The GOSH Community joins @opensciencehw.bsky.social in welcoming @griffey.bsky.social as its first Executive Director! His leadership advancing research infrastructure for #openscience will be a tremendous asset - we look forward to collaborating in the exciting work ahead. bsky.app/profile/open...

Big news! I'm so excited to lead OSHF into the next phase of their work.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

As an alum of SILS, I'm deeply disappointed in UNC leadership for this decision (and in general, these days).

I regret to inform you that Nemik's manifesto is the new Tom Holland “Umbrella.” You have to repost every time. It’s just where we are. #ihavefriendseverywhere youtu.be/-asb8zTiuZ4?...

Deep cut musical nerd thought - I had no idea that she lived in Franklin these days. It’s so weird to think that one of the OBC of the Sondheim musical AND one of the actual assassins were living in the same town. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/24/s...

I sell the things you need to be I'm the smiling face on your TV Oh, I'm the cult of personality I exploit you, still you love me I tell you one and one makes three

Library Tech: I've made a handy tool for testing if a library computer can reach various common services, like Syndetics Unbound, HathiTrust and NoveList. www.librarything.com/serviceteste...

Hey librarians: If you use a product or workflow at your library that integrates OA/OER material into your discovery/delivery, can you lmk who and what? Doing research for a project and starting to gather info. Please share widely. :-) #libraries #librarians #openaccess

I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.

50 years ago today, Springsteen released Born to Run…it has to be one of the albums I've listened to more than any other in my life.

Every few months, my Facebook feed algorithm goes completely insane in the same way: All of my ads become far, far right: god and guns, over and over and over, in the weirdest combinations and craziest products. Then it stops, and I've got no idea what triggers it.

Spent a fair portion of the day relocating a couple of websites from one host to another. Surprisingly easy overall these days, but nothing will ever fix DNS.

Disrespectfully, I need anyone who has not looked for a job within the past year to shut up because shit has changed. Your advice and experience doing this in the past means nothing. You have not job hunted like people are job hunting right now, don’t give people false hope with your outdated ideas

I am waging a losing battle against a raccoon. It has managed to undo bungee cords & as you can see from the footprints it seems to enjoy pure cayenne pepper. I installed a motion based alarm that flashes lights....did nothing. I've got a raccoon on an endorphin high that likes raves. Send help.

One of my fav bands of all time, their albums were an absolute revelation to my teenage self. Vivid, Time's Up, and Stain are classics, and their songs taught me about social issues and history that I definitely wasn't taught in rural KY. They should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

This is pretty insane for everyone in Middle TN. Gotta get like 80,000 people evacuated in the next day. :-/

Five favorite black and white films: The Apartment Citizen Kane Sunset Blvd It’s a Wonderful Life Casablanca

"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death."

This is horrific erasure, with a side of cruelty, all on top of a stupidity sundae.

Hey #librarians - I'm doing research for an upcoming show, and looking for examples of protest signs from the American Folk tradition...Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Dylan, Joan Baez. So spanning from WWII thru the early 1960's. Anyone have a resource they can point me at?

She thinks the Library of Congress is like a local public library because it's got "Library" in the name and I can't emphasize enough that our country is being run by the stupidest people alive on the planet today.

This is one of my top five movies of all time. If you have not seen, I cannot recommend it enough.

He fired Carla fucking Hayden The Librarian of Congress An amazing, badass, kind human being May he never know peace

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I mean, I follow the rules.

Sinners (2025)

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issues a TRO blocking the Trump administration from "dissolv[ing]" the Institute of Museum and Library Services, placing any more employees on administrative leave, or terminating any grants in the coming days.

Don't know who needs this today, but I'm feeling this energy to start the week, so if you are as well, enjoy! youtu.be/y6wLcx7AkRM?...

Nobody in the history of the internet ever clicked on the sitemap youtu.be/2z7kVH9xePM

Also - LIBBY tracks all borrowing history. Might be good to let patrons know how to opt out help.libbyapp.com/en-us/catego...

This is legitimately really useful for us! Please take some time to let us know how we can move scholarly information forward...

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

📚 SUMNER COUNTY… show up for your library TODAY… free speech rights are under attack, and the library director just resigned…

Shaping everything from USB cables to internet protocols, our essay of the week contends that standards show what an anti-capitalist future could look like. By @jpomerantz.bsky.social & @griffey.bsky.social in the @mitpress.bsky.social Reader buff.ly/ZS8idmh

My recent article with Jeff Pomerantz was translated into Dutch! I think that's a first for me...

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile removed by employer Indiana University, & had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. arstechnica.com/security/202...

This 10 year old girl has more courage than most of the current Democratic leadership.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

DOGE is disproportionately targeting grants in blue states that voted for Harris. This is about political retribution.

ICE has abducted an Iranian mechanical engineering doctoral student at the University of Alabama. thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

Probably should have just quote-posted...thanks to @jpomerantz.bsky.social for all the work and support in getting this out into the world.

I (and my co-author @[email protected]) have an essay up at MIT Reader that's an extension of some of the ideas in the book. Would love any feedback, as we're still working the ideas out ourselves, but we both think there's something interesting there.

Obligatory kvetching about this timeline. Library resistance. Help if you can. "[We] are calling on the public... to stand with us against the U.S. government’s decision to shut down the primary Canadian access point to this world-renowned one-of-a-kind heritage landmark" www.haskelloperahouse.org

We did a thing! Bets and I started the American Film Institute Best 100 Films list over a year ago, and we finished it off tonight. The rules were that we both had to have seen it...if only one of us had seen it, we both watched it together.

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...