yeah, my “millennial anthem” was just Night Ripper, which i listened to obsessively in 2005/2006

RCMP’s justification for mandatory metadata retention? The ability to track everyone in the vicinity of a crime scene. In other words, Bill C-22 will create a national surveillance map capable of tracing where you have been and with whom you communicate.

These cancellations can be read in the context of an institution in financial trouble, but they also follow the general trend in the UK away from transformative agreements. Researchers will still have access through subscriptions and can publish their work OA through other means.

At a conference. Somebody just asked if this being held under "Chowderhouse rules" Folks, that's what we are calling it from now on.

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional, issues preliminary injunction requiring compliance with the law. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, opens his opinion with an Orwell quote.

My hottest parenting take is that Raffi is not only the great to ever do it, but he’ll probably never be bested. Michael Phelps-ass children’s songwriter.

Chicago map lovers (you know who you are and there are too many of you to tag), look what's just been released! node.uchicago.edu/collection/m...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is simply a phenomenal writer.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Desk Set is one of my favorites! Delightful and astonishingly great costumes and designs plus timely lessons about how humans are better thinkers than machines

Slightly increase a band Tankini Kill

The Ubyssey broke the story before any other journalists. ubyssey.ca/news/canvas-...

Anthropic on X: "We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation." So we wrote that AI might be evil and then they trained the AI on that text, so it was evil.

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PKP is hiring! Associate Director of Publishing Services Bring your leadership experience and business savvy to our team. Help advance the world's most widely used scholarly publishing platform! If you don't fit the job description 100% you should apply anyway! pkp.sfu.ca/2026/05/07/p...

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"The culmination of an intense semester of research + creative experimentation, New School students, led by acclaimed saxophonist + composer Jane Ira Bloom, present new music + theater works inspired by + incorporating the Library’s archives."

Darth Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe 2023

"we call out these violations of the fundamental freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, and interference with the freedom of expression and civic space of the entire RightsCon community"

POSTDOC ALERT!

this is when i felt like, "we're living in the future."

My favourite newsletter continues to be my favourite. "Catastrophically deadass backwards wrong."

Additionally: very good question.

pls repost! Are you an academic or someone who has published academically who has requested name changes in your works because you were married (or used to go by a former name)? please let me know via reply/DM/the contact form on my website if you're willing to chat about! #AcademicChatter 🗂️🗃️📜📚

Missed the opportunity to also yell: INVEST IN PUBLIC MEDIA AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

Big shout out to CBC Archives for having all the Massey lectures streamable here - www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

I had an opportunity recently to make a submission to the People’s Consultation on AI, a Canadian grassroots response to a chaotic gov consultation. I focused on 2 points and this was one - if there’s no space for rejection, consultation is performance. www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/wp-content/u...

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

This bumper special issue was an absolute joy to co-edit. Get stuck in!

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

“Journal prestige is the fast food of research assessment” - Mylene Deschesnes, FRQ. ❤️❤️❤️

I agree wholeheartedly with Sam. "if your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money" The CRUK approach will badly harm their patient advocates.

"'Nobody's advocating that children should have access to inappropriate materials, least of all libraries...This is a non-existent problem that the province is using as a ploy to bring radical overreach in terms of controlling libraries.'" #abpoli #cdnpoli

To paraphrase the great @kklevine.bsky.social, when we feel friction, we are learning.

OMiG. IYKYK.

this is EXCELLENT.

Dear whoever in Chicago PL implemented this: please to be pitching a code4lib talk next year walking everyone through how you did it blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c... 📚

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

The jackals are coming for Alberta's public libraries next. #abpoli #cdnpoli

legit lol

Felt fitting to me that one of the last @copim.bsky.social plenary interventions at #UKSG2026 came via @simonxix.com's clear and direct call to remember that, as we have always argued, open access without open infrastructures -- e.g. in libraries, in research -- means little. Such a great talk.

Stephen Lewis eulogizing Jack Layton in 2011: "Inevitably, we fastened on those last memorable lines about 'hope, optimism and love', but the letter was at its heart a manifesto for social democracy"

That you might make something different of yourself, choose to be otherwise, is the greatest imaginable threat to the fascists who wish to order the state, indeed the world, as one big household with one strong father. So an attack on trans folks is an attack on us all. We must defend our neighbors.

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.