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Christina Riehman-Murphy

@cer-mit.bsky.social
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Librarian + OER. Fueled by seltzer - plain and warm

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/05/2026
Among many other things, generative AI is a labor rights issue. Professors are right to reject it and students are right to join the rebellion.
calmatters.org
Cal State struck a deal with OpenAI. Some students and faculty refuse to use it
California State University’s $17 million contract with OpenAI is up for renewal. Some say AI is crucial for the workforce. Others say it’s cheating.
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Iowa OER @iowaoer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our April blog post, contributed by @openaccesselder.bsky.social is live now! "Update Schedules for OER" reviews why traditional edition updates may not be the best option for every class and outlines three examples of how #OER can be updated in unique ways: iowaoer.com/2026/04/27/u...
New blog post! Text over a photo of a person editing text on a laptop.
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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 22/04/2026
> At least one in five undergraduates report having a disability, and every student will encounter barriers to accessing course materials at some point. I love how this announcement from @opened.bsky.social focuses on how openly-licensed resources increase our shared capacity to meet student needs!
opened.org
OER and the New Accessibility Timeline: What Institutions Should Know — Open Education Association
With the ADA Title II deadline extended by one year, institutions have more time to get accessibility right. OER should be part of the plan.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.
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jonty @jontyscorner.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
No problem! This should make it easier to grasp: it's way more complicated than this but it gets the general idea across.
An image of the Artemis II NASA SLS rocket. 
The launch vehicle is outlines in blue with the caption 'in the sea'.
The service module is red with caption 'took them around the moon then burned up'
At the tip the Launch Escape System is outlined red saying 'burned up'
Second stage fairings are outlines black saying 'aerodynamic fairings that also burned up.
Finally the re-entry vehicle is outlines green stating 'came home.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/02/2026
“For every aspect of a student’s life, there’s a tech company trying to digitize it.“
yahoo.com
Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. What this means for data privacy
For every aspect of a student's life, there's a tech company trying to digitize it.
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Maura Flynn @mauragflynn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We would love your help in spreading awareness of this #OER for undergraduate university students and students who are returning to education. #booksky @openpress.bsky.social @openaccesselder.bsky.social @oerclibrarian.bsky.social @openedconf.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
8. I would be remiss if I did not mention that the Epstein files shows the extent to which old political alliances are compromised. It’s depraved. It is also unfortunately capitalism. Tech elite has the money to shape public opinion and intervene in state law because of that cabal of exploitation.
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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
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Irish @nakedirish.com · 17/08/2025
This, actually works. For me at least.
tenbluelinks.org
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Gun restrictions work. This horrendous act could have been even worse.
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Complexly @complexly.org · 28/05/2025
Why do British people sing in American accents? @akilahhughes.com and @hankgreen.bsky.social cover it in the latest episode of Ask Hank Anything out now at YouTube.com/complexly
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I'm going to have to check and double check my work here but at first glance it seems this line in the "MAHA" report is horrible misrepresentation of the study it cites (seen here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17667478/).
● Stimulants: According to best trial data available, these widely used ADHD drugs cause longterm height loss averaging an inch;443 of note, the only long-term trial found exclusively shortterm (14-month) behavior benefits, which were not found at 3 years.444 Indeed, at 3, 5, 8, and 14
years, no benefits were seen in grades, relationships, achievement, behavior, or any other
measure.
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Gotta get my screencasting chops back, I'm rusty. But I believe in this toolbox too much to wait to get it perfect, so here is a first pass at a demo of my LLM "mega" prompt *SIFT Toolbox*, which turns your LLM from a chatbot into something more like a research assistant youtu.be/dTzukP7OLuA
youtu.be
Demoing SIFT Toolbox: First Pass
YouTube video by Mike Caulfield
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is a great resource for folks looking to protect themselves and their communities. Share with lgbtq+ folks in your networks, please.
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Naomi @mimiomi.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Bleeding hearts seen on my walk. #bloomscrolling #flowerreport
Pink heart-shaped flowers dangle along a horizontal branch like little lanterns. Each one has what looks like a white drop at the point of the heat. Pink heart-shaped flowers dangle along a horizontal branch like little lanterns. Each one has what looks like a white drop at the point of the heat.
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 09/05/2025
I hope she fights it. There's no authority in law for the president to fire the Librarian mid-term, even if the president appoints this member of the legislative branch.
law.cornell.edu
2 U.S. Code § 136-1 - Appointment and term of service of Librarian of Congress
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Jerry Schippa @jerryschippa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Who doesnt love infrastructure!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“IF YOU DONT USE AI YOU WILL FALL BEHIND!!” Dear god how far back can I fall?? We talking Black Michael Jackson or white Michael Jackson??? Do I need the actual Delorean or will the AI spin up the flux compacitor in my laptop?
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 06/05/2025
well, i finally had to have the talk with my son. 📚
Yesterday 8:56 PM
Why do I have to put a hold for an ebook

Today 8:03 AM
Because libraries pay for each time a patron checks one out. Libraries don't actually own ebooks. They pay for each time an ebook is used. So libraries have to limit how many patrons can borrow an ebook at any given time.
Delivered
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
npr.org
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
axios.com
Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
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Brian Smith @briansmith26.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A white man, 50, 60, 70 yrs old, doesn't need 37 billion dollars. They could be very happy with 2, 3, 4 billion.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/05/2025
the thing about the tates and trump and musk is that what they offer is the illusion of control and dominance and mastery. in truth, they are absolute slaves to their passions and their worst instincts, and they have paid for it in that they are literal degenerates
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
⚠️ The White House budget proposal would fully eliminate IMLS—the only federal agency for library services—in FY2026. This would gut access to information and opportunity, especially in rural areas. We can’t let this stand. apnews.com/article/trum... #FundLibraries
apnews.com
White House comes out with sharp spending cuts in Trump's 2026 budget plan
President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget plan would slash nondefense domestic spending by $163 billion, while increasing expenditures on national security.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.
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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison (1672-1719) 🌱📷
Nightly votive in the porch garden.
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Richard Saunders @richardsaundersbu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Left unchecked, this man has the potential to be an accessory to and root cause of your child's unnecessary death. He's worse than the worst drunk driver ever.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’”’
nymag.com
John Fetterman’s Struggle
The senator insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This statistic blew my mind
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.
Map of U.S. showing a dozen NSF funded interconnected research hubs that formed Internet backbone in 1991
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Kennedy is among the most malevolent figures in all of American history.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 01/05/2025
Limestone University in South Carolina is closing at the end of the semester after failing to get close to their last-ditch fundraising goal.
chronicle.com
This University Hoped Donations Would Save It. They Didn’t.
The 180-year-old Limestone University is shutting down. “This is the first closure of this magnitude in our state,” said South Carolina’s higher-education commission.
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Christina Riehman-Murphy @cer-mit.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Spot on guidance from @mahabali.bsky.social about how to approach the endless AI stuff being thrown our way!
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees. I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
NEH Appeal - Public
Appeal Strategies for NEH Terminated Grants NEH Grantees with Terminated Grants -- the 30 day window for appeal is almost here. If your DOGE termination letter is dated April 2, then it is recommend...
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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
this is what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has been saying, yeah Americans don't recognize their poor quality of life bc we've been able to mimic affluence and that's not going to be the case for most of us much longer
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2025
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
startribune.com
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/04/2025
Hi Canada. I hope you have a good election tomorrow. Someone deserves one.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I don’t think anyone in tech believed that “prompt engineer” was going to be a real job. Better prompts improve results at the margins, sure, but not so much that years out we need classes of people performing that function and not at scale that replaces anything. www.wsj.com/articles/the...
wsj.com
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one of the hottest jobs in artificial intelligence. What happened?
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The thing to understand is that an LLM is not in any sense reading and understanding your words. It is not interpreting and producing “factual claims”; it is interpreting and producing “completions that are possible.”
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
In other words, when you ask for example “do vaccines cause autism?” you are looking for information about whether a thing in the world (a vaccination) produces an outcome (autism). But the LLM can only answer “what words could sound right after this?”
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Waste/fraud/abuse is the new F/M/K.
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It is very difficult to watch entire ecosystems and communities of scholarship, research, public service, and hard work so easily and quickly dismissed, broken, and put into disarray. Godspeed @brettbobley.bsky.social @neh-odh.bsky.social ...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This—what Trump is doing now in trying to destroy American universities, research, and free speech while blaming it on pretend offense to the Jews is certainly the most profoundly antisemitic act I’ve seen from US government in my lifetime.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
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