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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The invisible labor (often performed by women and marginalized folks) that keeps organizations afloat remains hidden and uncompensated. But those musing about AI's "transformation" of work have probably always benefited from this kind of labor in all parts of their life and don't see it as work.

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We're hiring a part-time, temporary Data Services Fellow in my department! This role would be great for a current MLIS student who wants to build experience in data librarianship, or others looking to pick up some experience in the field. We are considering remote candidates. 📚

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Data Services Fellow | UNLV University Libraries

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Brittany Paloma Fiedler @bpfiedler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My colleague Niki Fullmer & I are doing a survey of #academiclibrarians who do student-facing work to see if they are being censored and/or are self-censoring that work. It's 15ish minutes and the few open ended questions are optional! bit.ly/4vk73oP #academiclibraries

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I led the team working on the terminal degree statement and employment standards. A lot of thoughtful work went into updating these to meet the current moment. While no document is ever perfect, I believe these are a major step forward in supporting improvements in our work environments.

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc. Please leave a comment opposing this change.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Imagine if the academic library was allowed to simply be what it is instead of having to chase down hype or novelty in order to secure level funding (i.e. a funding cut). "Running the university like a business" has utterly failed our students, our workers, and society itself.

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Meredith Farkas @librarianmer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you missed my CALM Keynote, Slow Management in a Fast World, it's now available on YouTube fully captioned. youtu.be/frkgyhEERfs?...

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CALM 2026 Opening Keynote: Slow Management in a Fast World

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Listening to Lindsay Gypin at #IASSIST2026 give this presentation "When Infrastructure Promises Automation But Delivers Manual Labor: The Hidden Cost of Broken Research Data Systems" and it is *striking* how badly these systems do not speak to each other.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hey uh They're really going to kill US science

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 12/12/2025

"You have to use AI." ...why?

People keep saying that AI is inevitable.

Like Bartleby, I'd prefer not to...

We "have to use it!"

My response to that is simply... WHY? Why is it being pushed so much and into so many things? Once you've gotten people to cede their decision making to an algorithm, eventually they'll stop thinking for themselves.

Why would I outsource thinking for myself to a machine? I have a brain.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

They’re gonna close down the predatory learning management system unless we put on the best dang talent show this town has ever seen!!!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I know the law

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/05/2026

Lots to appreciate about this piece. Among them, a careful answer to the question of what in God’s name university administrators are thinking in the headlong, apparently suicidal rush to embrace AI. +

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This question can be asked/answered the same way for just about every industry, frankly. Libraries would be so much better off if we spent funds on staff and core services rather than chasing shiny objects. But funders never want to pony up for the core stuff; it doesn't get you a spotlight. 📚

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The reality is the opposite. Librarians are essential to a successful research community on campus. Student success is improved when they can get 1:1 research help from librarians. And yet libraries are consistently underfunded and undervalued, librarians always underpaid.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Libraries (all libraries but specifically talking about academic libraries here) are frequently the first to face budget cuts and layoffs. Libraries are frequently seen as less important to student retention and success, librarians seen as less important to research than faculty.

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1weirddogmom.bsky.social @1weirddogmom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

💯 The amount of ”things” I have abandoned when they demand an account or an app.

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

So excited to see @librarianmer.bsky.social as one of @calmconference.bsky.social's featured speakers! Slow Librarianship is such a wonderful framework to apply to the practice of management and I can't wait to hear the talk.

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Faith Bradham, @mauraseale.bsky.social , and I have a new article out! The Illusion of Opportunity: Reimbursement Policies and the Academic Librarian furthers our research into the costs of professional enagement activities. (spoiler: reimbursement culture sucks) doi.org/10.1353/pla.... 📚📜

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Mikala @mikalarae.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📚If you are at an academic library in the US, tell us how you are (or are not!) supporting Data Management Plans! We are creating a dataset of current practices before the big changes to DMPs at NIH and NSF (among others) take effect. @ me if you have questions! jh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Academic Library DMP Support in Transition: A Current Snapshot

Designed to learn more about DMP support at academic institutions.

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The absolute high pitched shrieking noises you hear coming from people who do data management is the NIH dropping a new template on us that goes into effect in 90 days and tosses out work that we've been doing and advocating for since about 2019. In case you wondered how my afternoon was going.

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This looks fantastic! Such a great lineup of contributors. Definitely looking forward to reading this.

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The Boooook Shepherd 👻 @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Generative AI is antithetical to the core values of librarianship and not grappling with that is a big issue, not just for librarians, but for anyone in the education field.

