@fanlis.bsky.social When will the next FanLIS submissions be open? I'm getting a group together from Canada potentially interested in submitting some papers! @ludiprice.bsky.social @lynrobinson.bsky.social

Today in history: 28 years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec could not legally secede from Canada without the approval of the federal government. 35 years ago, Estonia declared its independence from the Soviet Union, into which it had been incorporated in 1940.

year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 6d ago

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

The check-in attendant for my airline just used Gemini to check my flight's ETA. What is happening in the world? How would Gemini have more realtime data than the airline itself? This is so wrong

#ILC people at #ISKO2026: Nina Barcellos D'Almeida (best paper winner), Ziyoung Park and @badtaxonomist.bsky.social (on the right, also BPW) with Rick Szostak and @realcharacterlanguage.world #KO

#ISKO2026 Maria Lígia Triques talks about 'The Brazilian Thesaurus for Representing Indigenous Artefacts: Critical Review'. She points out that it is important to include indigenous themselves in the revision to the thesaurus following CARE principles.

Critical cataloguing - B M Watson talks about involving marginalised communities about the description, cataloguing and indexing of works about their community. moving beyond solely experts imposing external views of communities. #ISKO2026

“Don’t Just Slap on Gay”: Validating and Developing Findings from the Largest Qualitative Interview and Community-Based Participatory Action Study of Queer Knowledge Workers B.M. Watson #ISKO2026

Lucía Simón and Mario Barité from University de la Republica, Uruguay, presented a thought provoking paper on how Peircean semiotics can ground the practice of indexing! #ISKO2026

Fantastic presentation at #ISKO2026 by Widad el Hadi on creating an framework of ethics for the construction of an ontology!

Widad El Hadi examines KO ethics through the epistemology of violence. AI-driven KOSs inherit colonial and exclusionary legacies. These biases persist in contemporary AI systems. #ISKO2026

❗️👀 Flash: Russia blocks GPS signals in the Baltic Sea, fearing our UAVs. As a result, ships without GPS cannot navigate the sea. Russian civilian sailors have figured out how to combat electronic warfare…

Palantir are a surveillance outfit. They do not act for the good of the people. They should have zero access to any private, individual information relating to UK citizens. Least of all health data. Sheesh - what does it take to get UK government to understand this.

Privacy International@privacyinternational.org · 3w ago

🚨 NHS England apologises and admits that actually employees from Palantir can access indentifiable patient information via the Federated Data Platform (FDP). www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...

Re: nothing is actually meeting requirements bsky.app/profile/tlja...

James Allen@tljamesa.com · 4w ago

"Request supply chain information, including training data origins and moderation workflows." Does any ai company provide this? (From ALA Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries) www.ala.org/tools/standa... #libraries #schoollibraries

I just realized that I have a higher h-index than Richard Feynman. In case you were tempted to believe that the h-index is a good way of judging who is an influential scientist.

"The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way Wound with his wisdom to his wished stay; That wander’d wondrous far, when he the town Of sacred Troy had sack’d and shiver’d down; " Homer's Odyssey, trans. George Chapman (1614-15). #epic #poetry

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

The White House's new science blueprint calls for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry, primarily tech & AI companies. Science and technology policy scholar @shobitap.org spoke with @statnews.com about why that’s a problem. Read: https://myumi.ch/WD2Wr

"information ontologist orange and blue" is a colour scheme

This is so incredibly bleak, and this kind of propaganda works on the "dissident left" — how do we counter it with effective, compelling narratives?

Alon (they/them)@alonlevy.bsky.social · last mo.

Trump's orbit began developing a Dolchstosslegende in which the war was Israel's fault immediately after it became clear the strategic aim of regime change wasn't happening. For example, it repressed the "no war for Israel" protester much more publicly than "no war" protesters, in the Mubarak style.

So when the Namaygoosisagagun village burns on lake Nipigon no one evacuates them? There must be a lot of firefighters in Thunder Bay, no? Make it make sense

Mensen denken dat Rusland “zwak” is omdat het Oekraïne niet kon innemen. Dat is een gevaarlijke misvatting. De komende 2–3 jaar zijn juist het gevaarlijkste voor Europa. Ruslands window of opportunity is nu. Niet over 5 jaar. hiddebouwmeester.nl/ruslands-win...

Ruslands window of opportunity is nu - Hidde Bouwmeester

In 2022 probeerde Poetin met de grootschalige invasie Oekraïne te bezetten. Daar moest het niet bij blijven. Poetin eiste in 2021 bovendien de terugtrekking van de NAVO uit Oost-Europa. Hoe serieus…

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I first met @abdulelsayed.bsky.social through our dear friend Ady Barkan, who died of ALS while courageously crusading for Medicare for All, and there is no one who will work harder than Abdul to win that fight. (1/4)

*I was youtubing what seemed to be a schlocky Hollywood ancient-historical movie and a Minoan woman showed up *Then it occurred to me that I had never before seen a Minoan woman in any movie, ever *And there's no fuss made about it. She just glides through a dance scene while being Minoan