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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 59m

UC has taken away the ability to use university funds for identity-related professional org memberships. the cowardice of these institutions across the country is disappointing.

nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 2h

almost all of the LOEX fall focus sessions on AI are a nightmare. you don't actually have to normalize or defend AI tools in libraries, you dweebs

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 1d

zotero's new update has a sleeker dark mode layout, big day for me

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 3d

‘tis the season
cc: @bbburgerrr.bsky.social

A tan dog curled up between legs with a white and blue striped sweater on knitting needles in the foreground

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 4d

excited to lead this discussion next week!

LIS Pedagogy Chat @lispedagogychat.bsky.social · 5d

What support do library workers need to successfully conduct and publish original research? Join next week’s chat, led by Hailley Fargo, Charissa Powell, Chelsea Heinbach, and Nimisha Bhat from LibParlor! Friday, October 17, 2 pm ET. Learn more at www.lispedagogychat.org/schedule-reg...

Schedule & Registration — LIS Pedagogy Chat

www.lispedagogychat.org

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 5d

“Jeffrey Bardzell, the current dean of SILS, has accepted a secondary appointment as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI”

I wonder what it’s like to not feel shame

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 6d

I hope they make the homonym show from 30 rock next

The Verge @theverge.com · 7d

Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show

Savannah Guthrie will host the show, which NBC is piloting.

buff.ly

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Apr 3

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

A flyer for a set of documents "Demonstrating the value of cataloging". Six folders are labeled "talking points for administrators, top 5 reasons why you need a cataloger, annotated bibliography, resources list & acronym cheat sheet, side-by-side comparisons of good administrators bad metadata, and introduction to metadata zine. At the bottom text reads you can find these resources at the link in the post, and they were created by the ALA SAC Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group, 2025.

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 7d

"AI is not just a technology. It is a social problem. There is zero reason to allow it to run us over without a plan to mitigate its completely predictable negative effects. The political coalition for this should be: everyone."

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 8d

It takes no special technical expertise to know that
1) AI's main value proposition today is automating labor,
2) AI is going to supercharge economic inequality, and
3) If we do not get out in front of that policy-wise, we are fools.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 8d

Cool cool
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Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 9d

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9d

new york yankees century of humiliation underway

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 15d

these would make some sick postcards

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 17d

also pretty telling that behind every cult there is “men deserve to brutalize women, jews run the cabal, homosexuality is a sin” messaging that created a completely flat circle in the cult vs republican venn diagram

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 17d

We’ve all joked that the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 opened a vortex to Trump, but have we considered that the Astros missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016 might close it? Much to consider.

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 17d

particularly bleak to hear a MF DOOM song used in an AI commercial

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 17d

a tan dog sleeping next to balls of yarn

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 18d

A man with glasses in army fatigues holding stuffed animals saying, "These are my awards, Mother, from army." Buster Bluth from Arrested Development.

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 19d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 19d

and then you get universities like OSU that are *requiring* incoming students to be trained on "AI fluency," whatever that means

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 19d

everything is garbage but I do get to work with history grad students on cool research about things like black baseball teams during reconstruction and impoverished women targeted by eugenics during the progressive era this semester, and that helps a little

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · 25d

honestly the government doesn’t have to dismantle higher ed, higher ed is doing it voluntarily on its own

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 28d

That is, unless their speech is about Palestine, because Barnard will expel students in a heartbeat for that grievous offense.

Barnard President: Now Is the Time for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · Sep 11

it's so cool that almost everyone in this country with a major platform is dumb and cuckoo for cocoa puffs

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Sep 11

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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nimisha bhat @mishiebhat.bsky.social · Sep 4

a vendor demo'ed this for my library and it produced a summary that just repeated the abstract that was already at the top of the article

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