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adriennemassanari.bsky.social
If you're not spending your Friday night looking for public domain images in the Library of Congress to include on your Canvas sites, I think you might be missing out. (Probably not using this one but JUST LOOK AT IT)! #cats #acasky www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
(Library of Congress image description: Photograph shows side view of a cat wearing a winged helmet and breastplate armor in the role of the valkyrie Brünnhilde from the opera Der Ring des Niebelungen.)
August 21, 2026 at 10:45 PM
chaosgreml.in
other “skys” I wanna see:

Cripsky
Fatsky
neurosky
anarchosky
libresky
Southsky
Acasky
Xxxsky
Robosky
Dogsky
Petsky

I could keep going
June 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
Another one bites the dust. Please share among your networks. This movement is growing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky
openlibhums.org Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Jun 3
BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH.
www.openlibhums.org/news/943/
New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from <em>Natural Language Semantics</em>
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
www.openlibhums.org
June 3, 2026 at 8:26 AM
wargojon.bsky.social
sitting here watching amazing student-led project post-mortems for EDUC 202 #learning #highereducation #AcaSky #design #LEAPS #GoBlue
a gazelle is standing next to a bowl of cereal and says `` go on '' .
ALT: a gazelle is standing next to a bowl of cereal and says `` go on '' .
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April 29, 2026 at 3:43 PM
ilr-rit.bsky.social
🧵 (8/8) 📚 Plus, book reviews on the ICESCR, worker-to-worker organizing by @ericblanc.bsky.social, and a Bob Hepple Award speech from Alain Supiot (@college-de-france.fr) on labour law and the "debt of life" at #LLRN7.

🔖 Browse the full #OpenAccess issue: bit.ly/4bnJ9ST

#AcaSky
International Labour Review | Issue: Issue: 1(165) (2026)
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March 27, 2026 at 12:09 PM
ilr-rit.bsky.social
Innovation in academic publishing! 🌅

At #ILOInnovationDay, we presented our new diamond #OA model via @openlibhums.org / @ojcollective.bsky.social & the growing movement toward community-led, non-commercial academic publishing that expands access to research beyond paywalls🚫🪙

🔗 ilo.org/ilr
#acasky
March 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
Creative meditations on Svalbard! What’s not to love about this? Another fantastic issue just dropped from the award-winning @openlibhums.org journal Regeneration @regenerationeac.bsky.social 🙌🏼 #OpenAccess #AcaSky
openlibhums.org Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Feb 19
New Issue alert!

@regenerationeac.bsky.social - Volume 2, Issue 1 and 2 is out now: On the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard, guest-edited by Hester Blum, Candace Jensen, and Jacinda Russell.

Explore the issue: www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1298/i...
Banner image of Regeneration journal issue: abandoned seaside structure at sunset.
February 24, 2026 at 9:20 AM
ilr-rit.bsky.social
Do robots make recessions worse for workers? 🤖📉

Our latest research revisits #OkunsLaw and finds that higher automation is linked to smaller rises in unemployment during downturns.

New evidence on automation & employment dynamics ⬇️

bit.ly/3Mqnu2H

#AcaSky
February 20, 2026 at 1:10 PM
hotsaucephd.bsky.social
That has been my team's conclusion, but it has been hard to confirm, esp with all the focus on expiration of ePTC and IRS resetting the caps. Figured #ACAsky to the rescue 😀
January 30, 2026 at 12:13 AM
adriennemassanari.bsky.social
Mood. Classes start next week. #academicsky #acasky
A painting of a possum rearing back in horror/disgust with the words *shocked hissing*
January 5, 2026 at 2:57 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
Ooooh look what's AVAILABLE TO PREORDER! Looking pretty lush and £21.99 is about as affordable as it gets for a new academic book these days! @universitypress.cambridge.org #AcaSky

