Molly Hardy
@mollyhardy.bsky.social
Public Data at Harvard's Library Innovation Lab. Preservation, Critical Cataloging, Herbaria, Bibliography, Archives, Old News, Book History, Copyright, Early America’s fictions. Gardening for Native Habitat. Opinions mine. She/Her
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You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge.
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge.
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
For all my book nerd friends--also known as "all my friends"-- out there.
I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For all my book nerd friends--also known as "all my friends"-- out there.
Come for this pitcher commemorating the first Federal Census and stay for my plea for rethinking data. Thanks to @jmheberling.bsky.social for the inspiration and to @kawulf.bsky.social for the encouragement.
Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Come for this pitcher commemorating the first Federal Census and stay for my plea for rethinking data. Thanks to @jmheberling.bsky.social for the inspiration and to @kawulf.bsky.social for the encouragement.
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As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.
This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.
September 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.
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Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC!
Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.
Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.
Save Our Signs: Let’s Get It Done
Help us finish strong with #SaveOurSigns this Labor Day. Plus, if you’re in NYC, come see us in person!
www.datarescueproject.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC!
Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.
Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.
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Calling all NYC #DataRescuers, we're going to be in your area! Help #SaveOurSigns finish strong with an in-person rescue event. Please register in advance.
lu.ma/w7cfkk26
lu.ma/w7cfkk26
#SaveOurSigns Manhattan · Luma
We will gather together before splitting off into groups to work on saving signs at NPS sites around Manhattan. We will provide a list of sites that we need…
lu.ma
August 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Calling all NYC #DataRescuers, we're going to be in your area! Help #SaveOurSigns finish strong with an in-person rescue event. Please register in advance.
lu.ma/w7cfkk26
lu.ma/w7cfkk26
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What insights emerge when a librarian, a software engineer, and a legal scholar come together to experiment with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to explore over 800,000 French legal articles 🇫🇷?
Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...
Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...
January 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What insights emerge when a librarian, a software engineer, and a legal scholar come together to experiment with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to explore over 800,000 French legal articles 🇫🇷?
Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...
Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...
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Say you can't sleep, baby, we know, that's that [threat to government data].
Fuel up on espresso (or your favorite caffeinated beverage of choice) and join the #DataRescueVolunteers
Fuel up on espresso (or your favorite caffeinated beverage of choice) and join the #DataRescueVolunteers
FAQ
Welcome to the Data Rescue Project! We are excited to have you join us. What is the Data Rescue Project? The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including…
www.datarescueproject.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Say you can't sleep, baby, we know, that's that [threat to government data].
Fuel up on espresso (or your favorite caffeinated beverage of choice) and join the #DataRescueVolunteers
Fuel up on espresso (or your favorite caffeinated beverage of choice) and join the #DataRescueVolunteers
Bonafide @harvardlil.bsky.social and so very happy to be the Project Lead for Public Data
August 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Bonafide @harvardlil.bsky.social and so very happy to be the Project Lead for Public Data
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The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟
Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal
The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP voluntee...
www.datarescueproject.org
June 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟
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Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards.
Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities
Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities
Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org
NEH Grants 2025
NEH Grants 2025
impact.ach.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards.
Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities
Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities
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If you are feeling discouraged, powerless, or terrified, it is so tempting to retreat into solitude, but you need to be in community right now. Come out tomorrow if you possibly can. handsoff2025.com
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
handsoff2025.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you are feeling discouraged, powerless, or terrified, it is so tempting to retreat into solitude, but you need to be in community right now. Come out tomorrow if you possibly can. handsoff2025.com
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🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday
April 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Thank you. 💜💜💜
April 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thank you. 💜💜💜
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A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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We had planned to make a post this morning celebrating 100+ bluesky followers for the #NEH union #AFGE 3403.
Instead, we are learning that a large number of our members were placed on Administrative Leave at almost midnight last night, cut off from our systems, and facing unknown days ahead.
Instead, we are learning that a large number of our members were placed on Administrative Leave at almost midnight last night, cut off from our systems, and facing unknown days ahead.
April 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! | The Signal blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
@bcgl.bsky.social
@bcgl.bsky.social
Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! | The Signal
The Library will retire the Newspaper Navigator application on April 21st, 2025. Created by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee while he was in service as a Library of Congress Innovator in Residence, the ap...
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March 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! | The Signal blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
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@bcgl.bsky.social
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Just finished rereading Charlotte Brontë's Villette, & this time round, its ending strikes me as one of the most romantic ever, maybe b/c I inhabit an age of hiring freezes & academic precarity.
M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach.
Swoon! #19thc
M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach.
Swoon! #19thc
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Just finished rereading Charlotte Brontë's Villette, & this time round, its ending strikes me as one of the most romantic ever, maybe b/c I inhabit an age of hiring freezes & academic precarity.
M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach.
Swoon! #19thc
M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach.
Swoon! #19thc
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New @charlotteerosen.bsky.social banger ‼️🚨‼️ proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...
The End of Resistance History
As the Biden administration is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte Rosen wonders: what was the liberal Hashtag-Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And, as a product of the first Trump term, what did commentato...
proteanmag.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
New @charlotteerosen.bsky.social banger ‼️🚨‼️ proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...
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podcast bro'ed out about resistance history: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
E202 - The End of Resistance History w/ Charlotte Rosen
Podcast Episode · American Prestige · 03/18/2025 · 1h 7m
podcasts.apple.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
podcast bro'ed out about resistance history: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Thrilled my book, Plastic Capitalism, was named a finalist for the Business History Conference's (@businesshistoryc.bsky.social) 2025 Hagley Prize and received an honourable mention for the 2025 Ralph Gomory Prize.
@yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
@yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Plastic Capitalism
How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process “As much as it enriches our scholarship, Vanatta...
yalebooks.yale.edu
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thrilled my book, Plastic Capitalism, was named a finalist for the Business History Conference's (@businesshistoryc.bsky.social) 2025 Hagley Prize and received an honourable mention for the 2025 Ralph Gomory Prize.
@yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
@yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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A St Patrick’s Day Socialist Guide to Irish Film and TV https://jacobin.com/2025/03/st-patricks-day-irish-film/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
A St Patrick’s Day Socialist Guide to Irish Film and TV
From Dancing at Lughnasa to The Wind That Shakes the Barley, from Peaky Blinders to Kneecap, here’s a list of Irish-themed films and TV shows for the discerning left-wing viewer — including the time Jackie Chan took on the IRA.
jacobin.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A St Patrick’s Day Socialist Guide to Irish Film and TV https://jacobin.com/2025/03/st-patricks-day-irish-film/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
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Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”
Understanding IMLS's “Shall” and “May” Language
EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.
www.everylibraryinstitute.org
March 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”