Reposted by Jen BolmarcichDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 8hThis picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon. 393502942
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17hHearing lots of discourse about "stochastic parrots" recently? Here's a discussion of the backstory, both of the phrase itself and what's going on now. 311554
Reposted by Jen Bolmarcichkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There's a new episode of Liberating Lit today, and I'm so, so thrilled to share this conversation with none other than MARLEY DIAS. www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...liberatinglit.comEpisode Four: Marley Dias — Liberating LitOn this episode of Liberating Lit, Marley Dias talks about being a young literary advocate, growing in her work from 1,000 Black Girl books, and the power of sharing your message and passion with youn... 22613
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichUniversity of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the badgers, for today is their special day! To celebrate National Badger Day, here is an illustration of a badger from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #NationalBadgerDay #BadgerDay #RareBooks 03313
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichJoumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 06/10/2026Good morning! After years of wanting to do this, I'm finally releasing my first print edition done in the #mokuhanga technique, with my own botanical inks: WELLSPRING, buckthorn lake and white gold. #printmaking Shop: payhip.com/b/7F41j Among the letter ع 'Ayn's many meanings is spring, source, 15512
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Here’s an excerpt from my new (prose!) book. It’s from the opening essay, which addresses 兔儿神/the Rabbit God, a queer deity from my home province of Fujian. But really it's a prose poem, an ars poetica, a manifesto. In Cahoots with the Rabbit God is out on Dec. 1. Preorder now: tinyurl.com/4mc6vnjf 46324
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges. 12989390
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day. 3728265
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 03/10/2026A truly stunning set of children’s books for the book historian or printmaker in your life. We just got a full set for the library @skeuomorphpress.org 415033
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichGlenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 03/10/2026If you'd like a signed copy of *That One Matt Bors Comic*, an absurdly close examination of a single cartoon panel aided by 20 contributors, you can still pre-order and get a custom inscription for the next few weeks! aperiodical.net/tombc We have two signature page options, shown here! 39420
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently. 10802404
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichGlenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 02/10/2026Pleased to add @elliottkalan.bsky.social of @flophousepodcast.com as a contributor to That One Matt Bors Comic! Elliott wrote about his experience with a panel from his Spider-Man & X-Men run becoming a meme! He's one of 20 amazing people who contributed. (ships in December)aperiodical.netThat One Matt Bors Comic - Aperiodical Publishing Co.That One Matt Bors Comic is an entire book about a single panel of a single comic that became a pervasive meme. Edited by Glenn Fleishman, with a foreword by Ryan North. 1174
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They’ve come from Palestine to perform this in London - on Saturday - please support , please share www.pleasance.co.uk/event/2077-w...pleasance.co.uk2077 who wants to survive | Pleasance Theatre Trust 16438
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Do you think it's valuable to put biodiversity education smack in front of people integrated into their daily lives? Support @skypeascientist.bsky.social. Ideally monthly! I need to raise more $ before the end of '26 so we can afford to do projects like this in '27. givebutter.com/SupportSAS26givebutter.comSupport Skype a Scientist!By Skype a Scientist 111128
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here: 131864906
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 01/10/2026AI is already being used to deny disabled people medically necessary care, and anywhere it costs money to include us is likely next. I've spent most of 2026 on public opinion research with TechTonic Justice about how to fight back, and we're unveiling it tomorrow, Friday, at 1PM ETshouldntneedtobealawyer.comWebinar Invite: Winning Against AI & Economic Injustice | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew CortlandFor almost all of 2026 I have been facing a medical crisis. As many of you know all too well, attempting to navigate the American health car 211142
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichWolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com · 01/10/2026If u need 🪩, in addition to these Historical 🐳 Pal/DH wisdom letterpress prints there's a holographic sticker version that benefits a regional LGBTQ+ nonprofit (ty @heatherfro.bsky.social!) : store.wolfproofpress.com/product/stic...store.wolfproofpress.comSticker: Moby Dick Is About Whales!!!Holographic sticker version of a version of my (also available) "Moby Dick is about whales" print, featuring the printing block I lasercut from a 1568 illustration of "A most true and marvelous strang... 1112
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New Philly voice article on the fight to reopen the Academy of Natural Sciences! www.phillyvoice.com/academy-natu...phillyvoice.comAcademy of Natural Sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continuesA grassroots group is urging Drexel's board to disaffiliate from the institution and calling for a public process to decide its future. 216784
