# research practice (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover research practice. Page: Feed: --- ## [Applications For The 2027-2028 Praxis Fellowship Cohort Now Open](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/applications-for-the-2027-2028-praxis-fellowship-cohort-now-open/) _2026-08-20 · brandon-walsh · Scholars’ Lab_ Applications are now open for Praxis Fellowships to be held during the 2027-2028 academic year. Further details below about the application. If you’re interested in learning more about the fellowship or have questions about anything you read below, please consider attending the information session for the 2027-2028 cohort - Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 from 10:00-11:00 on Zoom . Please register… ## [Dude, Where’s My Cartography? GIS Workshops You Won’t Forget](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/gis-workshops-fall-2026/) _2026-08-19 · drew-macqueen · Scholars’ Lab_ We don’t know where you parked your car, but we can help you make a map to retrace your steps. And that’s just the first session! After that, we’ll go beyond basic cartography, covering common GIS operations and techniques in an easy and supportive environment that even the heads can follow. ## [Effortless Digital Humanities](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/effortless-digital-humanities/) _2026-07-28 · brandon-walsh · Scholars’ Lab_ When I first read Kenny Werner’s book Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, I was in college studying jazz improvisation and musical performance. At the time, the book was powerful and transformative for its approach to thinking through performance anxiety and imposter syndrome— things I still struggle with in relation to musical performance. Recent conversations about GenAI… ## [Special issue article](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/shane-jeremy-winnie-article-submission/) _2026-06-23 · \["shane-lin", "jeremy-boggs", "shane-lin"\] · Scholars’ Lab_ Shane Lin, Winnie Pérez Martínez, & Jeremy Boggs wrote & submitted an essay on their UVA digital archive work around the events at UVA+Charlottesville August 11-12th 2017, for a library & DH special journal issue on static sites. ## [Reading refusal](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/jeremy-no-reading/) _2026-06-15 · jeremy-boggs · Scholars’ Lab_ Jeremy is reading No! The Art and Activism of Complaining by Sara Ahmed & thinking about what Bartleby the scrivener would do when faced with AI. ## [#Mincomp for preservation that matters](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/drew-bench-footprints/) _2026-06-05 · drew-macqueen · Scholars’ Lab_ Drew reworked the footprint of projects highlighting Indigenous benches in Brazil, to help justify their continued preservation despite the departure of the collaborator from the University. ## [Zines](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/amanda-3-zines-spring2026/) _2026-06-04 · amanda-visconti · Scholars’ Lab_ Amanda Wyatt Visconti published 3 free teaching zines (94 pages!) in Spring 2026 on censored public history, a book arts method, & exploring creative research funding opportunities. ## [Developing a Sustainable Summer Writing Practice](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/developing-a-sustainable-summer-writing-practice/) _2026-05-26 · brandon-walsh · Scholars’ Lab_ On June 2nd I’ll be giving a workshop for the PHD+ program here on how to develop a sustainable summer writing practice. This session will be one of the opening discussions for a daylong event that asks PhD students to take their research topic and transform it across a range of different formats: podcasts, websites, and zines. The goal for my part is to collect a number of different writing… ## [Creative research practice teaching](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/shane-letterpress-phdplus/) _2026-05-25 · shane-lin · Scholars’ Lab_ Shane Lin and UVA Library colleague/SLab alum Jacqui Sahagian typeset a letterpress example at the Virginia Book Arts printshop, to teach an upcoming “Transforming Your Research” workshop for PhD+ students, focusing on creative research practice using historical and current technologies. ## [Task Lists - Physical to Digital](https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/task-lists-physical-to-digital/) _2026-05-22 · brandon-walsh · Scholars’ Lab_ A quick one today on how I manage my task list each day and the tools I use for doing so. ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/jIjO7UbDgvAU) _2026-05-22 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [reflecting on past work – offline model-based optimisation](http://christopher-beckham.github.io/2025/07/01/model-based-optimisation.html) _2025-07-01 · Christopher Beckham · Christopher Beckham, PhD_ I’ve been thinking about offline model-based optimisation for the past six months, mostly in the background while working full-time, trying to write up something that captures both what I found and what still needs to be done in the field. It’s about validation, extrapolation, brittle surrogates, and how we evaluate generative models when the ground truth is expensive. ## [paper thoughts – questionable research practices (QRPs) in machine learning](http://christopher-beckham.github.io/2024/10/07/qrps-in-ml.html) _2024-10-07 · Christopher Beckham, PhD_ my thoughts on the paper "questionable research practices in machine learning" by leech et al