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.

My book chapter, Don't Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, has arrived! This chapter explores my first years as a manager and how I did my best to embrace slow librarianship, push back on overcommitment and vocational awe, and make my department and its work sustainable. 📚📜

Please read this chapter to see applied practices of slow librarianship (H/T: @librarianmer.bsky.social), & to see real responses when resilience narratives are presented to library employees. Reveal the gaps & show the impacts for more humane results! Thank you @amandaelaan.bsky.social

Apropos of this blog and the oligarchs

Find someone who looks at you the way Erling Haaland looks at Kevin De Bruyne 🥹

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

U.S. Soccer has a chance to do something incredibly funny.

What is the city but the people?

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Over here refreshing the Fulham website to see if his shirt is on sale yet.

there's actually a little known law that says if kyle schwarber hits four homers in one game they have to fund septa

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Twin Peaks: Garland Briggs sees a bright light while camping in the woods.

YEET!

I always said universities were a bit like zoos.

AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet theonion.com/aol-to-...

It's 10 a.m. on my last day at this job, and I just hit inbox zero. 😎

I ALREADY HAVE THIS IT'S CALLED THE MS TEAMS CHANNEL FOR FACULTY ASSEMBLY AND IF YOU READ IT YOU'D KNOW IT'S NOT A SELLING POINT SAM. #SharedGovernanceHumor

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

I wrote a blog post about moving. If you're an academic who's moved for work a time or two, it might resonate with you.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

I wrote a blog post about moving. If you're an academic who's moved for work a time or two, it might resonate with you.

My high school chemistry teacher repeatedly explained to us that "all salt is the same" in a way that has really, really helped me navigate kitchen supply stores and spice shops looking to upcharge for "Mediterranean salt" or whatever. Thanks for everything, Ms. Peek! Who were a real one.