Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

The people of Mansfield, Connecticut are upset that students are allowed to vote in local elections. 🤡

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

GOOD NEWS: Want to plant flowers this spring? Bloom Rhode Island is giving away $200,000 in grants to gardeners and nonprofits to plant publicly visible flowers (or to create cutting gardens) in PVD Central Falls, Woonsocket, Pawtucket or the denser areas of East PVD bloomrhodeisland.org/grants

The DOJ’s Epstein document interface isn’t neutral. It lets you examine fragments in exquisite detail while making the totality unseeable—Jameson's classic problem of cognitive mapping, rendered as UX. Folks often forget that distant reading is how you see the forest when power insists on trees.

This is who runs this account.

UConn Archives & Special Collections fellowship applications close January 30. We offer $4,000 research fellowships & $1,500 travel grants supporting work with collections in social movements, literature, the arts, education, industry, and more. Open to all researchers. Please boost! #nutmegsky

My solitary 2026 goal is to move to a walkable neighborhood so that school/childcare is less likely to be canceled and I’m not stuck inside with a feral raccoon three-year-old three days after a storm.

My next quixotic archives quest is to dig everyone kicking and screaming toward a more copyleft IP regime. We have donors sign contracts anyway! You can make them do smart things with copyrights! (From the boilerplate that I ask curators to send potential donors).

UConn Archives & Special Collections fellowship applications close January 30. We offer $4,000 research fellowships & $1,500 travel grants supporting work with collections in social movements, literature, the arts, education, industry, and more. Open to all researchers. Please boost! #nutmegsky

🚨 Applications are open! UConn Archives & Special Collections is offering $4,000 research fellowships + $1,500 travel grants for onsite archival work. The application is quick and requires NO letters of reference. library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

I invite you to stop doomscrolling and experience this video of GWAR performing Pink Pony Club. youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make us holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on

This guy has won a free copy of Finnegan’s Wake.

When works become public domain, anyone can reimagine and reuse them. 🚂 The Little Engine That Could can be freely reinterpreted—like this video marrying pages of the 1930 book to a Librivox audio recording. 📚+🎤 Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w... #PublicDomainDay

We have lots of fellowship / travel money to give and not a lot of applications yet. Applications are due January 30. Apply! Spread the word!

Watch Lucy Dacus perform the women's suffrage and workers' rights anthem "Bread And Roses" at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's NYC mayoral inauguration

Tomorrow is public domain day! In the US, most materials under copyright created through 1930 (and audio recordings created through 1925) join the public domain! 🎉 web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

Also, James Marshall! We recently acquired his personal scrapbooks, which track his aesthetic sense and also his life with his partner William. Visit! Apply for a fellowship! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

We’re very proud to have Lobel’s papers! Come to Connecticut to look into his life and work. Apply for a fellowship and maybe we’ll pay for it! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

And the RI Blood Center is being staffed by a huge number of professionals who volunteered for extra shifts. Taking walk ins. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

for Black researchers, these collections may be of interest to you APPLY!!

For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

For scholars interested in illustration and writing for children, we’re offering a research fellowship — $4,000 to support research, and a very easy application. Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Calling all #kidlit authors and illustrators! We’re awarding a $4,000 fellowship for you to come and spend time with incredible archives to inspire your next work. Richard Scarry, Esphyr Slobodkina, James Marshall… our holdings are outstanding. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Do you do archival research? Do you know anyone who does? Our travel grant is a very easy application and we give $1,500 to come do research onsite in Storrs, CT. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

You should have to get a license before creating data in Excel that other people will rely on.

🚨 Applications are open! UConn Archives & Special Collections is offering $4,000 research fellowships + $1,500 travel grants for onsite archival work. The application is quick and requires NO letters of reference. library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Found a picture of @femalecenobite.bsky.social

Humpback whales sing to find others — after the recent population rebound, they’re singing less because they’re less lonely. 🐋 www.biointeractive.org/planning-too...

Incredible carne asada for short money. Plus in high school this is where everyone would go to have fights.

Human artificial gestational technology is feminist praxis.

Wage compression is good. It makes it so that people do work they are suited to rather than chasing a living.

Good news for us bad news for I Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who will now be buried alive at Dick Cheney's feet like Smithers & Mr Burns

archivists' attitudes to privacy and negotiating restrictions is almost completely about one thing -- not wanting to be yelled at

"Police investigations attempted to link Spike's murder with his bisexuality.[3][6]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

"Spike was bludgeoned to death at Ohio State University in Columbus on October 17, 1966.[5] No one was ever tried for his murder; after a systematic review some church sources believe that he was assassinated.[3]"

It's good that we live in an age where we have multiple sources of biographical information on people, because this bio note does not include any mention of how this civil rights leader died www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findi...

We’re not big TV people so we don’t tend to put on the TV for the toddler but yesterday we all needed to chill out so I put on the original 1970s Muppet movie. It was in VHS rotation for me when I was little. I don’t think the slapstick pastiche of other genres actually works for little kids!

I think students are generally capable of whatever we prepare them for and expect of them, but it might be frustrating that the seeds we plant don’t blossom right away. I think that teachers’ complaints are sometimes that they wish that other teachers had already done the teaching for them.

For my friends in Western MA -- St. John's is raising funds so that they can serve as an emergency winter shelter. They need about 12K to get up to code. These are amazing people who do God's work and every dollar will serve our siblings. www.stjohnsnorthampton.org/product/give...

one thing we are trying to do at UConn in the face of the absolute shitstorm of higher ed: faculty workers are fighting for academic freedom guarantees in our contract as conditions of our employment. because we can see how well by-laws are holding up in other places. dailycampus.com/2025/10/21/u...

the comic strip that the internet lives in denial of

Every cool coffee shop I went to in Seoul was playing smooth jazz, and it was deeply comforting

I got a wonderfully kind note yesterday from someone who read my essay about collecting Leslie Feinberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt's papers, so I'm going to stop being shy about sharing it: “Things People Gave Me.” Journal of Lesbian Studies. doi.org/10.1080/1089... (DM me for a free link if needed.)

I did a course with a historian and graduate students on Monday and I asked him how he organizes his notes. He replied that the purpose of research is writing. When he learns something, he writes about it, and then he creates a footnote. Everything else is a procrastination tool.

Oh, also, it's not clear to me that anyone in the focus group that informed this blog has ever created a finding aid. The only person who has archives in their title is "head of cataloguing and archival processing" 🙃 Anyway, for more, see the Mastodon thread: code4lib.social/@linguistory...

Considering that OCLC just laid off so many people, including the archives experts, this does not surprise me. I’m sure that the survivors are doing the best they can but this blog post is less than useless.