Peter Coviello with another dynamite piece. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Congrats to the fine folks at the Data Rescue Project on this well-deserved award--and huge thanks to their 900 volunteers who saved over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies in 2025. rdapassociation.org/news/13593532

Fobazi's passing is heartbreaking. Her love for Elena was truly inspiring, and now Elena faces immense financial burdens. Please consider donating or sharing to help ease her stress during this difficult time. Thank you for your support. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

so anyways I think if I were -lupe fiasco voice- daydreaming~ about building out a suite of data services I'd probably go hard on data visualization first because it seems like the most recognizable carrot of the bunch

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

What is the POINT of this? Literally what value do you get of an AI response to a research question? Are we really at the point where survey tools just sell the ability to commit scientific fraud?

so we're doing these cliftonstrengths assessments at MPOW and like. it's fun! we love a personality quiz! but i'm v curious if there's a version of these that involves external validation; like if you could have a coworker do it for you and see if they match

this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.

Y'all ever think about how there are people in this world who hear about millions going hungry and their response is 'we should be careful about helping, what if it discourages work?' 🙃 I've got to stop reading op-eds, I simply do not vibe with those who've surgically removed their humanity

Today we are enlightening ourselves as to the history of the thesis (and/or dissertation). Specifically, when did it become standard practice to require a thesis in order to be awarded a graduate degree?

As someone who has been reading both Coates and Klein for 15 years, I thought this summary and diagnosis of their disagreement by @andreapitzer.bsky.social was very good and correct. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

🎁 A gift for you for #PeerReviewWeek! 🎁 I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts! reeserichardson.blog/2025/09/15/t...

The Digital Commons dashboard came out of a DC user group you say? The discipline wheel too? Streaming capability? Loving the lore drops at today's Digital Conference workshop sessions. 👂

When I was job hunting in library school I remember saying to my friends God, can we just MAKE a library to employ us all? This is ridiculous! 10 years later I'm still wondering how to build jobs for all these incredibly smart principled people who could contribute so much if given fair opportunity!

Student debt is strangling new librarians. The proposed changes will make it worse. The cost of living is out of control and mid-level jobs aren't paying enough for rent, much less entry level. Professional development is expected or required, but must be paid by the worker.

So I finished reading this and honestly, it's top tier work. I have like two dozen highlighted pieces and multiple notes that are basically like !!!!

So this is the report that theoretically explains the logic behind this. From Human Content to Machine Data: Introducing CC Signals: creativecommons.org/wp-content/u...

I had no idea they'd fit so many example images into my article about thinking wider about what we consider for our #GraphicMedicine collections! booklist.booklistonline.com/html5/reader...

I have a few thoughts about this! I have a monthly column, I am regularly invited to give public science talks, and I've written a pop sci book that continues to sell remarkably well, four years in -- and is also taught in classrooms around the US. AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

me, a month into leading our discovery department: y'all heard of OCLC Research? They are writing banger after banger! I can't believe no one told me about the metadata managers focus group!!! www.oclc.org/research/pub...

Can you believe Jessica has been this on point for NINE years? Libraries should be constantly scheming to poach her tee bee aitch!

Thinking 'bout how do you foster a culture of curiosity?

I try very hard to tell myself being bad at things is good for me actually! Keeps me humble. It hasn't worked well as motivation for me to keep at the thing so far. 😅

It is so weird navigating an age where like. Your job wants you to use AI! It's a dollar attractor! And you're also pretty sure this is fundamentally bad technology with limited use cases to justify the broader negative impact but it's already here so now what?

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

The full text of my #EORC25 paper from this afternoon is now available at https://opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/ . Discussing making small changes to introduce open source software into your research process.

Adobe Acrobat Pro, did I ASK? The way this shows up on every document is really starting to annoy me! I didn't buy this book to not read it!

There are more videos in the thread and they all add up to truly delightful morning entertainment!

Our slides are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1559... Excited to talk about our work in the context of the wider intiatives!

The academics who get it, get it!!

The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is now officially a propaganda department. bookriot.com/imls-propaga...

Since posting our threads about the tariff on books yesterday, both @kingsbookstore.bsky.social and I have received a lot of comments along the lines of "We all have to make sacrifices; your industry isn't different in this regard." But here's the thing: the book industry IS different. Thread: /1

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Thinking about how Larivière said back in 2007 theses citations have been seeing a steady decline for like a century and wondering if that's held true these past two decades. How hard would it be to replicate his search methods?

What Jessica said! Ain't no party like a graphic medicine book club party! 💃📖 #GraphicMedicine

a brief list of topics i have rabbit holed into during this long weekend: 1. reviews of several sff novels (my tbr keeps growing and i WILL finish egypt + 100 by thursday!!) 2. undergraduate peer research consultant programs (kinda seems like they're on the way out?)

Okay, I'm in a nice and cranky mood today, so let's go with the blunt truths #BadActorBingo thread I've been meaning to write for a while so I have something to point people to when they whine at me: why "but they're a good person" doesn't, and *can't*, mean shit in T&S.

People makinge Englisshe breakfastes & DJs: OKAYE HEERE YS ANOTHIR BANGER

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

Attending an interesting library conference always makes me wish I could clone myself. I have like five new things I want to try already from attending #NIRD24