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University Librarian, Thompson Rivers University. Rides her bike with her elbows up π¨π¦
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Trish Greenhalgh
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Contacted by an academic journal called The Intelligent Journal of X. Asking me to review a paper about AI, clearly written by AI, which is garbage from start to finish. I have clearly been selected by AI. Should I a) ask AI to peer review the paper, b) review the paper, c) report the journal?
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Emanuel Maiberg
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
βWith fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.β
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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Barenaked Ladies to perform in Kamloops during annual CPKC Holiday Train stop
KAMLOOPS - The CPKC Holiday Train will make its annual stop in the City of Kamloops on Dec. 18 this year.The T...
https://cfjctoday.com/2025/10/12/barenaked-ladies-to-perform-in-kamloops-during-annual-cpkc-holiday-train-stop/
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Jake Wright
14 days ago
Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your studentsβ work isnβt worth engaging with. And if thatβs how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?
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Carl Zimmer
16 days ago
Today my
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colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this yearβs cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link:
nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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American Library Association
19 days ago
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off
#BannedBooksWeek
, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks
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Banned Books Week
19 days ago
"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom."
#BannedBooksWeek
honorary chair
@georgetakei.bsky.social
encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read!
#CensorshipIsSo1984
youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...
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George Takei, Banned Books Week 2025 Honorary Chair
YouTube video by Banned Books Week
https://youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?si=a1eJZPNb9ECM2IvO
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Molly Jong-Fast
20 days ago
They ruined Google search for nothing
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Kit Yates
25 days ago
First op-ed for
@LiveScience.com
on my
@absw.bsky.social
media fellowship. "Whether good science is swamped by a quagmire of poor quality studies depends on the integrity of researchers and the awareness of the organizations which facilitate and fund it."
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Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science β here's what we need to do to stop it
Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false representation.
https://www.livescience.com/human-behavior/citation-cartels-ghost-writing-and-fake-peer-review-how-fraud-is-causing-a-crisis-in-science-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-opinion
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24 days ago
Beloved librarian
@mychal3ts.bsky.social
will take the helm as host of the reboot of 'Reading Rainbow' when it returns this Saturday, October 4! π€©π Read more:
https://bit.ly/3WelbAT
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Timothy Caulfield
25 days ago
Great resource for all! How to gauge the quality of a research study: 13 questions journalists should ask
journalistsresource.org/media/good-r...
Eg: - peer reviewed? - top-tier academic journal? - other scholars trust this work? - funding? - credentials? - COI? - sample size? - methods?
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13 questions journalists should ask to gauge research quality
Asking these 13 questions can help journalists spot red flags in research, including studies that policymakers cite to defend their stances.
https://journalistsresource.org/media/good-research-bad-quality-journalism-tips/
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Trish Greenhalgh
28 days ago
Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if theyβre >3 months old. Itβs an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. Itβs one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your childβs distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.
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H S Rivney, novelist
28 days ago
Tylenol is safe. It is safer than aspirin for fever, doesnβt mess with your blood, your kidneys, itβs not addictive.
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 1 month ago
Ooh - my new paper on case study is out! Whatβs a case study, how do you do one, how do you spot a good one? Includes niche examples like the REF impact case study (though itβs mainly about research case studies).
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Retraction Watch
about 1 month ago
Math has publication fraud, too. For a long time, mathematicians thought that as long as they keep away from predatory journals or paper mills, the problem does not affect them. This turned out to be wrong.
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Math has publication fraud, too
Ilka AgricolaCredit: Thorsten Richter Scholarly publishing in mathematics is unlike many other fields, marked by fewer papers, fewer coauthors per paper and fewer citations. But that doesnβt mean tβ¦
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/09/24/math-has-publication-fraud-too/
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Ian Linkletter
about 1 month ago
Four Canadian Privacy Commissioners investigated TikTok and found that the measures in place to keep children off the platform and prevent the collection and use of their sensitive personal information for profiling and targeting purposes were inadequate. Full report:
www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...
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https://www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/investigation-reports/3018
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Timothy Caulfield
about 2 months ago
Given rise of bunk journals, important issue...π "...journalists have relatively limited awareness and/or concern about predatory journals." Media should be concerned! How Journalists Navigate Predatory Journals
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
by βͺ@fleerackers.bsky.socialβ¬ et al.
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βiβd Like to Think Iβd be Able to Spot oneβ: How Journalists Navigate Predatory Journals
Predatory journalsβor journals that prioritize profits over editorial and publication best practicesβare becoming more common, raising concerns about the integrity of the scholarly record. Such jou...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2025.2551984
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Donna Fox
about 2 months ago
Also, repeating one of my early viral posts on this site: Parents do not have rights. Parents have responsibilities. CHILDREN have rights.
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John Thornhill
about 2 months ago
And the best Google killer in AI search is⦠Google (according to this
@washingtonpost.com
study)
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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PEIPolitical π¨π¦
about 2 months ago
Andrea C. Love, PhD -
#cdnpoli
mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasnβt possible before.
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Lillian Darby
about 2 months ago
Google has been terrible for several years with it's search engine decaying in quality month after month, but if it's now elevating bigoted sources, it's basically lost all reliability & credibility to do the most simple work it hasn't been great at since like 2013
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Google Sends Parents of LGBTQ Kids to Conversion Therapy Websites. Why?
