Perry Collins

Lovely to hear @alondra.bsky.social give a shout out to the brilliant @jasonrhody.bsky.social for his leadership in promoting media literacy on Media Well and other platforms mediawell.ssrc.org/about/. #nisoplus cc @nisoinfo.bsky.social

Join us for "Legal & Ethical Oral Histories" on Thurs, Feb. 12 11 - noon. Featuring Arnetta Giradeau, UNC Charlotte, & Christina Boyles, UI Bloomington, facilitated by @perrycollins.bsky.social, UF. Register dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/workshops/. Bring your questions!

It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.

"Petitions to preserve the building and its murals are circulating. . . @livingnewdeal.bsky.social calls for the Cohen building—'a living testament to America’s shared values, social progress, and the power of public art to uplift us all'—to be preserved intact." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

I don't have it in me to say much about today's NEH award announcement. Huge congrats to @anasalter.bsky.social and others doing great work in their fields. I'm anxious for former colleagues left to manage massive (up to $10mil), highly politicized awards that aim to wind the clock back decades.

We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Honestly hard to watch NEH/NEA budgets pass without cuts while also still seeing many former colleagues struggle to find jobs months after so many of us were booted out. It takes people to build relationships with applicants and to allocate grants responsibly.

Wishing a happy holiday season to friends, colleagues, and any publishers who saved me time and energy this year by allowing authors to share zero embargo AAMs. You know who you are(n't). 🎁

Congratulations!! I've learned so much from you and your work--so happy for this big achievement.

Thanks to @aupresses.bsky.social & all the press directors & staff we worked with to support OA books & the work of presses. And of course, thanks to my incredible team at NEH who led these OA efforts, particularly @perrycollins.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, & @bethanyfarrell.bsky.social.

Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
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After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements The group’s latest strategy emphasizes consultation, lacks spending pledges

Interesting piece, but diamond OA is not "nascent" @science.org. This model has been developing for decades, across continents, as long as scholars could put text up online. Nonprofit pubs know what we're doing--we just need to stop redirecting $$ to corporations. www.science.org/content/arti...

Fla. Board Says Syllabi, Reading Lists Must Be Posted Publicly Faculty at some Florida public universities argue the new policy is less about transparency for students and more about chilling academic freedom.

Feeling like all my posts are the same these days. Undermining academic freedom and instructor safety--and just making everyone's life harder--under the guise of helping students is the opposite of what the affordability movement is all about. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Thinking today about all the brilliant international colleagues I've had over the years, and how much they've taught me. Can't imagine a university that turns its back on global expertise.

Seeing increasing evidence of budget cuts and threats to academic freedom that are pushing administrators toward an even narrower vision of what "counts" toward scholarship. This is a moment when we most need to be imaginative and capacious, but we're swimming against the tide.

Photo of the book’s cover

Pop-up illustration of a space ship and a planet

Pop-up illustration of several characters

Paper engineering in pop-up books is always so fun— today’s treat is Star Trek: Giant in the Universe (1977)

Stickers illustrating animals that incorporate orange lock open access logo. Parrot, bunny, snail, cat.

It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes

Feeling all of this too, now a few months into my job. Thanks to all who sent good wishes and welcomed me back. Odd to feel so grateful while also feeling so much lingering anger at the relative indifference of those actually leading the agency.

A digital poster with information and a link (bit.ly/warc-2026-signup) about signing up to receive reminders and updates for release of the 2026 web archiving school application.

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

So bummed to learn my local library system is suspending ILL due to terminated IMLS funding. Always appreciate their help tracking down some great indie kids books for the 2yo last year. Scary and sad to think about this at scale, isolating so many libraries and patrons.

Pile of yogurt cups

Happy birthday, @paulshortt.bsky.social! I know I married the right person because you find a dozen yogurts more romantic than a dozen roses. ❤️

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested? - The Scholarly Kitchen To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?

Welcome to #PeerReviewWeek2025 on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social - many thanks to @roohighosh.bsky.social & Maryam Sayab for this years week of posts incl today’s thoughts from @irfanullah.bsky.social Tim Vines, Hong Zhou, Maryam & me scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/15/a...

Two framed needlepoints featuring flowers. On the left is an unidentified purple flower with green leaves. On the right are bright pink hyacinths.

Getting back to needlepoint after a long break. These are adapted from #publicdomain illustrations in this series: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #dhmakes

This. Even if we accept that fair use only applies to legally shared content—and @bb.usefairuse.com notes that’s hardly settled—a CC license can’t make it infringing to obtain files directly from publisher! I agree w/ the frustration of having our work gobbled up for profit, but not this solution.

A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.”

Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

I've been on the other side so often, forever apologizing for ancient systems I can't control. My rule now is that I never offer a stipend less than $500; if it's less than that, I try to pay in books from the university press or by offering my own time to speak/review/etc.

Saw a performance of Puffs tonight and it was honestly such a boost to see stellar high school actors having a great time. Warms my copyright librarian heart to have this example of “transformative and transfigured” #fairuse in the world. As they reminded us, “She doesn’t get a farthing!” 🦡🦡🦡

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

There’s tons in this EO to scream at, from taking aim at past grantmaking to to “requir[ing] all discretionary grants to permit termination for convenience”😡 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...