Benjamin Saracco
@libsaracco.bsky.social
Associate Professor/Librarian @ Rowan University Libraries [Scholarly Publishing & Open Science], Instructor Biomedical Sciences @ Cooper Medical School, COPE Chair @ AFT local 2373. 🇮🇹&🇺🇸 Camden, NJ he/him #evidencesynthesis #environmentaljustice #infolit
Who hates libraries? The Trump Admin apparently. Fortunately we just stopped them from destroying your favorite local reading corner.
Jacob Gardenswartz@reporterjacobg.bsky.social · 9mo agoJust in: Federal judge blocks Trump admin effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Minority Business Development Agency, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessnes storage.courtlistene...
#red meat allergy #Alpha-gal #ticks It’s peak tick season! Our new study highlights hidden dangers of Alpha-gal Syndrome which can lead to severe delayed reactions, and not only to red meat. Many medical providers are unfamiliar with it. nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Alpha-Gal Syndrome: Often Hidden, Under-Recognized, and in Need of Attention-A Rapid Review - PubMed
Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a tick-borne allergy, is increasing as its vectors migrate throughout the US and the world. There were an estimated 450,000 cases in the US. AGS reactions to mammalian foods ...
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MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding
Fun to get a physical copy of this in the mail today from @uncpress.bsky.social! Catch a chapter I was fortunate enough to co-author with the talented Dr. Rose in part V.
If only they could have spoken to a librarian about the 271 reasons why this is a Bad Idea, but they’re too busy defunding, firing and/or prosecuting them, I guess. 🤷♀️
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · last yr.YOU DID WHAT?
Great session to end my #ACRL2025 conference. The mood was understandably down for a lot of the sessions and roundtables considering everything that's going on around the world impacting academic freedom, higher education and librarie. This presentation was a glimpse of collective power & hope.
Heading to Philly this June for ALA Annual? Swing by a day early and join us for Organize Your Library! Unionist and public school teacher Daniel Reyes will facilitate a training in the nuts and bolts of organizing our workplaces. Registration is free and capped at 40. forms.gle/cFb1n6VoFK2o...
Organize Your Library!
Coming to Philadelphia for ALA Annual? Join us before the conference on Thursday, June 26, 2025 and learn to Organize Your Library! This event will bring library workers from across the U.S. together...
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Sharing this job posting. #medlibs #skybrarians 12-month, non-tenure-track position of Reference and Clinical Librarian. Link to job ad: jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50... Salary may range $71,000-$122,000 This position is represented by @aftunion.bsky.social Local 2373.
Rowan HR - Details - Reference and Clinical Librarian (Open Rank) - Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) LibraryJob Postings | Human Resources | Rowan University
Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.
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"Efficiency" means cancelling a bunch of content from society and non-profit presses while continuing to throw money at the big commercials. www.science.org/content/arti...
DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library
“We can’t do science without these,” one researcher says of the hundreds of journals no longer accessible
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Nobody should be forced to live in an area with a polluter that has been enabled by the State. Trenton needs to do better and when I’m governor it will change. Sign the petition here - 2000 ppl have signed to demand action actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell our Lawmakers: We Demand Strong Regulations for EMR in Camden!
The catastrophic fire at EMR in Camden on February 21 put the public health of Camden City residents in danger and spread noxious air pollution throughout Camden County. For far too long, Camden res...
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Let me be clear - EMR’s ability to operate without accountability from the state speaks to a broader conversation about environmental justice, politics in NJ, and how we treat urban/poorer areas of the state.
Tri-County Sustainability@tricounty.bsky.social · last yr.Over 2 weeks and not a peep from the 2025 Gov candidates on the disastrous EMR fire in Camden that displaced dozens and lead to hazardous AQ across the region. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @joshgottheimer.bsky.social @rasjbaraka.bsky.social @stevenfulop.bsky.social @stevesweeneynj.bsky.social
Our colleague, @siobhanh.bsky.social, analyses Clarivate’s attempt to restrict libraries from securing perpetual access to content. This prioritises profit over preservation and raises major concerns about sustainability, equity, and access to knowledge. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/792/
On Clarivate’s Recent Announcement
Clarivate’s recent announcement has sparked significant concern among librarians and information professionals. The proposed changes could restrict libraries from securing perpetual access to print bo...
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actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell our Lawmakers: We Demand Strong Regulations for EMR in Camden!
