Kathleen Fitzpatrick

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Been doing a lot of criticism of ubiquitous infrastructure without the needed equal and opposite hyping of alternatives, so:

Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

My heart is breaking for colleagues at Texas A&M. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

I'm visiting there next week (calendar.tamu.edu/english/even...) and am hoping that I can offer a little support at a terrible moment.

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I'm enormously grateful to Lauren Collister for this story and for IOI's tireless cheerleading for sustainable open infrastructure.

Building the Commons: How Knowledge Commons is navigating challenges through community and collaboration A case study developed with Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Knowledge Commons and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University

Our friends at @investinopen.bsky.social have posted a case study of our attempts to create real sustainability for Knowledge Commons: investinopen.org/blog/buildin...

Hanging in there, for sure!

Ooh, it has been! I hope you’re doing well!

Let us know how we can help! (Responding for my colleague Martin since it’s wayyyyy after hours where he is.)

Hi! Yes! You might see our NSF-funded friends at STEM Ed+: works.hcommons.org/collections/... Or the Composers of Color Resource Project: works.hcommons.org/collections/...

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Ugggggh url typo: works.hcommons.org

KCWorks also mints DOIs! works.hvommons.org

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Knowledge Commons is not just a platform — we’re a coalition. And that coalition needs you. The tl;dr: We need to raise a significant amount... (New post from kfitz.info: "Join the KC Coalition" https://kfitz.info/join-kc-coalition/)

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Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at King’s College, Cambridge on December 3rd for an in-depth …

On my way to Cambridge for Publish, Review, Curate. coar-repositories.org/news-updates... It’s a gloriously sunny 49F — a nice if surprising change from the 18F I left in Detroit last night!

A screenshot of a notification in this here app telling me that laws in my location require me to prove I’m an adult in order access “certain features.” I am on a plane at the gate in Detroit.

What features, exactly?

I have never been more sad to say “that tracks.”

Thinking about you, Sharon. ❤️