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BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid.
Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid.
Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This seems to have worked for me. Deleted my account without ever clicking on Agree for the new terms.
Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This seems to have worked for me. Deleted my account without ever clicking on Agree for the new terms.
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The slides of my Icepops talk are now online at my website: douglasmccarthy.com/presentations/
Thanks to my fellow speakers and everyone who attended yesterday, it was a brilliant day (and night 🎤). Until next time, @jsecker.bsky.social!
Thanks to my fellow speakers and everyone who attended yesterday, it was a brilliant day (and night 🎤). Until next time, @jsecker.bsky.social!
September 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The slides of my Icepops talk are now online at my website: douglasmccarthy.com/presentations/
Thanks to my fellow speakers and everyone who attended yesterday, it was a brilliant day (and night 🎤). Until next time, @jsecker.bsky.social!
Thanks to my fellow speakers and everyone who attended yesterday, it was a brilliant day (and night 🎤). Until next time, @jsecker.bsky.social!
Stay floppy, everyone!
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Stay floppy, everyone!
I've decided my timeline needs more cat pics.
May 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I've decided my timeline needs more cat pics.
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Cheers to @schomj.bsky.social and all my fellow #CripLib librarians for helping us get this response out: acrlog.org/2025/05/27/o...
Open Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib - ACRLog
Editor's note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and library work. Note: The focus is on our concerns about the qua...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Cheers to @schomj.bsky.social and all my fellow #CripLib librarians for helping us get this response out: acrlog.org/2025/05/27/o...
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So excited to see this work finally published!
💥New: American University is redefining what counts in #academia—valuing public & interdisciplinary work over outdated metrics. Colleagues Karen Baehler, Rachel Borchardt, Priya Doshi & Amanda Taylor share how faculty-led #reforms can align rewards with real-world #impact 🚀
Faculty promotion guidelines should account for a wider range of valuable academic work - Impact of Social Sciences
American University recently revised its faculty evaluation guidelines to better recognise public and interdisciplinary scholarship and move away from outdated metrics. Through inclusive,…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
So excited to see this work finally published!
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Where are the questions about how the publishers use AI (including licensing the free labor of academics) and whether that's ethical?
Where are the questions about how the publishers use AI (including licensing the free labor of academics) and whether that's ethical?
Take Nature’s AI research test: find out how your ethics compare
What’s your view on using AI for peer review and for writing research papers?
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Where are the questions about how the publishers use AI (including licensing the free labor of academics) and whether that's ethical?
Where are the questions about how the publishers use AI (including licensing the free labor of academics) and whether that's ethical?
Because who doesn't want to see me and Matt rant about "predatory publishers."
It's not too late to sign up for our #OpenAccess 101 webinar happening TODAY, MAY 14, from 1-2:30 p.m. EDT. SPARC membership is not required. The event is free & all are welcome, particularly those at institutions with fewer resources to support OA-related work. sparcopen.org/event/oa-101...
OA 101: Problematizing “Predatory” Publishing - SPARC
Speakers: Matt Ruen, Head of Collections and Digital Scholarship, Grand Valley State University; Teresa Schultz, Scholarly Communication and Social Sciences Librarian, University of Nevada Reno “Preda...
sparcopen.org
May 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Because who doesn't want to see me and Matt rant about "predatory publishers."
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They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
May 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
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Barriers and benefits of transitioning to an equitable open access model: interviews with LIS journal editors | Insights https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.677
Barriers and benefits of transitioning to an equitable open access model: interviews with LIS journal editors | Insights
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May 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Barriers and benefits of transitioning to an equitable open access model: interviews with LIS journal editors | Insights https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.677
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In an effort to do something constructive I'll pass this on #libsky:
The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is currently accepting submissions on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.
journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is currently accepting submissions on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.
journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
May 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
In an effort to do something constructive I'll pass this on #libsky:
The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is currently accepting submissions on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.
journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is currently accepting submissions on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.
journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
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Siobhan Haimé (Univ of London) has written a succinct summary of why this decision will decimate some libraries' budgets, and brings up real questions about how libraries move forward with collection development. 5/?
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
www.uksg.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Siobhan Haimé (Univ of London) has written a succinct summary of why this decision will decimate some libraries' budgets, and brings up real questions about how libraries move forward with collection development. 5/?
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
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Ok, we're doing this. Outside The Lines is live! Call it a soft launch: outsidethelines.pub/call-it-a-so...
Call It a Soft Launch
I joked with a friend yesterday that I am prone to a dangerous mix of enthusiasm, naivety and audacity. Today, that looks like soft launching Outside The Lines. The site has some styling issues, there...
outsidethelines.pub
February 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Ok, we're doing this. Outside The Lines is live! Call it a soft launch: outsidethelines.pub/call-it-a-so...
I read 80 books this year, with 55% of them counting as Own Voices. Top 10 favorite books this year, in no particular order:
1. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
1. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
December 31, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I read 80 books this year, with 55% of them counting as Own Voices. Top 10 favorite books this year, in no particular order:
1. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
1. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Tried this new trick a coworker taught me for heating up my lunch when you don't wanna use a microwave but you don't have a toaster oven. I give it 3 stars.
October 3, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Tried this new trick a coworker taught me for heating up my lunch when you don't wanna use a microwave but you don't have a toaster oven. I give it 3 stars.
My proudest current accomplishment is creating my Shadowrun character based on Anne Elliot from Persuasion. What would Anne do as a hacker in a futuristic techno corporate-run world? Nothing else matters.
September 6, 2023 at 5:34 PM
My proudest current accomplishment is creating my Shadowrun character based on Anne Elliot from Persuasion. What would Anne do as a hacker in a futuristic techno corporate-run world? Nothing else matters.