Don't forget the CJAL CFP is due soon! CJAL special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines details here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... Questions? Just lemme know. #lis #libraries #cfp #library

As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.

For #OAweek this year we published a report based on @[email protected] data that highlights how much OA we publish and how much money was spent on APCs last academic year. elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...

hello library workers. I am also a library worker. I would like to announce that the Code4Lib North sort-of-conference is this December 3-4th at McMaster University in Hamilton. Come on by if you got the gumption. Signup/info (info still be fleshed - signup is live though) at wiki.code4lib.org/North

New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship for a special issue entitled: Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions! cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #lis

I was on a picket line today.

Screen shots are my love language.

📢Join us Aug 27 @ 1PM ET for the Canadian Repositories CoP's Article Release Party kickoff! 🌟 We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan). 🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...

According to some DOI analysis that I'm doing, someone at MPOW has published over 200 'journal articles' that have a CrossRef DOI. This is year to date! github.com/elibtronic/g...

This is a glass plate slide I saw at the museum in Amsterdam. I like how pagan it is.

Apparently the point of this is that you are not supposed to like the food and abundance, but to look at Jesus giving a sermon in the background. *Jim eyes to camera*

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Read this last week. Was great to see a section about Library and Info Lit stuff.

New peer-reviewed article published: Silenced Professoriate: Understanding Academic Freedom in the Modern University doi.org/10.26522/bro... #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #NewManagerialism #PublicIntellectuals

Just published: Our analysis of collective agreements at Canadian universities shows significant variation in protecting academic freedom. Important implications for faculty rights and institutional governance. Read more: doi.org/10.58188/194... #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation

My academic world has contracted enough that I am presenting a paper at a conference and a person that I'm quoting a bunch is giving a plenary. I'm about as niche as possible now. www.marxintheanthropocene.com #phdlife

12 months to hear a 'no' on a journal submission. The no doesn't bother me, that is part of life. 12 months is the tough part in all of this.

I was feeling a bit nostalgic about our the Lab's old podcast so I decide to topic model our transcripts to see what we talked about github.com/elibtronic/S...

In March I will be going to Venice to present a paper at this conference. I am very excited for this. www.marxintheanthropocene.com

Here's some news. My title has changed (3rd times' a charm right?)

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025

Verso had a sale.... I bought 3 books for like 5$. All ebooks of course. I am weak, especially cause you don't need to pile these on the nightstand and invade your life. They live in your inbox until you are ready for them.

A new special issue of the CAUT Journal all about the labour activism of post-secondary education information workers is now available online. See the full issue: journal.caut.ca/index.php/caut

I'm not very psyched about the new issue of CJAL. Not enough Canadian focus. I mean come on, we don't have Land Grant schools in Canada.

This is the journal with the top IF in Journal Citation Reports for Library Science. 4k$ for OA, F, right off.

So the churn goes pretty fast here on Blu? I haven't seen it anywhere here so I'll post: New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship. cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

An API is an amazing thing. I'm making some Colab Notebooks that will make my life as a #dataverse admin easier. github.com/elibtronic/B...

I'm reminded of that I remember as a Russian Proverb (I think it was Russian) Pray all your want, but keep rowing the boat to shore. I don't remember where that came from, but I do enjoy is so much.

I know I am a touch Chicken Little re: the OCUL AI powered chat bot, but dang... Some business school in London has officially made something that will actively replace librarians. Do you think I'm overreacting? www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

I was putting some more work into my dissertation today and I had to change: "Since Trump's presidency" To "Since Trump's first presidency" Lemme tell you, that was a sad moment.

Periodic reminder that Journal of Open Humanities Data is a thing. I've published in and reviewed for this title. Very good way to present your dataset to the world. openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com

I agree with Karen here. SSJ is great! Probably our highest prestige social science focused journal hosted at Brock. It it Diamond OA (free to read, free from author fees) and average 10 week turn around from sub to pub! That is light speed. doaj.org/toc/1911-4788

Here's what I wrote for my union's newsletter on the projected AI Chat bot that OCUL wants to build (report about the proposed bot: ocul.on.ca/sites/defaul...)

I need to submit my PhD Dissertation proposal ASAP and to really stall it a bit I decided I needed to read Capital first. I'm looking at academic freedom in governance, and yes, it fits into that. (It fits into everything.)

CAUT Journal has published a new piece. It is on the experience of Contract Academic Staff. Check it out: journal.caut.ca/index.php/ca... #CdnPSE

What do I think about AI and Library Labour? Thanks for asking: www.caut.ca/bulletin/202... #lis

With help from an RA we've put together at Zotero -> RAG -> OpenA1 demo. Is this thing the world needs? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aet...

Got an acceptance on a paper I submitted *last November*. Probably only because I asked the editor "WTF?". Persistence kiddos, that's what does it. #phdlife

📢 OCUL is hiring for a 2-year AI & Machine Learning Program Manager. This role will lead capacity-building and virtual reference projects, coordinate activities and communications across the program, and more. Posting w/ salary range and qualifications: bit.ly/aiml-prgrm-mgr

Crap. Just realised my last book chapter was in a Routledge title. Owned by by T&F. Currently being harvested by Microsoft to train LLMs. Now I know how Metallica felt during Napster. Will this Oudh faculty to library OA platforms? Probably not. 😞🎺 www.routledge.com/Libraries-as...

Just like a Pokémon I have evolved. I am now PhD Candidate. Only one more stage to go. #PhDSky

Re-reading some greatest hits to prep for some PhD stuff that is happening next week. Publication is the soothing balm.

The date has been picked. On Tuesday June 25 I might ascend to PhD Candidate. #phd

̶4̶3̶2̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶x̶ ̶4̶3̶3̶ 433 No, it's not.

2.5 years of my PhD journey, all in one document, for the whole world to see.

A multi-year project that I was working on has officially come to a close. This post talks about our final publication: brockdsl.github.io/archives_unl... I would post from the account of the lab, but we aren't allowed to have one of those any longer. Which is stupid. (Academic Freedom exercised)

This should be on every institution's LibGuide. Of this, I am sure.

New jailbreak for Virtual Reference by AI just dropped... www.404media.co/amazons-hidd...

Only 5 months for me... I guess I don't know what world I have stumbled into.