@ziflibrarian.bsky.social
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Congrats to the fine folks at the Data Rescue Project on this well-deserved award--and huge thanks to their 900 volunteers who saved over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies in 2025.
rdapassociation.org/news/13593532
rdapassociation.org/news/13593532
Research Data Access and Preservation Association - 2025 RDAP Work of the Year Award
rdapassociation.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Congrats to the fine folks at the Data Rescue Project on this well-deserved award--and huge thanks to their 900 volunteers who saved over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies in 2025.
rdapassociation.org/news/13593532
rdapassociation.org/news/13593532
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Fobazi's passing is heartbreaking. Her love for Elena was truly inspiring, and now Elena faces immense financial burdens. Please consider donating or sharing to help ease her stress during this difficult time. Thank you for your support.
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Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
NEW UPDATE
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February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Fobazi's passing is heartbreaking. Her love for Elena was truly inspiring, and now Elena faces immense financial burdens. Please consider donating or sharing to help ease her stress during this difficult time. Thank you for your support.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
so anyways I think if I were -lupe fiasco voice- daydreaming~ about building out a suite of data services I'd probably go hard on data visualization first because it seems like the most recognizable carrot of the bunch
February 8, 2026 at 5:23 AM
so anyways I think if I were -lupe fiasco voice- daydreaming~ about building out a suite of data services I'd probably go hard on data visualization first because it seems like the most recognizable carrot of the bunch
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This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.
They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.
What is the POINT of this? Literally what value do you get of an AI response to a research question? Are we really at the point where survey tools just sell the ability to commit scientific fraud?
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
What is the POINT of this? Literally what value do you get of an AI response to a research question? Are we really at the point where survey tools just sell the ability to commit scientific fraud?
so we're doing these cliftonstrengths assessments at MPOW and like. it's fun! we love a personality quiz! but i'm v curious if there's a version of these that involves external validation; like if you could have a coworker do it for you and see if they match
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
so we're doing these cliftonstrengths assessments at MPOW and like. it's fun! we love a personality quiz! but i'm v curious if there's a version of these that involves external validation; like if you could have a coworker do it for you and see if they match
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this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.
omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.
Y'all ever think about how there are people in this world who hear about millions going hungry and their response is 'we should be careful about helping, what if it discourages work?' 🙃
I've got to stop reading op-eds, I simply do not vibe with those who've surgically removed their humanity
I've got to stop reading op-eds, I simply do not vibe with those who've surgically removed their humanity
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Y'all ever think about how there are people in this world who hear about millions going hungry and their response is 'we should be careful about helping, what if it discourages work?' 🙃
I've got to stop reading op-eds, I simply do not vibe with those who've surgically removed their humanity
I've got to stop reading op-eds, I simply do not vibe with those who've surgically removed their humanity
Today we are enlightening ourselves as to the history of the thesis (and/or dissertation). Specifically, when did it become standard practice to require a thesis in order to be awarded a graduate degree?
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Today we are enlightening ourselves as to the history of the thesis (and/or dissertation). Specifically, when did it become standard practice to require a thesis in order to be awarded a graduate degree?
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As someone who has been reading both Coates and Klein for 15 years, I thought this summary and diagnosis of their disagreement by @andreapitzer.bsky.social was very good and correct. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
As someone who has been reading both Coates and Klein for 15 years, I thought this summary and diagnosis of their disagreement by @andreapitzer.bsky.social was very good and correct. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
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🎁 A gift for you for #PeerReviewWeek! 🎁
I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts!
reeserichardson.blog/2025/09/15/t...
I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts!
reeserichardson.blog/2025/09/15/t...
The world’s laziest peer reviewer
A dataset-shaped gift for you to celebrate Peer Review Week
reeserichardson.blog
September 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🎁 A gift for you for #PeerReviewWeek! 🎁
I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts!
reeserichardson.blog/2025/09/15/t...
I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts!
reeserichardson.blog/2025/09/15/t...
The Digital Commons dashboard came out of a DC user group you say? The discipline wheel too? Streaming capability? Loving the lore drops at today's Digital Conference workshop sessions. 👂
July 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Digital Commons dashboard came out of a DC user group you say? The discipline wheel too? Streaming capability? Loving the lore drops at today's Digital Conference workshop sessions. 👂
When I was job hunting in library school I remember saying to my friends God, can we just MAKE a library to employ us all? This is ridiculous! 10 years later I'm still wondering how to build jobs for all these incredibly smart principled people who could contribute so much if given fair opportunity!
July 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
When I was job hunting in library school I remember saying to my friends God, can we just MAKE a library to employ us all? This is ridiculous! 10 years later I'm still wondering how to build jobs for all these incredibly smart principled people who could contribute so much if given fair opportunity!
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Student debt is strangling new librarians. The proposed changes will make it worse.
The cost of living is out of control and mid-level jobs aren't paying enough for rent, much less entry level.
Professional development is expected or required, but must be paid by the worker.
The cost of living is out of control and mid-level jobs aren't paying enough for rent, much less entry level.
Professional development is expected or required, but must be paid by the worker.
