Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 14h

It's far from where you are, but I thought Seattle's public transport was excellent.

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, Frieze week is fun, but you could be at home listening to a Tawny Owl! 🦉

2

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, I’m hoping for 6months!

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 17h

Including reading time.

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 17h

How long do academic journals generally give writers to review a publication?

1 1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 2d

It's where all the VCs hang out, congratulating themselves about 'innovation'.

4

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, this is good! Microfilm and projection is a definite sub-genre.

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 4d

It's a great sub-genre. Klute is also included and with Smithereens as an adjacent Xerox film.

1 1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 4d

All The President's Men is such a great typewriter film.

1 10

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 4d

I had big plans for my afternoon off. Instead I'm in bed, resting.

2

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 7d

Well this was devastating.

1

Reposted by Dr Karen Di Franco

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9d

#OtD 6 Oct 1912 Emma Goldman began to hold a Yiddish and English Sunday lecture series in New York City on topics including psychology, the failings of democracy, economic efficiency, venereal disease and more . Check out this selection of her writings: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

1 36 97

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 10d

Just completed.

percy pig destroyer @owenlj.bsky.social · 10d

Save this public consultation from being overrun by bigots.

Abject Permanence @misslucyp.bsky.social · 10d

This survey is about trans men and women's access to Hampstead heath bathing ponds - please fill out, it's really quick and you don't need to live in N London to respond

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 11d

Grateful to have got through the week having managed to end it with a haircut.

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 12d

Cut vinyl text in exhibitions is the bane of every install.

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 13d

Always loved, and will continue, Rachel's. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world

The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...

www.theguardian.com

1

Reposted by Dr Karen Di Franco

Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 14d

We're happy to see that this important project covering the plight of journalists in Gaza has been recognised with an award. You can read Bellingcat's contribution here, which includes explorable 3D models of Jabalia Refugee Camp and Al-Shati Refugee Camp. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

2 100 250

Reposted by Dr Karen Di Franco

The Cut @thecut.com · 14d

‘I don’t think it’s possible to find a genocide-life balance,’ Plestia Alaqad tells The Cut. In her memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza,’ the 23-year-old journalist who documented Israel’s bombardment for an audience of millions grapples with leaving her home.

A Diary of Survival

‘I don’t think it’s possible to find a genocide-life balance,’ Plestia Alaqad tells The Cut. In her memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza,’ the 23-year-old journalist who documented Israel’s bombardment for an audience of millions grapples with leaving her home.

www.thecut.com

10 31

Reposted by Dr Karen Di Franco

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15d

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that this is the plan unveiled today but this is the Blair sponsored AI slop that BCG made out of commission months ago and has ever since tried to disavow itself from

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15d

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

2 25 140

Reposted by Dr Karen Di Franco

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15d

The British Labour Party's membership voted for a resolution deeming the war on Gaza a genocide, urging the Labour government to recognize it as such and take further action against Israel.

UK Labour Party members vote to recognise Gaza genocide at conference

The move adds pressure on the UK government, led by Keir Starmer, which has been slammed over its stance on Gaza war.

www.aljazeera.com

2 67 230

Reposted by Dr Karen Di Franco

Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · 15d

Dear community, erasing our Academia online profiles is just a start. this symposium on collective infrastructures and feminist approaches to publishing on4th Oct in London provides hopeful alternatives

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing

4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive pr...

copim.pubpub.org

1 2

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 16d

Forgot to add: edits (again) for a peer-review essay that has nearly killed me. All I want is some research time of my own..

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 16d

So far today: grocery shopping, meal prep for part of the week, emails, scheduling, trying to work despite lack of sleep.

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 16d

40s are amazing. The decades get better and better.

1

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 17d

The foxes 🦊 are really going for it tonight.

1