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Today marks the third year of the full-scale Russian invasion. All of the content archived by #SUCHO is now accessible through the SUCHO Database of Web-Archived Content (database.sucho.org). Full details: www.sucho.org/press-releas.... Слава Україні #SavingUkrainianCulturalHeritageOnline

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One day, the sadness will end. 🥧 ☕️🦉 Happy Twin Peaks Day, everyone.

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Is this the same Andrew Cuomo who fellow Democrat Tish James investigated and found he sexually harassed at least ELEVEN women during his time as governor and was forced to resign over it a mere for years ago????

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“Ceasefire”.

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We are crowd sourcing reductions in graduate admissions and hiring freezes across biomedical research and higher ed in response to pauses in NIH funding and EO’s. If you have information if you could add to this spreadsheet, it would be greatly appreciated!: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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the first time i was in munich as a young thing it was to visit a friend - the first place he took me was to the university to see where sophie scholl threw her leaflets anyhow today is the anniversary of her (and her brother, and another comrade’s) execution by nazis

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When we fight, we win. Judge Halts Implementation of Trump Anti-DEIA Executive Orders Nationwide The AAUP is proud to stand up & defend our campuses & communities against those attempting to squash civil rights & halt progress toward an equitable, multi-racial democracy. www.washingtonpost.com

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Woke up in the middle of the night incensed about this. It’s bad for research & scholars. It’s also outright bigoted and so horrifically shameful for NEH to capitulate and effectively endorse this unscholarly, unfounded, hateful crap. This invalidates anything they DO fund now.

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If you want to know where the real change-work, the most committed teaching, and the most effective student-success initiatives are happening, and where those all receive the best institutional commitment and support, it's at our community colleges.

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Many of you may have attended the town hall today that Clarivate offered as a way to...tamp down the response. Tamp it they did. After a barrage of thumbs down responses, the react button was deactivated. Participants were not given access to chat or able to view what questions were being asked.

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Clarivate held a webinar today for librarians about their move to cease selling individual ebooks and stop all print book services. Alt text: An image with lots of sky and a person standing on a cliff, with Clarivate logo and text that says: “Unpacking our recent announcement: Here to support you”

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lol can’t fuck with the LES

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Starting in less than an hour. Grab a sandwich, get comfy, and come join us worry out loud about possible futures for the academy and the historical record. Except Sayeed. Sayeed is super optimistic. 😀

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TLDR: Selling individual books to libraries is too "unpredictable" as a business model so just move everything to packaged subscriptions, who needs to actually select books based on any measure of quality anyway

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This article. Every single word.

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Librarians, check out "OPINION: A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement" by @siobhanh.bsky.social www.uksg.org/newsletter/u... #AcademicSky

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My new favorite athlete spoke out at a Huntington Beach (California) city council meeting and made them carry him out. He was protesting “the city's approval of a public library plaque that was designed to use words to spell out "MAGA" www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

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On Audre Lorde’s birthday, I’m thinking about her Kitchen Table Press. She (second from left), Barbara Smith, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gossett came together to establish a press centering feminist and lesbians of color — and it shook the publishing industry. #bhm

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Child is improving at playing the Severance theme on the piano. After much, much practice 🫠

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Awful news for the DC film community. It's been my preferred theater the 3-4x a year I visit. What a loss for the city.

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The manager at Atlas Brewing next to our office brought us shots. If you’re wondering what businesses to frequent during these horrible times.

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I missed the Jane McAlevey celebration at my job because I couldn’t get away from my job early enough 😪

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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Not being able to go to Yosemite makes America great, how? Was shutting down the national parks a campaign promise? Can’t remember.

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Last night I watched Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), directed by Questlove and streaming on Hulu. Yes, Sly Stone is still with us, he’s doing good, and his adult children now have the father they didn’t have growing up—all of which I love. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_Liv... #documentary

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♥️

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I do my share of grumbling about the NY Times. But its "Overlooked" series never misses. Like today's, they've all been fantastic. Read on. 👇🏽 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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Here’s your regular reminder that you can stream WBGO’s Rhythm Review to scratch your weekend R&B and classic soul itch www.wbgo.org/show/rhythm-...

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With everything going on in our industry, a periodic reminder that I’m the higher ed editor for @publicbooks.bsky.social. If you have something to get off your chest about higher ed, pitch me. Not looking for quick takes, but thoughtful scholarship and commentary that makes sense of our moment.

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Incredible how this 2013 talk from Audrey Watters outlines what’s happening to higher ed right now, like precisely

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Deputy AG Lionel Hutz quickly scribbling an ampersand onto it.

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‘In 1988, she went into rehab and “discovered the light after years in the dark”. (“Until 1989 I didn’t know what daylight was.”) When she returned to New York, her friends were dying from Aids.’ Lucie Elven on Nan Goldin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Incredible how this 2013 talk from Audrey Watters outlines what’s happening to higher ed right now, like precisely

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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Canadians are super, super mad about the idea of being annexed

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This is what higher ed administrators are reading this weekend. Basically, anything that could be perceived as involving race could result in the loss of federal funding. It's an expansive Dear Colleague letter from ED, to be sure. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

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public sentiment does not seem to be on the side of the billionaire currently dismantling the entire us government, weird, unexpected, looking into it

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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

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"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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The Department of Education is too small for a label.

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Here's what the entire federal workforce actually looks like. It's mostly doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in VA hospitals, the military, and then everything else.

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The best time to have done the comms work of explaining to people how the government works was any time in the past. The second best time is now.

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READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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The key tactic they're using to symbolically erase trans people is to leave the LGB in place, splitting our communities apart rather than erasing us entirely. I think we need to think more about who's the target of this tactic.

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