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
adriennemassanari.bsky.social
Every faculty member is at least two of the animals on this chart. #academicsky #acasky
Choose your fighter meme with different drawings of animals pictured including a bird with an acorn like a bundle stick sitting on a branch with the words "too old for this shit but has got nowhere else to be" and a tiny hamster in a cape "thinks they're in charge. Isn't"
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
adriennemassanari.bsky.social
This "Just in Time for Christmas" Hallmark movie apparently features a NTT community college professor in her first year being offered an associate professor position at Yale because the Dean was "browsing dissertations and thought hers had bestseller potential." #acasky
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October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
nneka.bsky.social
part of why i find the idea that certain tech is inevitable (LMS, AI, etc) to be silly is we're not far removed from the before times. we have it in recent and living memory how we function without these things. i graduated from college in 2013. we had reading packets and printed our assignments
Screenshot of Blue Sky conversation with the middle username redacted Adrienne Massanari: I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage. Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky Redacted: I noticed you didn't offer an alternative LMS you would rather use. I hate Besos also but unless you have a specific solution you've vetted that can scale like canvas and is impervious to downtime this comment seems like whining. Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social: i wonder...how in the world did faculty teach or grade before the invention of the LMS? i suppose there was simply no teaching or grading before the internet
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
adriennemassanari.bsky.social
I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage.

Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
debraocchi.bsky.social
It’d probably be better for me to get back from the field more than a week before the paper is due 😅 #acasky
October 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
This is a really exciting journal (re)launch at @openlibhums.org working with @the87press.bsky.social ! This poetry journal is doing such important work to address the massive under-representation of writers of colour and entrenched inequalities in literary publishing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky #poetry
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Congrats to @starlinguistics.bsky.social on their inaugural issue published by @openlibhums.org ! Read it here: star-linguistics.org #OpenAccess #AcaSky
Syntactic Theory and Research
Ana Werkmann Horvat (University of Osijek), Matea Birtić (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics), Martina Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University)
star-linguistics.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
lawsonjaramillo.bsky.social
The nerdy tattle-tale in me grew up to be an academic who loves calling out designers who plagiarize and culturally appropriate. The latest is #Adidas x #WillyChavarría. Here’s what I wrote (including learning resources!): deed.parsons.edu/2025/08/07/c...

#culturalappropriation #acasky #huaraches
Screenshot of a blog post that reads Cultural Appropriation? Willy Chavarría x Adidas’ “Oaxaca Slip-On” Statement from the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca (provided by Cultural Documentalist Laura Quiroz) On Sunday, August 3, 2025, designer Willy Chavarría unveiled his latest collaboration with Adidas—the “Oaxaca Slip-On” (see images here). While the shoe is being celebrated as a “nod to Chicano culture” and a “revival of Mexican tradition,” the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of the State of Oaxaca claims that Chavarría and Adidas have neglected to credit the Yalalag Community, “whose traditional huaraches were used as the aesthetic basis for the footwear.” This accusation of cultural appropriation is now being widely reported, including on CNN.com (August 6, 2025).
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
This is great news! Hopefully the UK can follow suit by funding similar collaborations between diamond university-based publishers, such as those affiliated with @oipassoc.bsky.social #OpenAccess #AcaSky
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
theblochian.bsky.social
This meeting was so important. The N8 group of northern UK libraries are providing much-needed leadership to the whole sector. They’re standing up to a bullying, extractive commercial oligopoly that threatens the integrity of our research. I was honoured to be part of this day! #OpenAccess #AcaSky
July 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
bo-brinkman.com
AcaSky, I need your help: I loved Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media", but I'm a woefully under-read dilettante.

I'd like to tell other technologists about this stuff, and how it relates to developing LLMs.

Does anyone have syllabi or reading lists so I can better educate myself first?
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Deadline 30/06 - last chance to apply for this year’s @openlibhums.bsky.social small grants to support #openaccess publishing! #AcaSky
openlibhums.org Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Jun 14
Don’t miss your chance to apply for the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025! Funding of up to £500 is available to support events, projects, or activities related to #OpenAccess or with an #OA component.

⏰ Apply by 30/06!
🔗 Full details: www.openlibhums.org/...
The OLH Open Access Award 2025: call for applications
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2025, a fund dedicated …
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June 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
theblochian.bsky.social
Really encouraging to see today’s landmark statement from the N8 Research Partnership urging fundamental reform to academic publishing. The current system is completely unsustainable. I’ll be speaking at today’s N8 event about @ojcollective.bsky.social. www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-... #AcaSky
N8 Research Partnership calls for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models - N8 Research Partnership
The N8 Research Partnership – the collective body for the North of England’s eight research intensive universities – has released a landmark new statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarl...
www.n8research.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM