acrlog.org/2026/06/25/t... orthogonal to the argument this response is making but the point about professional formation and benchmark events makes me think about how my perspective on like. making a case/argument was formed in my high school history class and is the framing i think of to this day

The MLS Is Not the Problem: A Response - ACRLog

Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Ben Rawlins, Associate Dean for Outreach, Engagement and Collections at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Bryn Geffert's recent Inside Higher Ed es...

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okay this is primarily motivated by my fond memories of #critlib on the entity formerly known as Twitter but like. is there a map of where the fun library conversations happen these days. i feel like i used to know The Blogs and Twitter tags to follow and now it is all scattered like so much dust

I'm sort of fascinated by the rhetorical strategy I keep seeing from AI boosters to try to skip past the question of 'Should we?' straight to 'How?' Like I understand why these folk WANT it to be a settled question but like. It simply is not?

medium.com/regarding-wi... "The deepest practical lesson of the decade may be that openness without ownership is a temporary condition, and that the only ownership that lasts is the kind no individual holds."

The Encyclopedia’s Own Library

What the Wikipedia Library and the Open Access movement won and what they lost over a decade in a paywalled world

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WAIT. Hang on. Has anybody pulled together journal APC charges into a comprehensive dataset? I just had a thought...a 2026 Open Access Week Cost of Research themed thought...stay tuned, we are cooking...

Okay so I run this service at MPOW where faculty send me their CVs and I check which of their works can legally go on our repository. They get a nice lil report explaining which version of the work is eligible and why and I (ideally) get a bunch of accepted manuscripts in my inbox to deposit.

This looks awesome! A data viz course from the authors of Data Feminism, @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social. So excited to teach with these materials! openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/data...

Alberto Cairo@albertocairo.com · 3mo ago

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

Ok. I wrote about the Afroman trial, including this incredible image of him being sworn in on the witness stand.

Techdirt@techdirt.com · 5mo ago

Afroman’s Defamation Trial Is Going About As Well For The Deputies As Their Original Raid Did We've been following the saga of Afroman (real name Joseph Foreman) and the Adams County Sheriff's Office for a few years now, and I'm delighted to report that the defamation trial is currently underway…

!!! this is an incredibly insightful comparison that is sparking a lot of thoughts in me. I want to read this paper!

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The possibility of control , of being “special” of having ownership over another being: - destroys the self - is ultimately an illusion AI is just .. its explaining every moment of cultural psychosis seen during slavery

Me using the Phone a Friend feature while writing my #EIC2026 lightning talk: hey if I put a GIF of that one 🎵it's the time to DISCO💃 scene from Kal Ho Naa Ho do you think people will pick up what I'm putting down? Her:

a close up of a man 's face looking at a woman .

Alt: Jim from the The Office pursing his lips

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Bringing this back to say I still want to know if the rise of university libraries publishing open ETDs have impacted this trend. Is anyone tracking that btw? Are there good numbers available on how many institutions make a point of posting their ETDs to their repositories?

@ziflibrarian.bsky.social · last yr.

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Thinking about how Larivière said back in 2007 theses citations have been seeing a steady decline for like a century and wondering if that's held true these past two decades. How hard would it be to replicate his search methods?

I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

@devononabike.bsky.social This is extremely interesting and potentially an illustrative example to include in your schol comm workshops re: the constructed nature of scholarly authority and prestige!

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 5mo ago

"The only way to address the reliance on a journal’s brand as a proxy for quality was to take a recognized signifier and destroy that signification." Nice piece. I still have so much respect for eLife's decision to jeopardise its prestige in order to show that journal prestige is bad for science.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

feeling that my current book thoughts are too full of valuable literary analysis to be confined solely to whatsapp messages with the bestie. messages loading, stay tuned #pieReads26

Peter Coviello with another dynamite piece. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

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Congrats to the fine folks at the Data Rescue Project on this well-deserved award--and huge thanks to their 900 volunteers who saved over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies in 2025. rdapassociation.org/news/13593532

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so anyways I think if I were -lupe fiasco voice- daydreaming~ about building out a suite of data services I'd probably go hard on data visualization first because it seems like the most recognizable carrot of the bunch

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 7mo ago

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

What is the POINT of this? Literally what value do you get of an AI response to a research question? Are we really at the point where survey tools just sell the ability to commit scientific fraud?

Sabrina Norwood@sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

so we're doing these cliftonstrengths assessments at MPOW and like. it's fun! we love a personality quiz! but i'm v curious if there's a version of these that involves external validation; like if you could have a coworker do it for you and see if they match

this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

Y'all ever think about how there are people in this world who hear about millions going hungry and their response is 'we should be careful about helping, what if it discourages work?' 🙃 I've got to stop reading op-eds, I simply do not vibe with those who've surgically removed their humanity

Today we are enlightening ourselves as to the history of the thesis (and/or dissertation). Specifically, when did it become standard practice to require a thesis in order to be awarded a graduate degree?

As someone who has been reading both Coates and Klein for 15 years, I thought this summary and diagnosis of their disagreement by @andreapitzer.bsky.social was very good and correct. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

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🎁 A gift for you for #PeerReviewWeek! 🎁 I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts! reeserichardson.blog/2025/09/15/t...

The world’s laziest peer reviewer

A dataset-shaped gift for you to celebrate Peer Review Week

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The Digital Commons dashboard came out of a DC user group you say? The discipline wheel too? Streaming capability? Loving the lore drops at today's Digital Conference workshop sessions. 👂

When I was job hunting in library school I remember saying to my friends God, can we just MAKE a library to employ us all? This is ridiculous! 10 years later I'm still wondering how to build jobs for all these incredibly smart principled people who could contribute so much if given fair opportunity!

Student debt is strangling new librarians. The proposed changes will make it worse. The cost of living is out of control and mid-level jobs aren't paying enough for rent, much less entry level. Professional development is expected or required, but must be paid by the worker.