Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

The North American Conference on British Studies has been doing a really enjoyable series on AI and its effects in the field and this Kevin Lambert piece is well worth a read www.nacbs.org/post/data-is...

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

"Active walking, looking around, being present... sharpens scrutiny and often unnerves. How does one put a name to something that defeats cellphone photograph-and-ask features? Older vocabularies matter because they sharpen present perception rather than merely explaining the past..."

This is why *all* researchers need reflexivity--not just qualitative ones. Our training and our backgrounds and our preexisting beliefs shape the research questions we ask, the methods decisions we make (eg, variables, models, or missing data strategies), and the way we interpret findings.

"Participatory content analysis is a final step in participatory action research and enables a community research team to analyze data to identify content themes, visually map relationships, and derive actionable insights based on local knowledge and lived expertise." i2insights.org/2026/02/03/p...

“It’s this frictionless element of modern betting that is perhaps the most nefarious aspect of all. And it is something that addiction experts see as a fatal flaw.” www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

‘Self-report’ is mindlessly stigmatised in quantitative health research in the pursuit of ‘objectivity’ so I wrote a piece reflecting on our need to do better. Interested to hear your views about this too. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Indicators are often treated as neutral. In practice, they only make sense through judgement, conversation, and institutional context 🧪 Why indicators need to be revisited if they are to support constructive adaptation rather than constrain it. learningforsustainability.net/post/indicat...

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

“There is an ascendant and erroneous idea that [sovereignty] means funding the Canadian tech sector. … There is scant time allotted to questioning the foundational assumption that more technology, or Canadian copies of it, are beneficial for sovereignty, or beneficial at all.” — @biancawylie.com

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.

Heck yeah!! I know some of the people quoted here and I am so fricking proud to say they come from my region!! No research on us without us 💜 permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/redefining-a...

"To attempt to find useful information + instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product... You think about how different it all was: when pages loaded quickly, half the internet wasn’t locked behind paywalls..."

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Medieval book carousels

"But to call the crime femicide — a sex- or gender-specific term — is in fact a radical rethink in a climate of neutrality that too often masks the disproportionate burden women and girls bear for some forms of male violence."

Love @colindickey.com's cultural criticism and this is a really intriguing four-part series on the weird, clunky, void spaces proliterating around us, which he (rightly!) connects to a legacy of gothic aesthetics.

A marvelous thread of textile designs! Makes me think of a possible assignment for next year's Data Visualization with Textiles: put together a selection of patterns/stitches/etc. and have students pick some and think about how they'd work them to represent data. #DHmakes

In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:

🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉 @michaelapawley.bsky.social, a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, reflects on the emotional challenges of working with sensitive secondary data and shares practical steps for researcher wellbeing. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/sensitive-da...

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

. @audreywatters.bsky.social on AI+grief: 'In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were forced to use a tech that severs us from creative expression, dignity, truth. There is no choice, we're told. "Get over it." "Move on."'

Friends! With 2 weeks till 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving, I'm asking for your help to get my FREE cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many people as possible. Please share here and elsewhere, and let your local food pantries know about it so they can give out the URL during turkey drives! ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

Pushing for open access is not enough. We need a push to end profit.

A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.

There is so much opportunity in the new alt media! There is so much potential in those who do not want to be prisoner to a Substack platform that is actively fighting their social goals. www.anildash.com/2024/06/14/t...

Super interesting

The federal government is currently making an announcement about new funding for women and 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations. This pre-budget announcement (and the new funding) is happening *entirely* because of all the public outcry and pressure we've mounted over the last few months re: cutting WAGE by 81%

As science is key to finding solutions to many issues today, #science #communication has been “catapulted” into prominence globally. Fischer et al. propose a framework consisting of 4 ideal-types for cross-county comparative study of science communication @jscicom.bsky.social doi.org/10.22323/148...

"Lalonde criticized the lack of attention to women’s issues more generally during the federal election. “That was a huge red flag that we saw in the election season, and we’ve seen it played out since women are not part of the conversation,” Lalonde said."

“Of all the crappy funding practices funders sometimes pull, requiring nonprofits to justify line items variances on their financial reports is one of the most archaic, inane, insipid, ludicrous, and banal of them all.”

Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...

The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation. 🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

. @sararribas.bsky.social's String Data Art exhibit represents ~2 years of work, starting w/physical archival research; noticing patterns of social artistic relationships around a major Flamenco event in Spain in 1922. Towards public humanities, how to make sense of large amount of people+info? +

Ottawa! Please spread the word! We need to show our elected officials that "We'll get to equality once we figure out tariffs, balance the budget, etc." is all kinds of BS. Ottawa's "Take Back the Night" march starts at Minto Park at 6pm that night and will meet up with this event on the Hill.

Not everything on the Internet is real & the growing use of #AI compounds the problem. Guerrero-Casado et al. highlight 3 issues: pervasive social media use, anthropomorphizing animal behaviour, & disconnection from #nature. #Ocean #literacy is key! @conbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

On the security envelope and art inspired by it :)

The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research #CFIR User Guide: a five-step guide for conducting implementation research using the framework #impsci implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Good #i2S post on social mechanisms leading to fake interdisciplinary collaborations: Irresponsible project management, cognitive oversights, and disciplinary self-promotion in the name of interdisciplinarity #collaboration i2insights.org/2025/08/12/f...

Helpful framework for youth knowledge mobilization, including factors that influence the diversity of approaches #KMb #CER

💥New: What makes research truly #transdisciplinary? While there’s no single definition of “transdisciplinary research,” Helen Buckley Woods @rorinstitute.bsky.social identifies three core elements: partnerships, values & impact. How these are understood depends on each research community & funder.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘With the conclusion of current funding programs, WAGE Canada’s budget is set to decline by a whopping 80% between 2024-25 and 2027-28’ @policyalternatives.ca @kjscott.bsky.social

Linking-relinking tool for developing shared awareness of team member research interests and expertise #collaboration #KMb - via #i2S i2insights.org/2025/07/22/s...

On telephone poles as public communication infrastructure: scaffolds for private utilities + surveillance tech + guerilla networks, substrates for flyers (See also Lisa Gitelman, Lisa Parks, Rory Solomon, James Purdon, and me; citations below 👇)

The draft Plastics Treaty has 3 sets of “Principles & Approaches, only 1 of which includes “knowledge of Indigenous Peoples. Even then, it includes Indigenous *knowledge* to the marked exclusion of Indigenous *Peoples*. A better way starts with Indigenous rights. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...