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Kim Schroeder makes great things happen at the School of Info at Wayne State University-Detroit sis.wayne.edu
For more about her research and teaching (the quote is pulled from this video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mep7...
More about the award: provost.wayne.edu/college-to-c...

Big shout out to the librarians who are creating guides to alternate locations for data and data rescue efforts on their library websites! I just noticed these were added to our doc! @americanuniversity.bsky.social
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

Mistake to see this solely as a higher ed issue. The design of scientific infrastructure after WWII was govt funding a broad network of research via universities. That worked out pretty well for the US, helped make American higher ed a very successful industry w a positive economic externalities

#illinois #chicago

Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that. The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.

www.princeton.edu/news/2025/02...

What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

As the Trump admin deletes online data, scientists and digital librarians rush to save it The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear

A new piece by Salon describing what's happening with the purge of federal websites and data. @eotarchive.org and @envirodgi.bsky.social are doing their bit to assure preservation and access. www.salon.com/2025/02/04/a...

Baltic Blow-Up Attempts to project dominance over the Baltic Sea have recurred for hundreds of years, as rival states have vied with one another over economic and military supremacy. Since the collapse of th…

informationobservatory.info/2025/01/31/b...

Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, has been the most clear-eyed leader in higher education. Read @shannonmattern.bsky.social's thread.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

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Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster

Next time you are on EEBO or ECCO and see a thumbprint in the corner, remember it is likely the hands of women digitizing books in London basements during the blitz. They didnt know if the books would survive.

"And these recordings, done in a Paris studio in 1939-40 also contain one of the most indelible moments in classical music recordings. Midway through the airy D major Sonata, K. 490, at 2:01, you can hear the German bombs falling on the city that began the occupation."

Decentralized social media Is the only alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models What we have learned and are going to do next.

Behind the scenes with what its like to build language models and pursue (hopefully) cutting edge AI research

Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models
What we have learned and are going to do next.
YouTube: https://buff.ly/40IlSFF
Podcast / notes:

German institutions depart X, a day after Musk's Weidel talk – DW – 01/10/2025 More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. The German government has also voiced fears that the platform is warping politi...

Just sent this to my university's communications department, with a gentle suggestion that they also consider repositioning in the social space / creating Bluesky accounts.

He is not optimistic he will be able to live nearby, at least not in a place like he had, “It was rent controlled. I had been there for 10 years in this trailer with an ocean view. I was so lucky.”

He found out about the fires as his 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. shift ended and he rushed home. As he packed, planes roaring overhead scared his cat out of his arms. ...the police told him he needed to evacuate. “I didn’t grab anything, just my brother’s ashes, and the clothes I had on my back.”

In One of L.A.’s Richest ZIP codes, Food Service Workers Also Lost Their Homes (Gift Article) In addition to pricey mansions, the homes of working-class people were also lost, including a mobile home park on Pacific Coast Highway.

Tony Kozlowski .... a 72-year-old retiree, had taken a job as a baker at the Pacific Palisades Vons grocery store to supplement his social security.

“You start at 3 a.m. and no one’s around, it smells good and you play your music in the store,” he said.

"[The] Roving Archivist ... has encountered everything from delicate nitrate negatives ... to oral histories documenting vanishing memories of Wyoming life. ... she provides recommendations tailored to the institution’s specific needs and resources."

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Mia Michael Mia Michael, Assistant Professor , History, Wayne State University

I zoomed into a Wayne State University Humanities Center brown bag today with History faculty, Mia Michael, "Building on Their Foremothers 'Fights for Rights': Domestic Workers and the New Labor Activism, 1960-2015" - such an important topic. clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/hq8228

Panama Unsettled by Trump Threat to Seize Canal Few took the president-elect’s combative comments at face value, but they still sent a shudder through a country that has been invaded by the United States before.

When members of the press and political leaders in either party treat Trump’s imperialist talk as “bonkers” “crazy” or “just talk” you deny that real people live in these places Trump is threatening. Panama has been invaded by the U.S. before. None of this is a joke.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...

CFP for GO support for community-based archives

Associate Dean - School of Information Sciences Wayne State UniversityApplication Deadline: January 27, 2025Along with the SIS faculty and the Dean of the School of Information Sciences and University Libraries, the Associate Dean will lead the School as it builds on existing strengths and creates an exciting, sustainable vision for the School's degree programs. The Associate Dean will build strong working relationships with campus departments, facilitate new collaborations, expand joint programs with other colleges, and develop entrepreneuri

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Libraries and Library workers are not the frontline resistance in the administration to come. We are the canaries in the coalmine and we have been singing for years! I put this podcast out in 2022 but it is as relevant as it ever was! 📚📜

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Sharing a new #LibraryLabor feed featuring posts about #labor topics in #libraries and #archives including #unions, #wages, #WorkplaceSafety, #HiringPractices, and more…

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My latest for @truthout.bsky.social