Yes, VPNs can help you get around certain types of geographic restrictions, but it’s very important you do your due diligence before downloading one. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Indigenous women are 10 times more likely to be murdered or missing then any other demographic in the country. APTN’s Tina House takes us to a gathering held on Red Dress Day in Vancouver of family members of those that are still missing or were murdered.

Guessing you are aware of Edmonton's though edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

“I’m an avid cyclist but.....” Exactly the problem. We don’t need infrastructure just for avid cyclists, we need it for those new and/or apprehensive riders who are terrified of riding through their cities

Real Estate: It’s Not Like You’ll Have To Pay It Off

Norway: close to 100% EV share. Near-zero carbon grid. Heat pumps everywhere. Also Norway: still exporting 2 million barrels of oil a day & gas exports have more than doubled since 2000. This chart shows the contradiction. Newsletter dropping soon 👇 substack.com/@janrosenow

"Based on titles and abstracts, in over 80% of cases the LLMs claimed that a retracted article had not been retracted (GPT OSS 120B: 82%; Gemma 3 27B: 84%; DeepSeek R1 72B: 88%)."

[Blogged] AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

The department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social is excited to announce a new Graduate Certificate in Health Data Analytics Fully online www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-...

Using the US-Israeli war on Iran as a smokescreen, the Israeli government ratified 34 new settlements in a single decision—more than half the total approved during 2025, which had already set records in settlement expansion.

Hall of fame FT correction

@lisalibrarian.bsky.social co-chair of United2Act, shares an update on phase 2 of this collective action against paper mills. United2Act is a project from COPE supporting coordinated, practical responses to the challenge. www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi... @researchinfo.bsky.social

people rightfully love this Mary Oliver poem, and I do too, but I also like you can read it from the perspective of an angry goose chasing someone out of a park

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?

Essential medical supplies delivered in Lebanon, where escalating violence has driven some 1.2 million people from their homes. The shipment, a collaboration between Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, WHO and @unicef.org will contribute to trauma care and disease management.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Dates for your diary, 9-13 August 2027 when the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) comes to the UK www.ifla.org/news/ifla-se... International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) hosted by CILIP alongside the whole UK sector, we're expecting over 4,000 delegates

“Reading Rainbow” host Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social) celebrates the library as a place where everyone is welcome

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

1 week of war = 11 billion $ Next time we hear that there's no money for health, education, science, humanitarian aid, we remember this

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

I really really really don’t want to have to go look for a new home.

Are we entering the era of Understanding-as-a-Service? kucharski.substack.com/p/how-much-t...

Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.

Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

"The AI can access articles from Elsevier’s own collection and those of its four partners: Emerald, the Institute of Physics, the New England Journal of Medicine Group, and Sage Publications". Interesting Wiley isnt on the list. Based on partnership agreements with tools like Scite, Consensus (1)

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The news is now public: "A majority of academics in the Faculty of Science have joined the Association of McGill Professors of Science." Welcome AMPS, to the #unionuniversity ! AMPL - AMPD ♥️ mcgillscience.ca

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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#medlibs and #evidencesynthesis nerds - the next Library Evidence Synthesis Services Symposium (LESSS) is upon us and open for free registration 😊 sites.google.com/view/lesss/r...

Wikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem go.nature.com/4pXIv2d

Or, Heated Rivalry only exists because of CanCon requirements. Otherwise CTV/Bell/Crave would have just imported another American show. Just because it's successful doesn't mean that it isn't a product of the ecosystem it was created in.

Love having our security constantly being threatened by our security partner

Democratizing Knowledge Through Global Health Podcasts Podcasts are a great way to learn, share, exchange, and democratize global health knowledge Here is my new list of podcasts worth checking out! communities.springernature.com/posts/democr...

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

* DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES * AKADEMIKERPENSION CIO SAYS US `IS BASICALLY NOT A GOOD CREDIT' @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Our colleagues in @mcgillscienceunion.bsky.social (AMPS) have put together an exhaustive fact-sheet on the stagnation of academic salaries at McGill—and the parallel rise of director/ manager salaries. 1/3

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David launched dozens of careers and mentored many more, helping Indigenous journalists find a voice in an industry that had rarely welcomed them. Story by @karynpugliese.bsky.social

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

#DYK our Chair, Madhu Pai, has been compiling a list of Global Health books since 2018? See what books have been added!

Oh no. Oohhhh no no.

Applications for the 2026 Evidence Synthesis Institute Canada, to be held April 7-10th, 2026, are now open. We will accept applications until February 2, 2026. More details and the link to the application form can be found at libguides.uvic.ca/ESICanada/ap... @carl-abrc.bsky.social #ESIC2026

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

These are disturbed people