2017 12 01 tweets
Replying to @dancohen
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One can fantasize at this point about a whole flood of lawsuits from the Ds arguing that all action on presidential orders \(Including the signing of bills\) must be held until itās determined whether or not the president is a foreign agent, right? #please?
Replying to @tressiemcphd
I went to grad school in NYC in the mid-90s. Every last one of us who wasnāt independently wealthy was working at least one outside job just to eat. +
Replying to @tressiemcphd
This is not a āI had it just as bad as you did!ā Itās more āall those reforms of grad funding that were going to make it better for those after me ā didnāt.ā
Woke up this morning remembering how nice it was to be really, really sad about losing David Bowie and Prince, rather than about the complete unraveling of the republic.
Replying to @SPARC_NA
Thatāsā¦ persuasive.
Being back in a faculty gig this fall has meant getting to do a good bit more reading, of late mostly some research into the future of higher ed.
Replying to @kfitz
In the last few weeks I read three books in a row that have profoundly affected the ways I look at my work: @cnewfās The Great Mistake, @ayjayās How to Think, and @tressiemcphdās Lower Ed.
Replying to @cnewf, @ayjay and @tressiemcphd
I cannot say enough about them. The three will be with me for quite some time.
Replying to @DLind and @tressiemcphd
Absolutely. A huge part of whatās valuable for me in his book is finding ways to disagree profoundly and yet continue some kind of conversation.
Replying to @moncia and @MLAnews
Yep. The list came from the Committee on Information Technology: https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/2017/mla-2018-digital-work-sessions/
Replying to @moncia and @MLAnews
Oh excellent! Iāll look forward to seeing you there.
She is, indeed! Congrats, @alicetiara!!! https://twitter.com/sivavaid/status/937726666343878657
RT @NEHgov: The NEH congratulates the Humanities Commons on their first Birthday! Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teachingā¦
Weāre one! Reflections on our first year from the team and some friends are up at http://team.hcommons.org https://twitter.com/NEHgov/status/937735545018568704
RT @humcommons: Weāre ONE! Check out our team blog, with new posts every day this week from our team, our members, and our fans! https://t.ā¦
Itās been a year ā and even in some good ways. https://team.hcommons.org/2017/12/04/this-year/
Replying to @susanirenebrown
Thanks, Susan!
RT @terrainsvagues: You guys, @humcommons turns one this week. Itās been quite the ride. Weāll be sharing blog posts from team members andā¦
RT @humcommons: āI strongly believe that the humanities needs a trusted, library-quality repository on the web that is run by the scholarlyā¦
RT @NEH_ODH: Congratulations, Humanities Commons! Check out today's 5 new @humcommons blog posts to mark the occasion, including one fromā¦
Replying to @dbvisel
Thanks, Dan! I hope all is well where you are.
RT @humcommons: Weāre continuing our first birthday celebrations today with posts from @terrainsvagues (on the scholarly communication smorā¦
More Humanities Commons birthday week posts today, including technical lead Eric Knappe on preserving the NEH white papers in CORE: https://team.hcommons.org/2017/12/06/doing-what-you-can/
Replying to @stevermentz
There isnāt ā and there should be! Weāll see what we can put together. Thanks for the suggestion!
Replying to @veek and @humcommons
Not really. In the CommentPress Core settings, you can disable CP on posts, for instance, which makes the blog more blog-like, but it still uses the same theme \(just regular commenting\).
Replying to @veek and @humcommons
Yeah, I think thatās a limitation of available plugins right now. Iāve been looking for more options; Iāll let you know if I find anything!
Replying to @veek and @humcommons
Wait: generally commentable or paragraph-level commentable?
Replying to @veek and @humcommons
Pages should be able to be set as commentable! In the dashboard, in the list of all pages, if you hit āquick editā under a page title, is the āallow commentsā box ticked?
Replying to @veek and @humcommons
No prob. That box has gone hiding from me in the past :)
Same. https://twitter.com/ADeRogatis/status/939105241504665600
RT @kate_sonka: Hey y'all! Here's your chance to do amazing #a11y and #edtech work with @CALmsu, @MSUBroadCollege, and yours truly! Feel frā¦
Replying to @plragde and @tressiemcphd
Ah, enjoy!
RT @terrainsvagues: Agreed! Had just selected the very same part of her post to tweet. Thanks, @annetiquate, for shepherding this growing @ā¦
RT @humcommons: Read our \(twitter\-shy\) dev Ryan on why we implemented global search on our @cbox platform, & how we hope it might help imprā¦
Replying to @BerondaM
Sorry to miss being there this morning!
