This week's #ElertCyberavis features recent news and publications relevant to Canadian research libraries from @torontomet.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @coalitions-oa.bsky.social @mark-swartz.bsky.social @masudk.com @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social @clirnews.bsky.social and more! mailchi.mp/9c3a2c9a7eff...

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. @caut.bsky.social have started a petition to PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Sign here: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Awesome and inspiring stuff from Mita here. My favourite talk out of many great ones at the “Legacy of CCH” conference.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

Get these things out of your house arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Amazon has quietly redefined ownership as a vaguely permanent rentals

ORCID endorses the Barcelona Declaration - ORCID https://info.orcid.org/orcid-endorses-the-barcelona-declaration/

This journal is leaning hard into the discourse around open science. It's quite a good illustration of the weaponization of 'transparency' to legitimise a publishing effort.

"if you are a tenured academic, you should be devoting a bunch of your time to cultivating alternatives to the usual money-sucking journal racket."

142 - Library publishing and NISO feat. Mike Nason This week we have @ahemnason.bsky.social on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core. www.librarypunk.gay/e/142-librar...

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

New, important paper on surveillance publishing: 'The Citation Economy as a Site of Extraction for Surveillance Publishing'