iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hell yes, Cranston Public Library! 🤩 Full article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data to come and use our facilities. And I find, increasingly, that librarians have to be advocates for our communities.
Ed Garcia, Cranston, R.I.
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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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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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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm always so glad I know you and up to make time more fun. Let's share more music!

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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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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Austin Sarat is really really lovely and cares a lot about Open Access - you should write to him (he's a professor at Amherst College) and let him know you appreciate his work as I think he'd really appreciate you and engaging with you. I got to meet him once and it was unforgettable

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I think perhaps it could even be squaring the circle between 1) information is meant to be free and 2) intellectual labour is worthy of renumeration. This what, I think in the most generous reading, an Open Access perspective was striving to address before the big publishers got involved

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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

We should remember that Open Access was a fight to free information and that it existed long before anyone cooked up the idea of author-facing fees.

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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 · 19/06/2026

Yup. I think even worse is it's cynical. There's barely a performance and certainly no true sincerity.

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If it was read, then it would compel some engagement. Instead, it benefits many actors in this space to have a potemkin document that has all the signals of prestige and rigour that they can be wave toward vaguely to justify dismantling a department or program.

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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 · 19/05/2026

(or, you know, go to the White Horse and dance) But anyway artists are more vital to Austin than startups. But that's a story we need to tell more.

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Austin became what it is because every tech company that moved to town promised their workers an incredible art-focused town- where people were happy and singing songs to each other on these uncanny cowboy-hippy hills. They have a stake in keeping Austin weird on its own terms. Pay up and sit down.

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Selling out is still selling out - it's still diminishing an artists' creative power to someone else just because that person has has money. It confuses money with taste, but we know better.

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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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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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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 09/04/2026

The #OxFOS recordings are now available, so you can go and watch @danrdmnn.bsky.social and @kirahopkins.bsky.social talk around open access :) ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

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2026-03-04-Conference day-Helping researchers navigate open-OxFOS26-Recording

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Ah I wasn't there yet - my time was 2008-2020. Do you remember where you played?

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Dan Rudmann @danrdmnn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I was once an onion: danonion.bandcamp.com

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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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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026

I was reading more on polycrisis in relation to universities: doi.org/10.1007/s100... (Tagging @danrdmnn.bsky.social as I recall he mentioned also mentioned polycrisis at #OxFOS26.) The global minority could learn from indigenous people's techniques for resisting polycrisis. (We won't, but could.)

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Universities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional Research

As humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...

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