Snowden Becker

Hurrah!! Thanks so much for offering the recordings for those of us who are in wildly different time zones. You just sold at least two more tickets to me and my mother on the strength of that!

Why it's time to include compensation ranges in job postings Companies invest a lot in recruiting. Shouldn't they want to maximize the return on that investment?

Schmidt, Lars. “Why It’s Time to Include Compensation Ranges in Job Postings.” Fast Company, August 27, 2019. www.fastcompany.com/90394268/why....

Silva, Elise, and Quinn Galbraith. “Salary Negotiation Patterns between Women and Men in Academic Libraries.” College & Research Libraries 79, no. 3 (April 4, 2018): 324. doi.org/10.5860/crl.....

Thielen, Joanna, and Amy Neeser. “Making Job Postings More Equitable: Evidence Based Recommendations from an Analysis of Data Professionals Job Postings Between 2013-2018.” Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 15, no. 3 (2020): 103–56. doi.org/10.18438/ebl....

Can Transparency Laws Fix the Gender Wage Gap? There continues to be a substantial difference in pay between male and female workers, even among those in similar jobs. While there are various hypotheses to explain this gender pay gap, academics an...

“Can Transparency Laws Fix the Gender Wage Gap?” Accessed February 18, 2025. hbr.org/2020/02/can-....

I've been off the socials for a while, but wanted to pop over here to replicate an old thread from Tw*tt*r with citations supporting salary transparency in library job postings. Please feel free to share widely, and DM or email me if you need a PDF of any of these articles!

Kazembe Balagun @Bronxbanlieue A broadsheet of a student publication Title: "Coalition Press" A young person smiling fist in the air holding a sign Fuck Giuliani and Pataki [former mayor and former governor] Table of Contents: Making History in the Streets page 2 CUNY Hunger Strike pg 2 Public Outrage p.3 What the Press Won't Print page 4 Where we stand pg 6 Noam Chomsky on Budget Cuts page 8 Letters from Prison, pg 12 CUNY faculty Speak, p. 12 Big Headline: SHUT THE CITY DOWN!

Student publication broadsheet

A sign held by young person smiling fist in the air reads:

Fuck Giuliani and Pataki
[former mayor and former governor]

The main theme and goal is in the headline:

SHUT THE CITY DOWN!

link:
x.com/Bronxbanlieu...

Workplace Wellness Programs that Put the Responsibility of Managing Stress and Outcomes of Work on E... A recent article in the New York Times reported survey results that are not surprising to followers of this blog: workplace wellness programs do not work. Many of the types of wellness that the surv...

Programs focused on mindfulness, resilience, etc, only deal with the symptoms or the outcomes of policies, procedures, and culture and cannot address long-term problems like compassion fatigue and burnout.

#workplacwellness #wellness4libs

librarianbyday.net/2024/01/17/w...

Series 3.2: Recognition and Rewards · Commonplace

Nice set of Commonplace articles about "reimagining how we measure success" in tenure + promotion, particularly in libraries; f/t pieces about recognizing team projects and tech development, expanding what counts as "evidence" of "impact" and permissible forms of "output"

From your lips to god’s ears, Bri!! 🙏🏼

I had this situation with a vintage ring I bought. I discovered when it arrived that it had a HUGE chip in the stone, which was also very loose in the setting. Chip was sorta visible in the pic, and it was sold as “vintage condition,” but…still over the limit for me.

That sucks, I’m sorry you had to deal with that 😣

Fountain Society The humble drinking fountain can tell us much about a society’s attitudes towards health, hygiene, equity, and virtue, and about its understanding of public goods and civic responsibilities.

If you missed @shannonmattern.bsky.social’s brilliant essay “Fountain Society,” @nytimes.com's David Brooks recommends the read & we do too! His Sidney Awards feature the best long-form essays published this year in small publications.

Read "Fountain Society" here: placesjournal.org/article/drin...

Brilliant move! A Christmas of peace, solitude, and Chinese food sounds, frankly, blissful

"For any artist who works with digital files in the twenty-first century (that’s most of us), the work—in addition to making the art—is making sure it sticks around. To both archive and maintain your own work is a reminder of the gap between current practice and public markers of success. It can feel like an exercise in futility: If this work was really worth it—if someone other than you believed in its value—wouldn’t you have the time and money and institutional support to do it right? "

My latest for Filmmaker magazine: on the time and labor and anxiety of being your own archivist filmmakermagazine.com/123900-joann...

Right? I am a DELIGHT. AND I am a great cook! We should hang out

It’s so, so easy. I’m out of ways to explain how very easy it is.

All my best friends were behavioral challenges

OK this made me LOL, thank you for that 😂

I just saw an IG reel where someone quoted their wise friend as saying “Men think they’re competing against the top 10% of other men for women. What they’re really competing with is the peace and enjoyment women get from solitude.”

I can’t help it. I’m jealous

They’re an absolute treat. I’m going to be in SF a lot more in the coming year and am looking forward to visiting the collection in person too!

The sun will go down. The sun will rise again. It has has gotten darker. It will get bright again. The dark has wrapped and sheltered us, but now its time is done. And if we want the light back, and not just the sun, we better build a damn big fire.

Happy solstice.

May each day forward be not just longer and brighter but more peaceful, prosperous, healthy, and happy too! ☀️💗

I think you put your finger on it here

I have somehow only just discovered the Letterform Archive lecture series this year, and they have been an absolute DELIGHT. The zoom comments if you’re attending live are a constant stream of “OMG THOSE SERIFS 😍” and “look at that 4! *swoon*” They are font-dork heaven, AND they’re FREE

You had me at “Tesla-killer”

The New York City Council has voted to ban the use of solitary confinement in city jails www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

As I get older and lose more people I love, I learn how much it means to know others who knew them and can talk about them with you. It’s like having someone there to cup their hands around the flame of the candle you’re holding on a dark and windy night. 💗