2018-01-27T04:45:04Z

- I'm an academic librarian in Montréal. I'm currently working with Concordia University's engineering & computer science departments, plus I oversee some of our digital services. I'm interested in intellectual liberty and the junctions of physical and digital knowledge systems.

I'd originally made an account on another instance but I like the way this one targets a scholarly environment. I think I'll copy over my posts before I get too deep.

2018-01-27T04:51:43Z

Examples on how makerspaces & Linux help cultivate communities goo.gl/oUnzWf

2018-01-27T04:58:19Z

Trying to focus? A study shows that having a smartphone present (on or off) disrupts your attention from other activities. goo.gl/Jb9dJm

2018-01-27T04:58:41Z

Smart cities: India's ambitious plans are critiqued in this article goo.gl/tZNGrw - complex issues to figure out.

2018-01-27T04:58:52Z

Some context on knowledge management supporting AI techniques goo.gl/SqiTzi -- this blog post is pretty generalized but gives some useful considerations.

2018-01-27T04:59:17Z

Good read about the way engineers overcame a variety of difficulties creating the new Queensferry Crossing bridge in Scotland goo.gl/3Ze8u8

2018-01-27T04:59:41Z

Predicting how new meaning emerges might improve natural language processing systems. This is a really cool study on how humans have developed metaphors over a millenia goo.gl/HPb3hJ -

2018-01-27T04:59:53Z

These volvelles (paper "computers") from the 1500s are fascinating goo.gl/eqcDx1

2018-01-28T14:26:45Z

I can’t resist news about the Voynich Manuscript - goo.gl/PKCL4X A computer science researcher at the University of Alberta has tried a new approach, using AI to help decipher the manuscript. The manuscript may be written in Hebrew and use some techniques to complicate deciphering it.

2018-01-28T20:03:58Z

@bgcarlisle Hm... That's a habit from needing to limit things to 140 characters. I suppose it's not really a problem w/ 500 chars. :-) sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenterm

2018-01-29T15:24:38Z

Call for Proposals from librarians for the True North Science Boot Camp 2018 . Submission deadline for proposals is Feb. 12 by 9 AM. More information available here sites.google.com/view/truenort

2018-01-29T23:59:19Z

@bgcarlisle time to increase my verbosity.

2018-01-31T02:28:50Z

There are good standards publishers but I keep bumping up against ones doing bad business. Me: "a student wants to study this standard, I'd like to buy it for our library." Publisher: "We own the copyright and the only person that can read is the one that pays." Me: We're a library, that doesn't make sense." Publisher: "Tough." So they lose a sale and the student cannot learn/research. Student now unfamiliar & unlikely to use that standard/publisher in the future. Standard becomes value-less.

2018-01-31T03:26:40Z

@joeld it's not reasonable and different jurisdictions complicate things but when we're buying, we're agreeing to the terms of the sale. I feel like there may be a grey area or overreaching here but there are a lot of machinations to go through.

2018-01-31T14:10:04Z

Here's a mainstream opinion piece on why Canada needs to develop a national data strategy to keep things in the public interest (rather than closed corps). Interesting also due to the fact that it's written by a former RIM CEO, Jim Balsillie. thestar.com/opinion/contributo

2018-01-31T14:10:28Z

What IFLA is doing to shift toward providing the skills and tools to help people make sense of huge amounts of digital information. ifla.org/node/25481

2018-01-31T18:00:02Z

A killer whale said "hello." Cool study on whale-learning and dialects, etc. but the audio clip cracks me up.
nationalpost.com/news/world/ta

2018-02-02T18:27:48Z

I'm enjoying some ideas from reading this Aeon article about quantum entanglement of time. Or maybe the author wrote them for me to enjoy reading. aeon.co/ideas/you-thought-quan

2018-02-03T17:26:14Z

Wow, sitting in a barbershop, with a 1972 National Geographic and i saw this ad. Feed your kids sugar, it's good for them.

scholar.social/media/OefZgOZWZ

2018-02-08T02:00:23Z

@robertwgehl Absolutely! I fell in love the Chicago style when I worked (long ago) as a copyeditor. No other style manual comes close. I still read their Q&A, if not to understand the rules, to bask in the wit.

2018-02-08T03:39:00Z

@robertwgehl Exactly!

2018-02-10T01:50:17Z

I was in the middle of teaching a class, trying very hard to answer a student's question. My alarm went off and I woke up from the dream very frustrated that it had prevented me from finishing responding to the student. It's been a full week.

2018-02-16T14:47:44Z

@thelibrarian This is a nice diagram. I wonder about the line that leads from open source down to GNU/FSF. Since those GNU/FSF licenses predate and are philosophically different from open source, it might make sense to represent that area of concepts differently.

2018-02-20T01:44:06Z

@devastatedmasterstu hi, I'd suggest trying out Zotero or Mendeley first. Both are pretty good at identifying metadata and sucking in the correct reference information. I prefer Zotero's functionality. I made a very detailed comparison of Zotero, Mendeley, RefWorks, and a few other tools. It's currently a spreadsheet (I'm turning it into a bigger analysis). Let me know if you'd like the spreadsheet to compare the functionality and I'll be happy to send it to you.

2018-02-20T01:47:53Z

@BruceTindall @devastatedmasterstu the people submitting could have customized the reference manager tool to output in the style your journals require. If used well, a reference management tool ought to result in well-formatted, more complete reference information--not the reverse. Plus, it's a great way to keep track of what you're researching.

2018-02-20T17:46:04Z

This article "What can data visualization learn from feminism?" brings up great points on the "view" of data. storybench.org/can-data-visual
It's also a bit similar to what is sometimes raised in discussion of what we have from archives--dominant or privileged perspectives tend to be what we see and it takes effort to go beyond that.

2018-02-20T17:48:04Z

Good piece for researchers about the utility of ORCiD and how to get one. orcid.org/blog/2018/02/15/crea

2018-02-21T13:44:47Z
This pillow wants to chat.
2018-02-21T13:52:44Z

@sevensixfive I like Zotero for managing the files also. I have a direct link between the file, the citation, and any sorts of notes, tags, links, or other info I associate with that particular reference. I'm a big fan of having it sync the files with a cloud storage provider. That lets me have the same set of files accessible from my home & work computers (+ backed up in the cloud). I'd recommend using the pcloud.com webdav service for this: zotero.org/support/kb/webdav_s

2018-02-21T18:18:30Z
This pillow wants to chat.

@chrwahl Now it just needs to pass a Turing test.

2018-02-21T19:59:09Z

@lljohnston Our library at Concordia had a digital preservation librarian job posted. It's no longer on the site but the link to the PDF of the job description still works. library.concordia.ca/about/job

2018-02-26T14:43:56Z

I support fair dealing because we need the liberty to share our knowledge and culture if we want those things to thrive.

I'm bringing this here (from the birdsite) as The Canadian Association of Research Libraries │ Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada is celebrating Fair Dealing Week by asking people to complete the sentence

"I support fair dealing because …"

Also read their statement: carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/upload

2018-02-27T18:00:05Z

@John I think choosing an instance that is likely to have people discussing things of interest is useful to get started because it helps to get involved in something you like. At the same time, I actively searched across many instances to start connecting with other people so that I'd expand on potential viewpoints and conversations.

2018-02-28T17:55:55Z

Slow thought... I loved this long read, which presents 7 great points for slow thought (in manifesto form). aeon.co/essays/take-your-time-

In #2, Di Nicola says "Slow Thought creates its own time and place."

2018-03-05T18:17:32Z

Brief summary of Paul Otlet's work organizing and making knowledge available. Prescient thinking for the Internet and semantic web daily.jstor.org/internet-befor

2018-03-06T02:00:54Z

@mbbrown 8 - 10 (+ 4 cups of tea).

2018-03-07T14:37:12Z

@mbbrown No time to die, too busy brewing coffee.

2018-03-07T18:23:20Z

@thelibrarian Having lived near SF, I knew of Emperor Norton but I hadn't heard of Rask--interesting person!

2018-03-08T19:33:34Z
Politics and capitalism

@bgcarlisle Strange that people feel something cannot be legitimate for its own positive sake. Reminds me, A few years ago I got a copy of The John A. Livingston Reader and I remember his arguments for using the term conservation wrt environment (I don't recall the exact words) really sticking out and that he was pressing for conservation in its own right, not for the sake of anything else.

2018-03-08T20:29:25Z

I like this new values statement from the International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA). It focuses on access to info, stewardship/production and preservation, freedoms (intellectual and expression), diversity/inclusion, and ethics. iarla.org/2018/03/research-lib

2018-03-09T15:42:55Z

I spent a portion of yesterday setting up a short documentary about Telidon on our streaming server. Telidon = Canada's late 70s/early 80s impressive pre-Web web, which I knew little about until now. We had the documentary as a (dying) Umatic film and the NFB didn't have a good digital version so we transferred ours to digital. Very satisfying to be able to stream this in a Web browser now.

2018-03-10T02:16:41Z

@ericgauthier Unfortunately our server isn't set up for public access due to some complications with streaming rights. But my colleague offered to give it the NFB so maybe they'll make it accessible. I'll have to see if we have another way to enable public access.

2018-03-12T02:20:02Z

@gusriva Unfortunately our server isn't set up for public access. I realized though that there are several clips of other videos about Telidon accessible on YouTube youtube.com/results?search_que

2018-03-18T05:02:33Z

It's delicate, the way reality interweaves its plot—like nobody expects outside of fiction. Plus, other conceits to engage data and information caretakers.

Political-ish (but much more)...
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/

2018-03-20T00:37:36Z

@vascorsd So very disturbing.

2018-03-21T20:29:41Z
FB mention

@bgcarlisle - tricky... I have an account, which I rarely use and have text saying to e-mail me (or Mastodon) instead. Every once in a while, I'll log in and see messages from people inviting me somewhere or whatnot. Either they found me another way (after seeing that I didn't respond) or I missed it. I think deleting Facebook means being ready to miss some stuff. At least until people realize you're not contactable that way.

2018-03-22T13:20:36Z

@mbbrown Or also try Qwant.com which has similar policies as DuckDuckGo.

2018-03-23T17:33:48Z

After a few years of renovations our Concordia celebrated its grand re-opening today and there's a nice write-up about some of the features in the Mtl Gazette montrealgazette.com/news/local

2018-03-23T18:17:14Z

Done. Facebook account deleted.

2018-03-24T20:14:04Z

@bgcarlisle Interesting idea! In a meeting yesterday, a colleague brought up the point that in interdisciplinary courses, it's often difficult for students to read an article from outside of their familiar discipline because they aren't familiar with common structures or things that are taken for granted within the other discipline. Your suggestion could be a nice way to stretch comfort zones a bit.

2018-03-25T03:24:36Z

I've been using Mastodon for a while but I'm uncertain how the Lists functionality works. Is it like Twitter? Are they public/private? Maybe I'm just missing it but I don't see it in the documentation.

2018-03-25T03:55:57Z

@kibi thank you for the explanation, that helps!

2018-03-26T16:38:31Z

Some really pleasing video animations created by rotating 3D printed sculptures.
aeon.co/videos/the-weird-wonde

2018-03-27T00:51:31Z

@Holly Ah! I have the same experience every time.

2018-03-28T16:16:29Z

@bgcarlisle I switched to newsblur.com and ended up liking it much better.

2018-03-29T01:37:11Z

I happened on this Mastodon instance for board games boardgames.social

Although I don't have a vast collection of board games, I love a few abstract strategy ones and like to try new ones.

I also conceived one a long time ago so of course had to make an account for it. :-) @adomoc

2018-04-01T21:15:16Z
Puppy

Got a wire fox terrier puppy! This is Hugo, the

2018-04-03T18:02:12Z

@socrates I'd be interested in being part of your discussion on the longevity of scholar.social. I had been thinking about that a bit and was going to ask if you had something like a patreon account to help--though you somewhat addressed that. Regardless, it's an important conversation, especially as the community grows and who knows for sure what obligations lie in the future.

2018-04-04T15:49:16Z

@rysiek I've had a really good experience using SpiderOak One Backup spideroak.com

It has feature-rich, very mature client for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows, as well as mobile devices. Reasonable pricing and for the many years I've been using, rock solid. The only thing I don't like is that their servers are in the US, however they store and transit using strong encryption, claiming zero knowledge, and they seem to walk the walk.

2018-04-05T13:31:59Z

Always sounds a bit pointless to me, when I say I love walking--most of us walk. But a lot of times people just walk for function, missing the pleasure in it. I love reading essays, etc. on walking too. This article had a mention of an "audio-walk" by Janet Cardiff, which I feel I need to try now. daily.jstor.org/the-art-of-wal

2018-04-05T13:41:13Z

@maron I agree, such a good practice!

2018-04-05T18:52:49Z

Just read a Nature article on EU copyright reform & potential problems w/ respect to open science (probably not only science though). I'm curious to get more context after the article stated that the reform would "let publishers claim royalties for the use of snippets of information, such as tables or headlines". That sounds like a significant overreaching of what ought to be acceptable--worrisome restriction on freedom of expression and research discourse.
nature.com/articles/d41586-018

2018-04-10T17:05:45Z

Just was introduced to this Conserve the Sound Project, which has recordings of the sounds produced while interacting with a large variety of old devices. For example, typing on a typewriter or opening the lid of a laptop. I'm glad that people have thought to pay attention to these otherwise ephemeral sounds. conservethesound.de

2018-04-10T17:25:41Z

And they have the sounds of a pigeon racing clock!! conservethesound.de/en/sound-e

2018-04-10T21:32:18Z

@bouncinglime excellent idea on the record needle

2018-04-18T16:39:20Z

Who would not want to see a six-hour snail ballet? Too bad I can't go to the full performance, maybe I'll just play this clip on a loop for a day. theguardian.com/music/2018/apr

2018-04-19T13:18:04Z

This may be obvious but stands out for me after changing careers some years ago from corporate to academic. In the corporate sphere, I studied competitors, did CI, but would never have reached out to openly discuss operations, strategies, etc. Yesterday a librarian from a nearby university reached out to me to discuss reference services—and I've done similar things to other libraries. I really appreciate being able to have such open, helpful conversations across institutions.

2018-04-19T13:31:15Z

@jasondclinton I went back to school for a new degree that put me on an academic path. I could have stayed in the corporate world with it too but I wanted a big change. Actually, it took a few steps beyond the degree, getting some smaller teaching contracts, etc. first. :-)

2018-04-19T13:40:03Z

It's Bicycle Day maps.org/lsd75
After 75 years plus who knows how many many many more with other psychedelic substances in various cultures, we still have broad misconceptions and lack of knowledge about these substances. We need to remove irrational political/legal barriers to their study and positive use.

2018-04-19T21:26:21Z

Just came from a great talk by Shannon Vallor (for Concordia's digital futures series)... talked about offloading authority on machines, what it takes to trust (or not) AI. Strikes me that there is no trusting of AI since it cannot have emotion or agency and I think I need what or who I trust to have those. Any way, I'm curious to read her book now... Technology and the Virtues

2018-04-20T13:17:53Z

Le Devoir: Charles Taylor ledevoir.com/societe/525652/en

2018-04-24T13:00:08Z

I rethought this... clearly I can trust stuff without emotion or agency otherwise, as my wife pointed out, I'd never walk up the stairs in our home. Of course, if they started cracking, I'd lose that trust pretty quickly and my reality would come into question. :-) Anyway, different levels/types of trust. Who is known as a good philosopher on trust?

2018-04-24T13:20:47Z

This IFLA post with respect to makes many good points about situations that we should NOT try to stretch copyright to fit.

blogs.ifla.org/lpa/2018/04/23/

A nice point (among all the others) related to facts and text/data mining. Mined data needs to be analyzable by others.

2018-04-24T13:21:52Z

@GardenOfForkingPaths I'd been thinking about Heidegger... but I don't recall (at least in my long-ago reading) specifically thinking into trust.

2018-04-24T16:46:46Z

Listening to Yoshi's Bengio talk (part of Concordia's Digital Futures series) notes that most impressive AI progress is currently in perception. Generative adversarial networks produce some amazing results that didn't exist a few years ago.

2018-04-24T17:25:30Z

Data trusts are an interesting point on helping to ensure the fairness of data collection and usage.

2018-04-25T13:09:36Z

Civil society ought to engage more with all that's unfolding in development with respect to . Absolutely. And this new document co-authored by Privacy International and Article 19 recommends much more than that. It also raises good points for governments and companies. privacyinternational.org/repor

2018-04-26T13:25:39Z

@eliasg@mastodon.xyz @chendricks

Explaining wisdom often is accompanied with a value judgment, where it's got to be used in a beneficial way.

2018-04-26T16:23:39Z

@bgcarlisle I agree, it's excellent

2018-04-26T20:51:51Z

@John I've only ever heard it pronounced as lib-guide but it seems like libe makes more sense.

2018-04-29T18:17:16Z

Library and Archives Canada just announced their Co-Lab site. It's a great initiative, getting volunteers to help tag, transcribe, etc. their digitized collection. They have somewhat gamified this too by making each task a challenge to complete. bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2

2018-04-30T23:47:01Z
ebooks

@robertwgehl True, so many bad platforms... I generally avoid buying any e-book that isn't an unencumbered (that's too say, DRM-free) PDF.

