NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I decided to get a burner Facebook (many of my community's activities are communicated only on that platform). It's been over a decade since I had one, but I did not anticipate this degree of nightmare: to verify your account, they want to video your face.

THANK GOODNESS

THIS. I am lucky enough to have a session with students on the knowledge economy and while we map the systems, what I'm really doing is making space for them to really see the scale at which they've been betrayed, and then feel their feelings about it.

Yes, tech bros are gaslighting you about AI ethics. And, surprise, it's probably because it was missing from their computer science curricula: "...the Computer Science Draft Competencies provided didn’t include any occurrences of “ethics.” please go read Brandeis Marshall's, "Data Conscience"

Was excited to read this, but using AI hype terminology IS taking a position, & it's the wrong one the author on AI processing: "I’ll use “understand” and similar terms throughout this guide but take no position in the larger debate" the laziness is nauseating katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

@violetbfox.bsky.social, TY for continuing to refuse, and bringing us all along. I'm working with two OT faculty on a project about student agency within higher-ed AI boosterism, and we want an interdisciplinary framing. These resources help me explain AI in libraries acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

Sharing this update provided to me directly about the state of NLM and the future of NNLM, traveling exhibits, and, somehow, MedlinePlus. I am so worried for friends and colleagues, and I'm stuck on that, but it is hard to not want to scream WTF about a MedlinePlus with no new material. #medlibs

I made a little mend! (after I literally cut a little hole while hemming a skirt 💩)

"Overworking is both a personal choice and a management failure" BOTH.

Germany's central medical library, ZBMed, is building an alternative to PubMed. It will be open source, based on MeSH & associated data standards, built to be sustainable in case PubMed becomes unreliable - with APIs & MeSH maintenance. Open meeting called! 1/2 www.heise.de/news/Wegen-T... #MedLibs

Design fail this morning, but the bicyclist to arrive before me had a great idea

Note to self: BUY MORE BLUEBELLS

My friend's student asks me to share: The administration is trying to destroy the Endangered Species Act from within. Public commenting is basically the only way to thwart this rule before getting to court. If you have a few minutes to comment: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FW...

Hi friends! A good friend asked me to share this awesome new project— a literary magazine by trans kids, for trans kids, with a little help from trans adults. If you have a trans kid in your life, definitely check out Chrysalis Magazine! www.chrysalismagazine.org

Huge thanks to (many of) those who helped make this entire book read possible. I can't wait to work with all of you again next year! @justinwigard.bsky.social @devononabike.bsky.social @ziflibrarian.bsky.social ‪

Join us as we discuss Menopause: a comic treatment together! We've now opened the event to public attendees after requested access. 😀 edushare.ing/2025graphicm... Thanks to our planning group, too! @justinwigard.bsky.social @devononabike.bsky.social @ziflibrarian.bsky.social #GraphicMedicine 📜📚

#medlibs #graphicmedicine 📚

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many. A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms: www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

I need a better strategy to push back against AI boosterism at my U. I'm on all of the committees because of, ironically, my AI libguide. But my Ask Pointed Questions strategy is not slowing the hype machine. Is this when I start Stating Facts?

Can't wait to assign this as a class reading. Sorry, students, you were right all along.

I made an "educational" OA zine this past #openaccessweek and it may have been the peak of my career: commons.und.edu/smhs-lp/11/ What I learned: Make space for fun. Even if no one seems to care, it will give you energy to do hard, boring, bureaucratic nonsense. Then more fun!

I think I'm finally ready to recommit to professional development. Any recommendations for health humanities or scholarly communications groups in which I can find community?

The polemic I hadn't dared to dream of. Extra love for the provision of the term "AI boosterism", which is totally more accessibly than "technological determinism" THANK YOU @violetbfox.bsky.social

What backgrounds do people have who are participating in/leading AI education initiatives in health sciences & med schools? My findings this AM: you need a degree in bio/medical or computer sciences to get a foot in this door, and I would dearly like to make a case for a wider door at my U.

Finally put my finger on the weirdness itching me for...years? Higher Ed AI policies are responding to a problem without actually analyzing the problem itself. Or taking a position. From a place of icky tech myth. Thank you to @cjdenial.bsky.social for giving me this thread to pull!

This is one of my favorite articles on generative AI, in which Eryk Salvaggio unpacks how we're talking about it, who's providing that language, and what it all means. www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...

For those who are mad and activated (good) my one hope is that you will look for the people already doing the work. You probably do not need to invent your own new organization or group. Find the people already doing it and join them, listen to them, learn from them.

as a Big Nerd I have to tell you I went to Mendel’s abbey to look at his peas but the most notable part is actually the little hats he made for his microscopes

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Really enjoyed listening to this audio version of Leah Lemm's new documentary about manoomin this morning: www.mprnews.org/episode/2024...

#medlibs what on earth is going on with Occupational Therapy International journal!? They retracted two dozen articles this last January!? Was there some AI scam I didn't hear about? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/index/2618?s...

dear #medlibs, I am struggling to articulate, but, has anyone else noticed the glaring absence of humanism in the whether-to-use-AI clinical decision trees? I feel super weird being the only one in the room being like "What about cultural norms/expectations? Empathy?...No?"

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Have you heard of "algorithmic imaginaries"? Are there other fabulous concepts to understand human behavior surrounding AI that I've missed? (first encountered via Joelle Swart's 2021 article journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)