument solver.” —Steve Jobs, 2007

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For my friends @lincolnmullen and @Elijah_Meeks, I give you the d3.toddler() layout #d3brokeandmadeart http://t.co/2Bi2st9owT

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@wcaleb The external link indicator must be a feature of the Gitit dev version? I don’t see those in mine. http://t.co/VBBC49HG7e

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#hastac2015 Best option(s) for getting to the conference hotel from the airport? Touching down in a couple hours.

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Kicked off our #s14 session on networks in the humanities with @rebeccawingo @anwils1 @briansarnacki #hastac2015

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@miriamkp I don’t know. Having a 10th century Viking sword might be pretty sweet. Maybe she’s doing you a favor?

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@miriamkp @RachelDeblinger If you start getting emails about full metal Viking armor, let us know. I think that’ll be a sign.

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In #s54 on Interactive History, up now is Bettina Fabos and her students from Univ. of Northern Iowa #hastac2015

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Interesting work on animation for new forms of storytelling, inspired by the NYTimes High-rise story http://t.co/3DY5JCPg20 #s54 #hastac2015

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Bettina and team using parallax effects to create an interactive approach to chronological storytelling #s54 #hastac2015

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I’ve been wanting to see scholars do more with interactive storytelling in the vein of NYT Snowfall. This comes very close. #s54 #hastac2015

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@612to651 Nothing yet, they’re just running off a localhost for this demo. But I think things are coming soon.

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“By doing this, Congress has handed over a sacred Native American site to a foreign-owned company…” http://t.co/5r1SX3YkVb

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June

This morning: continuing work on the origins and memory of the agricultural landscape in Silicon Valley #writingpact http://t.co/NcShDdrChF

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Have students who are building dynamic maps? Have them submit their work to the NACIS map competition http://t.co/Ua5AvVcbcs

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@jtheibault There’s a small orchard a few blocks from where we live. I’ve been meaning to chat with the proprietor for some oral history.

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The program for the Western History Association conference in Portland is now online http://t.co/zN65T7jmtZ #wha2015

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Interested in games, interactive media, and education? Check out what we’re doing with GAIMS at @Stanford http://t.co/Sy9FDJvo5E

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Latest non-dissertation reading. Can’t start until I wrap up this chapter #writingpact http://t.co/P4zgOGZBom

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#writingpact Morning started with outlining. Most of the rest of the day, writing code for a visualization project. Tonight: back to text.

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@CNMBrandon It’d probably be slightly easier if the code was also for one of my projects, but it’s not. And thanks!

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If you all liked @firstdraftcast S1E9, @pfzenke and I have something special planned. Stay tuned. http://t.co/mdHIJF82YO

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Learning about eye tracking and Thomas Nygren's study of how historians read vs. students @ CESTA -… https://t.co/CZJM7yVga8

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If you’re thinking ahead to #dhsi2016, @lincolnmullen and I are teaching a data visualization course. Details: http://t.co/RYvEeTal9K

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@Elijah_Meeks @miriamkp Tangentially related: I feel like these pie charts would keep Elijah up at night https://t.co/6a2C428akw

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#writingpact Setting the timer for an hour, working on a section of this chapter about water and city infrastructure.

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#writingpact The plan is: 500 words everyday through Friday. Take Saturday off. Revise Sunday. Submit chapter Monday.

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Beautiful work by @flowingdata, probably of interest to @benmschmidt @historying @lincolnmullen https://t.co/CQF6E2DKFo

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@lincolnmullen You asked about the Wordy vim plugin. I can confirm I’m crying a little right now at the editing I have to do. @wcaleb

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Stumbled onto a source yesterday that helped me realize how this chapter should open. Heads down, working towards 500 words #writingpact

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@LDBurnett Great piece! I see parallels in my research re: Stanford claiming itself (western) leader of high tech R&D.

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@LDBurnett Somewhere I have a copy of a 1950s mag. article about Stanford & high-tech where someone scrawled “pace-setter!” next to Stanford

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#rstat folks, any thoughts on why my projections aren't lining up? (@lincolnmullen @briansarnacki) http://t.co/pKswhM5Rc8

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@johnroderick Re: the ThinkProgress article, have you read Matt Klingle’s _Emerald City_? http://t.co/0uYFSBV9SB

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@s_e_murray I knew a guy in my program (who was near the end when I started) who hand-wrote his entire diss before typing it up.

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@electricarchaeo All the Stanford fountains have been off because of the drought here, except for commencement last weekend.

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Somewhere in these 60,000+ words a dissertation exists. Time to start revisions and rewrites. #writingpact http://t.co/vzZp2HCYVz

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#rstat Running into problems with the dotsInPolys function. Any suggestions on what I’m doing wrong? http://t.co/hSoXV2wjLn

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Brown University is looking for an environmental historian, any time period and region https://t.co/tKsTVusm9E

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Pat Nugent does a similar thing that I do: cycling through the place we write about, while writing and revising: http://t.co/oHtLRigJvB

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@michelletiedje @CNMBrandon .@pfzenke and I talked about “levels” of writing a while back http://t.co/mdHIJF82YO (sorry for potato quality)

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@michelletiedje @CNMBrandon @pfzenke TL;DR: There are C, B, and A levels of writing, which all contribute to a project. Outlining, etc., +

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@michelletiedje @CNMBrandon @pfzenke would fall under B level writing, and the B-level stuff will lead to A-level paragraphs-on-screen. -

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The Coyote Valley in Santa Clara County has long been a hot spot for developers. Now, it's an open space preserve. http://t.co/F8vXAU8mh2

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July

1. Before Earth Day 1970, there was Survival Faire, an event created by students at San Jose State University.

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4. As part of their publicity plan, students purchased a never-started Ford Maverick, which they pushed from the dealer’s lot to campus.

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5. Once they reached the center of campus, the Ford was ceremoniously buried in a 12 foot deep pit. http://t.co/ThBgjG7r2d

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@jbj @wcaleb @miriamkp Having grown up on the northern Plains, one thing I don’t miss is heat & humidity. Too many summers as a landscaper…

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Water in the West: “What I encountered along the way was both awe-inspiring and profoundly discouraging.” http://t.co/F51TjDycQP

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See also: my dissertation // Why San Jose Is Barely in the Black Despite the Tech Boom http://t.co/gNmszcGN5B

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Some new visualizations coming soon to my dissertation’s digital component. Teaser: #SanJose annexations http://t.co/qhMuMtfdG0

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Another viz. in the works: #SanJose’s expanding sewer system (red, 1950s; blue, ‘60s; green, ‘70s; tan, pre-’50s) http://t.co/qfWbQKyoZT

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Rereading the JAH Inter. for our (new!) DH reading group. Always liked this from @wgthomas3: http://t.co/BRiFwMjiu2 http://t.co/R0AFUJJhfN

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Continuing my rereading the JAH Interchange. This comment by @dancohen still rings true: http://t.co/BRiFwMjiu2 http://t.co/UhCILDRltg

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@micahvandegrift We’re deciding that today. For today: http://t.co/VWiBnFfghQ / http://t.co/CvDmPhp5la / and http://t.co/bKdVoNsxGH

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If you’re tired of making legends in #d3js, check out @DataToViz’s new d3-legend component http://t.co/BC4erMtUbW

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Ramping up to next week, when I’ll be taking the whole week off to focus on the dissertation. #writingpact #GraftonLine

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@warbyparker I didn’t get a confirmation that the @5by5 promo code worked. Any chance I can get that verified? Thanks!

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Don’t worry, ya’ll. Next week is all about revisions and re-writing. But I like this chapter idea. #forthebook

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Fantastic documentary on changes in The Mission, also speaks to my own work in Santa Clara County http://t.co/FQyabDKGFD

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@wcaleb @lincolnmullen So you just need Heroku to watch a repository for commits, fetch those, then build and deploy. Is that right?

