⬆️ With colleagues involved in Canada’s Major Scientific Initiatives / en compagnie de collègues des grandes initiatives scientifiques du Canada : @natalieharrower.bsky.social - @crdcn.bsky.social @robannan.bsky.social - @genomecanada.ca @fbouchard.bsky.social - @umontreal.ca

A warm welcome to all AAB members! Thrilled to have you on board! @amaddi.bsky.social, Amanda Blatch-Jones, Eduarda Centeno, Emmanuel Boakye, @emckiernan.bsky.social, Julia Priess Buchheit, @natalieharrower.bsky.social, Nchangwi Munung, Neil Jacobs, Timothy Errington 👉 www.grios.org/academic-adv...

📊 Today, @chiefscican.bsky.social has released Towards a National Scientific Data Governance Framework with recommendations to ensure research data is managed responsibly and used to benefit everyone. CRDCN's @natalieharrower.bsky.social contributed as an expert panelist. 🔗https://buff.ly/mFeCc4c

I just walked into the departures area at an airport (at home) and my phone provider texted me with roaming info. I’m nowhere near a border 🧐

Day 2 of CRDCN 2025 is well underway! Board member and Academic Director of the @nb-rdc.bsky.social Ted McDonald speaks at the plenary session “Data management and supporting FAIRly restricted data” alongside James Doiron, Alexandra Cooper and Kevin Read, and moderator @natalieharrower.bsky.social.

US set to close office responsible for global science and technology sciencebusiness.net/internationa...

50% tariffs on one of the world’s poorest countries. The disgust is real.

Trump tariffs could undermine Brexit deal in Northern Ireland “A former EU commissioner has questioned whether Trump thought through his plan’s effect on the peace process brokered by the US almost 30 years ago.” What makes anyone think that he *would* have thought this through??

Canadian universities, please respond this way, thank you. jrnl.ie/6662142

Really excited to be part of this panel on Canada’s national research infrastructures!

Randomly came across this guide to Canadian etiquette and it’s so specific and accurate! I didn’t realize some of these were specific to Canadians - eg how a gift is also it always accompanied by a card. culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/canadian-cul....

@marjoriessister.bsky.social hello, friend.

Day ONE of the next four years starts with stupid, cruel, vindictive and dangerous. Read it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

We're delighted to share our new Web Archiving Factsheet with the BlueSky community. This cutting-edge new preservation capability means the DRI can digitally capture websites or content published on the web, to act as a record. Find out more: dri.ie/news/factshe...

Our Jan newsletter is out now! With news of our 2025 #CommunityArchive Scheme winners, tips on the creative reuse of digital collections, and the latest #OpenResearch news, read the latest issue here: mailchi.mp/ria/dri-jan-... Subscribe: dri.ie/dri-friends-... #DigiPresNews

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan

I only crossed paths with Kathryn McWilliams briefly - her death is a huge loss to research. Her career was incredibly impressive and I was so moved by these words in her obituary: www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/k...

"They came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Duo goes Meta

Hard to express the delight and surprise of this clip in the kid’s film That Christmas! If you know, you know. 🤣#IrishMemes #Don’tMakeUnnecessaryJournies

🌟Exciting Opportunity: 20 PhD Scholarships Available! These include PhD in AI & Journalism/Media. 🔗 Start Date October 2025 🗓️ Application Deadline 31 January 2025 👉 APPLY tinyurl.com/5xafkuan

@jehalli.bsky.social you are looking very small, furry and cuddly here 🤗. Welcome to Bluesky!

The CRDCN new Strategic Plan is out! Here's what we will get up to over the next five years: FR: doi.org/10.71548/ceb... EN: doi.org/10.71548/v8n... More info: crdcn.ca

Win free books. Awesome books. Books with cats. Free. 🐾🐾🐾

Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

McMaster gives community organizations easy access to research dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/mcm... McMaster University Libraries is supporting Ontario communities through a program that gives non-profit and charitable organizations free access to academic journals and research.

No one will email you persistently or message or call or text to urge you to do the work that is truest to yourself and deepest within your imagination, the work you set out to do.

AOC has become the first user to hit 1,000,000 followers on Bluesky

The European Federation of Journalists—the largest organization of journalists in Europe—announced that they’ll stop posting on Twitter as of January 20, 2025: “We can no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

Launching this today! It’s open access, so everyone can enjoy the work within.

Lately I’ve found myself carrying around 75% of my body weight for one timed minute every time I go to the gym. If I carry it for two minutes do I double my lifespan? I need to quit the internet.

295,000 journalists from 44 countries will stop posting content on X. We are making change and the world has spoken. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

I wish Google would stop offering the AI summaries at the top do a search. It’s crap and wastes my time.

Omg humans are the best. Really think about it - Empathy has power. —“Shoppers can be made to feel sorry for single bananas, study finds”

Breaking News: Australia has passed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 16, one of the world’s most comprehensive measures aimed at safeguarding young people from potential hazards online. nyti.ms/3VbiGzc

we knelt. & wept we wrung the wet the sweat / we racked our lips we rang for words to ward / —Franny Choi

My Italian Duolingo lesson today was a story about an elderly gay couple and the song playing when they first met. This tiny thing has made me disproportionately happy!

My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously. "Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng.bsky.social #scisky #Science #REVIEW Open Access www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has decided it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X #Xodus #disinformation europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/11...

Twitter icon gone from the top right spot on my phone Home screen. It’s held that place for over a decade. Something better in that spot now.

*learns about digital preservation for the first time* “why isn’t anyone talking about this???” read outside your own field, my dudes

ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights — the work will interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Panel went well. Everyone in the room (researchers, RI providers, funders and government) agreed with our points on what we need. How we will we get there is the next question.

Opening session of #CSPC2024. My panel is up next and I have to say I’m super excited for the topic, but also … one my my fellow panellists is NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Art MacDonald. How cool is that?!

Scrolling through those I follow on Twitter to find them here, and sadly came upon this. I had not idea Pol was ex-Dept Finance! He was the lovely man to took photos and wrote a blog about half the things we did at the Digital Repository of Ireland/Royal Irish Academy. RIP, Pol.

So everybody’s here, now?

#CSPC2023 panel on Fostering European partnerships site.pheedloop.com/event/CSPC2023… notes that in a study on international partnerships for Canadian SMEs, the most difficult part was finding the right partner (higher than supply chain, access to funding, or regulatory issues). Surprising.