IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.

People who care about libraries should Read all 30 pages of the Museum Library Services Act of 2018 (PL 115-410) www.imls.gov/sites/defaul... Basically everything IMLS does, each individual grant program, is in the statute. Library advocates should anchor their advocacy in that bipartisan law.

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Excited to launch Thinking With Moss, an NEH-funded project that I've been working on for the past few years with @tega.bsky.social + @aansari86.bsky.social. Bringing in collabs from around the world in a series of workshops, we asked what it might mean to think with moss /

www.thinkingwithmoss.net

Join the CHSTM Collections and Collecting working group this Friday December 6th at 12 pm ET for a panel discussion of “Lost Objects: Histories and Futures of Collections.” More details and Zoom info here: www.chstm.org/content/coll...

#GLAMSStudies folks focusing on, working in, or thinking about #Galleries, #Libraries, #Archives, #Museums, and #SpeColls -- more academics than workers, previous pack being aimed more at workers than academics. but with both: let me know if you want on or off!

go.bsky.app/UgJyGxE

STARTER PACKS for #critlib #critarch #critlib and #GLAMS Studies (below)

literally just creating these to get it established! have a couple of appointments and I'll get really adding this afternoon! go.bsky.app/BkSyTAU

Some information about Brown2026. I am hoping this can inspire other institutions to intervene in the public commemoration of this anniversary. Very pleased to be working with @theotherrbg.bsky.social, @kawulf.bsky.social, and others in this endeavor.

We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

Hi folks. Please request an add/share/like to join the Material Culture starter pack!

go.bsky.app/GARWutv

Obviously there are way, way more than 150 of us doing this work. But here are some great starting points for public AmericanStudying here in this profoundly fraught, fragile, & fucking crucial moment.

go.bsky.app/JrsmRyd

Since a billion people seem to have joined BlueSky today, take a look at this CFP & submit something!

The starter pack for the world we live in? So much a product of the world made by colonialism. Made a super quick first pass and it was easy to get to 125 folks and a few orgs (mostly) working in the early Americas. Let me know who's missing/ new here! #VastEarlyAmericas go.bsky.app/RDvzxbj

I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592

Announcing a new H-Environment Roundtable on Assembling the Dinosaur 🦕 🗃️📗 Read and share this fascinating exchange between Tim LeCain, @reedgochberg.bsky.social, @eayers0.bsky.social, @dinostalgia.bsky.social and book author Lukas Rieppel: networks.h-net.org/rieppel-asse...

Join the "Collections and Collecting" working group tomorrow at 12 pm EST to hear from Diana Marsh and Katrina Fenlon on "Linking Analog Archival Data Across Scientific Disciplines: What’s Next?" More details here: www.chstm.org/content/coll...

Come visit "Interwoven: Women's Lives Written in Thread," a new special exhibition at the Concord Museum! On view through February 22, 2024. concordmuseum.org