We would like to invite the members of our community to apply to be a panelist at Envisioning the Future Academy: A HuMetricsHSS Community Convocation. This is a virtual event, to be held in two sessions on May 9th and…
The Values of Scholarly Communication
The ways we distribute scholarship are centered on values. We may not think of publishing, paying invoices, writing, or any of these related activities as a part of our individual or collective values system; nonetheless, they are. Over the past…
Building for the Future at a Defunded Public University
Or: Is There Such a Thing as a Values-Based Consolidation?? We were seated at a conference table in a room with no windows. The room was in a mall that the University had purchased in the late aughts, after the…
Values and Website Inclusivity
I’m the digital specialist for HuMetricsHSS and I wanted to talk a bit about how both our values as a team and my values work together to inform our work. I was delighted to attend the 2023 axe-con conference last…
Announcing the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship
We are pleased to announce the 2021 HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship. The HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows are individuals who are engaged in transformative work in their own institutions, rethinking how scholarship “counts,” how indicators and metrics can be informed by values, and…
What We’ve Been Up To
The world has changed dramatically since the HuMetricsHSS initiative began its work. In particular, the systemic inequities that were already obvious to many have come to the fore in the last year with the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives…
If You’re Wondering If the HumetricsHSS Workshop Is for You, the Answer Is Yes!
This October, the HuMetricsHSS team is excited to bring together a diverse group of scholars, teachers, administrators, and students from a wide range of institutions for a topic that we believe will transform academia. Over the course of a two-day…
Community as a Humanistic Value
Today is the Day Two of the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute, where I’m heading up a team that’s focusing on HuMetrics: Building Humane Metrics for the Humanities. Our team has focused a lot on the importance of working out loud,…