The Fall 2025 issue of RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage features articles on women in science archives, rare books in STEMM classrooms, children's marginalia, and more. It's now freely available on the journal website! https://t.co/DgQ3qeloDl
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber https://t.co/6cQQpcJVTd
🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From @KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about preserving digital history, and why @internetarchive's mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
https://t.co/AUIyEERuta
American Library Association (ALA) Statement on White House Assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services https://t.co/x1jYHafIBh #libraries#museums#IMLS
Last week, SAA released a statement expressing alarm at the dismissal of the Archivist of the United States. We believe the removal of AOTUS with no stated cause does harm to our nation and its people. Read SAA's full statement: https://t.co/xed7r99ZUm
“and I cried. for myself. for this woman talkin’ about love. for all the women who have ever stretched their bodies out anticipating civilization and finding ruins.”
— sonia sanchez, “just don’t never give up on love” https://t.co/oQoxJA6tVx
“The determinism of today’s devoted sect of scientists, philosophers, and popular science writers—however incongruous it might seem—grew out of a creed whose adherents believed in a supernatural God with a monopoly on causal power.” —Jessica Riskin https://t.co/h9gZ7fDYR2
CfR: Early Ethnographers in the Long 19th Century – supported by the History of Anthropology Review (HAR), the History of Anthropology Network (HOAN), and BEROSE International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2024
Info: https://t.co/ZLSAvztmXR
Join the Exploring the Ethnographic Archive online conference, Dec 5-6, 2025. Delve into early ethnographic accounts from the 19th century, exploring European and extra-European intellectual traditions.
Details & Zoom link: https://t.co/iwVzm6WVKa
Part of why I’m drawn to the second wave is that it’s so much more ambitious and utopian than much of what’s been produced over the past 30 years. Backlash has put feminists in a defensive crouch, and this need to preserve basic rights and principles has limited our imaginations.
Mass Deportation Won’t Solve U.S. Immigration Policy. Here Are Three Things That Will. - Ms. Magazine—by awesome anthropologist, Emily Yates- Doerr https://t.co/TTW0MOP9qp
CfR: Early Ethnographers in the Long 19th Century – supported by the History of Anthropology Review (HAR), the History of Anthropology Network (HOAN), and BEROSE International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2024
Info: https://t.co/ZLSAvztmXR
"Communication is the interactive computation of a reality" - Klaus Krippendorff
Poster from the American Society of Cybernetics (ASC). With thanks to @sd_marlow#communication#AI#HMC
Eric Schatzberg "Why Should Historians Pay More Attention to Philosophy of Technology?"
Technology and Culture
Vol 65, N. 3, July 2024
https://t.co/wdC8MUohtK