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snowdenbecker.bsky.social
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I've been off the socials for a while, but wanted to pop over here to replicate an old thread from Tw*tt*r with citations supporting salary transparency in library job postings. Please feel free to share widely, and DM or email me if you need a PDF of any of these articles!

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Programs focused on mindfulness, resilience, etc, only deal with the symptoms or the outcomes of policies, procedures, and culture and cannot address long-term problems like compassion fatigue and burnout. #workplacwellness #wellness4libs librarianbyday.net/2024/01/17/w...

submitted 491 days ago • 0 comments

Nice set of Commonplace articles about "reimagining how we measure success" in tenure + promotion, particularly in libraries; f/t pieces about recognizing team projects and tech development, expanding what counts as "evidence" of "impact" and permissible forms of "output"

submitted 491 days ago • 0 comments

I'd like to learn more about people's experiences of living with Graves Disease including managing (potentially associated) hypertension...any fellow travellers with this?

submitted 509 days ago • 1 comment

If you missed @shannonmattern.bsky.social’s brilliant essay “Fountain Society,” @nytimes.com's David Brooks recommends the read & we do too! His Sidney Awards feature the best long-form essays published this year in small publications. Read "Fountain Society" here: placesjournal.org/article/drin...

submitted 511 days ago • 4 comments

My latest for Filmmaker magazine: on the time and labor and anxiety of being your own archivist filmmakermagazine.com/123900-joann...

submitted 521 days ago • 1 comment

The sun will go down. The sun will rise again. It has has gotten darker. It will get bright again. The dark has wrapped and sheltered us, but now its time is done. And if we want the light back, and not just the sun, we better build a damn big fire. Happy solstice.

submitted 518 days ago • 6 comments

I have somehow only just discovered the Letterform Archive lecture series this year, and they have been an absolute DELIGHT. The zoom comments if you’re attending live are a constant stream of “OMG THOSE SERIFS 😍” and “look at that 4! *swoon*” They are font-dork heaven, AND they’re FREE

submitted 518 days ago • 1 comment

You had me at “Tesla-killer”

submitted 518 days ago • 0 comments

The New York City Council has voted to ban the use of solitary confinement in city jails www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

submitted 519 days ago • 5 comments

It's your birthday, Duane.

submitted 519 days ago • 24 comments

LiveWire Warrington @YourLiveWire are currently advertising a prison library assistant role, salary listed as "£8.82- £9.37 per hour. National Living Wage of £10.18 per hour for age 23 years and over, National Minimum Wage £10.42 age 21 – 22." livewirewarrington.c... 1/8

submitted 519 days ago • 1 comment

I just coined a word for when you string emoji together to connote a word, phrase, or concept for which a single emoji does not yet exist: PORTMANTEAUJI

submitted 521 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you @asheeshksi.bsky.social! The CSU teaches 480k students, most of which are first gen and minoritized. Please care? Literally anyone?

submitted 527 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s some of the data that backs it! (And CPC = cetylpridinium chloride) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34282982/

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