wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

very delighted that I can now announce the Homosaurus was successful in two seperate #SSHRC applications. First up is a $50,000 Connections Grant "A Community de communautés: supporting the Québécois Homosaurus" which supports the implementation of the #Homosaurus in QC-FR

It’s bright outside, and we’re getting brighter indoors! Learning about Controlled Vocabularies with @julzbullard.bsky.social and the UBC iSchool.

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Today we’re publishing an important investigative story by Emily Enns. This story maps the connections between a group of mostly retired academics and think tanks to sow doubt about the historical truths of residential schools in Canada. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Today us a great day to get a library card! I love using the Queer Liberation Library for *free* through my digital library app. @queerliblib.bsky.social My queer 16yo self would have been life-affirmingly-overjoyed to have access to this! And now we do 🥰 www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

I have too many books out from the library! Which should I read first?

Check out my latest opinion piece! Public transit can save someone up to $15,000 per year. There is no other cost saving tool at any government’s disposal as powerful as public transit. @movementyvr.bsky.social

pls repost! Are you an academic or someone who has published academically who has requested name changes in your works because you were married (or used to go by a former name)? please let me know via reply/DM/the contact form on my website if you're willing to chat about! #AcademicChatter 🗂️🗃️📜📚

Just found the greatest thing ever

Appreciate doing an interview as a higher ed expert and having to do a quick, "oh, wait, you know I left a Texas university for Delaware right?" I got to read through my SMU resignation letter again for this interview which was fun. Snippet below! www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

For me, it's Sarah Gailey! Never been wrong to pre-order, always something totally new

hey friends! this is a common question but a good, warm-fuzzy one: who are your ride or die, auto-buy authors? who have you read everything by, who's new releases do you get really excited for?

The nomination deadline for our annual CAIS Awards has been extended to April 26 at midnight EST. See the details about each award on our website: cais-acsi.ca/Awards Nominate an exceptional researcher, practitioner, or student in the field of Information Science.

Saturday's student-led event at UT-Austin raised awareness about censorship & book bans, and featured great conversation w/ lots of energy. Proud to have been a part of it. (Also, as a lifetime Longhorn, I'm kinda stoked I finally made it into The Daily Texan.) thedailytexan.com/2026/03/30/w...

Really interesting discussion about how most research doesn't have enough metadata to tell you if its what you're looking for - on the other hand AO3 has a really helpful metadata schema. #UKSG2026

Has PornHub ever given academic researchers access to their data? I feel like if they have someone within the sound of my voice will know…tysm

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

From a recent police board meeting, crime trends year over year up to Q3 2025. Something clearly stands out! And yet despite ABC being in a constant moral panic about crime, it's the one thing they consistently ignore (or sometimes actively make worse).

We had folks from @queerliblib.bsky.social visit class last night for a guest lecture! Hard to say how awed I am by what they've built and how happy I am such a thing exists. Canada: someday!

Another book you should read instead of watching *another* iteration of that racist transphobic bs. RF Kuang's Babel. Nebula-award winning exploration of imperialism and racism at a school lots of stairs and turrets, if that's your thing.

You do "emotional labour" when you are producing an inauthentic emotional state as a product to be sold, which, like the factor lineworker producing a widget all day long that *they* don't own, is a form of alienation a la Marx.

The right way to read fresh-off-the-presses critical cataloguing work is in a chat thread with @brimwats.com. There's so much to praise about this analysis and writing! www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/seeking...

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

All Canadians over 16 are invited to comment on this Transport Canada public consultation on headlight glare: tc.canada.ca/en/corporate... Please participate if you're able! The brightness of LED headlights is out of control, and they're a real hazard to drivers and pedestrians.

Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote? I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then cheknews.ca/residents-at...

What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material. Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.

NEW FROM ME: While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game

Memorial for Fobazi Ettarh

As a 2016 UT Austin PhD grad, the speed of the deliberate dismantling of this public university is stunning. I wasn’t naive about Texas politics but still. Damn.

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

“For those who are just learning about Tumbler Ridge for the first time, know that it is so much more than the events of this week. The town is a portrait of resiliency. It has survived against the odds and emerged stronger.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Thank you, @weratedogs.com for this reportage: www.youtube.com/shorts/-ITnL...

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

NEW STUDY! @juliahusar.bsky.social and I have a grant to build trans health and wellbeing tech, and we need input from other trans women and transfems to make sure it serves us all well. This is research BY transfems FOR transfems and we're inviting y'all to be part of it. Also, we're paying!

I wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚

An immigrant worker shares his story of paying thousands to secure a low-paying Canadian job - then, his employer took a cut of his wage. Reporting by @isaacphannay.bsky.social & @zakvescera.bsky.social in collab with @theijf.org thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

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I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

@crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social needs urgent help to stay open in Vancouver, BC. @charliejane.bsky.social @yilinwriter.bsky.social gofund.me/313858e1c

Registration for #BCLA2026 is now open! bclaconnect.ca/blog/registr...

LNG Canada has known there was an issue with its flaring equipment for over a year. While locals raised concerns about noise, smoke and emissions, until now, they didn’t have answers. The Narwhal reviewed more than 2,000 pages of documents for this story: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f... #bcpoli

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Call for papers: the 54th Canadian Association for Information Science conference, 22-26 June 2026, free online, hosted by UBC iSchool. Theme: "Information in Repair." Submissions due 31 January. cais2026.ca/call-for-pap... 📚📜

Call for Proposals: Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2026 Annual Conference librarianship.ca/news/cfp-cai... Conference Dates: June 22-26, 2026 Theme: Information in Repair Location: Online Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2026

and finally, if you are seeking something that affirms there are still new things under the sun AND you are neither squeamish nor prudish, I wish for you to read Spread Me by @sarahgailey.bsky.social and revel in the feeling of "yes, that’s certainly a new feeling to have while reading"

I read [redacted] books this year! Here are my earnest recommendations for a fraction of them: