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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Unpaid internships and practica are by no means the only hurdles to diversity in our profession. An absence of pathways that allow workers to jump from para­professional to professional roles, the use of “cultural fit” in evaluating job candidates, americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/05/01/b...
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Barriers to Diversity | American Libraries Magazine
Libraries sometimes have policies or practices that, while well intentioned, can have unintended consequences. Columnist Meredith Farkas shows how unpaid practica and internships in LIS education can ...
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In the end, there is much computer scientists can learn from the library and information science community. If they hurry, they might just be able to learn some of it before it all gives way to the data-driven wave crashing across academia. www.forbes.com/sites/kalevl...
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Computer Science Could Learn A Lot From Library And Information Science
There is much computer scientists can learn from the library and information science community. If they hurry, they might just be able to learn some of it before it all gives way to the data-driven wa...
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This branch of the digital humanities generated bad literary criticism...Literary objects are too few, and too complex, to respond interestingly to computational interpretation. not mathematically complex, but complex with respect to meaning. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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The Digital Humanities Debacle
Computational literary study offers correctives to problems that literary scholarship was never confused about in the first place.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It also contributes to the exclusion from the field of people who lack the economic and social safety net to absorb such costs, disproportionately impacting people of color. www.libraryjournal.com/story/Digita...
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Digital Labor Forum Tackles Temp Jobs on Grant, Digitization Projects | Peer to Peer Review
Each year, millions of dollars awarded to libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) fund a variety of processing, digitization, and digital infrastructure projects. In the process, the field creates hund...
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is also implied in what goes unsaid: After acknowledging that an institution sits on another’s land, there is no follow-up. Plans are almost never articulated to give the land back. The implication is: “What was once yours is now ours.” theconversation.com/land-acknowl...
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Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite – erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead
Land acknowledgments state that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. They’re popular – but they may harm more than they heal, say three anthropologists.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When universities let tuition rise to $70,000 a year and promote degrees in terms of “return on investment,” they hardwire their entire organization with the logic of privatization. www.huffpost.com/highline/art...
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The Corporations Devouring American Colleges
Universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here's the absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Seems counterintuitive to increase executive pay even as they decrease the quality of academics at ACADEMIC institutions. Executives seem to excel at justifying their compensation more than anything else. www.chronicle.com/article/just...
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These Colleges Cut Back During the Pandemic. Except When It Came to Their Presidents’ Pay Packages.
More than a dozen institutions certified retention plans with management or “highly compensated” employees during a fraught stretch of 2020.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
here’s a few other things that $95 million would cover at LSU or Michigan State: -LSU could pay for 111 assistant-professor salaries every year for 10 years, according to its posted average pay for an assistant professor in the 2018-19 academic year. www.chronicle.com/article/coll...?
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scientists have paid to publish their covid-19 research—sometimes as much as $5,200 per article. ; in 2020, the Dutch publishing house Elsevier, which puts out journals such as Cell and Gene, reported a profit of nearly $1 billion qz.com/2116375/covi...
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The West already monopolized scientific publishing. Covid made it worse.
For nearly a decade, Jorge Contreras has been railing against the broken system of scientific publishing. Academic journals are dominated by the Western scientists, who not only fill their pages but a...
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
While hiring a more diverse faculty has been one of the most persistent challenges in higher ed, institutions must look at more than just equity in hiring practices and make sure it is built into the institution as a whole. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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Why Search Committees Struggle to Diversify the Faculty
A new study examines how human biases and institutional barriers affect the groups responsible for finding diverse candidates for faculty positions.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m curious how the trend of B-Certified Companies have actually addressed this basic rule of modern American corporations, and if so, what steps (other than lofty rhetoric) they’ve taken to differentiate themselves from the rest of the American economy? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How private equity gobbled up the US economy—and ruined life for everyone else
Billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess—and fight for the scraps.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I imagine a box with a series of false bottoms; you just keep falling deeper and deeper into gibberish. The meaningful threat of garbage language — the reason it is not just annoying but malevolent — is that it confirms delusion as an asset in the workplace." www.vulture.com/2020/02/spre...
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Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
The pernicious spread of garbage language.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The graduates of Harvard and Yale are not the best and the brightest or the hardest working. They are, more precisely, some of the best, brightest, and hardest working among the very rich. www.chronicle.com/article/wher...
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Opinion | Where Rich Students Are Told: ‘You Deserve This’
At elite colleges the “best and brightest” are shamelessly flattered.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This type of solidarity between highly-paid tech workers and their lower-paid counterparts — who vastly outnumber them — is a tech CEO’s nightmare. www.noemamag.com/the-exploite...
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The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence | NOEMA
Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When this sense of divine calling is internalized, it enables deference behavior, but it can just as easily be leveraged by administrators or disciplinary faculty members to shame librarians for self-advocacy. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The Librarians Are Not OK
A years-long attack on their status is bad for all of us.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Open access has, in many cases, meant opening public knowledge to the private sector. That is enabled by the incursion of new digital technologies into publishing and the academy, creating new sources of revenue via data extraction. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The Corporate Capture of Open-Access Publishing
Done wrong, the movement will just reproduce the old monopolies.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The relentless optimizing of pages, words, paragraphs, photos, and hundreds of other variables has led to a wasteland of capital-C Content that is competing for increasingly dwindling Google Search real estate as generative AI rears its head. www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
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How Google perfected the web
The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hundreds of violence-backed treaties and seizures extinguished Indigenous title to over 2 billion acres of the United States. Nearly 11 million of those acres were used to launch 52 land-grant institutions. www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/...
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Land-grab universities - High Country News
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Language was not a tool but a medium, not just something that minds manipulate, but something that plays an active role in the formation of knowledge. The name for that medium is not just language but “culture,” www.chronicle.com/article/arti...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Significance Crisis
Essay | Only a computationally informed humanities can save us now.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/o...
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Opinion | A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Culture (Published 2024)
An insidious creep of artificial intelligence is already penetrating our most important institutions.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete. www.404media.co/librarians-a...
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Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A good reason to keep research librarians on staff... www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...
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AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
Some companies are working to remedy the issue.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The amount of talent drain is astonishing. I fear it will take the rest of my working life to replace it, if it ever happens. Who Left the Federal Workforce www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Who Left the Federal Workforce (Published 2025)
The New York Times photographed and interviewed two dozen former federal workers from across the country to get a sense of what they left behind and what they face next.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reform of research assessment is no longer a niche idea, but, as this report reinforces, is essential for the future of academic publishing. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Major Academic Press Calls for “Publish or Perish” Reform
Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working well, according to a survey from Cambridge University Press.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is not a prediction about a workforce of the future. It is an observation about the workforce of the present." napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...
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The Honest Case for the Humanities
Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When they are used to provide specious data analysis for a series of exercises in motivated reasoning, as here, they are worse than useless." www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...
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Opinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the Reading
The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ruminations on what having an "extreme" position on gen"AI" actually means zkaiser.substack.com/p/rumination...
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Ruminations on what having an "extreme" position on gen"AI" actually means
Fuck your "use case."
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bookofdavin.bsky.social @bookofdavin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nybooks.com/articles/202... Reading it, we realize that “knowledge” must involve discovery, and it always carries a fringe of activity drawing the attention to some new, beautiful, or strange thing.
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Think for Yourself | Dan Chiasson
One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.
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