this is fucking nuts:

Happy International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇! Takahashi Bihō (Japan, b.1873) #Bat and Moon, c. 1928–30 Woodblock print (shin hanga / kachō-e), ink & color on paper Sheet 10 3/4 x 11 3/16 in. (27.3 x 28.4 cm) MIA P.77.28.46 collections.artsmia.org/art/91665/ba... #JapaneseArt

Libraries and the Academy: du.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...

Here for Easter, the magnificent Rabbit Fish - 14th century, British Library, Add. MS 11390, f. 59r

Every library employee I’ve ever met has been kind and welcoming, but this was in my head today: youtu.be/QVo_XnB4Bs0

Cassiopeia being beautiful in front of the portrait I painted for her

Toward slow archives www.researchgate.net/publication/...

es tiempo…. ¡para una siesta!

Touches across time: queer as provenance Elliot Freeman www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Required reading for 2026: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Helping people, changing lives: 3 health benefits of volunteering www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-hea...

Bibliotherapy can help librarians support both their communities and themselves. Judit H. Ward and Nicholas A. Allred share ideas, examples, and best practices for bibliotherapy-inspired initiatives that empower librarians to promote well-being. https://bit.ly/4c6JpX3

Required reading for 2026: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

should maybe not send emails when I have motion sickness

*looking at the almost empty container* i am now more peanut butter filled pretzels than woman

Old Reading Rainbow episodes SHOULD be as relaxing as Levar Burton reads, but I have vague memories of being an anxious kiddo and worrying about germs making Levar Burton sick or whatever that I can’t get rid of

Other departments in art museums are starting to catch up to the work that access teams have been doing for decades, and these programs deserve to be appreciated and centered as part of museum worker education.

I'm not as interested in the accuracy as much I am interested in the direction the AI chooses to go when it gets things wrong. That's the tell. It's no coincidence that the AI chose to go in the direction that has me placing a white woman in a pioneering position of making people of color visible.

The existence of application fees for open calls reveals something deeper than cost. They expose how the art world has come to understand access as something artists should pay for in advance.

Windows and Mirrors: Children's Books and Parallel Cultures: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED3...

New research shows that you can lengthen your own life by improving someone else’s. As 65-and-over super-volunteers find their postretirement purpose in service, they are also discovering that it improves their health and well-being. https://wapo.st/4bEypA6

Remember the black squares of 2020? Recent social media posts from arts orgs announcing their participation in Friday’s anti-ICE strike reminded Damien Davis of these and other “frictionless” acts of allyship.

What even is time when in grad school

More Product, Less Process: digitalcampus.instructure.com/courses/5512...

i've seen people argue that adult coloring is a waste of time that should be dedicated to actually creating something, but it's become a sensory activity for me. it's relaxing, and i don't think that's a waste of time

Overdue: Collection development and deselection projects for a faculty-selected collection: www-tandfonline-com.du.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

parts of this Parable of the Sower are hard to read, and despite the character being a young adult, I'm not sure I would recommend this to all young adults. the book is, however, very apt right now

Something a teacher in Mexico told me, a terribly socially anxious person: showing up for an obligation is most of the challenge