Diane Shaw
@museocat.bsky.social
Retired museum library cataloger in Washington, DC area. Fond of birds and travel.
By the way, the collection guide to the product cookbooks at NMAH is online with many examples digitized. The items were collected and donated by a former Head of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries. Link here: www.si.edu/object/archi...
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
By the way, the collection guide to the product cookbooks at NMAH is online with many examples digitized. The items were collected and donated by a former Head of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries. Link here: www.si.edu/object/archi...
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The Wiki Science Photo Contest deadline has been extended and will remain open until December 15th, 2025, with lots of prizes to be won! 📸 🔬 🌠
Are you passionate about science? Do you work in a lab? Did you manage to spot the Northern Lights?
🔗Enter the contest now: wikimedia.ie/2025/11/18/w...
Are you passionate about science? Do you work in a lab? Did you manage to spot the Northern Lights?
🔗Enter the contest now: wikimedia.ie/2025/11/18/w...
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The Wiki Science Photo Contest deadline has been extended and will remain open until December 15th, 2025, with lots of prizes to be won! 📸 🔬 🌠
Are you passionate about science? Do you work in a lab? Did you manage to spot the Northern Lights?
🔗Enter the contest now: wikimedia.ie/2025/11/18/w...
Are you passionate about science? Do you work in a lab? Did you manage to spot the Northern Lights?
🔗Enter the contest now: wikimedia.ie/2025/11/18/w...
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#Thanksgiving
We are thankful to the #LocalJournalism heroes
who inform our communities.
Find them in our searchable 50-state #LocalJournalism directory.
Subscribe.
Share.
Help people you care about build healthier information diets.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
We are thankful to the #LocalJournalism heroes
who inform our communities.
Find them in our searchable 50-state #LocalJournalism directory.
Subscribe.
Share.
Help people you care about build healthier information diets.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
Local Journalism Directory | Media and Democracy Project
We created a directory to help you find local journalism and local news sources in your area worth reading and supporting.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#Thanksgiving
We are thankful to the #LocalJournalism heroes
who inform our communities.
Find them in our searchable 50-state #LocalJournalism directory.
Subscribe.
Share.
Help people you care about build healthier information diets.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
We are thankful to the #LocalJournalism heroes
who inform our communities.
Find them in our searchable 50-state #LocalJournalism directory.
Subscribe.
Share.
Help people you care about build healthier information diets.
www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...
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Science Illustration internships (2) at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. $700/week, relocation funds for travel to and from SERC; and onsite dormitory housing available. Anticipated start date 02/26 but can vary; duration is 11 weeks. Location Edgewater, MD.
Science Illustration Intern (2)
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is seeking 2 science illustration interns for Spring 2026. The interns will collaborate with researchers to develop visual products that support sc...
serc.si.edu
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Science Illustration internships (2) at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. $700/week, relocation funds for travel to and from SERC; and onsite dormitory housing available. Anticipated start date 02/26 but can vary; duration is 11 weeks. Location Edgewater, MD.
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📚 The Librarians Documentary
🗓️ Wednesday, Dec. 3 | 6 PM
📍 MLK Library
Called “gripping” by The New York Times, this award-winning film follows librarians on the front lines defending the freedom to read. Registration encouraged: https://bit.ly/3JYSJ3s
🗓️ Wednesday, Dec. 3 | 6 PM
📍 MLK Library
Called “gripping” by The New York Times, this award-winning film follows librarians on the front lines defending the freedom to read. Registration encouraged: https://bit.ly/3JYSJ3s
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📚 The Librarians Documentary
🗓️ Wednesday, Dec. 3 | 6 PM
📍 MLK Library
Called “gripping” by The New York Times, this award-winning film follows librarians on the front lines defending the freedom to read. Registration encouraged: https://bit.ly/3JYSJ3s
🗓️ Wednesday, Dec. 3 | 6 PM
📍 MLK Library
Called “gripping” by The New York Times, this award-winning film follows librarians on the front lines defending the freedom to read. Registration encouraged: https://bit.ly/3JYSJ3s
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Want a cool visualization of your eBird lifelist? 🪶
Or your 2025 year list?
It's easy.
1. Go to ebird.org/downloadMyData and request your data. This can take a few minutes to arrive in your e-mail. It'll be a .zip file. Unzip it.
2. Go to ofafeather.binstobins.com
...
🧵
Or your 2025 year list?
It's easy.
1. Go to ebird.org/downloadMyData and request your data. This can take a few minutes to arrive in your e-mail. It'll be a .zip file. Unzip it.
2. Go to ofafeather.binstobins.com
...
🧵
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Want a cool visualization of your eBird lifelist? 🪶
Or your 2025 year list?
It's easy.
1. Go to ebird.org/downloadMyData and request your data. This can take a few minutes to arrive in your e-mail. It'll be a .zip file. Unzip it.
2. Go to ofafeather.binstobins.com
...
🧵
Or your 2025 year list?
