My hot take – Oscar the Grouch is an archivist, with a focus on ephemera and social histories. Grumpy, yes, but he's also devoted to ensuring preservation and community access. A truly passionate steward of monster cultural heritage. open.spotify.com/track/2brIWd...

[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Congratulations to Sociology.

The Trump admin has shut down the CIA’s World Factbook, a country reference that for six decades has provided data on birth and death rates, major exports, and more. Long used by government officials and by researchers, educators, and journalists, the database was taken offline today.

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

An #assessment flowchart can help guide educators through the delicate balance of whether or not to allow #GenAI in their assignment design. A team at Adelaide University explain how it works: https://ow.ly/F2tG50Y9qRl#assessment#GenAI#HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Every American needs to watch this:

❤️ An open access edition is here for anyone else who needs it: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

T'was the summer of '25 we last saw the sun and only a few years after that the first kid was born with gills. They had laughed at our webbed feet for years before the RAINS, called us inbreds and freaks that 'spik funni min!', but it all came good in the end-

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“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.

NEW BOOK: Our first title in February is an addition to the Cambridge Semitic Languages & Cultures series, al-Dānī's al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ: A Translation with Linguistic Commentary by Marijn van Putten! Read freely online or buy a copy: buff.ly/L2oMcBN #OAbooks #SemiticSeries #OpenAccess

Out today! An extensive edited collection on the topic of triggers warnings in the college classroom, which takes a number of angles and perspectives:

I actually had bad dreams last night about the Epstein files and it's affecting me way more than I thought it would on an existential level. Like, what is the POINT of anything if rich and powerful men can just do what they want at all times?! If anyone else is feeling the same - you're not alone.

"AI is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop [that] drives a rapid erosion of pathological variability and diagnostic reliability...this renders AI generated documentation clinically useless after just two generations" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520... Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

Good news!

I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

"The fall of Hindawi should not be understood solely as an extraordinary event, but as a signal of how ordinary pressures—scale, incentives, automation, and uneven accountability—can converge into systemic risk when left unexamined. Integrity breakdowns of this magnitude do not emerge overnight..."

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

We are delighted the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen has received an Athena Swan Gold award! Read more: www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology/n...

OOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

This is how to convert from a for-profit Big Deal to an equitable, but professionalised, diamond OA system! @theblochian.bsky.social and I dreamed of this scale when we launched @openlibhums.org Now, she has done it. Consortial funding, at scale. Now over to the library community to support it.

SHAGGY: what did the vet say you have SCOOBY DOO: rabies SHAGGY: zoinks i didn’t even know you could get pregnant

Our publisher, @openlibhums.org, has just published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy, following more than a year-long consultation process with OLH journals' editorial teams (including us). You can read it here: www.openlibhums.org/site/ai-poli.... #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

Fuming 😡 Teacher: "you can usually tell the girls that want to do physics, they look a bit tomboy-ish" #WomenInSTEM #ASPIRES3 @iop.org

🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨 We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉 More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6 @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

A solar system quilt by Sarah Ellen Harding Baker made in 1876. She was also an astronomer & teacher. (In the horror, take pity of your soul and leave room for beauty and wonder.)

It's not unheard of to find errors in your data after publishing it. While it's not fun when this happens, this one-pager can help guide you through the process of updating data, code, and publications when errors are found. osf.io/q4jre/files/...

It is not great when all the people who know you do data management for a living text you this before you wake up on a Saturday www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Yes, please. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

When I say I'm tired I don't mean I need sleep, I mean my jaw has been clenched since 2001 and every time I look at my phone I understand less about a world I used to know and I am TIRED

My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence

Here's one for our RDM training sessions anyway... 🫤 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sorry I didn't respond to your message I opened it 5 seconds after you sent it and forgot to reply while trying to wait an appropriate amount of time to reply

Anyone aware of America's relationship to its own indigenous peoples would strive not to repeat the past. In light of current events, we invite our readers to learn more about the autonomous territory of Greenland and the vibrant culture of its Indigenous peoples.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Female biomedical researchers wait significantly longer to have their papers peer reviewed by journals, a new study has found. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky #peerreview https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/papers-female-scientists-spend-weeks-longer-peer-review

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...