Ronda Grizzle
@rondagrizzle.bsky.social
Chocoholic, reader, herder of cats at Scholars' Lab at University of Virginia Library. Learns about community building, personal development, and group facilitation for funsies.
Why are titles so difficult!?
If you were making a podcast about the Scholars' Lab, what would you call it? Because everything I'm coming up with is boring!
"Around the Lab"? "All About The Lab"? "Happening In The Lab"?
See?! Boring!
#crowdsourcingmyjob
If you were making a podcast about the Scholars' Lab, what would you call it? Because everything I'm coming up with is boring!
"Around the Lab"? "All About The Lab"? "Happening In The Lab"?
See?! Boring!
#crowdsourcingmyjob
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Why are titles so difficult!?
If you were making a podcast about the Scholars' Lab, what would you call it? Because everything I'm coming up with is boring!
"Around the Lab"? "All About The Lab"? "Happening In The Lab"?
See?! Boring!
#crowdsourcingmyjob
If you were making a podcast about the Scholars' Lab, what would you call it? Because everything I'm coming up with is boring!
"Around the Lab"? "All About The Lab"? "Happening In The Lab"?
See?! Boring!
#crowdsourcingmyjob
This book is so good, and so very needed. I can't wait for others to get their hands on it.
I'm so grateful I got to participate as a reviewer on some of these essays.
I'm so grateful I got to participate as a reviewer on some of these essays.
Got to flip through @rondagrizzle.bsky.social's reviewer's copy & this book looks great—smart honest digital humanities understanding "failure" as useful & often necessary part of iterative, creative, experimental research (failures & methods/goals, not ethics/people) +
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This book is so good, and so very needed. I can't wait for others to get their hands on it.
I'm so grateful I got to participate as a reviewer on some of these essays.
I'm so grateful I got to participate as a reviewer on some of these essays.
Did my civic duty at lunch today. Trying to find some hope to hang on to, and exercising my right to vote helped.
October 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Did my civic duty at lunch today. Trying to find some hope to hang on to, and exercising my right to vote helped.
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If you need hope about academia/knowledge work, @scholarslab.bsky.social grad Praxis Fellows' collaborative charters always help me—seeing the values & planned *practices* they design together, when given space to imagine+plan. Here's this year's charter (I'm helping them zineify it tomorrow!):
2025-2026 Praxis Program Charter - The Praxis Program
praxis.scholarslab.org
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If you need hope about academia/knowledge work, @scholarslab.bsky.social grad Praxis Fellows' collaborative charters always help me—seeing the values & planned *practices* they design together, when given space to imagine+plan. Here's this year's charter (I'm helping them zineify it tomorrow!):
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It's not too late to join us for an Open Access Week brown bag lunch at noon — short presentations followed by Q&A. Can't make it today? There's another one tomorrow...
Follow the link for more including registration info!
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/wh...
#OA #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek
Follow the link for more including registration info!
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/wh...
#OA #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's not too late to join us for an Open Access Week brown bag lunch at noon — short presentations followed by Q&A. Can't make it today? There's another one tomorrow...
Follow the link for more including registration info!
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/wh...
#OA #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek
Follow the link for more including registration info!
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/wh...
#OA #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek
Painting my nails for this party later. How do I girly girl, again? Feeling hella weirdly intimidated, despite extensive prep and planning. Oh well. We go anyhow.
October 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Painting my nails for this party later. How do I girly girl, again? Feeling hella weirdly intimidated, despite extensive prep and planning. Oh well. We go anyhow.
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Here are my top 10 fall dogs!
September 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here are my top 10 fall dogs!
Still in love with your research and interested in exploring what else you can do with the results of that work? We've got a design jam for that, too, and I'm telling all about it in this blog post!
At UVA? Interested in chatting with us about your ideas? Email us at [email protected]!
At UVA? Interested in chatting with us about your ideas? Email us at [email protected]!
Our @rondagrizzle.bsky.social blogged about how we run design-jam-style DH consultations building on your existing work (following up on her previous post on design jams starting from just an exciting idea: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/design-...):
Design Jams, Part 2: The Shorter Version
Last time we met, I promised to tell you all about the second kind of design jam, so here we go!
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
September 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Still in love with your research and interested in exploring what else you can do with the results of that work? We've got a design jam for that, too, and I'm telling all about it in this blog post!
At UVA? Interested in chatting with us about your ideas? Email us at [email protected]!
At UVA? Interested in chatting with us about your ideas? Email us at [email protected]!
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"Key issues research libraries face in next 5 yrs?" Recently retired, longtime UVA Library Dean @junsworth.bsky.social: "In a nutshell, the challenge we face in libraries and in higher education and beyond in the US is government-sponsored fascism"
"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."
ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025
www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025
www.arl.org/blog/john-un...
September 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Key issues research libraries face in next 5 yrs?" Recently retired, longtime UVA Library Dean @junsworth.bsky.social: "In a nutshell, the challenge we face in libraries and in higher education and beyond in the US is government-sponsored fascism"
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Our GIS Specialists collaborated on this investigation of Virginia's local news ecosystem with UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy & Virginia Humanities—full report coming soon: karshinstitute.virginia.edu/research/vir...
Virginia Local News Ecosystem Study
There is a strong connection between robust local journalism ecosystems and a healthy democracy. Widespread concern exists about the challenges facing local journalism in the United States and their e...
karshinstitute.virginia.edu
September 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Our GIS Specialists collaborated on this investigation of Virginia's local news ecosystem with UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy & Virginia Humanities—full report coming soon: karshinstitute.virginia.edu/research/vir...
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Hey #fungi peeps -- @mawdc.bsky.social has $ available for students who need research support in mycology. Priority given to projects relevant to mid-Atlantic US. Deadline Oct 31. Please spread the word!
The Mycological Association of Washington, Inc. - Scholarships
mawdc.org
September 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hey #fungi peeps -- @mawdc.bsky.social has $ available for students who need research support in mycology. Priority given to projects relevant to mid-Atlantic US. Deadline Oct 31. Please spread the word!
UVA IHGC and Games Lab sponsored crossword puzzle construction workshop this morning with Dr. Anna Schectman was a blast. I'm ready to download software, cultivate a dictionary, and create themed puzzles for all my friends. #PlayingAtWork
September 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
UVA IHGC and Games Lab sponsored crossword puzzle construction workshop this morning with Dr. Anna Schectman was a blast. I'm ready to download software, cultivate a dictionary, and create themed puzzles for all my friends. #PlayingAtWork
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Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
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As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today
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The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
abcnews.link
August 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
Same. The last few weeks have felt like I'm being pulled under. Not even sure exactly why. Other than *hand motions*, I mean.
May all of us find it easier very soon.
May all of us find it easier very soon.
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them.
Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
August 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Same. The last few weeks have felt like I'm being pulled under. Not even sure exactly why. Other than *hand motions*, I mean.
May all of us find it easier very soon.
May all of us find it easier very soon.
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I got you this. It's helped me today, and maybe it will help you, too. youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by SamCookeVEVO
youtu.be
July 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I got you this. It's helped me today, and maybe it will help you, too. youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...
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We only rate dogs. This is Samuel L. Jackson in a cute sweater and a bad mood. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10
June 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We only rate dogs. This is Samuel L. Jackson in a cute sweater and a bad mood. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10
This just in: sneezing when you've just yeeted your gallbladder 3 days previously is rather uncomfortable.
Dear Allergies,
Please calm your hypothetical tits. Jeebus god.
Yrs in abdominal tenderness,
Me
Dear Allergies,
Please calm your hypothetical tits. Jeebus god.
Yrs in abdominal tenderness,
Me
June 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This just in: sneezing when you've just yeeted your gallbladder 3 days previously is rather uncomfortable.
Dear Allergies,
Please calm your hypothetical tits. Jeebus god.
Yrs in abdominal tenderness,
Me
Dear Allergies,
Please calm your hypothetical tits. Jeebus god.
Yrs in abdominal tenderness,
Me
men are just so emotional. should they be allowed to run things?
a baby yoda from star wars is drinking tea from a cup .
ALT: a baby yoda from star wars is drinking tea from a cup .
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
men are just so emotional. should they be allowed to run things?
Nothing quite as much fun as opening up a blog post draft you wrote a month ago and catching yourself wondering who wrote that dreck.
a crowd of people with their hands on their heads
ALT: a crowd of people with their hands on their heads
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Nothing quite as much fun as opening up a blog post draft you wrote a month ago and catching yourself wondering who wrote that dreck.
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Set your will to live in a mixing bowl, loosely covered, overnight. It will double in size by morning.
May 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Set your will to live in a mixing bowl, loosely covered, overnight. It will double in size by morning.
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@literaturegeek.bsky.social did a great job live posting about the Praxis fellows final presentation. This was a really special group, and they did fantastic work throughout the year cultivating a caring, thoughtful, intellectually rigorous community. We were lucky to learn from them.
Wrapping up this thread on our grad student DH fellows team's final presentation, & the @scholarslab.bsky.social staff are all crying 😭
May 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@literaturegeek.bsky.social did a great job live posting about the Praxis fellows final presentation. This was a really special group, and they did fantastic work throughout the year cultivating a caring, thoughtful, intellectually rigorous community. We were lucky to learn from them.