Andrea Thomer
@akthom.bsky.social
associate professor, u of arizona college of information science
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"People — including real-life radicals — are messy. The boundaries of their politics, personal lives, and morality are porous. This is most obvious in the image of Perfidia, a tornado of energetic reappraisal and erotic possibility. A reminder that the representation conversation can be a trap."
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"People — including real-life radicals — are messy. The boundaries of their politics, personal lives, and morality are porous. This is most obvious in the image of Perfidia, a tornado of energetic reappraisal and erotic possibility. A reminder that the representation conversation can be a trap."
finally an update to the enron corpus for our digital archiving classes!
Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee released a flotilla of Epstein emails—more than 20,000 in total. What if you were able to read them like emails?
That’s the simple premise behind “Jmail,” a re-skinning of the documents programmed to look and feel like an everyday Gmail account.
That’s the simple premise behind “Jmail,” a re-skinning of the documents programmed to look and feel like an everyday Gmail account.
The uncanny Gmail clone that drops you straight into Epstein’s inbox.
A clever bit of digital wizardry turns the 20,000-plus email dump into a working Gmail parody you can search, sort, and star.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
finally an update to the enron corpus for our digital archiving classes!
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
sabbatical plan
1/3 I have made three of my cartoons into new, limited edition prints. You can get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
sabbatical plan
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
aw, weirdly glad that rando bot culture is still alive and well
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
aw, weirdly glad that rando bot culture is still alive and well
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DOES NOBODY READ ANYMORE?
New Ice just dropped
New phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser. Named ice XXI, the bizarre phase forms at room temperature, under extreme pressure.
Tetragonal crystal structure with fairly large repeating units consisting of 152 water molecules
New phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser. Named ice XXI, the bizarre phase forms at room temperature, under extreme pressure.
Tetragonal crystal structure with fairly large repeating units consisting of 152 water molecules
Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment
A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser.
www.sciencealert.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
DOES NOBODY READ ANYMORE?
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The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Front Page - Data Curation Network
The Data Curation Network (DCN) is a membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and under...
datacuration.network
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Great example of inadequate human subjects anonymization for anyone teaching qualitative methods!
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Great example of inadequate human subjects anonymization for anyone teaching qualitative methods!
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NASA’s JPL cuts 550 jobs in latest round of layoffs at La Cañada Flintridge facility
www.latimes.com/science/stor... 🧪🔭
www.latimes.com/science/stor... 🧪🔭
NASA's JPL cuts 550 jobs in latest round of layoffs at La Cañada Flintridge facility
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, part of NASA, laid off 550 employees, or about 11% of its staff.
www.latimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
NASA’s JPL cuts 550 jobs in latest round of layoffs at La Cañada Flintridge facility
www.latimes.com/science/stor... 🧪🔭
www.latimes.com/science/stor... 🧪🔭
Infuriating.
"Through this unlawful process, IMLS’s new leadership has decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program is going to a single recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for its America250 project"
"Through this unlawful process, IMLS’s new leadership has decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program is going to a single recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for its America250 project"
“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”
The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)
Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.
buttondown.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Infuriating.
"Through this unlawful process, IMLS’s new leadership has decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program is going to a single recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for its America250 project"
"Through this unlawful process, IMLS’s new leadership has decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program is going to a single recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for its America250 project"
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“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”
The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)
Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.
buttondown.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”
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What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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MIT says no to the Trump admin higher-ed compact clearly and emphatically. Other universities would be well served to read, remix, and respond similarly.
"In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
"In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
October 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
MIT says no to the Trump admin higher-ed compact clearly and emphatically. Other universities would be well served to read, remix, and respond similarly.
"In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
"In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Somehow it's a two paper day: this beast of a paper containing recommendations for sample citation is out in Scientific Data too! This one has been in progress for years. Joan Damerow, Val Stanley and Sarah Ramdeen were the originators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Somehow it's a two paper day: this beast of a paper containing recommendations for sample citation is out in Scientific Data too! This one has been in progress for years. Joan Damerow, Val Stanley and Sarah Ramdeen were the originators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New data paper out from a Zooniverse transcription project I was co-PI on at Michigan! We transcribed and curated over 100 years of archival data from the Institute of Fisheries Research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Community science helps digitize 78 years of fish and habitat data for thousands of lakes in Michigan, USA
Scientific Data - Community science helps digitize 78 years of fish and habitat data for thousands of lakes in Michigan, USA
www.nature.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New data paper out from a Zooniverse transcription project I was co-PI on at Michigan! We transcribed and curated over 100 years of archival data from the Institute of Fisheries Research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
new paper!
"We find that a majority of frequently used reference managers do not adequately support data citation, obstructing uptake of data citation by researchers and thereby limiting the growth of credit and incentives for data sharing and reuse."
datascience.codata.org/articles/10....
"We find that a majority of frequently used reference managers do not adequately support data citation, obstructing uptake of data citation by researchers and thereby limiting the growth of credit and incentives for data sharing and reuse."
datascience.codata.org/articles/10....
Obstacles to Dataset Citation Using Bibliographic Management Software | Data Science Journal
datascience.codata.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
new paper!
"We find that a majority of frequently used reference managers do not adequately support data citation, obstructing uptake of data citation by researchers and thereby limiting the growth of credit and incentives for data sharing and reuse."
datascience.codata.org/articles/10....
"We find that a majority of frequently used reference managers do not adequately support data citation, obstructing uptake of data citation by researchers and thereby limiting the growth of credit and incentives for data sharing and reuse."
datascience.codata.org/articles/10....
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Thanks to Andrea Thomer, @iceageecologist.bsky.social, and Jessica Blois for showing the value of Neotoma. $1.5 billion in replacement cost. The critical role of community curated data resources in @agu.org’s @eos.org : eos.org/opinions/the...
The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos
Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.
eos.org
March 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thanks to Andrea Thomer, @iceageecologist.bsky.social, and Jessica Blois for showing the value of Neotoma. $1.5 billion in replacement cost. The critical role of community curated data resources in @agu.org’s @eos.org : eos.org/opinions/the...
New op ed estimating the replacement value of community curated data resources and "long tail" data they contain by me, Jack Williams, @sjgoring.bsky.social and Jessica Blois. We've been working on this for a while, and it now feels both timely and out of date: eos.org/opinions/the...
The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos
Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.
eos.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New op ed estimating the replacement value of community curated data resources and "long tail" data they contain by me, Jack Williams, @sjgoring.bsky.social and Jessica Blois. We've been working on this for a while, and it now feels both timely and out of date: eos.org/opinions/the...
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SaaS
(sheep as a service)
(sheep as a service)
March 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
SaaS
(sheep as a service)
(sheep as a service)