Laura O'Brien
Academic librarian @ Wellesley College. I read / post about #DigitalHumanities, #library #InformationLiteracy
Also at @niathena@mas.to on 🐘
- Reposted by Laura O'Brienthe discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
- Reposted by Laura O'BrienI agree that we don’t already know how to teach “AI literacy” well. But I also think literacy is too modest a goal. College students should graduate knowing how ML works; it’s liberal knowledge analogous to RNA or trig, not search-engine skills or Excel. And we do know how to teach it in that way.
- Reposted by Laura O'Brien"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +
- Reposted by Laura O'BrienInstead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
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- Reposted by Laura O'BrienNew this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky rdcu.be/etk07 The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +
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- "When people write things drawing on ideas I recognize from the literature without citing them, I feel a kind of rage because either they think their idea is novel due to not doing the reading or they know their idea is not novel and they have elected to pass it off as so."
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- Now that I've used bluesky for liveposting a conference, can I say that I love that it *requires* me to include alt text before posting media? Accessible by design!
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- SRO in Data-Driven Approaches to Historical Collections at #BostonDH25 - first up is Digital Engagement with Art Collections with Peter Botticelli from Simmons
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- Reposted by Laura O'BrienMy Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...
- After some technical difficulties, next up at #BostonDH25 is "AI, Open Scholarship and Access to the Human Record", from Greg Crane, Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, Peter Nadel, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University); James Tauber (Signum U); Clifford Wulfman (Princeton).
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- @roopikarisam.bsky.social on applying The Questions of Minimal Computing to our present fraught moment: 1) What do we need? 2) What do we have? 3) What must we prioritize? 4) What are we willing to give up? www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2... #bostondh25 #DigitalHumanities
- @roopikarisam.bsky.social: "our cultures are our past, present, and future" and deserve preservation even in (especially in) dire circumstances #bostondh25
- I'm @ the Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium at @bpl.boston.gov today: bostondh.org/symposium-20... Thank you to all the institutions (Northeastern, Brown, Tufts, BC, BPL, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Ctr) that have come together to support this #digitalhumanities community
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- I'm @ the Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium at @bpl.boston.gov today: bostondh.org/symposium-20... Thank you to all the institutions (Northeastern, Brown, Tufts, BC, BPL, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Ctr) that have come together to support this #digitalhumanities community
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- Reposted by Laura O'BrienTariffs xkcd.com/3073
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- Reposted by Laura O'BrienI do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this
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- Acting class. Every time I lesson plan I'm working out "beats" and working on putting myself in the perspective of students--basically Stella Adler character study. And, of course, voice projection, blocking, and physical movement help when I'm in class.
- Hey, @wellesleycollege.bsky.social is hiring a Science Librarian! Come work with an amazing team of dedicated, deeply collaborative librarians and truly inspiring students. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/w... #LISjobs #libraryjobs
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- The original Hugging Face bsky dataset may have been taken down, but I still highly recommend @cfiesler.bsky.social's thread on the ethics of public social media data research.
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- Reposted by Laura O'BrienYessssss! Journal editors and board members let’s do this! Folks on academic org committees! We can make the case to at the very least change the “Your Twitter handle” box on everything to something like “Your social media profile” #commsky I for one would be thrilled by “Share to Bluesky”
- We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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