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New blog post: Mita’s observations on gatekeeping – The Distant Librarian distlib.pival.me/mitas-observ... #distlib #scholarship #AcademicPublishing

Transgender remembrance, intersectionality, and celebrating trans* art | Datawrapper Blog www.datawrapper.de/blog/transge... #TRAHR #Dataviz

Benchmarking AI Models in the Library: Critical Questions for Library Professionals and Users - Choice 360 www.choice360.org/libtech-insi... A good read, with some good considerations. The observation about how ChatGPT asks clarifying questions, and traditional library products don't, is 💯

Librarians versus the world researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l... Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make. #Licensing #AcademicSky #Elsevier

Well worth the read! "The invocation of the notwithstanding clause is therefore a clear signal of the government’s awareness that these measures violate the rights of Albertans." #ABLeg #ABEduc #TRAHR

Making 10M government PDF documents searchable flowingdata.com/2025/11/26/m... "The code for GovScape is open source and available on GitHub." #OpenData #OpenGov #OCR #DataRescue #GovDocs

The Talent Acquisition and Recruiting AI (TARAI) Index www.tarai.org A public database for understanding how AI shapes recruiting tools Pretty nifty if you have anything to do with HR... ht: @researchbuzz.bsky.social

Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent This is another one, not that first one. Note to self: check the next #ABLeg report carefully...

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition www.erininthemorning.com/p/study-in-t... Let me know if you need a copy of the actual article. (so new the pub date is 2026!) #ABPoli #ABLeg #TRAHR #NotWithstanding

#TRAHR #ABEducation #Notwithstanding

CARL Honours Geoff Harder with Award of Merit - Canadian Association of Research Libraries www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-ho... Hey, congratulations, @runningmancan.bsky.social !

Why I'm Not Using NotebookLM's 'Deep Research' Tool (and Why You Shouldn't Either) lifehacker.com/tech/google-... I agree with this post, and with the exception he notes at the bottom to pull in content from your Google Drive. #AITools #Google #NotebookLM #DeepResearch

A handy tip! How to Easily Find Receipts and Invoices in Gmail www.labnol.org/find-receipt...

Of possible interest... AirPods’ best features come to Android and Linux with free app www.theverge.com/news/824953/... I do note at the bottom of the post that this doesn't (yet?) seem like a turnkey solution for Android... #OpenFTW

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

New blog post: ScienceDirect is marketing AI directly to students and researchers? – The Distant Librarian distlib.pival.me/sciencedirec... #ScienceDirect #Elsevier #AI #marketing

Google Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... I appear to have access to this and am starting to poke at it a bit. Will be trying to figure out whether summaries are coming only from metadata/abstracts or have somehow reached the full text. #schoogle

Premier Smith - as someone who has had the “physical surgery” of mastectomy (whatever you mean by that - I’m not sure what non physical surgery) I can confirm that it does not in any way impact my ability to have children

IDEA: A Hallmark Christmas movie about an Alberta premier who refuses to be photographed with Santa unless he's seated, titled 'Notwithstanding Claus'.

A good explainer! What Are Passkeys, and Who Should Be Using Them? ino.to/kh91dWh #lifehacker #security #passwords #passkeys

Of possible interest if you're a Google shop. I note these are not free! We’re announcing new Gemini certifications for education. blog.google/outreach-ini...

What a cool idea! Too expensive for idle curiosity, alas. Smartphone-connected camera shows you the sources of sounds newatlas.com/photography/... #audio #noise

"Books written using AI without such “authorship” being disclosed have become pervasive across all subject areas on sites such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Waterstones, often boosted to the top of search results." Tips for spotting AI-authored books redwoods.libguides.com/ld.php?conte...

Released today: 2025 Canadian Cancer Statistics cancer.ca/en/research/... #FuckCancer

Should #AcademicIntegrity policies apply only to students? Should educators be held responsible for #plagiarism of others' teaching materials, for example? A recent court case in Canada brings this question into sharper view. I comment on it here: drsaraheaton.com/2025/11/17/b...

Everything you didn’t know about relocating to Canada: Trading tenure for Timbits - University Affairs universityaffairs.ca/opinion/trad... A little heavier on the cons than the pros, and some issues may be specific to Alberta, but definitely some important nuggets in here!

The Alberta advantages! -most vaccine disinformation -most measles -most ignorance -most idiots -most despair #abpoli #abhorrent #ableg #ucp #canada

Action needed before Monday

New community care clinic to provide subsidized veterinary services for Calgarians www.ucalgary.ca/news/new-com... With the scourge of private venture capitalism consuming so many vet clinics in Canada, this seems a welcome development! #Calgary #YYC #pets #affordability

Free Course – RDMLA: AI for Librarians – The Distant Librarian distlib.pival.me/free-course-...

Here's a list of some nifty sites and tools - and no AI mentioned! :-) Free Music Discovery Tools 🎶 wondertools.substack.com/p/free-music...

A PSA as the holiday travel season approaches... This New Hotel Reservation Scam Is Fooling People Who Use Sites Like Booking.com ino.to/Nszu5Hj

No Longer Evil Thermostat hack strips Google from Nest thermostat to heat your home better — open source project revives sunsetted hardware, gives more precise control | Tom's Hardware www.tomshardware.com/software/no-... ht @researchbuzz

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Mapping the 2025 (and 2021) Canadian Election Results – The Map Room www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/mapp...

How I (a librarian) use Signal (and Why) librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/11/11/h... #Privacy #Security #Encryption

Micro.blog looks worth a look-see... heydingus.net/blog/2025/11... #blogging #SelfHosting #Ownership #Video

This might be very worth looking in to! Free password manager for cultural institutions | Proton proton.me/blog/free-pa... Available to: Museums Libraries and archives Public art galleries Theaters and concert halls Community cultural centers

Libraries are struggling with digital demand readthepeak.com/stories/11-2... "Bottom line: This trend makes it harder for libraries to build up collections of newer titles, but as demand for e-copies continues to grow, they have no choice but to play ball."

How and why to turn off Meta's personalized ads | Proton proton.me/blog/turn-of... Pretty good argument here! #Enshittification #Advertising #Facebook

Now that is cool! Air Loom: The 3D Flight Tracker googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... But what if you could actually see those planes move through the air in three dimensions, gliding and flying around each other in 3D space? - That’s exactly what Air Loom offers. #DataViz

😍 🤑 😍 Lego’s first Star Trek set is a $400 Enterprise with Data, Picard, and Worf minifigures ino.to/y7RWDvZ

So happy to see that we're soon to be offering training on Zotero at #UCalgary Zotero Citation Tool Workshop (online) workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3956213

Seriously impressed with Graham's candor and articulateness - well worth a listen, for both musicians and listeners! “They can’t keep doing this forever:” Tokyo Police Club's Graham Wright on the dire state of music www.donotpassgo.ca/p/they-cant-... #Enshittification #Spotify

"Of course, the legislation was never intended or expected to be used against the UCP. Now that Mr. Lukaszuk and others are demonstrating that it can be, that will be the end of it." #abpoli #ableg albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/soun...

Non-profit takes over a canceled NOAA database flowingdata.com/2025/11/05/n... #OpenGov (not) #OpenData

Yes, ChatGPT Can Still Give You Legal and Health Advice lifehacker.com/tech/chatgpt... I thought that sounded awfully suspicious when that headline crossed my path this morning...