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Alice McGrath

@alicetm.bsky.social

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Digital humanities, critical technology, cats, epistolary fiction, etc. Digital Scholarship Specialist at Bryn Mawr College.

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Alice McGrath @alicetm.bsky.social · Mar 11

I am excited to announce that Bryn Mawr will be hosting ILiADS this summer! Please consider joining us June 22-27! Proposals due March 30.

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ILiADS – Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship

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Alice McGrath @alicetm.bsky.social · Feb 14

Our #DouglassDay event this year is the best attended yet, despite competing with the Eagles Parade.

Cupcakes with illustrations related to Black history

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Alice McGrath @alicetm.bsky.social · Jan 24

The more people view technology as magical, the more power we give to tech billionaires.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Oct 28

Jennifer Guiliano & I are happy to share our October issue of #ReviewsInDH: “Digital Archaeology,” a special issue edited by @sarahebond.bsky.social and Hannah Scates Kettler. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-10

Vol. 5, No. 10: October 2024 - Digital Archaeology · Reviews in Digital Humanities

Vol. 5, No. 10 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universi...

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Time Spinner, Your Neighborhood Time Traveller @spinny.bsky.social · Dec 5

Mullet boy: "We replaced prejudiced humans with fair AI"

Headband girl: "What did you train it on"

Mullet boy:

Headband girl: "What did you train it on"

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Alice McGrath @alicetm.bsky.social · Nov 13

I’m sorry for your loss! What was your kitty’s name?

Alice McGrath @alicetm.bsky.social · Nov 9

This week has been hard. Last Friday I lost this beautiful sweet girl, my animal soulmate, and then I lost some misguided hope about forestalling a national slide into authoritarianism.

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lockit.bsky.social @lockit.bsky.social · Nov 8

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Alice McGrath @alicetm.bsky.social · Nov 8

This is exciting! I think the framing of Critical Computing could be useful for many of us.

Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · Nov 7

On a week like this one, let me announce the launch of our new Critical Computing Initiative at Yale. We've come together from dozens of disciplines to educate back against the disastrous rise of the tech industry. criticalcomputing.yale.edu

Screenshot of the homepage for the Critical Computing Initiative at Yale.

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