Melanie Walsh
@mellymeldubs.bsky.social
Asst Prof @ University of Washington Information School // PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis I’m interested in books, data, social media, and digital humanities. They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court 🏀 https://melaniewalsh.org/
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Nice write-up by @uwnews.uw.edu about our research into the most read canonical American authors in Seattle, drawing on library data. It was so fun to work on this project with @neel2112.bsky.social and a stellar group of undergraduate students. www.washington.edu/news/2026/01...
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TIL MARC records—the metadata backbone of libraries— were created in the 1960s by Henriette Avram, a computer programmer who worked at the NSA before joining the Library of Congress. Carla Hayden called this her favorite image in _The Card Catalog_ 😢: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
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That feeling when you take the most expert 5-min cat nap right before a meeting but you fall asleep on your arm so the weird pattern of your sweater is now emblazoned across your face so all you can do is blurt out a weird sweater nap confession and no one even noticed anyway so you're like haha nvm
This was an interesting breakdown of Claude Code’s leak, and I’m still loling at the “sentiment analysis“ code. If you want Claude to know you’re mad, you better say “wtf,“ “shit,“ “fuck,” “horrible,“ “awful,“ or “terrible.” Don‘t try to get fancy with “atrocious“ or “balls.”
