📚New book chapter published with @intermediocl.bsky.social and C. Rovira Factors for enhancing visibility in digital repositories: Metadata quality, interoperability standards, persistent identifiers, and SEO-GEO optimization doi.org/10.3145/cuvi... This work is part of @cuvicom.bsky.social

Dryad is a member of the NIH #GREI project, along with colleagues other generalist #research repositories. Together, we've been working to enhance #dataavailability and enable reuse. #Metadata is a huge part of that. READ MORE ▶️ bit.ly/3IoIlBy #opendata #openscience #scisky #researchdata

Join web pioneers Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle in conversation about building and preserving the internet. 📅 Thurs, Oct 9 @ 7:30 PM PT 🎟️ IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL Details ➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...

Today marks the beginning of the first federal government shutdown since 2019. ALA is concerned about the impacts on federal library workers, as well as the cascading impacts in communities nationwide. Read more about what this means for libraries: americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

Jane Goodall, Legendary Primatologist and Anthropologist, Dies at 91 www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

This is not normal

Why I gave the world wide web away for free www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#BarelySatire > Trump To Travel With Own Escalator Following U.N. Embarrassment theonion.com/trump-to-tra... #PendejoInChief #GOP #PartyOfStupid #escalator

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

"‘Workslop’: AI-Generated Work Content Is Slowing Everything Down" "AI slop has infiltrated the workplace, costing companies time and money." #AIIsTheProblem #InfoLit #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians gizmodo.com/workslop-ai-...

The university president's letter is bananas, and anyone who sends such a letter should not be running an academic institution. A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Shame on the Daily Mail for psychologizing Violet Affleck. Being a lone masker is hard. It takes courage, confidence and a commitment to protecting your health & the health of those around you. It’s not “anxiety” to want to avoid a multi system vascular virus. It’s adaptation.

Amid LGBTQ controversy, social work dean ‘steps down’ at Baylor. By Mark Wingfield. baptistnews.com/article/amid...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

A Democratic congresswoman is drafting articles of impeachment against HHS Secretary RFK Jr. citing “health care chaos” under his leadership. www.notus.org/congress/hal...

Dem Congresswoman Haley Stevens Files Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. truthout.org/articles/dem...

Study: Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults Trends From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2023 Published: September 24, 2025 www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

go.bsky.app/4Ey3uys The Defenders of Democracy team put their heads together & came up with this great Starter Pack It includes awesome starter pack authors, listers, and Defenders of Democracy friends & allies and all are worthy of your follow! We are Stronger Together!

Coming up in Seattle (and live streaming). Registration: www.washington.edu/lectures/eve... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Karen Leader, a tenured associate professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic University, was placed on administrative leave over her social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk’s political viewpoints.

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

MAGA showed up at Tennessee State University. An HBCU. It didn't work out well for them. atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/24/m...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Imagine one of those campus interruptions that the right denounced as an assault on free speech, only the president of the university personally set aside some seats so activists could heckle a conservative speaker. Also Yasmin Williams is a phenomenal talent and you should go see her live.

spectrum.ieee.org/ai-impact-on... #AI #artificialintelligence

The distractions are endless. Tylenol use in pregnancy creates autism. Birth control pills are actually bad for you. IVF is wrong. It never ends, but it’s all part of a strategy: Make American Women Helpless Again

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

Another banger from @frankstrong.bsky.social, this time on how Texas's SB 12 lead to the removal of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in Leander ISD: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/to-kill-a-...

FCC Plans to Kill New Federal Hotspot Lending Rule “One More Way To Limit Access to Information” (Joint Letter to FCC From ALA, SHLB, and Others) www.ala.org/news/2025/09... #libraries

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The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) has introduced a resolution calling for a week of celebrating Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs). asamnews.com/2025/09/22/c...

Grandmother who lived in U.S. for 3 decades deported to India asamnews.com/2025/09/25/g...

The trial for the suspect charged with the beating of then-88-year-old Yik Oi Huang in San Francisco is underway. Huang was assaulted in January 2019 and died a year later at the age of 89. asamnews.com/2025/09/23/y...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

"Instead of looking at our to-do lists and seeing that we’re being asked to do way more than is reasonable, we assume that we just need to find new ways to become more productive." meredithfarkas.substack.com/p/rest-as-a-...

#Metadata #librarian nerds rejoice! Read all about the @visithmml.bsky.social authority file! Authorities from names and works in all the Christian and Muslim manuscript traditions represented in HMML's collections. Read more: hmml.org/stories/shar...

Ugh! Bleak. Also... of course. Conspiracy Theorists Are Creating Special AIs to Agree With Their Bizarre Delusions futurism.com/conspiracy-t... "...bots specifically trained on harebrained conspiracy theories, including a custom bot designed to convince parents not to vaccinate their children."

Still can’t believe I was on BBC’s Women’s Hour with Anita Rani talking about @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social with director Kim A Snyder! Our segment’s in the last 15 mins, but we also got to share the mic with Prof. Edith Heard & author Oyinkan Braithwaite. Listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Korean American author Susan Choi's novel "Flashlight " has been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. asamnews.com/2025/09/26/s...

My book chapter, Don't Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, has arrived! This chapter explores my first years as a manager and how I did my best to embrace slow librarianship, push back on overcommitment and vocational awe, and make my department and its work sustainable. 📚📜

I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.

- #MeanGirls costumes✅ -Annotated #ThreeAmigos scripts✅ -The pilot for #30Rock ✅ & 50 years of #SNL history✅ Come & see "Live From New York: The #LorneMichaels Collection," now open to the public! (Thanks to @mr-jce.bsky.social for visiting @ransomcenter.bsky.social earlier this week!) #ATX #TBT

I'm on the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy podcast with @drewsof.bsky.social talking about how to preserve digital culture and libraries #yay lithub.com/the-disappea...

155 - AI Refusal feat. Kay This week we have @kslater.bsky.social back on to talk about AI and what the refusal of AI means in terms of library practice and theory.

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: Violet Affleck FTW, We don’t have the tools, Long Covid’s Brutal Economics, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... #AI #artificialintelligence

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