We were having the same conversation 10 years ago. Lady Gaga spoke at #SXSW and said we couldn't have shows in Austin anymore unless Doritos was sponsoring them. www.kut.org/life-arts/20...

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

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 theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

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.

A heart-filled optimistic piece about the commodification of knowledge, our birthright, and the unending effort toward truth and freedom by Anton Bruder: bruderrudmann.org/2026/04/26/l...

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...

Still and always unrivaled. www.npr.org/sections/the...

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. www.zotero.org/groups/64299...

The #OxFOS recordings are now available, so you can go and watch @danrdmnn.bsky.social and @kirahopkins.bsky.social talk around open access :) ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

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.)

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.

Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26

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!)

“The 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.” James Baldwin

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.

New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices. @morphss.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social

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. 🎧 Tune in ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...

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.

All the “leaders” 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. It’s not just an abdication of morality — it’s a baaaad look.

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

Regular reminder that research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

"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.

"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...

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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpD...

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.

A disrespect for me as an educator means that a basic piece of sociality and trust has been broken and so I don’t owe anyone generous feedback. But I don’t need to be punitive either. That’s what those who are selling these products want. They want to exhaust us into resignation.

"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 – or market needs?" The latest from Bruder & Rudmann bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/i...

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?

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 🗃️🧵

OA

A treasure trove of rare and historic American music—including songs by Memphis Minnie, the Carter Family, Blind Willie Johnson, and more—is 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

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

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".

oh for real, wow

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” 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.

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 ! www.opensciencefair.eu/panels/how-t...

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

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.

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.

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

lmao which one of you did this

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.

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).

So, if you think it’s just about whether repros are “good” or “bad,” you get mired (as the combatants of the Facsimile Debate did) in some petty moral quicksand. It’s not the tech that’s good or bad, it’s the politics and cultural practices and economics in which a given tech is situated.