As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.

Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC! Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.

Calling all NYC #DataRescuers, we're going to be in your area! Help #SaveOurSigns finish strong with an in-person rescue event. Please register in advance. lu.ma/w7cfkk26

What insights emerge when a librarian, a software engineer, and a legal scholar come together to experiment with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to explore over 800,000 French legal articles 🇫🇷? Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...

Say you can't sleep, baby, we know, that's that [threat to government data]. Fuel up on espresso (or your favorite caffeinated beverage of choice) and join the #DataRescueVolunteers

Bonafide @harvardlil.bsky.social and so very happy to be the Project Lead for Public Data

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards. Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities

If you are feeling discouraged, powerless, or terrified, it is so tempting to retreat into solitude, but you need to be in community right now. Come out tomorrow if you possibly can. handsoff2025.com

🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday

Thank you. 💜💜💜

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

We had planned to make a post this morning celebrating 100+ bluesky followers for the #NEH union #AFGE 3403. Instead, we are learning that a large number of our members were placed on Administrative Leave at almost midnight last night, cut off from our systems, and facing unknown days ahead.

Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! | The Signal blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20... @bcgl.bsky.social

Just finished rereading Charlotte Brontë's Villette, & this time round, its ending strikes me as one of the most romantic ever, maybe b/c I inhabit an age of hiring freezes & academic precarity. M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach. Swoon! #19thc

New @charlotteerosen.bsky.social banger ‼️🚨‼️ proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

podcast bro'ed out about resistance history: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

#OCCUPY IMLS! Starting Tomorrow! 955 L'Enfant Plaza North SW, Suite 4000, Washington, DC 20024-2135

Thrilled my book, Plastic Capitalism, was named a finalist for the Business History Conference's (@businesshistoryc.bsky.social) 2025 Hagley Prize and received an honourable mention for the 2025 Ralph Gomory Prize. @yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A St Patrick’s Day Socialist Guide to Irish Film and TV https://jacobin.com/2025/03/st-patricks-day-irish-film/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism

Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”

NEH’s Fellowships program is accepting applications. This program supports scholars in conducting #humanities research & producing books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations w/annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions. ow.ly/JBme50UV92u

NEH is celebrating “All The News That’s Fit to Print” Day with the #NEHgrant-funded #ChronAm database of digitized American newspapers between 1756-1963. Take tips from Eva Fay in this 1923 "Washington Times-Herald" article, a famous medium, on “how to talk with spirits": ow.ly/S4bC50UV8bl

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

Disaster Capitalism, alive and well. 🤦‍♀️

Today at 1:45! Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop ow.ly/4QE350UB0oG #MLA25

prepping for #mla25 panel on "Early Modern Social Media" and having way too much fun with my "whodunnit" slides

#NEHgov staff are at #MLA25! Stop by the Professional Development Hub to discuss your project ideas, or join us tomorrow for a presentation and workshop, Getting Funded in the Humanities. ow.ly/WVTx50UB0eU

Heading to the MLA 2025 Convention in New Orleans? So are we! Check out the #NEHgov sessions on January 9 and 10 and be sure to stop and say hi at our table in the Professional Development Hub. We’ll see you there! #MLA2025

I love working at NEH w historical newspaper digitization and early American archives, and this is a great honor. Thank you to so many friends, colleagues, and comrades who have supported me in ways visible and less visible. I am so grateful to end a big year this way. 💕

Congratulations, Nick! Well deserved

An exciting postdoc opportunity at the JCB!

Sometimes the times call for a frog with a butterfly crown.

Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social. In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences. www.thinkingwithmoss.net

Today my book won the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference's Arline Custer Memorial Book Prize. 🙏📚 I hoped the book would speak not only to readers new to histories of Black collections, but also to archivists & curators who collect and classify everyday. So I’m incredibly honored. Thank you!

Wondering if I can sue PayPal for libel. They just sent an email saying they're "making changes to our user agreements that will affect you" and the changes are all regarding payer protection for NFTs. Not been so insulted since Netflix said I should watch a Ricky Gervais special.