"The past decade has been hard on Ontario universities." You can say that again. How much longer can public infrastructure receive too little attention from our elected officials until they reach a crisis point? buff.ly/jk1R2eM #PublicPolicy #OnPoli

Ontario's universities are often discussed as businesses or cost centres, but they also function as research hubs, regional anchors, cultural institutions, and workforce developers. Like digital infrastructure, their value extends beyond immediate economic returns. buff.ly/KZhbyMj #HigherEd #OnPoli

AI policy discussions often focus on innovation and growth. Less attention is paid to the infrastructure required to support those ambitions. Data centres, energy demand, water use, and local impacts are increasingly important policy considerations. buff.ly/Th4phhK #AIInfrastructure

"Social media platforms are known to be driven by recommendation algorithms that may send us down “rabbit holes” of the same type of (increasingly extreme) content. This can lead to a distorted view of the world and our place in it...

Ontario universities spent the last decade adapting to fiscal constraint, tuition freezes, and changing enrolment patterns. These adaptations don't just represent resilience—they show a system stretched beyond its intended capacity due to budget cuts. buff.ly/jk1R2eM #HigherEducationPolicy #OnPoli

Research consistently suggests that the relationship between social media use and well-being is more complex than popular narratives imply. Good policy depends on understanding nuance rather than assuming simple cause-and-effect relationships. buff.ly/6W2Abq5 #EvidenceBasedPolicy #SocialMediaPolicy

"It's probably the most horrendous intervention into university autonomy in the history of the province." How should policymakers balance democratic accountability for publicly funded institutions with the principle of institutional autonomy? buff.ly/XiM0PH3 #UniversityGovernance #HigherEd

Ontario's Bill 33 has generated debate about where authority should reside within the post-secondary system. Supporters emphasize accountability; critics emphasize institutional autonomy. buff.ly/XiM0PH3 #HigherEducation #Governance

A recent court ruling on AI-generated search summaries raises important accountability questions. When AI systems generate mis- or dis-information, where should responsibility lie? For me, it's with the platform. buff.ly/k34MzSn #AIGovernance #PolicyResearch

We are excited to share the program for our fully online @eliterature.bsky.social ELO 2026 Conference, coming up this July! Check it out and consider registering to join us if you haven't - it is free for all ELO members! stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/comb...

"The goal of the online harms legislative framework is to make online platforms safer for everyone in Canada, especially children." What should success look like for online safety legislation? Reduced exposure to harmful content? Better platform accountability?

Ontario's #HigherEd funding debate often focuses on deficits and enrolment. But the larger #publicpolicy question is if the province's funding model aligns with what it expects universities to deliver. Public institutions can't be asked to do more with less indefinitely. thelocal.to/ontario-post...

"'All of these terms, 'hot girls read' included, were pieces of a collective language built by thousands of readers interacting in the bookish spaces.'" lithub.com/a-content-cr...

Happy "Carter Hart lost the Stanley Cup finals" to all who celebrate 🎉

Widely cited measures of AI exposure “give the wrong impression” about who will be most affected — and, in particular, tend to understate the impact on people without college degrees, older workers and people of color. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/b...

Canada's proposed Digital Safety legislation raises an important policy question: what obligations should platforms and AI chatbot providers have toward children? #DigitalPolicy #PublicPolicy

If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.

"to reconsider what counts as poetry in the digital era" read @kieraobbard.bsky.social's words on instapoetry scholarship in this review for ebr (electronic book review): electronicbookreview.com/publications...

The work by @supercamilla.bsky.social & co-author Eleonora Natalia Ravizza is so important, especially with the current inability of so many researchers to access PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATA on social media platforms.

1/2 @dlcplus.org is hosting a MasterClass Pop-up ahead of our mini-conference on slop and nostalgia to discuss Ryan Heuser's article "Generative Aesthetics: On Formal Stuckness in AI Verse." It will take place on Thursday, April 30th at 10 a.m. EST. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Reposting this in the hopes it reaches Computational social science peeps. This is perhaps a more hot topic in that field than digital humanities. Thank you!

This is one way to get people to talk & think about Pinterest again. "Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16." techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/p...

