I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

New Statistics Canada report shows there's been an increase in gun-related femicides in Canada. This is a major reason why rural, remote and Northern women have such high rates of femicide, as I outlined to the Parliamentary committee in 2024 ⬇️ Report: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-00...

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · last yr.

When we talk about guns + violence against women in Canada, most people think Polytechnique. But most women shot to death in Canada live rurally & were killed by a legally owned hunting rifle. Testified to Parliament last fall outlining why rural women are at disproportionate risk of femicide.

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

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How power is conceptualized and operationalized in evidence-based intervention implementation: a scoping review #impsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How power is conceptualized and operationalized in evidence-based intervention implementation: a scoping review - Implementation Science

Background The potential for implementation science (IS) to address health inequities is limited by insufficient attention to power. Although the field emphasizes context, it remains unclear how best ...

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Dentist & journalist Zain Azhar documents how extreme heat is turning Pakistani farmworkers’ mouths into hostile environments for their own teeth: "This was environmental collapse writing itself directly into human biological systems." This story first appeared on @earthislandjournal.bsky.social.

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented pH readings below 5.5 in 42 of my 73 climate-exposed…

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Power Lines Drawing #150 (Hazel Park, MI) marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...

If you teach research methods and haven’t considered it, I suggest including material on the impact of data centers. I scheduled the topic under the section on research ethics.

If you've ever thought to yourself, "I wish there were a theorist of ecological communism who also made great wallpaper," then I have an article just for you. doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Oh yeah, this shit is happening and it absolutely cannot be allowed. This is essentially going to shut down book access in a number of facilities. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Correctional service cutting librarians at federal prisons, in move criticized by advocates | CBC News

The Correctional Service of Canada is finalizing plans to cut all prison librarian positions at federal institutions, in a move that advocates say violates human rights and will actively harm efforts ...

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International governmental organizations (IGOs) typically do not directly produce new scientific knowledge, but rely on research of external scientists. Astanai et al. studied the pathways of research to #IGO documents and found a small group of highly-IGO-cited scientists doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Art Nouveau jewllery designed by Glasgow School artist Frances Macdonald (1873 –1921) #WomensArt

There is a lot more in the paper. This is a culmination of our decade-long work in metascience, and this is a strong result. We have been pushing back against simplistic representations of science and arguing for principled modeling instead of rhetorical use of ad hoc tools. This paper shows why.

The Difference Between "Replicable" and "Not replicable" is not Itself Scientifically Replicable

Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non...

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Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest. From journalist Gabrielle Bruney: "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

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Persistent challenges continually hinder effective knowledge exchange/use in sustainability contexts. #Knowledge #brokers can help but they cope with ethical issues. @chriscvitanovic.bsky.social et al. set out 12 principles & a suite of practices to offer guidance for brokers doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

👀 for slide graphics, I happened upon this fantastic drawing by (Tulane) Newcomb College Art School student A. Hughes, 1942-9, via Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) website has been redesigned with new user‑friendly graphics and improved navigation to ensure the tools and resources are accessible and meaningful for users. Check out the new and improved website here: cfirguide.org #ImpSci #CFIR

Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) is a determinant framework that includes constructs from many implementation theories, models, and frameworks; it is used to predict or ex...

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A collaborative approach to ethics review in applied and multi-actor work.🧪🌍 For independent researchers and evaluators without ready access to institutional review, this page outlines a practical peer review model that makes ethical judgement visible. learningforsustainability.net/human-ethics...

Human ethics for independent researchers and evaluators

Introduces human ethics as a practical foundation for independent research and evaluation, with guidance, protocols, and reflective resources for applied and participatory work.

learningforsustainability.net

"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..."

"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...

Participatory content analysis

By Andréanne Chu Breton-Carbonneau. How can participatory action research with trusted community-based organizations ensure that communities most impacted take part in interpretating the data, turn…

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“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...

From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis

Against the gamblification of the world.

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‘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...

The Stigma of self-report in health research: Time to reconsider what counts as “Objective”

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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...

Indicators, judgement, and adaptation in complex systems

A reflective post on how indicators are used in practice and how revisiting indicators can help learning and adaptation.

learningforsustainability.net

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

Happy Public Domain Day 2026!

Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.

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“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

Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism — Resources for today's policymakers

By Bianca Wylie In 2021, in the Journal of Social Computing, historian Jonnie Penn made the argument for “Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize.” As he summarizes:   “Tech critics become...

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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/...

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

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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.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

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...

Redefining Arctic research with equity at the center - Permafrost Pathways

Indigenous leadership and equitable partnerships must determine the future of Arctic science.

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"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..."

Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”

1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...

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