There’s a lot of complex stuff going on but gosh yes basically this.

This could get really complicated...

Becoming a tenured professor is a bit like becoming an NBA forward or a successful recording artist. (Or a novelist or a working fine artist or a pediatric cardiologist.) The supply is massively greater than the demand, and everyone is excellent. This is a hedge fund of yourself, not a career goal.

A friend made a video clip if you want to watch my UN remarks. cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/2503451/em...

It's been a busy four years!

Such a "pinch me am I dreaming" moment today. That's me, at the podium of the UN General Assembly, speaking on behalf of IFLA and the world's libraries. What an honor to contribute to the WSIS+20 Plenary and to represent!

Food for thought publishers! All of the major submission platforms support @orcid.org reviewer credit... #researchsky

It's fascinating to see emerging defenses of the utility of barriers after decades of arguments that the end goal should be to make everything as open and reusable as possible with minimal friction. Today's exhibit: creativecommons.org/2025/12/10/i...

I am so charmed by this. A great reminder that the world is so much bigger than our own part. See also - international students' obsession with our campus squirrels.

🗣 Thanks to Wiley for sharing this POV from ORCID Board Chair @lisalibrarian.bsky.social Watch the full interview here. #Researchsky #ORCID #ORCIDBoard #Wiley #Librarians #ResearchInstitutions #ScholComms #AiLiteracy

This was the day Apoorva Shah and I discovered we could literally talk for hours about discovery, researchers, and AI. Probably good they edited to just a few highlights! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Dg...

NEW: Over the past two years, my JSTOR colleagues and I have been partnering with librarians & archivists to co-create a "collections processing tool"—a new kind of service that empowers practitioners to expand discovery & impact of distinctive collections at scale. about.jstor.org/blog/what-is...

What's your favorite AI hack? @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social chefs @lyconrad.bsky.social, @roohighosh.bsky.social, @irfanullah.bsky.social, @lisalibrarian.bsky.social, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Dianndra Roberts, and Tim Vines share theirs here:

I share three personal "AI hacks" in today's Scholarly Kitchen Ask-the-Chefs. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/13/a...

The only way to prevent the use of your research is not to share it. Don't talk about it, present on it, or publish it.

And another talk where this is relevant and being confused. As a reminder, if it's legal under copyright, it's not the CC license/open that makes it ok for AI to train on your work ... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

Also, not a new problem/question. CC BY on articles has relieved many corporations of subscription costs and allowed them to opt out of supporting the publishing ecosystem. #openscience #cmuoss25

Sometimes I wish people in educational spaces were required to understand & spot basic tactics of how vendors / tech outfits operate, like "embrace, extend, extinguish". So many people with what's analogous to "map literacy" (at advanced literacy levels!), yet so few with analogous "street smarts".

I don't know why Bluesky is labeling an out-of-copyright classical engraving as adult content, but I promise you this is on bibliometrics!

With a number of libraries canceling transformative agreements, will support for publishing OA become part of the recruitment pitch for a campus? Similar to how the size of collections have been for decades?

I'm so pleased to share this SK piece I did with Heather Parkin, a master's student in the @ischoolui.bsky.social. In light of DORA and other attempts to reform bibliometrics, this piece examines how publishers platform journal and article metrics. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/11/i...

Before...

Great post this week from @lisalibrarian.bsky.social that hopes to clear up some of the confusions around Creative Commons licenses and the use of such content for AI training. This speaks to the ongoing failure of the publishing and OA communities to make clear just what these licenses mean

Consolidation. corp.oup.com/news/oxford-...

Very first panel of #chsconf25, and a speaker repeats the claim that my piece in SK yesterday was written to explain isn't true. Please read! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

New from me today. TL;DR.. No! But, read the piece to learn why! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/03/c...

Just realized that last night marked daylight savings so I feel better about how late I was awake lol. In any case, this move slightly weakens the pro-preprint case for journals not adding value and (in the case of review & position papers) strengthens the case for Article Development Charges.

I'm sympathetic but ... "Before being considered for submission to arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review." blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

Excited to see this final output from our IMLS Proritizing Privacy grant published! crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Pretzels continue to be a winning Halloween give-away. One tiny ghoul: "Pretzels! I LOVE THESE!" Second most popular, the gummy worms.

Very cool! Congrats to @eve.gd and the @kcommons.bsky.social team. Great to see @orcid.org's Global Participation Fund grants being put to good use!

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

NICE!

Labor conditions are learning conditions...

If progress depends on scholars being actively interested in the infrastructures of publishing, we need some really big thinking on what might motivate that interest, bc it doesn't seem that scholars find these infrastructures inherently interesting.

At the end of another Open Access Week, where the virtues of open infrastructure & standards have been rightly praised, I'm grappling with whether OpenAlex is incapable of creating an accurate author profile for me because it relies on RORs while I'm a scholar without institutional affiliation.

As if vegetables grow overnight, especially in climates where it goes below freezing overnight right now.

Bots keep overwhelming library servers. Is this not happening to publisher servers, too? Or, are they just not writing about it? journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489

Grateful for the invitation to speak "in" Durban, South Africa this morning - exploring business models for open access publishing. Even at 5 am, I'm pretty excited to share the taxonomy I've developed!

And, this morning we learn how much of the work I do at the university relies on AWS...

The attack on Knowledge Commons (@kcommons.bsky.social) seems to have ceased, for now, and I have re-enabled access to user profiles. We will do a full postmortem on Monday and continue our efforts to thwart this. It's difficult when your attacker has billions of $s of computing power.

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

They are the best evidence that professors don't indoctrinate.

IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co. So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.

This continues to be an extremely rewarding project to work on. Looking forward to the discussions it provokes, especially in person at #IDW2025 and #eResAU2025!

“But she doesn’t tell us what to DO about it 😭😭😭!” Do something. Do something with other people. Do it again.