On my way to DCA for #cni17f. Looking forward to connecting with scholcomm projects and colleagues. \(PS: I have @humcommons stickers, hmu\.\)
Cliff Lynch mentions scalability in moving from prototype to implementation as a key issue in scholarly communication ā one thing weāre focused on this year at @humcommons. #cni17f
This is a seriously 2017 overview. #cni17f #needadrink
Fascinating results from an initial survey of library spending on OA, as part of @in4open initiative to build collective action. #cni17f
āCritics say.ā No, @washingtonpost, the tweet IS an act of sexual harassment. #metoo https://twitter.com/mkirschenbaum/status/940660259710005250
Replying to @moncia and @hvdsomp
I have thought that EVERY TIME.
Replying to @edrabinski
Iām so sorry. I cannot imagine.
Replying to @mchris4duke
Or adjuncts, whose institutions often wonāt archive their work.
Come join us! https://twitter.com/kmapesy/status/940964634194046976
Replying to @BeateEellend and @jeroenson
Congratulations!!!
RT @mlastyle: MLA style: I'm going to document the meme I cite in my paper in proper MLA style.
Evil MLA style: Or just link to it.
Finā¦
Replying to @cpcore, @veek and @humcommons
Ooh, nice. That would be super helpful.
RT @humcommons: Hi #AJS2017! Come visit us in the exhibit hall & learn about AJS Commons, a not-for-profit scholarly network and open accesā¦
Replying to @kfitz
This thread is so, so important. Thank you, @iSmashFizzle. https://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle/status/942741594398175232
Huge congratulations, @kshkim and @beccaquon ā so well-deserved! https://twitter.com/CLIRDLF/status/942819393377067014
RT @wynkenhimself: Starting off my day with a little weeping. https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/943459778885545986
A fabulous opportunity to work with an amazing, committed community. https://twitter.com/nowviskie/status/943534188015341568
Replying to @ekansa
Iām so sorry. Itās all been very intensely personal, and painful. Iāll be thinking about you.
RT @kmapesy: The @CALMSU office in the Digital Scholarship Lab is under construction! #msudh
Replying to @kfitz
Thanks so much to everyone who has given me feedback and support in developing the project thus far. I'm really looking forward to the next phase!
Replying to @kfitz
I'm in the midst of wrapping up the draft and planning the open review process, which we'll host at Humanities Commons. @humcommons
I am delighted to get to tell you today that Generous Thinking is officially under contract with Johns Hopkins UP! @JHUPress @gmbritton http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/generous-thinking-the-university-and-the-public-good/
This is a super exciting project. Congrats @DawnOpel and @jrhodes! #MSUDH https://twitter.com/CALMSU/status/943580726863237120
Replying to @LibSkrat, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks! Iām pretty excited about it, and really looking forward to the discussion.
Replying to @dancohen, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Dan!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Aw, thank you. I hope I can live up to that!
Replying to @tcarmody
Thanks, Tim!
Replying to @whitneytrettien
Thanks, Whitney! Iām looking forward to the project being out there.
Replying to @JenHoward, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks so much! Iām looking forward to it, too.
Replying to @abbistani, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Ha! Seemed like a good moment to enlarge my brand. :)
Replying to @mkgold, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Matt!
Replying to @ayjay
I cannot tell you how much that means to me, Alan ā How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading have been important touchstones in the project!
Replying to @captain_primate
Thanks, Ethan! Iām looking forward to having it out there.
Replying to @BerondaM, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks so much, Beronda! Working on this project has been such a positive experience ā I canāt wait to share it!
Replying to @sivavaid, @nowviskie, @JHUPress, @gmbritton and @gbritton
I could not agree more!
Replying to @peripatesis, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thank you!
Replying to @triciamatthew
Thanks so much! Iām really thrilled about the conversations that lie ahead.
Thatās the way: share the thing! https://twitter.com/BerondaM/status/943899003418181632
Replying to @fraistat, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Neil!
Replying to @UNCScholComm
Thank you! Iāll look forward to continuing the discussion.
Replying to @seedpods, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thank you!
Replying to @nkelber, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks so much!
Replying to @DanicaSavonick
Thanks, Danica!
Replying to @jbj, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Me too!
Replying to @katinalynn
Thanks, Katina! Iām very much looking forward to it as well!
Replying to @philnel, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Phil!
RT @JHUPress: We couldn't have better news to end the year! https://twitter.com/kfitz/status/943860181674414080
\(That was a blatant yay\-me RT, I admit it\. But yay me\!\)
Replying to @grabill and @CALMSU
Thanks, Jeff! Iām looking forward to getting the project out there!
Replying to @abhumphreys, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Alex! Iām quite excited about it, and looking forward to getting the discussion started.
Replying to @LizaPotts
Thanks, Liza!
Replying to @CathyNDavidson, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks so much, Cathy. Looking forward to the conversation ahead!
Replying to @helmstreet
Thanks, Jason!
Replying to @sharonmleon, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Sharon!
Replying to @lynnegoldstein, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Lynne!
Replying to @walshbr, @JHUPress and @gmbritton
Thanks, Brandon! Iām looking forward to the conversation.
