New York Movie, by Edward Hopper, 1939, 📸 by Carlos Fyfe

"Moon's haunted"

'Hammersmith Bridge at Sunset' by Tushar Sabale tusharsabale.com

I wonder if @themerl.bsky.social has any examples of Ideal English Rabbits?

Faith Bradham, @mauraseale.bsky.social , and I have a new article out! The Illusion of Opportunity: Reimbursement Policies and the Academic Librarian furthers our research into the costs of professional enagement activities. (spoiler: reimbursement culture sucks) doi.org/10.1353/pla.... 📚📜

Columbia University Libraries is hiring an Instruction & Research Librarian! They will be a key contributor to reference and instruction in the Humanities & History unit. I'm on the search committee and can answer questions or point you to the right person. academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/180613

Unsolicited Friday advice for people working in higher education: Be respectful to administrative assistants and people who have a lot of keys on their keyrings.

Check out the new website for the Library Freedom Journal, published by the folks at the Library Freedom Project. journal.libraryfreedom.org They're looking for submissions for articles, reviews, hot takes, zines, & artwork focused on privacy, intellectual freedom, information democracy, & more! 📚

'Canary Wharf, London' (1991) Carl Laubin carllaubin.com

have any libraries successfully cut ties with lexisnexis because of their ICE contract? or are in talks to do so? #skybrarians

I'm planning on writing a blog post about how to support laid off library workers. I'd be excited to hear your ideas or examples! 📚

I sometimes think my primary job as a middle manager is to be mostly patient and thoughtful and careful so that if I really go HAM people know to pay attention

Feeling this from Sam.

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t... Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

move slow and repair things

Pitchers and catchers report tomorrow morning. 😎

The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀

I wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚

New Social Network Exclusively For AI Bots https://theonion.com/new-social-network-exclusively-for-ai-bots/

I'll cite her forever, of course, but I'll also always remember sitting in a hotel lobby in Chicago, a decade ago, and laughing as hard as we could about something absurd. Fobazi was a brilliant, funny, kind, and brilliant person. This is devastating.

The special issue of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship on "Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship" (which I co-edited with Sam Popowich and Lydia Zvyagintseva) is now available! Many thanks to the authors and co-editors: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

'Craven Cottage', Fulham (1953) by Michael Bernard Critchlow (Private collection)

My highlights for 2025 included visiting the American Museum of Natural History (especially the Warburg Hall of New York State Environment) in March, walking along the beach in St Ives, Cornwall, in May, and grilling in my backyard in Binghamton throughout the late summer and early fall.

Cheap Nation Falling Apart https://theonion.com/cheap-nation-falling-apart-1850156543/

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

The Oracle at Delphi emerging from her cave absolutely dripping in Parmesan:

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

We're still taking applications for these two 📚 positions!

This is my annual reminder that you need to thaw your Tofurky for 24 hours before popping it in the oven.

The cables aren't obsolete if you also have ✨ too many adapters ✨

Hi library 📚 colleagues! There are 12 days left to apply for two tenured, unionized positions at my academic library in Upstate New York. These are management positions that require supervisory experience, and the salary range for each is $85k to $115k. Details below, reposts appreciated! (1/4)

Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

Woof

If you are not currently watching the baseball you are missing out

I just want to say that baseball.

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This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Halloween (1978) Lost Boys (1987) Nightmare 3 (1987) Scream (1996) Honorable mentions for IT (1990) and Blair Witch (1999)

Do you know where old punks go when they need a job and health benefits? Libraries.

When you're browsing a bunch of online synchronous webinars that you have no intention of actually attending? You're Zoomscrolling.

Man Still Trying To Find Right Work-Anxiety–Life-Anxiety Balance https://theonion.com/man-still-trying-to-find-right-work-anxiety-life-anxiet-1819575766/

Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! We have a few jobs open in CUNY libraries: cuny.jobs/queens-ny/in... cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/... cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/... I’m not at these campuses but happy to answer questions!

Last night I saw Makaya McCraven play at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY. The last time I saw him was at the Islington Town Hall in North London, November 2022. Still a bit stunned, and very grateful, that my life turned out this way. I recommend that you go see some live music.