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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If you have an internal job search candidate, they shouldn't be sent the other candidates' CVs and information. Just a basic privacy and search integrity thing, IMO.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My spouse just got a recruitment email from an employer where he's applied 61 times. Oof...

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Good news alert (we all need that right now)! UNI instructors saved our students more than $884,000 in textbook costs in 2024, an 81% increase from 2023. Keep it up, y'all! Leveling the playing field, one free textbook at a time. #TextbookEquity #OER guides.lib.uni.edu/oer

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Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER) & Textbook Equity: Textbook Equity Basics

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Let's juxtapose that my Iowa hometown canceled an African American Read-In because administrators believed it ran afoul of Trump's anti-diversity e.o. and the state's "divisive concepts" law. A few days later white supremacists freely marched in the capitol. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...

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Leaders: Patriot Front's hate has 'no place' in Iowa after white supremacists' march

Leaders from across the political spectrum condemned Patriot Front, after the white supremacist group marched Saturday in Des Moines' East Village.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Can basically no longer include library ebooks in our textbook affordability strategy, which I'm sure is part of the point. Sigh...

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#OER advocates, do you ever use the line of argument that #OER bypasses bookstores and the related frustrations (wrong book, wrong edition, not enough copies, etc.)? I don't want to be negative about a vendor, but I am feeling like this might be effective for some instructors. Thoughts?

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I will not practice anticipatory compliance. Does my job title have a DEI word in it that makes some people shudder? Yes. Am I changing it? Not unless forced. Honestly, if someone has a problem with making college textbooks affordable & available to all, they can shove it.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

#Library colleagues, where is a good place to search for academic library *paraprofessional* positions that are 100% remote? @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social JobList doesn't seem to have a "remote" filter, nor does the @arlnews.bsky.social job list, unless I've missed something.

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Abbey K. Elder @openaccesselder.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I am facilitating a Community of Practice for Nursing educators in Iowa who are interested in #OER this year & I cannot overstate how impactful it has been to have the OpenRN & OpenStax Nursing OER available to support them as they've begun exploring the relevance of #OpenEd for their teaching.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If a #POC has applied for more than 60 jobs at one employer (a major local one so it's hard to ignore in the #JobSearch), does it say more about the candidate or the organization?

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

New article! "A Textbook Equity Student Advisory Board" has been published in the new issue of the Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education. Lead author, Karlee Colby, is a UNI alum and U of Iowa PhD student. #OER #TextbookEquity www.iastatedigitalpress.com/joerhe/artic...

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A Textbook Equity Student Advisory Board

Engaging college students in advocacy related to open educational resources (OER) is an important way to raise awareness and encourage OER adoption on campuses in higher education. The student perspec...

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Drop your favorite #JobSearch strategies here. Skip anything obvious. TIA!

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Working on a manuscript and recalling a 1991 gem I'm citing: One article noted childcare responsibilities [for faculty] as a barrier to scheduling teaching observations, listing it alongside hockey practice and nail appointments as “excuses [that] sprout like tropical undergrowth”. Reactions please!

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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

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The Mystery of Food Deserts

They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/12/2024

The US likes to pretend there's a neat line between education and childcare. Because that line allows us to justify paying for universal public education ("kids need it!") but not universal public childcare ("it's only for selfish or irresponsible moms!"). 1/ www.startribune.com/a-four-day-s...

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A four-day school week? More Minnesota school districts are giving it a look.

Proponents say the shortened week can lead to cost savings and make it easier to recruit teachers. But for some communities, concerns about childcare remain a barrier.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Another episode in the fun new series Sandwich Generation: My parents, who were unreachable during Hurricane Helene (they were ok & away from the storm's path), haven't provided a travel itinerary for their current trip. We had a conversation about why someone should get an itinerary. But nope.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Job search question: Is it appropriate to ask whether there is an internal/preferred candidate? If so, at what point should an applicant ask this? #JobSearch #Equity

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Support University of Northern Iowa's Textbook Equity initiative, which directly impacts student access to course materials. Special kudos to Advisory Board member Diana & all our student leaders in the initiative! #OER #AcademicSky give.uni.edu/schools/Univ...

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Open Educational Resources

Join me in supporting UNI students and their greatest areas of need on #UNIGivingTuesday

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If a responsible, talented BIPOC person with 3 degrees can't find a job that fits their skills for more than 10 years, who can help them?

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#Librarians are EBSCO databases out for anyone else? We're on day 2. Oof.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

We are living under the conditions of epistemological neoliberalism where each individual has to be their own gatekeeper and misinformation expert because most of the institutions that used to do that work have either failed or been destroyed.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Today's research time includes paper copies of a 12-page mess of a lit review, making & revising a reverse outline, and silently cursing at my not-present but always loquacious co-author. Here's to @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social 😅

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/09/2024

Grandmas aren't the solution to the childcare crisis. Some have other plans for retirement Some live too far away to care for grandkids Some have health problems that make caregiving too difficult Some want to keep working for pay Some can't afford to retire Some families don't have grandmas at all

Q. “What can we do about lowering the cost of daycare?”

JD Vance:…”Maybe Grandpa and Grandma want to help a little bit more. Maybe there’s an uncle/aunt who wants to help a little bit more…”

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Finally. Here’s the thing about social norms. They can only be destroyed if the people who violate them get away with it. There is a place in every society for social punishment. “You are weird and creepy” is an effective message for people who are harming and controlling others.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/07/2024

It might seem hypocritical to push for IVF bans while bashing "childless" women. But the point is to get women (or even girls) to have kids while they're younger. Because the earlier that women and girls are pushed into motherhood, the easier they are to exploit.

The party that wants to ban IVF also bashes "childless" women.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Working on an #EvidenceSynthesis project & have been asked to search a "database" that doesn't support Boolean, parentheses, or truncation. It also doesn't seem to allow exporting of results. And yet there are absolutely valid reasons for searching it, so here I go! Uffda!

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

Inbox ZERO in my work account, y'all! Do I get a prize?

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Christine M. Moeller, PhD @christinemmoe.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Are you a neurodivergent librarian or supervisor at a US public or academic library? Do you identify as autistic and/or ADHD? Please consider participating in our survey! This IMLS-funded study investigates the workplace experiences of neurodivergent librarians. For details, visit our website! 📚

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Call for Participation – Neurodiversity Research

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

"I am curious to know why an economic dilemma, the kind you might expect to be tackled by corporations or governments or NGOs, is instead presented as a dilemma to be solved by uteruses." wapo.st/4cEcfeg

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Perspective | Don’t pin the birth rate problem on the birth givers

A lot of women don’t want 2.1 kids. We need an economic model in which that’s okay.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

I love this, but worry slightly what people would include after my name!

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Peter Johnson @libraryvines.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

for any attending the LESSS 2024 online conference they may not have an official hashtag. I'll start using #LESSS2024 unless someone has a different idea 😊 #medlibs

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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 16/06/2024

i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social Do you know of any OER video collections for counseling in SW? This Q came up on the Academic SW Librarians list.

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