I broke my nose when I was 17. At my surgical consult the doctor explained the process, paused to take a good long look at my face and then said, “And of course you’ll be getting rhinoplasty for that nose.” I fled his office and found a better doctor who insisted my nose was fine the way it was

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 1h ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

Finally

The Independent@the-independent.com · 9h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

All gender bathrooms are welcoming spaces. Love this playful approach, reminding us that the only thing that matters is washing your hands when you’re done Seen in Manhattan Beach, CA

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...

We invite the community to provide comments on a new strategic plan from the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI). Learn more 📖 Read the draft strategic plan 💭 Share feedback 💻 Join us August 7th at 2 pm ET for a webinar! www.datarescueproject.org/open-for-com...

Open for Community Comment: Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI) Strategic Plan

The DRP Steering Committee is excited about the release of the draft Strategic Plan of the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI). DRP Director Lynda Kellam has been working with...

datarescueproject.org

Last call for the free, online @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference happening this week! Registration closes tomorrow, Wednesday, August 5, at 12pm ET. For more information on the sessions and to register, go to: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conference

Today was rough, but I managed to get to the beach for sunset. Here’s hoping tomorrow is a better day

My darling nibbling arrived last night and is even more delightful than I remember. But the antibiotics I’m on are making me so sick I can’t get off the couch (my partner is taking her exploring). I wanted this to be such a special visit and I’m turning out to be terrible company 😭

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 4d ago

My younger nibbling arrives tonight for a weeklong visit before she heads off to (gasp!) college! It’s her second visit out here and her first solo trip across the country. I don’t get to see her nearly enough, but every time I do I’m amazed at the thoughtful and empathetic person she’s becoming 😍

We're booting up our fall public events schedule, & lots are already listed live! Free public workshops (eg text analysis for humanities+soc sci), speakers (including @patymurrieta.bsky.social), and makerspace events including repair cafés 🪡🧵 as part of the Library's year of "Away from Keyboard"🫸⌨️

"Recall how like AI extracts labour, I witness senior colleagues extract from juniors their mental, and especially emotional, labour, offloading stress and cognitive processing onto others. And most disturbingly, pushing onto them this labour in their time of need."

Now here's a challenge for the men of @ach.bsky.social: volunteer to be next in line for secretary and mix things up so it's not always women and enbies doing that work. The last male secretary was Stéfan Sinclair from 2004-2007. It's been 20 years, my dudes!

Sarah Werner@wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hoo boy when I was the Secretary on a board and couldn’t find a man to take my place when my term ended because having to do that work of metacognition was too feminized

Sweet boy

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

collegiality and "fit" are ways to cloak bias.

jackal@jackal25.bsky.social · 4d ago

Collegiality is an explicit tenure requirement at a few schools, I’ve learned recently. Doesn’t seem to be helpfully defined anywhere though ….

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

It's incredible is how little folks understand about academe. Peer review is brutal. Academic Q+A is Troy level slaughter. Bros attacking a lady academic for a fair review would shit themselves on stage after a paper and break down into toddler tears after their first conference paper w a mean Q+A.

My younger nibbling arrives tonight for a weeklong visit before she heads off to (gasp!) college! It’s her second visit out here and her first solo trip across the country. I don’t get to see her nearly enough, but every time I do I’m amazed at the thoughtful and empathetic person she’s becoming 😍

„Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data” ACH pre-conference workshop materials by Allison Fischbach and me are now available in Knowledge Commons! Please use and share widely! You can access everything at doi.org/10.17613/9qs... #webarchiving #webrecorder #ach #digitalhumanities

Fun times this week scheming with @jajrk.bsky.social on a new project: a card game for teachers to work with students to co-create better, alternative visions for AI futures than the ones we are told are inevitable. Play and storytelling in the classroom for destabilizing narratives by/of power.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Strategies for Simple Sabotage that are life giving.

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 5d ago

Want to resist imposed genAI use in your workplace? There’s some advice and inspiration in here (h/t @readywriting.bsky.social) aftermath.site/ai-resistanc...

nothing will radicalize you quite like getting to read that Very Costly Consultant’s Report and realizing what some of these firms are actually getting paid for

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d ago

the status hierarchy of pissing money away is also endlessly fascinating my old place (large, public, midrank) once spent ~C$5,000 (a pittance, and yet too much) to get a "higher education strategy" consultancy to google search history faculty and print out our H-Index scores, as a "pilot" project

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

Deep Thoughts on the Current AI Discourse. 🧵: 1. I don’t think robots are on the verge of going rogue and murdering us all in our digital sleep. My p-doom is low. Note that this is separate from the question of ongoing enshittification, where my e-shit number is pretty well maxed out. +

Thinking a lot today about what it means to work in a neoliberal extractive institution that insists you drag your broken ass body to work. The institution functions on/through harm.

Birds of paradise are truly among my favorite flowers

I know I’m officially old because I finally see the value of cover letters. Related: #mlis grads, I am literally begging you to read the job posting before applying. I want so badly to give y’all a chance. But you have to prove you know what job you’re applying for (🧵)