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Researcher, Librarian, Advocate
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Library Futures
1 day ago
Learn how to keep your library makerspace legally sound and open to all!
@schutton.bsky.social
,
@kslater.bsky.social
, and Tomas A. Lipinski will offer insights and answer questions on all things maker. Read more and register -->
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Will Bunch
about 2 months ago
Bonfire of the Bathroom Vanities
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Open Data Institute
4 months ago
Last chance to book our FREE webinar, and discover how risk assessment can be used to promote responsible AI and address harms early on in the development process. 1 August, 12:00 BST. Book now!
buff.ly/TMvTXvg
#AI
#freewebinar
#riskassessment
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Open Book Collective
4 months ago
šØ OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for
#OAbooks
. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word!
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...
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Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective
Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing
https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-community-engagement-lead-full-time-at-open-book-collective/
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Open Future
5 months ago
Join us at
#NGIFORUM2025
- catch us in person or tune into the livestream š„
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sarah jeong
5 months ago
caught myself watching this evaluating his gas mask and nodding solemnly like "yeah that's a great selection. solid pick." actually that's kind of a fucked up first impulse
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Dare Obasanjo
6 months ago
In these dark times, itās great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
6 months ago
US in talks with Hamas over Gaza truce and humanitarian aid access -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-talks-hamas-over-gaza-truce-and-humanitarian-aid-access
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US in talks with Hamas over Gaza truce and humanitarian aid access
<article data-history-node-id="422365" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-talks-hamas-over-gaza-truce-and-humanitarian-aid-access" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-talks-hamas-over-gaza-truce-and-humanitarian-aid-access" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US in talks with Hamas over Gaza truce and humanitarian aid access</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="84" data-start="0">A senior Palestinian official has confirmed that discussions between Hamas and the United States are ongoing, focusing on a possible Gaza ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave, Reuters reported on Sunday.</p> <p data-end="673" data-start="385">US President Donald Trump recently reiterated his commitment to helping deliver food to Palestinians trapped in Gaza, where conditions have grown increasingly dire. </p> <p data-end="748" data-start="675">The US State Department has not yet commented on the latest developments.</p> <p data-end="870" data-start="750">Previous talks between Washington and Hamas have also addressed the release of American-Israeli captives being held inside Gaza.</p> <p data-end="1081" data-start="872">Since 2 March, Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gazaās 2.3 million residents, cutting off all supplies. Food reserves that were built up during a brief truce earlier this year have nearly been exhausted.</p> <p data-end="1208" data-start="1083">On 18 March, Israel resumed its military offensive, effectively ending the ceasefire agreement reached with Hamas in January.</p> </div> </div> </article>
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-talks-hamas-over-gaza-truce-and-humanitarian-aid-access
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Incoming PSA from your friendly neighborhood librarian š«” ..a thread š§µ
7 months ago
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Justin Baragona
7 months ago
Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases. After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
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Bobbi L. Newman š³ļøāš
7 months ago
'It's brutal:' Sudden grants cuts devastate Iowa museums, libraries and cultural nonprofits Rural communities expected to be hit particularly hard by lost NEH and IMLS funding
#iowa
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
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'It's brutal:' Sudden grants cuts devastate Iowa museums, libraries and cultural nonprofits
Rapid Trump administration cancellation of federal grants leaves Iowa cultural nonprofits reeling, threatens some with closure
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2025/04/21/federal-grant-cuts-donald-trump-administration-doge-devastate-iowa-museums-libraries/83123747007/?utm_source=desmoinesregister-dailybriefing-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailybriefing-headline-stack&utm_term=hero&utm_content=pdem-desmoines-nletter65
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Coalition for Networked Information
8 months ago
The latest CNI report urges libraries to focus on standard, university-supported centers and institutes that conduct interdisciplinary research on climate change to broaden the disciplinary range, deepen public engagement, and extend the analytical capabilities of research centers and institutes.
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Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems (Final Report)
Waters, Donald J. Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems. Coalition for Networked Information, March 2025. Download PDF In the interestā¦
https://doi.org/10.56561/LCOA2799
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
8 months ago
This Friday at Indy hall, weāre gonna drink and weāre gonna draw. Jay and I will provide an assortment of goofy drawing prompts, then everybody votes on which we draw. In between prompts we get up and see what everybody else did with it, and meet new people! Itās a fun, cheap night!
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Renling
8 months ago
It's fun, easy to follow, and has lots of examples & easy/cheap ways to get started. Highly recommend!
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Sam Helmick
9 months ago
@libraryfutures.bsky.social
is working on an interactive OER based on āIntellectual Freedom Choose Your Own Adventureā by
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
president-elect Sam Helmick to help library workers respond to intellectual freedom threats and protect library user rights.
tinyurl.com/3uhvscu6
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
9 months ago
Interview with
@ipums.bsky.social
on
@marketplace.org
about public data loss and preservation efforts.
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/20/w...
We are excited to see the various organizations communicating. The data rescue tracker is meant to help facilitate that. We welcome collaboration!
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Why is access to federal data important? - Marketplace
Losing access to federal data is like taking "an X-ray machine away from a doctor," said David Van Riper at IPUMS.
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/20/why-losing-access-to-federal-data-is-like-taking-an-x-ray-machine-away-from-a-doctor/
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PLOS Global Public Health
9 months ago
NEW on our blog, by guest contributor
@benphillips76.bsky.social
We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how weāll win
speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/13/w...
