When we’re not busy creating a black market economy for birth control, tsunami of unplanned pregnancies, fiscal void in daycare, SNAP, & child development services, we’re also taking away your vote to do anything about it.

COUNTER conference call for proposals! The COUNTER team is delighted to announce the third COUNTER Conference alongside our Annual General Meeting on Thursday 11 June 2026. This online event will focus on AI usage patterns and their impact on COUNTER metrics. www.countermetrics.org/conference-2...

New from #UKSGInsights: Identifying undetected hijacked journals in medical science: a linkage analysis; Hegedus et al dub.sh/CaXERBi

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

The reason she SHOULD have been fired.

Everyone needs to be talking about this.

I'm drafting a letter to the Provost, who oversees libraries, to highlight how integral it is and why we need to stop cutting funding to it

One of the best Information Science events to attend!

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

Did you know we have a Bluesky starter pack where you can follow all of OJC's publisher members in just one click? Take a look and give a click! go.bsky.app/QvGSACZ

I find this work really compelling & worth checking out

“By declining the State of the Union visit, the US Women’s Hockey Team’s polite 'no thanks' says more than any corporation, or tech billionaire, or media company is willing to say. Amid so much cowardice, it’s those who stood up who will be remembered…

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There's a whole theme on OA Futures @uksg.bsky.social, too, including two on #DiamondOA. *I still haven't heard a good answer about what diamond means in terms of business models. I live in hope!

Any 2026 conference worth its salt needs to showcase AI! @uksg.bsky.social has a whole theme on AI, misinformation & emerging technologies. Register at www.uksg.org/events/confe... to join us ps Whatever's keeping CISOs and librarians up at night, may I suggest valerian tea as an antidote?

I’m really looking forward to speaking at @uksg.bsky.social this year, sharing some of my initial results from my PhD research. This is the first time I will be presenting at UKSG not as part of a panel so I’m a bit nervous already! I’m in Group A if you wanna come along and be a friendly face 😉

Yesterday's @uksg.bsky.social Conference theme of the day was AI and misinformation, so today has to be research integrity and trust. I'm looking forward to the session about community building and trust with @orcid.org and @jisc.bsky.social! www.uksg.org/events/confe...

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR

One local who was arrested while protesting at the site of Alex Pretti’s killing talked to The Verge about his harrowing experience in custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and how the community is fighting back. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...

"This is a public service announcement... with guitar!" 🔥 Friday is International Clash Day: Know Your Rights on #kexp, and it matters more than ever. You can participate from anywhere. kexp.org/read/2026/2/...

Trump’s manufacturing revival currently in the thoughts-and-prayers phase.

At Liam’s school, three other kids have been taken by ICE. A U.S. citizen child with a brain tumor was deported away from her Texas doctors. Austin college student Any Lopez Belloza was deported by “mistake” and still can't come home. Trump's chaos and cruelty has to end. youtu.be/aBuQ2sQa9NU

Do NOT fund ICE @schumer.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @durbin.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇 There you have it. ICE has never been about immigration enforcement. It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.

America’s to-do list: The Senate can and must reject the DHS funding bill — period. Impeach Kristi Noem. Arrest and prosecute the “agents” willfully violating state laws. Unmask and remove these secret police from our streets.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Air France, British Airways, Lufthansa, KLM, and several other international airlines have begun to cancel flights tonight and over the weekend to and from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, citing the “security situation” in the Middle East.

"Trump says UK and other NATO troops stayed “mainly in the back” in Afghanistan. May I please introduce you you to Lance Corporal Joshua Leaky VC - who ran into enemy fire to rescue injured US marines."

They messed with Texas Monthly’s James Beard Award-winning senior taco editor (truly one of the best job titles in journalism) www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

we really need an online glossary of words, concepts, and events that occupy this weird liminal space of awareness in which everyone knows about them, but assumes no one else has heard of them

"no statistically or substantively significant bias against conservative students in efforts to establish politically-oriented registered student organizations (Study 1) or secure campus space for a guest speaker to lecture on political issues (Study 2)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read Mythologies by Roland Barthes; starts with this quote: “The emphatic truth of the gesture in the great circumstances of life."

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

More than a million travelers could pass through Portland International Airport this month. Anyone who's traveled this time of year knows it can be stressful, but a group of volunteers are helping to remedy that with the help of their four-legged friends spreading comfort and joy.

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

Believe the women.

Further down thread it says 170 fac have been given offers (buyouts, retirements). If not enough take them there will be “involuntary separations.” 170! Think of the collective yrs of training, specialization, teaching, the number of students taught, advised, mentored, the wealth of KNOWLEDGE.

I agree. This is professional misconduct every bit as much as plagiarism, but with even greater direct costs. @uvalibrary.bsky.social's Sarah Falls says 15% of their reference questions now contain hallucinated citations. Multiply that by every academic library in the world and it's mind-blowing.

My Senator says it all…

The latest from #UKSGInsights "Thoughts on how scholar‑led publishing can overcome the effect of the prestige economy" by Andrew R Du Rocher, @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social dub.sh/GyOFC1N

This is a good move towards accessible self-published ebooks.

I had forgotten most of the products Google has killed off. (The list continues past what's visible ⤵️. About ten scrolls worth.) Google Cache was one of my most important research tools, enabling tracking breadcrumbs along an investigative path. I had blocked out its death 2 years ago. 😢

just in case you wondering what's coming next...this week, in the park blocks that are public spaces within our campus, there were a group of maga supporters (red hats) wearing sweatshirts that read: Deport all liberal white women.

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

If you missed yesterday's #UKSGForum2025 in Brighton then fear not, I have pulled together some of the highlights in the post below! www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlock...

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.