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@wcaleb @lincolnmullen (FYI I don’t have much experience with Heroku. But it’s something I want to figure out for one of my projects, too.)

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@MWChilders What? Dude. Next time you’re in the area, we’re getting some. Then we’ll go ride bikes and sweat garlic.

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Looks like another politician forgot to buy their domain name ahead of time http://t.co/OZWT4yDku6 #twitterstorians

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Okay, #writingpact. Dissertation Revisions Week 2015 is kicking off. Twitter off, Slack off, email off, music on, coffee flowing.

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Informed by my advisor today that the diss is “within striking distance.” Revision Week 2015 continues on. #writingpact

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@LDBurnett @KevinMercer225 Oops, sorry. I thought I had included the source. You can zoom in here: http://t.co/2vzfF2FgdO

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@LDBurnett @Historiann I find it hilarious that my home state of South Dakota is located *in the South* http://t.co/2vzfF2FgdO

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@LDBurnett @KevinMKruse @KevinMercer225 There’s also this New Yorker-esque map from 1940 http://t.co/KxbppVycYh

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@LDBurnett @KevinMKruse @KevinMercer225 I’m slightly baffled by that 1940 map. It feels like the South is a major epicenter, or at least +

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Okay, #writingpact. I could talk about maps all morning, but this diss won’t write itself. Time for a quick MTB ride, then writing.

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Trying a different view on San Jose’s postwar expansion (color from light to dark over time) #dayofdissertating http://t.co/jqyICYDDy1

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August

The AP archives: “a huge and exciting step in an industry-wide push to digitize and democratize information.” http://t.co/vNRDAfZxSF

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@briansarnacki Totally! I’m going to be back in SD next week, might have to sit down my folks and start filling in more details…

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@briancroxall That’s true! Although I still find it weird there isn’t more unified transit system here (like was planned with BART in ‘50s).

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We started a DH tools talk workshop with meditation. That might be the most California thing I’ve ever done.

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In a meeting about digital publishing in the humanities. We’re hoping to have some great outcomes (white papers, etc.) in the near term.

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Between this, the DH reading group I’m leading, and the DH projects I’m on, this fall is going to be incredibly fun.

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Remember to check your map is in the right projection before you spend too much time hunting for a bug in your own code. #protip

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Anyone know if vector data for Euratlas 1600AD exists anywhere I can get to? #twitterstorians #digitalhumanities #spatialhumanities

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Somewhat slow week for #writingpact due to playing catch-up after a week away. Getting back into it this weekend.

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@cliotropic Dang, that’s a tough one. I’d vote for @AmericanYawp. I’d doubt Amazon (or the sellers) would honor a return…

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@brandontlocke @seth_denbo @miriamkp We did something like this in New York last year. We should do it again!

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If you’re doing collaborative authoring, check out @authorea. Nice system for writing, citations, PDFs, LaTeX, etc. https://t.co/QojcPKEAKU

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Is Anvil Academic still active? Because if so, their site looks like it might’ve been hacked. #digitalhumanities http://t.co/HoCuJPKEGO

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@alanyliu @ctschroeder Thanks, Alan! I’m working on an enviro. scan of digital publishing, realized I hadn’t heard much about Anvil lately.

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Up now, an RA working on the spatial features of ant colonies in Arizona, looking at ages and chances of survival.

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@westcenter Hmm. I don’t believe so. I had to leave for a meeting, so you might have to try pining Matt or Celena…

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The Forgotten History Of 'Violent Displacement' That Helped Create The National Parks by @jnoisecat http://t.co/GBm0HF99xt

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Important question: Will @theincomparable record an hour long episode on the new 15 second Star Wars teaser? I sure hope so.

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@omeka Getting an “encountered an error,” & error reporting in htaccess and config.ini doesn’t report anything. Any other steps I can take?

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Just catching up on the Harding debate between @KevinMKruse @rauchway and @andrew_seal. Great historiographical discussion.

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@omeka After fiddling some more I think the problem is my server setup, not Omeka. If I get totally stuck, I’ll post to the forums :-)

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September

.@seth_denbo on the AHA’s tenure and promotion guidelines for digital scholarship http://t.co/pXmebqbIUH

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Amazing final play by BYU. Disappointed the Huskers didn't pull it off (and ended a 29-opening game winning streak), but great game.

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#writingpact Away for a wedding last week. Back to the writing habit this week, with plans to wrap up all final revisions over two weeks.

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Any other @tweetbot users having issues with it crashing a lot? Seems to happen with new tweets, while autocompleting @ mentions.

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Successful off and on day of working through edits. Finalizing edits and footnote cleanup over the next day or so. #writingpact

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An odd article. I have a whole diss chapter about this on San Jose in the 1950s (the article is from 07/12/81) http://t.co/5sNHtcKIVa

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Ya’ll are getting a shoutout in my acknowledgements #writingpact #GraftonLine #TeamPhinisheD http://t.co/z1AsiAqrz4

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@captain_primate I’ve been thinking about doing that, either as a blog post or a “white paper” that lives with the project.

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.@Mapbox GL looks great http://t.co/t96E21XTjm. Might have to port a few projects over to it in the near future.

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“The first draft is always perfect, because all it needs to do is exist.” http://t.co/xlkn2uA7Sg #writingpact #GraftonLine

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Unfortunately programming bugs will delay the launch of those maps I mentioned. Hopefully they’ll go live next week.

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Coding bugs halted progress, but hopefully next week these will go live. #writingpact #dissertation http://t.co/xv0JgjdGgo

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@clured So in conclusion, Wes Anderson Stumptown Mumblecore skateboard iPhone, gluten-free kogi meditation pork belly.

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Finalizing some work on the epilogue this morning. Shipping the whole revised draft off to my advisor tonight or tomorrow. #writingpact

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The AHA program is up. I’ll be there, talking about these new fangled computers and things. https://t.co/z1wL8QpiyF

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And I’m heading to the Grand Canyon tomorrow for a few days. Glad the diss won’t be, hopefully, top of mind. #writingpact

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Dang, this looks great: @RiceUniversity looking for a visiting spatial humanities professor https://t.co/NMP6ytHlXe

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I suspect this comps list will be harder than any I’ve done. Exams start February 2016. http://t.co/ZWsVcNsC2j

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The University of Iowa's history department is looking for a professor of digital humanities https://t.co/fzsMEu0T2E

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@brandontlocke I’m still working on my FriendFeed, MySpace, Friendster, Vimeo, Reddit, and Tumblr announcements.

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Thanks for the congratulations, everyone! Sorry for spamming the thank-yous. Be prepared for late-night, sleepless tweets in the future.

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I’m finding Apple Music’s offline mode perplexing and random. Spotify had been much clearer and easier to handle.

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@DoodlingData @Elijah_Meeks Maybe, but it was a colony of France. Vietnam was part of decolonization efforts around the globe.

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@DoodlingData @Elijah_Meeks It’s still an involvement in a colonial experience, even if the US didn’t exert direct control.

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.@mcgeoff wonders which data viz techniques will persist and which will fall out of fashion http://t.co/eSSaIDeRYO http://t.co/t4dNbBQ6Gg

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@brianleechphd Speaking of, the number of people I saw approaching elk for a picture in the Grand Canyon this weekend…

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So, turns out, phpMyAdmin has a software-breaking bug that was causing me to lose an entire INSERT line. Thanks for the headache, PMA.

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.@TlkngMchns is such a great show. Glad to see they reached their Kickstarter goal to run a second season. https://t.co/VIYa3kkQnX

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@wayne_graham Although Positron isn’t perfect, I guess. We’re really after a map without modern infrastructure on it.

