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I've had several friends work at or with 18F and they're all fantastic, absolutely brilliant, superstar problem solvers, and passionate about public service. hire them!

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UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital

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“One simple way [to resist] is to simply keep teaching exactly as we have been,” said Ray. “This administration has made it clear that empirically verifiable knowledge itself is a threat to their plans, so they are attacking those of us who create knowledge.” ⬇️⬇️

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The Data Rescue Project recognizes the tremendous interest and energy around saving our public data heritage action.everylibrary.org/data_librari...

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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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As I just shared this in a comment, I will also share it here. We made a free workbook associated with Let This Radicalize You. We included a bibliography of organizing resources pp. 100-109 - books, podcasts, curricula, articles, etc... www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

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The United States government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) uses Iron Mountain to process and store paperwork when federal workers retire and now Musk is taking aim at the use of the facility. 📜 www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

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Oh look at this! @harvardlil.bsky.social just released their archive of data.gov today. Thanks for your work! #datarescue lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

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What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.

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Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

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One of the best things students share with me about the current moment: they are playing D&D! they make their own worlds!

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Great opportunity to make some extra money and contribute to @wehere.bsky.social's first publication! wehere.notion.site/Contract-Opp...

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2017 is calling again...sigh. "But librarians and archivists and citizens should use this current crisis to demand more than short-term solutions. A new distributed digital preservation infrastructure is needed for digital government information." freegovinfo.info/node/14747/

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The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

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"What I find most charming in this study are the quotes, which the rschrs highlight in 'Patron Voices' sections. They’re full of great little lines, like people calling the library 'a touchstone' and 'a place to rely on,' and that 'knowing it’s there makes me feel better about my life in the city.'"

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LOCKSS co-founders Victoria Reich & David Rosenthal are the 2025 Paul Evan Peters Award recipients for their innovative work that has advanced #DigitalPreservation and protected the scholarly record. Read the release: www.cni.org/news/lockss-... #LOCKSS @arlnews.bsky.social @educause.bsky.social

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Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947

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I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

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Triangle folks: please join us on Monday afternoon for a special visit with @invisiblehistories.bsky.social

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1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

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Yesterday in Community Archives, we watched a beautiful short film about the application of the Local Contexts project, used in knowledge infrastructures for supporting indigenous cultural authority. "E Kore Au E Ngaro | The Connection Remains" vimeo.com/888530710

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ICYMI, @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social published an excellent overview/ intro to participatory and inclusive data stewardship www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...

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In our first bluesky post, we are excited to share our first issue of 2025! www.cell.com/patterns/iss... This issue includes a timely Opinion piece from @envirodgi.bsky.social explaining why they are working to archive environmental data hosted on US gov't sites. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

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I can't attend this on Wed eve (we've got final presentations in my class!), but I'd ❤️ to hear Nadine Fattaleh in conversation w/ Josh MacPhee (of Interference Archive) at NYU

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New month, new books on the horizon from me ... First up, @jesperjuul.bsky.social has a new book, this time in the Platform Studies series, about the Commodore 64! This one is for all the old programmer heads who miss their beloved demoscenes and parties! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254951...

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Nice to see that the Organization of American Historians @oah.org is offering free registration and hotel for up to 60 K–12, social studies, and history teachers to attend the 2025 OAH Conference on American History, in Chicago, April 3–6. ⬇️ h/t @katemasur.bsky.social www.oah.org/conferences/...

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This week’s DH center directing includes: 5 lab public events, external uni consult on AI+DH infra, ACH officer work, “Reimagining Inevitability of AI” conf panel chair, 6 1:1s+all-staff, our grad seminars (DH teaching statements+pedagogy workshops, DH design lab); public space design #DayOfDH2024

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In Sept 2024, I received an IMLS Early Career Research Grant to study field-wide challenges and potential opportunities for born-digital stewardship through the lens of practitioner experiences. You can follow project updates and news here: digistew.unc.edu

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Make sure to follow EDGI, @envirodgi.bsky.social. They will monitor data availability in new administration.

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Every US presidential election period we do a wide crawl of all federal websites. YOU can contribute to the 2024 End of Term Web Archive eotarchive.org/contribute/ - Nominate Gov URLs - Upload bulk seed lists - Help surface database deep links - Spread the word #EOT2024 #EOTArchive

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📣 The #iPRES2025 Call for Contributions is officially open! 📣 All the details at ipre2025.nz

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THE FEMALE BOB DYLAN is a new music podcast from writer, researcher, and producer Sophie Abramowitz, artist and musician Sarah Bachman, and folklorist, writer, and @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner @emhilly.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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