Eira Tansey @archivist@scholar.social

https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Would-It-Take-to-Keep/245272?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest
This article from CHE highlighting the UNC system's plan to create a mobile police force is wild. I don't know where to start, but let's just say that there is no equivalence between damage to a monument and neo-Nazis running around with torches. This kind of false equivalence is exactly what happens when you hire a member of the FBI to come up with a security plan.

I am reviewing a book in my field that I have significant theoretical disagreements with. Can anyone point me to a book review in their field that demonstrates how to articulate one's disagreements well without devolving into just disciplinary smack talking?

Realized I only have 15 days left in the office for 2018, new goal is to reach inbox < 100

I just found out my institution has access to the full-text OUP Very Short Introductions series and my life will never be the same again

I am geography-adjacent but I haven't been to a geography-focused conference since AAG as an undergrad. Can any geographers recommend critical/radical/feminist geography conferences worth attending? Or is most of this work happening at AAG?

TFW you are editing a journal issue for the first time and Reviewer 1 is like THIS IS THE BEST! and Reviewer 2 is like THIS IS THE WORST! and I'm over here feeling like King Solomon

Academics, tell me about methods you have used to make faculty meetings productive, especially with contentious issues. I have a lot of well-honed facilitation skills from activist work that I am thinking of modifying for faculty meetings (like a modified version of taking stack).

Is #AcWriMo a thing? Anyone I know in the GLAM sector interested in being an Accountability buddy with me?

When writing a recommendation letter that references specific articles authored by that person, is it copacetic to footnote the letter, or is it preferable to do an inline reference?

(Excited is always a weird adjective to use in conjunction with climate change research, I know)

super super excited that our research on mapping the exposure of American archives to climate change has now been assigned to an issue. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2018.03.005

and of course you stumble across A PERFECT ARTICLE in line with your work full of citations you somehow didn't see before but now how are you going to read everything before tomorrow morning when the revision is due ARRRRGHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGH ARRRGHGHGH

love this world where "radical" does not apparently apply to critical assessment of your own field

reading about the latest academia birb site dust-up and good god am i glad I left it months ago. What an embarrassment https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-a-Twitter-Tussle-Exposed/243374?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest

Archivist thoughts about May Day http://eiratansey.com/2018/05/01/mayday-on-may-day/

I love this essay about running for office as an alt-ac, because I low-key have thought about doing this if I don't get tenure https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/04/18/essay-running-office-alt-ac-career

This is a delightful browser-based writing goal tool if you just need to sit down and grind out a few hundred words http://writtenkitten.co