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@electricarchaeo @lincolnmullen We’re planning to visualize the sleep cycles of what will be my four-month old. #notreally #maybe

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Extremely proud that the work of the Papers of William F. Cody I was part of a few years ago is featured #NEHturns50 http://t.co/YghjYcLoD5

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@mejackreed Oh that’s awesome. I had been using the Google Earth View new tab plugin, which is also excellent.

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Hearing about the work of CESTA fellows Ruth & Sebastian Ahnert on letter networks of Protestant writers under Mary I http://t.co/pMODw43sB4

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Hey #writingpact! Sorry for the lack of check-ins. After the diss went off, and the quarter started, I got flooded with tasks.

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Starting work on a couple of side writing projects soon, so check-ins will resume next week. Need to keep the habit. #writingpact

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“Because it works like a language vim takes you from frustrated to demigod very quickly.” https://t.co/ir6ryST2sW @wcaleb @lincolnmullen

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“Whether you want to be a renaissance man or a late-capitalist hustler, the humanities have something for you.” http://t.co/uvYudGz8Ej

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@KevinMKruse I’m going to be a new parent in ~4 months. What should I keep in my parent emergency kit?

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For those attending the Western History Conference later this month, the lineup is set for our digital session: http://t.co/nZlXlKZA4I

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@electricarchaeo If you need another example, @lincolnmullen recently-ish put up a Gitit notebook also http://t.co/064nX4b8bO

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Maybe I’m just a huge nerd, but it’s immensely enjoyable to watch @wcaleb’s research unfold https://t.co/qq4RFy4AYr

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@lincolnmullen @electricarchaeo I’d love a more light-weight, Jekyll-based (or Ruby-based) system. I’ve considered trying to build one.

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@Ted_Underwood @lincolnmullen @electricarchaeo It’s better than Heppler’s Law™: “Look out for that rabbit hol—.”

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@roopikarisam @mcburton @electricarchaeo @lincolnmullen @elotroalex My web: https://t.co/LihLHowRrf. Also: http://t.co/fyt9dodCKh maybe.

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@mcburton @lincolnmullen I have (a long delayed) project at Stanford that’s trying to, essentially, do this.

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@mcburton @lincolnmullen Probably. We’ve all been in this space and thinking about these issues for a while :-)

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@wayne_graham Following your instructions on adding a custom basemap, does this look right? https://t.co/QWF76yJHj8. Getting a 401 error…

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California farmers are hiring dowsers to find water in the drought-stricken state http://t.co/K9D36bU2dd #envist

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@omeka At first glance, I read “addable” as “adorable.” Which, is also appropriate. #adorablecollections

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The university just tested their emergency alert system. It went something like this: https://t.co/AoBT4QdNPH

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My dissertation looks at identity and community in Silicon Valley in the midst of the 20th c. post-industrialization of cities /1

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In particular, I examine those changing attitudes and ideas from the perspective of urban environmentalism and environmental history. /2

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In Seattle, the city is facing its own debates about being a tech hub without losing it’s sense of identity http://t.co/KPc57LaC3D /3

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@thomasgpadilla This is fantastic! I might use this as a “textbook” for a workshop I’m teaching in January…

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@lincolnmullen I had just been using the markdown strikeout (~~), but I like this better. http://t.co/gLH6mS8mih

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My latest interactive dissertation visualization: annexations in San Jose, 1850-2000 http://t.co/THfIZgyjLf http://t.co/d7p5mmz1Hp

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With my latest dissertation viz., I explore the way San Jose sprawled in the postwar era http://t.co/THfIZgyjLf @CityLab @urbaninstitute

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@miriamkp Thanks, Miriam! I should probably toss that into a terrain map rather than a static map; would bring topography into play.

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@miriamkp I have a chapter about that :) And agriculture! Some narrative of that should be coming to the site soon, too…

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@miriamkp What I would *love* to map is the reverse: the decline of ag land. Who sold it, when, for how much, etc. But that is hard to find.

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@jhudsonsc That I can’t be certain of, since much of that occurred before I arrived at Stanford. I can say that in my recent work, I use +

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@jhudsonsc a combination of D3.js (a JavaScript library) and flat text files (CSV or TSV) instead of the overhead of a database.

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If you were to share two or three projects to demonstrate what DH does with networks, what projects would you point to? #digitalhumanities

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@jmcclurken @ProfessMoravec @seth_denbo @KingsleySteph @monicalmercado @kalanicraig If I can butt in, I also tend to prefer #dighist.

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@dmcconeghy Palladio is being developed here (I work closely w/ the team) http://t.co/Sx7LkDgDGo. Gephi can be inscrutable, but it’s great.

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@dmcconeghy It’s not known for its user-friendliness :) I’d urge Palladio, if only because it’s much easier to work with data in it.

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@dmcconeghy Although Palladio is limited, because it doesn’t do the statistical work that Gephi can do (community detection, etc.)

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@dmcconeghy At the moment, I think that’s right. But I believe they’re working on a stand-alone version for embedding. I’ll double check!

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@elipousson @wcaleb You could probably write a Rake/Bash script, too, to look at the Omekadd YAML and create corresponding Jekyll pages.

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.@rjordan_csu describing his class’s re-creation of 19th c Denver in Minecraft. #wha2015 https://t.co/AjNn5bGybL

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@brandontlocke You’ll be glad to know I had very serious discussions last night with @thomasgpadilla and @throughthe_veil about sandwiches.

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Fantastic talk by @safiyanoble at #DLFforum. Lots of stuff to think on, and some new sources I need to incorporate into my DH course.

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By the way, #DLFforum, @Literature_Geek has started a DH Slack channel. Come bask in the GIFs and :leftshark: https://t.co/kMoMeVaPK0

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The Southern Spaces team talking about the migration of projects into their new design and migration https://t.co/0cZmnOOYwG #DLFforum

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Southern Spaces is built on Drupal, and the platform will be releasing an “e-journal-in-a-box” for digital publishing #DLFforum

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Hearing about the Voyages project at Emory, a database of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade https://t.co/g0ThmDE2XD #DLFforum

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@gworthey @alix_rae @LibsDH @thomasgpadilla @sp_meta @zoepster Ya’ll meeting to walk over? Would love to tag along if you are!

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Fantastic night with @aliciapeaker @trevormunoz @sp_meta @annetiquate @dr_heil & others. Great seeing friends and making new ones. #DLFforum

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While I’m word clouding everything, here’s the top 200 words tweeted at #wha2015 https://t.co/9g3ncw5G6s

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Okay, #writingpact. Two weeks of conferencing is over. Time for some serious writing. Playing catch-up today; writing tomorrow.

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November

@thomasgpadilla @brandontlocke Some day, historians will uncover our tweets. And they’ll be just as inscrutable as they are today. #sandwich

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Fantastic post by @Scott_bot on the process of digitizing Holocaust testimony. https://t.co/uTZwhuyoab https://t.co/DXrWFf0BtQ

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The #envhist of the San Francisco Bay’s Gold Rush legacy of widespread mercury pollution https://t.co/2wkkB9kTX7

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The University of Central Oklahoma is looking for a tenure-track professor in Native American and Public History https://t.co/KCo3Sc4vHc

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The latest @TlkngMchns podcast talks probabilistic programming and the digital humanities https://t.co/d77OoGrKbR

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Fantastic guide for learning about data manipulation, munging, and processing JavaScript https://t.co/2Ve30k1djB

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Columbia University is looking for a director for their Center for Digital Research and Scholarship https://t.co/ZrEtsclPOx

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.@KevinMKruse laying down some history on the Lloyd Gaines Black Culture Center at #Mizzou https://t.co/3u6b2oNKK3

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Writing some Python for the first time in a long time. Might have a little side project going on open research notebooks…

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@enjalot @farrelldlfarrel @clured Our digital humanities unit in the Libraries is looking for a developer FWIW https://t.co/34KfOv5yPX

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GIS in the browser, using turf.js. Here’s the density of Silicon Valley tech companies between 1940-1990. https://t.co/dUQXorAwOW

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But first, I need to devote energy back to #writingpact and get a bunch of writing done in the next couple weeks. So, off I go for an hour.

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A new film about Thanksgiving and early English-Indigenous encounters filmed in the Western Abenaki language https://t.co/MY0Rg3Q5j5

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.@lxbarth: As more location data is created, that data becomes more accessible. And new tools make data collaboration easier. #GISDay

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.@lxbarth: HERE/Navteq was massively expensive to buy, but Google and OpenStreetMaps sucked the value out of the market. #GISDay

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.@lxbarth: OSM also serves a humanitarian purpose, like the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake #GISDay https://t.co/u9cYB9Tq5z

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.@lxbarth: Governments also getting into OSM, such as Portland using OSM to trace out transit routes and provide route planning. #GISDay

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Up now, @mappingmashups from @stamen talking about the digitization of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups Working off the digitized and georectified maps from the Digital Scholarship Lab https://t.co/Pw22LYA4xJ #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups Richmond’s project, “American Panorama,” is trying to be the Paullin atlas of the 21st century. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups They’re building four interactive maps with Richmond, plus a toolkit for making more maps. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups The four maps: the forced migration of enslaved peoples; the Overland Trails; foreign-born populations; and canals. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups @stamen starts with the data first, before they ever start thinking about the tools and visuals. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups walking us through a deep dive into the process of creating the enslaved forced migrations map and its challenges. #GISDay

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Sorry to tweet this since I can’t point to the online version yet, but this map is pretty incredible. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups Showing the interactive map: population data, crop types, immigration/outmigration in the South before Civil War #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups Linking Google Sheets, CartoDB, Leaflet markets, D3js and ReactJS to build the visualizations. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups CartoDB serves as the heart for most of the application. Sometimes for mapping, sometimes for data store. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups The tool isn’t meant for drag-and-drop. But intermediate JavaScript programmers can extend the tools. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups @stamen is not using Mercator (yay!). Using an equal area non-Mercator for the basemap. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups Fights the same thing I do every day: cannot use usual basemaps in historical maps. We don’t want freeways, etc. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups Using a combination of CartoDB tiles, OpenTerrain, and stacked Leaflet layers to create their custom basemap. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups Hans Rosling’s gapminder as an inspiration for visualizing the immigration/outmigration county scatterplot. #GISDay

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.@mappingmashups E. J. Marey’s Paris to Lyon train schedule visualization (1885) inspired views on the Overland Trail maps #GISDay

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Switching gears, about to kick off a panel at @cesta_stanford asking the question: "Does Digital Humanities scholarship count?" #cestaDH

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@ekansa @cesta_stanford Sure. I think I already know the answer. What I’m interested in is how we shift the work towards counting.

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Starting with Alan Harvey, the director of Stanford University Press and their new digital publishing initiative. #cestaDH

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Harvey: Places like Stanford are producing interactive scholarly works, and presses need to be involved in “publishing” these works #cestaDH

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Harvey: The big question for the Press was how to make money off the publication of digital scholarship. The Press turned to Mellon #cestaDH

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Harvey: Why bother to publish? B/c the press gives editorial guidance, peer review, design, accreditation, branding, marketing #cestaDH

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Up now, Nick Bauch talking about his experience on his Enchanting the Desert, the first piece being published by Stanford Press #cestaDH

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Bauch: These are more than visualizations or addendum to the scholarship. The work from the beginning is the object of scholarship. #cestaDH

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Bauch: My book proposal was traditional, but turned away when dealing with digital assets, user experiences, digital techniques. #cestaDH

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Bauch: Web archiving is also a major issue. The assumption is “live” won’t be live for very long. What do we do with this material? #cestaDH

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Bauch: The user interface of the book is stabilized. Born-digital projects often leaves design to the authors. #cestaDH

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Bauch: This can be scary. Not because we can’t design, but we threaten to leave publishers without a reproducible system. #cestaDH

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Bauch: What does the digital _add_ that couldn’t be done in a print medium? A core question to his thinking. #cestaDH

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Algee-Hewitt: The pamphlets of the LitLab are closer to traditional print than Bauch’s born-digital publishing. #cestaDH

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Algee-Hewitt: Raise two issues unique to digital humanities: 1. The question, meaning, and challenge of peer review. #cestaDH

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Algee-Hewitt: LitLab pamphlets are unlike traditional articles: longer, many authors, many diagrams, conclusions & method included. #cestaDH

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Algee-Hewitt: Pamphlets have a new design aesthetic, a three-column layout to allow more complicated visualization integration. #cestaDH

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Algee-Hewitt: The pamphlets are the most widely read and cited thing he’s published, but gets the least amount of instit. credit. #cestaDH

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.@cncoleman If it’s a data-driven project, how do we publish and share the data? What does it mean to publish data tables? #cestaDH

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I’ve been thinking about this issue of visualizing our data as well. Makes us more transparent, perhaps? Akin to open notebooks? #cestaDH

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.@cncoleman Building on the idea of CSV fingerprint to flag missing data, mismatched values https://t.co/fC66voDaET #cestaDH

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.@cncoleman This view into the data let’s us examine how the authors are making their decisions and arguments. #cestaDH

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.@cncoleman This transparency let’s us show what’s missing, and can integrate into the scholarly arguments we make. #cestaDH

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Jones: We have particular technical necessary skills (formatting footnotes), but they don’t get you tenure. #cestaDH

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Jones: DH and traditional work comes with double burden of labor and obligations. Excitement for DH, but write the damn book. #cestaDH

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Jones: In digital pedagogy, we teach that raw data is an oxymoron. We encourage the artificiality of data. #cestaDH

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Jones: Underscore the process of creating data, both the dangers and powers of using it. A testament to the labor of producing it. #cestaDH

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Jones: Data munging is not a technical practice. It’s a liberal art, full of subjection and consideration. #cestaDH

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Up now, Zephyr Frank on self publishing as a mode of scholarly production. As a middle-term work produced collectively. #cestaDH

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Frank: You need a way to get good feedback on the DH work. Self publishing offers a way to get that in a collective environment. #cestaDH

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Frank: The point of publishing is to put ideas out and receive feedback. Self publishing can serve that purpose w/o much overhead. #cestaDH

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I storified my #cestaDH tweets from this afternoon’s panel on digital scholarship https://t.co/cmtuOygza0 @cncoleman @cesta_stanford

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@ChromaticCoffee I placed an order on Nov. 16 and haven’t received anything yet. Any chance we can look into it?

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It’s finally in print! My chapter with @dougseefeldt on the Little Bighorn monument. https://t.co/yCPxKCRW6c

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Hey #SanJose, are there shelters that would accept a brined (but uncooked) turkey for the holiday? @SanJoseInfo @sanjoseinside @SanJosePost

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Great (and looong) Skype conversation with my advisor this afternoon on diss feedback. This weekend is now all about #writingpact.

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A couple hundred early morning words (and cuts) on diss intro revisions. Off for the day, back tomorrow! #writingpact

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A *one-bedroom* home in Palo Alto went on the market for $1.98 million. It sold, quickly, for $2.6 million. https://t.co/WcQxvULCGQ

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The scene is largely the same from this morning, now with some cuts, restructuring, and new words. #writingpact https://t.co/8WsUrItjp5

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“Mono Lake…a rare example of how people in the arid West can balance…water demands with those of other species.” https://t.co/JtLLmb9dnA

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@EvansStef_UNLV @wcronon @WorldProfessor @Latinohistory @dcsloane53 @BeckyNic7 @jrbace @julietpdavis @megankatenelson @TropicsM thanks!

