J’ai appris à nager dans une piscine Tournesol, j’apprends aujourd’hui leur signification architecturale et sociale : très chouette documentaire www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.

I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Have you ever wondered how cycling pants wear? Now THERE'S SCIENCE dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

today in question headlines that answer themselves

I’ve complained before about how many ads for becoming a surrogate I get since having a kid, and how predatory that industry is worldwide - we need so many more of these stories out to alert people. TW *everything* www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Used a summer trip to Paris to visit all the new children museums and galleries - inspired by the Cleveland’s children museum, the MoMA art lab, etc. Best museum according to the toddler: the 100+ years old Gallery of Paleontology 🧐 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery...

"Bringing life to a puppet is also a demystification of process made visible. We wanted to question how we render process, material and labor toward a genuine demystification of how technologies work." On @eryk.bsky.social's newsletter mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-audience...

I don't agree that making lists and goals are always about optimization (I use goals to help me notice when I'm not making time to read, which can very easily disappear between time at work and with kiddo), but this is a good read annehelen.substack.com/p/a-life-wit...

Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create. This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...

An update on this: avoid this variant if you can! Spent most of the last two weeks on sick leave… (Well, avoid all and every infections that you can, but this is the sickest I have been in my entire adult life - getting Covid is really like playing Russian roulette)

Some good suggestions of late summer reading 📚

Having lived most of my adult life outside of my birth country this resonated a lot. I've spent the last 17 years weighing on where to live, parenthood has not made it any easier, and I loathe how "moving to France" is becoming a grift online www.thecut.com/article/the-...

If you have a story about using the Wayback Machine, the @archive.org wants to hear from you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Any recommendation for archival supplies for a family archive project? (I need document sleeves, boxes, and misc supplies to preserve scrap books and photo albums) Also taking recommendations or readings about family archives!

CBS Sunday morning feature on the work of @jillpelto.bsky.social and I www.cbsnews.com/video/captur...

I have covid for the first time despite masking extensively. Two months ago the study of long term health consequences of Covid infections I was in since 2021 stopped due to funding cuts. This all feels very ominous.

Stephanie Shirley is perhaps one of the lesser known tech pioneers, but she shouldn't be. Back in the 60s she saw the potential for women in tech, setting up a company for them to code from home, going by the name Steve because it was a man's world. RIP Dame Shirley www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The many people asking me why I’m not raising my kiddo in France since it’s “so much better” should be required to take a toddler on a French train and face the hate we experience every single time we dare existing in a French public space 😮‍💨

Holidays in #momademia is crocheting toddler sweaters between museum visits

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

My toddler and his friend are on day 3 of a debate about whether dragons are lizards or dinosaurs (& are flying and sea dragons the same, or are the latter fishes?). Fascinating to see how they reason. Made me think of this project on how elephants were imagined 🐉 www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

"a research platform and print publication that approaches the subject of the chair by asking deceptively obtuse questions: what makes a chair a chair? Ought a chair be defined as any object one can sit on? If so, isn’t a carpet a chair? What about a horse?" commondimensions.com/library/

hey #momademia, I was wondering if anyone has written about how becoming a parent changes one's engagement with the childhood research literature? I find myself seeing methodology and claims very differently now, and I'm probably not the only one...?

Ah, love this! I fell into a rabbit hole researching the history of French china cabinets when our grandparents were adapting their height, giving them away or throwing them out. It’s such a fascinating piece of furniture medium.com/vaisselle-ma...

Do you identify as queer? Have you had an experience of being in a hospital in the Northwest of England? We’re inviting members of the LGBTQIA+ community to share their experiences of hospitals. Contribute to this study via the link: lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If there was a prize for wholesome internet community, I'd nominate @openstreetmap.bsky.social. On the Slack I'm on, discussions are about mapping playground equipment, streams and public art, hikers improving trail access... Strongly recommend: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Join_th...

“Look at Mr. Frog! He’s so grumpy.” Wait, why are so many frogs boys? @mellymeldubs.bsky.social explores how we gender animals in kids’ stories—and why it matters. pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

Delighted to have a story in Sci Phi Journal, an award-winning Brussels, Belgium-based magazine of speculative fiction. Art by Dustin Jacobus. Thanks to the editors Ádám Gerencsér and Mariano Martín. www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20... #fiction #nearfuture #shortstory #speculativefiction

Knowledge Futures announced they are winding down the PubPub platform - it feels like the infrastructure that supported Digital Humanities in the 2010s is crumbling www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...

RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...

"Our image choices aren’t just aesthetic, they shape how people understand and engage with AI" internet.exchangepoint.tech/rethinking-r...

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Realized today I have become this faculty member still using a profile picture taken 10 years ago 💀

I’ll be speaking with artists and designers from the Design and Disability show on 7th June at Great Exhibition Road festival - Kaiya Waerea, Finnegan Shannon and Arjun Harrison-Mann. Free! BSL interpreted, live captions, wear a mask! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/design...

I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents: www.404media.co/american-sch...

PaperCamp is coming to London again in September www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/papercamp-...? Organised by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino It’s about all things paper, card and physical making.

Some very nice picturebooks endpapers: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s... To pair with Sylvia Pantaleo's chapter about their function! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Interesting point about "delve," "leverage," other "AI words."

I’ve been doing this on the fly (alongside maproulette.org ) and it’s easy and fun, and I just love how it connects people

"41% of 0- to four-year-olds now being read to frequently, down from 64% in 2012" and "29% of boys compared with 44% of girls" of the same age As a parent and a childhood researcher, this might be one of the most depressing thing I've ever read 🙈 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Spring term is over, I have energy for a daily drawing practice again 🎊

Thinking about how requiring various institutions to gather and share data was part of the tools of recent social justice movements (the “epistemic communities” turn) - so beyond ignoring problems, it also cuts the ability to describe new ones

love this story on so many levels: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... - the returning of artefacts to the community they were taken from - the idea that a toy is not a toy unless it can be played with - the inversion of conservation in that the change in the objects over time is precious

Question for the linguists and child dev researchers on here: my toddler speaks French, English, and “ASL” (whatever ASL I have managed to learn). He’s increasingly using signs phonetically. Eg “S” and “cat” (chat in French) for “Sacha”. Is there a name for this and how it develops?

They’re really trying to kill the one great thing that came from inventing the internet diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h...

Il est beau cet article. Un ami vient juste de quitter son boulot pour travailler à temps plein dans la crèche/école maternelle de son fils, et on est beaucoup de parents à s'être posés cette même question - est-ce que les boulots qui nous enlèvent 40, 45h à nos enfants en valent vraiment le coup?

In September when I returned from maternity leave, my academic role shifted towards students' academic advising and experience. I knew before that students today are facing far more challenges than those of my generation, but I didn't quite realize how much more challenging it's become.

The disparition of public postal services makes me so sad... Make mail art great again! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/