Reposted by Jen Bolmarcichs. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/09/2026Friends, "no my family member really is/was that bad and no I do not want to reconcile or make nice at the dinner table" season is rapidly approaching and believe me, I have advice!! 2416
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it 910949
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichPeter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Boston area word nerds: tomorrow in Newton! newtonfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/16512418newtonfreelibrary.libcal.comCreating an Icon: The Making of the New Collegiate DictionaryWith its deep red cover, bull’s-eye logo and signature thumb notches, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary is an American icon. It’s the bestselling hardcover book after the... 083
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Without wishing to labour the point, HOLY SHIT Blackwell's do FREE FUCKING INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY on this in case anyone else would like to give it a go... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...blackwells.co.ukEverything Will Swallow YouHave you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live 56616
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichOdyssey Bookshop @odysseybks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We had a great time last night listening to climate activist Eileen Flanagan talk about her book, Common Ground. If you weren’t able to make it to the event, we have signed copies available for purchase in store and online. 011
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichStreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 23/09/2026The Governor's office estimates that the proposal would reduce the state's Fair Share funding for transportation and education investments by approximately $120 million: #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2026/09/23/i...mass.streetsblog.orgIn the Midst of A Reelection Campaign, Gov. Healey Proposes $120 Million Tax Cut For Drivers and Oil Companies - Streetsblog MassachusettsThe Governor's office estimates that the proposal would reduce the state's Fair Share funding for transportation and education investments by approximately $120 million. 32311
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichDan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This coming Saturday, conference "Revisiting King Philip's War," perhaps the most devastating war in colonial America, 350 years ago. Yes, it's not just a year to remember the American Revolution. www.historic-deerfield.org/events/confe... #WeWantMoreHistoryhistoric-deerfield.orgRevisiting King Philip’s War - The War for New England after 350 years - Historic DeerfieldIN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS SOLD OUT. ZOOM REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN. Historic Deerfield, with support from the Massachusetts Historical Society, is hosting a one-day conference: “Revisiting King Phili... 287
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichElsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Book launch party in Seattle! Come to the Rendezvous at the Main Bar at 7:30pm for a half disability theory lecture half comedy show. I’ll sign books. We’ll have drinks. There will be ableism bingo. I may or may not have swag. ASL interpreted by someone who can actually interpret my snark! 12015
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tufts library staff are unionizing with SEIU 888! If you have any connection to Tufts, and/or are a Somerville/Medford resident, please sign this petition calling on President Sunil Kumar to voluntarily recognize their union.docs.google.comWe Support the Tufts Library Union!On September 8, 2026, Tufts library staff made the brave decision to publicly announce their union with SEIU Local 888. The Tufts Library staff maintain Tufts' collections, support student and facult... 01610
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 22/09/2026“Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus FY 2027,” a document emerging from UC Irvine provost’s office. Stuff of nightmares and very much the same playbook as UCLA. What are we even doing here? It has gotten so hard to just…do my job. archive.org/details/UCI-...archive.orgUC Irvine: Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus FY 2027This is a copy of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) document, Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027. It is on the letterhead of the UCI Office of the Provost ... 2215
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichCIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026CDC inaction delays COVID shots for low-income children Although COVID-19 hospitalizations are climbing, the CDC has not yet announced when COVID shots for low-income kids will be available. Read more: bit.ly/4xCpKVO 32522
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichColleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026JJ Pionke, librarian, library and information studies educator, and advocate for people with disabilities, has died. 📚 @jjpionke.bsky.social jj-pionke-memorial.org/in-loving-me...jj-pionke-memorial.orgIn Loving MemoryJJ Pionke 1978 – 2026 JJ Pionke, librarian, library and information studies educator, and advocate for people with disabilities, has died. JJ was born in suburban Chicago to Wayne and Rita Pi… 1253
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We are in the final hours of being able to submit comments that will help resist the takeover of post secondary accreditation by people that want to limit access to post secondary education to the groups they approve of. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/with-propo...academicfreedomontheline.substack.comWith Proposed Federal Rules, Heritage Foundation Upends Higher EducationWho is up for a little Christian Nationalism embedded into our higher education system? 02211