We asked Americans to Google five queries looking for resources for LGBTQ people who are struggling. Far-right religious groups dominated the results.
https://open.substack.com/pub/uncloseted/p/google-sends-parents-of-lgbtq-kids?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5vtne5
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Michelle Gamage
about 2 months ago
Babe, wake up. Alberta just dropped the sickest summer reads book list ever:
theijf.org/search-edmon...
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Search Edmonton's full book ban list: 221 titles including Handmaid's Tale & Game of Thrones
The IJF is making the full list searchable by author and title
https://theijf.org/search-edmontons-full-book-ban-list-221-titles-including-handmaids-tale-game-of-thrones
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The Book Banners have come full force to Canada - lest you only thought this an American thing π₯π
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Jen the Feisty Librarian
about 2 months ago
I have many thoughts about this list of books but for now Iβll just say contact your MLA, the premier, the minister of education and your school trustee if you are also mad.
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Angela Spencer
about 2 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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ORCID launched more than a decade ago, but has yet to fulfil its potential
Many author-identifier profiles are βemptyβ, making it difficult to track whoβs publishing what.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02431-y
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome)
2 months ago
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
https://hannahshelley.neocities.org/blog/2025_08_13_GoogleScholar
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Retraction Watch
about 2 months ago
An Elsevier journal allowed a paper containing extensive plagiarism to remain online, while letting its authors make undisclosed revisions that masked the offense, Retraction Watch has learned.
@joelving.bsky.social
reports.
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Journal let authors make undisclosed changes that masked stolen content in paper
An Elsevier journal allowed a paper containing extensive plagiarism to remain online, while letting its authors make undisclosed revisions that masked the offense, Retraction Watch has learned. Butβ¦
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/08/26/journal-let-authors-make-undisclosed-changes-that-masked-stolen-content-in-paper/
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Paul Smaldino
6 months ago
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here:
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Timothy Caulfield
2 months ago
Despite the unending doubtmongering β especially from MAGA / MAHA universe β studies continue to show COVID vaccines have significant benefits & an impressive safety profile. Good sum by βͺ@unbiasedscipod.bsky.socialβ¬ of one recent studyπ Study:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Kelly Barnhill
2 months ago
Perfect. No notes.
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Canβt Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Update 8/8/2025 β I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. Iβve seen some comments this is a rebuttal β it wasnβt meant to be! Butβ¦
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/
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Timothy Caulfield
3 months ago
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the worldβs most cited cat
www.science.org/content/arti...
"More than 130 citations in 4 years." Meow, Larry! Oh wait. βAll you have to do is put some fake papers on ResearchGate.β And buy citations. Critical: Let's clean up research!
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How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the worldβs most cited cat
βExercise in absurdityβ reveals flaws in Google Scholarβs productivity metrics
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-easy-it-fudge-your-scientific-rank-meet-larry-world-s-most-cited-cat
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Dr. Jen Gunter
3 months ago
Addressing the challenges of misinformation about menopause. My article was just published in the Green Journal, who have made it free for all to read!
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
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Addressing the Challenges of Online Misinformation and... : Obstetrics & Gynecology
ices that are unsupported by the literature and guidelines or, in some cases, harmful. Health care professionals committed to evidence-based medicine should be aware of myths and misleading menopause-...
https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/fulltext/2025/08000/addressing_the_challenges_of_online_misinformation.3.aspx
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The Parker Library
3 months ago
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my! We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures Congrats to
@theul.bsky.social
and everyone who worked on it πππ
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
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Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-cures-completed
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City of Kamloops
3 months ago
Did you know that Riverside Park is the only designated river swimming area in Kamloops? The safest time to swim here is when a lifeguard is on duty. π
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AAUP
3 months ago
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report,Β Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
https://www.aaup.org/news/new-report-calls-faculty-control-ai-decisions
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City of Kamloops
3 months ago
Drowning is fast, silent, and often unnoticed. π Always supervise. Kids can lose consciousness in just 30 seconds. π€« Drowning doesnβt look like the movies. Thereβs usually no splashing or cries for help. π Designate a water watcher. Donβt assume someone else is watching.
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City of Kamloops
3 months ago
Did You Know that July 20β26 is National Drowning Prevention Week? Follow us all week long for water safety tips, special messages from our Junior Fire Chiefs, and more! π Reading just one of our messages this week could save your life or help you save another.
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Winnipeg Free Press
3 months ago
The University of Winnipeg is launching a first-of-its-kind course that will introduce undergraduate students to classics, religion and Indigenous studies all at once.
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New U of W project a crash course in classic and contemporary works
The University of Winnipeg is launching a first-of-its-kind course that will introduce undergraduate students to classics, religion and Indigenous studies all at once.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/07/20/new-u-of-w-project-a-crash-course-in-classic-and-contemporary-works
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Charles Logan
3 months ago
Late to this one, but Huang's conceptualization of AI literacy should make clear the term has been captured by the AI industry and its continued use should raise questions for educators about how AI literacy is being defined and, perhaps more importantly, by whom and for what ends.
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