Lovely to hear shoutouts to libraries and librarians by name on the #ABCSydney radio. Happy Book Week! @reucassel.bsky.social

Literary interests are finally shifting. Dispersed literary centres are good for us all. Otherwise, it's imperialism of the worst kind. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Adelaide Perry Gallery invites artists to submit their work for the 2026 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. Artists must be Australian citizens or permanent residents. The Prize is a $25 000 acquisitive award recognising excellence in contemporary drawing. apg.plc.nsw.edu.au/prize-for-dr...

An AI Literacy Framework for Primary and Secondary Education, joint initiative by the European Commission and OECD ailiteracyframework.org

Once established, it's hard to reverse a black market. It is harming young people, especially young women who prefer flavoured vapes, notorious for unregulated substances. Banning is a blunt tool for a complex problem. theconversation.com/if-recreatio...

Learned abt this when I was at the LoC this past spring; I'm glad it's moving fwd, despite the general 🔥: "The Library of Congress has embarked on a new multiyear digital initiative, LOCal, that will help expand access to the digital collections through partnerships with public libraries"

Why are conference nerves to be taken seriously? patthomson.net/2025/08/08/c...

What's not to love about this research? We all need to get into the groove. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The power of student surveys and presurre by uni managers to see students as clients are major reasons for inflated grades. theconversation.com/the-customer...

Young people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Political empowerment is rightly suggested as helpful societal responses. Stronger education, especially in schools, is critically important too. We need qualified school library staff to provide it theconversation.com/3-reasons-yo...

Amsterdam's attempt to develop responsible AI failed a real-life test in social services. AI isn't more reliable than case workers. Questions about bias and profiling where politics or ethics come in “you cannot put into a checkbox.” www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

Three education research projects presented at international conferences in June "At PLC Sydney, we are committed to future-focused, meaningful learning grounded in research, shaped by real-world relevance, and amplified through global engagement." www.plc.nsw.edu.au/news/plc-syd...

What does a recent MIT study really show? This time, a calculator analogy comes in handy. theconversation.com/mit-research...

Reading is not only declining, it's being transformed in the AI era. It's the next stage of the process I called "transliterate reading" 10 years ago doi.org/10.22230/src... www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Information for Real Life: New insights into recreational substance use and epistemic well-being are now publicly available. vimeo.com/1084809513

The most recent global report on adolescent health raises alarm bells. Teachers and librarians can help with information and health literacy. Working collaboratively across sectors is essential. educationhq.com/news/the-fin...

The Teachers' Guild NSW conference 23 August: Exploring innovative partnerships between schools and universities. I'm pleased to present 2 papers with 2 teams. Looking forward to some interesting conversations. www.teachersguild.nsw.edu.au/events/2025-...

As a practice-based researcher, then in health, and now in K-12, I see some reoccuring themes across lifelong learning.

Queensland government decided the award shouldn't be presented to an Indigenous writer www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m delighted to be presenting at the National Education Summit Melbourne at the MCEC on 29 August in the AI in the Classroom Conference stream: lnkd.in/erj_UTrJ. Please use my VIP code: VIP2025M to receive 15% discount. Early Bird ends 31 May, so get in early for a double discount! lnkd.in/edmCd_6D

Great news! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Late to the #Eurovision party. Haven't seen them all, but Swedes hit a sweet note. Estonia - a silly joke when you lack a good idea🙄 Austria - that voice 🫨 Will watch the finals tonight #SBS 🙏

Australia relies on satellites it doesn’t own – which creates a risky situation.

I am looking forward to presenting and discussing this hot topic tomorrow. www.caval.edu.au/activity/fos...

Only a day left to register for the next ALIA Research Seminar. We are excited to present the results of our research into learning and information behaviours around recreational substances, and adolescents’ perceptions of the information and the sources they use. www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?...

TX HB3225 bill passed yesterday Bill Summary AN ACT relating to the prohibition of access by minors to sexually explicit materials in municipal public library collections; providing a civil penalty. www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1...

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

The anti-vaccine crowd say they just want to “see the evidence” in the form of placebo-controlled randomized trials. But we've done these trials. And we know our vaccines work. Which is precisely why we can't use placebo to test better vaccines. Read more: epiellie.substack.com/p/first-do-n...

Prompted by this article, I asked ChatGPT & it suggested: "So while I don’t channel spirit guides, I can help you create the conditions to feel closer to them. Think of me as a lantern—not the light itself, but something to help you see your own." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Gibberlink is a project showing how 2 AI agents can switch from English to their own language en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberl... youtu.be/EtNagNezo8w

Making sense of a brutal world by doing something beautiful and meaningful to you, even if it seems useless. I love this story about the "violin of hope" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

"HarperCollins said that many parents focus on the literacy element of reading, seeing it as a skill, rather than encouraging a love for reading in their children." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Book banning and bracing our communities: ‘In this age of digital exposure and misinformation, librarians play a more vital role than ever.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Thanks @alisonhicks0.bsky.social #bookbans #misinformation #libraries

Serbia limits academics’ research time to just one hour a day www.chemistryworld.com/news/serbia-...

How can we share information with teenagers to make it useful to them? Dr Stojkovski and I will share the findings of our research showing how young women want to learn about alcohol, vapes & drugs for real life Thursday, 15 May 2025 1:00 pm to 1:55 pm AEST alia.org.au/Web/Web/Even...

I can't praise them enough. Two decades of our celebration cakes and small purchases, online orders with pick-ups and deliveries - never a glitch. I'm picking up our Easter cake tomorrow. Happy Easter, wonderful La Renaissance larenaissance.com.au

Supervisors, as good educators of independent researchers, put your students first. Students on soc med write about their studies & achievements.They may add thanks to their supervisors. Most supervisors start with "I'm proud of my.." or "My student.." With teacher's pride, put them first.

Timely award to Donna Haraway www.world-architects.com/en/architect...

Adolescence will be used in Dutch schools to teach about social media www.dutchnews.nl/2025/04/tv-s...

Scientists need to incorporate more diversity when crafting linguistic models to understand how the brain works. If studies are done only in neurotypical English-speaking adults, crucial differences will be missed. www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

Registrations for the LARK Circle 2025 have been extended until Tuesday, 22 April. If you are an LIS professional looking to enhance your research skills or work on a practice-based research project, now is the time to register.

Australian academics are cancelling trips to the US www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

AI translation may increase inequalities for less translated languages, especially from the Global South. It can also help translators of frequently translated languages themarkup.org/artificial-i...

Data training for teachers isn't most effective on its own. Teachers need to learn how to apply data in decision-making: "Role of data literacy training for decision-making in teaching practice: a systematic review". www.frontiersin.orghttps//www.frontie...

Little children check information more after being exposed to inaccurate information, a study found. Full paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.scientificamerican.com/article/even...

The school library as a safe space, an international study by Margaret Merga In most schools, library is a safe place, sometimes the only one. Library cuts weaken student well-being journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fully artificial Francesca Giubelli is a candidate for Mayor of Rome www.notizie.it/en/francesca...

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...