Amy

Go read Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

👆 I have the same question

Thank you!!!!

Also by 7:56am today, I had a reference question about seeking a (what I assume to be) hallucinated psychological theory.

And by "go off" I mean this in the most Minnesota Nice way. "I kindly suggest that you read Grant and Booth (2009) and Sutton et al (2019). Those are the review types. Your review appears to be __x__."

Last week me: I'm not peer reviewing for the rest of 2026. I've done enough.
Today me: Gets a request to review a "Systematic Scoping Review". Flips table. Accepts the request just to go off about review types.

💙💚

Make this happen! 🤞

Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a po...

Social media could work differently. We teach digital literacy, but ppl often can’t apply those lessons w/in systems that obscure where info comes from & how it gets to them. What might social media look like if users had better signals of information provenance? www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...

Person in front of a Wicked poster

Daughter in her Elphaba costume when we went to Wicked: For Good yesterday 💚🩷🧹

Emma, have you watched it?! Maybe this is how they talk in Morrill Hall. I don't run in these circles

More unsolicited Christmas movie reviews. I'm now watching Champagne Problems (Netflix). I'm not in the business world. Is a baby-talking corporate executive a normal thing???????? 🤔

LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!

A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.

Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)

Spelling Bee New York Times game. Notting is not in word list

Librarians talking about boolean operators erasure

a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame . ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .

Sad to see Brooks go

OMG welp I know what I'll be nightmaring about tonight

A shift in the WNBA.

In 2022, 6 black head coaches.

In 2026, 2 black head coaches, 0 black women.

There’s been progress — 7/15 are women, including 2 of color — but for a league that’s 60%+ black, does raise questions about why coaching hires don’t better reflect that.

I love the Timberwolves, but I might love Dateline more.... 🥀

Enshittification Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

I'm so fired up listening to Cory Doctorow talk about Enshittification. I will be reading his new book us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Has 'Slop' been considered for Word of the Year? That would be my vote

Save Our Signs: A Crowdsourced Project to Combat Censorship at US National Park Sites - Panorama Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...

New article documenting the #SaveOurSigns campaign and its development. Learn more about the project!

@ahaaamericanart.bsky.social

journalpanorama.org/article/save...

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Have had this song stuck in my head all day 🐺

My weird opinion:
I don't want to see your signature on emails. I had a handwriting analysis book as a kid, and it scarred me. I am judging you, and I don't want to judge you so please keep your signature private. Thank you!

Related: I think progressive politicians would be successful with this messaging.

Anyone else attend ACRL 2025 and now have @ruha9.bsky.social 's Get Real/Be Bold activity as your inner monologue with every news story? That activity was really "sticky" for me.

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

University of Minnesota Libraries announcement: Read with friends! Cozy Book Club Kits are here! Read with your friends! University Libraries first collection of book club and buddy reading kits are now available.

I just love this. The University of Minnesota Library has launched book club kits! Students can take out six copies of the same book to read with friends. College kids need this sort of stuff now more than ever. 📚📖💙

libguides.umn.edu/bookclubkits...

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

Same. And it's so enraging that (many) news orgs have endorsed this dehumanizing behavior by repeatedly kissing the ring.