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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 5h

What's the worst university slogan you've ever heard?

Asking on behalf of an unnamed uni that coined "Work. With Flexibility" for a major internal reorg, & has now spent many millions on consultants who--after polling such finalists as "Vital We Are"--has settled on "Next, Forward to Our Future"

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 2h

what a smile!!

Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 2h

These SV types already have staff for all of the chores we wish someone else would do for us. So they jump directly to replacing the human connections in their lives, because they always sucked at them anyway.

Horse of Course @horsecourser.bsky.social · 3h

"I built an AI that can be your friend!"

"Listen. I have friends. I need an AI that will re-grout my tub and mop the kitchen floor. Chop chop, motherfucker."

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 7h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 2h

this is ridiculous both-sidesing and "extremists on the left" is not a credible counter to what the extreme right wing is doing to university employees.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3h

Apparently people have been getting their needs fully met from that thread I started as well as the multiple other threads inspired by Link.

If this doesn’t demonstrate Link’s impact and the value of BlueSky as a mutual aid network, I don’t know what can.

Keep it up y’all.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 1d

I very much enjoyed being invited on the @shushradio.bsky.social radio show (link to recording below) and being able to pick my own songs (great fun, but difficult choices had to be made!) and also having a great chat about libraries (they give us power you know), food science and much more.

Shush! Sounds from UCC Library @shushradio.bsky.social · 1d

Latest Takeover show is now available
@akellyucc.bsky.social Head of Food & Nutritional Sciences. and Co-Director of UCC Futures in Food, Microbiome & Health joined me and we talked @ucclibrary.bsky.social , libraries, research, music & cheese and played some great tunes.

bit.ly/Shush304

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 7h

this was my thought PRECISELY

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too.

They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog.

This is movement not taking the bait.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 8h

is that a table that's been decorated or a table that helps you decorate?

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 13h

just 'cause he's a narcissist doesn't mean *we* need to make this all about him too

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 14h

Folks, this isn't to any of you specifically because I've seen more than one person doing it.

SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN

is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick.

Please do not do that.

Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 19h

New study shows COVID vaccines:
💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29%
💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39%
💉Reduced the risk of death by 64%
💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 12h

Read wot we have wrote

Copim @copim.bsky.social · 15h

[CATCH UP] How to support & encourage authors to publish #OA monographs with no #REF2029 mandate 🤔

@kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians

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@uksg.bsky.social

Supporting and encouraging authors to publish OA monographs with no REF2029 mandate - UKSG

As I sat through the presentations last December at the UKSG Forum – Our Profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future I wondered if the people attending the…

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 13h

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 19h

WW2 style poster saying "This man is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM." and a picture of the Portland inflatable frog

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Danny V @dmv8286.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, nobody ever thought this guy was cool. Not once. Ever.

Johnny Cash throwing up an emphatic middle finger during a performance at San Quentin prison.

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 1d

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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Vulture @vulture.com · 23h

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

www.vulture.com

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 21h

Also also Neko Case

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 21h

TMBG are among the best in the business

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is even worse than was shared this morning.

Shoving libraries under AI. Good work, folks shoving AI into libraries. Now they're just one in the same.

In an era we need to really be clear on the necessity and purpose of these democratic institutions, this is five hundred backward steps.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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