A newsletter to learn about practical ways to decolonize your research and data work-lives with byte-sized drabbles about the daily life of a data professional.

Curated Content: Funding Opportunities

2025 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize

Submit an unpublished review (800-1,000 words) of a contemporary art exhibition that took place since 2000 and closed within the last six months. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. Open to writers with no more than 6 published pieces.

Submission due July 14, 2025 10AM BST

2025-26 Davidson Family Fellowship @ Amon Carter Museum of American Art

$5,000 USD/month for 1-4 months to research their collections in person. Open to PhD holders or indie researchers pursuing projects on American art and culture.

App due June 27, 2025.

Curated Content: Tools to use your programming knowledge in a library/archive

I don’t have a degree in librarianship, but I often work with librarians. I always thought it was odd to see/hear data people in libraries talk about programming because the reality is most libraries don’t have the digital ecosystem, staffing, or funding to actually have librarians coding IRL. Try these out:

Curated Content: Tools for your research projects

Sometimes you have a cool research idea, but don’t have a “method” per se. Why not try one of these tools? It gives you a methodology and something visual to screenshot for figures, tables, and such.