Scott Walter
@slwalter123.bsky.social
Librarian | Teacher | Speaker - San Diego State University Fighting against book bans and for public schools & libraries. Loves cats & dogs (since you asked)
In all of history, nothing bad has ever happened when a government asks for a list of the names of Jews @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In all of history, nothing bad has ever happened when a government asks for a list of the names of Jews @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Better late than never? Sacramento moves to remove law banning the sale of comics @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Officially, Sacramento still bans the sale of comic books to kids. Officials move to change that
In the mid-20th century, comic books groups grew in popularity
www.latimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Better late than never? Sacramento moves to remove law banning the sale of comics @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Great writing, great game. Kudos!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Great writing, great game. Kudos!
Another great @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social panel on “comics in many forms” at the Comic-Con Museum
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Another great @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social panel on “comics in many forms” at the Comic-Con Museum
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"A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/Victor...
A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency
In a summary judgment on November 21 in Rhode Island v. Trump, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled that the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
www.schoollibraryjournal.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/Victor...
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
A look at transborder library collaboration for International Education Week @sdsulibrary.bsky.social library.sdsu.edu/news/2025/in...
SDSU Librarians Collaborate With Mexican Colleagues In Transborder Scholarly Conferences | University Library | SDSU
SDSU librarians participate in two transborder conferences
library.sdsu.edu
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A look at transborder library collaboration for International Education Week @sdsulibrary.bsky.social library.sdsu.edu/news/2025/in...
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The thing about the latest news in the Nuzzi/Lizza story is that RFK cost the nation its measles elimination status.
"Heck of a job, Bobby."
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."
(gift link)
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The thing about the latest news in the Nuzzi/Lizza story is that RFK cost the nation its measles elimination status.
I could not let University Press Week go by without a shout out to our own San Diego State University Press, working from its nerve center in the College of Arts and Letters to produce books and comics that support distinctive teaching and research programs at SDSU #UPWeek sdsupress.sdsu.edu
San Diego State University Press || sdsupress.sdsu.edu
The one stop site for first-rate
scholarly volumes on critical theory, border culture, the American
Southwest, Literature and Intellectual History.
sdsupress.sdsu.edu
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I could not let University Press Week go by without a shout out to our own San Diego State University Press, working from its nerve center in the College of Arts and Letters to produce books and comics that support distinctive teaching and research programs at SDSU #UPWeek sdsupress.sdsu.edu
Texas A&M went after its librarians a few years ago; it’s no surprise that they’re coming after everyone else @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Texas A&M Requires Approval for Courses That “Advocate” Certain Ideologies
Many faculty members decried the new restrictions on race- and gender-related courses as an assault on academic freedom. Meanwhile, the board also discussed a once-per-semester systemwide course revie...
www.insidehighered.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Texas A&M went after its librarians a few years ago; it’s no surprise that they’re coming after everyone else @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The Owl House was brilliant, original, and human (and treated terribly by Disney)
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The Owl House was brilliant, original, and human (and treated terribly by Disney)
Happy to have this traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine at @sdsulibrary.bsky.social this month library.sdsu.edu/news/2025/ca...
Library Exhibit Explores Care & Custody | University Library | SDSU
The San Diego State University Library is hosting Care & Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health, on loan from the National Library of Medicine, which produced the exhibit and companion website.
library.sdsu.edu
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Happy to have this traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine at @sdsulibrary.bsky.social this month library.sdsu.edu/news/2025/ca...
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Frank Quitely last night, Chelsea Cain this morning; you should really come to SDSU if you want to study comics @sdsulibrary.bsky.social @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social @libcomix.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Frank Quitely last night, Chelsea Cain this morning; you should really come to SDSU if you want to study comics @sdsulibrary.bsky.social @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social @libcomix.bsky.social
We have to go back a while to find a time this alum could find something positive to post about Indiana University, but here’s one
#tdih 1953 Indiana textbook commissioner (Mrs. White) called to ban Robin Hood references in schools.
Like today's GOP book bans, anti-history ed bills, EOs.
A IU Bloomington religious student group bravely challenged #McCarthyism w/ Green Feather campaign. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...
Like today's GOP book bans, anti-history ed bills, EOs.
A IU Bloomington religious student group bravely challenged #McCarthyism w/ Green Feather campaign. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...
Nov. 13, 1953: Call to Ban Robin Hood in Indiana Schools
Mrs. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission called for a ban of Robin Hood in all school books for promoting communism.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We have to go back a while to find a time this alum could find something positive to post about Indiana University, but here’s one
Looking forward to today’s talk in @sdsulibrary.bsky.social special collections with SDSU Comics Scholar and Comics Artist in residence @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social @libcomix.bsky.social www.sdsu.edu/events-calen...
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Looking forward to today’s talk in @sdsulibrary.bsky.social special collections with SDSU Comics Scholar and Comics Artist in residence @comicsatsdsu.bsky.social @libcomix.bsky.social www.sdsu.edu/events-calen...
This is all true, but I found additional meaning in the U.S. context for this observation: “Sometimes … there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become.” @theguardian.com
Facilitating our work is a great army of library staff, who are also cultural workers. Without them, the library does not function, the books do not get read, the culture does not come to pass. buff.ly/riUOc4I
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is all true, but I found additional meaning in the U.S. context for this observation: “Sometimes … there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become.” @theguardian.com
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Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
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From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
A program to complement our hosting of the National Library of Medicine’s Care and Custody exhibition @sdsulibrary.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A program to complement our hosting of the National Library of Medicine’s Care and Custody exhibition @sdsulibrary.bsky.social
I remember thinking when my daughter was applying to college that she could be a 3rd generation IU student … she wisely turned down the offer and now, neither of us could imagine her going there.
My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
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Alumni For a Better IU
Connecting alumni to save IU
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November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I remember thinking when my daughter was applying to college that she could be a 3rd generation IU student … she wisely turned down the offer and now, neither of us could imagine her going there.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...