Erin the Librarian
@anotherlibrarian.bsky.social
Engineering Librarian at University at Buffalo #UBhornsup, wife and mom, technical standards nerd, baker of cookies, elder millennial, cat lady, dog lover, other nonsense, #buffalove #billsmafia
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ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities.
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
April 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities.
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s recent decision to impose a 15% cap on facilities and administrative cost reimbursements is misguided and damaging, argue the authors of a new #SciencePolicyForum. scim.ag/423AbVX
March 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s recent decision to impose a 15% cap on facilities and administrative cost reimbursements is misguided and damaging, argue the authors of a new #SciencePolicyForum. scim.ag/423AbVX
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Apparently, you can't say or write "cancer moonshot" or "peanut allergy" without permission if you work at the National Cancer Institute. 🤷♂️ www.propublica.org/article/nati...
March 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Apparently, you can't say or write "cancer moonshot" or "peanut allergy" without permission if you work at the National Cancer Institute. 🤷♂️ www.propublica.org/article/nati...
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USDA Suspends All Grants for University of Maine System
This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/41ZOHOv
This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/41ZOHOv
USDA freezes federal funding for Maine university system
This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies.
bit.ly
March 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
USDA Suspends All Grants for University of Maine System
This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/41ZOHOv
This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/41ZOHOv
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Did you know that there were campaigns during World War 2 in the Gulf of America? No?
Because it is the Gulf of Mexico.
You might want to email listcomments@loc.gov and let them know that this isn't rewrite history day.
What happens at LOC will find its way to your local library.
(Be kind to them.)
Because it is the Gulf of Mexico.
You might want to email listcomments@loc.gov and let them know that this isn't rewrite history day.
What happens at LOC will find its way to your local library.
(Be kind to them.)
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
classweb.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Did you know that there were campaigns during World War 2 in the Gulf of America? No?
Because it is the Gulf of Mexico.
You might want to email listcomments@loc.gov and let them know that this isn't rewrite history day.
What happens at LOC will find its way to your local library.
(Be kind to them.)
Because it is the Gulf of Mexico.
You might want to email listcomments@loc.gov and let them know that this isn't rewrite history day.
What happens at LOC will find its way to your local library.
(Be kind to them.)
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Wayback Machine playback (and other functions) is down because of a power outage induced hardware failure.
We are working to address this issue and bring the services back up ASAP.
Thank you for your support and patience!
We are working to address this issue and bring the services back up ASAP.
Thank you for your support and patience!
February 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Wayback Machine playback (and other functions) is down because of a power outage induced hardware failure.
We are working to address this issue and bring the services back up ASAP.
Thank you for your support and patience!
We are working to address this issue and bring the services back up ASAP.
Thank you for your support and patience!
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The good news: CDC's webpages have been restored following court orders.
The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.
The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.
February 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The good news: CDC's webpages have been restored following court orders.
The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.
The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
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A lawsuit has been filed against an Arkansas county judge who fired a librarian after she opposed efforts to ban books.
www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...
www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...
www.usnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A lawsuit has been filed against an Arkansas county judge who fired a librarian after she opposed efforts to ban books.
www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...
www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated
February 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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Trump is considering executive action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education
February 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Trump is considering executive action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education
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Erasing the words doesn’t erase the ideas or the people, but it does erase important scientific data with which participants entrusted us so that they could be represented, too. It’s devastating. From @jeremyfaust.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Erasing the words doesn’t erase the ideas or the people, but it does erase important scientific data with which participants entrusted us so that they could be represented, too. It’s devastating. From @jeremyfaust.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.
February 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
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Octavia Butler's vision of the future feels eerily familiar today. Her words remind us: change is constant, but so is resilience.
February 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Octavia Butler's vision of the future feels eerily familiar today. Her words remind us: change is constant, but so is resilience.
More (recently deleted) CDC guidelines available here!
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
More (recently deleted) CDC guidelines available here!
FYI - Wegmans frozen chicken nuggets have been recalled. We definitely had a bag. Can return for a full refund.
February 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
FYI - Wegmans frozen chicken nuggets have been recalled. We definitely had a bag. Can return for a full refund.
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1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.
February 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.