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December

Some good progress on the introduction writing/rewriting. Things are coming together. Likely done with it tonight. #writingpact

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@wcaleb Their Keynote roast is quite good. I’m currently drinking their Guatemala Waykan https://t.co/UX1k1utyuL

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@esjewett I think I know the problem :-) Trying to improve the data prep, I think I accidentally dropped a value needed for the sort.

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Stanford is hosting the useR! Conference at the end of June 2016. Follow along @useR_Stanford https://t.co/tXpldJiH3o #rstat

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So, here’s a new one. A scam website is using my headshot for their “CEO.” Not sure what I do about that. DMCA takedown?

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Good start to the morning with #writingpact, chap. revisions on Mayor Hayes and 1970s growth politics in San Jose. Now coffee with @pfzenke.

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Getting ready to avoid spoilers until Saturday. Might just drop off the internet Thursday night. https://t.co/f6b7TZZr2z

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I’m a little behind, but pleased to discover a nice review of Geography of the Post in the WHQ’s autumn issue @historying.

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@wcaleb I assume you're catching Star Wars this week? I'm seeing it Saturday. Probably leaving the Internet tomorrow to avoid spoilers...

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@ReclaimHosting Quick question: was rsync previously available? It doesn’t seem to be there any longer. At least, bash can’t find it…

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Nothing really discernible yet, but drafting a map of Bay Area journey-to-work commutes in 1958. Size = # commuters https://t.co/YUhtDV209T

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Interactivity would probably help. Having a dropdown selection for each major commute city, to see patterns for specific areas.

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Finally finding some time to catch up on reading I’d fallen woefully behind on. @tanehisicoates https://t.co/wbZlDN4kRz

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@OmniFocus Traffic? I wonder why? :) No worries! Just wanted to make sure you knew. I don’t need it right this moment.

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@dancohen @GeorgeOnline iOS geofencing + IFTTT + DPLA = show images/items about locations when you’re in an area.

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@dancohen @GeorgeOnline I could also see for research, perhaps anytime new items are ingested related to my topic, I get an alert via email

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I’ll just take a quick look at this *falls in rabbit hole* (@lincolnmullen @briansarnacki) http://t.co/R1ryaQtHc3

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@lincolnmullen Aggregating census numbers. I have a csv of Calif. populations 1850-2010 split up by city. I need to aggregate to county.

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Cyclist, despite nearing his “fourth twentieth birthday,” cycles between 6-9,000 km per year http://t.co/Q6zRWLgZLG (via @cklinetobe)

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@lincolnmullen It’s data compiled within CESTA here, but I don’t think I can share it (yet). But I might’ve just found another source…

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@lincolnmullen OK, this looks like it has everything I’m after http://t.co/ujNG49V2aK. Maybe no R for today then :(

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@benmschmidt @lincolnmullen I’d love to see more of this. There’s some things in the works at CESTA that might be useful in the near term…

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@lincolnmullen It occurs to me that I could handle most of the data prep using d3.nest. But this gives me an excuse to play with R.

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@nirak Yeah, it can be difficult to switch. I try to build in a bit of a break (like lunch now) between them, which seems to help.

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“Housing in Santa Clara County is rapidly approaching a crisis situation. The average wage earner cannot afford the lowest price new…” +

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“…single family home even in South County, not to mention a house in the higher priced Palo Alto area.”

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Unfortunately, didn’t catch much of #camelopardalids last night. But it was nice to just stare up at the stars for a while.

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A new-to-me command line utility: sips, the “scriptable image processing system,” for quick image manipulation http://t.co/DuY7ysCMF6

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@ChuckRybak Just reading your awesome post (http://t.co/IpnSxdwYbc). You’re at DHSI this year, right? Will be great to catch up if you are!

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.@TheAtlantic knocks it out of the park w/ this fantastic and supremely well-designed story on Yarnell http://t.co/CqGhTkzW3n #americanwest

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Can’t believe #DHSI2014 is next week already! Let’s see how many projects I can wrap up this week to prepare…

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Provocative pre-print & viz by @Ted_Underwood and @goldstoneandrew, topic modeling 21,000 literary journal articles http://t.co/VhREXwhRro

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Realizing you still have hot coffee in your travel mug is like discovering a $20 in your pocket. A good surprise.

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Noah Falstein arguing that the most successful games are those that play on ancestral past—hunting, gathering, storytelling #mediaXstanford

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Fascinating look at how Riju Das’s lab developed games to help crowdsource questions about RNA folding #mediaXstanford

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Das: When humans were faced with game/design questions, they often outperformed the best computational algorithms #mediaXstanford

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Das is working on a new workflow for game designs to become peer reviewed and part of the literature on RNA research #mediaarchaeology

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Student produced textbook project worked with 94 high school students in California to create 47 chapters #mediaXstanford

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@ChuckRybak Bummer. We haven’t tried tests yet to see what causes her problems. Mainly, she licks her feet constantly b/c they itch.

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Hey #dhsi2014 folks. Anyone else coming in on the Clipper tomorrow afternoon? Want to share a cab or something?

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June

@claytonhanson Just a bag and a backpack. Giving lightrail a shot. So far, better experience than San Jose's.

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How come no one told me Portladia was really a documentary about the Pacific Northwest? (I kid, I kid, Seattle.)

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Nice! RT @songsthatsaved: #DHSI2014 archive doesn’t fear your deluge, defiantly says: “Come at me, bro.” https://t.co/IV2GJXG0Ij

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.@jenterysayers & @williamjturkel encourage their students to take on projects that are too ambitious. To learn productive failure #dhsi2014

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Getting some ideas about 3D printing and humanities. In particular, modeling space to ask spatial history questions… #dhsi2014

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Between #WWDC announcements and what we’re doing at #DHSI2014, I’m so excited for everything. EVERYTHING.

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.@symulation asks if we're all digital humanists now. Reminds me of @lincolnmullen's post http://t.co/IS5xdKcs6J #DHSI2014

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Yes RT @CaseyBrienza: Okay, so if it's not everything "digital" and "humanities, is digital humanities a set of methods/methodologies?

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Absolutely wonderful evening with @tylersfox @jeriwieringa @nolauren @michelletiedje @claytonhanson @eetempleton #dhsi2014

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The data science toolbox, seeks to “to provide a virtual environment” to do DS. http://t.co/XvItMPBLj5. Similar to @DH_Box?

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@finnarne What I need is a Rube Goldberg-like device. Fills the grinder, turns on the grinder, dumps grinds into AP, boils water, pours,…

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@lincolnmullen I believe the “language” just draws on C/C++ functions and, I think, supports all C/C++ constructs. And compiles to C.

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Another lovely evening of conversation and company with @claytonhanson @pieroerbaggio @jeriwieringa @nolauren @regan008 #dhsi2014

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Anyone have suggestions for coloring data layers on a physical map? Or, best color schemes to differentiate data from the basemap colors?

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@ChuckRybak Yeah. See, the yellow is meant to be open space / green space. But green conflicts with the basemap colors…

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@jeriwieringa @nolauren @pieroerbaggio @ChuckRybak @eetempleton @michelletiedje Ya’ll are the best! Had an awesome night. #DHSI2014!

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@nolauren @jeriwieringa @ChuckRybak @eetempleton @claytonhanson @tylersfox Break, then head to Cove around 5? Meet @ breakfast building?

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@nolauren @jeriwieringa @ChuckRybak @eetempleton @claytonhanson @tylersfox If you can’t meet around 5 then we can meet you down @ Cove, btw

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@nolauren @jeriwieringa @ChuckRybak @eetempleton @claytonhanson @tylersfox let's meet by the picnic tables

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@rhymerchick @elikaortega I think the 4 and the 7 both head down town. Then it's an 8 minute walk to the clipper.

