Ha! I promised my students I’d try to get their comments on the record and I’m so pleased we succeeded. Thanks to Emmy Martin for what I think is a very good article on the Canvas hack. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

This was on the bulletin board at my local ace hardware and I’m going to show it to anyone who ever asks me if Iowa City can really measure up to Hollywood in terms of opportunity

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

this fuckin guy

It's like 10,000 spoons When all you need is a knife It's like meeting the man of your dreams Then meeting his miniature wife

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I dumped some feelings in a blog post about teaching DH right now. mackenziekbrooks.info/update/2026/...

Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree. This limit is going to further restrict access to the field. I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

The animorphs covers weren’t doctored photos. They just found kids that could do that

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

Trump Once Again Zeroes Out IMLS Budget for 2027. It’s Time to Take Action. For the sixth time, the Trump-Vance administration aims to dismantle and defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services. What to know & what to do right now: bookriot.com/2027-imls-bu...

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

Take me down to Paradox City Where Schrödinger lives with his undead kitty

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

as a reminder, this listserv exists to be used solely for the purpose of new raptor identification, which is why it is called the add hawk committee

doctor doctor gimme the news ive got an unworn pair of baby shoes

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

"The propaganda is going to get a lot worse and more pervasive before it gets better... our tax money was given to a private business actively destroying our public education systems, [and] none of the grant money allocated for libraries and museums will go to actual libraries and museums."

CS ArXiv recently banned “review and position” papers, but what are those? Do they include more generated content? Who is most affected by this change? @yanai.bsky.social and I dug into the data to find out! Nearly 50% of Computers & Society papers might be censored, vs 3% of Computer Vision ‼️

yeah well could claude do this *writes a terrible recursive function that consumes all the memory and crashes my laptop*

It finally happened @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...

I've been talking about both doctoral study (with academic jobs as the goal) AND tenure for YEARS in terms of RISK MANAGEMENT. It is a very calculated, and increasingly speculative, risk. You have to treat it that way. Faculty hate it when I do this. Especially about tenure.

Meet our new ESIP Partners 🎉 Our Partners work together to meet environmental data challenges and look for opportunities to expand, improve, and innovate across Earth sci disciplines. 🌱 University of Arizona College of Information Science 🌱 Ocean Networks Canada 🌱 Open Environmental Data Project

Job: the University of Arizona Libraries is hiring a Librarian with focus on Instructional Strategies and STEM (assistant/associate) to join our new cohort model of liaisons arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court! A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so. Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)

sabbatical plan

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

PAPER SUBMITTED

DOES NOBODY READ ANYMORE?

The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

Great example of inadequate human subjects anonymization for anyone teaching qualitative methods!

NASA’s JPL cuts 550 jobs in latest round of layoffs at La Cañada Flintridge facility www.latimes.com/science/stor... 🧪🔭

Infuriating. "Through this unlawful process, IMLS’s new leadership has decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program is going to a single recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for its America250 project"

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

MIT says no to the Trump admin higher-ed compact clearly and emphatically. Other universities would be well served to read, remix, and respond similarly. "In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences." orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

sigh. www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Somehow it's a two paper day: this beast of a paper containing recommendations for sample citation is out in Scientific Data too! This one has been in progress for years. Joan Damerow, Val Stanley and Sarah Ramdeen were the originators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New data paper out from a Zooniverse transcription project I was co-PI on at Michigan! We transcribed and curated over 100 years of archival data from the Institute of Fisheries Research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

new paper! "We find that a majority of frequently used reference managers do not adequately support data citation, obstructing uptake of data citation by researchers and thereby limiting the growth of credit and incentives for data sharing and reuse." datascience.codata.org/articles/10....

Thanks to Andrea Thomer, @iceageecologist.bsky.social, and Jessica Blois for showing the value of Neotoma. $1.5 billion in replacement cost. The critical role of community curated data resources in @agu.org’s @eos.org : eos.org/opinions/the...

New op ed estimating the replacement value of community curated data resources and "long tail" data they contain by me, Jack Williams, @sjgoring.bsky.social and Jessica Blois. We've been working on this for a while, and it now feels both timely and out of date: eos.org/opinions/the...

SaaS (sheep as a service)