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Karin Dalziel
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Assistant Director, Digital Strategies @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Dev team lead, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

I also like cats […]

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I'm not sure why my dog decided he always wants to be in my office when I'm home but it's nice to have company ❤️
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Microsoft won't let me save meetings now.

Everything's great.
January 14, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Has anyone put out a guide for effectively *attending* an online conference?

I have seen a lot of guides for giving an online conference, and a lot of complaints about attending an online conference, and it strikes me that a guide for attending might be useful. I'd ideally like to see things […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Karin Dalziel
Update. "#mamdani revokes #IHRA #antisemitism definition on day 1, amid broad rejection of Adams orders."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mamdani-revokes-ihra-antisemitism-definition-on-day-1-amid-broad-rejection-of-adams-orders/ar-AA1TqxP4

PS: This was the right move. I speak as a Jew who […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Inbox zero!
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I wrote about trying out LLM models for document transcription, inspired by @benwbrum (and Sara!)

https://cdrhdev.unl.edu/log/2025/comparing-ai-models-for-document-transcription/
Comparing AI Models for Document Transcription – CDRH Development
cdrhdev.unl.edu
December 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reposted by Karin Dalziel
Wooo it's up! New paper alert! I will write a summary thread about this paper tomorrow morning when I'm not quite as mentally exhausted!

"An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions" by Thiele, Heiland, Boley, & Lawler https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

Not […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
My coworker gave me some of these silicone glasses hook things and I love them so much. They are especially useful with masks, my glasses keep sliding off when wearing a mask.
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reposted by Karin Dalziel
Can we please stop holding important conferences in the US? One of my students is affected by the full travel ban and for others it just doesn't seem sufficiently safe. I love my US colleagues and would have enjoyed attending HSP and ACL/CoNNL but it's simply not an option at this point.
December 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Goat!
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
There are goats in my library so I am finding it very hard to concentrate. I got to pet one ❤️
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Bought a string of pearls plant that was starting to bloom and now it's in full bloom and my office smells so gooooooood
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The way teams crops messages has to result in some great/not great misunderstandings
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Playing with data in Omeka S and having so much fun. Import stuff, batch edit, export as csv, edit data in spreadsheet, reimport, rinse repeat.

And then I have a pretty map!

thanks to @Omeka
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by Karin Dalziel
I clicked two library catalogue "permalinks" today, one 2 years old and one 15 years old, from different catalogues, and neither one worked. We really shouldn't call them that if we're not going to make it happen.
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I fixed a thing! yaaay!

I mean, I broke it in the first place but still excited I managed to fix it.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I got a clearance halloween skeleton for 85% off but don't really have anything to do with it so I guess it's now my home office buddy
December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by Karin Dalziel
Universities to students: Don’t submit genAI output as your own work.

Also universities to students: Use genAI to prewrite, draft, revise, and edit your own work.
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by Karin Dalziel
"Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge."
https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close

"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Being a manager I rarely dip into programming anymore and when I do it only reminds me of how much I've forgotten :(

But I got SOMETHING done in XSLT/Ruby so I'll consider that a win
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by Karin Dalziel
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"

A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->

www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
lil shoutout to one of my favorite utility apps

https://imageoptim.com/

It squishes images to be a fraction of their former size. It's really useful for thumbnails especially, where it sometimes removes 90% of the file size
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The GitHub website is up but I can't use the command line or gui app to pull or push changes

Good job everyone, we did it
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
When we moved offices, we were told we would be able to get a phone installed so we (the 13 people that share a phone line) can make calls. Then we were told we would get a "teams softphone" so we can make calls. Now we can't have either, but there are still phone calls to be made.

The process […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM