Perry Collins
@perrycollins.bsky.social
Librarian, toddler mom, living in Gainesville, FL. Digital humanities, grants, copyright, library publishing, reproductive health, paper and fiber crafts.
"Petitions to preserve the building and its murals are circulating. . . @livingnewdeal.bsky.social calls for the Cohen building—'a living testament to America’s shared values, social progress, and the power of public art to uplift us all'—to be preserved intact." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
"Petitions to preserve the building and its murals are circulating. . . @livingnewdeal.bsky.social calls for the Cohen building—'a living testament to America’s shared values, social progress, and the power of public art to uplift us all'—to be preserved intact." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
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The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
I don't have it in me to say much about today's NEH award announcement. Huge congrats to @anasalter.bsky.social and others doing great work in their fields. I'm anxious for former colleagues left to manage massive (up to $10mil), highly politicized awards that aim to wind the clock back decades.
January 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I don't have it in me to say much about today's NEH award announcement. Huge congrats to @anasalter.bsky.social and others doing great work in their fields. I'm anxious for former colleagues left to manage massive (up to $10mil), highly politicized awards that aim to wind the clock back decades.
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We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a full time post doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities
www.cam.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Honestly hard to watch NEH/NEA budgets pass without cuts while also still seeing many former colleagues struggle to find jobs months after so many of us were booted out. It takes people to build relationships with applicants and to allocate grants responsibly.
January 12, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Honestly hard to watch NEH/NEA budgets pass without cuts while also still seeing many former colleagues struggle to find jobs months after so many of us were booted out. It takes people to build relationships with applicants and to allocate grants responsibly.
Wishing a happy holiday season to friends, colleagues, and any publishers who saved me time and energy this year by allowing authors to share zero embargo AAMs. You know who you are(n't). 🎁
December 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wishing a happy holiday season to friends, colleagues, and any publishers who saved me time and energy this year by allowing authors to share zero embargo AAMs. You know who you are(n't). 🎁
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Thanks to @aupresses.bsky.social & all the press directors & staff we worked with to support OA books & the work of presses. And of course, thanks to my incredible team at NEH who led these OA efforts, particularly @perrycollins.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, & @bethanyfarrell.bsky.social.
Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thanks to @aupresses.bsky.social & all the press directors & staff we worked with to support OA books & the work of presses. And of course, thanks to my incredible team at NEH who led these OA efforts, particularly @perrycollins.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, & @bethanyfarrell.bsky.social.
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Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
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£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
Perrett Laver - Leading Global Executive Search Firm
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November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
Interesting piece, but diamond OA is not "nascent" @science.org. This model has been developing for decades, across continents, as long as scholars could put text up online. Nonprofit pubs know what we're doing--we just need to stop redirecting $$ to corporations. www.science.org/content/arti...
After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements
The group’s latest strategy emphasizes consultation, lacks spending pledges
www.science.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Interesting piece, but diamond OA is not "nascent" @science.org. This model has been developing for decades, across continents, as long as scholars could put text up online. Nonprofit pubs know what we're doing--we just need to stop redirecting $$ to corporations. www.science.org/content/arti...
Feeling like all my posts are the same these days. Undermining academic freedom and instructor safety--and just making everyone's life harder--under the guise of helping students is the opposite of what the affordability movement is all about. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Fla. Board Says Syllabi, Reading Lists Must Be Posted Publicly
Faculty at some Florida public universities argue the new policy is less about transparency for students and more about chilling academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Feeling like all my posts are the same these days. Undermining academic freedom and instructor safety--and just making everyone's life harder--under the guise of helping students is the opposite of what the affordability movement is all about. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Thinking today about all the brilliant international colleagues I've had over the years, and how much they've taught me. Can't imagine a university that turns its back on global expertise.
This is so dumb. H1-B visas are a way the US has hired extraordinary people from around the world. Academic job markets are fiercely competitive, and foreign applicants are not paid less as departments generally follow disciplinary and departmental standards.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thinking today about all the brilliant international colleagues I've had over the years, and how much they've taught me. Can't imagine a university that turns its back on global expertise.
Seeing increasing evidence of budget cuts and threats to academic freedom that are pushing administrators toward an even narrower vision of what "counts" toward scholarship. This is a moment when we most need to be imaginative and capacious, but we're swimming against the tide.
October 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Seeing increasing evidence of budget cuts and threats to academic freedom that are pushing administrators toward an even narrower vision of what "counts" toward scholarship. This is a moment when we most need to be imaginative and capacious, but we're swimming against the tide.
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Paper engineering in pop-up books is always so fun— today’s treat is Star Trek: Giant in the Universe (1977)
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Paper engineering in pop-up books is always so fun— today’s treat is Star Trek: Giant in the Universe (1977)
It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes
Feeling all of this too, now a few months into my job. Thanks to all who sent good wishes and welcomed me back. Odd to feel so grateful while also feeling so much lingering anger at the relative indifference of those actually leading the agency.
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Feeling all of this too, now a few months into my job. Thanks to all who sent good wishes and welcomed me back. Odd to feel so grateful while also feeling so much lingering anger at the relative indifference of those actually leading the agency.
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Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
So bummed to learn my local library system is suspending ILL due to terminated IMLS funding. Always appreciate their help tracking down some great indie kids books for the 2yo last year. Scary and sad to think about this at scale, isolating so many libraries and patrons.
September 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
So bummed to learn my local library system is suspending ILL due to terminated IMLS funding. Always appreciate their help tracking down some great indie kids books for the 2yo last year. Scary and sad to think about this at scale, isolating so many libraries and patrons.
Happy birthday, @paulshortt.bsky.social! I know I married the right person because you find a dozen yogurts more romantic than a dozen roses. ❤️
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Happy birthday, @paulshortt.bsky.social! I know I married the right person because you find a dozen yogurts more romantic than a dozen roses. ❤️
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Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
September 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
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Welcome to #PeerReviewWeek2025 on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social - many thanks to @roohighosh.bsky.social & Maryam Sayab for this years week of posts incl today’s thoughts from @irfanullah.bsky.social Tim Vines, Hong Zhou, Maryam & me scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/15/a...
Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested? - The Scholarly Kitchen
To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?
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September 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Welcome to #PeerReviewWeek2025 on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social - many thanks to @roohighosh.bsky.social & Maryam Sayab for this years week of posts incl today’s thoughts from @irfanullah.bsky.social Tim Vines, Hong Zhou, Maryam & me scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/15/a...
Getting back to needlepoint after a long break. These are adapted from #publicdomain illustrations in this series: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #dhmakes
September 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Getting back to needlepoint after a long break. These are adapted from #publicdomain illustrations in this series: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #dhmakes
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A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.”
Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.
Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.
August 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.”
Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.
Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Saw a performance of Puffs tonight and it was honestly such a boost to see stellar high school actors having a great time. Warms my copyright librarian heart to have this example of “transformative and transfigured” #fairuse in the world. As they reminded us, “She doesn’t get a farthing!” 🦡🦡🦡
August 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Saw a performance of Puffs tonight and it was honestly such a boost to see stellar high school actors having a great time. Warms my copyright librarian heart to have this example of “transformative and transfigured” #fairuse in the world. As they reminded us, “She doesn’t get a farthing!” 🦡🦡🦡
There’s tons in this EO to scream at, from taking aim at past grantmaking to to “requir[ing] all discretionary grants to permit termination for convenience”😡 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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August 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There’s tons in this EO to scream at, from taking aim at past grantmaking to to “requir[ing] all discretionary grants to permit termination for convenience”😡 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...