Micah Bateman

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) 📚
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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...

I've found this to come in handy playing NYT Flashback

I just feel like after 32 years of thinking about how to fend off a velociraptor, I could do it

Yup, that's what it was called in my hometown ^^

whoever taught my kids the copycat game come outside i just wanna talk

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has JUST been APPROVED by the FDA. Lenacapavir was 99.9% EFFECTIVE at PREVENTING HIV in clinical trials. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

This is a nice, simple lesson plan for helping first-year undergrads think about the effects of knowledge organization. I liked the linked video, too. projectcora.org/assignment/t...

or a consensus definition of "community archive"?

Were such a thing possible? Without grant money?

the life-crushing anxiety

Has anyone tried to compile an index of US-based community archives?

my old method of bath replies was too extravagantly water wasteful

Have resorted to doing planks between emails to make them easier to tackle

I love how we had to rebrand normal human foods as “superfoods.” It’s the Clark Kent/Superman glasses gag of eating

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Universities benefit them.

the one about the rat

(honest answer)

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Ten writers, more than 5 books
Poetry version

Walt Whitman
George Oppen
AR Ammons
John Ashbery
James Tate
Lucille Clifton
CD Wright
Jorie Graham
Claudia Rankine
Shane McCrae

(in the dumbest way)

It’s true. In 2023, I published an article in the journal Social Science and Medicine about what I call the “health disparities research industrial complex” — the entrenched system of researchers, institutions, publications and funders that produces an endless churn of studies on health disparities without meaningfully reducing inequities. Health disparities research is an expensive parrot squawking the same things heard for years, telling us where disparities exist and why, but not much else. The new head of the N.I.H., Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, seems to agree.

When medicine goes postcritique 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

except the present one?