My last piece of writing for 2025. "If the constant challenge of staying in sync leads researchers to fixate on its accomplishment, then libraries can offer paths back to the wonder of discovery." www.arl.org/blog/reperto...

I was already feeling like this in 2018! I’m not following the space anymore, but interesting to hear that that’s still true.

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

With downward pressure on indirect costs at research institutions, some libraries are taking a closer look at direct charging to grant budgets for specialized services. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/08/g...

When we talk about how changes in the U.S. federal funding landscape will affect the future of scholarship, this has just become my Exhibit A.

💥New: The case for preserving scholarly ✍️ @pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #AcWri #ScholComm #OpenResearch

📢 Excited to share that COS has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data. 📰 Read more:

Finding that a study can't be reproduced is just the beginning of exploring the "variable space" that might explain why. issues.org/confidence-s...

An article I'm thinking with about how research libraries can support engaged scholarship and societal impact: what would it mean to lean into place, rather than a research ecosystem that's implicitly elsewhere and everywhere? journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

I loved this piece on the organizational infrastructure of Sacred Harp singings. Did it all seem natural, effervescent? Systems and collective labor did that. www.greyledger.org/the-architec...

Here's the latest installment of my newsletter for @arl.org, which aims to provide library leaders with intelligence and insight on the research environment. You can also subscribe if you'd like future issues to show up in your inbox. www.arl.org/our-prioriti...

Filling my cup today with Jan Morris's remembrance of Trieste, where I stopped off en route to Ljubljana twenty years ago this month 🧳

The latest post in our #ARLRepertoires series by @marcellaflamme.bsky.social looks to Clay Spinuzzi’s book Triangles and Tribulations for insight on why social scientists continue to look to theory in an age of data-intensive scholarship. bit.ly/RepTheory @mitpress.bsky.social @cossa.bsky.social

Glimmer of insight: is one reason departments resist research assessment reform because faculty governance and researcher autonomy are being eroded on so many other fronts?

I hope you keep writing and researching and publishing, even if it’s about distant and abstruse topics. It’s not stupid, it’s beautiful, because it’s a testament to the curiosity and care they’re trying to eradicate.

The first time I heard the phrase "publish a dataset" I thought, "well, that doesn't apply to us. Why would an anthropologist publish their data?" It's been a minute, and now I understand why *sometimes* it's actually a great thing to do. And we did it!

Five institutions explored how machine-actionable data management plans, supported by @caldiglib.bsky.social's DMPTool, could improve research support and streamline compliance. Here's what we learned. www.arl.org/news/new-res...

Finally working my way through this report, which has become a ubiquitous reference point for research libraries. I can't help connecting it to @structureless.bsky.social's piece about porous social orders (doi.org/10.17613/y6e...). www.oclc.org/research/pub...

I did a practicum at the Harvard Herbaria when I was in library school. Super cool to read about this use of their collections to complement remote sensing data. www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/harv...

With IMLS funding for 2026 uncertain, Massachusetts prepares to cut online newspaper access, databases for K-12 students. theshoestring.org/2025/08/20/o...

Grateful for the opportunity to be trained on #TheoryofChange as a tool for linking program planning to societal impact. Our actions always have unintended consequences, but I see value in at least getting clear on the intended ones.

What happens when science's greatest strengths (openness, humility, self-criticism, self-correction) are exploited for political gain? @briannosek.bsky.social calls on scientists to affirm the application of those strengths as the source of its trustworthiness @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4l8rNuE

Collecting #Quaker resources like this one as I prepare to clerk a committee at my monthly meeting for the first time. Any other favorites? web.archive.org/web/20041210...

"The politicization of economic data and potential interference with it by political appointees is something that's typically seen in non-democratic countries like Russia, Venezuela or China." www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Canada's Tri-Agencies have removed the mandatory requirement to disclose use of AI in grant proposals, calling it "an unnecessary administrative burden." science.gc.ca/site/science...

Interesting menu of options for publishing cost containment being considered by NIH. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We look forward to welcoming Kate Zwaard as the next Executive Director of CNI, effective September 15, 2025. She will join CNI from the Library of Congress, where she presided over the Library’s digital transformation. Full announcement: www.cni.org/news/kate-zw... @arl.org @educause.bsky.social

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Society for the Anthropology of Work and Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a 8-month writing mentorship program running September 2025 to April 2026. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw at [email protected].

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Roundups like this are so valuable! And, like Ryan, I'm not quite sure where to look for them these days.

"The greater the pressure on the scientific enterprise, the more one hears about FDR’s science advisor." 😂 issues.org/innovation-h...

An automatically generated LLM prompt/output log archived and attached to the written work would be a cool innovation to try. Then we could categorize the types of interaction empirically

I love the idea of authors archiving their complete interactions with LLM tools and providing them to readers. Hard to operationalize though - what about "simple" interactions, like LLM fact-checking or literature searches?...

The first thing I've written about AI! Or, really, about the genres we're inventing to compel each other to come clean about its use. openanthroresearch.org/index.php/oa...

There’s More to Research Than Citations: Understanding Knowledge-Sharing Practices With Open Science Indicators (via @plos.org) theplosblog.plos.org/2025/07/ther... #publishers #openscience

"The new analysis shows that the Trump administration’s budget plan, if adopted, would essentially end America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Here's the latest post in my Repertoires series for @arl.org, which explores strategies for sustaining research in the face of institutional upheaval and how libraries can show up for both projects and people who find themselves "untethered." www.arl.org/blog/reperto...

I've been sweet on chautauquas for a while (dailyyonder.com/backroad-lib...), but the past and present Quaker connection to the mothership is brand-new to me. www.friendsjournal.org/the-120-year...

After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀 warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...

The NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect today, July 1, 2025. We and @sparcopen.bsky.social have made a form to collect challenges or questions faced by authors, librarians and their institutions in complying with the new federal public access policies: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/01/n...

The special issue of @economicanthro.bsky.social on "Work and the Data Economy" that I coedited with Nick Seaver and Alex Blanchette is out at last! anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23304847...

Here for the crossed streams of human/machine signification! www.salon.com/2025/06/11/a...

Scholarly publishers expect authors to disclose use of AI. It's early days yet for research on why they do or don't. arxiv.org/abs/2505.20727

How do reimbursements for indirect costs relate to research libraries, and what would a new model being developed by JAG mean for the services libraries provide? Check out my interview with Hilary Craiglow for @arl.org. www.arl.org/blog/the-pas...

Like the confessional, the AI disclosure statement in scholarly publishing is an incitement to discourse.

On not being “useful idiots of an antiscience movement.” If you’re an STSer, the parallels to Latour’s “why has critique run out of steam?” are unmistakable. www.science.org/content/arti...

Really appreciate my senators, @warren.senate.gov and @markey.senate.gov, trying to get some clarity on the admin's plans for IMLS even as the court cases play out in the background. www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

“If you run a university press or are responsible for one at a university, perhaps now is the time to think what you can do to demonstrate and formally encode the public good of what you are doing.”