Solidarity with @ucaft.bsky.social lecturers as they kick off contract bargaining today at Berkeley!✊ #WeTeachUC

Just published in College & Research Libraries News! 🎉 “Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements”: doi.org/10.5860/crln.... We argue for more caution with the language used when talking about the "value" of TAs.

I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund! Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home

I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.

Lecturers contract bargaining starts February 19th! Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall. Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Meta internal memo says they plan to launch facial recognition for their Ray Ban snoop glasses and it should be fine because groups like the ACLU are busy fighting fascism so won't have time to fight back. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The San Francisco teachers strike is over as the school district and teachers union reach tentative agreement, a $183 million deal increasing educators salaries and health care benefits in a two-year contract. Schools will remain closed Friday, with classrooms open again on Wednesday.

Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is February 23–27, 2026, the 13th annual celebration of balance in copyright law! Learn how to participate: www.arl.org/blog/partici... #FairUseWeek #FairDealingWeek #Copyright #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #Libraries @carl-abrc.bsky.social

UC-AFT lecturers are kicking off contract bargaining on February 19. At Berkeley, Unit 18 lecturers can show their support at Bauer Wurster Hall throughout the day, and everyone can stop by California Hall for a solidarity bake sale 10:30a-2:00p! ✊🥧 @ucaft.bsky.social

I "enjoy" the hybrid roles this sort of doomerism serves to simultaneously misrepresent what the technology is actually capable of, and misdirect attention away from the fact the real problem is a pretty traditional one: greedy, shitty people

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get … tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Sir, yes sir. Budget-Chicken-2425. He’s the antifa number 2. Real mastermind

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.

The attack comes a week after the Trump administration was sued by the families of two men killed in an earlier strike.

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

Join ARL & @recreatecoalition.bsky.social for a congressional staff briefing during #FairUseWeek, Wed Feb 25 in DC, on #AI & #FairUse! RSVP: bit.ly/FUW26briefing @authorsalliance.bsky.social @nyulaw.bsky.social @eff.org @bb.usefairuse.com @davehansen.bsky.social @ktrendacosta.bsky.social

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

“When asked by The Post if they were still committed to their diversity programs, only 12 schools said yes.” www.washingtonpost.com/education/in...

After Charlie Kirk was shot, UCLA DEI director Johnathan Perkins said he was "glad when bigots die.” But was it a fireable offense? I spoke to Perkins and look at what's happened with the dozens of campus faculty and staff suspensions after Kirk's death: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Some recent film photos, shot on Ilford FP4.

Enormous loss for librarianship. Fobazi’s impact on the profession is indescribable. Peace to her friends and family. How honored we all were to know work and call her a colleague.

People coming out of their musty corners to tell us how un-upset they are by broad scale pedophilia among the rich and powerful was not on my bingo card.

“Publishers have exploited the policy transition to spread misinformation, assert rights they do not hold, and position themselves as gatekeepers to compliance that should cost researchers nothing.”

OpenAI’s New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace ‘Prism’ Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AI Slop It is no secret that large language models (LLMs) are being used routinely to modify and even write scientific papers. That’s not necessarily a bad thing: LLMs can help produce clearer…

An ICE official told a judge that showing his face would put his life in danger. Turns out his face was on his LinkedIn profile. It's a "clear example" of the false pretexts used to shield officials from accountability, FPF's Seth Stern writes in @theintercept.com.

“Many of the proposed “productivity” gains at the core of higher education are simply reductions in the quality of the product — larger classes, thinner feedback, fewer contact hours, more contingent labor.” www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

In the latest Re:Create Recap note, I explain how the work of computer science researchers tricking AI models into spitting out copies of training data doesn't have the dire legal consequences some commentators advertise. We know because the 2nd Circuit said so in Google Books.

How has Minneapolis remained so non-violent in the face of Trump's horrific provocations? JaNaé Bates Imari explained to @thedigradio.bsky.social how MN's deep progressive orgs set a tone of non-violent discipline for the movement as a whole

General strikes are workers’ most powerful weapon. But it takes more than hashtags to make them real. Here’s how we can build a real general strike to stop ICE in the US www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...

High-volume publishing leading to high-volume retractions.

We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?” Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.

Trump runs into billionaire at Davos who serves as a go-between for Harvard. He said he would lower his price. This is how the future of higher education, research, and learning in the US is being negotiated. It’s like a bad movie. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

SEIU Local 1000 President Anica Walls told CalMatters in an email that forcing all employees to use E-Verify “raised serious concerns for our members about privacy, data security, and the unnecessary re-verification of workers who are already legally employed.” calmatters.org/economy/tech...

FBI official doesn't know where Wisconsin is, per Epstein release. "I just googled because I really didnt know lol. Looks northwest of Chicago"

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

NEW: It's Not a General Strike, but It's a Start 🪧🚩🏴 Will January 30th see a true general strike? Almost certainly not. But that doesn't mean we should write it off, argues BRRN member and rank-and-file unionist Cameron Pádraig. www.blackrosefed.org/not-a-genera...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards

East bay solidarity ride in remembrance of Alex Pretti. Abolish ICE! @bikeeastbay.bsky.social

“When publishers choke off access because they fear AI scraping, they're not just deterring some hypothetical bot…also making it harder for journalists, researchers, advocates, lawyers to establish what was publicly said, when, and how it changed.” copyrightfightclub.substack.com/p/licensing-...