Zack🖖🏻

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Professor of Information Science, in the NC's Triad. Interested in: Libraries, SCI FI, UX, IA, Technology, Technology Education.
Now it looks like NSF funding is frozen, which kinda sucks, I was going to put in a grant this year for our undergrad program.
Trump Is Playing Chicken With Higher Ed

Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.

The Atlantic

Again, student journalism for the win:

“The Dean’s Panel Procedures Were an Integral Part of Self-Governance. Last Spring, Bryn Mawr College Administration Broke Them 8 Times”

https://bicollegenews.com/2024/09/26/the-deans-panel-procedures-were-an-integral-part-of-self-governance-last-spring-bryn-mawr-college-administration-broke-them-8-times/

The Dean’s Panel Procedures Were an Integral Part of Self-Governance. Last Spring, Bryn Mawr College Administration Broke Them 8 Times.

It’s been four months since the pro-Palestinian encampment at Bryn Mawr College —referred to by participants as “The People’s College for the Liberation of Palestine”— ended, following a nearly thr…

The Bi-College News
Journalism is extremely important to hold institutions and leaders accountable. This is especially true in smaller organizations, like schools. Universities without students newspapers suffer for this loss of oversight and accountability.
Thank you, former coworker. This is a fascinating puzzle you added to our code base.
Tonight, I am grading play biographies. This class has so far written very closely to how they behave in class.
I'm not sure what was more depressing content I consumed today; a Information Needs Report focused on communities in the United States from 2010, or You Lie in April.
One of my recent favorites.

title text: Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

(https://xkcd.com/2962)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2962)

President Venn Diagram

xkcd
This Thursday, 6/13, I will be at San Francisco's historic Mechanics Institute talking about my new book "Stories Are Weapons" with Alexis Madrigal! Come out, say hi, and find out more about the United States' unique approach to culture war -- and maybe how we can end it. https://www.milibrary.org/events/stories-are-weapons-jun-13-2024
Stories are Weapons

Join bestselling author Annalee Newitz in conversation with journalist Alexis Madrigal on Newitz’s new book, Stories are Weapons.

Mechanics' Institute