2018-05-01T13:17:40Z

June will be exciting as I start a new job. Same institution but I'll focus on a new role they've just created as a Digital Scholarship . I'm really looking forward to this, so many possibilities it's hard not to want to start everything at once and a lot will be defining & evolving the role. Got to keep my eyes open for all of you doing interesting digital humanities, visualization, etc. work!

2018-05-02T13:17:30Z

@miguelsxvi It's emerging & I think needs to address a lot! Assessing tech suited to scholarly work (e.g. what will enable research goals & how can I support people w/ tools), participating in elements of research (e.g. could involve manipulating data for our new visualization studio) & helping people collaborate across disciplines, guiding w/ best-practices on things like digitization or planning metadata), supporting/promoting ways to get merit for digital scholarship (not always recognized).

2018-05-02T13:19:26Z

@miguelsxvi Also, helping to incorporate digital scholarship within online educational work (students and professors). There's a lot of things but I guess those are some of the key things I've been thinking about, in just over 500 characters. :-)

2018-05-06T02:47:55Z

@bgcarlisle @perig @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz I rode a Bixi from NDG to the Plateau just between rain storms Friday night... a fantastic bit of Spring ozone.

2018-05-06T12:16:16Z

@perig @bgcarlisle actually, I just followed Sherbrooke :-)

2018-05-08T18:00:55Z

CBC Data Journalist, Roberto Rocha, spoke at the Concordia Library's 16th Annual Research Forum. He talked about fascinating data visualization work, storytelling, and raised insightful points on losing and regaining public trust in journalism. He's just put the full text (and images) on his web site. It's a really good read! (Err, I listened to him speak but I imagine that reading it is also really good 😃 ). robertorocha.info/how-data-and

2018-05-13T14:28:46Z

Il y'a 20 ans, j'ai entendu cet argument (la chambre chinoise) de Searle dans son cours et l'argument reste fort aujourd'hui.
"Doutons de l’intelligence de l’intelligence artificielle"
ledevoir.com/societe/le-devoir

2018-05-14T18:36:43Z

@bgcarlisle The other benefit of looking out the window... I remember after getting glasses (when I was about 12) that it was possible to see individual leaves on trees and they weren't just big green blobs.

2018-05-22T02:44:10Z

This initiative, granting a million $ to the Internet Archive to university press publications sounds great! But, I'd be curious to know more about what the phrase "controlled digital lending" constitutes in the post—unfortunate if it means the digitized titles will be broken with . blog.archive.org/2018/05/21/in

2018-05-22T13:41:52Z

The price of being (a dog). Don't look so forlorn, I told him. Work hard, save your money, you'll pay it off in no time.

2018-05-22T18:26:34Z
music website promo

@edsu I totally agree, Bandcamp is an excellent platform. It's among the top places that I go, when I hear that a band has come out with a new album.

2018-05-24T12:20:00Z

I've been a member of the organizing committee for The True North Science Boot Camp , which is a science and engineering conference for librarians. On our first day, yesterday we had a flood in the building, then as I asked the audience if they'd like to ask our first presenter any questions about his talk, a fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate. Other than that it's been great--with thought provoking speakers. Hoping today and tomorrow are a bit less exciting though. :-)

2018-05-24T12:20:53Z

sites.google.com/view/truenort

2018-05-24T12:58:02Z

yesterday at Concordia we had a talk on AI in systems development from Wahab Hamou-Lhadj, Who's doing great work preventing errors before they get committed to the code base and Carmela Cucuzzella, who's done fascinating work rethinking how we approach innovative, sustainable design in urban spaces.

2018-05-24T13:02:19Z

today, we're at McGill university, starting with Nitika Pai and her HIV self testing app, then Najmeh Khalili-Mahani on a game clinic for stress prevention, and Catherine Guastavino on urban noise management.

2018-05-24T17:09:09Z
new makerspace ramblings

@foureyedsoul sneakernet :-)

2018-05-25T16:38:22Z

It was our last day for our True North Science Boot Camp 2018 & we heard about developing a data visualization application for DNA from my colleague Tomasz Neugebauer, University of Rhode Island's library's new AI lab, U of Alberta's great ScienceLiteracyWeek collaborations, and it ended with a super talk w/ Concordia's Jeremy Clark on "Bitcoin & Blockchain: Landscape & Future Directions". I really enjoyed getting to hear about work from such a broad variety of subjects and disciplines.

2018-05-29T02:12:04Z

@clhendricksbc Nice news, congratulations!

2018-06-07T13:20:24Z

Great Mordecai Richler display at the Concordia right now! It includes items from our special collections and I especially like that it includes his ! library.concordia.ca/about/new (more here: concordia.ca/artsci/english/re)

2018-06-08T14:20:26Z

This study trained bees to recognize the value of less than 1 so this article says bees understand 0. It's the first time for an invertebrate insect. cbc.ca/news/canada/study-sugge

2018-06-09T03:38:46Z

I enjoyed this read "How Digital Archives Delete the Human Experience" though I'm not sure its resolution gave us fully what the title promised. I also appreciate that it touched on digital preservation/access issues being regularly dealt with, but in an approachable way for a popular audience. thewalrus.ca/how-digital-archi

2018-06-11T12:57:21Z

Mnemonic techniques... mentions a variety from different cultures aeon.co/ideas/this-ancient-mne

2018-06-20T14:37:01Z

I've been participating in an all-week long CARL research institute, which has been a super way to bring back to mind important considerations in the research process and reflect on my questions. It's been eye-opening too, to see how much the attitudes involving librarian research vary from institution to institution.

2018-06-21T19:41:32Z

@bgcarlisle during our last discussion of the Librarian Research Institute, the topic came up of how to stay connected (people wondering about setting up groups on LinkedIn, hesitant over Facebook)... so... of course, I plugged scholar.social (and Mastodon) as ways to connect with each other and other researchers. Maybe some of those ~30 people will try it out now.

2018-06-21T19:54:55Z

@bgcarlisle nice! hm... makes me think I should look into getting new cards.

2018-06-22T12:28:55Z

I love Arundhati Roy's writing and this article in the Guardian has her asking if the novel can be a city, which is a complex and multi-faceted way of conceiving it.
theguardian.com/books/2018/jun

2018-06-24T13:26:45Z

This article about the utility of literature reviews (in a science context) offers some provoking thoughts about cumulative literature reviews (CLR).
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial

2018-06-25T03:40:58Z

Without knowing anything about Hannah Gadsby, I just watched her show "Nanette" and it's possible that I've never seen as masterful a work of stand-up "comedy". It transcended a stand-up routine and I'm not quite sure how to immediately describe it. It certainly gave me some new paths of understanding on LGBTQ and women's issues. But I think that alone would be too restrictive a description for all that she conveyed. Look it up, it's stunning. Everyone should see it.

2018-06-27T12:52:22Z

I just read about this library services platform project called FOLIO. Looks promising! opensource.com/article/18/6/fo and their site is here folio.org

2018-06-29T15:43:39Z

Showing how social media use links to mental illness, The Economist reported on a study from the Royal Society for Public Health (UK).

Since wasn't listed among the culprits, it must be ok! 😉

economist.com/graphic-detail/2

2018-06-29T15:45:07Z

Not that I'd advocate promoting information literacy through sarcasm.

2018-07-03T17:16:06Z

Tim Berners-Lee talks a little bit about his new work on Solid (to re-democratize the Web) in this Vanity Fair (?) article. It mentions Mastodon too. vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/th

2018-07-03T17:17:41Z

Pushing scholarly toward a 100% model. aeon.co/ideas/scholarly-publis

This Aeon article includes discussion on improving the way peer review, etc. works. The author (Tennant) says" "All of the technology and traits to build a hybridised scholarly commons infrastructure already exists. It is up to academic communities themselves to step away from their apathy and towards a fairer and more democratic system for sharing our knowledge and work."

2018-07-03T20:55:15Z

@bgcarlisle yeah, it seems there are a bunch of difficulties—often institutional problems in not recognizing the merit of various non-traditional modes of publishing. I'm remembering a discussion where a tenured scientist mentioned how much she pushes back to ensure that her work is open access but that newer researchers have less leeway. A lot of innovative new things could happen but I think we need to figure out how to improve the institutional perspective to get to those. (1/2)

2018-07-03T20:55:50Z

@bgcarlisle Also, I'm not certain that copyright is at the heart of the problem. Creative Commons licences require copyright to work and they extend a variety of use cases that wouldn't otherwise exist. More importantly, how would Moral Right fare without copyright? (2/2)

2018-07-03T21:03:42Z

@bgcarlisle Oh, and I don't mean to say that copyright isn't a problem either. :-)

2018-07-04T01:08:58Z

@GardenOfForkingPaths @bookandswordblog the author does seem to want an entirely different system and proposes some ideas of how that could work but I don't see why that would have to be the only way. Thanks for the link example.