The catastrophic fire at EMR in Camden on February 21 put the public health of Camden City residents in danger and spread noxious air pollution throughout Camden County. For far too long, Camden res...
actionnetwork.org
Yet another scrap yard fire courtesy of Eastern Metal Recycling causing the evacuation of South Camden. Residents have had enough, this facility must be closed. #environmentalracism #overburdenedcommmunity
Joining this Clarivate update... eventually. Who TF uses Webex?
How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
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Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.
@inquirer.com really pulling its weight the last few days covering the downstream chaos from the Trump admin as well as state and local politics in PA/NJ. Consider subscribing if you're in the area (or out of it!).
Stephen Stirling@sstirling.bsky.social · 2y agoA lot is happening. Here is some @inquirer.com coverage of local impacts from Trump’s actions in recent days: ICE raids North Philly car wash Statewide confusion over funding freeze. Philly has more than $1.7 billion in active medical research grants Trump admin halts Penn research for review
President Trump’s temporary order freezing communications from the CDC, HHS and other federal agencies endangers public health and hampers healthcare providers’ ability to respond to outbreaks of infectious disease and food-borne illness. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
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ROAC conference “Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism”, 10 & 11 April 2025, in Cambridge (UK) and online. Announcement of speakers and contributing journals and presses | RadicalOA on hcommons.social https://hcommons.social/@RadicalOA/113876805121390736
RadicalOA (@RadicalOA@hcommons.social)
📢 We are really excited to announce the speakers, journals, and presses participating in this year's ROAC conference “Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism”, happening on 10 and 11 April 2025 online and at the Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library (UK). Speakers: Élisabeth Arsenault, Sarah-Anne Arsenault, Lucy Barnes, Simon Batterbury, Marc Herbst, Rupert Gatti, Angela Okune, Charmaine Pereira, Jeff Pooley, Ela Przybyło, Magalí Rabasa, Ash Sharma, Stevphen Shukaitis, Lauren Smith, Alessandra Tosi, Vincent van Gerven Oei Journals & Presses: darkmatter, ÉSBC, Feral Feminisms, Feminist Africa, Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Radical Librarianship, mediastudies.press, Minor Compositions, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. @journalofpoliticalecology@sciences.social @mediadotpress @OpenBookPublish More details, and registration via https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/
hcommons.social
I once made a comment about how big companies are definitely using sci-hub to train their models and some guy replied very sternly that they would never do this because of how risk averse they all are. Lol.
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 2y agowow. Upon Court order, incriminating exhibits were unsealed at 3:30am in an AI lawsuit against Meta. Once past a 'fake privilege,' it appears Zuckerberg approved the use of a highly controversial, pirated dataset. Note OpenAI, too? AI companies with no ethics or guardrails. /1
I was fortunate to complete this excellent training at CMU recently. Highly recommend it to other librarians working in the area of open science.
Chasz Griego@chaszg.bsky.social · 2y agoTake part in an Open Science Primer train-the-trainer program! 🔓📖🖥️ How are you meeting the evolving Open Sciences needs of your research community? Learn approaches and techniques to teach, communicate, and advocate for the various aspects of Open Science: guides.library.cmu.edu/opensciencep...
Three cheers for New Jersey! apnews.com/article/new-...
New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books in school, public libraries
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law to prohibit book bans in the state and enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.
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This starts on Sunday and continues every day through the 24th of December. My hope is that you'll learn a new tip you didn't know before that will be applicable for your own research. I focus on MeSH, field tags, PubMed content, journals, and more!
Carrie Price@carrieprice.bsky.social · 2y agoI'll be doing an advent calendar of #SearchingSkills where you can try/learn something new every day. It will be primarily in PubMed and sometimes using MeSH terms to answer the question. It will be aimed at inexperienced searchers, but I hope experienced searchers will join in too!
![Sign texts is a pubmed search that reads
NOT ("Censorship, Research"[Mesh] OR "Propaganda"[Mesh] OR "Fascism"[Mesh] OR (censor*[tiab] OR propaganda[tiab] OR fascis*[tiab] OR (oppressive[tiab] AND (state[tiab] OR states[tiab] OR government*[tiab] OR power[tiab] OR powers[tiab])))](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m74f4wirudhnwpjrttc2j7h5/bafkreibmaumqzydeq5xettcykyeg2nligvxmmhdhkvd6m2rilg5jprrtou)
