Heather Froehlich
@heatherfro
supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
They are putting together a new exhibition in special collections and while I have no tattoos I may have to change that based on this little dude on the right (teaser for our new exhibit)
I had a dream about the Cloudflare verify you are a human box last night everything is going great!
if anyone is still looking to become a digital scholarship specialist, the best advice I can give you is to learn how to read OCR for as many languages as you can. I will not be alt-texting this one for obvious reasons
This has been A Week. please enjoy this snap from the most confusing building I have found on campus:
Some days you go to a meeting and are informed that we laser-cut our own rigid-hettle loom and then you OBVIOUSLY have to go investigate
Alright we finally agreed to start cutting into it ... amazing. we love working with Mr Allyn Haynes www.allynhaynescatering.com for all your catering needs in Tucson AZ
The University of Arizona @douglassday.bsky.social celebration has an AMAZING cake from Allyn Haynes Catering. We may not be able to cut into it... #DouglassDay
Tomorrow-- the University of Arizona Main Library @douglassday.bsky.social celebration! We're in B252/254, can't wait to meet everyone. Flyer + details attached: lib.arizona.edu/about/events...
If they're going to make me teach AI, they're going to get my version of AI
Back to work with my new whale pal from @literaturegeek.bsky.social brightening my cubicle
EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS AMAZING THING @literaturegeek.bsky.social MADE ME first it was a blog post, then in a book chapter (repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...) and now it is memorialized in woodcut form 🐋😍
"Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web" by Michael O'Malley, Roy Rosenzweig The Journal of American History, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jun., 1997, pg 134) doi.org/10.2307/2952...
Yes our Christmas tree DOES have a mini Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition and yours could too www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
I have been away for 3 weeks and the mail finally came - with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s new book from @wehere.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get stuck in
Moby Dick is about whales & boats (only one of the two pictured below)
Australians! 2 weeks from now, find out why I'm excited about this giant phone book from 1910 for the Melbourne region, held at the State Library of Victoria, at ANU's CEMS talk on 6 Nov cems.anu.edu.au/2025/09/coll...
tomorrow at @scholarslab.bsky.social we will be talking about setting reasonable expectations for teaching people to read (not write) code - a meta discussion for my in-person workshop here on reading python for beginners next week
Dugan Meyer, one of our wonderful graduate assistants on our Digital Borderlands in the Classroom initiative, took these excellent photos of me teaching Voyant Tools and achieving my final form as the Y U No meme earlier this summer
Some days your colleague comes by and says “I was cleaning out my house and I have these two Chaucer and Jane Austen bobble heads and do you want them” and the only answer is YES
Publishing agreement signed, so I can say that very soon my effort to condense the entire field of sociolinguistics into under 5k words for the computational text & data mining crowd will be in your hands
The Fighting Erasure project (www.archiveslab.org/home) is seeking 2-3 committed volunteers to support the construction of a comprehensive chronological timeline of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Details in screenshot + alt text below
We have two big ones in our yard (garden, decidedly not pictured) and plenty more around us (including at Saguaro NP, very pictured)
Today I am working on turning "Against Cultural Heritage Wastelands" into a paper; we got a notification that our ArcGIS license is in danger of expiring in 4 days. This is too perfect but also ... 🤦♀️ 🤦♀️
At my previous university we used to complain that they were too descriptive and detailed in our UAlert texts