Micah Bateman

udder* 🤦

Imagine utterwise.

How can we get Baker & Taylor's distribution data quickly?

This is the snow day of the cloud era

I'd love to see the syllabus if and when possible!

My rewatch revealed, unbeknownst to my teen self, that Daria (the character) was actually.... the worst?

Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social

Probably I remain most grateful for Daria

RIP MTV. You were my only window into any counterculture at all growing up, even if you also fed me Kid Rock

This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.

This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.

Hu, Y., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., LeBlanc, Z., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2025). Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research. Big Data & Society, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251359229 (Original work published 2025)

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and
@profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

Micah Bateman — Bennington Review

New once-in-a-blue-moon poem out by yours truly. See if you can guess the very secret conceit!

The degree to which the new gilded-age political satire -- Don't Look Up, Succession, and in this case, Mountainhead -- sounds indistinguishable from reality is asymptotically approaching the totality horizon.

Granted he was a rabid anti-Federalist, so maybe not the cultural moment for ol' Freneau rn, but boy did he believe in the power of the small press to overthrow regimes

The Country Printer Beside a stream, that never yet ran dry, / There stands a TOWN, not high advanced in fame;

Maybe an excerpt from section III of poets.org/poem/country...

Hard to explain knowledge domains and scope to people who are against knowledge.

omg

When I've missed something, the school says, "Oh, did you not receive our notification?"

My kids are starting two different schools. Each school uses 1,973 communication platforms. Each platform sends 791,237 notifications per day to my email.

Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do The abrupt early recess in the House of Representatives means the future of IMLS funding remains a question mark. Use this time to act.

Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do (7-29-2025) 📚
bookriot.com/imls-funding...

I'm just speaking on behalf of a certain repository, where the bottom line is: "We'd give you the data if you'd wait your turn!"

I mean I've always been a copyleftist, esp when things have been produced with public money, so it does surprise me to see OA people rethinking their commitment to the commons

I feel like rn the debate is like...

A: We're for Open Access! But bots are overloading our site!
B: Create a login wall!
A: That's less open!
B: So is having a laggy site!

fin

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"What Is Permitted to Jove" by Hannah Arendt

ah, now’s that sweet time of the summer when for the rest of the summer I lament having wasted the summer

My name is Bateman and I am finally watching American Psycho for the very first time

Now that research funding has been gutted, will T&P standards shift accordingly? Or nah

Controlled Chaos Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.

There is so much good work coming out of @libraryfutures.bsky.social right now, but this Zine we sponsored featuring writing from incarcerated librarians is really special and beautiful. I learned so much from these knowledge workers’ writing. www.libraryfutures.net/publications...