2018-07-04T01:41:47Z

@bgcarlisle thinking "out loud" if no copyright for scientific work, what would happen in this scenario? 3 researchers finish an important project and disseminate their results (via whatever publishing mechanism). Suppose 2 of them omit all mention of the 3rd. Aside from unfairness, that would close off information from the community because a key researcher would be silenced. Since I understand that attribution is among the moral rights in copyright law, I guess there wouldn't be much recourse.

2018-07-04T01:43:20Z

@bgcarlisle I see that CWs also have an effective use in proper timing for comedy 😃

2018-07-04T12:20:35Z

@bgcarlisle I was pretty certain that it did, I'm going to find out for sure. But let's say there's no copyright and we then get a different law to govern moral rights, wouldn't we essentially be where we are now through Creative Commons licences? They let you separate the commercial component from copyright and keep the moral rights.

2018-07-04T12:22:00Z

@bgcarlisle that sounds like a pretty awful failing from the whole system.

2018-07-04T17:25:07Z

@bgcarlisle I'm partial to the idea that info in the public space be transferable/copyable without restriction (assuming moral rights/attribution remain). It'd change how people view/are able to commercialize much, in extreme ways. I imagine that taking this beyond scientific work, to other research and creative domains would require serious change in society. Extending rights on intangible stuff (e.g. digital info) to logical extremes, eventually brings us to our own minds, which must be free.

2018-07-04T19:27:03Z

Any opinions of collaborative LaTeX tools/services? I'm investigating Overleaf/ShareLateX, Authorea, Papeeria, SciDock, etc. I'd be curious to hear about anyone's experiences.

2018-07-04T19:43:42Z

@drbjork Thanks, I have some people that specifically need LaTeX support but it's good to be aware of other techniques!

2018-07-05T01:23:46Z

@jaranta @drbjork in your use, did you by any chance try their journal submission integrations?

2018-07-05T01:25:21Z

@JoeOsborn Thanks, good to know. Was that on their existing version or on the beta of their upcoming release?

2018-07-05T13:12:59Z

@seanlane @Benjamin Good point, it seems like this helps to bring people's different work styles together.

2018-07-05T13:20:32Z

@hazybluedot @drbjork Interesting, I just searched on their site and they say that they're working on making R code executable overleaf.com/help/71-how-do-i-

2018-07-06T12:47:04Z

Ideas on , which I love, and the description of turning the eating of a fig into a ritual here.
theschooloflife.com/thebookofl

Also brings to mind some of my favourite advice from Agent Cooper () to once a day, every day, give yourself a gift (though I think he might of been referring to coffee or pie, I don't recall, but I take it seriously for coffee too).

2018-07-09T13:00:33Z

Here's a smart editorial arguing that our government (in Canada) shouldn't frame its recently launched Digital and Data Consultations through the language of ownership, pitting the economy against privacy. I really like that Lisa Austin (Chair in law and technology at the University of Toronto) argues against treating data as a "natural resource."
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ar

2018-07-10T17:48:33Z

Enjoyed browsing through the schedule that was just posted forum2018.diglib.org/schedule/ there are so many interesting sessions to pick from.

2018-07-12T02:56:03Z
Important Scholar Social announcement

@socrates I'm glad it exists, thank you for making it happen.

2018-07-14T02:31:50Z

@chendricks it seems like a very positive initiative. I contributed a bit to their fund-raising campaign a little while ago and am eager to see it start launching.Hopefully they'll build their social networking features supporting ActivityPub--could be very interesting to see how that would extend around something Mastodonish.

2018-07-18T20:32:55Z

Good article introducing issues of and the associated responsibilities of . blogs.ifla.org/faife/2018/07/1

2018-07-20T14:33:20Z

German and Swedish universities seem to have no more access to Elsevier journals due to their attempts to renegotiate an open access friendly change to the publishing model. Unfortunate that things sound stalled but this seems like a promising bit of change if it works out.
the-scientist.com/news-opinion

2018-07-27T16:46:27Z

My librarian colleague, Tara Mahwinney at McGill wrote about the entry from Team Montreal. blogs.library.mcgill.ca/schuli There are 99 Concordia and McGill students collaborating to design and build a net zero energy home in a semi-traditional Montreal row-house style, which they've brought to the competition in China. It's quite impressive. The team took a little bit of our libraries with them :-) There's a bit more about the competition here cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/te

2018-07-27T17:07:05Z

@stephen That would be an impressive chatbot! :-) It's a good question though. Already, online library chat systems record a transcript of interactions (essentially a reference interview). My colleagues and I have discussed the ethical implications of the system retaining that info and how it might be used. We remain cautious. Also, I wouldn't trust an algorithm to interpret a history of reference questions--may aid some cases but ultimately it requires too much human contextual awareness.

2018-07-30T14:50:40Z
Mastodon / Scholar.social meta

I feel like Mastodon would be easier to work with if instead of an optional content warning there was a Title/CW field above each post and a user preferences setting that let you automatically display posts expanded or only show titles (thus requiring a click to expand if you want to see what's posted). Wouldn't that satisfy everyone? Either see titles and expand as you like/are comfortable with or else read through everything without regard to content warnings.

2018-08-17T17:05:11Z

How 5 companies publish more than half the research papers. This CBC News article is based on Vincent Larivière's research (Université de Montréal) and includes a PLOS One link to the source. cbc.ca/news/technology/academi

2018-08-17T17:39:19Z
dog vs. focus

This creature neither understands nor cares that I'm finishing up some research leave. Lunch is over, back to work.

2018-08-22T17:00:37Z

Reading this article called "Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargoes" by Josh Bolick doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v2i2.741

2018-08-24T02:43:27Z

@dsrudmann Yes, every night before falling asleep, something similar runs through my mind.

2018-08-24T12:15:44Z
Dropbox and linux

@martinc I'm a longtime user of SpiderOak and really like it. The one thing I'd say is that it's a little more complicated to share with other people and manage files through a web interface. But on the otherhand, I think this is a trade-off due to their focus on security.

I also use a service called pcloud.com, which is not quite as focused on security as SpiderOak but does have a lot of features that outdo DropBox. Including webdav support. Both services have Linux clients.

2018-08-25T02:04:03Z

Congrats to the McGill/Concordia Team Montreal's Deep Performance Dwelling in the . They earned 1st in architecture, market appeal, & communications, plus 3rd in engineering & innovation. Such an impressive project! Some details and photos in this article: concordia.ca/cunews/main/stori

2018-08-25T02:11:07Z

I appreciate IFLA's statement regarding fake news. They've been pushing library outreach to combat it w/critical thinking & info literacy skills. This new statement calls governments to "Refrain from passing laws which will have a disproportionate impact on freedom of access to information and freedom of expression..." Which strikes me as one of the risks of legislation in this domain. PDF link: ifla.org/files/assets/faife/st

2018-08-30T13:03:50Z

My 7 year old son told me he "googled up" the "least fast car in the world" & was bitterly disappointed because he got a page of Porsches & Lamborghinis, etc. Ah-ha, I thought, it's time we have that talk. About search expressions.

2018-08-30T13:20:38Z

@vickysteeves depending on the size of the class and the context, a simple one (not necessarily creative though) is to ask everyone to make one recommendation (e.g. a restaurant, movie, book, etc.) but you could target it to something relevant for the subject. I did this with a class once and it worked nicely because people usually have something they're excited to recommend, everyone benefits from hearing these, and some people find natural "alliances" in the things they love.

2018-09-09T17:58:52Z

@eloisa Thank you!

2018-09-11T02:50:52Z
QC politics

@bgcarlisle Also, the NPDQ and Parti Vert are similar to QS minus the independantiste trajectory (I'm not convinced QS is aiming for a white ethnostate though). I've been laughing, on my walk to work every morning, at the Conservative party's slogan "I vote Conservative because I have a choice." Were they brainstorming a slogan but just gave up? How could their decision process have led to that? True, it's unlikely they could convince me to vote for them but they could at least try.

2018-09-11T04:16:06Z
QC politics

@monsieuricon @bgcarlisle now those will also be triggered in my mind every time I see one of those campaign signs.

2018-09-12T02:37:01Z

Watch this new documentary "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" (, free stream) paywallthemovie.com It covers a fair amount of ground. Could be an eye-opener for many people but also if, like me, this is a subject you're familiar with, you might still appreciate the variety of points it makes. I especially was interested in some of the voices speaking about the issues in countries that cannot afford Elsevier, etc. & how that access (lack thereof) directs their research.

