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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

During and after my own miscarriage, I was astounded at how frequently I felt "repeatedly failed simply as a human being". How many of us must have felt the same? How can we treat people like this?

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 04/08/2026

Some recent reviews of the RECAP extension are incredibly kind — thank you! If you haven't tried RECAP and you know what PACER is, give it a shot. It takes 1 minute to install, literally, and then you'll save money while helping others. free.law/recap/

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Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 04/08/2026

I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been busy building. What have I been building, you ask? I have been building Nomolith. Long thread follows! 🧵

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This was fun to put together, and it's a great entry point if you've ever found yourself thinking "what is this vibe coding thing anyway? why should I care?". There's a video, and you can follow along and create something as you watch. (And if you do make something, I'd love to hear about it!)

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Alright #aall2026 I’m on stuffie hunt but I don’t have much time in exhibit hall to do a thorough sweep. Who has the best ones? @lawliberg.bsky.social @sweetlibrarian.bsky.social either of you here and see anything?

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You ever make just like the best version ever of one of your regular meals, and feel like a total wizard? (I learned how to cool my pasta for pasta salad with baking sheets and ice, and I added some mayo to emulsify the dressing along with a touch of vinegar that had been missing. WIZARDRY)

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Paul Alan Levy @paulalanlevy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you use PACER, your social responsibility is to include the RECAP extension on your browser to that every court document you pay to examine gets uploaded to CourtListener for free access by others. free.law/recap/

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RECAP Suite — Turning PACER Around Since 2009

RECAP is an online archive and free extension for Firefox, Chrome and Safari that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankrupt...

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

In contrast, 18F built the US Tax Court a case management system for about $1.5m/year bsky.app/profile/rand...

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We now have a Chrome extension for The Missing Link! (Thanks very much to the amazing attorney who submitted a PR for the Chrome version). One click takes you to the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/The%2...

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The Missing Link - Chrome Web Store

Find the case the article didn't link. Claude identifies the case on the page and opens the matching CourtListener record.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)

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The Missing Link – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download The Missing Link for Firefox. Find the case the article didn't link. Claude identifies the U.S. court case discussed on the page and links you straight to it on CourtListener. Bring your own ...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 10/05/2026

🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 07/05/2026

We're announcing two changes CourtListener API access: 1. Full API access is now open to everyone, including the PACER APIs that previously required a conversation with us. 2. Higher tiers are available through FLP memberships (including edu!) or commercial agreements. 👇 free.law/2026/05/07/a...

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Full CourtListener Data Access via API Now Included with Membership

Researchers, journalists, developers, and vibe coders can now access the full CourtListener API, including PACER data, with a membership. No contact form. No waiting for approval.

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 04/05/2026

We get about a million queries per day. Each of these just got more powerful and accurate. Your support makes our work possible. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to support this kind of work. free.law/donate/

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 04/05/2026

This will be a huge new feature those that don't know legalese or that are representing themselves. Finally, you can search for regular words like "eviction" instead of lawyer words like "unlawful detainer."

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 04/05/2026

Semantic search is now live on CourtListener! Search case law using the words you know — No need to know legalese to do legal research. This surfaces the results you need even when they use different terminology than your query. free.law/2026/05/04/s...

A screenshot of our homepage. It shows a big search bar. On the left is a toggle where you can flip between & or ?. There's a tooltip that reads: "Try Semantic Search." Click the to toggle between & keyword and ? semantic search. Learn more."

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 21/04/2026

Our vision is coming true. Step 1: Make the data. Step 2: A thousand startups bloom. Step 3: Fairer access to the law. This article validates the work we and others have been doing for decades. This is why the legal space is blowing up. (It’s the data.) www.law.com/legaltechnew...

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The Legal Research Renaissance: What’s Behind the Explosion of New Startups? | Law.com

New legal startups are launching at a fortuitous time, and owe their growth to more than just technology advances.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I just typed "ACK" in some notes to myself, so I guess it's official, I am middle-aged. (And if you get that reference, you just might be middle-aged too).

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you regularly post about court opinions or orders, PLEASE include a link to the doc. (Anyone who already follows me is not the audience for this, but just felt like screaming into the void)

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

One of the things I love about parenting at this age (my son is 8) is that he is really cool and has great taste, so I learn about neat things through him. Loved this animation, to a 1939 song. share.google/LqflNFDDqa6g...