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026One person signed up today. One. We need more help!! 03434
Reposted by Jen Bolmarcichs. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/09/2026Today is a great day to order a copy of my book—through your bookstore or library, print, ebook, or audio—if you want to read and think about grief as a collective social project and question why Americans feel an urgent need to fix everything or suppress what they can't fix!bookshop.orgAll My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a... 0248
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And there it is. 811641
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichAmanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"May you become the blessing we need in this world"; my January 2025 letterpress print from the conclusion of @wynkenhimself.bsky.social's beautiful zine Pomegranates. Lasercut Hebrew & historical pomegranate pattern. + 2134
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Hey, remember in 1783 how Philadelphia built a triumphal arch to celebrate the end of the Revolution and then God used the celebratory fireworks to burn it down and kill people and injure its designer, who came to regard it as punishment for his hubris? Anyway. www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/... 59430
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️ 15372278
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichLady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.calonews.com/arizona/tucs... "Tucson Zine Fest co-founders Elisa Mask and Zac Finger hosted a workshop on Daniel "Des" Estrada, a zine maker sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of political pamphlets."calonews.comTucson Zine Fest founders warn of free speech crackdownTucson Zine Fest co-founders Elisa Mask and Zac Finger hosted a workshop on Daniel "Des" Estrada, a zine maker sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of political pamphlets. 06435
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichFinn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 18/09/2026Cuts include Celtic and Scottish Lit (UG), Celtic (UG), Celtic and Archaeology (UG), Celtic and English Language (UG)... Christ. As if we didn't have few enough Celtic Studies departments as it is. There'll be none of us left. 2217
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 16/09/2026What's not to love about a book that ends with a @wolfproofpress.com print as part of the coda? For university folks, whether or not teaching is a regular part of your job, seriously check out @walshbr.bsky.social new book "Embedded Pedagogies", available open access at buff.ly/kQau5oV . #DHmakes 073
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's finally out! www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...himalmag.comMary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritageA US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States 431092
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichTim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters. 115482
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichHeather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Do The New AI Features in These Familiar Databases Actually Help Researchers? katinamagazine.org/content/arti...katinamagazine.orgDo The New AI Features in These Familiar Databases Actually Help Researchers?EBSCO, ProQuest, and JSTOR have recently added to the generative AI features available on their platforms. Here’s what libraries need to know. 033
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichTracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026again: don't put student information into these 061
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Thanks to my incredible audiobook narrator, Soneela Nankani, whom a childhood friend helped me pick, DATA EMPIRE won an Earphone Award from Kirkus Reviews! 3394
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 11/09/2026Health care in the United States operates on a foundational assumption: our public health systems work. But we no longer live in a country with a functioning public health system. That America is gone. shouldntneedtobealawyer.com/posts/what-i...shouldntneedtobealawyer.comWhat Is Public Health? Which Vaccines Should You Get? | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew CortlandHealth care in the United States operates on a foundational assumption: our public health systems work. Health care assumes that there is a 17618
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty. 10550152
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026According to a meeting I was in, UMass estimates that if the capacity of these tools were maxed out by student, faculty, staff users, the total cost to the university would be $130,000/day, or about $47 million / year. 1825350
Reposted by Jen BolmarcichAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026Universities are subsidizing internal AI tools that are, from the perspective of the humanities, enabling cheating & cognitive outsourcing. The cost in resources is certainly an issue, but the fact that these tools undermine the work we ask students to do is ridiculous www.umass.edu/it/genai/pla...umass.eduGenAI Platform : UMass Amherst Information Technology : UMass AmherstThe UMass GenAI platform is an intuitive and user-friendly platform designed to provide the UMass community with equitable access to leading generative AI models, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic... 6388119