2018-09-12T03:00:12Z
Drug development ethics

@bgcarlisle Reminded me of an article I read a few months ago about NAFTA negotiations. I dug it up, it's from Amir Attaran (lawyer/biomedical scientist/prof). Argues Canada should expropriate US pharmaceutical patents, allowing Canadian companies to produce drugs at a much lower price and export them. Although the article's point is tariff retaliation, it could also be an ethical response to situations like those jacked-up drug prices. macleans.ca/opinion/why-pharma

2018-09-12T16:35:11Z

It's a shame that the EU Parliament has voted to adopt so many poor choices with respect to .

communia-association.org/2018/

2018-09-13T13:09:29Z

Hey and supporters, IFLA is requesting your ideas to help realize ten opportunities they've identified for the future of libraries. Here is the link to submit your ideas (open 'till the end of September) ideas.ifla.org/ and here is where they summarize the opportunities envisioned: ideas.ifla.org/global-vision-o

2018-09-20T12:41:20Z

I got a book chapter proposal accepted the other day and I'm just thinking of my strategy to do the work now. I'm considering Nanowrimoing it to get a draft done. That's not really the point of Nanowrimo but I don't know that there's any harm.

2018-09-20T12:51:29Z

@platypus I was just thinking maybe there ought to be some equivalent event. So then checking, of course there is. :-) It's and there's an article about it here daily.jstor.org/6-tips-for-aca
Too bad, it looks like the site that it originates from is down.

2018-09-20T16:36:59Z

@delibrarian I like that idea.

2018-09-24T19:48:55Z

@platypus wow, glad I didn't become an archivist.

2018-09-26T02:50:56Z

I just realized that last month (August) marked 20 years since I first launched a web site. I'm not sure what to make of that yet.

2018-09-26T03:02:43Z

@jorge it's pretty regular, several times a week I'd guess. Possibly it's due to my e-mail address being exposed on the university web site. At this point, I don't know that it can be prevented, probably just managed.

2018-09-26T13:06:36Z

@jorge even then, I never fell into the temptation to use blinking text.

2018-09-26T23:08:18Z

save the date! The Concordia Library Research Forum will be on Friday, 26 April 2019 at the Loyola Jesuit Hall & Conference Centre, in Montreal, Quebec! library.concordia.ca/about/sta
A call for proposals is coming in Dec. 2018!

2018-09-27T01:30:54Z

@Taweret Yeah, it's a shame. Once, a long time ago, they apparently *were delicious* but greed for what looks pretty seems to have gotten out of hand. Good read about them here: theatlantic.com/health/archive

2018-09-30T03:01:36Z

I've been thinking about this CBC news article on having "a right to be forgotten" for information in the public sphere (e.g. search engine results). That implies dangerous things for memory institutions (archives, libraries, museums, etc.). I don't see how erasing history is a good idea. I do see how people need some kind of control over companies keeping private info about them but that's a different situation to information in the public sphere. cbc.ca/news/politics/privacy-f

2018-10-01T13:56:51Z

In agreeing to this new or , Canada allows the US to impose its wrong-headed "intellectual property" restrictions. After multiple copyright consultations in Canada & other agreements revealing we don't support these, this shouldn't be acceptable! michaelgeist.ca/2018/10/from-c Look at this alarming section on "intellectual property" ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free

2018-10-01T15:06:26Z

@bgcarlisle Yes, same here. I've just sent a letter to Ms. Freeland, and Ms. Laverdiere (she's my MP), as well as the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, Science and Sport,
and Innovation, Science and Economic Development. I think they're all responsible in various ways. It's like they just trashed and disregarded years of public debate across Canada. So shortsighted.

2018-10-01T15:27:42Z
Canada politics

Canadian MPs to contact in protest of the new / "intellectual property" restrictions. I wrote to them & my local MP. Look them all up here: ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians

Ministers: Chrystia Freeland - Chrystia.Freeland@parl.gc.ca (Foreign Affairs) / Pablo Rodriguez - Pablo.Rodriguez@parl.gc.ca (Heritage & Multiculturalism) / Kirsty Duncan - kirsty.duncan@parl.gc.ca (Science & Sport) / Navdeep Bains - Navdeep.Bains@parl.gc.ca (Innovation, Science & Economic Development)

2018-10-01T16:06:02Z

@mogurinho I think it's good to distinguish a commercial aspect, for the separate and very different sort of thing that it is.

2018-10-02T00:50:39Z
qc pol / canada pol

Agh!! USMCA/NAFTA and now the CAQ all in one day--it's too much!

2018-10-02T00:58:30Z
qc pol / canada pol

@bgcarlisle indeed...

2018-10-03T13:05:21Z

Interesting dissection of Plan S (European publishing initiative) on Martin Paul Eve's blog
martineve.com/2018/10/03/on-th

2018-10-10T16:52:36Z

Really enjoyed the Scholarly Communications UnBoxed Activities (SCUBA) at this morning. Led to some good conversations/thinking about possibilities of tools vs. offering services because of tools. Also ways to remove burdens from OA IR depositing. If you're interested, this is a way of getting people together in your institution to develop ways of addressing scholarly communications needs/services. Developed by the UPenn Library drive.google.com/drive/folders

2018-10-10T17:58:48Z

If you're in Montreal today and interested in oral history and digital storytelling, drop by the Concordia Webster Library. There are a lot of free exhibits, presentations, and events as part of the Oral History Association’s annual conference. concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/2

2018-10-15T20:23:53Z

Inspiring start to the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum w/ a talk by Anasuya Sengupta about decolonizing the Internet, good thinking on the perspectives producing & access knowledge. I'm hearing lots of interesting digital scholarship work, & nice to see the Concordia Library with so many other new DLF members welcomed.

2018-10-17T03:48:30Z

What's the appeal of markdown? I feel like I'm missing something. Every few years I try using a note-taking app or something that relies on it and I've never really figured out why I'd want to use it over, for example, HTML or a WYSIWYG editor. If I want to format some basic text and don't want to mark it up with code, then I like a simplistic WYSIWYG editor. If want to format some text using code, then it seems like Markdown is barely easier than HTML. What am I missing?

2018-10-17T04:50:18Z

@cyberpunklibrarian I get the feeling, from what you're describing, that I'm not missing anything. It really is just that some people prefer to have a slightly simpler form of text formatting. Thanks for the tip about typora.io, I'll check it out.

2018-10-17T14:21:43Z

Prepping for . I've been organzing w/ our Office of Research, a Q&A session about how Concordia supports researchers with OA (follows a free screening that we're offering of the Paywall film). More in this news article here concordia.ca/cunews/main/stori

2018-10-17T14:24:20Z

@bgcarlisle ah-ha, so that I can see is a feature that goes above and beyond. Thanks!

2018-10-17T16:37:44Z

@LPS Thanks, nice idea!

2018-10-17T20:10:58Z

Argh, typo in my URL... fixed here: concordia.ca/cunews/main/stori

2018-10-22T13:00:23Z

It's :oa: - Here's the Concordia Library web pages to find out how you can take advantage of resources & contribute to the research ecosystem: library.concordia.ca/help/open

2018-10-24T00:02:28Z

We just finished up a really nice discussion, inspired by . Thanks to everyone that participated! paywallthemovie.com

2018-10-26T13:02:33Z

Halloween is around the corner & it's so I have to make the obvious play on words to mention this new book "Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed" from Concordia prof. Fenwick McKelvey — you can get it from our :oa: repository here spectrum.library.concordia.ca/

2018-10-26T16:41:20Z

Wow, I just discovered that Zotero is now integrated with Google Docs. I know a lot of people aren't so crazy about Google these days but a huge number of students use Docs to collaborate and until now, there really wasn't a good way to manage citations and references from Google Docs. ❤️ zotero.org/blog/google-docs-in

2018-10-26T17:12:07Z

@archivist I was thinking of pursuing an month. I'm not fully ready to commit to it right this moment though. :-)

2018-10-27T01:53:10Z

@stevefoerster It's been a long time since I tried zoho, are you saying it also integrates with Zotero?

2018-11-01T13:11:53Z

There's now a searchable database of retractions in scientific papers. retractiondatabase.org/

They explain it in this article retractionwatch.com/2018/10/25

2018-11-14T13:35:23Z

Plusieurs chefs d'états ont publié une lettre au sujet du journalisme. Ils appellent "...à considérer l’espace mondial de la communication et de l’information comme un bien commun de l’humanité, dans lequel doivent être promus la liberté, le pluralisme et l’intégrité des informations."

ledevoir.com/opinion/libre-opi

par Justin Trudeau (Canada), Carlos Alvarado (Costa Rica), Emmanuel Macron (France), Saad Hariri (Liban), Erna Solberg (Norvège), Macky Sall (Sénégal), Béji Caïd Essebsi (Tunisie).

