nimisha bhat

the next time anyone says anything about AI to me ever again, I will point to this

our university, which hasn't created any guidance around AI except for admin pushing it & faculty threatening expulsion for using it, wasted no time in prohibiting anthropic on campus after the government fallout. fascinating how fast academia responds to the government but not its own students

A cartoon from The Onion of a man pressing his face up against a window saying "Yes...ha ha ha...YES!" while wearing a black shirt that says SICKOS on it.

landsman haters in ohio right now

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

we're working on rewriting ours and I used this document as inspiration - after requesting feedback we received a comment that said the word diverse should be "eliminated entirely," because we should "focus on amplifying materials that support the university's academic programs instead"......

I ran a high stakes betting ring at my babysitter’s where we’d place bets on which legends of the hidden temple team would win using fruit snacks

fighting shit like “trans people must turn in their documents at midnight and if people catch you using the restrooms, they can sue you for $1000” is actually pretty popular! (but doesn’t mean much if you don’t back up “we will protect trans rights” when you end up near the levers of power.)

A maroon and blue poster depicting a tree on a lawn in front of a clasical building. Title: "An Invitation to Interconnectedness: Indigenous Approaches to Information, Knowledge, Justice, and Belonging," March 9-10, 2026 @ Bard College

"Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies and Bard Charles P. Stevenson Library will present two full days of programming that will examine and discuss Indigenous taxonomies in libraries, archives and museums" - March 9-10

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

cities will take away every free space and service from young people and then complain and police them when they have nowhere else to go

me (posting on the neopets role playing forum): it’s actually funny how this has become such an unserious space for neopians. it’s losing neopoints, will never be relevant, and is seen as a joke among the neopets battledome forum

always stop to let the gentle road bison merge

additional agenda item request: are you aware of tyra's "hot ice cream" business

good soup is like the moon, only meant to be experienced in real life and refuses to be photographed well

July 16, 1960: Greenville Eight Stage Read-In at Local Library In an act of civil disobedience against the whites-only Greenville County Public Library, eight young Black people entered the library, began reading, and were subsequently arrested. They became known...

That's 18 yo college freshman Jesse Jackson on the left & the seven hs students he organized for a silent sit-in at a segregated library.

"Although Greenville was not the first library system to integrate in SC, it was the first to do so as a result of public demonstrations by the Black community."

A new IMLS press release! "The Institute of Museum and Library Services Awards $4.1 Million to Support the Trump AI Action Plan!" — including a project at the University of OK that "integrate[s] Generative AI into children’s maker-based learning experiences in public libraries." Start 'em young!

tweet by Catherine na Nollag (@cafernblue): "i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said 'people change their minds when you show them facts' and I said 'actually studies show that's not true' and linked TWO sources and he said 'yeah well I still think it works'"

unfortunately evergreen

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the agency’s new grant guidelines could fund projects that encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.

“...he was having similar discussions with Joscha Bach, an AI researcher. In one exchange, Bach told Epstein that Black children in the United States “have slower cognitive development” and “are slower at learning high-level concepts.””

Why are people shocked everyone we don’t embrace this field?

do you think it's unreasonable to flat out reject a technology that's destroying the environment, has led to several people taking their own lives, and is being used as a tool for fascists?

100% convinced HR was invented to purposefully muddle every administrative function in order to quell any worker attempts to do anything but work

The update here left me weepy with how full of love it is. If you can help with end of life expenses, here's where and how.

This is why expanded IMLS funding isn't really a good thing under the current regime--funding is the tool through which they will seek to push and control a narrative that will unmake and disassemble our libraries under the fascist image of trump's big government plan that we likely will never undo.

Making the Academic Librarian Interview Less Painful - ACRLog To be unexpectedly unemployed in the U.S. is to be in a state of desperation. If you haven’t been out of work lately, it’s a particularly challenging time. The labor market is cooling, and people are ...

I wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚

SB1 in Ohio does all of this and prohibits faculty from going on strike. It's a laundry list of ways to push faculty out the door. It was passed with zero voter input.

www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/...

absolutely heartbreaking. a brilliant and kind individual who made our profession better.

I love trains but when they’re choo chooing so loudly before 5am it’s like, ok we get it

One Black man and six Black women stand on the stone steps of a library. He is wearing a three piece suit and has short wavy grey hair and a mustache. The woman all have long dark hair pinned up and are wearing white long sleeved blouses and long dark skirts.

Thomas Fountain Blue was the first Black person to head a public library, in 1905. The Western Colored Branch was the first Carnegie "colored library" in KY; the first public library in the US to serve Black patrons with an exclusively Black staff. #BlackHistoryMonth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years