@fastenoffyal.bsky.social has officially begun! This team does lots of work to make their event accessible and inclusive. I feel like casting-on All The Things this year. Time to learn a new thing: the crochet cast-on for a design by @woollywormhead.bsky.social 🧶

. @audreywatters.bsky.social on AI+grief: 'In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were forced to use a tech that severs us from creative expression, dignity, truth. There is no choice, we're told. "Get over it." "Move on."'

Top of my Christmas list (for me and knitting friends)!

What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.

Speaker (French): “…. besoin…” Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …” I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators. Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.

✨📢 ENABLAR is a new initiative from @jisc.bsky.social + @proghist.bsky.social, bringing library and archive practitioners into dialogue with digital humanities researchers. We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints. tinyurl.com/enablar-blog

📢Employment opportunity at PKP! PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact. If you are interested, learn more at: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...

Anyone have examples of research-creation or practice-led research projects by librarians or as part of information science generally? These could be called other things, including arts-based research, artistic research, and even design inquiry.

If you are an educator, here's our curated list of educational games to help improve your students' ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. deepfakestracker.org/digital-lite... More games will be added later this fall.

Neurodivergent joy.

The lack of transparency on this project is unending. Butler reports that the province HAS NOT made a decision on comprehensive review, despite what our mayor was told. Time to contact all our representatives. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos www.404media.co/ai-generated...

CFP Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Causing immense stress for Canadian small businesses, not just because of the costs, but because the systems and mechanisms for implementing this don’t even exist yet. Canada Post says they’re on-boarding a third-party tech provider, but it hasn’t happened yet.

Generative AI changes what things mean because it focuses on words, not the meaning. It adds words, changes meaning, and makes "plain language" that is not accessible. We know, because we tested it. Generative AI has no place in plain language. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/07/asan...

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

This guest post by Jay Singley on ACRLog is a must-read. "In the age of AI, our access to information is not spared from these attacks. We must uncover answers to the questions Safiya Noble, Joy Buolamwini, and others elicit: Who and what is safeguarded through AI tools in discovery searches?"

Tantramar friends: this has a short environmental consultation period. Sounds like they’re planning info sessions, not consultations… echoing national energy projects. Read the letter from Atlantic Wildlife Institute linked in this story and join the Zoom on Jul. 21/22 warktimes.com/2025/07/19/m...

Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer "rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"

Hey, @arquives.ca is hiring a 2SLGBTQIA+ education consultant to promote the importance of using primary sources to teach history with secondary school educators and others. Deadline: 20 July 2025 Pay: $35/h, flexible schedule, remote More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-... #AcademicSky 🌈🗃️ 🏳️‍⚧️🗃️

Ever feel like your brain just stopped cooperating during perimenopause? For many women, that’s not just brain fog—it might be undiagnosed ADHD colliding with hormonal shifts. We're finally starting to connect the dots. It's about time. 🧠✨ vajenda.substack.com/p/adhd-and-m...

“… a Mount Allison professor’s introduction to environmental science winds up as fodder for a fake video criticizing Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan. We talk with environmental scientist Josh Kurek and fake news expert Erin Steuter” Segment starts at 2:15. www.chmafm.com/welcome/mt-a...

Latest listen: The Book Eaters by @sunyidean.com - best take on vampires I’ve read in ages. Stubborn queer character written and narrated by neurodivergent people…. I know from the interview that it wasn’t written as neurodivergent representation specifically but it resonated.

My favourite way to knit yellow is in a rainbow, a gradient, or yellow-green. The feeling of light or shifting landscapes. For #ShowMeYourKnits yellow week, here is a pair of Freddy Beach Socks by @knitsiphappy.bsky.social knit in a one-of-a-kind colour dyed by Lichen and Lace. 🧶

Flourish by Curious Handmade was my May sock project. I knit them in @indigodragonfly.bsky.social Good Trouble Sock. I think these are my first orange socks! Gotta fill in the gaps in my sock rainbow. 🌈 🧶

Dear Fennel reminding me to enjoy a moment outside before getting back to curating a data deposit. How long till she accidentally rolls down the hill?

ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding. However...

Super excited to be a new lesson maintainer for The Carpentries!

Today: Local News Matters event filling up the main floor of the RP Bell Library in Sackville, New Brunswick.

AI crawlers generate so much traffic that some web sites are struggling to stay online. What can be done?

#ShowMeYourKnits is Works in Progress: these are the Flourish socks by Curious Handmade in @indigodragonfly.bsky.social Good Trouble Sock. They’re flying off the needles.

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New report where I explore the impossible question of how to govern AI across the research lifeycle.

Thank you so much @stfx-dh.bsky.social for hosting DHSI-East. I’m headed home with much more sustainable plans for a challenging project. It can definitely be a static site with Endings Project search! It was inspiring to learn with digital humanists for four days… I’ll be back. <🦞>

#ShowMeYourKnits is DK weight yarn. My favourite sweater these days is a mashup of @oliveknits.bsky.social Beekeeper Cardigan and Amy Herzog’s Foyle Cardigan that I knit in 2018. My yarn is @indigodragonfly.bsky.social Polwarth Silk DK. 🧶 Perfect weird neutral layer for workshops.

JITP has a themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy on the way and is seeking submissions from brilliant scholars (like yourself!) The deadline for submissions is June 15 Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Sensory overwhelm travel tip: use the shirts you’ve already worn as pillowcases to reduce the impact of scented laundry detergent. Bonus if your shirts are made of really nice cotton. Grateful for windows that open and a chorus of spring peepers.

A tale of 4 research days: meeting with faculty member to talk about OCR options for an upcoming text analysis collab, outlining talk for upcoming @iassistdata.bsky.social talk with a student, going to @carpentries.carpentries.org Maintainer Onboarding to start supporting fave OERs. And reading.

Casting on for Filigree, the first pattern in Helen Stewart’s Light Academia themed Handmade Sock Society. Thoughts on dark academia and light academia and my actual job in a library, which is grayscale…. Maybe: rainbow academia? Light and dark and queerness? Chose bright orange!

April socks: Popped by @hunterhammersen.bsky.social in merino sock dyed by my wife @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social in Sackville, NB. Reader, I fell in love with a favourite yarn dyer. Middle-aged queer knitter love story featuring a librarian and a small town. Yep. LYS week for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

📈 Join us for the release of a new research report into New Brunswick’s arts and culture sector—Wednesday, 30 April @ 12:00 pm (online) Presented by ArtsLink NB, the Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick and the Owens. Register @ forms.gle/YnGLq6BLdUp7...

Election day in Canada! Today my #ShowMeYourKnits post features Canadian wool from my LYS, @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social in Sackville, New Brunswick. This yarn was spun at Custom Woolen Mills in AB from fleeces from Linc Farms (now in NS). 🧶 Pattern: Bukiwe by Noma Ndlovu

#ShowMeYourKnits is celebrating Local Yarn Stores this week. Mine is Gobsmacked Yarn in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. 🧶 This shawl is Trypophobia by @xandypeters.bsky.social in a @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social giant (150 g gradient).

This would make for a fun language/critical thinking lesson. #edusky www.wired.com/story/google...

Some of my socks were very faded after a few years of heavy wear. One of these pairs started out a fresh minty green. Things fade, it happens sometimes. But my sock drawer was no longer sufficiently green.