Amanda French 💙
@amandafrench.net
PhD in English Lit. Villanelle = poetic form, not serial killer. Currently @researchorgs.bsky.social at @crossref.bsky.social. Formerly COVID Tracking Project and THATCamp. Views my own. Folk, Americana, roots, oldtime, bluegrass. https://amandafrench.net
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Amanda French 💙
@amandafrench.net
· Mar 29
And I remember
Misinformation followed us like a plague
Nobody knew from time to time
If the plans were changed
If the plans were changed
Misinformation followed us like a plague
Nobody knew from time to time
If the plans were changed
If the plans were changed
I saw Mychal the Librarian on a live panel with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social’s Biscuits and Banjos a few months ago! How awesome!
💓💓 reading rainbow is back 💓💓
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I saw Mychal the Librarian on a live panel with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social’s Biscuits and Banjos a few months ago! How awesome!
Last night I watched the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray with Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford and this fabulous painting by Ivan Albright, which resides today in the Art Institute of Chicago. Fabulous movie visually: it won an Oscar for cinematography.
www.artic.edu/artworks/937...
www.artic.edu/artworks/937...
Picture of Dorian Gray | The Art Institute of Chicago
Ivan Albright, 1943–44
www.artic.edu
September 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Last night I watched the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray with Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford and this fabulous painting by Ivan Albright, which resides today in the Art Institute of Chicago. Fabulous movie visually: it won an Oscar for cinematography.
www.artic.edu/artworks/937...
www.artic.edu/artworks/937...
I miss Pocket. I keep reading things and wanting to save them. Should probably just set up some new browser bookmarks folder, sigh.
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I miss Pocket. I keep reading things and wanting to save them. Should probably just set up some new browser bookmarks folder, sigh.
Just like 🧠🪱 at HHS, Musk makes a claim, orders his flunkies to find evidence for it, and refuses any contradictions. “Bobba said he knew these people weren’t actually receiving benefits and tried to tell Musk so, to no avail, according to SSA officials.” www.propublica.org/article/insi...
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
www.propublica.org
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Just like 🧠🪱 at HHS, Musk makes a claim, orders his flunkies to find evidence for it, and refuses any contradictions. “Bobba said he knew these people weren’t actually receiving benefits and tried to tell Musk so, to no avail, according to SSA officials.” www.propublica.org/article/insi...
I threw out a bottle of organic ketchup from my fridge door that expired in 2022, so yeah, I’m living my best life
September 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I threw out a bottle of organic ketchup from my fridge door that expired in 2022, so yeah, I’m living my best life
Reposted by Amanda French 💙
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
Hear me out, guys: what about a class action suit against the current U.S. president with 342 million or so people in the class. Let’s get our taxes back
August 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hear me out, guys: what about a class action suit against the current U.S. president with 342 million or so people in the class. Let’s get our taxes back
Woohoo, an article of mine is cited in a recent article in JSTOR Daily! daily.jstor.org/10-villanell... cc @jstordaily.bsky.social
10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets - JSTOR Daily
Read these recursive, nineteen-line poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Paisley Rekdal, William Logan, Agha Shahid Ali, and more.
daily.jstor.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Woohoo, an article of mine is cited in a recent article in JSTOR Daily! daily.jstor.org/10-villanell... cc @jstordaily.bsky.social
Center For Research #Libraries (#CRL) Pilots #AI to Accelerate #Metadata Production www.crl.edu/crl-pilots-a...
August 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Reposted by Amanda French 💙
Cleaning out my office for a cross campus move and encountering papers that make me realize just how many of the opportunities I was afforded on my way up in my career are gone: the NEH Fellowship at the AAS, gone; the Advanced Research Collaborative at CUNY, gone.
July 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Cleaning out my office for a cross campus move and encountering papers that make me realize just how many of the opportunities I was afforded on my way up in my career are gone: the NEH Fellowship at the AAS, gone; the Advanced Research Collaborative at CUNY, gone.
Reposted by Amanda French 💙
Another call for proposals: @beltpublishing.bsky.social nascent "Alternative History" series is expanding. We've done CLE and PIT. Both start with prehistory & are short; otherwise the "Alternative" is flexible.
An Alternative History of Cleveland
Check out An Alternative History of Cleveland - <p><strong>Dive into Cleveland's deep past and return with a new vision for how we should think about the region today.</strong></p><p>The land we call ...
bookshop.org
June 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Another call for proposals: @beltpublishing.bsky.social nascent "Alternative History" series is expanding. We've done CLE and PIT. Both start with prehistory & are short; otherwise the "Alternative" is flexible.
Got my first print copy of @theonion.com and one of my favorite bits is lower-case @jstor.bsky.social as a fake band name
June 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Got my first print copy of @theonion.com and one of my favorite bits is lower-case @jstor.bsky.social as a fake band name
Most people I know actively try not to get sued
June 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Most people I know actively try not to get sued
Reposted by Amanda French 💙
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Elon Musk getting bankrupted, losing his government contracts, and/or otherwise taken down would be very satisfying, but it still wouldn’t repair all the generational damage that this administration has done to our country in the name of “government efficiency.”
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Elon Musk getting bankrupted, losing his government contracts, and/or otherwise taken down would be very satisfying, but it still wouldn’t repair all the generational damage that this administration has done to our country in the name of “government efficiency.”
“Officials did not provide further details about the individual involved or the type of bugs released.”
Bugs released during NC county commission meeting
Mecklenburg County leaders said a person released bugs into the meeting room, prompting their removal from the premises shortly afterward.
Mecklenburg County leaders said a person released bugs into the meeting room, prompting their removal from the premises shortly afterward.
Bugs released during NC county commission meeting
Mecklenburg County leaders said a person released bugs into the meeting room, prompting their removal from the premises shortly afterward.
www.wral.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Officials did not provide further details about the individual involved or the type of bugs released.”
Now in the #SSP2025 session on Delivering Value at a Mission-Driven Organization. First case study from @anapatycardoso.bsky.social on @orcid.org mentions efforts to increase ORCID and ROR adoption in Latin America, as in this event in Buenos Aires in 2023. ror.org/blog/2023-05...
PIDs and Open Science: Building Community in Latin America | PIDs y Ciencia Abierta: Construyendo comunidad en América Latina
Persistent identifiers are playing a key role in driving more robust research infrastructure and open science initiatives across Latin America.
ror.org
May 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Now in the #SSP2025 session on Delivering Value at a Mission-Driven Organization. First case study from @anapatycardoso.bsky.social on @orcid.org mentions efforts to increase ORCID and ROR adoption in Latin America, as in this event in Buenos Aires in 2023. ror.org/blog/2023-05...
Interesting session on author identity verification at #SSP2025. Using @orcid.org trust markers is a key step. Reminds me also of ResearchGate's identity verification process, which uses ROR to verify affiliations. help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us/art...
Verification FAQs
Does a Verified Badge mean a person’s identity has been verified?
No. We don’t assess people’s identities during the verification process. A Verified Badge shows that the account holder confirmed t...
help.researchgate.net
May 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Interesting session on author identity verification at #SSP2025. Using @orcid.org trust markers is a key step. Reminds me also of ResearchGate's identity verification process, which uses ROR to verify affiliations. help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us/art...
Reposted by Amanda French 💙
Recommendations from Tim Lloyd founder and CEO of @liblynxllc.bsky.social to address Research Integrity with Identity Verification, use and contribute @orcid.org Trust Markers at #SSP2025
May 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Recommendations from Tim Lloyd founder and CEO of @liblynxllc.bsky.social to address Research Integrity with Identity Verification, use and contribute @orcid.org Trust Markers at #SSP2025
Now hearing from Chris Shillum of @orcid.org about the great professional email domains trust marker feature, enabled by @researchorgs.bsky.social data, yay. To learn more see the April webinar on ORCID + ROR info.orcid.org/event/better... #SSP2025
Better Together: ORCID + ROR
info.orcid.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Now hearing from Chris Shillum of @orcid.org about the great professional email domains trust marker feature, enabled by @researchorgs.bsky.social data, yay. To learn more see the April webinar on ORCID + ROR info.orcid.org/event/better... #SSP2025
Still thinking about the problem of recruiting peer reviewers. Heard one suggestion that publishers should use AI to translate submissions into other languages so that publishers can recruit peer reviewers from other countries. #SSP2025 1/2
May 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Still thinking about the problem of recruiting peer reviewers. Heard one suggestion that publishers should use AI to translate submissions into other languages so that publishers can recruit peer reviewers from other countries. #SSP2025 1/2
Reposted by Amanda French 💙
How can anyone be expected to spell this? #SpellingBee
May 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
How can anyone be expected to spell this? #SpellingBee
Chaldee is actually pretty common. Not like Keighley. Or whatever that Uaupes geographical word was, sheesh #SpellingBee
May 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Chaldee is actually pretty common. Not like Keighley. Or whatever that Uaupes geographical word was, sheesh #SpellingBee