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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

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UNC School of Data and Information Sciences @uncsdis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Faculty Spotlight: Maggie Melo ✨ SILS Associate Professor Maggie Melo studies how students navigate learning environments in higher education, from makerspaces to emerging tools like generative AI. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/zDqRUdQ & buff.ly/m13SeQJ @maggie-melo.bsky.social

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UNC School of Data and Information Sciences @uncsdis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Congratulations to SILS PhD student Harvey Long on his selection as an intern for Rutgers University’s John Smartt Summer Scholars program! This prestigious program offers doctoral students research experience, mentorship, and professional development in equity and leadership in higher education.

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Maggie Melo @maggie-melo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Impacts of the proposed funding cut on the CHPL operating budget include reduced hours, cuts to the collection, elimination of programs and part-time staff, and the removal of free library cards to residents of Orange County who do not reside in Chapel Hill. indyweek.com/news/chapel-...

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Chapel Hill Public Library At Risk of Losing County Funding

Orange County officials are proposing a budget cut that would wipe about $620,000 from the library over the next two years.

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Annie Pho @anniepho.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Okay which one of you did this?

Instagram account called “sadlibrarykitchen” and there is white text on a black background that reads “ sad kitchens, and break rooms of libraries. Submit yours for rating via DM. Also submissions anonymous even though it’s an honor to be here.”

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"In 2025, 92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72 percent in 2024. Less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents." 📚 www.ala.org/news/2026/04... Follow @censorship.bots.law for realtime updates

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American Library Association releases 2025 Most Challenged Books List as National Library Week Begins

State of America’s Libraries Report reveals 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, marking the second-highest total on record

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Kaetrena @kaetrena.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Join me tomorrow morning to explore interruptions and invitiations to rest for library workers. I'm so honored to be collaborating with the Radical Empathy and Leadership (REAL) LAB, who is hosting this necessary conversation! Register today: tinyurl.com/3c83d5pb

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Kimberly Hirsh @kimberlyhirsh.com · 07/04/2026

The sitting president of the United States has zeroed out the budget for the Institute of Museum and Library Services in his next budget, which would effectively eliminate the institute. EveryLibrary has a petition you can sign to let your legislators know you don’t want them to pass that budget.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/04/2026

If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes

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Data Visualization with Textiles

This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles.

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Maggie Melo @maggie-melo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Honored and grateful to say the least!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/02/2026

“I don’t know of any faculty member at UNC that has any faith that the provost, human resources officer, or especially the university lawyers have the faculty interests anywhere in mind when they’re making these decisions.” —Michael Palm, @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social President

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UNC-Chapel Hill Sets New Policy on Recording Professors

UNC-Chapel Hill aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy involving Larry Chavis and growing fear of surveillance.

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Maggie Melo @maggie-melo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2026 to join a new research program that I am leading as PI. This 3-year project, funded through the NSF’s ER2 program, explores how first-generation STEM students use generative AI tools for academic help-seeking. Interested? Let's chat!

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 30/06/2025

There is zero excuse for any conference not to be fully hybrid anymore. I get that there are advantages to being ‘in the room’ but there are SO MANY reasons people may not be willing or able to travel that we are just punishing folks who can’t.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14." Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library. It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good. savewiulibrarians.org/message.php

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savewiulibrarians.org -- Message -- Spring 2025

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 21/04/2025

🚨 NEW: Crowdsourced database of #NSF grant terminations. 🚨 We've been able to collect info on >110 cancelled grants that were cancelled on Friday. Thanks to all the researchers who reported over the holiday weekend. 🧪 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

airtable.com

Airtable | Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I've now seen multiple examples of the termination email from NSF and all have used the exact same language as this:

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If you have (or had) and IMLS, NEH, or NSF grant you need to talk to your campus leadership now about what happens when you get doxxed.

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NPR @npr.org · 31/03/2025

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Invisible Histories is looking for volunteers who can assist with documenting and preserving information from DEIA offices that have been closed or are facing closure. Read more and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Closed DEIA Offices Volunteer Project

READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT THE FORM We are in the process of trying to save what remains of closed and closing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility offices throughout the US. We ha...

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Maggie Melo @maggie-melo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’m excited to deliver a keynote at the Library Makerspaces Research Showcase on 2/28! My talk, “What First-Time Users Can Teach Us About Makerspace Design and Experience,” will explore how space design and first impressions shape engagement. Join! More info here: go.illinois.edu/LMRS

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Library Makerspaces Research Showcase Registration

Friday, 2/28/2025, 10am - 4pm CST, Zoom Join us for the Library Makerspaces Research Showcase, a free one-day online event highlighting the breadth of research and scholarship on library makerspaces. ...

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Maggie Melo @maggie-melo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

1. Casey is awesome to work with! 2. I'm on the search committee -- feel free to DM with questions. 😊

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 31/01/2025

From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

ICE On Your Campus
Questions to Ask Your Administration
1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities?
2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents?
3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant?
4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant.
5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance?
6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE?
What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now
1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact.
2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night.
3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan
4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney.
Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus
Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators:
1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so.
2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …

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Peter Wardrip @peterwardrip.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Call for Proposals is Still Open! Join educators, designers, researchers, and funders exploring the intersection of play, making, and learning. Share your creative work! #makered #tinkering #makerspace Deadline: March 7, 2025 Submit proposal: go.wisc.edu/PMLsubmit

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Maddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

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Maggie Melo @maggie-melo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Attention undergrads! Applications are open for UNC’s MEDAL REU: 8-week summer program for independent, mentor-guided research on well-being across the lifespan. Apply by 3/10! More info: medal.unc.edu Delighted to be invited by the PI Dr. @shaunacooper.bsky.social to join as a faculty mentor!

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REU: Multidisciplinary and Engaged Approaches to the Study of Development and Adaptation across the Lifespan (MEDAL)

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Anne Cong-Huyen @anitaconchita.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Learn more and participate in data rescue and preservation efforts with the change in administration: blog.ucsusa.org/dminovi/thre...

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Interested in learning more about Digital Humanities and how it fits into librarianship? @pollock.bsky.social is teaching the LibraryJuice course on this very topic. (Would be great for early-career librarians and grad students) libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/...

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Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians - Library Juice Academy

Digital humanities (DH) has been firmly established as a field with many subfields from Black DH to digital history and digital literary studies. One of the hallmarks of digital humanities is its tran...

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I created a partial bibliography on Saturation in Qualitative Research: drive.google.com/file/d/1PUPm... #RPVQual #RPVMethods

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SATURATION IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH - Partial Bibliography.pdf

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Tim R @elibtronic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

So the churn goes pretty fast here on Blu? I haven't seen it anywhere here so I'll post: New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship. cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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CJAL Special Issue: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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farhia osman @farhia.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

hello! i am recruiting for my dissertation survey. if you've ever played tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) like d&d, i would appreciate if you participated! #ttrpg #academicsky #phdsky

Research recruitment flyer. The flyer is pale yellow with transparent colorful graphics in the background related to gaming (e.g., dice, knight) and text and a QR code in the foreground. The text reads "Have you ever played tabletop roleplaying games like D&D? Participate in a research study! Scan QR code or use link to visit online survey. You must be 18 years or older to participate" The link included is: https://bit.ly/TTRPGsurvey

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Posting again to those that missed it during the starter pack bubble of November 2024

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Kelly McNeil | EduGamerGal @edugamergal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Calling all #makerspace educators, #art educators, #design teachers and any interested in #creativity in education! Please join us tonight to chat about how we might (or how you are currently!) use AI in creative ways with our students. #EduSky #EduSkyAI

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Dr. Heather Moorefield Lang @actinginthelib.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I had the privilege of presenting Digital Storytelling tools @vaasl this month. Here is the presentation from that conference. docs.google.com/presentation...

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Digital Storytelling Resources.pptx

Digital Storytelling Tools

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!

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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I made the beginnings of a CritLIS starter pack to combine critical practitioners + LIS faculty in one space as we are often siloed go.bsky.app/EucLD6

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Maggie Melo @maggie-melo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

AI is changing what’s possible in makerspaces (curriculum, prototyping, learning, etc.) but the ethical concerns and boosterism are alarming. Is AI impacting your makerspace? How are you reconciling user desire to use/learn GenAI with all the ethical considerations?

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spoopy librarinista @librarinista.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Question for academic librarians part 1: what is the #1 issue you are facing right now when teaching/assisting students with research?

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#Creativity Starter Packs: Human-AI Collaboration: go.bsky.app/MRV1Wa1 As we may think: go.bsky.app/jSgrE5 Makerspace Collective: go.bsky.app/AxW7R1x HCI + Design Research: go.bsky.app/p3TLwt

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