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Run, Rabbit, Run

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Love to see one of my all-time faves getting the recognition she deserves! And love to hear about the great work she's doing at ALA!

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Mike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com · 18/04/2026

Do I know anybody here that has experience scaling the sales/partnership side of a SAAS org? We've gotten nearly 1,000 new API users in Q1 and we're losing our minds. I'm sure there's a playbook here. Anybody been down this path or know somebody that has?

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is a big, big deal. It honestly blows me away that FLP is capable of doing this now.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Sometimes I hate being a librarian, because I can go from "oh the poor magnolias, they seem like they've been zapped by frost every year lately :( " to "oh no, this is BAD bad" relatively quickly.

Correspondence
Published: 01 July 2021

Rising risks of late-spring frosts in a changing climate

Jay Ram Lamichhane

Nature Climate Change volume 11, pages 554–555 (2021)Cite this article

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To the Editor — Late-spring frosts (LSFs) — frost events occurring after germination and budburst of herbaceous and woody plants, respectively — have an important ecological and economic impact on agriculture and forestry in temperate and boreal regions of the world. The damage induced by LSFs to vulnerable plant organs markedly affects growth, health, competitive ability and distribution limits of plants, and, in North America and Europe, causes more economic losses to agriculture than any other climate-related hazards1,2. While attribution of a single LSF episode to climate change is difficult, both the frequency and the severity of damage due to LSF may be amplified by the climate crisis. Furthermore, attempts to mitigate LSF damage and climate change impacts at both shorter and longer timescales may only exasperate the issues.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

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Anne Ralph @anneralph.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

1000% agree. Question: What are some other basic Word skills that should be in every lawyer’s toolbox? Asking as a prof teaching great future lawyers. #AppellateSly #LawSky

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Wonder if I could vibe code up a browser extension that lets me hover over the name of someone in a news article, to see how the article previously defined their title and organization. I spend so much time scrolling up looking for the first mention of the person.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Alberto Rodríguez, 73, limped with a cane down a deserted industrial street. A stroke
had left him perpetually foggy, unable to recall many details about his life beyond the fact that he had been born in Cuba and had
spent nearly 50 years in the United States.
"Where am I?" he called out.
"Villahermosa," someone answered.
Like most of the others, Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city of a million people surrounded by dense jungle. The deportees…

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It’s just as stupid as we thought.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Oh wow this is happening already.

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Jennifer Chapman @jelizachapman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Part 2 of Jamie Aschenbach's guest post on the @aallnet.bsky.social RIPS Law Librarian Blog examines tools for teaching information literacy. Part 1 (link in comments) asked "what is information literacy?" ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/t...

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Guest Post: Tools for Teaching Information Literacy

This is Part 2 of a two-part series from guest contributor Jamie Aschenbach, a member of the RIPS Research Instruction Committee. Part 1 focused on information literacy. By Jamie Aschenbach This …

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I’m a day late but this was a little on the nose #nytxw

Hypothetical (one hopes!) global conflict,›
for short

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Of course the first thing I did was look for more of the photos.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during the March 2 briefing (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images). He is scrunching up his face and making a "gimme a break" gesture with his arms and hands.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Is Copilot in Microsoft 365 actually good now? I feel like I'm finally able to answer the kinds questions I've always wanted to. (e.g., "Do I have any emails I forgot to respond to?" "Do I have any upcoming events referenced in email that are not on my calendar?")

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Weekend project: understanding Power Automate better so that I can make some cool things that work within my University's Microsoft environment. Anyone have good tutorials or things you've made?

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Mike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com · 27/02/2026

I’ve been making a similar argument for a while. Want to stop AI hallucinations? Start with open data.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

If a brief cites a case but no one can retrieve it, is it a hallucination? When the cite is '2022 WL 4637582' and you lack a subscription, there's no way to know. New LIT-SIS blog piece argues WL & LX should open up citation verification for the good of us all. litsis.classcaster.net/2026/02/26/t...

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Two Solutions for Hallucinated Citations to Unpublished Cases – AALL Legal Innovation & Technology SIS

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The real danger of agentic AI is it has me thinking "a *system* will fix me! that's what I need!" and looking for a comprehensive multi-agent claude plan for organization/task management. (at 2:30 am. I've since recovered)

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Incredibly cool use of Free Law Project data

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Did anyone else study planarians in high school? Anyone else name yours Gavin Rossdale, and then when you cut it up into three pieces (who all lived on as new worms), their names were Gavin, Ross & Dale?

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