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Librarian at Utrecht University profile photo by
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David Slack
3 days ago
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimerās in mice ā and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
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Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/alzheimers-mice-cured
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Martin Paul Eve
5 days ago
"There are some things we ought not to do even though people will pay us to do them" - Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the ELIZA chat bot in 1965, advising computer scientists on AI. Cited in McCray's README, p. 93.
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"Friction too, let it be said, is how fire is made." Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation.
bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...
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Bruder & Rudmann - Fact and Friction
https://bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/fact-and-friction.html
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Ann Powers
18 days ago
One time Eric and I were at the Princeton Record Exchange and in the famous two-dollar pins we found a treasure trove of Joe Ely records. We bought them and wow did we get schooled about Texas music. A great and genuine troubadour. We just lost him. RIP
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Joe Ely - She Never Spoke Spanish To Me - International Country Festival 1978 ⢠TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpDNQBdabA
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Sonja Drimmer
29 days ago
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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Sonja Drimmer
29 days ago
A disrespect for me as an educator means that a basic piece of sociality and trust has been broken and so I donāt owe anyone generous feedback. But I donāt need to be punitive either. Thatās what those who are selling these products want. They want to exhaust us into resignation.
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"As a late liberal artist, David Foster Wallace, once said, in the day-to-day trenches of adult life there is no such thing as not worshipping: the only choice we get, is what to worship. Liberty and art ā or market needs?" The latest from Bruder & Rudmann
bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/i...
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Bruder & Rudmann - Itās Time to Stop Worshipping the Market Oriented Mindset
https://bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/its-time-to-stop-worshipping.html
about 1 month ago
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Kevin Sanders
about 1 month ago
But what if recognised institutions as a barrier towards mutual aid; institutions are not inherently good or bad, there are historical and scaling effects the abstract efficacies. We don't inherently 'need' "a better matrix". We need better social relations, and the more direct, the less bad?
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Leon Jackson
about 1 month ago
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies šļøš§µ
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Kevin Sanders
about 2 months ago
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UC Santa Barbara
about 2 months ago
A treasure trove of rare and historic American musicāincluding songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and moreāis now freely available to the public thanks to a new collaboration between the UC Santa Barbara Library and Dust-to-Digital Foundation
https://ow.ly/J8Bg50Xpuf2
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Vast collection of historic American music released via UCSB Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation
Thousands of rare and uniquely American songs from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression are available for free listening thanks to a partnership between UCSB and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
https://ow.ly/J8Bg50Xpuf2
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Mike Jones
about 2 months ago
Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation.
#archives
#digipres
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Ordinary Notes
3 months ago
Love after Love. Derek Walcott.
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hyperbolbri
3 months ago
Librarians *should* be exercising more judgement and objective expertise, looking at the whole picture, thinking about long term & bibliodiversity. Libraries do not receive budget to "buy content" they receive budget to "disseminate knowledge".
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Natalia Cecire
4 months ago
oh for real, wow
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Cas Mudde
4 months ago
The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated āAntifaā a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
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Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie
Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...
https://www.rd.nl/artikel/1121197-kamermeerderheid-vindt-antifa-terroristische-organisatie
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#DefendResearch
4 months ago
How will
#openscience
be effected by current politics? If you're at
#OSFAIR2025
, you can hear a great panel discussing this topic, moderated by
@rouhiroo.bsky.social
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www.opensciencefair.eu/panels/how-t...
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https://www.opensciencefair.eu/panels/how-the-impact-of-the-current-political-moment-could-accelerate-an-open-science-future@rouhiroo.bsky.social
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Ćireann
4 months ago
My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth
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Samuel Moore
4 months ago
I like that this piece argues for a democratising understanding of open science over the more neoliberal one they view as common. I've always felt that a more robust understanding of democratisation is needed for open movements, rather than just assuming that democracy is implied in free culture.
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Erin Kissane
4 months ago
We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.
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MORPHSS
4 months ago
New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead
@samuelmoore.org
: "By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA
#AHSS
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aj-boston.neocities.org
4 months ago
lmao which one of you did this
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Victor Luftig
5 months ago
I'm not sure what can be done for staff, authors, books...But this is a real loss, and I hope there can be some collective effort at salvage and succor.
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Rebecca Solnit
5 months ago
Efficiency is a demonic word justifying cutting out much that is pleasurable, meaningful, even essential in the name of speeding the productivity machine or maximizing profit (aka taking) while minimizing outlay (or giving).
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Sonja Drimmer
5 months ago
So, if you think itās just about whether repros are āgoodā or ābad,ā you get mired (as the combatants of the Facsimile Debate did) in some petty moral quicksand. Itās not the tech thatās good or bad, itās the politics and cultural practices and economics in which a given tech is situated.
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Cybersocial skandhamara appreciator
5 months ago
If anything, I think the point of the surveillance tech is to remove the need for basic human interaction so that profoundly antisocial people can still benefit from the transactional effects of having real human relationships
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)
5 months ago
Doubling down on "believing in science" doesn't accurately acknowledge what "science" is: (constitutively) a messy social process of cultivating trust and accountability Sorry, we can't moralize or strongarm our way out of that; and to recognize this will place us on stronger footing
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Dorothy Berry
5 months ago
This 1942 pamphlet from the YMCA is quite instructive, and has a fantastic dramatic cover and title that makes me think of an educational film
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022c...
