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aj-boston.neocities.org@aj-boston.bsky.social · 12mo ago

conducting an LIS study tracing the iPod owner to metadata librarian pipeline

Emily Wilson getting an Onion article written about her is what I would call a win condition.

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Federico Pianzola@fpianz.eurosky.social · 6d ago

Exciting upcoming updates for @gettymuseum.bsky.social vocabularies! #DH2026 #LinkedOpenData

“A fifteen-week course is a campaign.” 💯👩🏻‍🏫 “I serve the weirdos, God bless them.” “Another world is possible, not just in your head and at the table, but in the world!” @friede.bsky.social

omg @friede.bsky.social is on my tv!!!!! 🤩😍

finishing my phd & getting a tenure track job didn't fix me; unfortunately i'm just like this

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Did you know that Puerto Rico became a U.S. laboratory for reproductive control, sterilization, eugenics—and the birth‑control pill? It's true. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory digpodcast.org/2019/05/12/c...

Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico

In 1968, researchers found that one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were surgically sterilized. This ignited the U.S. reproductive rights movement and the political demand to en…

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Does The King coming out of a TARDIS to open the Commonwealth Games imply a British Monarchy canon where he is merely the latest regeneration of The Queen?

As promised, some behind-the-scenes glimpses of the process of running a puppet Puppet Museum.

New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Augsburg contains a puppet museum. The puppet museum contains an exhibition in which puppets demonstrate the processes involved in curating a puppet museum. Photos when we return, if the puppets have not kidnapped us by then for revealing puppet secrets.

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Larry the Cat teaching the press how to do their job. @number10cat.bsky.social

Richard M. Nixon@dicknixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

Re: last few RTs: tonight I heard about three more humanities (-adjacent) tenure denials at Princeton — folks with great books + teaching records and reputations as committed advisors and colleagues

"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social

Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus

Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...

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New CILIP website is a mess of AI slop images. Check out the images of senior professionals and try and imagine the prompt that generated them. All backed by walls of fake books that look like the ones sold by the yard to furnish pubs www.cilip.org.uk/learn-develo...

I really want to open this one to the GLAMsky peanut gallery because yes for me it was probably the live mortar shell but also possibly the woman’s purse full of human teeth

Genny G@cobralingus.bsky.social · 2w ago

What was the last thing that turned up in an uncatalogued box that made you wish you could say "Nope", put the lid back on, and walk away like it never happened?

"unsolved for 30 years" makes it sound like hundreds of mathematicians were grinding on this problem constantly for the past three decades like all the others that "AI" has "solved" so far, this one was pretty much sitting on a shelf

Nicole Campbell is helping students build skills that often go untaught, from time management and prioritization to critical thinking. Through the open-access Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum toolkit, she's helping learners build confidence for school and beyond. More: buff.ly/ZOCmM9I

*extremely* pleased I can finally announce that @murmz.bsky.social @julzbullard.bsky.social @ljsmart.bsky.social Stacy Allison-Cassin Tina Liu, Jennifer Browning, Yoo Young Lee and I (and 100+ other ppl in Canadian GLAMS) were awarded a grant that will explore rebuilding Canada's union catalogue 🎉

A very kind neighbor texted me today about a "sick" crow laying motionless in the yard with its wings outstretched. Because today is the first really hot day of the summer, I knew right away the bird was fine and what was going on. Here's @corvidresearch.bsky.social on what they're doing and why.

Why crows sunbathe

With its bill agape, I watch as the crow fans out awkwardly across the cedar shingles. Pressing the camera to my face I snap a couple photos, pleased to finally capture on film a moment I so often …

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this morning at #AERI26 #AERI I'm teaching the poor foreigners in search for coffee (but not willing to wait in line) about Coffee Crisp

This is a/the livethread for #AERI #AERI26 Day 1! So nice to see some old and new friends this morning & We opened with a lovely opening & land acknowledgemen by Dr. Douglas and now: Looking Back to Move Forward w/ Anne Gilliland, Beth Yakel, Jeanette Bastian, Joanne Evans, and Michelle Caswell

thank you to @westernu.ca's Jacquelyn Mitchell for such a lovely interview!

Western University@westernu.ca · 2w ago

"Our love letter to the future." #WesternU researcher B. M. Watson's ( @brimwats.com ) personal experiences helped shape their work in building on and improving cataloguing – a system that is largely unseen but touches everyone. @westernufims.bsky.social

"Our love letter to the future." #WesternU researcher B. M. Watson's ( @brimwats.com ) personal experiences helped shape their work in building on and improving cataloguing – a system that is largely unseen but touches everyone. @westernufims.bsky.social

The hidden world that can make you feel seen: how cataloguing creates community - Western News

Western University professor Bri Watson explores how cataloguing, metadata and archives help people find identity, belonging and community.

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And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

Random side-note on The Odyssey: I'd forgotten that Asimov, in his Tales of the Black Widows mysteries, had a character planning to rewrite The Iliad and The Odyssey as limericks. Here's one: 1/2

Hi all! I'm Debbie Ridpath Ohi, #KidLit author & illustrator. Current focus: writing a novel. See my Links Page & my new Author Newsletter on @leaflet.pub for what I'm up to. Gradually moving my Unofficial Guide to Bluesky to a condensed version.