This is a genuine honeypot from our collection. It has no ulterior motives. But, to be safe, please do not pass it any state secrets.
“I Voted” stickers starting to accumulate at the Alex Pretti Memorial in Whittier, Minneapolis
We are Still Here Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe 2021
Study for mâtinawêwin (Sharing Food) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2026
Why the "It's okay to use it to get started" story about AI consumer products in research education bugs the hell out of me: 🧵
I wrote something! It's called the "Quick-Start Guide for New Managers in Academic Libraries". It's meant for people in academic libraries starting or transitioning into middle management roles. And it's free and open! ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/librarymanag...
Quick-Start Guide for New Managers in Academic Libraries
This short, practical guide covers concepts that are essential for any new manager in an an academic library. Topics covered include the role of the manager, change management, managing teams and indi...
ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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"[I]t’s 'very difficult for me to believe that suddenly bots are retracting papers, especially because the retractions didn’t happen this week—it happened years ago,'" our Ivan Oransky told Gizmodo re: the Planck case. Springer Nature confirmed "that no software or ‘bot’ would have been involved."
A Physics Giant Had His Papers Retracted Decades After His Death. Here's Why
Not even the greats can escape the droll of bureaucracy, it seems.
gizmodo.com
Very sadly, it's been announced today that the @slate.com Culture Gabfest, which set the standard for arts podcasts, will end after this month. I had the honour of being one of the first regular guests to come say goodbye, with a final great conversation. carlwilson.substack.com/p/au-revoir-...
Au revoir, Culture Gabfest
Slate's flagship arts podcast sets sail for the horizon. Plus: lots of bonus tracks
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how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoDOUTHAT: Let's be honest -- the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity JD VANCE: Tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication, and covering them in elite preferences
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
A Cochrane system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies has already turned up dozens of reviews that do and will now get closer scrutiny to ensure their results and recommendations hold up.
New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews
Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the organization announced today. The effort alread…
retractionwatch.com
I wrote about the new ALA workers' union and why it matters to all library workers in the U.S., whether you're an ALA member or not. 📚 acrlog.org/2026/06/03/t...
The New ALA Workers Union, and Why It Matters - ACRLog
A hearty congratulations to the members of the newly formed ALA Workers United (ALAWU)! In March, employees at the American Library Association announced their intention to form a union, and last week...
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New from me at TVO, about the mess the Liberals have made in Scarborough Southwest. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
ANALYSIS: Are the Ontario Liberals ready for this? | TVO Today
The party squandered its credibility in the Scarborough Southwest nomination race. Don’t worry, there are only about 100 more to go.
tvo.org
it sure is conference season! i'll be tuning into sessions from @calmconference.bsky.social , @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social , and #CALC26 Critical Approaches to Libraries this week 🫠 the 3rd one is new-to-me but looks like some excellent speakers and topics sites.google.com/view/calccon...
CALC - CALC2026
CALC26 will place online from Tuesday 12th May - Thursday 14th May 2026. Our conference organisers are based in the UK so please note all programme times are in BST (GMT+1). You can view a provisional...
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Adapted from our new book, Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard by Ellen David Friedman. Get your copy: labornotes.org/keepgoing
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting. End the project already, Dave. You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs. Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
WIRED@wired.com · 7mo agoThe pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
In 1943!!! “Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun famously gave his Nobel medal and diploma to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a gesture of admiration for the Nazi regime, following his support for the occupation….”
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 10mo agoReporter: Why would you want someone else’s Nobel Prize? Trump: She offered it to me.
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point. All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17. docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
When the second case of a lawyer getting caught using synthetic text extruding machines hit the news, I wondered: Don't these people gossip?? I would have thought the first case would be so embarrassing as to make things very clear. www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c... >>
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
404media.co
Gift link of the Ezra Klein/Ta-Nehisi Coates thing. Honestly, my main takeaway is just that Ezra Klein seems genuinely lost, unable to articulate what his "we" is or even what he sees as the purpose of his voice, and he should probably take a sabbatical until he figures it out.
picayune sasquatch@pettyyeti.bsky.social · last yr.
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
Current demand at the Edmonton Public Library for the four graphic novels at the centre of Alberta's new (and fluctuating) school library rules: #AbEd #Ableg #EPL #bannedbooks
