Nicky Agate
@terrainsvagues.bsky.social
Open knowledge & values-enacted leadership
Rises early for birds, bikes, & beasts
Associate Dean @library.cmu.edu
Editorial Director @cmupress.bsky.social
Co-PI @humetricshss.bsky.social
PI library.cmu.edu/poem
In cahoots w/ @rnisa.bsky.social
Rises early for birds, bikes, & beasts
Associate Dean @library.cmu.edu
Editorial Director @cmupress.bsky.social
Co-PI @humetricshss.bsky.social
PI library.cmu.edu/poem
In cahoots w/ @rnisa.bsky.social
Lots of green for today's #BirdoftheDay (and even a little side eye).
Rufous-tailed hummingbird by the Rio Piedra, Magdalena, Colombia.
Rufous-tailed hummingbird by the Rio Piedra, Magdalena, Colombia.
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Lots of green for today's #BirdoftheDay (and even a little side eye).
Rufous-tailed hummingbird by the Rio Piedra, Magdalena, Colombia.
Rufous-tailed hummingbird by the Rio Piedra, Magdalena, Colombia.
It’s #WoodpeckerWednesday but I’ve just been in Iceland and have no new woodpeckers to report. Have a puffin instead. 🪶
August 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It’s #WoodpeckerWednesday but I’ve just been in Iceland and have no new woodpeckers to report. Have a puffin instead. 🪶
The call is live! Please share.
We’re inviting submissions of teaching and learning objects for POEM: the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies.
We’re inviting submissions of teaching and learning objects for POEM: the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies.
July 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The call is live! Please share.
We’re inviting submissions of teaching and learning objects for POEM: the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies.
We’re inviting submissions of teaching and learning objects for POEM: the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies.
The first edition of the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute powered by @humetricshss.bsky.social is underway! humetricshss.org/an-expansive...
July 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The first edition of the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute powered by @humetricshss.bsky.social is underway! humetricshss.org/an-expansive...
It’s jubilee day for @lyndamk.bsky.social! Happiest of birthdays to an indefatigable data maven, class A kayaking partner, and all-round excellent human.
June 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It’s jubilee day for @lyndamk.bsky.social! Happiest of birthdays to an indefatigable data maven, class A kayaking partner, and all-round excellent human.
It’s #woodpeckerwednesday, which is the best day. Here’s a red-headed guy in Highland Park
yesterday. 🪶
yesterday. 🪶
June 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s #woodpeckerwednesday, which is the best day. Here’s a red-headed guy in Highland Park
yesterday. 🪶
yesterday. 🪶
So the National Archives will no longer be open… to the nation? “Legitimate business needs” only. That’s a whole lot of US history that is now ripe for being rewritten.
www.archives.gov/college-park
www.archives.gov/college-park
June 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So the National Archives will no longer be open… to the nation? “Legitimate business needs” only. That’s a whole lot of US history that is now ripe for being rewritten.
www.archives.gov/college-park
www.archives.gov/college-park
My whiteboard is getting rather busy, thanks to @skeuomorphpress.org, Robin Sloan, @jennybloomfield.bsky.social, @rnisa.bsky.social, @jajrk.bsky.social, @cplong.bsky.social, my kid, my Dad, and many others not on here.
April 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My whiteboard is getting rather busy, thanks to @skeuomorphpress.org, Robin Sloan, @jennybloomfield.bsky.social, @rnisa.bsky.social, @jajrk.bsky.social, @cplong.bsky.social, my kid, my Dad, and many others not on here.
I'm honored to have been nominated to stand for election to the @iflaglobal.bsky.social Professional Section Standing Committee for Academic and Research Libraries. If you're an IFLA member, please do read my candidate statement and consider casting your vote in my direction!
March 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I'm honored to have been nominated to stand for election to the @iflaglobal.bsky.social Professional Section Standing Committee for Academic and Research Libraries. If you're an IFLA member, please do read my candidate statement and consider casting your vote in my direction!
Lyra (and I) agree!
March 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Lyra (and I) agree!
Do we have dog twins?
February 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Do we have dog twins?
Hope everyone has a good supply of mice in for #SuperbOwl Sunday
February 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hope everyone has a good supply of mice in for #SuperbOwl Sunday
This morning in birds 🪶
February 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This morning in birds 🪶
The phenomenal Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, is exactly what I needed this week. Highly recommend.
January 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The phenomenal Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, is exactly what I needed this week. Highly recommend.
Six years ago today, folks were finding solace on that other site in #UnscienceAnAnimal. We needed it then and we need it now. Here are some choice ones I saved. Please add more.
January 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Six years ago today, folks were finding solace on that other site in #UnscienceAnAnimal. We needed it then and we need it now. Here are some choice ones I saved. Please add more.
Thread: I want to get the word out about a number of exciting opportunities with imminent deadlines from different aspects of my professional life, so instead of spamming with multiple reminders, I thought I'd put them all in one post. Please share with folks you think might be interested!
January 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thread: I want to get the word out about a number of exciting opportunities with imminent deadlines from different aspects of my professional life, so instead of spamming with multiple reminders, I thought I'd put them all in one post. Please share with folks you think might be interested!
Not moving from in front of the heating vent!
January 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Not moving from in front of the heating vent!
In 2024, I read 63 books over 50 categories set by the members of the best book club.
My top 5:
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez trans Megan McDowell
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
My Friends by Hisham Mattar
Playground by Richard Powers
There There by Tommy Orange
My top 5:
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez trans Megan McDowell
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
My Friends by Hisham Mattar
Playground by Richard Powers
There There by Tommy Orange
January 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In 2024, I read 63 books over 50 categories set by the members of the best book club.
My top 5:
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez trans Megan McDowell
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
My Friends by Hisham Mattar
Playground by Richard Powers
There There by Tommy Orange
My top 5:
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez trans Megan McDowell
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
My Friends by Hisham Mattar
Playground by Richard Powers
There There by Tommy Orange
🪶 Dove and friend today in Oregon
November 20, 2024 at 12:39 AM
🪶 Dove and friend today in Oregon
Happy #woodpeckerwednesday from this enthusiastic little punk 🪶 #birds
November 13, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Happy #woodpeckerwednesday from this enthusiastic little punk 🪶 #birds