I'm reminded of this line from Anna Ridler's Myriad (Tulips) project description: "The process of making datasets is almost like craft - repetitive, time-consuming, often unauthored, but necessary in order to produce something beautiful."
Today's informal chat about crafting was a highlight of #RDAP26! The intersection of data and craft is real, and the discussion ranged across knitting, cross stitch, watercolor, block printing, quilting, sewing, music, data sonification, and more.
AMAZING. I've just dipped a toe in, and there's so much great stuff here!
I just saw the preview for this at a movie theater and couldn't help sotto voce yelling at the screen in disgust. See info in the comments about an alternative AI doc, Ghosts in the Machine (notaidoc.com).
[Also: highly, highly recommend The Secret Agent.]
📣📣📣 Calling all #DataRescuers! The #SaveOurSigns crew needs our help capturing interpretative panels at key National Parks, including the Grand Canyon, before they are erased, removed, silenced.
Learn more and get involved: www.datarescueproject.org/sos-help/
It's going to be deathly cold out and it seems ICE is still releasing people at random from Whipple, without phones or proper attire. There's a team on the ground that provides cars for warming/transport, phones, food, etc.
Donate here to support their efforts:
venmo.com/u/whipplesafehaven
Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC!
Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.
Text on an blue, green, orange, and purple background with the title of the event series, Understanding AI, which is a collaboration with the New York Public Library. It says, “Join us online or live in NYC at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL).” It continues with the dates and titles of the four events in this series; the event on September 5, 2025 is titled Understanding AI: What the Public Needs to Know; the event on September 23, 2025 is titled The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging — What Now?; the event on October 29, 2025 is titled Reorienting AI in the Public Interest; and the event on November 20, 2025 is titled Standing Up for Human Value in the AI Economy.
We’re thrilled to be hosting a 4-part fall event series in collaboration with the New York Public Library, exploring the social implications of AI & its impacts on democracy, the environment, & human labor. Learn more and RSVP to attend live in NYC or via livestream! datasociety.net/events/under...
🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash.
THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science.
Our Open Letter is featured here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
🙌
Please read my essay in TIME, which @science.org
did not do carefully before publishing this assertion. time.com/7285045/resi...
US Copyright Office Seal
The last few days have been quite dramatic for anyone paying attention to copyright law and policy.
Here's our breakdown of the third and final Copyright Office report on copyright and AI, and the dismissal of the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter:
www.authorsalliance.org/2025/05/12/t...
Ready to pass a resolution protecting students' rights on your campus? Check out our campus resolution toolkit we created in collaboration with @amnesty.org.
Two women (myself on the left) holding up protest signs in front of the Minnesota State Capitol building.
#HandsOff St. Paul!
THE COLLECTORS How is knowledge organized? The artists featured in this gallery gather, group, and sort objects and information. Some use methods that evoke historical systems of classification and display. But they approach these tasks with a sharp sense of irony and awareness of the absurdity of their efforts. They catalogue the seemingly minor with obsessive care and unite dispa- rate artifacts into unwieldly accumulations. In so doing, they reveal the irrational, emotional, and personal forces underlying our efforts to collect and categorize the world.
It's like they knew the librarians were coming to town. #walkerartcenter #ACRL2025
A large auditorium stage decorated with a set of large blue letters, "arcl," and white clouds, purple lighting, and a projected slide that reads, "Today's Opening Keynote With Ruha Benjamin is sponsored by OCLC.
Excited for the opening keynote at #ACRL2025 in Minneapolis
Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story.
forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7...
imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/
"Business wear ranges from t-shirts and jeans to suits even by executive senior leaders. Tattoos, piercings, makeup, hair color, etc. are up to you!"
I've just recently become intrigued by it, especially the integration with Zotero. It's come up in a couple of patron requests, and then I noticed these great library workshop materials during an Open Science Primer presentation by @chaszg.bsky.social last week: cmu-lib.github.io/portfolio_wo...
Tuesday's Great Chatbot Debate, now on CHM's YouTube channel.
I answered the question by providing a definition of "understanding" and showing why LLMs don't understand and why it can seem like they do.
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youtu.be/YtIQVaSS5Pg?...
Finally learning LilyPond/Frescobaldi for music engraving - this is going to be a game changer for managing my violin parts!
Enjoying the IMLS-funded Open Science Primer at @coschoolofmines.bsky.social this week!
We'll have more to share in the coming days. But what can you do right now? Call Congress. Call your state and local officials. Tell them exactly what's at stake if the President's order stands: the future of America's libraries.
It's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries: bit.ly/ALA-LibraryStoryIMLS
Just gave the closing keynote at #RDAP25 (Research Data Access & Preservation) and wow what a GREAT audience! Reading through the chat after was a joy.
The talk (research ethics, AI, public data) was basically a version of this thread. :) More resources! bsky.app/profile/cfie...
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Pre-ordered!
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We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com
Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
