I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage.
Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky
Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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part of why i find the idea that certain tech is inevitable (LMS, AI, etc) to be silly is we're not far removed from the before times. we have it in recent and living memory how we function without these things. i graduated from college in 2013. we had reading packets and printed our assignments
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky
Read this interview with Dr Maddie Sinclair / @maddiesinclair.bsky.social (Editorial Officer, Open Library of Humanities) about her journey into scholarly publishing, her thoughts on open access, and the day-to-day realities of editorial work: www.openlibhums.org/news/858/ #OA #AcademicPublishing
Interview with Dr Maddie Sinclair: A Journey into Open Access and Editorial Work at OLH
In this interview, we speak with Dr Maddie Sinclair, Editorial Officer at the Open Library of Humanities, about her journey into scholarly publishing, her thoughts on open access, and the …
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September 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Really looking forward to this! Anyone interested in #OpenAccess & #OpenSource is welcome to join us in Dublin next year #AcaSky
Save the date! The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access. Dublin City University & online. 21st and 22nd May 2026: www.openlibhums.org/news/810/ @janewayolh.bsky.social #openaccess #diamondOA
The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access
Save the date: The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access
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April 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🚨 Academic Job Alert 🚨
Western U is looking for a new chair for its comm/journalism program:
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Western U is looking for a new chair for its comm/journalism program:
www.fims.uwo.ca/about/employ...
#commsky #acasky
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September 21, 2023 at 2:04 PM
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This is such an exciting journal migration! The @ilr-rit.bsky.social was est. in 1921 by the International Labour Organization, a UN Agency set up after WWI to advance social & economic justice via international labour standards. Super proud to be publishing ILR in 3 languages #OpenAccess #AcaSky
Pleased to announce that the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to #diamondOA with the Open Library of Humanities: www.openlibhums.org/news/797/
International Labour Review transitions to open access
The International Labour Review, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to open access with the Open Library of Humanities. GENEVA (ILO News) – Th...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Really encouraging to see today’s landmark statement from the N8 Research Partnership urging fundamental reform to academic publishing. The current system is completely unsustainable. I’ll be speaking at today’s N8 event about @ojcollective.bsky.social. www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-... #AcaSky
N8 Research Partnership calls for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models - N8 Research Partnership
The N8 Research Partnership – the collective body for the North of England’s eight research intensive universities – has released a landmark new statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarl...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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If your academic friend has been misquoted/misrepresented and based on that set up as a straw man for a circumstance they were not aware of about their subject post their data collection WWYD?? #acasky
January 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Wholesome AcaSky post to have with my wakeup juice aka coffee.
October 6, 2023 at 7:56 AM
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📢 What if sustainability was redefined by those most affected by extractivism?
In our latest blog, Ania Zbyszewska imagines what #SustainableWork could mean when rooted in care, land, and community.
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#LabourResearch #OpenAccess #Acasky
In our latest blog, Ania Zbyszewska imagines what #SustainableWork could mean when rooted in care, land, and community.
🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls
#LabourResearch #OpenAccess #Acasky
May 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Fab new issue of @regenerationeac.bsky.social on Affects of Energy Transition! #AcaSky #EnergyHums @openlibhums.bsky.social
NEW ISSUE!! Regeneration 1.3, Affects of Energy Transition, guest edited by Firat Oruc, Trish Kahle, and Victoria Googasian! With essays by Victoria Googasian, Anne Pasek, Ewan Gibbs, Animesh Chatterjee, intro by Trish Kahle, and an afterword by Dominic Boyer! Open access on our site; link below.
June 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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AcaSky, I need your help: I loved Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media", but I'm a woefully under-read dilettante.
I'd like to tell other technologists about this stuff, and how it relates to developing LLMs.
Does anyone have syllabi or reading lists so I can better educate myself first?
I'd like to tell other technologists about this stuff, and how it relates to developing LLMs.
Does anyone have syllabi or reading lists so I can better educate myself first?
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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🌍 Flavia Maximo calls for sustainability frameworks that centre communities facing the real costs of extraction.
Read how the latest ILR Special Issue brings decolonial thought to the heart of #SustainableWork:
🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls
#Acasky #LabourResearch #OpenAccess #OA
Read how the latest ILR Special Issue brings decolonial thought to the heart of #SustainableWork:
🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls
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May 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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This meeting was so important. The N8 group of northern UK libraries are providing much-needed leadership to the whole sector. They’re standing up to a bullying, extractive commercial oligopoly that threatens the integrity of our research. I was honoured to be part of this day! #OpenAccess #AcaSky
@theblochian.bsky.social, Exec. Director of the Open Library of Humanities, was recently invited to an event hosted by the N8 Research Partnership, a collective of 8 northern UK research-intensive universities: www.openlibhums.org/news/839/ (1/2) 👇
Serving Communities, Not Corporate Shareholders
OLH Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards was recently invited to attend an event organised by the N8 Research Partnership, the collective body for eight northern research intensive universities. Hel...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Amazing opportunity to join our fantastic growing @openlibhums.bsky.social team! We're looking for an academic who is passionate about publishing and sees an exciting career for themselves in the #openaccess movement. If that's you, please consider applying! 100% remote with London weighting #AcaSky
JOB KLAXON!!! We're hiring an Editorial Officer starting August 2025, application deadline 8 June 2025. If you're an academic who is passionate about building an exciting career in open access publishing please consider applying. #AcaSky #OpenAccess cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London
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May 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The nerdy tattle-tale in me grew up to be an academic who loves calling out designers who plagiarize and culturally appropriate. The latest is #Adidas x #WillyChavarría. Here’s what I wrote (including learning resources!): deed.parsons.edu/2025/08/07/c...
