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...

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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.

I'm writing documentation for donors about transferring electronic records to the archives and DANG the DANNING group's guidance about this is so, so clear and helpful. dannng.github.io

Finalizing the object list for next year’s America250 exhibit and here’s my favorite:

My neighbor started flying an upside down German flag. I’m having a hard time figuring out what the hell is going on in this town.

For my train weirdos and my food weirdos, here’s the corporate recipe book and serving standards of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad . Please enjoy these elegantly-served aspics. hdl.handle.net/11134/3992510

I live in a very small, kinda crappy, rural town that is cost burdened by housing. Our town has a GREAT website about housing affordability and an awesome diagnosis of the problem. Their "affordable housing plan 2022-2027" does very little to meet the moment www.brooklynct.org/planning-zon...

no way dude. cmon. that cant be it

It is very sad to me how many Americans have untreated anxiety disorders. I do not need to do a 20 minute security sweep of my hotel room. I do not need to put AirTags in my kid’s shoes. No one is trying to traffic anyone at the grocery store.

My fun weekends used to end with bottle caps in my jacket pockets. Now it’s these.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

At one point Vance is torn between caring for a family member and getting to a Big Law interview. He drives all night at 100 mph and then when he's pulled over he explains to the cop that he's a veteran. Far from the MOST objectionable passage, but the reckless, macho entitlement was always there

“We’ve lost our way. We’re fearful about championing the issues and the causes that really matter, the day-to-day expenses of living in [Connecticut].” - State Rep. Josh Elliott, who is challenging Gov. Lamont from the left. #nutmegsky

We know that we live in the age of bullshit and misinformation when even the covid-cautious scolds are vaccine deniers. It is not the case that breakthrough infection is inevitable. The covid vaccine DOES prevent catching and spreading covid. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

How am I expected to fall asleep?!?!?

The cause of poverty is not having enough money. There are, indeed, distorting effects when we don't address the root causes of shortages. But in the meantime, we can and should alleviate suffering!

At my archives, I have a reading group where we read articles and chapters from scholars who have used our holdings. I’m starting to think that none of you want your evidence to be reproducible.

Next, Higgs Kopin E ( @ehkopin.bsky.social ), Hutchison J, Truitt J. ( @linguistory.bsky.social ) Building Capacity for Born-Digital Archives Through Accessioning Workflows at the Friends Historical Library. The American Archivist. 2025;88(1):40–56 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

I'll start with the note from the editors -- Davis RKJ, Eagle Yun A, Searcy R. Accessioning: The Always-Already Function of Archival Practice. The American Archivist. 2025;88(1):10–16. doi: 10.17723/2327-9702-88.1.10 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

My reports are in, my reviews are done, and I've fiddled enough with Excel today. I'm going to spend the rest of my afternoon live-reviewing the new special issue of @saa-official.bsky.social 's American Archivist on accessioning, edited by @widelight.bsky.social , Audra Eagle Yun and Rachel Searcy

"Strategic Adjustments to Custodial Services" email this morning. I bet we can all guess what the strategy and what the adjustments are.

Announcement this morning that our library's "iDesk" is now "Library Services."

Huh. The majority of microplastics are from tires, clothing (polyester), and paint. It’s not coming from large, durable plastics. So… paper labels, lighter vehicles + transit, and eliminating polyester as much as possible would do most of the heavy land-based lifting (and jute fishing nets).

Historian of abolition here in 1854 William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the federal Fugitive Slave law and the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution to protest fugitive slave rendition in Framingham, Massachusetts. Boston was you may call it today a sanctuary city.

I think that if archivists followed the advice that we give in this chapter, the collecting landscape and institutional cultures of archives would be very different. Read it and tell us what you think!