Judge orders the following UC research grants restored: Any Environmental Protective Agency, National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities grant that the Trump admin cancelled for DEI reasons or by using a generic letter that didn't specify the reason for the termination.

Jon Stewart would focus on information ecosystems if he had a magic wand, one that would allow people good data to make decisions on youtu.be/44uC12g9ZVk?...

Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case in a televised address Tuesday evening that President Trump’s decisions to send military forces to immigration protests in Los Angeles have put the U.S. at the precipice of authoritarianism. https://trib.al/EpbF098

Attending an excellent session on controlled vocabularies. AI translation is being discussed as well as the inability to translate culture and the invisible labor of female translators #salalm70

Loving these views #salalm70

Jeremy Mikecz on data humanism #salalm70

Excited to be at SALALM’s 70th conference in NYC! #salalm70 #salalm2025 #salalmlxx

@eamontewell.bsky.social dang! Two decades already?! 🤯

IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression is tracking closely developments in the United States that affect information freedom, which pose a systemic risk to the global information environment. www.ifla.org/news/ifla-fa...

#LOEX2025 Learning from Rob Detmering and Tessa Withorn from the University of Louisville talking about sustainable innovation in library instruction programs. Looking forward to their Communications in Information Literacy paper! uofllibraries.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/u...

Stephanie Ward from UNC at #LOEX2025 discusses integrating AI literacy into library instruction. 86% of students are using AI in their work!

First impressions #loex2025

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: [email protected]. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

Catching up on readings from October: "Think about it from a personal perspective – the best writers often make use of complex language and explain things in unpredictable, creative ways. Artificial writing doesn't." goldpenguin.org/blog/how-ai-...

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

Here they are... the Top 10 Callers on 5 Calls! How's your state doing?? 🏆 #CivicActionSuperbowl *Based only on the calls made through our app/site in the last 30 days

Our recent post on Preserving Our Public Data Heritage is up. If you'd like to stay in touch, please subscribe to our newsletter. www.datarescueproject.org/preserving-o...

*Elizabeth Warren voice* We have a call for that! CFPB’s continued existence is ultimately Congress’s responsibility. Demand that your representatives step up now to forcefully defend CFPB and its vital work protecting people from financial predators. 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/consum...

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

I’ve been staying late at work this week to get this guide into shape. Thank you to several of my local colleagues for sharing news & resources, and special thanks to the systemwide group of UC Data librarians! libguides.ucmerced.edu/US-Federal-D...

As the Trump administration and Elon Musk work to dismantle USAID, the government’s lead agency for delivering humanitarian aid for generations, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work, promoting unfounded claims and conspiratorial thinking. nyti.ms/4htWHN0

Are you worried about changes on federal websites? My son @bighead.bsky.social did a hackathon at Brown University last weekend and cranked out this tool for comparing .gov websites, before and after inauguration day. It show code changes side-by-side, using @archive.org versions. govdiff.com

“CDC Data Removal Threatens Native Health, Violates Treaties, UIHI Says” nativenewsonline.net/health/cdc-d...

this is simply incredible news

Geez Louise

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every elected Democrat who felt good putting out a statement today calling it a “peaceful transfer of power” should be fucking embarrassed

Clara had a great time at the People’s march today. Smash the patriarchy not the planet!

Spending koal-ity time with my lil’ Winnie #HolidayPJs #koalapajamas

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Yay! Hello new people on Bluesky! 👋🏻

Is exploding a subject term the first step to quantum library researching? 🤔🤓

Does anyone have pointers to AI services that are responsive to concerns about environmental impact?

I have a question. If someone adds you to a List, do you get notified like you used to on Twitter?

"Even before the current AI boom, data centers’ water and energy demands had steadily increased. In 2022, according to Google, its data centers used over five billion gallons of water, 20 percent more than in 2021; Microsoft used 34 percent more water companywide in 2022 than in 2021."

I spent a little time this morning using the Mendeley Reading Assistant GenAI so you don't have to. My takeaways: - It is only in alpha release and may be switched off (according to this link service.elsevier.com/app/answers/...) - It says "Answers are AI-generated and may vary in quality"

Wow! Well I guess everyone is finally here! Hello again!

@squirrelbrarian.bsky.social I just want you to know that I was squirrelbrarian for a while ~2014 on Twitter before I became soccerbrarian 😂 squirrel power!

I don't get on here very much anymore, but every once in a while I want to put something out to #libraryTwitterinExile Why does the LISTA database thesaurus super suck?

I'm looking forward to the discussion today in "Artificial Intelligence & Ethics," a webinar hosted by The Ohio State University Libraries. Hoping we touch on some of these issues: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,112,495!

This is way more fun than DiSC www.myrelationshipcenter.org/resources/pe...

Libraries are sitting on a crap-ton of chat transcripts (hopefully there's a data mgmt plan to erase) that could be used to train chatbots... 🤔 What do we do with this power?

Late to understanding viscerally what it means to doom scroll, until I looked at the titles of the Jan/Feb Atlantic monthly headlines in an EBSCO database 😳 The ALL CAPS doesn't help! My stomach is in knots just from scrolling down the page!

Did y’all know about this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ojo

So I had a thought about reviving battle decks at ACRL using ChatGPT generated decks but then I thought about the impact on the environment and gave it up