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...

Bonfire of the Bathroom Vanities

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

🚨 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...

Join us at #NGIFORUM2025 - catch us in person or tune into the livestream 🎥

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

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

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

Incoming PSA from your friendly neighborhood librarian 🫡 ..a thread 🧵

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.

'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...

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.

This Friday at Indy hall, we’re gonna drink and we’re 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! It’s a fun, cheap night! lu.ma/donad24

It's fun, easy to follow, and has lots of examples & easy/cheap ways to get started. Highly recommend!

@libraryfutures.bsky.social is working on an interactive OER based on “Intellectual Freedom Choose Your Own Adventure” 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

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!

NEW on our blog, by guest contributor @benphillips76.bsky.social We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/13/w...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

"...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

Part 1 of 2 🧵 "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

Part 1 of 2 (a 🧵). "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

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.

It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t 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...

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...

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. I’ve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I don’t think exists.

Having @michaelweinberg.org 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! 🛠️💻 #stateofopencon #openuk #openhardware #soocon25 #oshwa

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...

@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...

This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

On Thanksgiving, a thread 🧵: 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.

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.

The OpenFlexure team are really excited to have our first ever FOSDEM stand. See you in February! fosdem.org/2025/news/20... #OpenSource #OpenHardware