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We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how weāll win
As we reel from the attack on humanity, rage is not wrong. We all feel the icy chill of the current moment. Even as the cold dark night bites, however, all who work for justice need to remember that w...
https://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/13/we-are-right-to-feel-enraged-at-the-current-moment-but-hope-is-how-well-win/
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Alison Mudditt
9 months ago
Excellent piece from PLOS co-founder and Nobel laureate, Harold Varmus: "If the attacks on our scientists and their institutions are allowed to continue, our envisioned future of longer, healthier lives will happen more slowly, in other countries, or not at all."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-public-health-funding-nih.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w04.E_BI.xtaQXwa6_RqC&smid=bs-share
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Federal data is disappearing. The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. To see/contribute to ongoing efforts, visit:
www.datarescueproject.org
and follow:
bsky.app/profile/data...
9 months ago
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Columbia Journalism Review
9 months ago
Fighting the Great Federal Website Purge: Journalists, judges, and archivists are keeping government data online. New by Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_administration_website_purge_court_order_cdc.php
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
10 months ago
Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvwDhOgZjJeRqsQ66AA3v7PkoaaXaX25uSr_Hx37b5_QPJtw/viewform
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Keeping the hope alive by sharing stories of data and resource restoration:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0402202...
We have our work cut out for us.
#datascience
#knowledgeworkers
#environmentaljustice
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āCanary in a Coal Mineā: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump - Inside Climate News
As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04022025/data-scientists-restore-climate-justice-tool-taken-down-by-trump/
10 months ago
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Joseph Cox
10 months ago
New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be āillegal.ā Musk ally said āwe should still push forward and see what we can do.ā
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āThings Are Going to Get Intense:ā How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/
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"...methodology for generating its phenotype predictions is a closely guarded secret; its system has not faced independent scientific verification and validation..the gold standard among scientists for vetting the efficacy of computer-based programs..nor has it been peer reviewed."
#racialprofiling
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10 months ago
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Part 1 of 2 š§µ "Whoever controls *how* someone sees anything - and makes sure that they never ask *why* - is in control of the past, future, and present."
#blackhistory
#blackhistorymonth
10 months ago
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Part 1 of 2 (a š§µ). "Art can be weaponized."
#blackhistory
#blackhistorymonth
Image: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., O.M., Portrait of a Sailor, ca. 1858, oil on panel, 41 x 30.5 cm, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
10 months ago
Many of us are really feeling helpless. This feeling is why I started
@skypeascientist.bsky.social
8 years ago. We were doing the exact same thing then (currently feels worse?). I have an action you can take today. Tell an educator about our program. Connect kids with science in spite of all this.
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Katie Mack
10 months ago
It is very easy to call your representativesā offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You donāt even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means.
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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Find and contact elected officials | USAGov
Use USAGovās Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
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Sam McKagan
10 months ago
Call your representatives in congress today and let them know that shutting down NSF and NIH programs is unacceptable. Here is my letter to my representatives if you want to copy and/or use for inspiration.
letterstothepeopleincharge.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/r...
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Reliable and abundant funding for scientific research
Sent this to my senatorsĀ MurrayĀ andĀ Cantwell and my congresswoman Jayapal: Dear Representative, Iām hearing reports that National Science Foundation review panels were canceled this morning wā¦
https://letterstothepeopleincharge.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/reliable-and-abundant-funding-for-scientific-research/
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Brian Tyler Cohen
10 months ago
This is the GOPās long con on full display.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
10 months ago
Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. Iāve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I donāt think exists.
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Having
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kicking off the OSH track will undoubtedly create a space ripe for rich discussions of OSH; I've not been to a conference that facilitates cross-sector dialogs quite as well as SOOCon. Sad to miss '25! š ļøš»
#stateofopencon
#openuk
#openhardware
#soocon25
#oshwa
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10 months ago
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Ryan Mac š
10 months ago
For the last week,
@kenbensinger.bsky.social
and I have been in Altadena, to report on the devastation. But we kept coming back to an Arco gas station, which a group of locals have turned into a beacon of hope with tacos, clothes and community. This is their story:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
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Tacos, Water and āHomiesā: A Gas Station Becomes a Uniquely L.A. Relief Site
Out of desperation and a need for social bonding, volunteers have banded together to help Altadena residents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/tacos-gas-station-arco-los-angeles.html
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Nicholas Slayton
11 months ago
@tyleraking.com
The Mutual Aid L.A. team's resource list is up. Please boost, it's the best one I've seen:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
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The London Economic
12 months ago
This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries š
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/european-federation-of-journalists-to-stop-posting-content-on-x-386598/
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On Thanksgiving, a thread š§µ: The first "Thanksgiving" in the United States was based on a preexisting day of thanksgiving to the Creator, which had been celebrated by the original indigenous people of the continent long before the auspicious landing at Plymouth Rock.
12 months ago
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Shoshana š³ļøāā§ļø
about 1 year ago
The depressing reality of the Trump administration as international students are urged to return to the US before the inauguration in case Trump decides to block their entry.
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OpenFlexure
about 1 year ago
The OpenFlexure team are really excited to have our first ever FOSDEM stand. See you in February!
fosdem.org/2025/news/20...
#OpenSource
#OpenHardware
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