Jeff Pooley
@jpooley.bsky.social
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
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Trump administration: “Alex Pretti was a demotic terrorist who planned to massacre as many immigration officers as he could.”
Alex Pretti’s last words: “Are you okay?”
Alex Pretti’s last words: “Are you okay?”
January 25, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Trump administration: “Alex Pretti was a demotic terrorist who planned to massacre as many immigration officers as he could.”
Alex Pretti’s last words: “Are you okay?”
Alex Pretti’s last words: “Are you okay?”
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Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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In hindsight, given the fetish for prediction that quant social science has always had, this seems like where the turn to data was inevitably going to go: specious and dubious prediction to feed the content mill; diluted social science to anticipate the narrative flow
In search of new revenue streams, newsrooms are embracing prediction market companies as partners—an ethically dubious move that launders speculation as serious data journalism.
More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/polymarket...
More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/polymarket...
Legacy Media’s Risky Bet
In search of new revenue streams, newsrooms are embracing prediction market companies as partners—an ethically dubious move that launders speculation as serious data journalism.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:24 PM
In hindsight, given the fetish for prediction that quant social science has always had, this seems like where the turn to data was inevitably going to go: specious and dubious prediction to feed the content mill; diluted social science to anticipate the narrative flow
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OUTCOME: This is where Read and Publish deals have landed us folks. www.oaspa.org/news/latest-...
January 20, 2026 at 5:39 AM
OUTCOME: This is where Read and Publish deals have landed us folks. www.oaspa.org/news/latest-...
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I’ve finally been able to start reading @samuelmoore.org’s book, which is excellent. Living up to the promise of good humanistic analysis, it’s making sharp conceptual distinctions & providing me w/ better language to describe & understand what I observe in OA publishing.
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
<I>Publishing Beyond the Market</I> argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures fo...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I’ve finally been able to start reading @samuelmoore.org’s book, which is excellent. Living up to the promise of good humanistic analysis, it’s making sharp conceptual distinctions & providing me w/ better language to describe & understand what I observe in OA publishing.
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
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Wiley, as ever, serving its most important stakeholders, the shareholders.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
Wiley create new "Chief AI and Data Services Officer" (CADSO?) to accelerate their content licensing programme www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Wiley Names Inaugural AI Chief
To accelerate its efforts to make more licensing deals with AI developers and other tech companies, Wiley has named Rafat to the newly created position of chief AI and data services officer.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Wiley, as ever, serving its most important stakeholders, the shareholders.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
Of course the scammy and shameless for-profit higher ed industry is pivoting to AI
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‘Sam Altman–Backed Campus Acquires AI Start-Up’ | Jeff Pooley
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January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Of course the scammy and shameless for-profit higher ed industry is pivoting to AI
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Editor's picks from 2025: Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power.
To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press
Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Editor's picks from 2025: Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power.
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Stop using us Jews as an excuse for doing cruel/stupid/illegal shit challenge 2026
December 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Stop using us Jews as an excuse for doing cruel/stupid/illegal shit challenge 2026
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The December History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
History of Media Studies Newsletter December 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter December 2025 Welcome to the 55th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by...
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December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The December History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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"we need to conceive of these “publishing beyond the market” enterprises as immanent utopias, spaces that show possibility within a system that they cannot overthrow, but that they can nonetheless structure through critique"
Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
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Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
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Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Since I last wrote, I have had a few more thoughts on Samuel Moore’s book. Again, these are not necessarily things that he does not discuss or things that he...
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December 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"we need to conceive of these “publishing beyond the market” enterprises as immanent utopias, spaces that show possibility within a system that they cannot overthrow, but that they can nonetheless structure through critique"
Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
eve.gd/2025/12/28/p...
Further thoughts on @samuelmoore.org's book
eve.gd/2025/12/28/p...
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"According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
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December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
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Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 8, 2023 at 1:50 AM
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
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We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
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Yet more evidence that the answer to this question is “No.”
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yet more evidence that the answer to this question is “No.”
I'm sharing this brief essay—on modes and mediums in scholarly publishing—just published in @jepub.bsky.social 30th anniversary issue. It's a worlds-colliding piece for me, media studies meets academic publishing journals.publishing.umich.edu...
The Modal Mode of Thinking about Scholarly Publishing
The essay argues that the study of scholarly communication would benefit from attending to a “modal” sensibility—that is, a self-conscious sensitivity to the differences that different mediums make in understanding published works of scholarship. The essay critiques the unreflective textualism that dominates the conversation on publishing. The claim is that the primacy of text, as the sovereign medium of academic communication, is a largely invisible parochialism. The essay points to examples and traditions of multi-modal publishing as an entry point to taking the medium-specificity of publishing formats as an object of analysis. Such experimentation has followed, sometimes closely, the emergence of new mediums of storage and transmission within the societies that scholars work. The mid-twentieth century birth of the modern medium concept made multi-modality a conceivable, self-conscious project. Even so, the discourse on academic publishing has rarely registered the implications, including for inherited text-based formats. The essay concludes with a call for media scholars, curiously underrepresented in the discourse, to take up this task, with reference to pioneering works in the field.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm sharing this brief essay—on modes and mediums in scholarly publishing—just published in @jepub.bsky.social 30th anniversary issue. It's a worlds-colliding piece for me, media studies meets academic publishing journals.publishing.umich.edu...
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Discriminatory pricing should be illegal.
Discriminatory pricing driven by black box algorithms with observable biases should be criminal.
Discriminatory pricing driven by black box algorithms with observable biases should be criminal.
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Discriminatory pricing should be illegal.
Discriminatory pricing driven by black box algorithms with observable biases should be criminal.
Discriminatory pricing driven by black box algorithms with observable biases should be criminal.
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We are excited to announce the publication of our JEP 30th Anniversary Special Issue, comprising reflections from our editorial board and edited by Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/43... [1/5]
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We are excited to announce the publication of our JEP 30th Anniversary Special Issue, comprising reflections from our editorial board and edited by Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/43... [1/5]
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Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")
Publishing Beyond The Market : Internet Archive & Authors Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Join author Samuel Moore in conversation with Heather Joseph as they reimagine open access through collective, scholar-led publishing.Resources shared:Chat
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December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")
A thoughtful proposal, published in Nature earlier this year, for a G+ index (with G for generosity, giving and other 'good things' in university life)—set in explicit contrast to h index–style metricized academy www.jeffpooley.com/?p=2863&pr...
‘Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia’ | Jeff Pooley
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A thoughtful proposal, published in Nature earlier this year, for a G+ index (with G for generosity, giving and other 'good things' in university life)—set in explicit contrast to h index–style metricized academy www.jeffpooley.com/?p=2863&pr...
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Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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When we talk about how changes in the U.S. federal funding landscape will affect the future of scholarship, this has just become my Exhibit A.
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
When we talk about how changes in the U.S. federal funding landscape will affect the future of scholarship, this has just become my Exhibit A.