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Dan Rudmann

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage is now published at FLL: fll.pubpub.org/pub/apois/re...
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A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage
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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"...AI and Tumblr cannot give you what schooling and education gives you, which is a container for the possibility of a greatness we have not yet imagined but that we have nevertheless built the foundation to exist" I don't have the words, I just keep playing this one over and over
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Society helps create a Dolly Parton, a Prince Rogers Nelson
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
youtu.be/JXukJyzTA7A?...
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Dolly Parton - The River Unbroken
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are too many songs that I love, but Bargain Store really hits: Why, you take, for instance, this old broken heart If you will just replace the missing parts You would be surprised to find how good it really is Take it and you never will be sorry that you did Love you, Dolly
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Bargain Store - Dolly Parton - Live from Opryland 1975
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 18/08/2026
Quick PSA. Looking at you, local orgs and small businesses.
Crudely drawn bunny character holding a pencil, messy hand lettering surrounds them in orange to green gradient color. It says in all caps:

Stop using AI for your flyers & logos! They look like shit, everybody thinks so! Seriously, you’re losing business. Just make it yourself or hire a real artist.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13/08/2026
"The journal roughly doubled its publication volume from nearly 5,000 articles in 2023 to over 9,600 in 2024, and published over 10,300 articles in 2025." Good illustration of why commercial publishers are not passive victims of fraudulent behaviour but have actively created the conditions for it.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.
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ResearchEquals @researchequals.com · 03/08/2026
Thanks @danrdmnn.bsky.social 🙌 We encourage people to check out your "Seven Theses for a Diverse and Inclusive Research Data Ecosystem" doi.org/10.53962/jw8...
A testimonial by Dan Rudmann, rating ResearchEquals with five stars. The full testimonial reads:
Hi, I'm Dan Rudmann, a librarian at Utrecht University.
From where I sit in the university, we see how much labor in academia goes unrecognised or simply unseen. ResearchEquals provides a meaningful way for people to work out loud. This is crucial if we aim to have an honest conversation about what it takes to produce knowledge.
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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 03/08/2026
1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:
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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The "sequel"(?) to "You Are Reviewer 2" is now available to download for free. "So You've Been Told to Publish Your Data" is a solo d6-based "game" to "learn" about Research Data Management and Data Publishing. midnitelibrary.itch.io/publish-your... 📚
A bunch of copies of So You've Been Told to Publish Your Data
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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
And this is why I am against AI, as well as the environmental concerns and the intellectual property theft and the dumbing-down of society. THERE ARE ENOUGH HUMAN-GENERATED CONFECTED SOURCES OUT THERE ALREADY. WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE.
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
How we took our eyes off the ball and allowed the wrong entities to remake the playing field of Open Access:
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Setting universities up to fail is a longstanding tactic known as 'starving the beast' - a university's resources are undermined so it cannot live up to its obligations and is then punished for that by further resource cuts. See Steve Mims' 2016 documentary film: youtu.be/4IlFhJ78QdU?...
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STARVING THE BEAST Trailer
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 30/06/2026
The most broken part of academic publishing is the failure to imagine a way of fixing it beyond the posts on Substack complaining about how broken it is.
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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is a key node in the battle for democracy and the survival of our planet - fostering education and research on HOW humans assign meaning to facts, how we create and contextualise information, how we infuse knowledge into everyday decisions and interventions.
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My small take about Subway Takes as a lesson for how to be together again: bruderrudmann.org/2026/06/15/a...
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Bruder & Rudmann - A Map for a Dialectic: Kareem Rahma's Subway Takes
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Retelling the narrative of the university is reimagining governance
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We were having the same conversation 10 years ago. Lady Gaga spoke at #SXSW and said we couldn't have shows in Austin anymore unless Doritos was sponsoring them. www.kut.org/life-arts/20...
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Austin music leaders rethink the idea of 'selling out' as business support becomes a necessity
Once considered evil, panelists agreed corporate support might be one of the best ways to protect the artists and venues that make Austin unique.
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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
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Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 20/04/2026
My previous research centre was among the highest performing in terms of REF at the university. It didn't stop senior management from gutting it. You can play their game perfectly, obey all their rules, and buy into their metrics... and still lose.
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A heart-filled optimistic piece about the commodification of knowledge, our birthright, and the unending effort toward truth and freedom by Anton Bruder: bruderrudmann.org/2026/04/26/l...
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Bruder & Rudmann - Liquid Intelligence
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The Institute for Human Sciences now has a education program called Library School, a journal entitled Utopian Scholastic, and a progressing imprint under the name Language Arts. There's more in the works...
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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Still and always unrivaled. www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Listen To My Body Tonight: How Prince's Transgressive Spirit Broke Boundaries
In the nearly four decades of music Prince made, propriety and prejudice were regularly vanquished by good humor and elegant lust.
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Institute for Human Sciences @humansciences.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We are pleased to present volume 8 of Utopian Scholastic, the journal of the Institute for Human Sciences, here on the issue of Echoes. Listening to the past, feeling time, doesn't mean going back in time: it means experiencing a moment of past time in the present. www.zotero.org/groups/64299...
A collaged cover of Utopian Scholastic: A Journal for Good Vibrations. Volume 8, issue 8, MMXXVI. The title of this volume is listed as Echoes and is published by the Institute for Human Sciences in Utrecht.
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Here's me giving a talk at Oxford University yesterday at the Forum for Open Scholarship called A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage. It's about ways to open a university for more people and more forms of knowledge.
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26
Two people standing at a lectern at Oxford University delivering a brilliant talk
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 16/02/2026
New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices. @morphss.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social
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New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices
As Open Research gains traction across the research landscape, a new report challenges funders and institutions to expand their understanding of openness to better reflect arts, humanities and social ...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/01/2026
What happens when we build a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape? On this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, @SamuelMoore.org & @HJoseph.bsky.social discuss PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & reimagining open access. 🎧 Tune in ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
All the “leaders” who think that what they are doing now is safeguarding the long-term health of their institutions really should be asking themselves what someone is going to write about them in a century. It’s not just an abdication of morality — it’s a baaaad look.
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 05/01/2026
Regular reminder that research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 28/12/2025
"There are some things we ought not to do even though people will pay us to do them" - Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the ELIZA chat bot in 1965, advising computer scientists on AI. Cited in McCray's README, p. 93.
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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"Friction too, let it be said, is how fire is made." Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation. bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...
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Bruder & Rudmann - Fact and Friction
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