Linda Wagner
@beholdthesea.bsky.social
Librarian (she/her) 🦋🦉🏃♀️🌈🧘🌲
Open science + the humanities. Seattle by way of Milwaukee.
Open science + the humanities. Seattle by way of Milwaukee.
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The White House March 2025 Executive Order to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services poses not only an existential threat to the institution of libraries and staff, but it risks worsening the childhoods of a whole generation.
New post from me:
aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/libraries
New post from me:
aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/libraries
Defund Libraries, Defund the Future
Eliminating Libraries and Books Erodes Our Children's Landscape
aj-boston.pubpub.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The White House March 2025 Executive Order to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services poses not only an existential threat to the institution of libraries and staff, but it risks worsening the childhoods of a whole generation.
New post from me:
aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/libraries
New post from me:
aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/libraries
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We’ve lost a pillar of the library and technology communities this week. Sadly Clifford Lynch of @cni-org.bsky.social has passed. He was a brilliant thinker, a connector across the academy, a strong advocate for libraries and science, as well as a great friend to so many. We will miss you Cliff!
April 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We’ve lost a pillar of the library and technology communities this week. Sadly Clifford Lynch of @cni-org.bsky.social has passed. He was a brilliant thinker, a connector across the academy, a strong advocate for libraries and science, as well as a great friend to so many. We will miss you Cliff!
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Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
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🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
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📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
This powerful conversation about covering inspired thought & reflection. The story about the addition of "Chief Justice" to his "Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law" professorship was profound. It honors both Warren's journey of change & growth and Yoshino's commitment to civil rights.
We’ve all had moments when we’ve downplayed some part of our identity to fit in with the world around us. This week, we talk to Kenji Yoshino about the phenomenon of “covering” and how it affects us.
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/drop...
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/drop...
Dropping the Mask | Hidden Brain Media
Have you ever downplayed some aspect of your identity? This week, we talk with legal scholar Kenji Yoshino about what happens when we pretend to be someone other than our true selves.
hiddenbrain.org
March 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This powerful conversation about covering inspired thought & reflection. The story about the addition of "Chief Justice" to his "Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law" professorship was profound. It honors both Warren's journey of change & growth and Yoshino's commitment to civil rights.
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Academic Databases and the Art of the Overcharge | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/academic-databases-and-the-art-of-the-overcharge
Academic Databases and the Art of the Overcharge
Clarivate, Elsevier, and the American Chemical Society are comfortable pursuing a strategy of pricing discrimination. But libraries don’t have to go along with it. This data can help.
katinamagazine.org
March 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Academic Databases and the Art of the Overcharge | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/academic-databases-and-the-art-of-the-overcharge
Oh god. PubMed and PubMed Central are down.
March 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Oh god. PubMed and PubMed Central are down.
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
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If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
Reposted by Linda Wagner
Reposted by Linda Wagner
The latest from #UKSGInsights: @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, Ashley Farley, reviews ten years of OA experiments and evolution at the the Gates Foundation dub.sh/0KA2jLU
January 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The latest from #UKSGInsights: @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, Ashley Farley, reviews ten years of OA experiments and evolution at the the Gates Foundation dub.sh/0KA2jLU
"The fact that I'm putting my health first doesn't mean...I'm not dedicated to my job or a 'team player.' If I'm dead or further disabled, I can't help anyone." Thank you for sharing so brutally & eloquently the crushing mental load of disability. (V. concerned about your 4hrs @ the reference desk.)
Just published a post about the mental load of working as a disabled person in an ableist workplace, the calculus that goes into my work-related boundaries (re: staying healthy), & the guilt and shame I, a recovering workaholic, feel re: those boundaries. meredithfarkas.substack.com/p/the-crushi...
The Crushing Mental Load of Disability
Am I not a “team player” anymore?
meredithfarkas.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"The fact that I'm putting my health first doesn't mean...I'm not dedicated to my job or a 'team player.' If I'm dead or further disabled, I can't help anyone." Thank you for sharing so brutally & eloquently the crushing mental load of disability. (V. concerned about your 4hrs @ the reference desk.)
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Everyone wants open-source language models but no one wants to lift these heavy ass weights.
We just released our paper "2 OLMo 2 Furious"
Can't stop us in 2025. Links below.
We just released our paper "2 OLMo 2 Furious"
Can't stop us in 2025. Links below.
January 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Everyone wants open-source language models but no one wants to lift these heavy ass weights.
We just released our paper "2 OLMo 2 Furious"
Can't stop us in 2025. Links below.
We just released our paper "2 OLMo 2 Furious"
Can't stop us in 2025. Links below.
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@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
January 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...