It's easy.
1. Go to ebird.org/downloadMyData and request your data. This can take a few minutes to arrive in your e-mail. It'll be a .zip file. Unzip it.
2. Go to ofafeather.binstobins.com
...
🧵
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🚨🚨
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum: In Association with the Smithsonian
Free museum exhibiting public health topics and the history of CDC.
www.cdc.gov
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚨🚨
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed
🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨
Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan
This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism
CDC Library is a national treasure
#SaveCDCLibrary
@book-historia.bsky.social There’s a YouTube video from the CBC on the topic of toxic green bookbindings that was posted a few days ago. Lots of comments & interest in topic. I put in a plug for your video on poison books.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
@book-historia.bsky.social There’s a YouTube video from the CBC on the topic of toxic green bookbindings that was posted a few days ago. Lots of comments & interest in topic. I put in a plug for your video on poison books.
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Applications close on December 10th, 2025.
Please share widely, and good luck to all applicants!
I hope you #FoundThatLizard and good luck!
Please share widely, and good luck to all applicants!
I hope you #FoundThatLizard and good luck!
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Applications close on December 10th, 2025.
Please share widely, and good luck to all applicants!
I hope you #FoundThatLizard and good luck!
Please share widely, and good luck to all applicants!
I hope you #FoundThatLizard and good luck!
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
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Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50
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So @librariesftp.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Yay!
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
docs.google.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So @librariesftp.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Yay!
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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ChatGPT is critically dependent on Wikipedia, its most-cited source (but Wikipedia doesn’t need ChatGPT at all). If you care about what LLMs are telling people, making sure Wikipedia is accurate should be your first priority. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wikipe...
Wikipedia is the Anchor of ChatGPT’s Knowledge
A new study from SEO experts at Ahrefs has quantified what many have long suspected: Wikipedia is the single most-cited source in ChatGPT’s answers by a wide margin. “ChatGPT’s citations aren’t confin...
www.linkedin.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ChatGPT is critically dependent on Wikipedia, its most-cited source (but Wikipedia doesn’t need ChatGPT at all). If you care about what LLMs are telling people, making sure Wikipedia is accurate should be your first priority. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wikipe...
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
"Each person I spoke to for this article told me they could talk about the right-wing project to erode trust in expertise, and the way AI has amplified this effort, for hours."
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Each person I spoke to for this article told me they could talk about the right-wing project to erode trust in expertise, and the way AI has amplified this effort, for hours."
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It intuitively *feels* wrong that copyright doesn't stop large AI models training on other people's work. I wrote this back in January as to why the way the law operates means they probably can – legally, if not morally:
www.jamesrball.com/p/copyright-...
www.jamesrball.com/p/copyright-...
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It intuitively *feels* wrong that copyright doesn't stop large AI models training on other people's work. I wrote this back in January as to why the way the law operates means they probably can – legally, if not morally:
www.jamesrball.com/p/copyright-...
www.jamesrball.com/p/copyright-...
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Through A LOT of trial and error, I finally figured out how to print my own zines. Now I shall be UNSTOPPABLE!
I'll get these listed in my webshop tomorrow because I know exactly nobody has been waiting anxiously for me to print these zines that took untold hours to make.
I'll get these listed in my webshop tomorrow because I know exactly nobody has been waiting anxiously for me to print these zines that took untold hours to make.
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Through A LOT of trial and error, I finally figured out how to print my own zines. Now I shall be UNSTOPPABLE!
I'll get these listed in my webshop tomorrow because I know exactly nobody has been waiting anxiously for me to print these zines that took untold hours to make.
I'll get these listed in my webshop tomorrow because I know exactly nobody has been waiting anxiously for me to print these zines that took untold hours to make.
Reposted by Diane Shaw
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I spent a few days in Manhattan last week. The Halloween decorations on the steps of some homes there were creative, amazing and spooky 👻🎃 Happy Halloween all!
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I spent a few days in Manhattan last week. The Halloween decorations on the steps of some homes there were creative, amazing and spooky 👻🎃 Happy Halloween all!
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[coolest guy in the world voice]
Remember California, voting means you get to go to the library.
Remember California, voting means you get to go to the library.
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
[coolest guy in the world voice]
Remember California, voting means you get to go to the library.
Remember California, voting means you get to go to the library.
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Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #InternetArchive! 🌐
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/
🧵
#Wayback1T #Libraries
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/
🧵
#Wayback1T #Libraries
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #InternetArchive! 🌐
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/
🧵
#Wayback1T #Libraries
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/
🧵
#Wayback1T #Libraries
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If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
Institute – Library Freedom Project
libraryfreedom.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
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Newspaper archives are at risk in the US, most commonly lost when papers shutter, move, or are purchased; some partner with libraries to preserve their archives (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Newspaper archives are at risk in the US, most commonly lost when papers shutter, move, or are purchased; some partner with libraries to preserve their archives (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Morning in America
Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Morning in America