No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
📣 Another call for action, #DataRescuers! 📣 This time, Christopher Steven Marcum shares the request to save #WorldFactbook, including ways you can get involved. Learn more: www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-t...
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
This program changed my life. I was fortunate enough to have my loans forgiven in January, right before Trump took office. I encourage everyone to submit a comment in support of the PSLF program.
The David Rumsey Map Center is holding their biennial cartography conference 10/8 - 10/10. It’s free and there’s an online option. The theme is “Above and Below” and will feature talks on “cartography of anything but the earth’s surface.”Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-lawr...
"messages that librarians should be enthusiastic + optimistic about technological changes... frequently described as inevitable, often imply or outright assert that those who question or resist certain tech developments are simply overwhelmed by irrational fear + anxiety that they need to overcome."
I'm guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries focusing on the state of map librarianship.
The call for papers is here: bit.ly/3TDpTaf
Please share widely!
A detailed and heartbreaking report on how Israel systematically destroyed Gaza’s bookstores, printing presses, and publishing houses. It turned centers of learning and knowledge production into ruins and ashes.
Please share widely.
We're advertising two artist's residencies at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print. Please share!
www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States?
We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!
Cultural & heritage workers and institutions around the world must speak out against these attacks.
How best can we do this?
On advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument"
by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
A dark blue conference banner with ornate Baroque-style floral patterns in vibrant teal, orange, and white hues. The text reads: ACUTUS ET ARGUTUS: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion, scheduled for 8–10 October 2025 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Logos of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and the National Museum of Lithuania are displayed at the bottom.
📢 Call for Papers! Join us at Acutus et Argutus: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion 📚✨ Dive into the dynamic world of book history and print culture. Submit your proposals by 30 April 2025. More info: konferencijos.lnb.lt/acutus-et-ar...
#CFP #AcademicConference #EarlyModernStudies
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
These are religious fundamentalists, tech overlords and white supremacists.
They see that education makes people liberal and reject theocracy. Education gives workers power. And education makes people have fewer babies. They want more white babies.
So they want to kill all that.
Curator of Rare Books and Maps, University of Iowa #LISJobs uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/curator...
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The WI Supreme Court has a 4-3 progressive ideological majority—meaning many cases involving issues like abortion rights are decided by one justice.
On April 1st, voters will decide the balance of the court.
Make your voting plan at myvote.wi.gov.
#CrawfordForCourt #StopShadySchimel #BadBrad
Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡).
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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For those interested in the Data Rescue Tracker, keep in mind that we need to know/hear from you to be able to track where data is going. That's why we have a submission form. Let us know what you have and submit it! baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/dGIFuHv...
JUST ANNOUNCED! The Winterthur Library Fresh Perspectives on Collecting Symposium highlights the work and voices of the next gen of rare book, manuscript, and special collections professionals, scholars, and enthusiasts. Tune in on Zoom March 18 & 19! 📜
Y'all are probably like, "why is he talking about the WI Supreme Court??"
Because the world's most insufferable Nazi is weighing in on it and so is one of the far-right's best "get out the vote" people.
Some background🧵
The '23 WI SC race was the most expensive judicial race in US history.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Attacks on higher ed are also attacks on the economy. Pass it on.
Look up Margo Note, she writes about this!
