scott b. weingart
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past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; chief data officer at NEH. present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia. personal account; views solely my own. https://scottbot.github.io
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📌Hi! I'm Scott, a historian of science.

Before DOGE, I helped the US fund the humanities efficiently and impactfully, to reach the breadth of the American public.

Now I help make the Library of Virginia's rich collections and services digitally accessible to all.

Personal account, mostly silly.📌
scottbot.bsky.social
Gulliver's Travels were fake.
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Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Not sure if this is anywhere near what you're looking for, but this made the rounds a couple months ago: www.google.com/amp/s/the-di...
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I just received the sickest burn of my life.

My Afghan meal tonight arrived with two sauces, herb-based and yogurt-based. "What exactly are these?" I ask.

The waiter looks me straight in the eye, speaking slowly to be sure I understand. "That's green sauce," he points, "and that's white sauce."
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Anyway, just thank you. Please keep reaching out to other NEHers who are still looking, and help where you can. We're all in this together.

Feels weird to feel thankful and in a decent place while All This is going on around us, but I'm grateful for you all, and for being in such a warm community.
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So many people reached out in support, often offering whatever they could to help me find my next thing. I know other colleagues at NEH experienced the same.

I'm profoundly lucky to have landed in an amazing new role, when I know many more-talented former NEH colleagues are still looking.

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A few weeks into my new job, let me take a moment to say: thank you, sincerely.

The situation at NEH was a devastating combination of losing a dream job, seeing my colleagues experience the same, and seeing my field deal with the loss of their grants and the infrastructure to support them.

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Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Do you have some specific examples you can point to? I've only listened to a couple songs (that I know of, maybe more out of store speakers). Not out of any principled stance—people whose musical tastes I like listen to her—just haven't made the time.
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My life improved last year when I started pronouncing AI as the name Al (AL) in my head whenever I saw it. In case you need that.
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This opportunity is related to the Doing AI Differently white paper, where I'm also honored to have been one of the co-authors.
vaishakbelle.bsky.social
Happy to be a co-author of the Doing AI Differently white paper at the The Alan Turing Institute. This is a call to action for meaningful change in AI, w. collective insights from arts & humanities. And includes a mention of neuro-symbolic AI :-).

www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...
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Registration is free, and low-cost university housing available.

I'm excited by the theme, encouraging philosophical reflection. Organizers ask not just how sources influence network thinking, but how network thinking influences how we see sources. It'll be a fun conversation.
2026 Conference Focus: Networks and their Sources

The 2026 edition of the conference will focus on the theme Sources, exploring their role in historical network research.

Since the so-called network turn, formal network research has transformed scholarship across the sciences and humanities. Applied to history, it has expanded research methods, encouraged interdisciplinary dialogue, and opened new perspectives on both past and present. Yet historical sources remain challenging: they are often fragmented, incomplete, shaped by bias, or considered inadequate for network analysis.

This conference invites participants to reflect on how sources — whether people, books, ideas, organizations, archaeological remains, archival documents, artworks, or other forms of evidence — make network research possible and meaningful. We aim to foster debate on the opportunities and limits that sources present, while encouraging innovative methodologies and cross-disciplinary perspectives. We encourage submission of all kind of papers regarding historical networks research, and we particularly welcome papers addressing: the identification, retrieval, and use of sources;

    challenges of abstraction in network analysis and possible solutions;
    case studies demonstrating the heuristic value of network methodologies;
    theoretical and empirical reflections on how network thinking reshapes sources;
    data extraction, modeling, and visualization from historical sources (including experimental treatment of sources with so-called AI (LLM, NLP));

We especially encourage interdisciplinary approaches and contributions that combine methodological reflection with empirical research.

The HNR conference continues to be open to all subjects involving network analysis in historical disciplines
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scottbot.bsky.social
The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

hnr2026.sciencesconf.org
HNR2026: The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 (Turin, Italy) - Sciencesconf.org
Call for Papers – Historical Network Research Conference 2026
hnr2026.sciencesconf.org
scottbot.bsky.social
Registration is free, and low-cost university housing available.

I'm excited by the theme, encouraging philosophical reflection. Organizers ask not just how sources influence network thinking, but how network thinking influences how we see sources. It'll be a fun conversation.
2026 Conference Focus: Networks and their Sources

The 2026 edition of the conference will focus on the theme Sources, exploring their role in historical network research.

Since the so-called network turn, formal network research has transformed scholarship across the sciences and humanities. Applied to history, it has expanded research methods, encouraged interdisciplinary dialogue, and opened new perspectives on both past and present. Yet historical sources remain challenging: they are often fragmented, incomplete, shaped by bias, or considered inadequate for network analysis.

This conference invites participants to reflect on how sources — whether people, books, ideas, organizations, archaeological remains, archival documents, artworks, or other forms of evidence — make network research possible and meaningful. We aim to foster debate on the opportunities and limits that sources present, while encouraging innovative methodologies and cross-disciplinary perspectives. We encourage submission of all kind of papers regarding historical networks research, and we particularly welcome papers addressing: the identification, retrieval, and use of sources;

    challenges of abstraction in network analysis and possible solutions;
    case studies demonstrating the heuristic value of network methodologies;
    theoretical and empirical reflections on how network thinking reshapes sources;
    data extraction, modeling, and visualization from historical sources (including experimental treatment of sources with so-called AI (LLM, NLP));

We especially encourage interdisciplinary approaches and contributions that combine methodological reflection with empirical research.

The HNR conference continues to be open to all subjects involving network analysis in historical disciplines
scottbot.bsky.social
The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

hnr2026.sciencesconf.org
HNR2026: The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 (Turin, Italy) - Sciencesconf.org
Call for Papers – Historical Network Research Conference 2026
hnr2026.sciencesconf.org
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sidracollaborative.bsky.social
Introducing Sidra Co-Founder Hannah Alpert-Abrams! Hannah has over 15 years of experience in arts, culture, and the humanities as a practitioner and funder. Hannah can help establish new grant programs, manage funding processes, and understand the impact of your work.

sidracollaborative.com/team/
A headshot of Hannah, a thin white person with short chaotic gray hair and blue glasses, smiling in front of a tree.
scottbot.bsky.social
Philosophy (and related) friends: a therapist friend is helping an avid reader client who is despairing in nihilism. I suggested existentialist/absurdist readings might offer a way out, but I'm hesitant to suggest Camus/Sartre/etc. as a starting point. Any suggestions of good entry points?