How to do research with my mentors effectively? I get this question frequently in my open office hours. I am still learning as well but I hope sharing my ✌💰 may be helpful to some. Key idea ➡️ **Help them help you!** How? Check out the thread 🧵

Presenting our work, "Interplays Between Materiality and Content in Book History: Evidence from 16th–19th Century Chinese and English Books" (coauthored with Yuqi Chen, Ryan Dubnicek, Ryan Cordell, & J. Stephen Downie), at #DH2024 tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM. Hope you can join us!

My HTRC colleague Ryan Dubnicek discusses our poster co-authored with Nikolaus Parulian, Sarah Griebel and Glen Layne-Worthey. iSchool at Illinois #DH2024

Thank you so much Jason Kessler for sharing our work! :) We look forward to presenting our work at the upcoming ASIS&T conference (asist.org/am24/) in October. Faizhal Arif J. Stephen Downie Coconut Libtool: coconut-libtool.com/the-app Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.05949

Missing Champaign!

Bruh 😂

- 𝑫𝒓. 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝑫𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒉: 𝑨 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒕 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. On the night of August 8th, a 31-year-old female doctor diligently completed her duty, as she had done countless times before. After finishing her shift, she shared a

New paper provides a systematic assessment of whether/how LLMs can improve the process of research. TLDR: it's mediocre at most stuff *except* identifying possible ethical issues... interesting finding. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Welcome to being a PI

Mike Feigin 🥯 Wow - a PHD Comics subtweet! x.com/PHDcomics/stat…

If your department... -does not provide PhD students with opportunities to teach, and -does not provide training in teaching for PhD students ...you are not actually preparing them for academic careers.

it's fellowship szn! I spent *a lot* of time applying for postdocs + independent positions last year, and I want to share my notes. In this doc, I list deadlines, pay, and other 🔑 info on bio/theory positions I considered. DM me for advice anytime. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

I was interviewed among others for “How to establish your identity as a scientist” by Science Careers. I hope this article will help budding and early career researchers find their path! iSchool at Illinois OU SLIS ASIS&T science.org/content/articl…

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This is the first time reviewer#2 has been so generous in their feedback to my work!

Join me for my upcoming webinar on “Adventures in Text Mining: Applications, Ethics, and Cancer Care” with Anyi Li & Zhiyong Lu by MSK Library! library.mskcc.org/blog/2024/09/j… OU SLIS iSchool at Illinois ASIS&T IFLA #library

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