Dan Rudmann
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Librarian at Utrecht University profile photo by
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We were having the same conversation 10 years ago. Lady Gaga spoke at
#SXSW
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Austin music leaders rethink the idea of 'selling out' as business support becomes a necessity
Once considered evil, panelists agreed corporate support might be one of the best ways to protect the artists and venues that make Austin unique.
https://www.kut.org/life-arts/2026-05-05/austin-tx-music-scene-panel-kut-festival-2026
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Megan Goodwin
25 days ago
this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit
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Anna Kornbluh
28 days ago
universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS
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Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-win-could-be-the-first-step
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Simon
about 2 months ago
My previous research centre was among the highest performing in terms of REF at the university. It didn't stop senior management from gutting it. You can play their game perfectly, obey all their rules, and buy into their metrics... and still lose.
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A heart-filled optimistic piece about the commodification of knowledge, our birthright, and the unending effort toward truth and freedom by Anton Bruder:
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Bruder & Rudmann - Liquid Intelligence
https://bruderrudmann.org/2026/04/26/liquid-intelligence.html
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The Institute for Human Sciences now has a education program called Library School, a journal entitled Utopian Scholastic, and a progressing imprint under the name Language Arts. There's more in the works...
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Ann Powers
about 1 month ago
Still and always unrivaled.
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Listen To My Body Tonight: How Prince's Transgressive Spirit Broke Boundaries
In the nearly four decades of music Prince made, propriety and prejudice were regularly vanquished by good humor and elegant lust.
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/22/475210984/listen-to-my-body-tonight-how-princes-transgressive-spirit-broke-boundaries
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Institute for Human Sciences
about 2 months ago
We are pleased to present volume 8 of Utopian Scholastic, the journal of the Institute for Human Sciences, here on the issue of Echoes. Listening to the past, feeling time, doesn't mean going back in time: it means experiencing a moment of past time in the present.
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Kevin Sanders
about 2 months ago
The
#OxFOS
recordings are now available, so you can go and watch
@danrdmnn.bsky.social
and
@kirahopkins.bsky.social
talk around open access :)
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2026-03-04-Conference day-Helping researchers navigate open-OxFOS26-Recording
https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1a7ff333-ca25-485b-98f3-b405011a9518&start=0
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Lori Emerson
2 months ago
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! š
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Kevin Sanders
3 months ago
I was reading more on polycrisis in relation to universities:
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
(Tagging
@danrdmnn.bsky.social
as I recall he mentioned also mentioned polycrisis at
#OxFOS26
.) The global minority could learn from indigenous people's techniques for resisting polycrisis. (We won't, but could.)
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Universities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional Research
As humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10037-025-00245-z
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Here's me giving a talk at Oxford University yesterday at the Forum for Open Scholarship called A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage. It's about ways to open a university for more people and more forms of knowledge.
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Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from
@kirahopkins.bsky.social
and
@kjsanders.bsky.social
at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship
#OXFOS26
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
I'm really looking forward to
@deevybee.bsky.social
's keynote on the future challenges for open research on Wednesday! (Which follows on from a session featuring Rowan Wilson,
@danrdmnn.bsky.social
,
@kirahopkins.bsky.social
, and I looking at community-led approaches to the extant challenges!)
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Sarah Jane Cervenak
3 months ago
āThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.ā James Baldwin
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
It's Ramadan and I am thinking deeply of spirit. And I think a lot about what some call "doomerism" as actually a lot of unprocessed grief mixed with a longing for meaning and purpose in life.
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Samuel Moore
4 months ago
New report urges broader definition of āopen research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices.
@morphss.bsky.social
@theul.bsky.social
@camdighum.bsky.social
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New report urges broader definition of āopen research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices
As Open Research gains traction across the research landscape, a new report challenges funders and institutions to expand their understanding of openness to better reflect arts, humanities and social ...
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morphss-open-research-report
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Internet Archive
4 months ago
What happens when we build a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape? On this episode of the Future Knowledge
#podcast
,
@SamuelMoore.org
&
@HJoseph.bsky.social
discuss PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & reimagining open access. š§ Tune in ā”ļø
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
4 months ago
I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
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Roopika Risam
4 months ago
All the āleadersā who think that what they are doing now is safeguarding the long-term health of their institutions really should be asking themselves what someone is going to write about them in a century. Itās not just an abdication of morality ā itās a baaaad look.
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konnaire
5 months ago
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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Samuel Moore
5 months ago
Regular reminder that research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue.
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David Slack
5 months 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.
futurism.com/health-medic...
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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 months 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
6 months ago
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Ann Powers
6 months 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
6 months 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
6 months 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
6 months ago
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Kevin Sanders
6 months 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
6 months 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
7 months ago
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UC Santa Barbara
7 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
7 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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hyperbolbri
9 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
9 months ago
oh for real, wow
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Cas Mudde
9 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
9 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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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
9 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
9 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
10 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
9 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
10 months ago
lmao which one of you did this
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Victor Luftig
10 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
10 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
10 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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