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University of Alberta Library Digital Scholarship Graduate Student Fellowship Program - Call for Applications https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kjqfCgfEEY7_WEcOH6xD7eV8fByXBYHMWQxxWc0Zo0I/edit This will be our third year offering these fellowships - digital scholarship is so broad that it […]

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

Ahem *voice of the little green aliens from Toy Story* IT'S THE CLAW

It has always been bad, but if you’ve been on the fence, this is a great reason to delete your academia.edu account.

**JOB ALERT** The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is hiring a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Indigenous Health. They've got an expansive definition, which includes Inuit and northern Indigenous communities. Link to ad: www.unbc.ca/sites/defaul...

don't have enough time to grade over 100 essays? Simply read them all and write a summary for each student. Then simply copy-paste 100 summaries with the rubric and the right prompt (will take some tweaking) into an LLM. Then simply read for quality control 100 AI generated comments!

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

Publishers and librarians do sometimes disagree -- but not on this. "Book bans do not protect children. They restrict opportunities for learning, stigmatize marginalized communities, and undermine the professional judgment of educators and teacher-librarians." 📚

they were developed in a fentanyl lab located in Asbestos, Quebec, to be Woke, fireproof and deadly to the touch. their glands secrete generic prescription drugs and they all believe in climate change. these aren’t your granddad’s 30-50 feral hogs. they’re bilingual. they will win

"Through an ideological discourse analysis of Beall’s texts, the study reveals how metaphors of decline and corruption racialize and spatialize the figure of the ‘predator,’ reinforcing hierarchies of knowledge production." 📚

Re-upping this endorsement! I’m still recruiting. Please get in touch 💫

The library collections/ERM version of this is that some vendors have started sending us license agreements they've "run through ChatGPT." 🫠 📚

I can't decide which is worse: either our government doesn't understand that these guys are Nazis, or they think it's a good idea to invite Nazis to their cabinet retreat.

ok a question: if you could have your students read one thing on genAI that you hope will encourage them not to use it, what would it be?

Recommended: watch librarian Laura Winton give an advocacy master class in this interview. So grateful to her for speaking out about the Alberta provincial government book ban. 📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7haK...

"We must remove graphic, sexually explicit content from schools." EPSB: "Hoo boy, okay, so Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, It, Watchmen, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings--" "--not like that!" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In early July, I had the opporunity to discuss The AI Con with @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT. ABC is presenting part of that conversation in their programme "Big Ideas" on Tuesday Sept 2: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

lol, economists.

ScholComm friends, what are the articles, recordings, etc that you'd recommend for a new person to learn about accessibility & inclusion in a global sense

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Solidarity with Dalhousie University faculty, who are currently locked out.

Few details yet, but good news to start the day! "Unpaid work is over." www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

the AI hype bubble is coming. And the news organizations and pundits that helped inflate it are going to immediately pivot to pretending they saw it coming the whole time.

Air Canada’s CEO gave striking flight attendants more reason to defy a government order to go back to work. On BNN Bloomberg, CEO Michael Rousseau says the company didn’t make provisions for passengers with cancelled flights because it assumed government would enforce Section 107 to end the strike.

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

Oooo I look forward to reading this new work from Waseem Afzal.

Please share widely with any and all networks--we're on the lookout for AI slop that's wormed its way in to digital library collections and we'd love your eagle eyes! 📚

What's the last book you noticed in passing that stopped you right in your tracks? I'll go first. #librarylife 📚

librarians everywhere

While working on my Cyborgs course updates today, I was reflecting on how LLMs pass the Turing test, but ONLY pass the Turing test: the user believes they are intelligent. That does not mean they actually are! It means nothing about the machine, everything about the user.

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

The victim-blaming logic for ChatGPT and related “AI” tools has already been established. When the technology puts people in danger, even deadly danger, folks will say it’s the user’s fault for trusting the technology—even as the media, the industry, workplaces and even schools encourage that trust

NeWest Press is excited to announce the launch of Barbour Books, our new speculative fiction imprint. Edited by award-winning author and scholar Jenna Butler. Authors looking to submit manuscripts to the imprint can do so now at our manuscript site. #NeWestPress #BarbourBooks #CanadianSciFi #CanLit

Intriguing new paper that I'm excited to read. I always cheer for thoughtful collabs between information science "subfields" (here, info retrieval & info practices/behaviour). "Well-formed and seemingly reasonable requests can conceal misconceptions inquirers have." doi.org/10.1002/asi....

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Mary is a gem; her study is timely and very fascinating. Highly recommend participating if the topic resonates with you!

I would love if you all would give me suggestions for papers about AI well suited for TikTok style explainers! Stuff that’s important or interesting or just good for more people to know about. (It’s ok if it’s your own paper!)

The most dangerous thing about LLMs is how little their ‘champions’ understand them. Case in point: ‘[Walsh] also contended that the problem of Elsa’s hallucinations can be mitigated by asking it more precise questions.’ WHAT

I'm glad you're on this beat, @alisonhicks0.bsky.social. Thanks for giving voice to librarians dealing with this issue directly. Looking forward to reading this in full very soon. 📚 📜

“This is my third time in Gaza since December 2023 as a volunteer surgeon with Medical Aid for Palestinians. … But nothing has prepared me for the sheer horror I’m witnessing now: the weaponisation of starvation against an entire population.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies Special Issue on Multimodal Scholarship out now incl. a research comic, two films, an exhibition article, an audio essay, and a video essay: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku....

Another bombshell from @brettmckay.bsky.social. Alberta’s government used databases from free speech organization PEN America and far-right group Moms for Liberty on banned books in the States to identify books for removal in Calgary and Edmonton public schools. archive.is/2025.07.11-1...

Incredibly important report on AI training & copyright released today by the European Commission. It gets lots right, slamming the idea that creators should be required to opt-out of having their works used for free by AI companies. It says: - Generative AI must be based on opt-in consent 🧵 1/n

Disability in LIS Journal Seeking Peer Reviewers! Volunteer form, contact information, and links to related content are available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is a rare one -- Ottawa Public Library is hiring a librarian to oversee their demonstration kitchen and lead food literacy programming. COME ON 🤩 📚 📜 jobs-emplois.ottawa.ca/city-jobs/jo...

Mine would be Pig.