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adriennemassanari.bsky.social
This "Just in Time for Christmas" Hallmark movie apparently features a NTT community college professor in her first year being offered an associate professor position at Yale because the Dean was "browsing dissertations and thought hers had bestseller potential." #acasky
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October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
nneka.bsky.social
part of why i find the idea that certain tech is inevitable (LMS, AI, etc) to be silly is we're not far removed from the before times. we have it in recent and living memory how we function without these things. i graduated from college in 2013. we had reading packets and printed our assignments
Screenshot of Blue Sky conversation with the middle username redacted Adrienne Massanari: I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage. Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky Redacted: I noticed you didn't offer an alternative LMS you would rather use. I hate Besos also but unless you have a specific solution you've vetted that can scale like canvas and is impervious to downtime this comment seems like whining. Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social: i wonder...how in the world did faculty teach or grade before the invention of the LMS? i suppose there was simply no teaching or grading before the internet
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
adriennemassanari.bsky.social
I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage.

Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
debraocchi.bsky.social
It’d probably be better for me to get back from the field more than a week before the paper is due 😅 #acasky
October 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
This is a really exciting journal (re)launch at @openlibhums.org working with @the87press.bsky.social ! This poetry journal is doing such important work to address the massive under-representation of writers of colour and entrenched inequalities in literary publishing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky #poetry
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Congrats to @starlinguistics.bsky.social on their inaugural issue published by @openlibhums.org ! Read it here: star-linguistics.org #OpenAccess #AcaSky
Syntactic Theory and Research
Ana Werkmann Horvat (University of Osijek), Matea Birtić (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics), Martina Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University)
star-linguistics.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
lawsonjaramillo.bsky.social
The nerdy tattle-tale in me grew up to be an academic who loves calling out designers who plagiarize and culturally appropriate. The latest is #Adidas x #WillyChavarría. Here’s what I wrote (including learning resources!): deed.parsons.edu/2025/08/07/c...

#culturalappropriation #acasky #huaraches
Screenshot of a blog post that reads Cultural Appropriation? Willy Chavarría x Adidas’ “Oaxaca Slip-On” Statement from the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca (provided by Cultural Documentalist Laura Quiroz) On Sunday, August 3, 2025, designer Willy Chavarría unveiled his latest collaboration with Adidas—the “Oaxaca Slip-On” (see images here). While the shoe is being celebrated as a “nod to Chicano culture” and a “revival of Mexican tradition,” the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of the State of Oaxaca claims that Chavarría and Adidas have neglected to credit the Yalalag Community, “whose traditional huaraches were used as the aesthetic basis for the footwear.” This accusation of cultural appropriation is now being widely reported, including on CNN.com (August 6, 2025).
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
This is great news! Hopefully the UK can follow suit by funding similar collaborations between diamond university-based publishers, such as those affiliated with @oipassoc.bsky.social #OpenAccess #AcaSky
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
This meeting was so important. The N8 group of northern UK libraries are providing much-needed leadership to the whole sector. They’re standing up to a bullying, extractive commercial oligopoly that threatens the integrity of our research. I was honoured to be part of this day! #OpenAccess #AcaSky
July 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
bobrinkman.com
AcaSky, I need your help: I loved Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media", but I'm a woefully under-read dilettante.

I'd like to tell other technologists about this stuff, and how it relates to developing LLMs.

Does anyone have syllabi or reading lists so I can better educate myself first?
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Deadline 30/06 - last chance to apply for this year’s @openlibhums.bsky.social small grants to support #openaccess publishing! #AcaSky
openlibhums.org Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Jun 14
Don’t miss your chance to apply for the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025! Funding of up to £500 is available to support events, projects, or activities related to #OpenAccess or with an #OA component.

⏰ Apply by 30/06!
🔗 Full details: www.openlibhums.org/...
The OLH Open Access Award 2025: call for applications
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2025, a fund dedicated …
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June 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Really encouraging to see today’s landmark statement from the N8 Research Partnership urging fundamental reform to academic publishing. The current system is completely unsustainable. I’ll be speaking at today’s N8 event about @ojcollective.bsky.social. www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-... #AcaSky
N8 Research Partnership calls for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models - N8 Research Partnership
The N8 Research Partnership – the collective body for the North of England’s eight research intensive universities – has released a landmark new statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarl...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Fab new issue of @regenerationeac.bsky.social on Affects of Energy Transition! #AcaSky #EnergyHums @openlibhums.bsky.social
regenerationeac.bsky.social Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture @regenerationeac.bsky.social · May 28
NEW ISSUE!! Regeneration 1.3, Affects of Energy Transition, guest edited by Firat Oruc, Trish Kahle, and Victoria Googasian! With essays by Victoria Googasian, Anne Pasek, Ewan Gibbs, Animesh Chatterjee, intro by Trish Kahle, and an afterword by Dominic Boyer! Open access on our site; link below.
June 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
lawsonjaramillo.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to announce Parsons' first "Indigenizing Art & Design Education" Symposium, featuring members of the Matriarchal Lenape Collective Lenni Lenapexkweyok

Tuesday, May 27th, starting at 9:30 a.m.

event.newschool.edu/indigenizing...