2018-11-15T15:05:51Z

It's the third Thursday of November, which means it's . A message from Audrey Azoulay (Dir. General of UNESCO) talks about how practising philosophy equips & enables us for understanding & synthesizing knowledge, perceiving meaning & principle, exchanging views, and more. Read it here unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0026 and UNESCO's page is here en.unesco.org/commemorations/p

2018-11-26T05:05:54Z

Article about a group that uses philosophy, art, literature in communicating with homeless people, exploring possibilities. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo

2018-12-05T00:14:03Z

Dix principes pour guider les scientifiques, les entreprises et les élus. ledevoir.com/societe/science/5

2018-12-05T01:59:59Z

Early this morning I dreamt that my alarm was going off. That caused me to wake up 30 minutes earlier than I'd set my alarm for.

2018-12-05T21:55:09Z

Yes! Enough of the nonsense. Greta Thunberg argues to "...take the responsibility they [world leaders] should have taken long ago" on the climate change crisis. commondreams.org/news/2018/12/

2018-12-06T03:13:14Z

@socrates Ah! this is good for old users too. I knew there was a distinction but for some reason the use case had never clicked until I read this post.

2018-12-06T03:29:14Z

Anyone worked/published with a micropublication? I'd be curious to know what kind of value you found in it. I went to a talk a while ago about wormbase.org and how they got the publication going (working on peer review, becoming reputable, etc.). Not sure that I'm going anywhere with this but it keeps circling in the back of my mind what some other possibilities for micropublications might be.

2018-12-06T14:15:38Z

@vickysteeves Thanks, that looks like it's working on the micropublication path. My understanding is that micropubs are essentially small components that are useful on their own or could be used within other articles, maybe taking from a day to month to peer review. They can also have the effect of opening publication opportunities up to people that might not otherwise be able to.

2018-12-06T14:19:10Z

@arjen Oh interesting! A nanopublication network, that's a very neat layer.

2018-12-06T21:49:20Z

This is nice! It looks like the Government of Canada's Directive on the Management of Information Technology now says "Where possible, use open standards and open source software first" and goes on into detail with more guidance. I'm fully in favour of this sort of thinking, especially since it's a more free and sustainable approach tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx

2018-12-07T04:03:10Z

@bgcarlisle hah!

2018-12-07T13:45:44Z

@bgcarlisle It's true, right after you posted that I looked to see if there was any official gov't announcement on Twitter... thinking it would be an opportunity to call attention... but I didn't see one.

2018-12-11T22:25:44Z
Thesis

@bgcarlisle i just pictured a surrogate tree... some kind of fractal thing that could have people sticking theses to it in digital format.

2018-12-11T22:38:19Z
Thesis

@bgcarlisle actually... I love the poetry of the physical thing. A living tree of knowledge. Of course, humans are smothering the life out it by covering it with the dead remnants of it's species, which were processed in service of human civilization. All very dramatic :-)

2018-12-14T14:16:21Z

How using open data science has worked for the Ocean Health Index. It's impressive how big a difference their open processes have made on their progress. opensource.com/article/18/12/p

2018-12-19T14:23:47Z

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published its response to Europe's Plan S (pushing publishers on ). COAR supports Plan S generally but makes some good critical points on where it should be revised to improve it (mostly dealing with technical processes in repository systems).
coar-repositories.org/activiti

2018-12-24T14:04:59Z

I walked past this cemetery and noticed their sign. I hadn't realized what a problem vigilante shrub planters can be.

2018-12-26T17:41:27Z

@emsenn good points in that read. It's similar to the Netflix video culture machine--now pumping out films and series from "all over the world." They generally have formulaic Netflix or Hollywood style filming/scoring/acting no matter the country they purport to come from. Tiring.

2018-12-27T02:25:06Z

Good points in this article about data and all that shapes its context to not actually be "raw" as implied. thenewatlantis.com/publication

2018-12-31T02:27:52Z

I started reading the only kid's novel I've written, to my just turned-8-year-old son. I never finished editing it (like my others) though it's probably older than the kid. I figured it was past time to get some feedback. So far it's primed good questions, laughs, more enjoyment than I expected. The sticking point was the in medias res beginning—he really disliked that abrupt start. I wonder if most kids would feel that way? Maybe too unsettling when you're young not to get some background.

2019-01-05T14:57:10Z

Library Planet is a great idea: a crowd-sourced travel book. They're publishing articles about interesting libraries to visit when you travel. libraryplanet.net

2019-01-15T19:30:34Z

Although Elsevier hasn't come around yet, Wiley made an publishing :oa: deal with Germany. Sounds interesting, the universities essentially pay for publishing services but all their authors' works will be available. It includes launching a new journal too. I haven't read through the details but this sounds really positive at first glance. hrk.de/press/press-releases/pr

2019-01-15T19:36:27Z

@mplouffe yeah... though I immediately started wondering if I'm missing something from this announcement. I noticed a Twitter comment from someone that seemed to suggest this might be problematic with respect to Plan S.

2019-01-16T14:12:49Z

started on the 15th and goes until the 5th of February. It's a time when focus some attention on improving/augmenting references. Info here 1lib1ref.org – :wiki:

2019-01-17T15:16:21Z

@platypus Hi, you might already have this but I thought that the DLF Forum code of conduct was very well considered. diglib.org/about/code-of-condu

2019-01-28T22:09:16Z

I guess Google can't legitimately show a doodle today but take a look at qwant.com (data privacy & protection day). Their eyes shut as soon as you start typing. Cute. @Qwant en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Pri

2019-01-31T04:51:46Z

Wow, it's cold.

2019-02-12T02:02:47Z

This evening I asked my kid (age 8) what he learned today (I hate questions set up like that, not sure why I said it). He indignantly responded: "Nothing. I don't learn things, I DO things." I'm still mulling whether that was a good response or not.

2019-02-15T21:08:44Z

Confessing an irrational editing hang-up: When I replace a word or phrase that I've typed, I intentionally do not delete letters that will be used in the new word/phrase even though I could type more quickly if I did. I feel sorry for them every time I delete them. I feel sorry for their siblings that I've deleted. I usually write too much so I have to delete a lot. There, got that off my chest.

2019-02-16T12:10:15Z

@hvincent same here!

2019-02-16T12:11:15Z

@christianp wow now there's at least three of us.

2019-02-25T04:28:40Z
Typewriter viscera

Operated on my Olympia Splendid 66 tonight. Some keys stopped before making it to the platen. This grooved metal piece (not sure what it's called) wasn't aligned. Rather than sliding into the grooves, the typebars hit the raised tongue portions of the metal. It was really hard to get to. Though it now works again, I need to find out how to secure this grooved metal piece so that it doesn't get out of place in the future.

2019-02-25T14:24:11Z

In the news today seems to be capable of producing writing in various styles that seem to be potentially indistinguishable from human writing. And the code authors are concerned about fully releasing it due to the potential for misuse. blog.openai.com/better-languag

2019-02-26T17:51:34Z

Canadians have opposed extending in other trade agreements. Yet the government perversely agreed to that in the new NAFTA. When/if CUSMA gets ratified, it means a 20 year dry spell before new work enters Canada's public domain. Good read on here: lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/schola

2019-02-27T14:23:16Z

For there is a petition to the Canadian government initiated by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) to prevent a bad reworking of copyright. copyright.caut.ca/petition — please spread the word!

2019-02-27T14:24:05Z

Preparing your thesis or another research paper? Find out how to use and benefit from fair dealing at Concorda Library's info page: library.concordia.ca/help/copy … — It's /

2019-02-28T14:28:27Z

IFLA post about involved in around the world. blogs.ifla.org/lpa/2019/02/28/

2019-03-01T00:09:44Z

University of California couldn't get Elsevier to agree to universal to UC research so they're not renewing their contracts with Elsevier. Fascinated to see How this plays out. (go bears) news.lib.berkeley.edu/elsevier

2019-03-01T01:59:12Z

@NightRose Hah! That's excellent.

2019-03-01T13:56:07Z

I came in to work this morning only to realize that actually, we had the day off. Which explains why no one else is here. I had so much I wanted to get done--I'm begrudging the day off.

2019-03-16T04:36:33Z

At supper tonight, my wife was telling our son and I about a talk she'll be giving. She started to explain that she was going to say something about meta humour but the kid burst into laughter before she could finish her sentence.

(For the record, he didn't actually know what meta means, but I've heard comedy is all about timing.)

2019-03-21T16:15:09Z

Many good points on reform supporting Canadian innovation in this article (especially on digital locks)! Also concerning and relevant (though not mentioned) there's the issue of the new Canadian change to timeframe for works entering the due to US pressure in the new NAFTA.

cigionline.org/articles/how-co

2019-03-23T12:34:55Z

The New England Journal of Medicine seems to be spreading odious commentary on issues. Good rebuttal from Lenny Teytelman protocols.io/groups/protocolsi

Also, although protocols.io is not about publishing articles, that platform is an excellent concept for sharing specific methods from your research work :OpenAccess: . I went to a talk from the CEO (author of the article) last year and was really impressed with the thinking that went into building the platform.

