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This but non-ironically. There is a reason fascists want to destroy art and research. We are today as a society dealing with the effects of the Nazis burning the Ins for Sex Science. Saving archives matters so much.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

As someone who built their career on digital programming to expand DEAI access to cultural heritage, the last 6 weeks have been brutal. I’m not just a practitioner, I’m also a researcher who craves quantitative data of what all we’re losing! Add programs you’ve seen disappear to this Google Sheet.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, literally all of my medical diagnoses have been like “well this mostly affects women so we don’t know ANYTHING about it. Have you tried losing weight?” But sure 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

The program, which focuses on mentoring and therapy, relies on the idea that most violent crimes are emotional, not rational.

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

eggs are too expensive for the amount of stress baking I have to do to handle life as a researcher of bias in cultural heritage right now.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Archive data. Anything you have access to and have used, if you are wondering where to start. It could be gone tomorrow. I'm not exaggerating. Community archiving can resist erasure of histories that speak truth to power.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

"The government looks like books in our libraries. It looks like trees in our parks. It looks like getting healthcare....We are the proof to the American working class that there is a better way. You don’t have to be peeing in a bottle in the back of an Amazon van” inthesetimes.com/article/fede...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

What can we, as academics, do about NSF & NIH that are now actively discriminating against important scientific research & scholars? My colleague, @lluaces.bsky.social, has a suggestion I really like: don’t review for them- at least this cycle while they are setting aside & censoring proposals.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 23 days ago • 37 comments

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

submitted 24 days ago • 157 comments

support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 232 comments

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

submitted 33 days ago • 1379 comments

It’s been a horrible week but we’re still claiming space for joy and celebration of the beautiful cultures of our multiethnic family. As the third, and final, new year celebrated in our home, may Lunar New Year inspire us all to focus on bonds that bring us rest, joy, and energy to keep going.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment. I did too. I did too.

submitted 40 days ago • 117 comments

Time to search all our archives for artifacts a la the Ark of the Covenant. We got some faces to melt.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

No matter how much we want it to be true, you cannot meet climate change goals while building hundreds of energy and water intensive data centres for the private sector. This is a tradeoff we will come to regret. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

submitted 54 days ago • 798 comments

excited to reunite with Isabel Brador and @brimwats.com for tomorrow’s @modernlanguage.bsky.social conference. Join session 73, at 1:45pm for a talk that crosses #DH #digitalhumanities and #criticalheritage #culturalheritage to highlight collaborative, inclusive work mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

regret to report that these emails are finding me and I am, in fact, not emotionally prepared to circle back.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

submitted 76 days ago • 40 comments

I wrote about how the Milwaukee Art Museum received an anonymous gift of $3.54 million that will fund admission for kids 12 and under in perpetuity: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

submitted 88 days ago • 11 comments

To dismiss the grief in Victorian stories as old-fashioned is to assume they're outdated bc of the passage of time. But a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. To dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invites those horrors to return.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Often accurate during this time of the semester...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.

submitted 101 days ago • 32 comments

major props to the working class hero running the convenience shop in the Frankfurt airport who wouldn’t let me leave until I used every last euro of my delay voucher. I didn’t need 4 tissue packs, chips, candy and two sodas, but the airlines owed me this and more so thank you ma’am.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

An absolute honor to share a stage with such amazing women at the #ICOM #CECA awards presentation last night. Truly feeling reinspired to continue tackling the difficult topics and challenging audiences ahead, and humbled to be included in a celebration of people centric research.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Let me get this straight. I was accused for more than a year of grooming students in the library w/ books. Now, actual groomers with witnesses & court convictions of SA are being given the highest leadership positions in our country, and these same people are silent. thehill.com/homenews/499...

submitted 103 days ago • 33 comments

“Limiting programs stands in the way of knowledge production at a time when it’s needed more than ever.” - Russell Berman, former president of MLA. 20% of Americans lack basic digital literacy skills and competencies. Now isn’t the time to continue gutting humanities, it’s time to invest in them.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Study abroad in 2012 I was on the underground in London and a man was smiling at me and I couldn’t place him. As we got off the train together he laughed and said “don’t worry love you’ll get it”. Two blocks later I realized it was David Tennant, and I was wearing a Tardis backpack.

submitted 104 days ago • 11 comments

My dog for me vs. my dog for the dog sitter. What a little shit.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you’re working on & 2) an idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) Currently working on a book chapter on metadata in the Open Movement. 2) looking into making digital literacy books for kids!

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

finally made the switch over to bluer skies. Excited to reconnect with the remnants of museum twitter and meet new connections interested in cultural heritage, digital humanities, literacy research, and general silly goose antics.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment