I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.

Michigan's porn ban specifically bans being openly transgender as being pornographic. Don't let this one slide. It is a ban on being publicly transgender on the Internet.

Congressional Democrats voted today to sell out Washington DC and their constituents, as numerous Dems backed bills advancing the Trump takeover of DC. After meeting with our Council and saying nice things, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and leadership *declined* to whip a No vote on the bills

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Obsessed

"When faculty returned to campus this fall, some found their subject librarians were no longer with them." Duke Libraries has lost a number of librarians because of budget cuts. Faculty weren't told or consulted, @dukechronicle.bsky.social reports. #libraries www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Found on Mastodon... fediscience.org/@kaiarzheime...

used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

*Reminder* Hey #TenureTrackLibrarian: We’re studying the tenure experiences of academic librarians who are currently on the tenure track or have been recently tenured within the last 5 years. Is that you?. Go to bit.ly/tenuretracke...

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

UNLV Libraries Acquire Groundbreaking Sex Work Activism Archive (Nevada) 📜 www.unlv.edu/news/article...

Going around in Circles: Interrogating Librarians’ Spheres of Concern, Influence, and Control by Jordan Moore

As anyone who lives in DC knows, it's the residents in Wards 7 & 8, south and east of the Anacostia River, who suffer most from crime. That's exactly where Trump's show-of-force is NOT deployed: ♦️They're parading (and harassing people) where they'll be seen. NOT fighting crime.

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs. What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

I was laid off from Northwestern University today, along with 200 other people. 📚 www.northwestern.edu/leadership-n...

OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals. Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet? 📚 www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...

ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷‍♀️ "On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...

today I finished a postgrad internship with the Library of Congress— I suggested new websites + subject headings for the Mass Communications Web Archive, increasing access to media about media here’s more about the collection (I’m the Junior Fellow in question 😎): blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

In 2020 @jamescheng.bsky.social Brittani Sterling & I were awarded a Diversity Research Grant from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social we have finally published the results of this research! So proud to share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Favorite Quote: “institutions should be more concerned with the actual oppression, exclusion, and racism that BIPOC librarians experience than with the feelings of white people.”