iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2026

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Librarians are also very good at helping you obtain articles for free. Just ask them!

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If that two-minute clip is a representative sample, two hours of that Elizabeth Holmes doc is going to be a LOT in one sitting. Maybe theater owners can plan on intermissions with therapy dogs?

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Three library folks always worth listening to.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All of this. As the granddaughter of a 5th grade dropout and factory worker who managed to earn a PhD without mortgaging my future…I don’t know if my type of journey is even possible anymore.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I one hundred percent thought he was dead.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dr. Cottom is correct. I’m in my 50s and at no point was Wikipedia considered “slop” in higher ed. Admittedly I was at a place (U of Illinois) with a strong cs program and good library school. But Wikipedia was considered in context of the human community around it.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Occasional reminder that Muslims were among the 1st responders, among those killed, & among those sent to fight our forever wars. That there could be any kind of ~criticism~ of NYC's Muslim mayor attending Fri's ceremony is grossest bigotry & dehumanization. It's a disgrace that reflects on us all.

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A post for 9/11: Muslim American heroes.

In honor of all we lost on that terrible day, a short list of just a few Muslim American heroes. I don’t know the first man’s name, but aside from being a hero, it would seem he’s…

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I spent a week with my mom earlier this month right after the elections. She is a dedicated MSNBC viewer and I can count on one hand the pundit rants that were *not* about Hasan Piker that entire week.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The librarians know exactly who this is on every campus.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Downgrade a movie The cook, the thief, his wife, and a good friend

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reporting from the greater Montclair area…it’s been 100 degrees with dusty winds every day this week and it might be best to just let the lager larceny slide.

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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Report – AI and Education

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Parton ("9 to 5," 1980) provides a more trenchant critique of capital than does Marx ("Das Kapital," 1867) because as a researcher, Parton correctly frames the problem of capital as exacerbating but not supplanting other pre-existing human dynamics such as gender roles. In this essay, I will

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ONCE AGAIN THE WRONG 80-YEAR-OLD!

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 25/08/2026

Grab these giant data files.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fortuitous sequence on the timeline this morning. #wrinklydog

Screenshot of Blue sky feed showing Anil Dash posting “bout to hit the club? Let me put in my favorite scent, Downy Wrinkle release” above a post from Solomon with a close up photo of a wrinkly hound pup.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that makes you immediately hear a song from the soundtrack in your head.

A photo of the dancing gopher puppet from the end of Caddyshack

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I wonder if the NYT editors know that the SUNY system enrolls 380,000 students every year. Harvard has less than one-tenth of that.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

NEW: For the second day, the Census Bureau's homepage, census.gov, features an unauthored report with analysis that @npr.org found was conducted not by career civil servants, but a team that included individuals affiliated with a President Trump-aligned think tank, the America First Policy Institute

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Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting

A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I spend a decent amount of my time reading Census Bureau documentation 🤓 and this does not read like Census Bureau work.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wondering how the end of project support at OSF will affect researchers….

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It would have been great if the 404 piece included a conversation with just ONE librarian. In the meantime, it might be a good time to remind folks (or see for the first time) what consortial shared print agreements look like among libraries.

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Shared Print Toolkit - Retention Criteria

Shared print programs develop criteria for which titles their member libraries will be asked to retain on behalf of the program. Most commonly, this criteria is developed following a careful analysis ...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 17/08/2026

A word on accountability and justice.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sharing this helpful article "Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care" from my wonderful BU colleague Koritha Mitchell (with her links to additional resources below): muse.jhu.edu/article/715439

This article offers a primer on identifying what the author calls "know-your-place aggression" as well as the violence of white mediocrity being treated as merit. The author argues that gaining clarity about these hostile tendencies is a form of self-
care. Examples include experiences with racism, (hetero)sexism, trans antagonism, ableism, and Islamophobia. Understanding know-your-place aggression and white mediocrity can prevent marginalized communities from wasting energy by worrying about the opinions of people who use objective standards to judge everyone but themselves. The author encourages this form of self-care because she believes it can empower
members of marginalized groups to save their energy for what matters most, the quality of their lives and their contributions to research.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The death of Jason Arday is yet another case of the barbarism and cruelty of our media in tandem with the gleeful bigotry that drives it .

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I am old enough to have been a part of 1990s campus activism in support of people’s movements in Central America (against U. S. intervention). It’s shocking to me how much that period has been memory-holed.

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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#CSCW2026 attendees we are organizing a workshop on public scholarship, where we'll talk the importance (and risks) of public scholarship in 2026. The application is a short form. More info on our website: sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...

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CSCW Public Scholarship 2026

🎶 Wake up in the morning gotta check that feed Like that study, share that blog, we gotta get up to speed Before we leave, post a vid critiquing the AI stack ‘Cause CSCW researchers, we aint holding ...

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Faculty (and librarians) in higher ed right now are shut out of the conversation that seems to be happening behind closed doors between administrators and tech vendors. I’m it sure who is benefits from this. It’s not the students.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Don’t mess with (some) Texans.

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh, I'm sorry. I can't come to the door right now. I'm afraid that in my weakened condition, I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further school absences.

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like anyone under 30 would EVER….

“Hey there, you are accessing Bluesky from a region that legally requires us to verify your age before allowing you to access the app” - from a pop up screen requiring age verification before accessing Bluesky in the state of Texas

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Downplay a book or movie: No Country for 40-somethings

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you’re not watching the debut of the Women’s Professional Baseball League and getting just a little bit choked up, what are you doing? LETS GO QUEENS!

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 28/07/2026

It's impossible to exonerate the internet, and social media in particular here. It allowed for the efficient networking and ratcheting-up of our worst impulses at unbelievable speed and scale. In-group/out-group dynamics are as old as the hills, but social media is a particle accelerator for them.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026

Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 23/07/2026

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/07/2026

INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.

After nearly five incredible years, The Journal's last remaining dedicated science reporter (that's me!) has left WSJ. Following the dissolution of the miraculous Health & Science Bureau last October, myself and a small numbers of others worked hard to continue our former team's legacy, but the time has finally come for me to move on.

I am deeply grateful for all of the opportunities this publication -- and the journalist community I met there -- has given me. From stories about T. rex lips to primate booze problems to shrinking brains, to Nobel Prize and NASA mission coverage, Jane Goodall's obituary, winter storm, volcano and wildfire smoke stories, I left no scientific stone unturned, working constantly to inspire curiosity and wonder in Journal readers during times of increasing turmoil and challenge. I met some of my closest friends, wrote for two of the most phenomenal editors I'll ever have the privilege of working with, saw Evan come home, and learned (in retrospect, naturally) the gift it is to be on a team of professional nerds who drive the cutting edge of health and science journalism in America while uplifting each other and their craft.

Well, this is your counterprogramming kid signing off. Not sure where I'll end up next, but don't be strangers y'all. In the meantime, I'll be coaching roller derby across the U.S., South America and Europe!

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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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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

An enraging story about what look like UT's efforts to kowtow to powerful conservatives. “I ask questions that maybe someone in a position of power might disagree with. … We ask these questions because we’re trying to get at what is the truth,” Chaar López said. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.

American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.

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