Nicky Agate
@terrainsvagues.bsky.social
Open knowledge & values-enacted leadership I rise early for birds, bikes, & beasts Associate Dean @library.cmu.edu Editorial Director @cmupress.bsky.social Co-PI @humetricshss.bsky.social PI library.cmu.edu/poem In cahoots w/ @rnisa.bsky.social
I am really excited that we're playing a small part in recognizing game design & creation as scholarship @cmupress.bsky.social
Carnegie Mellon University Press@cmupress.bsky.social · 4d agoAnnouncing the newest peer-reviewed series for Carnegie Mellon University Press: games! This week during @meaningfulplay.bsky.social, we're launching our first-ever CFG (call for games) for Promptuary, a playable anthology. www.cmu.edu/university-p... #boardgames #tabletopgaming #stayanalog
It is fall publication day for @cmupress.bsky.social and I could not be more proud! Huge congrats to our authors, who include the winners and runners-up of our inaugural new play and literary translation contests, and to our tiny team. More about the titles below… #booksky #translation
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Hello, Zagreb! Currently at #oaspa2026, where I’ll be presenting our @openatcmu.bsky.social poster, “From Dumping Ground to Discovery Engine: Rethinking the Institutional Repository as Connective Open Infrastructure.” If you’re here, say hi! #openscience doi.org/10.1184/R1/3...
From Dumping Ground to Discovery Engine: Rethinking the Institutional Repository as Connective Open Infrastructure
Institutional repositories are often treated as passive archives: places where OA materials accumulate rather than engines that actively surface, connect, and amplify open scholarship. At Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, we are rethinking this model through a suite of interoperable integrations designed to make our repository, KiltHub, a dynamic node in the broader open knowledge ecosystem.Our initiative has three interconnected workstreams: first, we have integrated KiltHub with OA Switchboard to automatically generate metadata-only records for CMU authors' OA publications supported by transformative agreements, turning publisher notifications into repository presence without burdening authors or staff or splitting impact metrics across multiple versions of a publication. Second, we are embedding repository content within external platforms: for example, OER deposited in KiltHub are surfaced directly within POEM, an IMLS-funded open educational resource platform for AI literacy, enabling discovery in the contexts where users already work. Third, we have integrated KiltHub with the Libraries' AI-powered chatbot, enabling users to discover CMU's open research through conversational search. Our broader open science discovery strategy also includes surfacing our transformative agreements, read-and-publish deals, and green and diamond OA publications through the chatbot's integration with SciFree, helping authors understand their open access options in real time while ensuring the Libraries’ efforts and investments don’t get buried in our website. Future work includes building out CHORD, a central exchange hub for verified metadata about research data, and creating a new module for the Open Science Primer on making open science infrastructure more interoperable.
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something i really resent is that they made a machine that uses every public thought we've ever had, and now it's our job to carefully edit every public thought so it doesn't sound like the machine, which is continuing to steal our every public thought by the minute
Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People Scientists are preserving vital climate-related information amid the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science.
Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People
Scientists are preserving vital climate-related information amid the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science.
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Such an amazing week spent with my @humetricshss.bsky.social colleagues & seven committed teams who negotiated their values, turned horizon goals into milestones & stepping stones (so many opportunities to enact shared values when you focus on process!), & then built a robust action plan #VELI26
HuMetricsHSS@humetricshss.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’re at T minus two minutes for the second edition of the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute…
The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall
When 'scaling small' becomes national policy
The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing
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If you are (or you know) a recent PhD with an interest in exploring careers in emerging forms of scholarly #publishing, #digitalhumanities, or academic community building, this @cmupress.bsky.social / @library.cmu.edu role might be of interest. cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
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This collection is so, so good.
BOMB Magazine@bombmag.bsky.social · 4mo agoWriter and director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Sony Ton-Aime discusses his poetry collection, “Konbit” ( @cmupress.bsky.social, 2026), that reimagines the communal solidarity of the Haitian revolution with writer Z. L. Nickels.
So the soundtrack (and the timing of the drops!) in Netflix’s Legends is pure gold. Also, what an amazing show for noir/wire fans out there.
Update. "US’s climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit." https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/ "Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government." #Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch […]
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Because it is actually possible to value people, love their diversity, take joy in how they shape a place, and think that getting smart stuff done for each other is cool.
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 4mo ago“New Yorkers are just in a really great place right now in terms of the hope that we’re feeling. Feeling that there is possibility for our futures, that there’s hope in terms of our political outlook and our personal outlook. The things that we need to lead happy & dignified lives feel within reach”
The only game they lost SINCE APRIL was the Trump game. LOL
Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 4mo agoThe only Finals game the Knicks lost was the one with Trump in attendance. lol.
I cannot believe that just happened. I’m so happy. Also every city needs a democratic socialist mayor.
Was just served a thread on reddit — “Do birds sploot?” — and wow but that’s clickbait for me right there.
Know someone with a passion for community building, project management, AND championing peer-reviewed #DH? At CMU Libraries & Press, we're hiring a postdoc in computational humanities and publishing. 2 yrs, $65k/year, 4 days/wk on campus. Please share! cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
In search of a support group for partners of lifelong fans of the Knicks. (I don’t think I can handle the tension level in my house rn)
This year we awarded an additional prize to the Research Coding Club, in recognition of the cross-institutional scope of their work 🏆 RCC has been running since 2017 as a volunteer-led support and training network for anybody at the University who works with research software 🧑💻
Open Research at York@uoyopenres.bsky.social · 5mo agoVery pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Open Research Awards, celebrating innovation, advocacy and good practice in open research across all disciplines at York! 🎉🏆 We will post about each our 9 awardees over the course of the week. You can read a summary of their projects on the wiki 👇
Please do what you can to resist a federal book ban in schools. It will prevent schools from teaching any materials with lgbtq+ characters and severely limit the works kids are able to be taught. authorsguild.org/news/update-...
Update on H.R. 7661: Help Us Stop the Federal Book Banning Bill - The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild is actively opposing HR 7661, the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.” The bill would link federal school funding to specific reading requirements—including a narrow, decades-ol...
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Lose the M and ruin a book: The Emory Police
Elly is 3 birds in a gardening hat@almost-elly.bsky.social · 6mo agoLose the M and ruin a book: The An Who Was Thursday
I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!
Quick and Meaningless Data Collection
Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…
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The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
Amidst all that is destructive and demoralizing, we're meeting to celebrate civic culture + public knowledge and build solidarities. Open to NYC info workers (librarians, archivists), grad students, artists, designers. Apps are due Wednesday, Jan 7, end-of-day! Confirmed sessions include:...
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11mo agoApps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
Cannot recommend Jer’s B2B course enough. 🪶 #birds
Jer Thorp@jerthorp.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨🚨 🪶📊🎨 🚨🚨 Good news for all of you bird + data + art enthusiasts: I've opened registration for THREE cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials starting in March. One contemplative monthly cohort & two bi-weekly ones. Guaranteed to change your 🧠! www.jerthorp.me/learning
The best birthday present is getting to Queen Bee with @rnisa.bsky.social but without Steve @nytimes.com
