Apple music doing the most to remind me that 2025 was the year that my kid got really into the Hamilton soundtrack and then I watched the Lilith Fair documentary and went on a Sarah McLachlan binge.

Update on Fried, the Kingfield Opossum: she leaves a zigzag tail print in the snow!!

It’s the most exciting day of the year for our cats!

🎵 Pink possum snoot I'm gonna keep on looking At the pink possum snoot 🎵

Long live Fried!!

Update: POSSUM FRIEND EMERGED

I’m solidly with our child on this. Look at this cute friend!

Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Because it was all a lie to establish for divorce proceedings that he was incapable of working and earning income so that he didn’t have to pay alimony

So happy to see this second guest editorial in C&RL this month calling for training & better peer review guidelines. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

In which @amylibrarian.bsky.social and I argue that if LIS journals had more rigorous guidelines for authors, things like that ridiculous "privacy of thought" article in C&RL wouldn't get published. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

“authors should state when they did not synthesize the totality of the evidence (e.g., engaged in cherry-picking) or if they did not evaluate or contextualize the included literature, etc.” Love peer review of the peer review! 🔥

New (dare I say spicy?) Guest Editorial just dropped. Co-written with @meganmk.bsky.social crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... 🌶🌶🌶

I spent this week feeling very frustrated about this looming situation, so today I decided to write about cholera infantum. It killed infants and young toddlers every summer, and making it a weird disease of the past took food safety regulation and support for poor families' food access.

Is it weird that I hope our license plate is having fun on whatever crime adventures it’s having now?

AND MONK FRUIT! They taste so bad!

Normal Gossip: pear crisp edition.

The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

I found this to be exptremely helpfuyl. Thanks, Jack, for taking us through the Quality of Evidence Pyramid as applied to gender affirming care. jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...

Oof, that Lilith Fair documentary destroyed me.

The Data Curation Network datacuration.network is hiring a director. It's a multi-institution organization based at the U of MN Libraries. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Could I just brag about my colleagues for a little bit? In July, librarians at at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs, an effort to preserve interpretive signs at our national parks. So far, they have collected 8,070 images of signs (4 of them my own) from 319 sites!!!

This article gets at many of the problems we're facing -- not just hallucinated books/citations, but erosion of trust & information literacy, mistreatment of chat librarians being mistaken for robots, and the onslaught of crap products being pushed out as "features" in our databases.

Because I actually care quite a bit about the institution, I’ll tell you about what these four (very badly done) brand things were about. Because the work is good. This brand work is truly awful. Gene therapy to fight advanced-stage GI cancers

She won't say this in her bio, but @saralovesyou.bsky.social has an MFA in poetry, a PhD in education, & 20 years experience working in public health, plus a demonic obsession with genealogy. Her research & writing is legit. www.syndicateandhague.com

Yesterday my brilliant wife @saralovesyou.bsky.social launched How We Used to Die: the St. Paul Death Register Project to look at the realities of how people lived & died before we had the vaccines & treatments for diseases we have today. It's horrifying & intriguing & she's a great storyteller.

Does anyone know the timeline on when PRISMA-AI will be shared? I see that it's in-development.

I’m so mad that this is the world in which we have to send our kids off to school. That guns are more valued by most of our political leaders and the Supreme Court than their / our lives. It’s disgusting.

Turned it on while I was driving for this reason only to have them air an upbeat Taylor Swift engagement bit.

Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC! Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.

Cash sight one of the last performances of Cabaret at the Guthrie today and wow, was it good and, wow, I am not going to emotionally recover for a long time.

Can't we just call on all pro-vaccine parents? Please? As a mom - I don't want more work assigned to me for gender's sake alone - Pro-vax parents and guardians of all genders and roles need to reply to MAHA as a stronger, healthier, more inclusive coalition for the well being of all children

Catching up on work/email after a week on the North Shore and everything about AI is making me so grumpy. None of this matters, let me go stare at Lake Superior some more.

If you’ve ever read or discussed Fobazi’s work on vocational awe in librarianship, you know a small bit of what she’s contributed to the world. Help her and her wife make it through this tough time.

If this is how drag kinging goes mainstream, I’m here for it!

If you need a pick-me-up, read Sabrina's wonderfully bizarre and strangely touching story about chimps sticking blades of grass up their butts.

ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷‍♀️ "On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...

But the parents are so lost they don’t even realize that it’s not the classes that changed your kid, it was separation from YOU. No gender studies, sociology, or history class could ever accomplish what three months of not having to live with your bullies will do.

Twin Cities/Suburbs: I'm looking for an Indian Restaurant with a patio/outdoor seating. I know one good one is Himalayan. Any other recommendations?

University of MN is hiring a Data Curation Librarian! External applicant link: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/369...

Gift link: Minnesota archivists scramble to document national park signs before they’re gone www.startribune.com/brooks-minne...

My child, a 12 yr old pedant being forced to listen to Ani DiFranco in the car: “I really don’t like this song because goldfish actually have really good memories.” Me, defensive: “Look, we’ve learned a lot about goldfish since the 90’s”

Exactly this.

Nowhere in this letter from the outgoing editor of C&RL do they address the issue of publishing a bad-faith article based on cherry-picked "research." If we can't expect some kind of standards of rigor for what they publish, what's even the point? crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

This story includes an excellent district-by-district search tool that you can use to see exactly how much money is being withheld from your family or community's budget.

For Fairer Open Access Deals, Base Article Eligibility on Submission Date by Sunshine Carter and Allison Langham-Putrow doi.org/10.1146/kati...