2019-03-23T12:44:28Z

Machine learning is becoming more useful for journalists' work as explained in this article. It also cautions journalists to take care in how they employ it. gijn.org/2019/03/19/how-machin

2019-03-25T14:12:11Z

Just heard about this Early Carribbean Digital Archive (ecda.northeastern.edu) which does a really interesting job at extracting non-colonial voices in archival materials from within the records of slave-owners and others. Great start to the CNI/ARL Digital Scholarship Planning workshop at Northeastern! dsg.neu.edu/cni_workshop - @dancohen

2019-03-26T02:52:55Z

Sitting here in an American hotel I decided to see what was on TV, something I haven't done in years. 75% of ads flash by super fast & are incomprehensible. I mostly figure out the products/services but I have no clue what the messages convey. Advertising comprehension section in my brain must've atrophied. Every channel was filled w/ depravity: murder scene reenacting, ambulance missions, ghost "experts" lecturing & Alaska survivalist family solders circuits to scare bears. WHAT IS TV?

2019-03-26T02:56:32Z

Really I am in shock abort the advertising. It's baffling how difficult it is to understand without, what I guess must be some serious ongoing background/cultural context. There's a whole tv advertising aesthetic language that requires initiation now.

2019-03-31T14:10:45Z

I enjoyed reading these perspectives from Ted Underwood on interdisciplinarity when speaking of quantitative research, machine learning approaches, etc. with the humanities. chronicle.com/article/Dear-Hum

2019-04-05T00:48:31Z

We've been in the process of helping our community migrate their citations to Zotero for the past few months. I'm glad that when we did our evaluation of potential tools, we did not go with Elsevier's offer for Mendeley library.stanford.edu/blogs/sta

2019-04-05T12:59:53Z

@miren @galego_daluz that's all fair, the tool has many strong points and indeed it was my favourite, years ago. But they also did some annoying things with the interface (incorporating online job search features is a distraction to me) and i felt like it also became somewhat less Linux-friendly.

2019-04-11T13:48:50Z

Wow, Julian Assange arrested. Many worrisome futures could unfold with respect to press freedoms. ledevoir.com/monde/551935/wiki

2019-04-11T13:50:22Z

In the old days of text mining... :-) "500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time" theguardian.com/books/2019/apr

2019-04-11T13:55:09Z

I love this extramission theory of vision. There are so many possibilities for . daily.jstor.org/the-extremely-

2019-04-11T16:48:41Z

@LPS Neat comparison! Ancient Greeks were far ahead of their time—their eye-beams travelled far.

2019-04-17T02:19:59Z

Tonight I found out what a transposed instrument is. My son began learning the saxophone a few months ago. I wanted to play along with him on my violin and was pulling my hair out as to why the notes weren't the same. I'm surprised I've lived this long without knowing about this.

2019-04-17T02:21:34Z

Enjoyed these points on holography, AR, machine learning, and video games with respect to libraries but also (oddly, for the subject) got me thinking more about text-oriented interactions. hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:

2019-04-18T13:04:41Z

Do you have some thoughts on what :OpenAccess: to knowledge means? The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your short films, visual art, poetry, short fiction, & creative essays for an anthology (also there's a prize). Deadline: 30 April 2019 wikimediafoundation.org/2019/0

2019-04-18T13:18:30Z

Here's a good effort from the National Observer to expose disinformation campaigns (particularly leading up to the next Canadian federal election). Here's the link to donate & support it: nationalobserver.com/support and here is more information about what they're trying to do nationalobserver.com/2019/04/1

2019-04-20T03:30:48Z

@pixel I just did a quick search and came up with a couple studies (though I'm sure there are more). One says people do it to manage impressions and form relationships. The other identifies "motives of socializing and information seeking". They're both behind paywalls but I found links from 1 of the author's personal sites and the other's institutional site to freely accessible versions. jenniferihm.com/uploads/5/0/2/ and tandfonline.com/eprint/8Y9xqRd

2019-04-22T13:42:40Z

This new poem from Anna Swanson in Maisonneuve magazine was very satisfying with my second morning coffee on the second real day of sunlight this year. maisonneuve.org/article/2018/0

2019-04-27T02:37:54Z

I had a good day hearing about great research that involved Foucault, arcade phantasmagoria, indigenous voices, phenomenography, online instruction, love/breakup letters, team research services, systematic reviews, artist alter-egos & more at the 17th Annual Concordia Library Research Forum – I've attended a few years but this was the first where I helped plan it. Fun, and happy it's complete (except I need to put up the presentations) library.concordia.ca/about/sta

2019-04-27T03:16:39Z
Firefox minor peeve

@bgcarlisle funny, I never even considered those possibilities until now. I probably have passed over them thousands of times looking for the "save image as..." or "inspect element" and blind to the other options.

2019-04-27T13:25:13Z

@Holly This is a great idea! A couple of my colleagues and I were just starting to plan some sort of Zotero migration workshops but hadn't thought about doing it as an online thing. I'd be game to help support something like that.

2019-05-03T17:31:02Z

Classement mondial de la liberté de la presse 2019 : la mécanique de la peur rsf.org/fr/classement-mondial- @LibertedelaPresse

2019-05-03T17:35:06Z

UNESCO's page about -- Freedome of the press and of expression are of the utmost importance to so much en.unesco.org/commemorations/w

2019-05-03T17:42:03Z
Email from McGill

@bgcarlisle what a shame, there goes that PhD. :-)

2019-05-08T01:15:19Z
Cognitive liberty involving substances

Denver, Colorado is voting on decriminalizing psilocybin. It would make sense to do this everywhere, including mescaline and similar psychedelic substances. cbc.ca/news/health/magic-mushr

2019-05-08T01:29:36Z

A brief explainer of some economic models for publishing from SPARC. sparcopen.org/our-work/alterna

2019-05-09T14:34:52Z

There are a lot of excellent tips and well-thought-out explanations in this article on trans-inclusive web design, information architecture, etc. alistapart.com/article/trans-i

2019-05-09T21:21:54Z
Online Safety vs. Academic Freedom?

Just browsed a faculty member's website to see her research project but univ. security blocked it w/ a nondescript cryptic error (I knew it was uni. security because I looked at the error source, recognized the system's name–most probably wouldn't). IT says it's infected w/ HTMLGen-A. Thx. I also have reasonable mis-trust for the message. I don't like access to info being blocked, especially rubs me the wrong way on library computers. Need to think through this

2019-05-09T21:23:35Z
Online Safety vs. Academic Freedom?

On the one hand, sure you don't want to spread malware across the university computers. On the other, what if it's a mistake? Most people would never know. In fact things could be blocked for reasons that are not malware. The people behind the site wouldn't necessarily be aware, just like most people browsing it.

2019-05-10T16:17:56Z

Have you seen Mozilla's new Internet Health Report for 2019? I just started reading it. I like how it is organized around assessment themes, which include privacy & security, openness, digital inclusion, web literacy, and decentralization. internethealthreport.org/2019/

2019-05-10T16:23:03Z
mastodon meta, primary/moved account question

I just noticed the preferences interface has a Follows and Followers section w/ some interesting features. What does Account Status mean, err that's to say, how is it determined? How does it know what a primary account is vs. a moved one?

2019-05-10T16:25:21Z
mastodon meta, primary/moved account question

Actually, just realized I phrased that question badly. I see how it would know what a moved one is but I could multiple accounts on different instances without necessarily setting any as moved. So how does it know what is "primary"?

2019-05-10T16:27:44Z
mastodon meta, primary/moved account question

@bgcarlisle Ah, ok... so maybe I'm interpreting primary in a stronger way than it is intended.

2019-05-11T02:59:21Z

My colleagues at the Concordia Press launched their first catalogue today. In 2019 there will be a collection of writings by Ken Lum and Richard Foltz's "Les religions de la Route de la soie," translated by Benoit Léger. concordia.ca/press/catalogue.h – Here's a to a new university press becoming more concrete, they've been hard at work the last couple years to get to this point.

2019-05-11T13:23:14Z

Talking about the ice in Greenland, Robert Macfarlane not only explains how it records all manner of things for millennia but does it in a sincerely beautiful style. Read this "The Blue of Time" excerpt from his book, Underland about deep time. the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/

2019-05-12T12:29:27Z

Just realized this intro isn't entirely correct anymore–moved from engineering. Now I'm a Digital Scholarship Librarian and a subject librarian for Communication Studies and Journalism.

2019-05-14T02:34:47Z

You can read Arundhati Roy's Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture here theguardian.com/commentisfree/

It's an abridged version but still, she covers a lot. Indian politics to forms of writing that don't fit nicely into popular categories, to characters in her books, and the way things may play out against those most hurt by our climate catastrophe.

