Matt Lincoln
@mdlincoln.bsky.social
Software engineering manager @JSTOR Labs; art historian; Victoria's Secret Model and Part-Time Parachute 🏳️🌈 he/him
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Across the U.S., various organizations work to ensure that people who are incarcerated have access to literature.
Sending Books to Prisons
PW checks in with two prison literacy groups, one of which originated with a publisher and the other with a bookstore.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Across the U.S., various organizations work to ensure that people who are incarcerated have access to literature.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
After such a week, the Friday mood:
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
After such a week, the Friday mood:
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I'm an untrained artist designing merch that draws on niche pop culture mashups for queer pride, nerd humor, and agitprop for a better world being possible. This thread includes a sampling of my work, which you can find on stickers and shirts, pins, prints, and patches at willburrows.art/shop
May 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I'm an untrained artist designing merch that draws on niche pop culture mashups for queer pride, nerd humor, and agitprop for a better world being possible. This thread includes a sampling of my work, which you can find on stickers and shirts, pins, prints, and patches at willburrows.art/shop
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
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Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.
It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.
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Trolling each other since 1054
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Trolling each other since 1054
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True meaning of Transness
July 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
True meaning of Transness
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it's getting to be rote at this point but promise me domestic prosecutions and accession to the international criminal court if you want my vote
Basement of courthouse horror stories: “One immigrant got her period during the meeting in which she was detained, and was forced to wear that same underwear for days.”
timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...
timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...
Asylum-seekers now held for days – in a downtown San Diego basement
Migrants held in makeshift conditions in basement offices say they slept in the cold, used the restroom without privacy and went without medical attention.
timesofsandiego.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
it's getting to be rote at this point but promise me domestic prosecutions and accession to the international criminal court if you want my vote
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Even at BEST it's like - people on my campus keep saying but students will need this! For the job market! Okay? If carpentry turned out to be the new hot thing tomorrow would *I* need to teach it in my class? Or could they take a carpentry class and leave me alone.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Even at BEST it's like - people on my campus keep saying but students will need this! For the job market! Okay? If carpentry turned out to be the new hot thing tomorrow would *I* need to teach it in my class? Or could they take a carpentry class and leave me alone.
spending the morning on peer review, and my raw notes currently include "this whole thing smacks of gender"
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
spending the morning on peer review, and my raw notes currently include "this whole thing smacks of gender"
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ppl dunk constantly on things like philosophy and sociology and then turn around and go "maybe the computer *is* actually talking to me"
October 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
ppl dunk constantly on things like philosophy and sociology and then turn around and go "maybe the computer *is* actually talking to me"
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ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R
In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals
sr.ithaka.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
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it's important to remember a person in the fullness of who they were. jane goodall was also a scarf as outerwear style icon, and a babe
October 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
it's important to remember a person in the fullness of who they were. jane goodall was also a scarf as outerwear style icon, and a babe
JSTOR Labs engineers must think empathetically about the code we write and the impact it can have (and we get to write and publish about that process!)
If you find Ryan's experience interesting, come join him on our team: www.ithaka.org/job/46013390...
If you find Ryan's experience interesting, come join him on our team: www.ithaka.org/job/46013390...
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
JSTOR Labs engineers must think empathetically about the code we write and the impact it can have (and we get to write and publish about that process!)
If you find Ryan's experience interesting, come join him on our team: www.ithaka.org/job/46013390...
If you find Ryan's experience interesting, come join him on our team: www.ithaka.org/job/46013390...
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Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:
September 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:
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Many thanks to @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social for this fantastic piece on our new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies
How One University Is Reimagining a Humanities Ph.D. Program
@cmu.edu is turning its literary and cultural studies Ph.D. program into one focused on computational cultural studies. The reframe comes as many humanities graduate programs face an uncertain future. https://bit.ly/4ngm7R7
@cmu.edu is turning its literary and cultural studies Ph.D. program into one focused on computational cultural studies. The reframe comes as many humanities graduate programs face an uncertain future. https://bit.ly/4ngm7R7
September 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Many thanks to @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social for this fantastic piece on our new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies
Re-upping the role I’m hiring for @jstor.bsky.social for a mid-level typescript developer to take on the tangle of credit transfer challenges faced by millions of students today. You’ll join a scaling team with other delightful devs, designers, and policy experts.
DM me with ?s
grnh.se/19o370345us
DM me with ?s
grnh.se/19o370345us
Software Engineer (Full-stack) - ITHAKA
ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome b...
grnh.se
September 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Re-upping the role I’m hiring for @jstor.bsky.social for a mid-level typescript developer to take on the tangle of credit transfer challenges faced by millions of students today. You’ll join a scaling team with other delightful devs, designers, and policy experts.
DM me with ?s
grnh.se/19o370345us
DM me with ?s
grnh.se/19o370345us
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Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542
September 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542
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been raptured for 90 mins now. lines are insane. VERY disorganized. scalpers by east entrance
September 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
been raptured for 90 mins now. lines are insane. VERY disorganized. scalpers by east entrance