This is a fascinating and troubling saga of AI running amuck. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

"THE LIBRARIANS” packs a riveting punch on the alarming surge of book banning." - The Utah Review Starting TOMORROW, Feb 9th at 12pm ET, stream THE LIBRARIANS for FREE on the PBS YouTube channel and app!

Extremely excited to kick-off a new webinar series on “AI” with guests Chris Gilliard & Christa Albrecht-Crane. This session won’t be recorded so sign up now & join us for a deep dive into what we’re really talking about. Happening Thursday!!! #edusky #academicsky #skybrarians 📚

🎁 Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Artificial systems have "catapulted... into our inboxes, file storage, discovery systems, and nearly every element of our daily lives without our consent." How to resist? Library Futures and friends have tips! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...

Exciting job Doing impactful work With a fantastic team What more could you want?

Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation

Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow 📚📜 librarytechnology.org/pr/31511

“When I heard [comments about inappropriate books for children], I was concerned that there might not have been as much of an awareness of what the Library of Congress does." The library's primary function is to fulfil research requests from members of Congress…

Garden soup #BeetFarming 🌱

It’s clematis season! 💜🌱

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Pink! 🌱

Allium 🌱

Join us online next week! Bring ice cream! 🍦

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We were all out appreciating the spiderwort today. 🌱

Put this tickseed in the ground yesterday and woke up today to a beheading. 🤬🌱

Good morning, y'all! I am thrilled to share the 4th @civicsoftech.bsky.social online conference and our keynote speakers @audreywatters.bsky.social and @hypervisible.bsky.social. This year's theme is especially urgent: communal resistance to artificial systems. Read more about the free event at:

Canada Anemone 🌱

Happy to report that my strategy for growing lettuce—cutting the tops off of last year’s crop, telling myself I would eventually locate seeds but never doing it, & then burying clumps of dried lettuce parts—has worked just fine. #ChaosGarden 🌱

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

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These two planted themselves, and I couldn’t be more delighted. 🌱

Daisy patch 🌱

Carolina allspice. 🌱

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Peony 🌱

Eastern bluestar, loved by millions. Of pollinators. 🌱 🐝

Last of the lilacs 🌱

Purple is the color of the hour. 🌱

Columbine 🌱

Whatever Dr. Hayden is doing today, I hope she knows librarians everywhere are outraged over the injustice of her termination and grieving the loss of a remarkable leader.

I agree with Hakeem Jeffries: “Donald Trump’s unjust decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his ongoing effort to ban books, whitewash American history and turn back the clock” apnews.com/article/dona...

well, i finally had to have the talk with my son. 📚

Purple is coming. 💜🌱

Dogwood. 🌱

Happy Sunday! 🤍🌱

Bee is a reminder to enjoy the sweetness of success. 🌱🐝

One of my favorites has opened. 💜🌱

Get ready for Iris Season! 💛🌱

Peony party 🌱

Lilac party 🌱

Hello lilacs! 🌱

WHOA-- in the last hours of this years legislative session, Indiana Governor & state legislature stripped the IU Faculty Senate of governing power 🧪 www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

Final days of daffodil. 🌱

Reposting from Peter Suber on mastodon: The people who want to "return education to the states" also want to ban locally-approved #DEI programs in public schools. They want to exert federal power to abolish those programs, and they're losing in court. apnews.com/article/trum...