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.
- New post from kfitz.info: "Networking" kfitz.info/networking/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.)
- 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...
- 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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- Dude flat does not believe in germ theory, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- 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...
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- Congratulations!!! 🥂🍾💃
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- That’s super scary, Martin! I hope things are clear tomorrow.
- The number of vicious insults and outright lies in this “statement” is mind-boggling. www.neh.gov/news/update-...
- I mean, there’s not a word of truth in this, not even “and” or “the.”
- This.
- we're doing the thing unbreaking.org
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- New post from kfitz.info: "Gitea" kfitz.info/gitea/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.)
- 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.)
- 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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- They’re sending terminations via email to the grant administrator of record, as far as I can tell.
- 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...
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- This is devastating, and infuriating. I am so, so sorry.
- 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.
- DARPA -> universities -> internet. Etc.
- 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.
- Does such a thing exist? If not, I would very much help to support its creation.
- This thought brought to you not least by this "ICYMI" about the road to "the Golden Age of American Innovation." About which I have THOUGHTS that are pretty publicly unshareable right now. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
- 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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- Thank you for all the good work you did. Sending all my best for the path ahead, Hannah.
- We're super excited about the proposal we're discussing here!
- New post from kfitz.info: "Writing Again" kfitz.info/writing-again/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.)
- 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...
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- Many will, without block grant support. Many are highly vulnerable as it is. And what LS&S has to do with it is the larger goal of privatizing public services, doing away with any notion of the public good.
- 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...
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- Indeed.
- 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.
- If you don't know what your org is doing right now to fight for you, maybe ask them rather than assuming they're not doing anything. Mine has been actively meeting with folks on the Hill and strategizing with other orgs and institutions about paths forward, even as they're facing funding cuts.
- Maybe small orgs and large orgs could work together rather than taking aim at one another. The impulse to compete always undermines solidarity. Reach out rather than tearing down.
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- I love it!
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- Noooooo! Take care, Martin!
- 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 +
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View full threadlike businesses, and long have been.... Running a university like a business would mean that we'd keep a close eye on the bottom line, that we'd relentlessly pursue innovation, that we'd eliminate product lines not producing sufficient revenue, +
- that we'd keep our front-line labor in check, and so on. All of which we've been subjected to for decades now, and all of which has contributed to the sorry state we're in." (26-27)
- That's from us14.campaign-archive.com?u=c5c0614e6c...
- If you'll forgive a little self-promotion, I'll add this from LEADING GENEROUSLY: "This is why our institutions' mission statements die a little bit every time someone says the university should be run more like a business. That's because all of our institutions *already are* being run +
- breaking democracy doesn't end well. The payoff isn't quarterly earnings, the payoff is a just and thriving society. Pretending that these things aren't obviously true would be a small silly distraction of small silly men if it weren't endangering, threatening, and killing people. But here we are."
- 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
- 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
- KC Works supports all fields, all languages, all geographic locations. Join us and ensure that your work can remain available to all. works.hcommons.org
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- Nooooo!!! 🤬🤬🤬
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- Sending good thoughts for good results.
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- We only made it through about 45 minutes before it became too bad to go on. Maybe they pull it off in the end but the impression is that they couldn’t decide which of two movies they were making.
- If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.
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- 😯
- I'm not sure we are adequately facing the stark reality that many of our leaders & colleagues in Higher Ed were slow to change, at least beyond espoused commitments, when the winds were at their back. Now in the headwinds?! Been saying for years that we need a leadership revolution. Y'all ready yet?
- So overdue.
- 📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
- SO. GORGEOUS.
