Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

CTRL-Fing the Grundrisse to see if Marx ever used the word 'grift'.

I'm in a stand off with Research Accounting. They keep sending me an incorrect form to sign. I keep asking them to correct the form, and then I'll sign. They keep resending me the same form. I know I'll be the one to break. We all know I'll be the one to break.

New Manitoba Pharmacare arcane knowledge unlocked: IF your insurer enragingly cuts off coverage before Pharmacare letters are mailed out, and IF your Pharmacare deductible has been processed but not yet recieved in the mail, you can pick up a copy in person at their office (IF you can get downtown).

this is word for word what my last performance review said

I am not A Gardener, but I *love* hearing/ talking about people's plants. Bog violets? I need to know more! Kids starting seedlings in random things from the recycling bin? Pussy toes are *actually* deer resistant? Go on! We are Zone 3, anything we grow is a triumph, tell me about it!!

Cyberbullying isn’t just ‘kids being kids’, it's a growing issue with real consequences. But what if parents held the key to a safer internet? The PARTICIPATE project provides parents with tools, schools with guides and governments with data to act. Read more: link.europa.eu/6WtVh3 #SciComm 🧪

Omg it just occurred to me to see what search results are like for "Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus", and wow, the internet is well and truly cooked, let's shut it down.

If anyone is curious thanks to @theecologyprof.bsky.social , we have Dark Money in the Library!

It is so strange working with folks in very different work cultures. You're just going to... suggest a time for a meeting *tomorrow*, and hope that I and the 8 other people on this committee can meet???? Do people really live in a world where their tomorrow's aren't already booked up weeks ago?!?!

"Funding will continue to support transitional agreements, but from 2028/29 UKRI funding will focus on fully OA publishing and will no longer be available for hybrid OA." Pretty big open access policy update from UKRI. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I've had 1.5 hrs sleep, so my head is full of thoughts like "little kids looks so adorable when they wear a backpack that's 1/2 their body mass, I wonder if I can get a HUGE backpack" and "does the collegial governance equivalent of 'commoning'= 'collegialling'"?

Seriously? $3.6 billion? Mr. Carney is going to squander somewhere between $25 and $50 billion (ANOTHER galactic subsidy for Big Oil & Gas) for the construction of a fleet of icebreakers to ship fossil fuels out of Churchill. Make it make sense. #CleanEnergy www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/21/n...

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

New from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...

I'm still kind of reeling from the news that Campus Manitoba is closing down. More than *ever*, in a province with one big institution and a bunch of small ones, we need centralized supports for Higher Ed.

Agh I love good categorization so much. Like this analysis from Jonathan Band on the three different major texts on L&E for SCCR. Lovely, functional layout too from Ben Cashdan. knowledgegov.org/comparison-o...

Do any Uni hiring/ application systems have ORCID integration? It seems like it would be nice, in theory....

The federal government has ended funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. See how Indigenous leaders are standing up for the cause, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Sure, everyone loves to be smug/ disbelieving about "low information voters" and "how could they elect him for a second term?", but I heard a looooot of people yesterday talking about how the warm weather must be here to stay. You are gaslighting *yourselves* about April (/May)!!!

Get in, folks, we are Sokal-ing AI.

Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too. openletter.earth/the-worlds-c... #Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

#WeAreMUN @munfaculty.bsky.social @munfapres.bsky.social

Mad line ups for the w/c at Mission Control.

I don't enjoy a lot of Nat Geo's edutainment shows, but we've been watching enough Strangest Things lately that our kid yells "carbon date it!!!" at the screen any time something has organic components.

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Help, they are reverse engineering The Landlord's Game on the internet again... publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Shhhhhh, I'm not up at 5:30 am on the first day of Spring Break reading about librarianship.

I‘m boosting this point (there are some key areas where I diverge from Aaron in the larger thread, respectfully) but this is really true, not as a universal but as a pattern in how librarians (including me) have been situated vis-a-vis our search infrastructures, and I’d like to talk more about it

Re: last retweet. Cat magic punks make great shirts, btw. catmagicpunks.com

lmao

I'm sending out my new zine ("Mystery Science Theater 3000: Our Midwestern Heritage") to friends today. It's freely available to read on my website, violetbfox.info/mst3k/, but if you'd enjoy a print copy, just let me know!

There are a couple of Winnipeg recordings up, definitely worth checking if a public Zoom you hosted was recorded. Like this one, on retail crime: webinartv.us/watch/322c24...

I hate Leisure Guide Day so much.

I dunno, I find something charming about the current phishing attempts using University Senior Admin's names - welding equipment, a trailer. Feels very wholesome prairie-ish.

New Neurosis, my partner says casually to me, as if I haven't discovered a new one every day.

"The only way to address the reliance on a journal’s brand as a proxy for quality was to take a recognized signifier and destroy that signification." Nice piece. I still have so much respect for eLife's decision to jeopardise its prestige in order to show that journal prestige is bad for science.

Question for US Copyright folks - if an author has approached a rights holder for reproduction rights (for an academic book) and been denied because the book is critical of the work, would that impact a fair use justification in either direction?

This has reminded me of the time our local IMAX (RIP) had old James Bond films on, and in the middle of the Junkanoo scene in Thunderball, a dog very clearly lifts a leg and has a nice massive piss.

Ig Nobel prizes moving to Europe because US 'unsafe' to visit

(And there, just at the end, funding is in jeopardy because of the CDC cuts...)

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

It's been a really great time to have not slept for a full three days for medical reasons. youtu.be/TmosS8G03Y8?...

As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.

Higher Ed lives! UWinnipeg is posting two tenure track positions in Human Rights: Focus on digital security/ AI Ethics: www.northstarats.com/University-o... Joint teaching in Peace & Conflict Studies: www.northstarats.com/University-o...

Is this bad

It’s been a year since we launched the science IRL mini-grant program. Wanna see what our grantees got up to?? Check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/scienc... We’ll be doing this program again in 2026, keep an eye out for the announcement soon!

!! Something I've been working on for a year is finally live!! A report from @eff.org , @justjournalism.bsky.social, and IPVM geared toward journalists but important for law makers and the general public decoding the nefarious ways police and surveillance tech gets sold, marketed, and deployed. 🧵

Winnipeg, this is your reading for the day! Follow the delegations against Councillor Duncan’s disastrous anti-protest bylaw below