Charlotte Rock

sometimes I wake up in the morning and am bewildered by the number of emails in my inbox

what happened while I was sleeping??

NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo, Lisa Matthias, Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Heal…

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

I’ve posted an update on Fobazi. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support! ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena

Update here:
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Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

I just realized that I didn’t drink my coffee this morning, which is why I’ve been dragging all day.

But now it’s 2pm and it might keep me up. Small dilemmas!

Audre Lorde on Learning to Love, and Leaning into Tenderness "We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other." - Audre Lorde, from Yo...

Came across an Audre Lorde quote today and looked it up, thought this passage worth sharing: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/a...

I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There. Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death

I think of this essay often. indi.ca/i-lived-thro...

This will take 5 minutes to read. It will stay with you for much, much longer.

#RumeysaOzturk

I could use a good karaoke sesh.

Proud to be playing a small part in resisting US government censorship of research along w/ @rouhiroo.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social & esp @lschiff.bsky.social whose idea this was. If you care about what’s happening please sign the Declaration! #DefendResearch

DEIA and Doing the Right Thing - The Scholarly Kitchen Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.

Read today's powerful Scholarly Kitchen piece about the importance of DEIA to *all of us*! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/11/d... Thank you @charlierock.bsky.social , @alicemeadows.bsky.social and the other co-authors!!! #WeChooseToFight #deia #defend_highered

Opinion | My brother isn’t permitted to read his own story. That’s a remnant of slavery. Prisons censor what inmates can read, a throwback to when it was a crime to teach enslaved people to read.

“…the banning of books, magazines, newspapers and music, the outlawing of the freedom to read and write and listen, the censoring of educational materials while criminalizing educators and librarians, and repressing speech — have roots in the anti-literacy laws of colonial slaveholding America.”

Israel Lobby Pushes Lie That People Are Not Starving in Gaza: Report As Gaza nears famine, the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC instructs supporters to tell lawmakers that “reports that people are starving in Gaza are false.”

I greatly appreciate the use of the word "Lie" in this headline. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

there's nothing like reaching the end of an author's oeuvre that you were obsessed with for the last month and feeling sad THEN FINDING THE AUTHOR ON HERE

feeling a little creepy gleeful today

Love to have the thing that many use to exchange payment information just give all the data to train AI, so that when someone puts in publicly-accessible routing numbers and asks what are possibilities that come next, the AI gives the account numbers in response.

Am I hungry or bored?

I also just want to emphasize how much Chinese fans were screwed over by this whole process, and how all the evidence available so far suggests that the censorship was coming from inside the house, that is, from the Western administrators and staff. /1

Once again noting that if this is what happens to a cis girl accused of being trans, imagine what happens to a girl that is actually trans

You know I’d be less salty about the AI situation if these tech grifters didn’t just just spend the last year ruining every creative industry and putting thousands of artists and writers out of work.

It’s going to take years to undo all of this damage.

Laughing so hard

Here's a fun flow chart to determine if the cops have a warrant.

Did they ask to search?
No ---> they had a warrant
Yes ---> they don't have a warrant

Ohio lawmakers ban gender-affirming care for minors, overriding governor’s veto Transgender youth won’t be able to access gender-affirming care in Ohio, and trans girls won’t be allowed to play for sports teams designated for girls and women.

Breaking news: Ohio legislators banned gender-affirming care for minors Wednesday, overriding Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s December veto of the bill in an intraparty schism and joining more than 20 states that have levied similar restrictions in recent years.

Jan 18th is the anniversary of the assassination of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran. An Indigenous, queer & non-binary forest defender. Murdered by Georgia State Troopers in their tent w/ hands up protecting their face because they wanted to #StopCopCity & save the Weelaunee forest

I could use a cat nap, is what I'm saying

this morning the kid told me her toy cat was "holding a snore in her paws, which means she's sleeping" and boy does that sound nice