THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T GET YOUR VACCINES, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARON

👀 (Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia/Jan 4, 2026) #comics https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass

To all the other "computer people" going to see family during the holidays: When they complain about their iPhone being messed up, the option you're looking for this year is "reduce transparency" under accessibility settings. You're welcome in advance.

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

To make matters worse, not one other person stood up for her. Not one. #jenniferjacobs #quietpiggy #epsteinfiles #trumplies #trumpisstillapedo

They laughed at me for still buying DVDs but now it's Saturday morning and I'm watching Bugs Bunny cartoons for as long as I want with no commercials WHO'S LAUGHING NOW

With respect to the gales of November

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate

If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar. It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that. This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]

Please help catalog federal datasets that have been taken down or censored since Trump took office for his second term. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzVsyd1ypzu0E0tomqaAqhNrJLIB-dEALA6BpWrpfxh_Jfwg/viewform Thanks to #essentialdata.US, the Federation of American Scientists (#fas) […]

has derek guy weighed in on this dapper heist mastermind yet

Shaming businesses who do business with the Trump regime is righteous work. https://www.thebanner.com/economy/growth-development/aceco-donald-trump-white-house-east-wing-demolition-ballroom-JYH3KX4SYVAG5KWWZZ2NSSPUPE/

👀👀👀👀👀👀👂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpn5Rff4gUk&list=RDXjNlP3LrFiY&index=2

Hard to figure out sometimes whether submissions were made using AI, but then sometimes they make it fairly easy.

Mmmm... listeria AP: USDA warns that Hello Fresh meals may contain listeria-tainted spinach https://abc7.com/post/usda-warns-hello-fresh-meals-may-contain-listeria-tainted-spinach/17956717/ #recall #listeria

Comic from Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune #politics

Wanna Get Away? Come escape with us to #FridayNightZillow, back for tonight, hopefully to bring a smile to your face and a break from doomscrolling.

Calling all east coast #DataRescuers! Our sources have informed us that #NationalParks sites in and around DC, Philadelphia, and possibly Boston are especially at risk. Parke diem this weekend, seize the data, and go out there and #SaveOurSigns

Great piece on why effective metadata is crucial for data portals! At DRP, we 💖 metadata. But we beg portal and dashboard creators to consider and simplify data extraction. We've faced challenges ... So. Many. Challenges. #DataRescue www.govtech.com/biz/data/d-c...

[long US politics rant tldr tldr tldr] Man, I got in this huge, flashy debate with people on the left and the right on Bluesky last night... Look, here's the deal. I wish they had voted. Nothing in life is simple. We want there to be easy, straightforward, singular reasons for the awful mess […]

Need to convince your grandma, neighbor, or uncle about the significance of losing public data? We've been compiling media coverage since the start. Check out the history of the past seven months on our #press page: www.datarescueproject.org/press/ It's only been SEVEN months?? #DataRescue

One of our members is conducting a study about instructors using government data. You can read more about her work on today's post: www.datarescueproject.org/teaching-wit...

We can all scream together. 🙀 And then start gathering what we can. Get your @waybackmachine.bsky.social finger moving.

Is this an ebsco subpost #libraries https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/114948741551941675

do any of you have organizations in your city that help people install Linux on old unused computers to give the hardware a new life? would love a link to their website! also curious about what people end up using the machines for in practice, especially if they’re used by non-programmers

Cursed https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/114930190056102343

We're losing #openaccess to #weather #data on the #noaa web site. But #hamradio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #opensource decoder. Here's how. https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder PS: Very […]

Update. Note that three days after this open letter appeared, the #epa suspended 144 employees for signing it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/climate/epa-letter-administrative-leave.html #censorship #defendresearch #Trump #trumpvresearch #uspol #uspolitics

[Climate devastation being softened for the public] The Times: ideo of seagrass devastation cut from David Attenborough documentary Film-makers decided a clip of bottom-trawling fishing boats ripping up seagrass from Sir David Attenborough’s film Ocean was ‘too […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

[ICE, Detention Camp Inhumanity] People seem to lose sight of the fact the people being sent to these camps are people who were picking crops to feed your family; they were your child's nanny; they were sewing clothing; gardening in people's yards; trimming trees; fixing your roof; washing your […]

Me to me: don’t be weird, don’t say anything weird. Me after 2 drinks:

3/ The #nih policy is all-green (#greenOA). It requires deposit in an OA repository, PubMed Central (#pmc). It does not require publishing in an OA journal. If you're an NIH-funded author and a journal tells you that you must pay an #APC to comply with the policy, it's lying. Compliance is free […]

1/ The new #nih #openaccess policy takes effect today. https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/public-access Here are a few notable points about the policy. The NIH has had a mandatory OA policy since 2008. The new policy is a strengthened version that eliminates the […]

12/ I'm still tracking news on #Trump admin actions that affect #research, #universities, and #openaccess. But on May 7, 2025, I stopped tracking this news in long Mastodon threads and switched to tags instead. https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114466875825998888 To follow this news on […]

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

Thinking about how Voyager is just seven years of side quests.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

Post-semester mood https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/114506513801174141

Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don’t use App Store payments. Blatant scare tactics to put consumers off using cheaper external payments systems, where Apple doesn't earn its 30% cut www.theverge.com/news/667484/...

Wired headline says Trump regime is building "master database" to spy on immigrants. That's bad enough (and totally illegal). But the real story is that the regime and its Big Tech partners in this crime are building the database to track ALL OF US […]

New study: Graduate students in #stem "often conflate issues around #copyright and #plagiarism and have little understanding of their own ownership over the materials they create." https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/955951 #scholcomm

Spread the word: if your NEH grant has been canceled (or you know someone who this applies to), please fill out or pass along this form from ACH.

Another @404media.co article on #DataRescue. This one concerns the challenges around restricted access data (often human subjects data). We at DRP are seriously concerned about these datasets and the loss that will impact research and more for a long time. www.404media.co/nih-archives...

The "United States Disappeared Tracker' is brilliant, though we should be sickened that it is needed. Huge kudos to Prof. Danielle Harlow. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map Here's her explainer […]

If you care about the #DataRescue efforts, we hope you care about the many librarians who are part of this effort. Speak out about the dismantling of our key federal agency. www.everylibrary.org/statement_im...