sometimes I wake up in the morning and am bewildered by the number of emails in my inbox what happened while I was sleeping??

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

I’ve posted an update on Fobazi. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support! ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena Update here: gofund.me/506f89f9

I just realized that I didn’t drink my coffee this morning, which is why I’ve been dragging all day. But now it’s 2pm and it might keep me up. Small dilemmas!

Came across an Audre Lorde quote today and looked it up, thought this passage worth sharing: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/a...

I think of this essay often. indi.ca/i-lived-thro...

This will take 5 minutes to read. It will stay with you for much, much longer. #RumeysaOzturk

I could use a good karaoke sesh.

Proud to be playing a small part in resisting US government censorship of research along w/ @rouhiroo.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social & esp @lschiff.bsky.social whose idea this was. If you care about what’s happening please sign the Declaration! #DefendResearch

Read today's powerful Scholarly Kitchen piece about the importance of DEIA to *all of us*! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/11/d... Thank you @charlierock.bsky.social , @alicemeadows.bsky.social and the other co-authors!!! #WeChooseToFight #deia #defend_highered

“…the banning of books, magazines, newspapers and music, the outlawing of the freedom to read and write and listen, the censoring of educational materials while criminalizing educators and librarians, and repressing speech — have roots in the anti-literacy laws of colonial slaveholding America.”

I greatly appreciate the use of the word "Lie" in this headline. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

there's nothing like reaching the end of an author's oeuvre that you were obsessed with for the last month and feeling sad THEN FINDING THE AUTHOR ON HERE feeling a little creepy gleeful today

Love to have the thing that many use to exchange payment information just give all the data to train AI, so that when someone puts in publicly-accessible routing numbers and asks what are possibilities that come next, the AI gives the account numbers in response.

Am I hungry or bored?

I also just want to emphasize how much Chinese fans were screwed over by this whole process, and how all the evidence available so far suggests that the censorship was coming from inside the house, that is, from the Western administrators and staff. /1

Once again noting that if this is what happens to a cis girl accused of being trans, imagine what happens to a girl that is actually trans

You know I’d be less salty about the AI situation if these tech grifters didn’t just just spend the last year ruining every creative industry and putting thousands of artists and writers out of work. It’s going to take years to undo all of this damage.

Laughing so hard

Here's a fun flow chart to determine if the cops have a warrant. Did they ask to search? No ---> they had a warrant Yes ---> they don't have a warrant

Breaking news: Ohio legislators banned gender-affirming care for minors Wednesday, overriding Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s December veto of the bill in an intraparty schism and joining more than 20 states that have levied similar restrictions in recent years.

Jan 18th is the anniversary of the assassination of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran. An Indigenous, queer & non-binary forest defender. Murdered by Georgia State Troopers in their tent w/ hands up protecting their face because they wanted to #StopCopCity & save the Weelaunee forest

this morning the kid told me her toy cat was "holding a snore in her paws, which means she's sleeping" and boy does that sound nice

2023 marks the first time on record that every day within a year has exceeded 1°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial level.

The first days above 1ºC were way back in the early 1990s. First days above 1.5ºC were back in the strong El Niño events of 2016 and 2020.

met with some mathematicians in the course of my work day and I am always reminded of this comic xkcd.com/435/

Morehouse College transferred every penny of debt they held in collections to the Debt Collective, amounting to $10M for 2800 students. Instead of collecting on it, we canceled it all completely. This is a no strings attached gift. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

Again, if your understanding of “campus politics” focuses on powerless left wing students and not influential right wing donors, you don’t have an understanding of “campus politics”

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

reminder that national geographic was gutted and all staff writers fired so the brand could be turned into a clothing store

hey folks, as you may know, I donated half of my settlement funds with the British Museum to create two poetry workshops for BIPOC/racialized translators. The one for translating Sinophone poetry is now open. It's taught by the amazing Chenxin Jiang! modernpoetryintranslation.com/mpt-labs-tra...

I had an idea. A colleague independently had the same idea, followed through with it, and did a better job than I would have. Rather than get mad and trash talk them behind their back, I congratulated them. I just wanted some people in my field to know that this is an available option to them.

All intensive care patients at al-Shifa Hospital have died, according to the facility’s director: ‘We are left with nothing, no power, no food, no water. With every passing minute, we are losing a life. Overnight we lost 22 persons.’

EVENT! "Preserving Palestine: Cultural Heritage Under Settler Colonialism" This online roundtable will feature librarians, archivists, and scholars, and is hosted by Librarians & Archivists With Palestine and the Middle East Librarians Association. Registration: rb.gy/b379h3 *pls share widely!*

I don't know what's worse, the physical pain of this barometric pressure migraine or the psychological pain of knowing that human pollution is the cause of rain in November in San Diego.

I just called one of my Senators (Mark Warner) to oppose KOSA. I did it with the help of 5calls, which is really useful, especially if you don't like making calls. This bill really is terrible, and will allow red state AGs to block any kind of speech on the internet they don't like. 5calls.org

A book publisher tried to get the National Book Award to prevent any authors from saying statements about Gaza. (They listed "Free Palestine" as an example of "hate speech"!)

We have witnessed the real-time dismantlement of the entire media architecture for covering gender from a feminist lens, and this is happening at the same time as the rise of a nascent fascist movement obsessed with restoring "traditional" gender roles. The situation is Not Great.

Palestinian kids are appealing to our humanity in a foreign language is the level of failure we've reached. Palestinians children should not need to be so brave. We have already failed five thousand children and all these kids face the same threat of annihilation. x.com/Shepherds4Go...

THERE SHOULDN'T BE A LIMIT.

As I continue to say: at the schools slashing humanities programs, look at where the admins went to college, as well as where they send their own children. They have no problem narrowing the horizons for other people's kids because they and theirs remain untouched by the consequences.

I'm gonna start telling people artificial intelligence is to intelligence as artificial cherry flavoring is to cherries.