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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 22h

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social

action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge

Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks to @everylibrary.bsky.social for signing the Declaration to #DefendResearch against US government censorship & for sharing this powerful statement about why they did so!
www.everylibraryinstitute.org/standing_aga...

Standing Against Censorship in Research

Why We Signed the Declaration to Defend Scholarly Freedom

www.everylibraryinstitute.org

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more obsequious, facile and quietly unhinged statements I've read in a long time, which is perfectly aligned with the nature of this business decision

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 2d

Brave powerful stuff

boneyardz.bsky.social @boneyardz.bsky.social · 3d

Alisa Kasmer
‎Jul 17‎
'...I grieve a cousin I once loved. A boy I
watched grow up, babysat, ... misguided, but lovable and harmless. Or so I thought. But I was so deeply wrong. And the realization that I didn’t know you at all? It guts me. I grieve what you’ve become, Stévèn (Mīller).'

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 7d

For today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social I got to talk to my old @wiley.com colleague Liz Ferguson about the rise of digital end-to-end publishing systems including Wiley's Research Exchange (REX) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/01/i...

Is Digital-first Publishing Finally a Reality? An Interview with Liz Ferguson of Wiley - The Scholarly Kitchen

We're finally seeing a move to truly digital-first publishing systems and in today's post Alice Meadows interviews Liz Ferguson of Wiley about this transition, including their own Research Exchange pl...

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 9d

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government

A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

www.thelancet.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 19d

Many of these sites were restored under a court order (if laws still apply). We urge data rescue groups to ensure webpages are archived and local public health agencies to use caution when linking to CDC sites.

Consider alternate sources. 💔

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 20d

Time to cancel my Disney subscription 🤬🤬🤬

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 20d

I hope all state governors will pay attention

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 20d

Citizens United opened the floodgates of slimy dark money into our politics. It’s time we slam them shut.

Glad to have CAP in the fight :-)

Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 23d

Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the Center for American Progress has figured out how to slam them back shut.

CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 21d

In a couple of hours I’ll be moderating a #NISOPlus2025 panel on the @pkp.sfu.ca Publication Facts Label w/ John Willinsky of PKP, Hannah Heckner Swain of @silverchairnews.bsky.social & Jane Taylor of @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
Hope to see you there!

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 22d

If you're attending #NISOPlus2025 I hope you'll join me tomorrow (9/16) at 11 ET for a thought-provoking discussion w/ @epentz.bsky.social Peter Suber & @tteleen.bsky.social on Is Scholarly #Metadata a Tool of Resistance or a Point of Vulnerability?
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NISO Plus Global Online

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 23d

One for the municipal policy wonks (and hopefully maybe a few other people): Brookline's annual audit is delayed by six months, part of a newly-emerging statewide problem caused by rapid consolidation in the accounting industry and unresponsive big firms.

brookline.news/delay-in-bro...

Delay in Brookline's annual audit, caused by accounting firm consolidation, worries town's finance director - Brookline.News

The annual audit for fiscal year 2024 is six months late, and town officials say they are trying to get answers from accounting firm CBIZ.

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 23d

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?

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 26d

A fun Friday post for your reading enjoyment 😊
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

Bride finally tracks down awkward-looking stranger she and husband noticed only when looking through photos

www.theguardian.com

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 28d

#censorship in action
#DefendResearch

Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 28d

Director Bhattacharya says there are no banned words at the NIH. The data suggest otherwise.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28d

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29d

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 29d

It was a pleasure to work with Salina Gray, Raquel Tamez & Rochelle L. Williams on this update to their 2019 @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social interview on being leaders who are women of color. My thanks to them for sharing their wisdom & experience 6 years on
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/08/r...

Revisited: On Being a Leader Who Happens to Be a Woman of Color - The Scholarly Kitchen

Three women of color revisit their conversation with Alice Meadows during the first Trump administration, in the light of their new positions and today's political environment.

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · Sep 6

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.

So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm really looking forward to both of these (very different!) sessions. Great speakers with lots of interesting ideas to share!And as @nisoinfo.bsky.social conferences always focus on concrete outcomes, hopefully we'll be able to make some of those ideas a reality 😊

MoreBrains Cooperative @morebrains.coop · Sep 3

2 weeks till #NISOPlus2025 - @alicemeadows.bsky.social is moderating 2 sessions:
Is Scholarly #Metadata a Tool of Resistance of a Point of Vulnerability w/ @petersuber.bsky.social @epentz.bsky.social & @tteleen.bsky.social
11am ET Sept 16
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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · Sep 2

No spoilers please @leerandall.bsky.social - we don't get it here until Friday!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 1

senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 29

President Trump has revoked the Secret Service detail for former vice president Kamala Harris, extended by President Biden, about a month before Harris is scheduled to embark on a national book tour.

Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Harris that Biden had extended

The move by Donald Trump, who faced Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, comes as she prepares to travel nationwide for a book tour.

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