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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 3d

sherman, for the love of god!

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 3d

And if you are interested in the devastating effects of electing overtly anti-science governments....

The Collapse of Argentine Science Under Javier Milei: One Year of Unprecedented Defunding: infonomy.scimagoepi.com/index.php/in...

The Collapse of Argentine Science Under Javier Milei: One Year of Unprecedented Defunding | Infonomy

infonomy.scimagoepi.com

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 5d

I use the first but I hear the second all the time around these parts from the French influence.

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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 5d

The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

Front Page - Data Curation Network

The Data Curation Network (DCN) is a membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and under...

datacuration.network

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 7d

As a whirley-pop devotee and very frequent user… non, ma belle.

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 8d

That is always fun!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11d

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 12d

Occurred to me that I should not presume everyone knows the history of public library service in the US, especially the formerly-segregated US, and how white library leaders could have acted sooner and done more than they did. Further reading on that topic.

www.librarian.net/talks/whiten...

Screenshot from a slide deck showing the "mug shots" of nine black young people. The men are wearing shirts and ties, the women are in dresses. There is a longish quotation to them about their read-in in Jackson MS culminating in the line, bolded, that the librarians called the cops on them.

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 12d

Dance party in my house this morning had this as the soundtrack youtu.be/_MQnZgH0ZmQ?...

Rihanna - Friend Of Mine (from the Smurfs Movie Soundtrack)

YouTube video by RihannaVEVO

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12d

Stained glass 'vege garden' by Annie Rie, stained glass artist inspired by the English countryside #womensar

Rectangular stained glass artwork divided into irregular sections depicting rows of different types of growing veg such as cabbages and beans

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16d

My best advice for parents re: harmful content: show genuine interest in the stuff your kid is watching and doing online.

Let them talk your ear off about Minecraft and Roblox and the funny video they just watched. Make them feel excited to share with you, vs making them feel ashamed or judged

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 17d

The only reason Canada Post has to break even is because very stupid people think the government is a business and/or the national budget works like a home ledger.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 18d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
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My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 18d

#Danny4Ever!

Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 18d

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 19d

I humbly submit our preprint - which covers some updates on SPRs in Europe, including some of the issues around immediate vs embargo'd access: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #oaspa2025

Legislating Open Access: Making the Case for a Secondary Publishing Right in Canada

This paper examines the potential of Secondary Publishing Rights (SPR) as a legal solution to safeguard Green Open Access (OA) and promote free and global acces

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 19d

Love to see academic libraries making this kind of stand, and as important, getting institutional backing to do so. Investing in the future instead of getting further enmeshed in expensive and unequal R&P deals! 👏

Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 20d

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20d

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump to sign order designating antifa a terrorist organization

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order as soon as Monday designating the antifa movement a "terrorist organization," the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

www.reuters.com

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 20d

📢Employment opportunity at PKP!

PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.

If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project

The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

pkp.sfu.ca

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 20d

Since we could all use some more queer and trans joy- join us for our virtual event tomorrow night (September 23)
-- it's free!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/1424903818...

Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy (virtual event)

This virtual event will consist of a roundtable discussion about queer food and queer and trans joy! It'll be followed by audience Q and A.

www.eventbrite.com

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 22d

If it’s terminal 2 the lines are never too nuts.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 22d

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 23d

Hugs to folks on a H1B right now.

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aj boston @aj-boston.bsky.social · 23d

what's the over/under on days until an agent begins specializing in producing hallucinated books on-demand when users go looking for them

404 Media @404media.co · 24d

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.

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Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

www.404media.co

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