Lynne Stahl

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...

"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

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

NOBODY WANTS THIS (account deleted)

All I know of hate is that it will never beat the love out of me.

Andrea Gibson has died.

Might be worth looking specifically at work on iconic instances—Revenge of the Nerds, High Fidelity, How I Met Your Mother, Ted Lasso, Fboy Island, etc.. From a theoretical angle, Kate Manne on himpathy and Michael Kimmel on aggrieved masculinity could be useful as well.

Hm. I can’t think of anything holistic, but there’s a good chapter on Tom Hanks and “American Nice” in this volume: cup.columbia.edu/book/masculi.... And a piece in The Conversation: theconversation.com/from-flowers...

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

I can't think of anything more poetically just than misremembering Harold Bloom's name.

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

Me every time Spelling Bee refuses to accept "cathect" as a word

Please do! I think you have my gmail but let me know if not.

You certainly do! My curiosity is piqued.

Ok the Unrivaled 1v1 Tournament may be the most fun I've ever had watching sports on TV

*Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth* (1833) A sprawling eighty-page poem about teeth, written by an eminent dentist, with fifty pages of erudite endnotes.

Let us not forget this very long, very strange 1833 poem by a dentists: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

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"

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)

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.

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...

FWIW, after one stereotypically bad experience, I looked for a dealership that employed multiple women as sales reps and contacted one of them. Not sure I necessarily got a better deal than I would have otherwise, but she was a lovely human and the process just felt so much less icky.

#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...

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

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.

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/...

Thank you!!

Frankie is my all-time fave, but the pup is Mick...the rescue had named her Miracle, so it conveniently paid homage to that as well :)

Yes—very well put!

Yes, I remember that one as well!

Nope—the whole thing about Dream sending Nada to Hell for refusing to be his queen.

Woof. Haven't read anything by him since American Gods, I think, and really don't feel the need to now.

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 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Thanks, Kelly!

Thanks so much, Elizabeth!

Oooh apparently hashtags are now functional on this platform #AcademicLibraries #Libraries journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/jo...