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BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid.

Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ooh I loved Sangu's first one! I have that on hold but it looks like it'll be a while.

This seems to have worked for me. Deleted my account without ever clicking on Agree for the new terms.

'The Sunflower is Mine. Paradoxical Patterns in the Public Domain' A talk at Icepops 2025 by Doug McCarthy, 9 September 2025. All content © Doug McCarthy, CC BY 4.0, unless otherwise stated

The slides of my Icepops talk are now online at my website: douglasmccarthy.com/presentations/

Thanks to my fellow speakers and everyone who attended yesterday, it was a brilliant day (and night 🎤). Until next time, @jsecker.bsky.social!

I'm close to finishing Katabasis by R.F. Kuang - it's been sooo good!

Stay floppy, everyone!

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ACRL's Digital Scholarship Section.

I'm pretty certain DSS had more than 450 people vote for our competitive election

In my last house, we discovered some prior owners decided, rather than installing an outside access point to clean out sewage pipes, to just drill a bunch of holes in the buried line. That they never patched.

American short hair tabby cat laying on her side with her top paw lazily sticking out and looking like she's a boss.

I've decided my timeline needs more cat pics.

Open Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib - ACRLog Editor's note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and library work. Note: The focus is on our concerns about the qua...

Cheers to @schomj.bsky.social and all my fellow #CripLib librarians for helping us get this response out: acrlog.org/2025/05/27/o...

So excited to see this work finally published!

Yay! You deserve it!

Take Nature’s AI research test: find out how your ethics compare What’s your view on using AI for peer review and for writing research papers?

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Where are the questions about how the publishers use AI (including licensing the free labor of academics) and whether that's ethical?

Because who doesn't want to see me and Matt rant about "predatory publishers."

Only change I would make is "It grew" to "For profit publishers co-opted the term from..."

From the NYT: Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home As the Trump administration shrinks federal child care programs, Republicans are backing policies they hope will allow more parents to scale back at work.

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.

Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

Barriers and benefits of transitioning to an equitable open access model: interviews with LIS journal editors | Insights

Barriers and benefits of transitioning to an equitable open access model: interviews with LIS journal editors | Insights https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.677

Well, it does at least look like she has retired:

In an effort to do something constructive I'll pass this on #libsky:

The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is currently accepting submissions on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.

journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

We actually had to add language to our library chat to stress it's not a bot. You could tell from a lot of the opening questions that's what people thought

OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

Siobhan Haimé (Univ of London) has written a succinct summary of why this decision will decimate some libraries' budgets, and brings up real questions about how libraries move forward with collection development. 5/?

www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

Ok, we're doing this. Outside The Lines is live! Call it a soft launch: outsidethelines.pub/call-it-a-so...

I mean, I think there's multiple guys who fit that description. Let's just say I'm wary of candidates who exude charisma as their main selling point.

Oh nice!!! Yes, please, would love to see that!

It's dry and sunny here in Reno, just to rub it in. :)