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About Knowledge Commons – Your Home for Digital Scholarly Work

Knowledge Commons is an open, adaptable collection of tools that support the human work of education and research and make that work more visible and impactful.

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Coming not a moment too soon: Frayed: Leadership Burnout among Women in Higher Ed by @agilefacultyrpr.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Frayed

Leadership Burnout Among Women in Higher Ed

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Today's #KCWorks spotlight will make you want to [quietly] dance the night away! 💃 🕺 Selected by Bonnie Russell, learn more about the silent disco phenomenon: works.hcommons.org/records/y7kc...

Indigo also consolidates crossposts, so when someone posts the same content to both, it appears once in your feed.

Testing out two cross-feed (ATProto & Fedi) apps, Flare and Indigo. Both are pretty slick. Flare is open source, which matters to me. But Indigo — which is pricey — has one killer feature: syncing your reading position across devices.

I would love to talk with any #CCCC exec/officers who might be interested in thinking about how to flip the org from their prior host to an open-access, open-source platform. Which is to say I’m wondering whether Knowledge Commons might be able to help.

Not only do I agree with this assessment, it is a note-perfect usage of that construction, from exactly the person I'd want to ask where I picked it up from and how it came to have that particular inflection. (Yes, I am trying to distract myself from the apoplectic rage that impends.)

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 4w ago

Do what.

I just… don’t know what to say at all. statenews.com/article/2026...

Kevin Guskiewicz to stay at MSU - The State News

President Kevin Guskiewicz is staying at Michigan State University. 

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Cross-posted from the Knowledge Commons team blog . A few days ago a colleague alerted me to a thread on Bluesky that raised serious questions... (New post from kfitz.info: "Publishing Workflow vs Business Model" https://kfitz.info/blog/2026-07-02-workflow/)

This is an important thread, and something to take seriously as many organizations start thinking about the Publish-Review-Curate workflow. HOWEVER: I disagree very strongly with the fundamental premise. PRC has the potential to free research communication from corporate capture. +

Jonny Coates@jacoates.bsky.social · last mo.

PRC is the most damaging effort we've embarked upon since introducing APCs. This will lead to even greater inequity, greater costs and it's being driven by the very people we should have been able to trust to deliver real, meaningful, change. It's a betrayal of the preprint community.

Same. Same same same. 🩷

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last mo.

I left the Church years ago. I can’t go back. I do not demand that the Church change for me. But when the Holy Father says stuff like this I feel so connected to the depths of my faith, to the part of the Church that I did not and cannot leave, and I am so happy to feel that way

For once, I've got Kathleen Fitzpatrick the Australian historian beat! Oh... dangit.

Open scholarly infrastructures need *principles* in order to be worthy of trust. So here is Knowledge Commons's 2026 audit according to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure 2.0. With an opening short essay by me. about.hcommons.org/2026/06/17/k... openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (v2.0, 2025)

POSI version 2.0 released October 2025 The POSI Adopters reviewed the version 1.1 principles and consulted with the community to create version 2.0, released in October 2025. The new/always-current ve...

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I would love to talk with librarians & others worried about the future of their repositories. Is there a potential role for Knowledge Commons/KCWorks in mirroring institutional repositories such that they're protected against uncertain futures?

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2mo ago

It's a grim question and one that, obviously, pales into insignificance beside the human cost if this happens, but: what happens to a university's institutional repository when the institution fails/goes bankrupt/closes? Has any university taken digital preservation precautions?

Many years ago, when I was bartending in a NOLA restaurant before going back to grad school, a very new young server surprised everyone by ending up in the top three for sales one week. +

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

news.chanda.science

So, so true: “Google Scholar has never been enough.” Personally, I’d say the same about a lot of commercial library discovery engines, which often cannot tell the difference between a book and a review of a book. Human curation, not for profit, supporting the scholarly societies that support you.

Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Yep. And please, grad students and faculty members, use specialized, curated databases (such as the MLA International Bibliography, the ATLA Religion Database, and RILM) for your research. Google Scholar has never been enough.

Pleased to talk to IOI about our approach at @digitalscholar.bsky.social to developing and supporting open infrastructure, including the many ways our small team is working to support the larger field.

Invest in Open Infrastructure@investinopen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For 15+ years, the Corporation for Digital Scholarship has sustained Zotero, Omeka, and more with an unusual business model. We spoke with co-CEO Sharon Leon – read the new IOI case study:

Time to update the numbers in my book talk again. Thanks for continuing to provide the instructive examples, MSU.

Finally sitting still and reading MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS, and when I tell you how my breath caught at “the preferential option for the poor” (§14) nestled in amongst the standards for discernment we should develop for our collective future… I am here for liberation theology. Bring it, Leo.

For reasons, I dug up this 2012 NYT op-ed by Stanley Fish, where he quotes @kfitz.info, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, and myself on blogging and the digital humanities. Which, he DOES NOT LIKE. And why? 🧵

Gee, I hope they remember that they have to raise a million dollars EVERY YEAR to cover this. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Michigan State President Receives $1M Raise

One trustee said Kevin Guskiewicz was being “aggressively pursued” amid rampant leadership turnover in the Big Ten.

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I’m in the early stages of a new writing project, asking not how to fix higher education in the US but what we should do if it can't be fixed. This paper, presented at February's ACLA, represents the dipping of one toe in those waters. Comments *definitely* desired. kfitz.info/after-the-end/

I wrote the paper below for an ACLA panel on re-theorizing the university, delivered in Montreal in late February. Afterward, I shared it with a... (New post from kfitz.info: "After the End" https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/)

Members made this possible. Collective action requires the collective. Whether MLA, AHA, or another society, please join, engage, and participate. Together, we can accomplish some pretty amazing things.

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

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Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

"A life saved is not saved for the pleasure of the one who lives it, or the people and communities they touch, but rather for their economic value" - @kfitz.info kfitz.info/humanities-p...

I spent some time yesterday noodling about Amy Schiller's THE PRICE OF HUMANITY and the questions it raised for me about US higher education’s interpellation into the ideology behind Effective Altruism. kfitz.info/humanities-p...