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What if #dhsi2014 is really a social experiment about week-long sleep deprivation and productivity? Maybe that’s just me.

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Whoh. RT @rauchg: OSX Yosemite is now scriptable with JavaScript! Release notes: https://t.co/emClusjTpL http://t.co/3vn1U5T9zG

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“Give yourself permission to write badly.” Lots of good writing advice, and things I’ll take to heart this summer http://t.co/rNhNbbowCW

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@cliotropic May was super super busy. Haven’t chimed in to #writingpact much, but going after the diss hardcore this summer!

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Really great visualizations of Boston’s MBTA subway system using, among other things, #d3js http://t.co/CwE77G6WI2

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How historian Matthew Connelly began using data mining to infer what information was left out of the public record: http://t.co/JnsA71PMxG

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@miriamkp It’s a little limited on what you can do with it at the moment, but I think it’ll let you do that.

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@miriamkp @lincolnmullen I haven’t tried it yet, but Odyssey.js seems really interesting http://t.co/WR5ZzTtYrg

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@mcburton @wcaleb I’m writing a review of Editorial for @ProfHacker right now. Maybe we’ll recruit a few more :)

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Enjoying this 1830s essay by Honore de Balzac on “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee.” http://t.co/QmATp22AQT

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Balzac called coffee “a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale.” I can relate. http://t.co/QmATp22AQT

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Balzac: “Coffee…when…drunk on an empty stomach…produces a kind of animation that looks like anger.” http://t.co/QmATp22AQT

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Balzac pulverized coffee beans and consumed them on an empty stomach. A “horrible, rather brutal” method only for men of “excessive vigor.”

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@rjordan_csu That's cool. I've wanted the data to do something similar as a way to understand urban growth & boom periods.

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@electricarchaeo Reminds me of a time I did that overnight; I’m certain a plane missed the runway b/c everything past the airport was gone.

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July

#lazyweb Does the Github API, when logged into an account, provide some way to limit which repositories are accessible to an app?

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Finally. @danbenjamin and @hotdogsladies talk Glengarry Glen Ross on 5by5 At the Movies http://t.co/xpuWrTpLiN (cc @mattthomas)

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#d3js Anyone spot why my “remove brush” button isn’t working correctly? http://t.co/lNm3NKPDMe (cc @mbostock)

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@rebeccawingo Nice! I need to make one more trip up to the Bancroft (hopefully in the next few weeks) to finish up research for chapter 4.

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@rebeccawingo I’ve promised a few people that I’ll have a full draft of the diss ready by the end of the year.

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@scott_bot It’s an @Elijah_Meeks plugin that is secretly installed on your computer when you come to campus.

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@rebeccawingo It’s like a text adventure game. YOU APPROACH UNKNOWN. > Go left YOU ENTER THE UNKNOWN. > Go left YOU ENTER THE ABYSS

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This week’s @firstdraftcast is going to be a good one. I know this because I’m Googling goat teeth and sheep eyes. @Elijah_Meeks @pfzenke

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Love it // 19 Maps That Will Blow Your Mind and Change the Way You See the World. Top All-time. http://t.co/l52SAQWx1q

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Geographer William Wyckoff on the reintroduction of bison, bison management, and its implications for the Amer. West: http://t.co/rm24O9tWJw

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Well this is weird. I had some run-away unix processes, apparently. No idea what was firing them off. http://t.co/DZQW9MT2vI

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Heads up #envhist folks: the proposal deadline for #ASEH2015 has been extended to July 31 https://t.co/soh3ZOsQKy

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Tough. Been trying to track down a 1960s environmentalist group at Stanford called GRASS ROOTS. The vague name doesn’t help.

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GRASS ROOTS put out great stuff like this cartoon. But, I only have a couple of items that indicate their existence. http://t.co/hayuQ9MVOc

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What’s the best unix utility for auto detecting changes to a directory? inotify? Looking for a way to detect changes, then launch Jekyll.

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@keitheleejr Great! Sorry I missed these yesterday. My solution is also Dropbox to keep things in sync; I write most often using vim.

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@katinalynn I wrote about a few of my favorites a while back http://t.co/mMpk6aFk4H. Needs updating; some of those don't exist anymore.

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@claytonhanson @WhaHistory @dougseefeldt Six Shooters is the only thing we’ve currently planned. Maybe we need to do a DH meet up…

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This. This is why we insist on Markdown/pandoc. And guess what? “Recovering” didn’t recover. @lincolnmullen @wcaleb http://t.co/4WDpwV9T8e

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@brandontlocke @briansarnacki @BackStoryRadio Seriously, listen to Brandon. One of the best podcasts I listen to.

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One of the highlights of my day: a guy in microfilm talking to another researcher about the first time he got tear gassed.

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August

@yohman @miriamkp I think there’s a Heppler Law. Which states that I tend to send people down rabbit holes. :) (@wcaleb @lincolnmullen)

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@yohman @miriamkp Awesome work! Very useful tool — I’ve shared it with a few people around CESTA already.

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Back from a short research trip (jaunt?) with a pile of urban planning documents. Time to start data mining.

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Well, starting to get somewhere with this new viz for the dissertation. #abstractD3 http://t.co/24A29BwDWZ

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@wcaleb @lincolnmullen Do either of you happen to know if Gitit has autocomplete plugin for existing wiki pages (from within vim)?

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@wcaleb @lincolnmullen I’ve run into a few cases where I want to link to another page, but don’t always have the page title handy.

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@patrick_mj @wcaleb @lincolnmullen I’m traveling Monday; sounds like I just figured out what to do on my flight :)

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@jhrees @CamScanner A favorite app! So happy I don’t have to organize a mess of photos anymore after archive trips.

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Getting a sense of where people were commuting to work in the late-1950s Bay Area. Not super legible yet. http://t.co/VshhlogZXz

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@foundhistory Get on Twitter and/or start blogging about questions/problems. The DH community is awesome here.

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@tjowens @foundhistory Part of my worry stemmed from tools warping the question, to shoehorn questions into a tool +

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@tjowens @foundhistory but maybe warping is a good thing sometimes. Especially if it leads to new/better questions. -

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@tjowens @foundhistory Tom, can you just cite this convo on your DH beginners list? This is why Twitter is awesome 👍

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@matthewdlincoln See my convo with @foundhistory and @tjowens from yesterday. I'm rethinking my view on this :)

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@captain_primate @eetempleton Well, I don't think I can eat the whole thing. It's like cherry pie w/ distinct gummy bear flavor.

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Final night of #FVPKxvNats54 and for some reason tried to eat one of these. Couldn't do it. http://t.co/2sRjxWLmBD

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@eetempleton @captain_primate For the record I didn't finish it. I don't think we'd be talking now if I had.

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@eetempleton @KellyBraffet I saw those in a gas station yesterday. That’s just insulting to coffee. #coffeesnob

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@eetempleton Unfortunately no. I’m not sure “food” like that comes with any choices except: “bad” @KellyBraffet

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San Jose grew so quickly in the 1950s that mapmakers found their maps out of date just five months after printing.

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To fix this, the city sold packets of stickers every month of updated sections of the master map so people could correct their maps.

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I would *love* to know if those stickers still exist. Imagine: an interactive project of 1950s San Jose with a quiltwork of corrections.

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@sleonchnm @RogerWhitson I don’t think a single grad class I took *didn’t* have a book focusing on global history at some point.

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@sleonchnm @RogerWhitson I think a good number of the things written on enviro. history, e.g., are necessarily global in outlook.

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@sleonchnm @RogerWhitson Now I feel like I need to dig up my course syllabus on international history I took four years ago.

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The inimitable Susan Schulten on mapping red/blue partisan divides (in the 1870s) http://t.co/143KVNFIAr (cc @lincolnmullen)

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@highcountrynews Nature’s Merropolis by Cronon, because it changed the way I think about cities, nature, and place.

