File-sharing: not just for kids
I’m still wrapping my head around this; it’s a report about a bunch of medical professionals setting up a file-sharing forum for articles from non-open access (NOA) journals. Techdirt reports that the...
View ArticleGoing to Midwinter? Flying? Bad news.
I admit, this post is only tangentially related to librarianship. But I’m writing it because of a message that came out over the AkLA listserv, mentioning that San Diego’s airport has those awful...
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Bird TLC
I am starting a new project, and I am super excited about it! So excited, in fact, that I’m writing all about it in my blog before I’ve even gone anywhere with it. :) There’s an organization in...
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BirdTLC – Update
I’ve now been to two trainings at Bird Treatment & Learning Center (BirdTLC). At the first, they talked to us about BirdTLC’s history, about basic bird anatomy and behavior, about the permits that...
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More about be(com)ing a woman in STEM
This image links to an interesting infographic. “STEM” is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. We have a shortage of STEM majors of any gender in the US right now, but the shortage of women in...
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Big news!
(I almost titled this post something about “branching,” as a GitHub joke, but then I didn’t.) I have big news: I will be joining the Center for Open Science (COS) in Charlottesville, VA, as a...
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