Dan Rudmann
@danrdmnn.bsky.social
Librarian at Utrecht University
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"Friction too, let it be said, is how fire is made."
Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation.
bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...
Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation.
bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...
Bruder & Rudmann
- Fact and Friction
bruderrudmann.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Friction too, let it be said, is how fire is made."
Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation.
bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...
Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation.
bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...
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One time Eric and I were at the Princeton Record Exchange and in the famous two-dollar pins we found a treasure trove of Joe Ely records. We bought them and wow did we get schooled about Texas music. A great and genuine troubadour. We just lost him. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpD...
Joe Ely - She Never Spoke Spanish To Me - International Country Festival 1978 • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
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December 16, 2025 at 5:38 AM
One time Eric and I were at the Princeton Record Exchange and in the famous two-dollar pins we found a treasure trove of Joe Ely records. We bought them and wow did we get schooled about Texas music. A great and genuine troubadour. We just lost him. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpD...
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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A disrespect for me as an educator means that a basic piece of sociality and trust has been broken and so I don’t owe anyone generous feedback. But I don’t need to be punitive either. That’s what those who are selling these products want. They want to exhaust us into resignation.
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A disrespect for me as an educator means that a basic piece of sociality and trust has been broken and so I don’t owe anyone generous feedback. But I don’t need to be punitive either. That’s what those who are selling these products want. They want to exhaust us into resignation.
"As a late liberal artist, David Foster Wallace, once said, in the day-to-day trenches of adult life there is no such thing as not worshipping: the only choice we get, is what to worship. Liberty and art – or market needs?"
The latest from Bruder & Rudmann bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/i...
The latest from Bruder & Rudmann bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/i...
Bruder & Rudmann
- It’s Time to Stop Worshipping the Market Oriented Mindset
bruderrudmann.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"As a late liberal artist, David Foster Wallace, once said, in the day-to-day trenches of adult life there is no such thing as not worshipping: the only choice we get, is what to worship. Liberty and art – or market needs?"
The latest from Bruder & Rudmann bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/i...
The latest from Bruder & Rudmann bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/i...
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But what if recognised institutions as a barrier towards mutual aid; institutions are not inherently good or bad, there are historical and scaling effects the abstract efficacies. We don't inherently 'need' "a better matrix". We need better social relations, and the more direct, the less bad?
This week on Wonkhe: UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
The post-matrix university – trust, relevance, and the politics of plugging back in
UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
But what if recognised institutions as a barrier towards mutual aid; institutions are not inherently good or bad, there are historical and scaling effects the abstract efficacies. We don't inherently 'need' "a better matrix". We need better social relations, and the more direct, the less bad?
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UC Santa Barbara Library and Dust-to-Digital Foundation https://ow.ly/J8Bg50Xpuf2
Vast collection of historic American music released via UCSB Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation
Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UC Santa Barbara Library and Dust-to-Digital Foundation https://ow.ly/J8Bg50Xpuf2
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Love after Love. Derek Walcott.
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Love after Love. Derek Walcott.
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Librarians *should* be exercising more judgement and objective expertise, looking at the whole picture, thinking about long term & bibliodiversity. Libraries do not receive budget to "buy content" they receive budget to "disseminate knowledge".
September 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Librarians *should* be exercising more judgement and objective expertise, looking at the whole picture, thinking about long term & bibliodiversity. Libraries do not receive budget to "buy content" they receive budget to "disseminate knowledge".
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oh for real, wow
September 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
oh for real, wow
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The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie
Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
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How will #openscience be effected by current politics? If you're at #OSFAIR2025, you can hear a great panel discussing this topic, moderated by @rouhiroo.bsky.social ! www.opensciencefair.eu/panels/how-t...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
How will #openscience be effected by current politics? If you're at #OSFAIR2025, you can hear a great panel discussing this topic, moderated by @rouhiroo.bsky.social ! www.opensciencefair.eu/panels/how-t...
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My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth
August 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth
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I like that this piece argues for a democratising understanding of open science over the more neoliberal one they view as common. I've always felt that a more robust understanding of democratisation is needed for open movements, rather than just assuming that democracy is implied in free culture.
Open Science as Confused: Contradictory and Conflicting Discourses in Open Science Guidance to Researchers: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/zr35u_v1
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I like that this piece argues for a democratising understanding of open science over the more neoliberal one they view as common. I've always felt that a more robust understanding of democratisation is needed for open movements, rather than just assuming that democracy is implied in free culture.
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We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.
We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself: unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.
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New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org:
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
August 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org:
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
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lmao which one of you did this
Library Futures here and we're coming in hot with our very first ebook from library internet favorite @aj-boston.bsky.social.
My Consumer Autobiography examines what it means to read--and own--a book through the story of the books AJ read in 2024.
www.libraryfutures.net/post/my-cons...
My Consumer Autobiography examines what it means to read--and own--a book through the story of the books AJ read in 2024.
www.libraryfutures.net/post/my-cons...
My Consumer Autobiography: Reflections on a Year of Digital Reading
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
www.libraryfutures.net
August 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
lmao which one of you did this
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I'm not sure what can be done for staff, authors, books...But this is a real loss, and I hope there can be some collective effort at salvage and succor.
very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors.
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close
This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.
www.chronicle.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I'm not sure what can be done for staff, authors, books...But this is a real loss, and I hope there can be some collective effort at salvage and succor.
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Efficiency is a demonic word justifying cutting out much that is pleasurable, meaningful, even essential in the name of speeding the productivity machine or maximizing profit (aka taking) while minimizing outlay (or giving).
July 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Efficiency is a demonic word justifying cutting out much that is pleasurable, meaningful, even essential in the name of speeding the productivity machine or maximizing profit (aka taking) while minimizing outlay (or giving).
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So, if you think it’s just about whether repros are “good” or “bad,” you get mired (as the combatants of the Facsimile Debate did) in some petty moral quicksand. It’s not the tech that’s good or bad, it’s the politics and cultural practices and economics in which a given tech is situated.
August 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So, if you think it’s just about whether repros are “good” or “bad,” you get mired (as the combatants of the Facsimile Debate did) in some petty moral quicksand. It’s not the tech that’s good or bad, it’s the politics and cultural practices and economics in which a given tech is situated.
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Doubling down on "believing in science" doesn't accurately acknowledge what "science" is: (constitutively) a messy social process of cultivating trust and accountability
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
August 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Doubling down on "believing in science" doesn't accurately acknowledge what "science" is: (constitutively) a messy social process of cultivating trust and accountability
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing