The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

If you're part of a #FriendsOfTheLibrary group or want to learn more about them, come to our open house on February 19th where we'll talk about the Friends & Foundations Network that For The People is starting: www.librariesforthepeople.org/events/ftp-f...

NYC artists: Kremer Paints - the fascinating German store on W 29th that had all sorts of historical pigments hand-made from minerals and plants using ancient recipes - is gone. I was in mourning until I discovered today that a longtime employee is continuing the business as NY Pigment Company.

Incredible.

All of these images of the interior of the Johns-Manville Building, a pavilion at the 1939 NY World's Fair are made by Generative AI, and they've been shared across the internet. It didn't take long to make that determination that they are fake--but that's not the point.

Here's my story on @nyamakop.co.za's Relooted, a game with the gotta-go-faster impulses of Trials but a heartfelt and emotional story at its core about reclaiming stolen African artifacts. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

I love DC for all the amazing feee museums and the low cost shared bicycles and ever growing protected bike lanes. After weeks of rare frozen weather it was fun going to the national mall the to the orchid show at African American museum! No bikes today but soon the ice will melt away🍒

I’m glad the snow and ice in the DMV is melting now and probably most of it will be gone next week when the temperatures will be warmer. In the meantime there are still marvels to be seen, like this multi-tiered snow & ice formation that resembles Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water house a bit.

Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day. They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach! I can help. Let’s chat.

Blasted? Yikes

I am teaching my digital manuscripts seminar for the first time since the British Library hack that took all their digitized books offline and... it's a lot.

Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent

An exhibit dedicated to the first African American soldiers to join the U.S. Army (#USCT #BuffaloSoldiers) is on display at the Ontario Museum of History and Art in Ontario, California. abc7.com/post/ontario...

I used to work at an Important Institution in the History of Medicine where we routinely displayed Vesalius’ very famous anatomy text, which was published in 1543. We showed lots of naked peeps. Staff there now told me in 2023 that they were no longer to show naked pics! From 1543! To doctors!

paid summer internship in our museum, it is in BOTANY but you cannot get in there without walking through the insect collection and being subjected to Beetle Facts drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

And if you are a librarian who has used MMM in the past & plan to use MMM in 2026- drop me a DM :-D #2026MMM

Checked out the Milwaukee Art Museum mainly to see the building.

This position deadline has been extended, now closing Feb 2. This job's got everything- library systems, cultural heritage metadata, digitization and IIIF, system integration and security, art, dedicated colleagues, AI experimentation, an IM Pei building... what more could you want?

John has written an amazing book about Washington and slavery. Highly recommend having him in your show/podcast/newsletter to discuss it.

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

Ooooh, aaaah, new #sciart with texts from Carl Sagan and Marcus Aurelius artologica.etsy.com

WHAT: JW Anderson (fall 2026) OCCASIONS: slouching against the wall of a library or being so taciturn at brunch you force the breakup you want IF IT WERE A SCENT: coffee (black) held in the same hand as a lit cigarette EMOTIONAL RANGE: whatever (🙄) / whatever (😏) #MJMfashionGuide

"A couple of months ago while in NYC I saw an eye-opening and disturbing exhibition at the Poster House about how the fascist Mussolini regime went to great lengths to affect all aspects of Italians’ lives in order to expand their power and control." @anntelnaes.bsky.social

This is going to scare the shit out of a lot of people in DC and I have to think that is the point. wtop.com/local/2026/0...

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

I added text to this one just now bc you know what, no one can stop me

Here's the link, which I should have included: www.searchablemuseum.com

If you're still prepping for history classes on African American history, I definitely recommend the Blacksonian's Searchable Museum. Great resources.

Happy Public Domain Day! Jan 1 marks the date when eligible works pass into the public domain in the United States. Notable works entering the public domain this year include certain early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the novel As I Lay Dying, and the Gershwin composition Embraceable You. #copyright

“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”

we're recapping the squirrels of 2025

She managed to turn the meme tourism into an extremely lucrative enterprise and donated the profits to the city and to the church, an absolute legend

A little holiday card I got to draw for a public library last year that I’m still proud of; happy almost-new-year ✨

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! This elegant example of graphic design appears on the cover of a pamphlet from the Walters Art Gallery dated Christmas 1960. A Medieval knight in black holding a red shield with a lion at his feet adorns the cover, in the style of a brass-rubbing.

Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

you ever read a book so bad you wanna go back to mesopotamia and uninvent writing

The Jólakötturinn, or the Yule Cat is a monstrously large creature from Icelandic folklore that is said to roam the snowy countryside during Christmas, with a particular appetite for anyone who has not received new clothes before Christmas Eve or who did not wear them.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Job posting: Training Manager in the Smithsonian's Office of Digital and Innovation. Deadline: 12/23 OR after first 100 applications, whichever comes first (so apply NOW if interested) 2-yr term position onsite, Washington, DC; $101,401-$131,826/yr

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

This reminded me of one of our first trips to Iceland in 2011. We visited the Library of Water where they have books about all of Iceland's glaciers. But the true stars of the show were the columns of water throughout the library, each one comprised of melted ice from each of Iceland's glaciers. 🧪

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

I'm number 18 on this map

By the way, the collection guide to the product cookbooks at NMAH is online with many examples digitized. The items were collected and donated by a former Head of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries. Link here: www.si.edu/object/archi...

The Wiki Science Photo Contest deadline has been extended and will remain open until December 15th, 2025, with lots of prizes to be won! 📸 🔬 🌠 Are you passionate about science? Do you work in a lab? Did you manage to spot the Northern Lights? 🔗Enter the contest now: wikimedia.ie/2025/11/18/w...

#Thanksgiving We are thankful to the #LocalJournalism heroes who inform our communities. Find them in our searchable 50-state #LocalJournalism directory. Subscribe. Share. Help people you care about build healthier information diets. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

Science Illustration internships (2) at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. $700/week, relocation funds for travel to and from SERC; and onsite dormitory housing available. Anticipated start date 02/26 but can vary; duration is 11 weeks. Location Edgewater, MD.

📚 The Librarians Documentary 🗓️ Wednesday, Dec. 3 | 6 PM 📍 MLK Library Called “gripping” by The New York Times, this award-winning film follows librarians on the front lines defending the freedom to read. Registration encouraged: https://bit.ly/3JYSJ3s