As Iām wrapping up the last chapter of Generous Thinking, Iām pondering the potential for recentering the university as a community in itself as well as in connection to the broader community.
Replying to @kfitz
If you have good examples, let me know? I'd be most grateful.
Replying to @kfitz
I'd like to look at as many experiments in that kind of institutional recentering as possible: how they're imagined, how they're structured, how they're received.
Replying to @shermandorn
Thanks for these suggestions, Sherman!
Replying to @shermandorn and @LDBurnett
Both? Probably? But mostly I need to look at some examples of real experimentation ā the university stretching beyond itself, building bridges, becoming outwardly rather than inwardly focused.
Replying to @kfitz
Just to clarify my thoughts here a bit: Iām hoping to examine experimental initiatives in which the university stretches beyond itself, builds bridges, becomes outwardly rather than inwardly focused.
Replying to @kfitz
So examples might be @CALMSUās Citizen Scholars program \(http://www\.cal\.msu\.edu/citizenscholars\). Or @UMBCHumanitiesās Baltimore Stories project \(https://dreshercenter\.umbc\.edu/multiple\-communities\-multiple\-stories/\).
Replying to @jimlance554
Thank you for the kind words!
Replying to @LibSkrat
Ooh excellent. Thank you for the pointer!
Replying to @LibSkrat
Oh PERFECT!
I have been biting my tongue, but canāt continue to do so. What those of you passing around that open letter about the MLAās data sharing practices havenāt been told is that the org has informed the author repeatedly that itās developing a new platform with an open API +
Replying to @kfitz
that is designed support exactly the kind of research the author wants to do. That sort of development takes time, and the org has asked for \(and obviously not received\) his patience.
Replying to @kfitz
Thereās more to be said about valuing the work that a non-profit scholarly organization undertakes to support the profession and research within it appropriately, but Iām just going to leave it there.
Replying to @LibSkrat
Exactly. And one really tires of the leap to public outrage.
Replying to @rbuurma
Iām referring to past precedents but mostly right now wanting to look at contemporary experimentsā¦
Replying to @mannahattamamma
Tell me more?
Replying to @paigecmorgan
Thanks for this, Paige! Itās an ongoing frustration, and one that I can be a little more up-front about now that I am back on the scholar side of things.
Replying to @_akpiper, @amandafrench, @jasonrhody, @Ted_Underwood and @kbourrier
Andrew, I was copied on multiple email messages in which my former colleagues told you what they were working toward. You would not hear them.
Replying to @_akpiper, @amandafrench, @jasonrhody, @Ted_Underwood and @kbourrier
And scholarly orgs do have a responsibility to make data as open as they can while still making it possible to do the work. And producing something like the Bib requires a LOT of work.
Replying to @_akpiper, @amandafrench, @jasonrhody, @Ted_Underwood and @kbourrier
So the MLA, as my colleagues told you, is seeking a sustainable means of making the data open to researchers. But itās an enormous, expensive project. And the org has a responsibility to the field as a whole to ensure that it, and the project, can survive.
Replying to @_akpiper, @amandafrench, @jasonrhody, @Ted_Underwood and @kbourrier
You are the one blaming the org, Andrew.
Replying to @_akpiper, @amandafrench, @jasonrhody, @Ted_Underwood and @kbourrier
By all means.
Replying to @nkelber
I would love to hear about that! More TK.
Replying to @lesliekwchan, @buddhall and @RTandon_PRIA
Thanks for this, Leslie! I certainly donāt mean ārecenteringā in the sense of āreturning to the centerā ā rather, Iām thinking about a new focus within the university.
Replying to @lesliekwchan, @buddhall and @RTandon_PRIA
And that kind of partnership is exactly what Iām writing about! Iāll look forward to continuing this conversation.
Replying to @meganeabbott
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Thatās amazing! š¾šš
I am really, really sorry to hear this. I came late to Kinsey Millhone but just adore her. https://twitter.com/AP/status/946826809454325760
Replying to @amandafrench
One of my favorite moments is when VI Warshawski says how jealous she is of Kinsey Millhoneās ability to keep organized. :)
RT @mkgold: Please consider nominating yourself to help lead @achdotorg forward! https://twitter.com/achdotorg/status/946846236912517121
Replying to @lynnegoldstein
I remember seeing those on your shelves and COVETING.
I just got a pile of email notifications from Diaspora reminding me of several friendsā birthdays. Alas, none of their birthdays are actually today.
Replying to @kfitz
Also, I totally forgot about Diaspora.
Replying to @kfitz
Pardon me. Diaspora*.
Replying to @jackjewers
Though at least there were once things happening on MySpace. \(PS: Happy New Year\!\)
Replying to @jackjewers
Not yet. Four hours left in this year of horrors.
Replying to @jackjewers
Poor Fulcrum! I hope her 2018 becomes less awkward and humiliating soon.