“Metacognitive skills will be very important—flexibility, adaptability, experimentation, thinking critically, being able to challenge things…“For that, a traditional liberal-arts education is really important.” fortune.com/2026/03/17/l...

Just in case you need some good news today: researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (primary ingredient in vinegar) using the sun. This has the potential to really help us reduce plastic waste. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/w...

If you’re thinking about how sexual violence, social movements, and accountability today, read this brilliant Sara Ahmed essay on the difference between consequences and punishment. I recommend this essay to people grappling with accountability proceedings more than any other.

Our new issue is live!! Go read and interact with remediatelitmag.xyz/issue5 today!!

Polar bears and seals. Florko et al. Top-down and bottom-up processes jointly explain mesopredator movement and foraging ecology. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪

If you're an aspiring picture book author, you can bring your manuscript to Indigo-Conestoga Mall for a free critique by UWaterloo English prof and picture book author Dr. Jennifer Harris. March 18, 11am-2pm, Conestoga Mall, Waterloo. tinyurl.com/mw6jt6wc

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Is AI Making College Students Dumber? Ronny Chieng Investigates | The Daily Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ps...

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [LUTE SOLO] 🎶

Wrote about Danielle Steel, AI, real subsumption, and the Slop Novel substack.com/home/post/p-...

The deadline to submit to our mini-conference on SLOP and NOSTALGIA is approaching this weekend! Submit your abstract by March 14th using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This week, my little Floof came face to face with a pigeon - his first encounter! He was very brave until the sliding door was opened a crack, and then very happy to hide behind our legs and just watch the pigeon from afar.

Submit to one of the 4 ELO Awards. Nominate a person or a work by March 9!Submit to one of the 4 ELO Awards. Nominate a person or a work by March 9! These cash prizes come with much digital literary celebration and acclaim! eliterature.org/elo-awards/

Newsmakers: The CRTC must stand up for local news against Meta www.chch.com/chch-news/ne...

Grammarly's new "Expert Review" tool uses AI to simulate feedback from famous authors and academics, including those who died decades ago. “These are not expert reviews, because there are no ‘experts’ involved in producing them,” says historian @ceaubin.com. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

This May, I'll be co-leading a workshop titled Making: A Feminist Praxis at the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops with @antimony27.bsky.social - register and join us! @paulbarrett1.bsky.social #DHMakes www.eventbrite.ca/e/dhguelph-s...

Presenting tomorrow at the SIGNAL Summit on an arts-based project about Remixing Misogyny in academia and beyond, specifically with responses to #Instapoetry. Join me if you can! uwaterloo.ca/signal-netwo...

The SIGNAL March Summit features people working at the intersections of gender justice, digital media, technology, and social futures. March 4-6, UWaterloo. Registration, schedule, and information: tinyurl.com/2efrbvwr

CFP: International Shaw Society Symposium, July 24-26 at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake. CFP Deadline: March 31. shawsociety.org/events/calls...

The irony is hard to miss: the people building tomorrow’s technology know that human skills (liberal arts) matter most in the long run, yet the broader educational system trains everyone else to be technical specialists (STEM). www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Today Feb 28 is the extended deadline for ELO26! Don't miss your chance to submit to this all online gathering!

If an AI can go to school for you, what’s the point of going to school? Matthew Kirschenbaum, who teaches English at UVA, says that the attractiveness of agentic AI programs like Einstein is a symptom of a decades-long trend toward a transactive model of education. www.404media.co/whats-the-po...

games joyce and he games instead of writing densely layered books

This International Polar Bear Day, help protect moms and cubs by sharing what we know about polar bear denning. Decision-makers and communities around the world are making plans that could impact denning habitat. By sharing the science, you support informed decision making. pbears.org/4cMM9Jq

In an interview with ABC News, Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, was asked whether she would choose to study literature again, knowing what she now knows about her future in AI. Answer: yes! www.finalroundai.com/blog/anthrop...

An interesting new trend in the events world: "Soft socializing," where events focus on experiences and activities instead of networking. www.eventbrite.com/blog/social-...

Very much looking forward to the SIGNAL Summit and this panel! Join us if you can.