NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

of COURSE there's a technology the left is excited about

My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

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

Tomorrow-- the University of Arizona Main Library @douglassday.bsky.social celebration! We're in B252/254, can't wait to meet everyone. Flyer + details attached: lib.arizona.edu/about/events...

yesssss we made the list (library science teachers, postsecondary)

Native Bio has made the @nytimes.com for the second time. The #IDsov movement is a tidal wave....and a solution for these difficult times. “We are at a fork in the road. Do not choose hate & do not choose unsustainability.” ~ 21st Century Maxim, Author Unknown www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

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.

Of course the Institute of Museum and Library Services' $14M Freedom Truck mobile exhibitions feature "unbelievable content" designed by PragerU and Hillsdale! Unbelievable indeed!

"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)

Super excited (and lucky) to be part of this grant! infosci.arizona.edu/news/infosci...

How do you format your academic #bibliographies? I used to use bibtex, then switched to a hexadecimal hash, so Goring et al. 2023 becomes #ae657f. This way each set of references can be rendered into a colour palette for easier recall and use. Here is the references section of my last paper:

The U of Arizona College of Information Science will be hosting a Zoom information session on our doctoral program on Weds, Nov 20th -- please share with any aspiring Information PhD students! Our program is fully funded and we've got great faculty. Register here: infosci.arizona.edu/events/2024/...

this search is still open! Review of applications begins Dec 1 - please share!

The U of Arizona College of Information Science will be hosting a Zoom information session on our doctoral program on Weds, Nov 20th -- please share with any aspiring Information PhD students! Our program is fully funded and we've got great faculty. Register here: infosci.arizona.edu/events/2024/...

We're hiring! The University of Arizona is seeking multiple tenure-track faculty in the areas of science of science, scholarly communication, and related fields. The full ad is here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... I'm chairing this search - happy to chat with interested candidates!

We're hiring! The University of Arizona is seeking multiple tenure-track faculty in the areas of science of science, scholarly communication, and related fields. The full ad is here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... I'm chairing this search - happy to chat with interested candidates!

Jobs at University of Arizona libraries! 🌵🗺📚 - GIS specialist arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... ** come to our informational webinar for this role on Thurs, Sept 12 @ 10am AZ time arizona.zoom.us/j/89777924910 ** - Collections Management (special collections) lead arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Our cultural heritage informatics TT hire has been unfrozen, amongst all our financial woes -- applications in by March 1, please arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...