Cabo Verde wins in my heart

Charismatic microfauna report from a steamy oven of a morning include chirping sparrows, a grey catbird hopping along a branch, and a turkey vulture with her breakfast.

Way to eat all joy, VAR

Not confirmed but this would be pretty catastrophic for musicians, small labels, and music fans.

Fireflies!

Today’s world cup games really feel like The Empire Strikes Back.

You have so many better options, England! Why??

Not me sending over a thousand popup book enthusiasts a password protected newsletter issue after pronouncing this special one to be UNLOCKED! PS now I've realized my error 10 hours later, it's here and REALLY IS free to read! movablebooksociety.org/newsletter/m...

It is SUCH a dis/spiriting feeling to see the Colored Conventions in yet another Supreme Court opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. See more: www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/

Just because this broken clock is correct twice a day doesn’t mean it’s not broken. #SupremeCourt #SCotUS

Wrong take. Pack. the. Court.

Karen Clark died and I can’t even imagine a south Minneapolis where she isn’t there. She modeled what I still think an elected official should be like. Ever present in community. Door always open, never took herself too seriously, always used her role to fight for more people to get in the door.

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

I appreciate @xrglobal.bsky.social’s beautiful suggestion to Find your river 💦 Find your waterway, learn its path from headwaters to end, visit as much of it as possible. Learn (with) it, clean up trash, meet people. Scroll down for more here: rebellion.global/blog/2026/06...

"As our fossil-fuel-warmed world careens into what’s likely to be months of record global-scale heat goosed by El Niño, early season heat waves are already proving tragic this summer." yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/east...

Charismatic microfauna report from a very humid morning include american robins, my buddies the grey catbirds, and a multitude of singing songbirds unseen in the green. Not to be discounted was spotting my former colleague, Kevin Repp, on a bicycle.

“I will read the seeds a story,” said Toad. “Then they will not be afraid.” Toad read a long story to his seeds.

Why can’t Paraguay and Germany move on? They both played well. The structure of how they decide who wins when football teams are tied is weird.

Heck yeah. Ben Goldman and Penn State Libraries receives a grant for the project, “Use and Availability of Environmental Collections in Archives: A Study of Academic Archives and Their Communities.” www.psu.edu/news/univers...

A Strawberry Moon is the first full moon of summer. It signals the start of summer, when strawberries ripen in the US. The name comes from the Algonquin tribes. And it's tonight.

The things you end up doing in a Museum job! For example, staging a birthday party for a taxidermied sheep (Dolly will have been born 30 years ago on 5 July). For video with music by Dolly's musical namesake, see www.instagram.com/reel/DaKxaHs....

Of a type that I’ve shared before. Also, disclaimer, this time happening to my friend. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

public pleasure in public goods is winning winning

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

And the very important “The Lost Boys” vampire movie from the 1980s.

Delighted to read this essay by very recent Yale grad Nithya Guthikonda on botanical illustration, ecosystem collapse, and the spreading pogonia in the Met Museum’s Perspectives series: www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

Yes, please!

Come work with some great people and, tangentially, me! I have zero connection to the search, but will try to respond to DMs about New Haven and working at Yale Library.

JOB POSTING 📜📚 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University seeks a research (reference) librarian: yale.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/external_car...

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Great to see that the new @climate.us website (formerly climate-dot-gov) is live, including the full 5th National Climate Assessment Atlas built in ArcGIS Hub! Please use Climate.us reach the classrooms, newsrooms, communities, and conversations where it is needed most!

Got to say hello to a deer and a baby bluejay today.

Happy solstice to you all!

This keeps popping up and I have to chime in and say that yes, AI bots are reshaping how we are able to access websites for crawling; these changes block a lot of the Internet Archive’s attempts to automatically harvest the whole web (which I have many thoughts about), and no, Wayback =/= “history”

If dudebros (all genders) are going to wear camera glasses, then we need to do three things: 1. Get jammers (like those Arduino TV turn-offs) 2. Wear shirts that say “I do not consent” 3. Continue to shame their sorry, sad souls

"The Trump administration detained a Colombian immigrant this week in Phoenix after he spoke out against a Trump-endorsed candidate in his home country’s upcoming presidential election." via @followthelede.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

So fun to get to watch a world cup game on TV. Gracias, Telemundo.

Great conversation with the brilliant @sjjphd.bsky.social about her new book "Second Sight," which discusses the historic and contemporary role of black authors, filmmakers, and other creators of media. I highly recommend the book, which came out this week. newrepublic.com/article/2120...

Folks need to step up their games.

You might look out the window and catch sight of a goldfinch flying up and down on an invisible rollercoaster, in a rectangular path that makes sense to her. Undulating in squares. Bright yellow, touches of black.

This is Robert Gore. 🤍

Lovely visual arts librarian, poet, and all around kind soul Robert Gore (of UCLA Library) passed away this weekend. May his memory be a blessing. I don’t have an obituary but here’s an article about him receiving the UCLA Librarian of the Year award in 2024: humanities.ucla.edu/news/visual-...

Are you interested in reading and readers? Join us July 7-9 for the SHARPIES, our inaugural global book history festival! Registration is free for SHARP members. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC... And if you aren't a SHARP member, joining is easy! sharpweb.org/membership/

Fellowships especially for graduate students!

Research fellowships at Yale’s Beinecke Library! 📜📚 First: Short-term Research Fellowship (2027-2028) For anyone not a student. (Students: see next post.) Application deadline is August 15, 2026. beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

It's the first day of the World Cup! No, not that World Cup. The one with 1000x more birds and 1000% less Infantino... The World Cup of Birds! 🐦🏆🐦!

This is a reminder that accumulation of tremendous wealth in a small number of people is a policy failure.

This week I learned that three of the smartest people with whom I work were inspired to work in cultural heritage by movies and television shows. Which ones? Buffy the Vampire Slayer [100%!] Monty Python … and National Treasure