I saw Mychal the Librarian on a live panel with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social’s Biscuits and Banjos a few months ago! How awesome!

Last night I watched the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray with Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford and this fabulous painting by Ivan Albright, which resides today in the Art Institute of Chicago. Fabulous movie visually: it won an Oscar for cinematography. www.artic.edu/artworks/937...

I miss Pocket. I keep reading things and wanting to save them. Should probably just set up some new browser bookmarks folder, sigh.

Just like 🧠🪱 at HHS, Musk makes a claim, orders his flunkies to find evidence for it, and refuses any contradictions. “Bobba said he knew these people weren’t actually receiving benefits and tried to tell Musk so, to no avail, according to SSA officials.” www.propublica.org/article/insi...

I threw out a bottle of organic ketchup from my fridge door that expired in 2022, so yeah, I’m living my best life

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Hear me out, guys: what about a class action suit against the current U.S. president with 342 million or so people in the class. Let’s get our taxes back

Woohoo, an article of mine is cited in a recent article in JSTOR Daily! daily.jstor.org/10-villanell... cc @jstordaily.bsky.social

This is cool -- I think that #metadata creation is one of the best uses of #LLMs

Cleaning out my office for a cross campus move and encountering papers that make me realize just how many of the opportunities I was afforded on my way up in my career are gone: the NEH Fellowship at the AAS, gone; the Advanced Research Collaborative at CUNY, gone.

Another call for proposals: @beltpublishing.bsky.social nascent "Alternative History" series is expanding. We've done CLE and PIT. Both start with prehistory & are short; otherwise the "Alternative" is flexible.

Got my first print copy of @theonion.com and one of my favorite bits is lower-case @jstor.bsky.social as a fake band name

Most people I know actively try not to get sued

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Elon Musk getting bankrupted, losing his government contracts, and/or otherwise taken down would be very satisfying, but it still wouldn’t repair all the generational damage that this administration has done to our country in the name of “government efficiency.”

“Officials did not provide further details about the individual involved or the type of bugs released.”

Now in the #SSP2025 session on Delivering Value at a Mission-Driven Organization. First case study from @anapatycardoso.bsky.social on @orcid.org mentions efforts to increase ORCID and ROR adoption in Latin America, as in this event in Buenos Aires in 2023. ror.org/blog/2023-05...

Interesting session on author identity verification at #SSP2025. Using @orcid.org trust markers is a key step. Reminds me also of ResearchGate's identity verification process, which uses ROR to verify affiliations. help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us/art...

Recommendations from Tim Lloyd founder and CEO of @liblynxllc.bsky.social to address Research Integrity with Identity Verification, use and contribute @orcid.org Trust Markers at #SSP2025

Now hearing from Chris Shillum of @orcid.org about the great professional email domains trust marker feature, enabled by @researchorgs.bsky.social data, yay. To learn more see the April webinar on ORCID + ROR info.orcid.org/event/better... #SSP2025

Still thinking about the problem of recruiting peer reviewers. Heard one suggestion that publishers should use AI to translate submissions into other languages so that publishers can recruit peer reviewers from other countries. #SSP2025 1/2

Hooray, the DOI wins the first annual Bruce Rosenblum Award!! #ssp2025

Hooray Faizan!! #spellingbee

How can anyone be expected to spell this? #SpellingBee

Chaldee is actually pretty common. Not like Keighley. Or whatever that Uaupes geographical word was, sheesh #SpellingBee

Dr. Bailly: "This word has a homonym." Faizan: "Bro." I laughed so hard. #SpellingBee

I’m loving the quips #spellingbee

“Bro” lol #spellingbee

“This is surprising” love ya Sarv #spellingbee

Oh I know muhly grass from gardening! #spellingbee

Late round drama! The most recent two eliminated spellers get another chance! #spellingbee

OMG finals twist!! #spellingbee

Man geographical words are the worst. Keighley? Yikes. #SpellingBee

One hour and forty minutes in, and only three spellers of nine are out. #spellingbee

Wow she knew this was about carpet and I thought it was soap #spellingbee

Oh wow I got SAUREL and so did he even though it’s not related to the saur in dinosaur #spellingbee

OMG Keke Palmer played Akeelah in Akeelah and the Bee??? Did not know! Haven’t watched that since it came out #spellingbee

We are breathing rarefied air now with these words and these spellers #spellingbee

Tachist was tough. My notes app knew Baguio! #spellingbee

Wow I totally thought dyslogistic would mean fanciful #spellingbee

I have to admit that I spelled bibliognost wrong: I thought it was bibliagnost from Dr. Bailey’s pronunciation and from thinking of “agnostic.” Otherwise I got them: these weren’t terribly hard words. #spellingbee

Aishwarya is from NC! Go girl! I bet she’ll get this word. #spellingbee

I’m four for four on these first #spellingbee finals words even though I’ve never heard them before. Don’t expect that to last.

It’s the National Spelling Bee finals!! #spellingbee

Now in the session on the NISO Open Access Business Processes session at #SSP2025 -- working group (that I'm a part of) striving to establish shared recommended practices for libraries and publishers to manage Open Access deals.

This is the kind of Big Deal I can get behind btaa.org/about/news-a...

Metadata maven David Haber of ASM describes making the MS submission process simpler for the author using ChronosHub: they reduced the number of questions they asked the author from 38 to 6. They also started extracting metadata from MSS rather than asking the author to enter it. #SSP2025

As someone relatively new to scholarly publishing (I've published in scholarly journals, but have never edited a journal nor worked in production) it always amazes me how complicated and variable publishing workflows are. Much more so than repository workflows. #SSP2025

Now hearing about JSTOR's AI-driven interactive research tool: about.jstor.org/research-tool/ #SSP2025

I'm in the @silverchairnews.bsky.social industry breakout at #SSP2025 -- about to hear plans for ScholarOne! Very exciting. Love their post about the "Ship of Theseus" model they're adoptiing for modernization. www.silverchair.com/news/strateg...