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Is this thing on? RT @SaveHumanities: To save the humanities we need a mic stand? do you have a mac charger? do you have a mac?

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Sure, you can read our content, but first you have to answer some really annoying questions. http://t.co/3hiVBJ1itX

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If you need another excuse to buy whole coffee beans from a local roaster and grind your own: http://t.co/uBXXzt8O36

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Has anyone else run into a “no implicit conversion from nil to integer” error in @jekyllrb? Can’t seem to hunt down what’s causing it.

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Here’s the “no implicit conversion from nil to integer” error I’m getting from @jekyllrb. https://t.co/aDYOtvl95H

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Reinstalling jekyll and dependencies didn’t fix it. Works fine on my local machine; throws this error on the server I’m working on. Gah.

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Catching up on @BackStoryRadio. This episode on water and conflict is fantastic (and right up my alley) http://t.co/HGYmNdibrh

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If you work with a team and you haven’t taken a look at @SlackHQ, check it out. It quickly became a favorite for me. https://t.co/wUzsoDz8Tp

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I want to know how the NYT made this graphic. I’ve been wanting to build something similar http://t.co/t8Ah5pGbOK

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Great and unique visualization from the NYTimes on mapping migration in the United States http://t.co/rZMdFUa2aP

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“Today, rye whiskey—made from the same spicy grain as rye bread—has entered a new golden age.” http://t.co/sADEwN5QSB

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“I would suggest that Miles Davis’s 1959 recording _Kind of Blue_ is indubitably a classic.” http://t.co/Fubd8gdnCw

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@SlackHQ Any reports of auth issues today? A few of us can’t get desktop app/website to connect. iOS works fine. Could be our Wi-Fi, too…

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Looking for a job in tech? Learn to collaborate with others, think critically, participate http://t.co/GInRM5DyiT

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Learning about the Wallenberg Learning Theater with our fellow technologists from Berkeley. #StanfordATS http://t.co/JcshP9p0FQ

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@ChuckRybak Yep! We didn’t even feel it where we’re at (we’re a ways south of Napa). Though I’ve heard a few people say they felt it.

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The drought it bad. But what happens if we drain aquifers in an attempt to counteract it? http://t.co/TBmoLi1xZZ

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Finally, after weeks of hitting a wall, I’ve come up with a Jekyll/rsync system for keeping sites up to date that share data.

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A key goal was keeping _data files in sync. So, we can keep a master people.yml file, but labs/projects can grab specific collaborators.

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California is the only western state that does not regulate underground water. That might be set to change http://t.co/NbcebROYOO

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@sherah1918 @captain_primate We have a grad student in Senegal now doing research, & we have collaborators planning to come in October…

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September

@thomasgpadilla @scott_bot @Elijah_Meeks As far as I know, it is not currently. Is that right @cncoleman?

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@lincolnmullen Teaching an Intro to Digital History class. Using it during our section on spatial history.

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Nathan Heller writing in the @NewYorker argues for the importance of the footnote http://t.co/3ITR7VdCaG

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@benmschmidt @wcaleb @lincolnmullen I like your idea for integrating notes and photos. I’ve been using the file system, but my notes have +

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@benmschmidt @wcaleb @lincolnmullen have been a bit disconnected from sources. You’ve given me some fresh ideas. -

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@benmschmidt @wcaleb @lincolnmullen I have two things I’m working on for Gitit: autocomplete existing wiki pages while typing +

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@benmschmidt @wcaleb @lincolnmullen and inline PDF viewing with js (I tend to use PDFs captured with CamScanner) instead of images) -

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The best thing about a Husker moving to Stanford? I just have to turn my Nebraska shirt inside out, and I fit right in.

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My course syllabus for #hist205f is finally online http://t.co/OmQXBiXMPx. Big hat tip to @lincolnmullen for the design/layout.

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#hist205f Might be interested in the Geospatial Computational Social Science Conference, Oct. 20, 2014 at Stanford https://t.co/VB7DUCAUNC

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The @ncph call for working group discussants is now open http://t.co/N4BkOp0ztO. Come join ours on digital and public history!

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@brandontlocke For the record, though, I’m totally with you. I haven’t been able to break mine out yet because California.

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I’ll be setting up some Github stuff live in the classroom today. If I crash and burn, that’s a lesson about digital history right?

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By the way, if ya’ll are online this afternoon/evening at 3:15 Pacific, I might have you tweet at the class.

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I’m going to start a Tumblr about unix/programming error names, phrases, and codes that could also serve as band names.

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@brandontlocke @captain_primate @LEADR_MSU Just write a bot that dredges up and recombines old @dancohen tweets. Boom. Done.

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This CFP on historical games that coincides with @HUMlab’s Challenge the Past conference in Gothenburg sounds amazing http://t.co/fXlYrX6HY0

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Unfortunately, my conference schedule for next year is probably maxed out already. But that looks like a fun conference.

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#hist205f Some additional resources for Week One regarding markdown, Github, and how to define digital history http://t.co/Mm199D60iS

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#hist205f We’re talking about digital archives next week. Check out @rizzo_pubhist on the politics of digitization http://t.co/GbeBTxdv8K

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Congratulations to @wcronon on receiving the Wilderness Society’s Robert Marshall Award! http://t.co/nxyynxQMcS

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#hist205f Regarding digital collections and archives next week, check out @wragge’s “Life on the Outside” https://t.co/nhzAwEpQj0

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Been spending a little time with R this week. I kind of feel like Neo learning Kung Fu. (Morpheus played by @lincolnmullen).

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#hist205f Check out @ianmilligan’s new post “The Future of the Library in the Digital Age?” http://t.co/glYD6zGNV2

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@lincolnmullen “It seems like they are trolling me personally.” That’s going on a t-shirt. (Thanks for the shout out!)

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Special thanks to Daniel Hartwing and Leslie Berlin for visiting #hist205f yesterday! Archivists and librarians rock.

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As Wild Horses Overrun the West, Ranchers Fear Land Will Be Gobbled Up http://t.co/rs0QFUfAQl // On land use battles in the West.

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October

Any pointers #d3js folks on why my rects aren’t all drawing along the x axis here? http://t.co/Y8J1zUuztS (cc @Elijah_Meeks)

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#hist205f Check out the Silicon Genesis project, which has oral histories of people in the semiconductor industry http://t.co/2nu4TOgvmK

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I don’t think I have a use case for it (yet), but neat to see Panic release Transmit for iOS http://t.co/csvzd3rm3A

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The @WhoMakesCents podcast on the history of capitalism has quickly become a must-listen on my list of podcasts http://t.co/z7Sam2JTwV

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The history podcasts I listen to (@BackStoryRadio, @WhoMakesCents, @digitalcampus) always cause me think about my work in new ways.

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Looking forward to tomorrow’s ATXpo presenting on DH in the classroom, and a session on games and learning https://t.co/HnAHwTvGu7

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@wcaleb There are cases where that will be true, but I don’t know that it will always be the case. I could put up the full example dataset.

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Showing off @neatline and Palladio at our session on DH in the classroom for the Academic Technology Expo today.

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#hist205f Related to last week, see @melissaterras “Reuse of Digitised Content” on the (re)use of digitized material http://t.co/L6YTlc4S6Q

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#hist205f If you’re looking for oral histories, check out @ComputerHistory’s oral history collection http://t.co/6ldgXErgNu

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Great discussion in #hist205f on data, abundance, scarcity, and Palladio with @MarkBraude! Fantastic group of students.