July 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Student debt is strangling new librarians. The proposed changes will make it worse.
The cost of living is out of control and mid-level jobs aren't paying enough for rent, much less entry level.
Professional development is expected or required, but must be paid by the worker.
The cost of living is out of control and mid-level jobs aren't paying enough for rent, much less entry level.
Professional development is expected or required, but must be paid by the worker.
So I finished reading this and honestly, it's top tier work. I have like two dozen highlighted pieces and multiple notes that are basically like !!!!
me, a month into leading our discovery department: y'all heard of OCLC Research? They are writing banger after banger! I can't believe no one told me about the metadata managers focus group!!! www.oclc.org/research/pub...
Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
This report synthesizes six years (2015-2020) of OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions to trace how metadata services is transitioning into the “next generation of m...
www.oclc.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
So I finished reading this and honestly, it's top tier work. I have like two dozen highlighted pieces and multiple notes that are basically like !!!!
So this is the report that theoretically explains the logic behind this. From Human Content to Machine Data: Introducing CC Signals: creativecommons.org/wp-content/u...
June 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So this is the report that theoretically explains the logic behind this. From Human Content to Machine Data: Introducing CC Signals: creativecommons.org/wp-content/u...
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I had no idea they'd fit so many example images into my article about thinking wider about what we consider for our #GraphicMedicine collections!
booklist.booklistonline.com/html5/reader...
booklist.booklistonline.com/html5/reader...
June 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I had no idea they'd fit so many example images into my article about thinking wider about what we consider for our #GraphicMedicine collections!
booklist.booklistonline.com/html5/reader...
booklist.booklistonline.com/html5/reader...
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I have a few thoughts about this! I have a monthly column, I am regularly invited to give public science talks, and I've written a pop sci book that continues to sell remarkably well, four years in -- and is also taught in classrooms around the US.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
Interesting thread. I wonder whether it says that the most important barrier to scientific literacy is (self-directed) interest, not availability of popular science. They’re related but getting people curious about (and interested in) science may be upstream of getting them to engage with pop sci.
What do you think is the point of pop science?
I've been reading in it a bit and it seems like at least with US data, despite US arguably being in a golden age of popular science, with infinite info available in many forms:
1) science literacy has been basically stable for decades, not improvnig
I've been reading in it a bit and it seems like at least with US data, despite US arguably being in a golden age of popular science, with infinite info available in many forms:
1) science literacy has been basically stable for decades, not improvnig
June 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have a few thoughts about this! I have a monthly column, I am regularly invited to give public science talks, and I've written a pop sci book that continues to sell remarkably well, four years in -- and is also taught in classrooms around the US.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
AND I reached audiences that other pop sci didn't.
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
me, a month into leading our discovery department: y'all heard of OCLC Research? They are writing banger after banger! I can't believe no one told me about the metadata managers focus group!!! www.oclc.org/research/pub...
Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
This report synthesizes six years (2015-2020) of OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions to trace how metadata services is transitioning into the “next generation of m...
www.oclc.org
June 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
me, a month into leading our discovery department: y'all heard of OCLC Research? They are writing banger after banger! I can't believe no one told me about the metadata managers focus group!!! www.oclc.org/research/pub...
Can you believe Jessica has been this on point for NINE years? Libraries should be constantly scheming to poach her tee bee aitch!
I really wish I knew. Modeling it has never worked for me.
Me, in 2016, trying to figure out uncurious library folks: tametheweb.com/2016/06/22/c...
Me, in 2016, trying to figure out uncurious library folks: tametheweb.com/2016/06/22/c...
Curiosity as a Prerequisite to LIS – A TTW Guest Post by Jessica D. Gilbert Redman – Tame the Web
tametheweb.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Can you believe Jessica has been this on point for NINE years? Libraries should be constantly scheming to poach her tee bee aitch!
Thinking 'bout how do you foster a culture of curiosity?
June 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thinking 'bout how do you foster a culture of curiosity?
I try very hard to tell myself being bad at things is good for me actually! Keeps me humble.
It hasn't worked well as motivation for me to keep at the thing so far. 😅
It hasn't worked well as motivation for me to keep at the thing so far. 😅
"the first step to being any good at something is being kinda bad at it" yes but have you considered that I hate that.
The gifted burnout in me is mad I didn't get it exactly correct on the first try
The gifted burnout in me is mad I didn't get it exactly correct on the first try
June 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I try very hard to tell myself being bad at things is good for me actually! Keeps me humble.
It hasn't worked well as motivation for me to keep at the thing so far. 😅
It hasn't worked well as motivation for me to keep at the thing so far. 😅
It is so weird navigating an age where like. Your job wants you to use AI! It's a dollar attractor! And you're also pretty sure this is fundamentally bad technology with limited use cases to justify the broader negative impact but it's already here so now what?
Don’t think I’ve ever muttered the words “fuck me sideways” quite so much reading a story as this one.
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It is so weird navigating an age where like. Your job wants you to use AI! It's a dollar attractor! And you're also pretty sure this is fundamentally bad technology with limited use cases to justify the broader negative impact but it's already here so now what?