omg!!!! Shawn(ta)!!!!!!!!!!

enjoyed chatting with David Parker for an @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social / @ala-acrl.bsky.social blog about the #Homosaurus 🤗 www.choice360.org/tie-post/cre...

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

I think this is probably the way forward for academic peer reviews; check the citations first and reject immediately any paper with hallucinations #academicchatter

one if the great things about being on the Homosaurus has been being invited to present alongside the @zooniverse.bsky.social folks three times. It's great every time. What a brilliant project

I can never resist: a little preview of the new lab we’re building @skeuomorphpress.org with @drtlwagner.bsky.social The “Undead Media Lab” has a pretty catchy ring to it

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

We had a mass longevity movement in the 20th century. It was called public health. It included vaccines, antibiotics, nutritional programmes, maternal support, cancer research.

Anyone here have a favourite reading on the topic of digitisation as [(not)] preservation? If not, please share if you think some of your followers might....

the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗

Just remember, whatever stats ALA drops, the reality is even worse. A not insignificant number of schools don't report to ALA, and ALA doesn't have the staff in OIF to go out and track down this information. This looks bad, but it's likely worse. www.ala.org/news/2026/04...

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Sophie is now the Assistant Director of @skeuomorphpress.org as she works on her MSLIS at the iSchool—she’s a brilliant book historian & skilled printer to boot!

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

the penne opticon

What is the most downloaded item in your institutional repository and do you have any idea why it's so popular. Ours is a community college student's poster about model truss bridges. No clue what the deal is with that.

um what is happening at ACM?? authorizing some company to do (godawful inaccurate) AI summaries of panels of its members that cannot be opted out of??

Critical and Reparative Cataloguing literally changing the world!! 🗂️📜📚🗃️

Oooooh! @dorothyjberry.bsky.social + Black Metropolis Research Consortium Director Sumayya Ahmed in conversation at the Smart Museum!!!

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🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

Hall of fame FT correction

I read everything I cite, but I'm increasingly worried abt citing something paraphrased/quoted by someone else that turns out to be AI, and the only I can think to do is to more aggressively do "qtd. in" or "paraphrased by" when I don't know the author. idk, what do other people do? #AcademicChatter

I read everything I cite, but I'm increasingly worried abt citing something paraphrased/quoted by someone else that turns out to be AI, and the only I can think to do is to more aggressively do "qtd. in" or "paraphrased by" when I don't know the author. idk, what do other people do? #AcademicChatter

spent all day yesterday at the #FightingFascistFeelings antifascist workshop led by @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social & @maxhaiven.bsky.social and it was fantastic; lots of thoughtful engagement with frameworks and theory, lots of big picture stuff and establishing frameworks.

Player pianos The music studies literature has over 100 years of relevant literature on automation there may be many lessons for the broader humanities there

Sailors timed how quickly knots slipped through their fingers on a rope tied to a log and jotted that speed into their "log book." Soon people "logged" all sorts of important events into their little books. Including early computer users, who would "log in" to their terminals to mark their use.

I’m really grateful to Greg. Page 85 is where I reveal the origin story of this book. It’s a Bluesky book.

Group photo of performers at Finocchio’s in San Francisco, a nightclub renowned for its professional cast of female impersonators (c. 1960). For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our bio. Image courtesy of GLBT HS. #TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA

A lot of brilliant, warm, and politically admirable people use Substack, a platform that platforms Nazis. I am conflicted about reading and sharing posts from there. I know that we all compromise our values at times, so I'm not calling anyone out. What do y'all do with Substacks you appreciate?

this is phenomenal, astonishing, and critical work

This free webinar is next Tuesday April 14th. There'll be ASL interpreters available. It'll be recorded, so if you can't join us, feel free to sign up and you'll get a link to the recording. 1500 people registered so far lol. 📚 #critcat news.library.fresnostate.edu/2026/02/23/f...

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what a f*uckin stellar lineup:

I know a lot of researchers who should know AAT exists. “A disabled-led, unapologetically intersectional transcription and closed captioning social enterprise offering transcription support for researchers, by researchers.”

The NYPL is hiring two metadata specialists! Not only do you have the opportunity to work for one of the world’s great libraries, you also get to collaborate with the ✨ @infopetal.bsky.social!

love this skeet and the reply bc its just such a testament to how incredibly hard it was to assemble these things and create these massive digital databases. absolutely astonishing feat of humanity, absolutely astonishing belief in the power of technology

Dear whoever in Chicago PL implemented this: please to be pitching a code4lib talk next year walking everyone through how you did it blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c... 📚

@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social has been straight up cooking lately

had a big wave of new followers! Is there a lot of growth happening or has something happened in the Other Place ?

you will never guess what this is a response to

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Very happy to say that Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, written by @suereviews.bsky.social and myself, is out now! It was a lot of fun trying to condense neurodiversity theory, research, practice, and politics into a single, brief book. Available in all the usual places!

I'm someone who was there at the midnight releases of the Harry Potter books and movies. Watching this show puts money in the pockets of J.K. Rowling. And if you do that, you're helping fund a deadly worldwide campaign of hate against trans people. Consult your conscience.

my partner and I have been saving for a (badly needed) car since we moved here; but the gas fluctuations and the increasing consequences of Iran means that we've had to give up on that for now 😞 I'm guessing it will be several years before EVs get down to affordability in Canada

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact