Open to submissions throughout January 2026. Submission information: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/submission-g... Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Because we all need a little bit of joy today, I will never forget the little girl who peeked through our bookdrop and exclaimed loudly “mom, why are the librarians hiding back there? Are they NAKED???”

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... 📚📜

Interested in contributing a paper to Library Trends? We invite proposals for Library Trends 75 (4): Rethinking the Role of Libraries as Democracies Falter. Proposals are due by February 15. More information here ▶️ bit.ly/4ptBwy2

Read "Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies" by Mary Greenshields and Sarah Polkinghorne, from the Spring 2022 issue of Library Trends Find it at @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/article/879128

Yup. "Collections are for use, not reinforcing assumptions." -Scarlett Galvan, "More Than Things" www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

Yes. And generally IME, the pissiest people of all actually have the greatest love, combined with the least knowledge. 📚

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

A job ad worthy of the Vince McMahon meme. It's teacher-librarian role ...In Alberta? At Edmonton Public Library!? WHOSE JOB IS TO COORDINATE ***SUMMER CAMP!!!??*** edmonton.taleo.net/careersectio... 📚

This comes right as ACM has finished convincing all the research libraries (and academic departments, probably) to fund their flip to Open Access, too! Just feeding the machine.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

I am in search of those who center delight as fundamental and instructional for living

For me, this (annual!) thread lives in the middle of the Venn diagram combining "hey, the kids are all right" and "ah, library school, good times." @julzbullard.bsky.social & students -- you're the best.

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📚 a large group of first-graders watched me demonstrate the library’s book mending machine today. I asked them if they had ever had a book in their home get really messed up. their hands shot up. I would estimate that 60% of their stories involved dogs

There is always some anxiety from my LIS students about finding a job. This semester though... I've had more questions about the job market than ANY OTHER TOPIC... What advice would you give new librarians, trying to find their first post-MLS job, in 2025/2026?

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

There is an aggressive asymmetry between what information platforms and data centers have about us, and what information we're able to have about them

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

Untitled by Harry Bertoia, 1937 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137567

I was fortunate enough to bear witness to the signing of Victoria’s Treaty. This is what I saw and felt. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/publish/post...

READ THIS! www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o... $200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

who has the recipe for the perfect coffee quickbread or loaf cake? (coffee as ingredient not coffee as accompaniment)

Nov 25 is the UN's Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Dec 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women in commemoration of the Montreal Massacre. Want to do something tangible to mark the dates? Let me teach you bystander intervention!

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Not sure what kind of plaudits Carney is expecting for bragging that asylum claims are down. It's grotesque. Ghoulish. Trumpian.

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

At last, something good has happened in the world. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

✍️CFP! We are inviting submissions to our special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. Read more and submit by Dec. 18: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #AcademicSky #LibrarySky #OA

Hi, it's me, I'm the et al. I'm so happy this paper's finally out, and I hope it finds its readers.

#DHMakes is anyone doing anything like this?

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Friends and colleagues! I am looking for suggestions for literature on failure. I know Halberstam, but anything else – from queer studies or not, will be welcome.

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...

Tomorrow! Oct 16 7-8pm ET Fast paced and interactive but cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot. You leave with 5 super practical techniques to de-escalate and safely intervene. Not recorded, so don't miss out! Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

When I was your age, searching for a phrase in quotes returned results for that exact phrase

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

Yes, like all forms of leisure.

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.