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Lynne Stahl

@stynnelahl.bsky.social
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Humanities librarian, doctor of queer film stuff, aspiring spinster, cranky, Kansan in New England; worried I left the stove on. Proud parent to growing horde of houseplants. scholar.google.com/citations?user=W…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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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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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Have finally written—alongside the inimitable Jill Livingston—on a topic about which I have long been cranky: candidate dinners. crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
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It’s Time to Bag Candidate Dinners: Why Even “Informal” Meals Can Compromise the Search Process | Livingston | College & Research Libraries News
It’s Time to Bag Candidate Dinners: Why Even “Informal” Meals Can Compromise the Search Process
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We (Wesleyan University) are hiring a Social Sciences Librarian, with an emphasis on economics, philosophy, religion, the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, and the Center for Prison Education. More info here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career... #LibJobs #LISJobs
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Social Sciences Librarian
The Olin Library is an active partner in Wesleyan University’s liberal arts mission, an inclusive, idea-driven space where curiosity, scholarship, and creativity converge. Serving a community of facul...
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
NOBODY WANTS THIS (account deleted)
screen shot of academia dot edu profile stating "Our AI generated a professional podcast of your paper!" With link to AI-generated podcast
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/07/2025
Andrea Gibson has died.
All I know of hate
is that it will never
beat the love out of me.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 26/05/2025
Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Me every time Spelling Bee refuses to accept "cathect" as a word
image of intense-looking toddler in tuxedo with caption that reads "I demand to speak to my lawyer" but "lawyer" is crossed out and "therapist" is written beneath it
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Ok the Unrivaled 1v1 Tournament may be the most fun I've ever had watching sports on TV
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Gosh thanks, Elsevier, for charging libraries gobs of money for what seems extremely likely to be AI-generated junk (h/t to a colleague for finding this)
screen shot of Elsevier book chapter "The futuristic trends for modern electric vehicles"Text from article that reads "However, I don't have access to real-time data"
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
David Lynch. None of his work ever really spoke to me except for Mulholland Drive, but Mulholland Drive is probably the film of all films in the world that has most shaped how I think and perceive and imagine. What a loss. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#LibJobs Wesleyan University Library is hiring a Digital Asset Coordinator to execute, supervise, and manage vendor-provided projects involving photography and complex scanning of rare and unique materials plus materials for pedagogical use. Details: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Digital Asset Coordinator
The Digital Asset Coordinator oversees preservation-level digitization operations in the Wesleyan University Library. Reporting to the Head of Digital Initiatives, and working closely with the Visual ...
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Just bought a June Jordan anthology from a lesbian bookstore in Western Mass and it feels as if I have unlocked a whole new level of Dykedom
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differences @differences.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Cover of "Unaccountably Queer" a special issue of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, volume 35, number 3. Yellow background with black text. A pale yellow bar with the journal's title in black crosses over the top quarter.
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Whatever does or doesn't come of the Neil Gaiman allegations, the fact remains that many many people (myself included, to an extent) have spent years extolling The Sandman, whose much-beloved protagonist condemned a woman to eternal torture for *checks notes* rejecting his advances 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Oooh apparently hashtags are now functional on this platform #AcademicLibraries #Libraries journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/jo...
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Uncontrollable Vocabularies: : Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog | Journal of Radical Librarianship
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Excited and honored to have my article “Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog” out now in the Journal of Radical Librarianship! journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/jo...
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Honored to make a 2nd appearance on @debraraecohen.bsky.social’s In These Times blog on the Modernism/modernity print plus site. I wrote about feminism, modernism, and the uses and abuses of amateurism, incl by “GC” feminism. Ft art by @allgrim.bsky.social! 💜 modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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The Rambling @therambling.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
"Library workers have been conditioned by professional precarity and gendered expectations to be, above all else, reactive to need." #c18th #skybrarians @stynnelahl.bsky.social
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Librarian, Read Thyself - The Rambling
Metadata Snippet: Drawing on Fobazi Ettarh’s notion of vocational awe, this essay by Lynne Stahl examines the ideological roots of libraries in Enlightenment ideals alongside the increasingly catch-...
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Prepping for a research consultation with a student whose project is on maritime fashion and queerness and heaven help me, all I can think of is this
image: George Michael and Lucille from Arrested Development in sailor attire for Motherboy XXX competition
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Ok, I'm charmed.
image: sign on garage door that reads "PRIVATE SIGN: DO NOT READ"
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Why is everything Aldi sells either a very basic pantry staple or absolutely chaotic nonsense in edible form?? In other news, I tried their pumpkin pie seltzer so you don't have to.
image of Belle Vie brand can of pumpkin pie seltzer
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
If we count *me* being painfully on-brand, def the time I met Alison Bechdel and said of Are You My Mother "I'm not sure if this book has helped my relationship with my mom, but it has helped my relationship TO my relationship with my mom" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
1000% sincere when I say that a student approaching me for research assistance with their capstone on poop in art and literature has brightened my week a thousandfold and also becoming an academic librarian is the best choice I ever made📚💩
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
We (Wesleyan U) are hiring a Head of Special Collections! Have been here <1 year but can 100% confirm that Wes is a place where students, staff, and faculty are *deeply interested* in Special Collections. careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/10066
careers.wesleyan.edu
Head of Special Collections
Located in Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts colleges with 3,000 undergraduates and 200 graduates. Established in 1831, Wesleyan is known for i...
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
This is *not* my MLA session; this is a session taking place the same time slot as mine. See you all in Philly, if probably (and understandably!) not between 1:45-3:00 on Saturday🥰
screenshot of MLA conference panel "After Drucilla Cornell" featuring Ian Balfour, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, and Adam Thurschwell
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
"The very idea of the common good has been lost in the discussions about WVU’s catastrophic cuts; the significance of a public university has been forgotten...A public university is neither the buildings on a campus nor the endowment nor its figureheads. [It is]...quite simply its people." ❤️
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
While I appreciate the EV chargers popping up all around campus, it is v hard to imagine anybody seeing one of these and thinking anything other than "giant tampon dispenser"
image of blue EV charging stations with signs reading "flo" in cursive
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
We (Wesleyan U) are hiring a Research Data Librarian! This role serves as a contact point and advocate for scholarly communications issues, e.g. sustainable publishing practices and open data, and as a liaison to assigned STEM subject areas. careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/9952
careers.wesleyan.edu
Research Data Librarian
The Wesleyan University Library is an engaged partner in the academic and intellectual life of the campus. We work collaboratively to educate and promote the best use of information through inventive ...
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Lynne Stahl @stynnelahl.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Excellent reporting from the WVU student newspaper on the proposed cuts; absolutely preposterous claim from the university that said cuts will affect "less than 2%" of students www.thedaonline.com/news/wvucuts...
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Students, faculty walk out in response to proposed program cuts
A sea of red flooded the free speech zone outside the Mountainlair and the Student Recreation Center Monday as hundreds of students, faculty and members of the campus community gathered
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