What, if any, agency do we as librarians have when it comes to AI? Join us for a critical conversation about AI in librarianship, featuring Maria T. Accardi, Sam Popowich, @kslater.bsky.social & Tessa Withorn libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/a-cri...

Going to tell my grand kids this is what irony means.

What is your Voight-Kampff test? I like asking about basic colour theory

I've been making more progress on my APC entitlement viewer: brock-apc-info.streamlit.app This includes adding a 'more information' link to a recent publication that might be useful. 😏

🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷 They are holding it down.

@teutsmcgroots.bsky.social Sorry about your team today...

Running deepseek-r1 locally with ollama and openwebui and I asked what day of the week a historical date was. It 'reasoned for 45 minutes' about 9000 words worth before I stopped it. pastebin.com/2yVdPgs0

I'm building an APC discount browser. I'm very much inspired by CollectionBuilder. Turns a spreadsheet into a digital exhibit, and you can do it all without hosting anything yourself (you need Google and GH). Same design philosophy for my thing: brock-apc-info.streamlit.app 1/2

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Hey 📚 friends, the slides, text, and bonus content from my @capal-acbes.bsky.social Conference Keynote talk are now available: copystar.itch.io/now-is-the-t...

Now is the Time of Facing Monsters by Mita Williams

CAPAL 2026 Keynote

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You know, I can't wait for all of the spicy librarian hot takes that will be published after everyone gets their hands on the Government of Canada produced 'AI literacy' training material.

I bought this the other week. Bad side effect is that the fam will not be seen in public with me when I'm wearing it.

Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2

A Regional College Laid Off All Its Librarians in 2024. Now It Has to Hire Them Back.

Western Illinois University claimed the library was not an academic program when it essentially was, an arbitrator has ruled, and therefore failed to follow the correct process for eliminating the job...

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I used to just add DOIs to my Academia .edu profile, just in case people find me there. Just tried to do that with a recent paper and it looks like the only way is to actually upload a PDF. No metadata only allowed. 1 / 2

Does AI really hallucinate? I submit the screen cap below as evidence. Neither of the two links in the hover talks about "95%" anything.

Gonna watch the Spider-Noir. Gonna do it in the Black and White edition I think.

A new special edition of the CAUT Journal guest co-edited by @profsavage.bsky.social & Susan Spronk all about organizing for power in Canada’s university sector is now online! Read it at journal.caut.ca

New issue of CAUT Journal just dropped: journal.caut.ca/index.php/ca... (How do I know this? I'm the Managing Editor so I pushed the button) #CDNPSE

📣 Call for Participants: 2026 Librarians’ Research Institute 🗓️ June 22–25 @ University of New Brunswick Build research skills, develop your research project & connect with librarian-researchers across Canada. 📌 Apply by April 16 🔗 www.carl-abrc.ca/news/call-fo... #AcademicLibraries #Research

Call for Participants: 2026 Librarians’ Research Institute - Canadian Association of Research Libraries

March 25, 2026 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is now accepting nominations for participants for the 2026 Librarians’ Research Institute. Participants will attend a four-day In...

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In early spring, #ResearchRoundup highlights a dataset on Blue-spotted Salamanders, which begin migrating despite sub-zero body temperatures. Explore this dataset by @tattersallg.bsky.social and @giacometti.bsky.social from @brocku.ca here: doi.org/10.5683/SP3/...

Don't forget the CJAL CFP is due soon! CJAL special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines details here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... Questions? Just lemme know. #lis #libraries #cfp #library

As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.

For #OAweek this year we published a report based on @OpenAlex@mastodon.social data that highlights how much OA we publish and how much money was spent on APCs last academic year. elibtronic.github.io/2025_state_o...

hello library workers. I am also a library worker. I would like to announce that the Code4Lib North sort-of-conference is this December 3-4th at McMaster University in Hamilton. Come on by if you got the gumption. Signup/info (info still be fleshed - signup is live though) at wiki.code4lib.org/North

New CFP from Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship for a special issue entitled: Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. I'm one of the guest editors and I would love to see your submission. HMU if you have questions! cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #lis

I was on a picket line today.

Brock University Faculty Association@bufa.bsky.social · last yr.

@bufa.bsky.social Executive stands in #solidarity with @opseusefpo.bsky.social! #onpse #StrikeSupport #SaveOurColleges

Screen shots are my love language.

📢Join us Aug 27 @ 1PM ET for the Canadian Repositories CoP's Article Release Party kickoff! 🌟 We’ll explore how institutional repositories can better support community-based research, featuring a talk by Robyn Hall (MacEwan). 🔗 Details and registration: www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-pa...

According to some DOI analysis that I'm doing, someone at MPOW has published over 200 'journal articles' that have a CrossRef DOI. This is year to date! github.com/elibtronic/g...

This is a glass plate slide I saw at the museum in Amsterdam. I like how pagan it is.

Apparently the point of this is that you are not supposed to like the food and abundance, but to look at Jesus giving a sermon in the background. *Jim eyes to camera*