Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

it's true that a.i. boosterism is suspect but there are landfills of AOL free trial disks that speak to the "try hard" promotion of the internet email, chat, Napster, browsers, forums, and RSS are examples of applications and use cases that made the underlying tech useful to the majority of people

When I asked the American Library Association to "better represent me" this isn't exactly what I had in mind.

imagine the numbers this would have done in 2021

our mailbox thieves are gonna be pissed when they see it's just two different Homer translations

Just overheard an undergrad utter the phrase “fuck-ass capstone” and I love it

(trying really hard to make a lord of the rings/llm joke) G.A.I. Token

back on @librarypunk.bsky.social to chat about critical AI & librarianship!

had to cancel a small press purchase this week for a publication that cost 18 euro bc the shipping would be 55 euro. couldn’t find US supplier. here’s the item in question - looks super cool: tique.space/library/publ... we also don’t have a tax-exemption to buy library books in WA state btw

"Microsoft is in talks with select U.S. publishers about a pilot program to help launch a two-sided marketplace that would compensate publishers for their content used by AI products, starting with its Copilot assistant." www.axios.com/2025/09/24/m...

NIH policy had 5% compliance when it was voluntary, 50-70% compliance when it was mandatory, and got to 90% when funds were held back until compliance was fulfilled. #OASPA2025

There should be Diamond and Green sponsor levels.

You guys should come for Caroline's talk, but then be sure to stick around for Caroline's talk! (I will also be there, listening to Caroline's talk.)

as someone of squarely average intelligence who semi-regularly blurts out weird things seemingly beyond self control, this is oddly comforting news

Irish writer Sally Rooney said she was advised not to enter the U.K. to receive a literary prize this week, for fear of arrest over her support for Palestine Action, which was banned under British terrorism laws.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.

As a strong advocate of community-led OA publishing, I think it is important to recognise that Diamond OA offers no *inherent* political challenge to rapacious neoliberalism. There can be, but these are relatively rare across the communities of communities engaging in community-led Diamond OA.

The one thing I never hear from the “we’re doomed” crowd is “so we have nothing to lose”

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

what's the over/under on days until an agent begins specializing in producing hallucinated books on-demand when users go looking for them

UBC has purchased access to Sage's backfiles and canceled its subscriptions, looking to interlibrary loan Sage journal article requests going forward. They chose Sage because the UBC community publishes in and reads Sage titles the least of the five big pubs. about.library.ubc.ca/2025/09/17/a...

It really is curious how chatbots came about at the same point in history when our most popular search engine started to operate really poorly. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/t...

This was a really interesting read and important for those of us in the West who work in #scholcomm to incorporate into our #openaccess convos www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

"there is a step in the (...) process which is highly accurate. It’s slow, error-prone, and expensive, but it is spectacularly good at identifying problematic research: that step is called "peer review". medium.com/@clearskiesa...

Enboldening an overreaching State in order to further monopolize the Corporate Media would be such a sweet name for a baby girl

"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Jefferson Cty Pub Schools in KY this month announced surprising unintended consequence of a new statewide cellphone ban. In many of district’s schools, the # of books checked out in the 1st few wks of class skyrocketed compared w/ last year, before ban was instituted. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Son, whatever you do in this world, always remember to listen to stakeholders and gain important feedback.

European schol-commers love to be like "we are chuffed to receive support from the Funding Universal Common Knowledge (FUCK) group to continue developing British object identifiers (boi's). Better tracking of UK scientific thot made possible by the FUCK boi project!"

this is what i look like at work btw

Just updated: downloadable datasets now include six BMC journals! Added BMC Surgery and BMC Women's Health. #PeerReviewWeek

criterion doing a new release for a mira nair movie is reverse nepotism

If it wasn't for open science the world wouldn't have the world wide web. 🤯 #OSFair2025

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

“Future funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services cleared a legislative hurdle this week, with the House Appropriations Committee endorsing a $291,800,000 IMLS budget for fiscal 2026. The Senate Appropriations Committee also has approved that funding amount without amendment.” 🍀 …

Welp that settles that then time to make this thing our government

(Millennial with an acoustic guitar voice) "I don't practice trans sharia..."

There is, I believe, only one correct answer to this problem.

RETVRN.

the practice of leaving the phrase "link?" as a reply to a post actually originated in the aughts when people on message boards would announce that the new animal collective leaked and users desired a sendspace or megaupload link to confirm

fellow millennials, who else remem pawgs 'n slammers?? 😂 😅

Uncovered a paper mill?? Like, you took documentary cameras into Dunder-Mifflin????

maximum preferred spoken words-per-minute is going to become an international conference policy for speakers during the next decade

zombie articles, vampire articles, predatory publisher with no conscience. question, what do these things all have in common