#lenapehoking #indigenousart #indigenousdesign #acasky
Indigenizing Art & Design Education Symposium
Please join us as we continue to develop strategies in centering Indigenous Art and Design pedagogy, and in direct partnership with Indigenous knowledge keepers Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs, members of the Lenni Lenapexkweyok Collective.Part public program, and part visioning workshop, we see this symposium and future offshoots as challenging the status quo, improving our support structures for our Indigenous colleagues and student body, and strengthening our own research practices in service to a wider college-wide initiative around decolonizing design. With an Indigenous speaker/facilitator line-up, we are ensuring an important step towards decolonization: the centering of Indigenous people and their lived experiences.A closed visioning workshop with New School stakeholders will be held in the afternoon to develop actionable and comprehensive strategies for scaffolding, developing, and supporting Indigenous ways of knowing and being into our community.(NOTE: While we do not expect to keep time strictly, we offer this schedule for your guidance. The general public is welcome 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The afternoon session is for New School community members only.)Schedule:  9:30AM - 10:00AM - Arrival & check-in10:00AM - 10:45AM - Welcome & framing remarks, Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs, Lenni Lenapexkweyok Collective.11:00AM - 12:00PM - Conversation facilitated by Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs12:00PM - 1:00PM - Lunch (provided) & Mingling+++++++ Afternoon sessions are open only to members of The New School community (students, alumni, faculty, and staff) +++++++1:00PM - 3:00PM - Thematic breakout conversations (rotating every 30 minutes)3:00PM - 3:30PM - Break & mingling3:30PM - 5:00PM - Visioning session
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May 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
Amazing opportunity to join our fantastic growing @openlibhums.bsky.social team! We're looking for an academic who is passionate about publishing and sees an exciting career for themselves in the #openaccess movement. If that's you, please consider applying! 100% remote with London weighting #AcaSky
openlibhums.org Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · May 14
JOB KLAXON!!! We're hiring an Editorial Officer starting August 2025, application deadline 8 June 2025. If you're an academic who is passionate about building an exciting career in open access publishing please consider applying. #AcaSky #OpenAccess cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
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May 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
openlibhums.org
JOB KLAXON!!! We're hiring an Editorial Officer starting August 2025, application deadline 8 June 2025. If you're an academic who is passionate about building an exciting career in open access publishing please consider applying. #AcaSky #OpenAccess cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
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May 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ilr-rit.bsky.social
🌍 Flavia Maximo calls for sustainability frameworks that centre communities facing the real costs of extraction.

Read how the latest ILR Special Issue brings decolonial thought to the heart of #SustainableWork:

🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls

#Acasky #LabourResearch #OpenAccess #OA
May 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
ilr-rit.bsky.social
📢 What if sustainability was redefined by those most affected by extractivism?

In our latest blog, Ania Zbyszewska imagines what #SustainableWork could mean when rooted in care, land, and community.

🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls

#LabourResearch #OpenAccess #Acasky
May 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
I’m really excited about this journal migration to @openlibhums.bsky.social! Energy Humanities has been a vibrant hub of scholarship since 2020. From 2026 it’ll be a fully-fledged diamond open access journal, funded by our international library community! #OpenAccess #AcaSky #petrocultures
April 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this! Anyone interested in #OpenAccess & #OpenSource is welcome to join us in Dublin next year #AcaSky
April 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
mikeananny.bsky.social
#openaccess #academia #acasky
April 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
openlibhums.org
With the move of @ilr-rit.bsky.social from Wiley to OLH, Dr Katherine Parker-Hay explores ILR's publishing history. Find out how ILR is working with OLH's @janewayolh.bsky.social team to offer multilingual workflows on our publishing platform: www.openlibhums.org/news/804/ #OpenAccess #AcaSky
International Labour Review inspires innovations in multilingual publishing at the OLH
In May 2023, the OLH accepted an application from the International Labour Review (ILR), who have moved from legacy publisher Wiley and relaunched as a diamond open access journal with …
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April 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ilr-rit.bsky.social
💼🌱 Work is more than what we do — it’s how we live, care, and connect.

Our new special issue redefines #SustainableWork in a time of planetary and social urgency.

🔔Don’t miss this essential read🔗 bit.ly/4254yeO

#Acasky #EnviromentalJustice #JustTransition
April 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
c21literature.bsky.social
We have a brilliant new issue for you! Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2025) is now available: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i.... There are new articles on peripheral readings of poetry, the Scottish Network Novel, the new sub-genre of up-lit & reviews. Plus more articles coming soon! #OpenAccess #AcaSky
April 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM