Hanna
@librarianyarns.bsky.social
Instructional Designer & Librarian. PhD candidate in Learning Technology. Knitter, Seamstress & Amateur Photographer. Cat & dog mom. Lover of funky fashion and ephemera of old. Learn more about my work at Librarianyarns.com
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Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.
www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
www.404media.co
September 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.
www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
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“The Public Health Map collects, synthesizes, and visualizes timely data on federal changes and their localized effects on U.S. health systems.” #medlibs theimpactproject.org/public-healt...
Public Health Map - The Impact Project
The Office and Budget Map provides timely data on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“The Public Health Map collects, synthesizes, and visualizes timely data on federal changes and their localized effects on U.S. health systems.” #medlibs theimpactproject.org/public-healt...
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August 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill
This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.
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This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.
bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill
This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.
bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.
bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
Like I’ve been saying…it’s not just the AI. It’s the cloud. It’s everything. (But one really has to ask, how many emails deleted will actually make a difference here?!)
In the UK, the water shortage is so bad that the government is urging citizens to help save water by deleting old emails. It really helps lighten the load on water hungry datacenters, you see.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Like I’ve been saying…it’s not just the AI. It’s the cloud. It’s everything. (But one really has to ask, how many emails deleted will actually make a difference here?!)
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a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
I take pride in creating meaningful asynchronous credit-bearing courses that teach vital info lit skills. Today me and my student are putting a bow on coding of a giant Qual data set of student feedback and found this jem “Thank you for an enjoyable class in a largely unenjoyable world!”. 💕💔
July 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I take pride in creating meaningful asynchronous credit-bearing courses that teach vital info lit skills. Today me and my student are putting a bow on coding of a giant Qual data set of student feedback and found this jem “Thank you for an enjoyable class in a largely unenjoyable world!”. 💕💔
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
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ME: one coffee please
CASHIER: what size?
ME: load bearing
CASHIER: what size?
ME: load bearing
June 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: one coffee please
CASHIER: what size?
ME: load bearing
CASHIER: what size?
ME: load bearing
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Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?
June 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?
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Discovered this gem this week, a 'build your own background noise' noises.online
Seems to be free and ad free so far.
Great for shutting out office sounds 🗣️☎️🖨️
#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
Seems to be free and ad free so far.
Great for shutting out office sounds 🗣️☎️🖨️
#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
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noises.online
June 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Discovered this gem this week, a 'build your own background noise' noises.online
Seems to be free and ad free so far.
Great for shutting out office sounds 🗣️☎️🖨️
#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
Seems to be free and ad free so far.
Great for shutting out office sounds 🗣️☎️🖨️
#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
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“Researchers will need to develop a raft of new techniques to adjust to censored information environments. These include becoming more deliberate about search strategies, as the list of words banned by federal agencies works to obscure the many ways in which human life is lived.”
Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?
“The substantial challenges that authoritarian ideology poses to knowledge exchange mean that researchers must be prepared to safeguard their commitment to empirical insight.”
🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship
🖊️ @alisonhicks0.bsky.social via @timeshighered.bsky.social
#US #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky #Censorship
June 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“Researchers will need to develop a raft of new techniques to adjust to censored information environments. These include becoming more deliberate about search strategies, as the list of words banned by federal agencies works to obscure the many ways in which human life is lived.”
I stumbled across this little self defining statement from an author. Makes me wonder, was that near statistics course failure actually a reflection on them? Or actually on the way a course was taught? Were challenging data concepts scaffolded? Were assignments meaningful?
June 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I stumbled across this little self defining statement from an author. Makes me wonder, was that near statistics course failure actually a reflection on them? Or actually on the way a course was taught? Were challenging data concepts scaffolded? Were assignments meaningful?
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headline construction masterclass
June 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
headline construction masterclass
Get an early sneak peek into some of the student interviews @bibliomancer.bsky.social and I did on AI use earlier this year!
What do Muppets and AI have in common? Read today's blog post to find out!
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/muppets...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/muppets...
Muppets and Machines: Seeing the Puppeteers Behind AI — Civics of Technology
Lots Happening at Civics of Tech! CONFERENCE! Our fourth virtual conference will be on July 31 and August 1! Head over to our conference page to learn about our amazing keynote speakers, regi...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
June 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Get an early sneak peek into some of the student interviews @bibliomancer.bsky.social and I did on AI use earlier this year!
Today the chonky boy is being a long boy with airplane ears, all because The Dog decided to be within a foot and a half of his chosen snoozing spot. #catsofbluesky
June 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Today the chonky boy is being a long boy with airplane ears, all because The Dog decided to be within a foot and a half of his chosen snoozing spot. #catsofbluesky
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The state of Utah voted to ban pride flags so Salt Lake City Council decided to make official city flags that incorporate the progress pride, Juneteenth, and transgender flags so they can fly them without breaking state law
If approved, SLC would have 4 flag designs. It's current, as well as one tied to Progress Pride, Juneteenth and Transgender designs as seen here #utpol:
May 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The state of Utah voted to ban pride flags so Salt Lake City Council decided to make official city flags that incorporate the progress pride, Juneteenth, and transgender flags so they can fly them without breaking state law
As a pragmatist, I continue to argue that AI has the potential to minimize sociocultural divides, but with the caveat that it's only when the resources are available to all equally.
New technology from British startup Silence Speaks enables an AI-generated sign language avatar to effectively give the deaf and hard of hearing an interpreter in their pocket. www.wired.com/story/silenc...
This Startup Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf
New technology from British startup Silence Speaks enables an AI-generated sign language avatar to effectively give the deaf and hard of hearing an interpreter in their pocket.
www.wired.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
As a pragmatist, I continue to argue that AI has the potential to minimize sociocultural divides, but with the caveat that it's only when the resources are available to all equally.
Really excited to take this on the “road” for the first time today! Come see me and @amanda-larson.bsky.social present Beyond Labels: Empathetic Teaching Practices for Neuroinclusion, a free online presentation, today May5th from 2-3pm ET. ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really excited to take this on the “road” for the first time today! Come see me and @amanda-larson.bsky.social present Beyond Labels: Empathetic Teaching Practices for Neuroinclusion, a free online presentation, today May5th from 2-3pm ET. ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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📣🧪
$25k grants for those who:
1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and
2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF.
Early-career scholars prioritized
$25k grants for those who:
1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and
2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF.
Early-career scholars prioritized
🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
📣🧪
$25k grants for those who:
1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and
2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF.
Early-career scholars prioritized
$25k grants for those who:
1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and
2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF.
Early-career scholars prioritized
As I continue to say, even if this *all* stoped and was reversed tomorrow, the effects will be generational.
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As I continue to say, even if this *all* stoped and was reversed tomorrow, the effects will be generational.
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Hey Penzeys shoppers, he announced that he's going to have to raise prices starting on Tues, in response to the tariffs. But they're running a bunch of specials if you want to stock up now. www.penzeys.com
HomePage | Penzeys
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April 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hey Penzeys shoppers, he announced that he's going to have to raise prices starting on Tues, in response to the tariffs. But they're running a bunch of specials if you want to stock up now. www.penzeys.com
Always trying to balance “doing” with rest. Doing work, dissertation, democracy, and taking care of a sometimes unorthodox body. No coffee or chocolate for a while, and my rest deck always provides good words to accept that, while I may need more than some, not only is rest good, #RestIsRessistance
April 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Always trying to balance “doing” with rest. Doing work, dissertation, democracy, and taking care of a sometimes unorthodox body. No coffee or chocolate for a while, and my rest deck always provides good words to accept that, while I may need more than some, not only is rest good, #RestIsRessistance
In an attempt to ensure there are things to ground the future rage in a present joy, I made sure to plant things. Four of the packets came from the library, catnip, bachelor buttons and ?!? Many things are sprouting. Now two of those things are a mystery.
a cartoon of a woman in a garden with the words gardening goddess written below her
Alt: The text “gardening goddess” appears on the screen, two bird with a flower crown fly over a thin white blonde woman’s head and places it in her crown.
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April 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In an attempt to ensure there are things to ground the future rage in a present joy, I made sure to plant things. Four of the packets came from the library, catnip, bachelor buttons and ?!? Many things are sprouting. Now two of those things are a mystery.