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Ann Powers
5 months ago
This piece is about the value of music listings, but also about much more: the nature of criticism, the myth of the high/low divide, criticism itself. Read and share!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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A Love Letter to Music Listings
Publications like 'Time Out New York' were my bible and my roadmap.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/death-of-local-music-listings/683669/?gift=F2XcJGWxro5VL-sCQ2djtqlnrhkLI9I1OeHAIHOsj6s&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLzPXhleHRuA2FlbQExAAEe_ARkXM1FEdIWiWwWuOG-ry-cRp6sjl9eKNeGz1FERp848c2SbrYmIE9NxiE_aem_dvQ9EgBghlaMQYaZQcj95g
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AndrƩ Brett
5 months ago
It is only mildly hyperbolic to drop a zero and suggest that "There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 30 years." I'm not kidding. What digital media do you have from 1995 that you can access easily right now?
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Sheila Liming
5 months ago
Ed tech has been snake oil from the start, designed to dilute expertise, cheapen relations between teacher and student, and line the pockets of people who have absolutely no interest ināand no useful contributions to offer toāeducation.
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Dominique Baker
6 months ago
"Science is a process, not an output" would look mighty fine crocheted
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mandy brown
6 months ago
āIām good at this job. Rather, I *was* good at this jobāand Iāll become so again in an environment whose values align with those that animate my work: the small, the weird, the local, the public, the principled.ā
https://wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i-prefer-weeds-to-ivy/
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I Prefer Weeds to Ivy
Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.
https://wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i-prefer-weeds-to-ivy/
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Juan Pablo Alperin
6 months ago
I'm so glad this happened. The uncritical aspect of Metascience proponents is precisely why I've not embraced the term
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Nick Knudsen
7 months ago
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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Sonja Drimmer
7 months ago
they demand that we actually increase the non-contemplative features of education. In-class exercises are fine, and I have been doing them long before this moment, but the *ideal* experience of higher education (yes, it's an ideal, and students have jobs, I know) is to have TIME FOR THOUGHT.
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Samuel Moore
7 months ago
Thanks to
@bookmouse2.bsky.social
for finding a poem in my recent report on AI governance!
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Martin Paul Eve
7 months ago
What is a University Press? On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.
eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...
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What is a University Press?
I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...
https://eve.gd/2025/06/08/what-is-a-university-press/
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Martin Paul Eve
7 months ago
I plan to write something about my extreme disappointment of the sale of Amsterdam University Press and the entities it owns to T&F given my OA business model work for some of these presses. Turns my stomach.
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Annalisa Nicholson
7 months ago
Academia in 2025: For weeks Iāve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company Iād never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
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aj-boston.neocities.org
8 months ago
If you are mad about a newspaper's summer reading list including made-up books, maybe you don't actually like fiction and have a mind bereft of Borgesian imagination. You're mad you can't "buy" these books? Good. Some things are not for the market, actually, you capitalist bootlicker.
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acabforcutie
8 months ago
It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades).
ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...
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An Open Letter to the Leadership of the Public Knowledge Project | Notion
Hey. My name is Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick and the Open Scholarly Infrastructure Advisor with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). I owe a si...
https://ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-pkp
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Sara Rouhi
8 months ago
Big thank you to
@hldejonge.bsky.social
@cwts.nl
for the invitation to dialogue with the brilliant Dan Rudmann on
#openscience
and
#authoritarianism
this Friday:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
#academicsky
join us if you can.
#DefendResearch
#StandUpForScience
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Open Science and Authoritarianism: An Interactive Discussion
In this webinar, Sara Rouhi (AIP Publishing) and Dan Rudmann (Utrecht University Library) will discuss the implications of the recent attacks of the Trump administration on academic freedom in the US ...
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/05/open-science-and-authoritarianism-an-interactive-discussion
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Samuel Moore
9 months ago
I mean, it doesn't stand outside these issues. There's a re-organisation of knowledge production currently taking place due to a ton of financial, political and technological pressures, and open research either helps us reimagine a better knowledge production or it doesn't (I think it should!)
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Hans de Jonge
9 months ago
What are the consequences of current attacks on science by the Trump administration on
#openscience
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@rouhiroo.bsky.social
and
@danrdmnn.bsky.social
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Open Culture
9 months ago
Stephen Fry Reads Nick Caveās Stirring Letter About ChatGPT and Human Creativity: āWe Are Fighting for the Very Soul of the Worldā
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Stephen Fry Reads Nick Caveās Stirring Letter About ChatGPT and Human Creativity: āWe Are Fighting for the Very Soul of the Worldā
Observers have expressed a variety of reactions to the organizational drama unfolding even now at OpenAI, the non-profit behind the enormously popular ChatGPT.
https://www.openculture.com/2023/11/stephen-fry-reads-nick-caves-stirring-letter-about-chatgpt-and-human-creativity-we-are-fighting-for-the-very-soul-of-the-world.html
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Dorothy Berry
10 months ago
Now more than ever
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Matthew Kirschenbaum
10 months ago
āThe US of AI,ā public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton.
drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
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Samuel Moore
11 months ago
Which is to say that no amount of "opening up science" will really help if the underlying material conditions remain the same.
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jennie rose halperin
11 months ago
This is the most comprehensive document I have ever read on library censorship. Extensive, well-researched, and deeply important work. It will send chills up your spine.
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