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Going to the WHA next week? Our Six Shooters session is talking digital in the classroom, public history, & research! http://t.co/uCSZRT19CV

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Very excited to see UC Press looking for open access, digital monographs https://t.co/JEZcYYoeeL (via @miriamkp)

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Ironically, this accurately describes San Jose’s postwar annexation policy #d3brokeandmadeart http://t.co/jD4Bcm8bXp

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Come check out our #wha2014 lightning talks session on western history, digital methods, and the classroom http://t.co/uCSZRT19CV

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#hist205f Next week we’re looking at spatial history. Here’s a bunch of spatial datasets sorted by country http://t.co/b8fw1ZWkBF

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@ChuckRybak This is my “follow up” to class :) Depending on how the conversation goes, I put together additional resources based on interest

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Attending the “roast” of my MA advisor and continuing mentor John Wunder, celebrating his many years of research, advising, and teaching.

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Fantastic week in Orange County for #WHA2014, great catching up with friends. I’ll see you all again next year in Portland!

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Apparently energized (although exhausted) from #WHA2014: Just wrote 600 words on the dissertation while waiting at the airport for an hour.

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@brandontlocke Yeah, a few places claim it. Omaha/Lincoln, Champagne, Chicago, etc. Not sure where the capital would be.

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Historical institutions are updating their brands to stay attractive and relevant to the public http://t.co/HuS61QIEQd

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#hist205f Check out this tutorial on putting points on maps using GeoJSON and Open Refine http://t.co/tcj0NKdXlk

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From saltwater to drinking water? California considers desalination as a remedy for water woes http://t.co/HEcFvHxlgu

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Hey Team #WritingPact! Been a while since I checked in. Finished up a chapter yesterday. On to the next one this week!

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Great investigative piece on violence against BLM and Forest Service employees in the West https://t.co/O6gQMimGAu (via @BrendenWRensink)

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.@historying’s Geography of the Post research visualization, which I’ve hinted at for a while now, is live! http://t.co/w6JNGw7ong

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.@historying and I visualized 14,000 post offices in the nineteenth century American West http://t.co/w6JNGw7ong

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I’m waiting for the first western historian to come at us for defining the start of the West along the 100th meridian.

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@captain_primate I’m in office hours right now down in the history department, but I’ll be up in CESTA this afternoon.

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Played archive rat all day (on an emotionally draining topic). Capping the day with Stone Brewing’s Xocoveza Stout and trick-or-treaters

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November

Echo of the Sagebrush Rebellion: western states are laying claim to federal lands https://t.co/51fa5JkPfy

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Applications are now open for the National Humanities Center Summer Institute in Digital Textual Studies http://t.co/jvghDbF6GR

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#hist205f On the subject of design and narrative this week, check out the latest from @mbostock on “How to Scroll” http://t.co/8G8IEl8H00

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This week brought to you by Moonbean Coffee in San Jose. Might be my new favorite coffee roaster since the nearby Barefoot closed down.

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@pfyfe @ryancordell I think it makes sense to integrate digital methods into a “regular” class, rather than call DH out on its own.

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@pfyfe @ryancordell That way, to me, DH is just part of a discipline. Now whether that actually works, I don’t know yet…

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Apparently upgrading to Yosemite broke all the Apache things. Local installs of Omeka, Drupal, etc, are all down.

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@patrick_mj Out of curiosity, does Omeka have any problems with Apache 2.4? Still hitting a wall, likely my fault, but thought I’d check.

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@wcaleb @lincolnmullen Do either of you, by chance, have a pandoc filter for converting inline footnotes to reference footnotes?

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#d3js folks: I’m getting drastic performance differences in Chrome on different machines. Is this just an issue with the computer?

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So good RT @wcaleb: Blog post on my weekend project, @Every3Minutes, a #publichistory Twitterbot on #slavery http://t.co/tkODElt6i4

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Finally ready, I think, to start rolling out some dissertation digital research projects this week http://t.co/WxMNAbbvHk

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Nice piece from the Atlantic on debates over depictions of the French Revolution in the new Assassins’s Creed game http://t.co/fLGewcQEdh

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Looking at student digital history projects in #hist205f today. Some amazing work in such a short amount of time.

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@danbenjamin Hi, first time tweeter. No, thank you for all the great work at 5by5! More than happy to support the things I enjoy.

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@LDBurnett To be clear, Jan. 31 for a full draft (2.5 chapters to go). Then a couple months or so for full MS revisions.

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@cliotropic @amykohout @LDBurnett @abschreiber #GraftonLine and #writingpact are the best hashtags on Twitter.

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The Roosevelt family started a chain of coffee houses fifty years before Starbucks http://t.co/huCe7YzZLF http://t.co/nSjYIgrDyq

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Spent morning researching toxics in Santa Clara County. Then read this NYT story on ND oil http://t.co/BN1hIZq31X. I’ve had a cheery morning

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For those of you still on the fence about Scrivener, it’s on sale this Friday for $20 http://t.co/sBc83ZSYk6

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There are 17 Superfund sites within ten miles from where I live. Paul Voosen writes about living near sites today http://t.co/4TllgJVx9K

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December

Excited for my #hist205f students to show off what they’ve been working on this quarter. They’re amazing DH projects.

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The @NEHgov’s Public Scholar Program is funding works that are “intended to reach a broad readership.” Fantastic! http://t.co/WdUrCVYaxG

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My #hist205f students showcasing the amazing projects they worked on this quarter. http://t.co/D0ICwA9Mhp

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Great topics: gender in CS; venture capital; enviro. scientific literature; NYT articles on Silicon Valley; slums in S. Korea #hist205f

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@marcoarment Have you encountered an @OvercastFM bug where, when you delete an episode, it immediately re-downloads that episode?

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@mwidner I’m still waiting for the phone to read my thoughts about the dissertation and just write it for me.

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Oh, good. 5-foot-tall robots are going to start patrolling Silicon Valley. http://t.co/xyynuuepFw. I live in such a weird place, sometimes.

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My friend @MWChilders wraps up his fantastic series on Yosemite National Park at @blog_west http://t.co/1EMfmD5VTH

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“These little cuties are 50% Triangles, 50% Squares, and 100% slightly shapist. But only slightly!” http://t.co/RWqQL6FTxO

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@electricarchaeo Somewhat related, have you seen Coursera has a Minecraft for Educators course starting up in January? I might’ve enrolled.

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If you missed the 2014 WHA panel on the global legacy of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, video is now online http://t.co/5CkabFZxSq

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Finally caught up with @WhoMakesCents interviews with Andrew Needham and Ellie Shermer, both about the 20c Southwest. Excellent episodes.

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@VegHistory @brandontlocke QGIS is the only thing that would give you all the capabilities expected of GIS, I think http://t.co/OlwlE589IF

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@VegHistory @brandontlocke One more: Storymap JS by @knightlab seems interesting (I haven’t tried it yet) http://t.co/9uMXHDrP4P

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@brandontlocke @VegHistory You ask Twitter a question, and all the spatial historians come out of the woodwork…

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This is the only right answer. RT @tanehisicoates: Empire, of course. RT @Gator_Bell: @tanehisicoates DK:Rises or Empire Strikes Back?

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OK Team #Writingpact. Nailing down this section on a Superfund site, in an overall narrative on spatial history of health in Silicon Valley.

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Bay Area friends, I’ll be chatting at the @sfbay_dh / Bay Area #d3js Users Group meeting in San Francisco January 14. http://t.co/MP0pB0TXCe

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If you’ve ever wondered about the consumption of jellied eel in 17c Prussia, I’m trying to help. http://t.co/1doHERcTXS

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Silicon Valley, living with it’s history. The EPA plans testing for contaminated gases in homes http://t.co/qh65XZVXHm

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Looking forward to the #aha2015 this weekend. I’m on two panels: Jan. 3 on digital pedagogy, and Jan. 4 on tenure, careers, and alt-ac.

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Alright, #aha2015 tweeps. I plan on playing a bit of tourist next week. Ellis Island and the Statue are on my list. What else should I see?

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