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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 1h

chaos muppet gets me every time 😂

Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 12h

signal vs noise is a big one for me, and how those two concepts are core to so many different things. I love teaching a big flowchart of how wartime communications work ends up flowing into information theory, cryptography, cybernetics, logic…

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 19h

undark.org/2020/02/12/d...

Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 4d

TIL you cannot use pre-tax childcare FSA money while any parent is on parental leave. Or if one parent is looking for work but has no income in a year.

File that to the gigantic pile of ways the US structurally hates parents (especially women)

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 5d

lmao of course people are still doing this

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 6d

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 6d

oh look a brand-new lawsuit that came after we finished edits. probably there will be more of these. www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration's efforts to merge personal data

A class action lawsuit argues that the administration's efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violate privacy laws and the Constitution.

www.npr.org

Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 6d

new from me! particularly (horribly) fitting to have a piece about Congress legislating in an attempt to forestall harm publish on a week when Congress has instead abdicated legislation in an attempt to cause harm

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 7d

🗃️ Read @jillianefoley.com on the Privacy Act of 1974 and why we should avoid a simplistic view of the past. www.hnn.us/article/amer...

America’s Privacy Policy

Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture.

www.hnn.us

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7d

I think it's an important step. We have folks who have 'pioneered' various forms of public scholarship, but we need to institutionalize that knowledge and make it a standard part of the field.

It needs to become a thing we all do, if we're going to (re)build public support for the humanities.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 7d

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 11d

currently attempting to juggle two virtual conferences while finishing an article while working on my book draft while solo parenting three children for a few days and I think my brain is melting

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 12d

what if the menswear guy published a book of paper dolls

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13d

relatedly does anyone have tips figuring out how to contact people who are extremely retired without becoming a stalker

Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13d

I really hate when you look up a historical subject for the first time only to find out they died in the past month or even year. If only I had been smarter, figured out how to contact them earlier, thought of asking!!!

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13d

I cannot think of any but I immediately want to write this. At the very least I want to write about how badly my undergrad thesis initially went in case I ever get to teach undergrad writing again

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13d

do my clever and knowledgeable followers have examples of historians writing (eg journal article or book chapter) about their own *failures* in interesting ways? eg research goes wrong, wrong questions etc 🗃️

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13d

I’ve found a couple chapters as preprints, too. But just today I’ve collected $160 worth of ebook I really should buy for reference and my wallet is screaming

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13d

Independent scholars, how do you work with edited volumes and other books pubbed by textbook publishers? because my budget absolutely cannot support repeatedly paying $50-80 per ebook. A couple weeks of unpredictable interlibrary loan only gets you so far.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 13d

Independent scholars, how do you work with edited volumes and other books pubbed by textbook publishers? because my budget absolutely cannot support repeatedly paying $50-80 per ebook. A couple weeks of unpredictable interlibrary loan only gets you so far.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 16d

This is pretty cool

Swimmers Return To Chicago River For 1st Time In A Century, Marking Dramatic Transformation

Hundreds of swimmers dove into the Chicago River on Sunday to raise money for ALS research and highlight the river's rebound after years of pollution and unsafe conditions.

blockclubchicago.org

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 17d

in retrospect I’m shocked that the math tournaments I did in high school were not!

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 17d

the couple of coding conferences I went to back in the day were like this and once us two dozen women (mostly strangers) made dinner plans via powder room word of mouth

Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 17d

Ladies. Go to a long Kubrick film. Like I did. You will be shocked that at intermission the line for the women’s room is 5 people long. Versus 5,000,000 for the men’s room. It is the only time you will ever see that lol

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 20d

i remain convinced these guys are not only bad morally but they are also bad at business and making products

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 20d

that terrible meta AI clip has reminded me yet again of a demo I saw at a hackathon *in 2012* of a recipe voice assistant -- it did not try to generate anything it just answered questions about the actual recipe and could set timers, etc. Seemed like a perfect use case for voice assistants. AND YET.

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 20d

I have gone nearly twenty years without being summoned for a jury and now have gotten not one, not two, but THREE jury summons or related in the past two months.

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