#culturalappropriation #acasky #huaraches
#culturalappropriation #acasky #huaraches
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This is great news! Hopefully the UK can follow suit by funding similar collaborations between diamond university-based publishers, such as those affiliated with @oipassoc.bsky.social #OpenAccess #AcaSky
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Deadline 30/06 - last chance to apply for this year’s @openlibhums.bsky.social small grants to support #openaccess publishing! #AcaSky
Don’t miss your chance to apply for the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025! Funding of up to £500 is available to support events, projects, or activities related to #OpenAccess or with an #OA component.
⏰ Apply by 30/06!
🔗 Full details: www.openlibhums.org/...
⏰ Apply by 30/06!
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The OLH Open Access Award 2025: call for applications
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2025, a fund dedicated …
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June 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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AcaSky: AI is here to swallow your research. PASS THIS ON and email your editors, no matter what press is publishing your favorite journals. This is coming for all of us. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Taylor & Francis AI deal sets "worrying precedent"
The publisher didn’t give authors any notice before selling access to its data to Microsoft for $10 million. The agreement could improve academic research, but it further entrenches the predatory natu...
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August 22, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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With the move of @ilr-rit.bsky.social from Wiley to OLH, Dr Katherine Parker-Hay explores ILR's publishing history. Find out how ILR is working with OLH's @janewayolh.bsky.social team to offer multilingual workflows on our publishing platform: www.openlibhums.org/news/804/ #OpenAccess #AcaSky
International Labour Review inspires innovations in multilingual publishing at the OLH
In May 2023, the OLH accepted an application from the International Labour Review (ILR), who have moved from legacy publisher Wiley and relaunched as a diamond open access journal with …
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April 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I’m really excited about this journal migration to @openlibhums.bsky.social! Energy Humanities has been a vibrant hub of scholarship since 2020. From 2026 it’ll be a fully-fledged diamond open access journal, funded by our international library community! #OpenAccess #AcaSky #petrocultures
The OLH is thrilled to welcome Energy Humanities, a field-defining journal in #energystudies, to our portfolio of leading humanities and social sciences titles. The journal will begin publishing with the OLH in 2026. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/811/ /
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Field-defining journal on Energy Humanities moves to the OLH
The OLH is pleased to welcome a field-defining journal to its portfolio of leading humanities and social sciences titles. Energy Humanities, which will begin publishing at the OLH in 2026, …
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April 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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April 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Now on sale! Wonder Women and Bad Girls: Superheroine and Supervillainess archetypes
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/wond... #acasky #superheroes #Marvel #DCcomics #booksky #acafans #feminism #wonderwoman #sabra #msmarvel #blackwidow #harleyquinn #comics
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Wonder Women and Bad Girls - McFarland
Wonder Women and Bad Girls Superheroine and Supervillainess Archetypes in Popular Media Valerie Estelle Frankel 978-1-4766-8409-3 978-1-4766-4163-8
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February 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I'm thrilled to announce Parsons' first "Indigenizing Art & Design Education" Symposium, featuring members of the Matriarchal Lenape Collective Lenni Lenapexkweyok
Tuesday, May 27th, starting at 9:30 a.m.
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#lenapehoking #indigenousart #indigenousdesign #acasky
Tuesday, May 27th, starting at 9:30 a.m.
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#lenapehoking #indigenousart #indigenousdesign #acasky
Indigenizing Art & Design Education Symposium
Please join us as we continue to develop strategies in centering Indigenous Art and Design pedagogy, and in direct partnership with Indigenous knowledge keepers Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs, members of the Lenni Lenapexkweyok Collective.Part public program, and part visioning workshop, we see this symposium and future offshoots as challenging the status quo, improving our support structures for our Indigenous colleagues and student body, and strengthening our own research practices in service to a wider college-wide initiative around decolonizing design. With an Indigenous speaker/facilitator line-up, we are ensuring an important step towards decolonization: the centering of Indigenous people and their lived experiences.A closed visioning workshop with New School stakeholders will be held in the afternoon to develop actionable and comprehensive strategies for scaffolding, developing, and supporting Indigenous ways of knowing and being into our community.(NOTE: While we do not expect to keep time strictly, we offer this schedule for your guidance. The general public is welcome 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The afternoon session is for New School community members only.)Schedule: 9:30AM - 10:00AM - Arrival & check-in10:00AM - 10:45AM - Welcome & framing remarks, Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs, Lenni Lenapexkweyok Collective.11:00AM - 12:00PM - Conversation facilitated by Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs12:00PM - 1:00PM - Lunch (provided) & Mingling+++++++ Afternoon sessions are open only to members of The New School community (students, alumni, faculty, and staff) +++++++1:00PM - 3:00PM - Thematic breakout conversations (rotating every 30 minutes)3:00PM - 3:30PM - Break & mingling3:30PM - 5:00PM - Visioning session
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May 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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