Franny Gaede
She / Her. Eugene, OR. Librarian @ University of Oregon. Opinions my own. Humanist & technologist, open advocate, cross-stitcher, cat-person, cardigan enthusiast, eater of cheese, unapologetic punster.
also @librarifran@hcommons.social
- Reposted by Franny GaedeNEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeIt makes me furious that there is no way to force them to listen. AI crawlers have forced a future in which much of the information about the present is gated & the near past will disappear. All they need do is respect the rights and requests of people and orgs who produce news. They won't do that.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeAI will not just rob the past and the present, without some way to limit access and be sure these systems will listen to instructions our first draft of history will disappear from the internet as archive-blocking media link-rots & sometimes dies totally. All that important context will be lost.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeThis sucks, and it gets even worse. I've noticed at least one site has employed a paywall process that even prevents paying subscribers from employing IA-style WARC creation from saving the site, with a script that reapplies the paywall in the WARC context. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
- Reposted by Franny GaedeThis is where I once again feel sad for having lost Old Twitter and all my South Asian friends on there. I was sure there was a project mapping all the medieval and Mughal sarais (caravanserais) across India — anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Narrascope 2026 open call: The Experience Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds through Narrative Seeking projects in the realms of augmented/mixed reality, interactive installations, haunts, escape rooms, live performances that leverage tech, and more. narrascope.org/experience/ - WHYYYYYYYY Where’s Open Access Hulk on BlueSky?? I need to rage with a friend, please.
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- Reposted by Franny GaedeHere it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes
- Reposted by Franny GaedeAnd you can listen here: bsky.app/profile/jenn...
- Reposted by Franny Gaedepersonally believe children (and adults!) should be allowed to reject sex
- Reposted by Franny GaedeSo the National Guard doesn’t get the little $1776 bonus, just Regular forces Not a great look, since that part of the military is currently bearing the brunt of the administration’s domestic deployments and has 3 dead in the last 3 weeks (DC and Syria)
- Reposted by Franny GaedeGift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeI understand anthropic sees this as a win but I laughed at “ It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared”
- Reposted by Franny GaedePSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
- Reposted by Franny GaedeWhat a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
- Reposted by Franny GaedeBecome ungovernable
- Reposted by Franny GaedeThe University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public is looking to bring on new postdoctoral scholars to join our research community starting in 2026-2027. Come collaborate w/ our amazing, interdisciplinary team working to understand & help people navigate our complex information ecosystem!
- We're currently accepting applications to hire up to two @cip.uw.edu postdoctoral scholars to join our team in Seattle. The priority deadline to apply is January 15, 2026. For the position description, salary range, qualifications and application process, click here: apply.interfolio.com/177901
- Reposted by Franny GaedeYou’re still trying to find the millennial Tom Hanks. I told you we can’t do it, and we can’t do it. Now, what we might be able to do it is recreate him. Recreate him but make him British.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeUC Santa Cruz has quietly but abruptly terminated Dr. Rebecca Hernandez, the University’s first Community Archivist and shuttered its Community Archiving Program. Sign the petition demanding that UCSC continue to fully fund the Program and Dr. Hernandez’s position. actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
- Reposted by Franny GaedeSo much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
- Reposted by Franny GaedeHere it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
- Our union continues to fight the layoffs announced at the libraries in September 2025. Please sign our petition on Action Network and help us gather public support to protect our colleagues and oppose these harmful position eliminations. ✊🏻 actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
- Reposted by Franny Gaedei love sunny autumn days 🍂☀️
- Reposted by Franny GaedeSo I used to like to joke I taught from Plato to NATO But really I taught from, say, Gilgamesh to Luther. But they don't rhyme. I want them to rhyme.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeYesterday, we filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s illegal federalization of the National Guard. This morning, we filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to block the federalization from going into effect. We’ll keep sharing updates as things progress.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeIn any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
- Reposted by Franny Gaedethe post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeOn my GenEd climate change exams, I include an open-ended question allowing students to tell me something they learned but didn't appear elsewhere on the exam. It's worth 5x any other question. Nearly every student expounds on how cool they thought some concept was. #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Franny GaedeOne of my Gen Z nephews texts me videos, and I text him articles back. It's like we speak different languages.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeI keep losing the ‘Go 4 Minutes Without Being Totally Enraged By A Headline Challenge’
- Reposted by Franny GaedeLike a podcast? Share their episodes. Enjoyed a book? Pass it along to a friend. Love a YouTuber? Drop a link in group chat. Admire an author? Let them know with a message. Creating can be isolating, but sharing helps these works grow and stay alive well past when they’re knocked from the nest.
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- Reposted by Franny GaedeAs a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeA few folks have DM’d me abt the Frederick Douglass passage I excerpted at the rally. Here it is: “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; 1/
- Reposted by Franny Gaede"This should be obvious, but let’s be clear: Neither the White House nor the U.S. Department of Justice has the authority to hire or fire university presidents. But if you claim a power and everyone acts like you really have power, you totally have that power."
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- Reposted by Franny GaedeA few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
- Reposted by Franny GaedeOur new Public AI Model Hub is here 🥳 Now everyone, including non-Transkribus users, can view all our public models in one place and filter by language, century, or keyword. Try it out: app.transkribus.org/models/public
- My WFH buddy Paco is a Very Good helper. I always think of his early Internet doppelgänger whenever he gives me side-eye!
- Proud of my city 💜 (and thrilled with our new local news outlet @lookout-es.bsky.social!) lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/latest... #NoKings
- Chicago, I was so excited to escape grass season in Eugene, but, uh, I appear to have found some more pollen 🤧
- We had to come up with a team name in our #OpenRepos2025 workshop today and in honor of my laptop sticker, meet The Open Potatoes.
- Traveling to #OpenRepos2025 today, so didn’t get to join my friends at the #NoKings protest in Eugene, but a good day to don my 🦋Bluesky best🦋 #MundusSineCaesaribus
- Reposted by Franny Gaedetime for my new favorite tumblr post
- Reposted by Franny GaedeI would love to see this kind of graph for the academic publishing sector
- Reposted by Franny GaedeCREEPY: Academia.edu has generated an AI podcast for my paper: Kingsley, D.A. and Kennan, M.A. (2015) “Open access: the whipping boy for problems in scholarly publication”, aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/i... It is *kinda* OK, but the asides are slightly off putting (an emphasise the wrong points)
- Reposted by Franny GaedeA Librarian’s Guide to AI in Academic Search Tools katinamagazine.org/content/arti... - I was asked to write this rather than bloat out a review article I was doing for Katina. I struggled a lot with this, trying to keep it concise, vs technically accurate while handicaped by my limited knowledge
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- Reposted by Franny GaedeSo let’s check in on computational analysis of literature. What’s happening there? 1) Good news, LLMs make it possible to pose 10x as many questions. 2) Bad news, we’re losing our ways to access post-1930 data and don’t know if they will be replaced, 3) and there’s no longer any NEH support. +
- Reposted by Franny GaedeAcademic study of the 20th Century and beyond is a canary in the AI wars coal mine. Whether through paywalls, license terms, lawsuits, or all three, copyright holders are taking action to ensure that a 21C digital library of texts freely available for scholarly analysis never exists.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeRecently published! A new @proghist.bsky.social lesson by @dratom.bsky.social: doi.org/10.46430/phe... Thanks to @fmvaldez.bsky.social and Rob Nelson for their reviews, and to @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social for editing.
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- Anyone know what’s up with @artinstitutechi.bsky.social digital collections? Most items returning error pages.
- Reposted by Franny GaedeAs a public employee at CUNY, I can't accept a fruit basket without risking my job due to an ethics violation.
- Reposted by Franny Gaedetravelling to the US soon? link: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
- Reposted by Franny GaedeSome sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
