Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Director, Knowledge Commons. Author, LEADING GENEROUSLY. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones.
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- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickI have discovered that lots of people who are not professional humanists are eager to help fund a lawsuit against the administration by professional humanists. Join us. Every $10 makes a difference. Tell your friends who want to do something.
- Sorry to be this way, but just one hundred more $10 donations would get us to our goal for the lawsuit defending the NEH. Please chip in if you can, and ask a friend to. Thanks for considering this. www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickToday is ⚡⚡DISASTER SIMULATION DAY⚡⚡ at Knowledge Commons. We'll be setting some parameters shortly and documenting the recovery process for the main site and Works. Any shortcomings in our processes should be highlighted by this. If it goes badly, we will have to rectify and try again another day.
- Should have mentioned: Wordherder shoutout within! #IYKYK
- I had the pleasure of doing an interview last week with Dane Anderson of Humanities Last Chance. He's made me sound amazingly coherent! humanitieslastchance.org/article/kath...
- Reposted by Kathleen Fitzpatrick3 ways to fight for the NEH: 1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming 2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have. 3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
- LFG.
- The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
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- I had the pleasure of doing an interview last week with Dane Anderson of Humanities Last Chance. He's made me sound amazingly coherent! humanitieslastchance.org/article/kath...
- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickUniversity leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.
- The number of vicious insults and outright lies in this “statement” is mind-boggling. www.neh.gov/news/update-...
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- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickI ran grant programs at @nehgov.bsky.social for over a decade. With colleagues, oversaw review of thousands of grant applications. Witnessed care & thoughtfulness of hundreds of reviewers. This statement is insulting to all of them. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed. www.neh.gov/news/update-...
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- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickThe demise of the NEH—a thing I am so furious about I can’t even really feel it yet—continues to reverberate. It’s even more important that we support efforts like Knowledge Commons in the aftermath.
- We’ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they’re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities. We hurt for everyone, not least because we’re in the same space with you. Read more: about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/o...
- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickWe’ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they’re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities. We hurt for everyone, not least because we’re in the same space with you. Read more: about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/o...
- New post from kfitz.info: "On the NEH and Our Path Forward" kfitz.info/neh-path-forward/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.)
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- The Michigan Humanities Council lost 90% of its operating budget overnight. Every NEH grant and fellowship in my college has been terminated (including my own). And as devastated as I am by that, the treatment that the amazing NEH employees are receiving is so much worse. They do not deserve this.
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- In recent months, artists and humanists around the world stood up for sciences. Will scientists stand up for the humanities? #neh www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
- Re-upping this. I’m serious: I will personally invest in someone willing and able to take such a project on. Website or infographic that tells the story of where all that “innovation” originates.
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- I would like to have a nice website detailing the extent to which all the technology that has been appropriated by the billionaire techbros supporting the dismantling of federal funding for research universities has its roots in research done at universities & made possible through federal funding.
- I am enormously excited about the potential of the Open Journals Collective, and very much looking forward to seeing how it develops!
- Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25
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- We're super excited about the proposal we're discussing here!
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- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickAbsolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- This is breathtaking. The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra performing the Ode to Joy — translated into Ukrainian. The opening cry of “Freude!” (Joy!) becomes “Slava!” (Glory!). #slavaukraini www.stage-plus.com/video/vod_co...
- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickPresident Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
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- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickThe library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.
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- This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Y'all. I get that a small scholarly org can be nimble and take on a lot of quick, grassroots work. It's super important and exciting. But that should not encourage you to insult the hardworking professionals who are keeping large scholarly orgs moving in astonishingly difficult circumstances.
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- Today's newsletter from my friends at @rawsignal.ca deserves a great big THIS THIS THIS: "Government doesn't have a profit-based business model because government isn't a profit-based business. Government shouldn't move fast and break things because government is civic infrastructure and +
- Friends and colleagues: if you have work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federal infrastructure, please find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). works.hcommons.org
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- Friends and colleagues: if you have work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federal infrastructure, please find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). works.hcommons.org
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- Reposted by Kathleen FitzpatrickWhat if we built a new major news and opinion journalism outlet from scratch and used it as a news lab to reform and rethink how we do things, starting first with billionaire-proofing it. And what if we honestly audited our flaws and came together to make the news orgs we want to see?
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