Amy
@amylibrarian.bsky.social
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Amy
@amylibrarian.bsky.social
· Oct 1
New pic is my elderly dog trying to help me with with a puzzle 🧩. So helpful
Number of peer review requests that I received before 11am CT today:
4
I declined all 4 because I have 3 in the hopper (from the last month) that I need to complete soon.
4
I declined all 4 because I have 3 in the hopper (from the last month) that I need to complete soon.
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Number of peer review requests that I received before 11am CT today:
4
I declined all 4 because I have 3 in the hopper (from the last month) that I need to complete soon.
4
I declined all 4 because I have 3 in the hopper (from the last month) that I need to complete soon.
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Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.
February 16, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
LIES
Homan: "When they say 'stop racial profiling' -- that's just not occurring. ICE will briefly detain and question somebody based on reasonable suspicion. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
LIES
Wow, that U.S. women's curling win was impressive. Fun fact: both Peterson sisters went to UMN (pharmacy, dentistry)
February 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Wow, that U.S. women's curling win was impressive. Fun fact: both Peterson sisters went to UMN (pharmacy, dentistry)
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I've been asked about how to deal with the fear of speaking out. So, I wrote about it!
Fear and Fascism.
SUFS Blog: www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
@standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpforScience
Fear and Fascism.
SUFS Blog: www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
@standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpforScience
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 PM
I've been asked about how to deal with the fear of speaking out. So, I wrote about it!
Fear and Fascism.
SUFS Blog: www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
@standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpforScience
Fear and Fascism.
SUFS Blog: www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
@standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpforScience
~15 years ago I had an in-class exercise where undergrads had to find the origins of this expression + cite the answer. Then they had to justify why they chose that source (author's credentials? purpose of the source?). The internet was different back then. Twas much harder to find the origins.
STANDING
ON
HER
HEAD
(hockey term that i know)
ON
HER
HEAD
(hockey term that i know)
Gabriella Durante makes a spectacular stick save on Abbey Murphy to keep it a 1 goal game
February 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
~15 years ago I had an in-class exercise where undergrads had to find the origins of this expression + cite the answer. Then they had to justify why they chose that source (author's credentials? purpose of the source?). The internet was different back then. Twas much harder to find the origins.
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
It's our 11th wedding anniversary. In 2015 the feels like temperature was -10°..... I'd post our outdoor photos where you can see our breath, but I'm too lazy
This is the warmest Valentine’s Day on record in the Twin Cities since 1882.
Valentine’s Day heat breaks record in Twin Cities
It hasn’t been this warm on Feb. 14 since Minneapolis’ flour mill heyday.
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 2:56 AM
It's our 11th wedding anniversary. In 2015 the feels like temperature was -10°..... I'd post our outdoor photos where you can see our breath, but I'm too lazy
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Hunting humans is wrong
So fuck you [🧊]
Violets are blue
Hunting humans is wrong
So fuck you [🧊]
February 15, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Hunting humans is wrong
So fuck you [🧊]
Violets are blue
Hunting humans is wrong
So fuck you [🧊]
Love that subtle dig from Phee. 1-on-1 @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social winner will make "... more than some WNBA salaries.." #Unrivaled #WNBA #Wbb
February 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Love that subtle dig from Phee. 1-on-1 @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social winner will make "... more than some WNBA salaries.." #Unrivaled #WNBA #Wbb
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straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Witnessing so many purpose-driven Minnesotans fight for their neighbors and go f2f/not cower in the face of despicable actions and lies has been _something_ (No current word makes the cut. I've used a thesaurus), and _something_ I'll never forget.
This is my Valentine to Minnesota. 💙 <loon call>
This is my Valentine to Minnesota. 💙 <loon call>
I am, by all accounts, a coward, an overthinker, and a waffler, and I don’t think I’ve ever had greater moral clarity about anything ever in my life. ICE is so absolutely morally repugnant that there is no way to live wirh yourself if you do nothing.
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
February 14, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Witnessing so many purpose-driven Minnesotans fight for their neighbors and go f2f/not cower in the face of despicable actions and lies has been _something_ (No current word makes the cut. I've used a thesaurus), and _something_ I'll never forget.
This is my Valentine to Minnesota. 💙 <loon call>
This is my Valentine to Minnesota. 💙 <loon call>
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I've been thinking a lot lately about how communities in the Antebellum North organized to protect Black Americans from kidnapping enslavers, and also how witnessing (and resisting) such kidnappings slowly radicalized a critical mass of white Northerners against slavery www.salon.com/2017/08/05/w...
"We waked up stark mad Abolitionists" - Salon.com
Inside the New England big money, made off of slavery, that also funded the fight to keep slavery out of Kansas
www.salon.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I've been thinking a lot lately about how communities in the Antebellum North organized to protect Black Americans from kidnapping enslavers, and also how witnessing (and resisting) such kidnappings slowly radicalized a critical mass of white Northerners against slavery www.salon.com/2017/08/05/w...
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
🧵
👏 Major kudos to the faculty associations
Zero claps to universities
👏 Major kudos to the faculty associations
Zero claps to universities
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
🧵
👏 Major kudos to the faculty associations
Zero claps to universities
👏 Major kudos to the faculty associations
Zero claps to universities
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hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
www.mpr.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Enraging. Up is down, and down is up.
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Enraging. Up is down, and down is up.
Dying 😂
CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF!
(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Dying 😂
Zero surprise
interesting posts 🥴 from a WSJ reporter who also wrote this piece www.wsj.com/health/healt... about the FDA refusal or Moderna flu vaccine under Vinay Prasad
February 13, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Zero surprise
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This visualization of daily activity of ICE is unreal.
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This visualization of daily activity of ICE is unreal.
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so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net.
this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.
this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:46 PM
so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net.
this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.
this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.
Definitely not buying it. The lying liars cannot be trusted. Reports that 🧊 is harassing people in Eagan again (daily occurrence) today. Home with a sick kid so can't confirm.
NEW: Minneapolis residents aren't buying that ICE is finally ending its campaign of terror in their communities, despite border czar Tom Homan declaring the surge is over.
“This is a good day for sure, but I don’t trust the fuckers." www.huffpost.com/entry/what-m...
“This is a good day for sure, but I don’t trust the fuckers." www.huffpost.com/entry/what-m...
Minnesota Says ICE Won’t Be Defeated Until This Thing Happens
The mood in Minneapolis may not be what you would expect.
www.huffpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Definitely not buying it. The lying liars cannot be trusted. Reports that 🧊 is harassing people in Eagan again (daily occurrence) today. Home with a sick kid so can't confirm.
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I have a Stand with Minnesota volunteer opportunity for people who speak Spanish and want to help get folks home from detention. If you are interested, please DM me for details!
February 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I have a Stand with Minnesota volunteer opportunity for people who speak Spanish and want to help get folks home from detention. If you are interested, please DM me for details!
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He said it on Theo Von's podcast, so it's obligatory to post this
February 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
He said it on Theo Von's podcast, so it's obligatory to post this
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The bathrobe ICE news photo from Saint Paul reminds me of the Visby Window at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, depicting the Battle of Visby, Sweden in the year 1361
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
The bathrobe ICE news photo from Saint Paul reminds me of the Visby Window at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, depicting the Battle of Visby, Sweden in the year 1361