“If you are irresponsible enough to think that you don’t mind if you get the flu, remember it’s not about you - it’s about everybody else.” Intensive care specialist Professor Hugh Montgomery explains why this coronavirus is different from the ordinary flu.

We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home. 🥇 Choose your favorite artwork 🥈 Find three things lying around your house⠀ 🥉 Recreate the artwork with those items And share with us.

As many of us #twitterstorians transition to remote learning, we are (re)discovering great #OER & born-digital projects. Consider submitting any #genderstudies projects to gsrdb.org. You can suggest a project or even fill out our metadata form. #gsrdb

I'm wary of the diminished quality of remote interviewing, but it may be the only way to keep doing our #oralhistory work for a while... Looking forward to this webinar from friends at BU Oral History !

The @OHAnetwork's Metadata Task Force has been hard at work, creating a White Paper that is a wonderful survey of current practice. Check it out here: oralhistory.org/oha-white-pape…

A Short Introduction to Online Kurdish Resources by Bahadin Kerborani is up: hazine.info/kurdish-online…. Read to learn about helpful online resources, as well as archival collections and books as sources for Kurdish history!

'Cut off from our established workflows and working from home we were faced with the same question as everyone else, what now?' A blog on our experiences with remote interviewing during Covid-19 blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-visi…

Join OHA Archives Interest Group for May Discussion of Practice this Friday, May 21, 12:00pm EDT. We've invited five non-US colleagues to share a bit about what's on their mind re: oral history archives. Business meeting to follow. Contact [email protected] for the link.

#IOHA ('s 1st) Virtual Conference is next week: ioha2021.gov.sg -- and on 8/23, 9am-11am Singapore time, we'll be workshopping #oralhistorymetadata! Join us and treat yourself some time and space to think about accessibility for your collections

Terrific organisation of an online large scale conference from @OHAnetwork #OHA2021 . Paper done, off to the speed networking session shortly where mentors get to meet new practitioners of oral history. Lovely to at last be a senior! Carlow College Research Hub Carlow College Oral History Network Ireland

Crafting the Syllabus: Representation, Expertise, and Student Learning hazine.info/crafting-the-s… via @hazineblog

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“So they can see themselves in the archive.” Yahaira Perez-Caraballo & Dra. Foulis talking about how oral history is an essential foundation for community building and research #oha2022

In this next session at #OHA2022 I will be unveiling the biggest update to OHMS since 2012. OHMS 2.0 will be pretty amazing. There will be chocolate. #oralhistory

And what?? A new book from the legendary Alessandro Portelli about Bob Dylan and oral history! cup.columbia.edu/book/hard-rain… #oha2022

More discussion of open access. Oral History Review is not able to publish OA because our parent org @OHAnetwork is dependent on the income stream. Individual authors can pay to publish OA and our European authors bring the💰. US authors in the humanities don’t usually have💰#OHA2022

Important note from Peter Potter that White House just announced any federally funded research will have to be published OA whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda… #OHA2022

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At the @OHAnetwork LA conference, the incomparable Vicki Ruiz, who has trained 4 generations of oral historians. A personal role model for moi. #oha2022