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Happy Love Data Week! My webinar today was about the Data Departure Checklist authors.library.caltech.edu/records/kynw... that @kbriney.bsky.social and I created. It's a customizable word document to help you offload remembering what all you need to get back from a research team colleague📚

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Data Departure Checklist

The Data Departure Checklist (DDC) helps research teams and individuals plan for when a team member is leaving a project, lab, team, or institution. By providing a series of prompts for the departing ...

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Meredith Farkas @librarianmer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Sometimes loving a part of your job too much can really become a trap. A trap for overwork. A trap to keep you from setting boundaries. Because a manager doesn't have to make time or prioritize work if you're willing to do it on your own personal time. Anyway, more on Tuesday!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard

NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

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Kristin Briney @kbriney.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I developed a new workshop, "Accessible Data for Everyone," for Love Data Week 2026. It's about making data accessible to people with disabilities. Anyone is welcome to sign up. The class is on Feb 10 at 2pm PST online. Register here: libcal.caltech.edu/event/16205574

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Love Data Week: Accessible Data for Everyone

How do you format a dataset so it can be understood by a blind person, deaf person, or other disabled individual? This question is increasingly relevant given new requirements from...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 12/01/2026

I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...

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Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning – Miriam Posner

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/01/2026

I think about universities here too: what would it be like to empower staff on the ground, to give them resources and support to escalate and advocate for bigger action where needed but also... sometimes just fix the damn bike entrance with the tools and skills they have without any fuss or hassle?

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HuMetricsHSS @humetricshss.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Do you have a vision for changing higher education in proactive ways, rather than reactive ones? Do you want to shift the systems that shape the experience of faculty, staff, and students? Consider applying to the 2026 Values-Enacted Leadership Institute: humetricshss.org/veli/

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Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI) – HuMetricsHSS

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We've been hard at work on this, but need your input to ensure we're on the right track! If you're an academic librarian, please take a moment to fill out the feedback forms if you can.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/08/2024

Way too much press coverage of "AI" is spent debating the hypemerchants' claims of speed & efficiency & scale of impact, & not nearly enough is time spent on 2 very basic questions: Are these systems outputs anything like correct? And, if & when they get things wrong, how much harm will that cause?

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Laura Braunstein @laurabrarian.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

and real management means saying to your team, you will not overwork yourself to provide services in order to compensate for fewer staff -- and protecting them from any pushback

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Real leadership in libraries means looking your community - including your boss's boss - in the face and saying to them that fewer staff means less services. There is no way around it. That's the truth of the matter. The community is either okay with that or not.

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Lay @awfukellay.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Been playing too much Mass Effect lately. #PixelArt #pixelorama #masseffect

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My book chapter, Don't Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, has arrived! This chapter explores my first years as a manager and how I did my best to embrace slow librarianship, push back on overcommitment and vocational awe, and make my department and its work sustainable. 📚📜

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Don’t Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value

Discusses a series of decisions a middle manager made to keep the work of her department sustainable and how she incorporated her values into her process.

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I love seeing labor recognized! Reading up on @investinopen.bsky.social's project: "We must invest in the people who do this work and who teach others, recognizing the value of human contributions in a funding and research landscape that can sometimes prioritize tool and technology development."

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IOI's “Reasonable Costs” Project: Insights and Wrap-Up

After two years of intensive research, Invest in Open Infrastructure's project titled “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has c...

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It's wonderful to be able to actually hold this in my hands! Thanks to @atureen.bsky.social and all our many amazing authors for making this a reality. And just in time to show off in my tenure meeting too 🙂

A teal and blue book titled Making Values-Based Decisions in the Academic Library

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We’re at an inflection point in higher ed: decades of neoliberal policy weakened our ability to fight the current onslaught of eroding academic freedom, the dismantling of shared gov, the adjunctification of the professoriate+

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Amanda @amandaelaan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It's here, and earlier than I expected! My first book, Making Values-Based Decisions in the Academic Library, co-edited with the fantastic @atureen.bsky.social, starts shipping next week! It's been a journey, but I'm so happy to see it come to life. 📚📜

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Making Values-Based Decisions in the Academic Library

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

Slide: There are no shortcuts--'ugly social realities'
Fear of being left out a fabricated & marketing public relations rhetoric
Evidence, rigorous testing and evaluation
AI in education = commercialization of a collective responsibility
Outsourcing a social, civic, and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprise whose priority is profit

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