Just put out my latest newsletter of Latin American collections at Penn Libraries! Featuring Peruvian magazines, South American LGBTQ+ photobooks, and more mailchi.mp/63e121c1bc39...

I’ll be live tweeting the game from a gay bathhouse. follow along if you want commentary from a room of naked men who has some common desire with straight bros one day every four years

I found some of you already, but friends: when are you presenting at #LASA2026? That program is MASSIVE.

Ever wondered why so many indie bookstores have masking policies to prevent #covid? We asked them! Read our new article “Indie Bookstores Promoting Masking and Covid Consciousness in 2026” 📚💙https://www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookstores-promoting-masking-and-covid-consciousness-in-2026/

Indie Bookstores with Masking & Covid Policies in 2026

The trajectory of Covid awareness may not go exactly as many expect, and in the meantime, bookstores are one of the community spaces that can offer a transition point to a different possible future.

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Join us June 10-11 for a symposium with scholars, artists, and activists from U.S. territories as they interrogate these structures and imagine a future where topics of sovereignty, justice, and freedom are no longer questions but guaranteed realities. RSVP for free --> https://ow.ly/OqPs50YZbSF

Thank you for featuring! This book with @ucpress.bsky.social officially launches in less than one week on 19 May! When it does, you can read for free thanks to Luminos Open Access!

Mexican Studies Research Collective@mexicanists.org · 6mo ago

The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite, by @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social mexicanists.org/2026/05/13/t...

Do not hesitate to circulate this call among junior faculty and recent PhDs who might be interested.

Instituto Juan Linz@institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III is recruiting for a fixed-term 2-year position in Political Science. This is a two-year opportunity to conduct research, teach, and and collaborate in a vibrant and interdisciplinary academic environment. More info: lnkd.in/eyVbmPRJ

Esta noticia fue publicada originalmente por la agencia de noticias @en.afp.com y ahora publicado en @eleconomista.com.mx "Javier #Milei, aportará 350,000 dólares para este proyecto y 'extirpar el cáncer de la izquierda' en Latinoamérica." #Hundurasgate #Colombia #Mexico

"Hondurasgate", audios revelan supuesta trama de EU contra izquierda en Latinoamérica

Las conversaciones tuvieron lugar en WhatsApp, Signal y Telegram entre enero y abril pasado y su veracidad fue comprobada con el software Phonexia Voice

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"courses were canceled, programs eliminated, syllabi altered, readings scrapped, and beloved professors are choosing to leave their institutions, and in some cases, the state." pen.org/texas-tech-a...

Texas Tech Students Hold ‘Funeral’ for Academic Freedom

A horse drawn carriage carrying an urn, books, photographs and other markers of academic life led the students' "funeral" procession.

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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... "While criminal gangs are responsible for the vast majority of disappearances, the IACHR report found that “many of the disappearances committed by organised crime occur in deep collusion and coordination with state agents”.

Disappearances in Mexico involving state at ‘alarming’ rate, says report

Exclusive: Human rights group warns of ‘deep collusion’ between criminals and officials in some parts of country

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Hans E. Offerdal@hofferdal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Según @elsoldemexico.oem.com.mx "La recomendación de #CIDH no es la única sobre #madresbuscadoras. El Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer (CEDAW) también pidió en 2025 al Estado mexicano reconocer formalmente a las buscadoras como una categoría específica" #Mexico #4T

"Last year, a record 55% of people killed in city crashes were non-motorists, based on PennDot’s updated figures. A majority of the serious injuries on Philadelphia streets, 52%, happened when drivers hit someone outside of a car."

Fatal crashes are down overall in Pa., but higher for pedestrians and cyclists in Philadelphia

Philly Bike Action says the city and state should install more concrete barriers separating vulnerable road users from motor traffic.

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Folks - If you have time, I would really appreciate it if you put in a request with your university or public library to purchase my book. Thank you in advance! dukeupress.edu/the-business...

The National Security Archive is looking for an intern for the Mexico Project! Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/mexico-proje...

Hot off the press! Check out our newest dLOC handbook, co-authored by @chancyms.bsky.social & @katielcoldiron.bsky.social! dloc.com/AA00115422/0...

Reminder! Call for Submissions: “Aquí y allá: Puerto Rican Education across the Archipelago & the Diaspora” This issue seeks scholarship & creative work that examines Puerto Rican educational experiences across the archipelago & the diaspora. Click here to learn more → https://ow.ly/WX5m50YyHJb

capybara listening to good music

This is why planning for sustainability matters *so much*. It might feel like a hassle to incorporate long term plans into a project from the start (as I ask for in my academic library project intakes) but I promise it's worth it. Talk to a librarian! We can help!

Sharon Howard@sharonhoward.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

The reality is the opposite. Librarians are essential to a successful research community on campus. Student success is improved when they can get 1:1 research help from librarians. And yet libraries are consistently underfunded and undervalued, librarians always underpaid.

“The Mint buys gold that originates in a Colombian drug cartel mine. […]from Mexican and Peruvian pawn shops and from a Congolese mine that is part-owned by the Chinese government […] a company in Honduras that dug up an Indigenous graveyard for the ore underneath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’

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Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚

Sometimes you’re sorting through a box of random bits of paper and you find a letter from Mario Vargas Llosa

Sometimes you’re sorting through a box of random bits of paper and you find a letter from Mario Vargas Llosa

Víctor Fragoso was a Puerto Rican writer & poet living in NYC during the 70s who dared to write from an unapologetically political & gay perspective. The special 50th anniversary edition of his book, ser islas/being islands, is available for purchase today. Buy now--> https://ow.ly/ARU450YMQa9

Love that I have to turn Copilot off every day first thing on my workplace Outlook because it apparently turns itself back on every night.

These same boards are the same ones pushing “AI literacy” into every corner of our institutions, so the convergence-effect Ted describes in this thread—increasingly powerful boards filled w/ rich ppl whose anti-intellectual, airport-book obsessions drive research & teaching—is also the story of “AI”

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Harvard story is lurid and disgraceful but it’s one of many. In other places people are hearing what they’ll be allowed to teach or assign from week to week or waiting for boards of directors full of rich alums with MBAs to tell them what history books are OK to have students read

Registration is open for ACH 2026, taking place virtually June 24–26! This year's theme centers transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas, with bilingual participation in English and Spanish. Register now: ach2026.ach.org

The Trump administration deported more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison, even though most had no gang ties. What did both governments gain from this? @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and El Faro teamed up to find out. Watch “The Deal” now on @PBS. shorturl.at/zvNxT

The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS) + El Faro

What was behind Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s deal with President Donald Trump to imprison deportees from the U.S. at CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate. This journalism is made…

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Calling AI a “tool for learning” is like a film major where they teach you how to operate a remote

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 7mo ago

Starting in September, Boston will become the first major city in the country to ensure high school students graduate with AI proficiency, helping students use AI as a tool for learning while preparing them for college and the workforce.