2019-05-15T16:38:52Z

Need help negotiating publishing rights (or simply retaining your authorial rights) for your article? CARL just released an update of its Canadian Author Addendum to Publication Agreement along with two guides on using it. carl-abrc.ca/news/updated-cana :OpenAccess:

2019-05-16T21:37:53Z

Voynich manuscript news always seems exciting at first... then we're deflated. arstechnica.com/science/2019/0

2019-05-21T23:14:54Z

The fruiterie down the block started carrying these grapes advertised as "cotton candy" grapes. I thought, marketing, but tried them & wow! They're amazing! Totally uncanny that their flavour isn't artificial. Seems people put a lot of effort into making it happen though. hm does that make it artificial in a way? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton

2019-05-22T17:39:49Z

42 countries (including Canada) agreed to a set of principles & public policy recommendations adopted by the OECD on AI and its development. These address things like safety, transparency, human rights, sustainability, etc. legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/i

2019-05-22T17:40:47Z

@jaranta yeah... maybe time to rethink what constitutes artificial. Nonetheless, they're delicious. :-)

2019-05-30T13:06:36Z

While Wikipedia works to open up knowledge to everyone, commercial enterprise, The North Face, works to manipulate it against its policies, defacing the public site, in the name of... advertising? Bad corporate social responsibility. wikimediafoundation.org/2019/0

2019-06-07T13:09:29Z

Glad to read these many positive recommendations on copyright reform made by the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science & Technology. They seem to favour more reasonable freedoms & exceptions. Here's a post from the Creative Commons blog about it (with a link to the report) creativecommons.org/2019/06/06

2019-06-11T16:30:54Z

Someone / people(?) threatened to release a bunch of Radiohead minidiscs from the mid-late 90s. Instead of paying the ransom, Radiohead put the work on Bandcamp with proceeds going to benefit Extinction Rebellion — what an excellent response! Here's the link radiohead.bandcamp.com/

2019-07-04T13:14:35Z

Nice little guide to spotting "fake news" err, that is to say, it's to help people consider information presented online, through a critical eye. cbc.ca/news/technology/fake-ne

2019-07-04T18:00:52Z

Open-mindedness... "How Intellectual Humility Can Make Us More Curious, Reflective & Able to Learn More: Read the Findings of a New Study" openculture.com/2019/07/how-in

2019-08-01T12:50:34Z

Recent data (BP's Statistical Review of World Energy) show humans burn more and more fossil fuels. This article with charts based on the BP data explains that we've increased 4 times the amount of fossil fuels we burn & renewable alternatives way behind. nationalobserver.com/2019/07/3

2019-08-08T12:43:14Z

Research on Canadian news-getting habits sheds some light on what happens with different groups becoming more or less informed vs. uninformed vs. misinformed. I can't help but see this as more reason to focus on education for critical thinking. nationalobserver.com/2019/08/0

2019-08-27T02:22:47Z

Hold the opinions, sit, and care for your thoughts. Matthew Beard writes about how we engage with media, about our fast trading of opinions, and we ought to sit with things more. I appreciate this thinking. ethics.org.au/opinion-economy/

2019-08-30T12:27:52Z

Let's hear it for footnotes! Washington Post article argues for more footnotes, especially in non-academic work to help battle disinformation. washingtonpost.com/outlook/201

2019-09-18T16:41:56Z
Canadian politics + taxes

This article says "We need collective solutions and big thinking, not individual giveaways..." as it discusses tax cuts that diminish our capacity to enact collective solutions and that shift debate toward market solutions. ricochet.media/en/2725/scheers

2019-09-18T16:42:34Z

Crowd-sourced publishing... nice post from the Library and Archives Canada blog discussing an example thediscoverblog.com/2019/09/05

2019-09-18T20:39:36Z

A prof wanted his class to build a collaborative annotated bibliography on the semiotics of nuclear waste. I had the class use Zotero's group functionality within the context of learning search strategies, being critical of sources, etc. and then to actually create the bibliographies... and it worked really nicely! It seems like so often, technology has glitches and difficulties, which get in the way, so it's refreshing when it just supports exactly what you want people to get from it.

2019-09-18T22:47:51Z

@meena nice idea. I'll see how the prof feels. It's a work in progress for his class so he might want to let it continue a bit first.

2019-09-19T12:36:37Z

@dbs almost 3 hours, which was just right.

2019-09-19T16:51:30Z

@dbs yes, 1 hour would be pretty tough to cover what you need. Also, good point on the connector... when I've done workshops with Zotero where the browser setup wasn't done, it's surprisingly time-consuming to get everyone on the same page.

2019-09-23T13:08:26Z

Waiting at a carwash the other day, my son (8) read the choices.
Son: Why does it say hashtag 1, hashtag 2, hashtag 3..."
Me: That only started to mean hashtag in recent years, usually it means number.
Son (now indignant): Well then how did they used to say hashtag?

2019-09-23T17:15:41Z

Though always well-considered, Thunberg’s recent speech powerfully conveys the urgency in which we all (every person and government) needs to act.
youtube.com/watch?v=u9KxE4Kv9A

Transcript in The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/

2019-09-25T16:40:34Z

If you're in a teaching role (or other academic sort of position) beware of M-Journal citations. It's a fake article generator based on Wikipedia content. It's designed to give a realistic appearance. The link is: m-journal.org and there is an article about it here buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanh

2019-09-27T22:32:53Z

This was important & inspiring... walked with family and friends in Montreal. Appreciated hearing Greta Thunberg's words encouraging so many people at the end

2019-09-27T22:37:56Z

Half a million people marched in our city!

2019-09-28T01:41:14Z

@esty That's great, everyone that goes out helps, to spread the ideas and show that people want change.

2019-09-28T01:50:43Z

@esty Ah, I see your point.

2019-10-11T13:21:41Z

There's a great deal of information here about the state of throughout Africa. blog.doaj.org/2019/10/11/guest

2019-10-11T13:27:40Z

Heading to Florida in a couple days to present at the 2019 (Digital Library Federation). I attended for the first time last year and was impressed by how well organized it was and the great variety of interesting topics. One of my colleagues and I have a brief talk based on our digital scholarship needs gathering work at Concordia.

2019-10-11T13:29:27Z

@platypus Cool, I will keep my eyes open!

2019-10-16T01:14:32Z

Lisa Lamont's digitization work in www.detaineeallies.org project really stands out among the wonderful talks at 2019 . Letters from imprisoned migrants will prove important for things that we haven't even imagined. Complexity of the ethical issues to grapple with is immense. Repercussions? Identification via unique travel routes? What does repetition among routes tell us? Letters made public are good or will there be repercussions in the migrants' home? For-profit prisons? Ahh!

2019-10-16T18:44:12Z
intellectual liberty

This seems to me, to be essentially an argument from Nick Cave to embrace uncertainty and engage in continuous critical thinking. He's woven a brief, difficult, and eloquent path through some contemporary social/political issues to consider theredhandfiles.com/why-do-you

2019-10-16T19:47:34Z

Next week the Concordia University Library has a great line-up of events for . I'm offering a session on Using and Sharing Content with Licenses. Most of our events are open to everyone (in Montreal): library.concordia.ca/research/ spread the word and join us!

2019-10-21T14:41:41Z

For International Project Muse has put up a curated bibliography of books and journals relevant to the theme of equity in :OpenAccess: about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/open-a

2019-11-06T04:57:56Z

Levitated the evening on a Godspeed You! Black Emperor show. I could've been lost in there for weeks, except outside the hall things are as they were.

2019-11-09T14:23:16Z

New tab in Firefox browser this morning had this little message at the bottom: "Blink182 is one of the most common passwords that has been hacked. If that's your password, you now have TWO reasons to change it." I think that's reason enough to use Firefox.

2019-11-25T13:45:26Z

@bgcarlisle ahh! I never worried about that before.

2019-11-25T15:45:40Z

@bgcarlisle so thoughtful!

2019-12-16T00:51:41Z

Brought my son and several of his friends to our cabin for the weekend—9th birthday. Phrase "the children" inextricably linked with Joy Williams' character(s?) in her brilliant novel "The Changeling" went through my mind repeatedly. Regardless, great time!

2019-12-16T21:32:38Z

Call for Proposals! Concordia ’s 18th Annual Research Forum (April 17, 2020), presentations or posters on research or a case study in any area of , in English or French, due Jan 30, 2020 at 11am: library.concordia.ca/about/sta

2019-12-19T17:49:24Z
Paranoia-inducing reporting on how you are being tracked

Did you know or suspect that you were being tracked? If you haven't thought about it, THEY have. And you are tracked. Read NY Times investigative reporting on phone geo location tracking. nytimes.com/interactive/2019/1

2019-12-20T14:58:00Z

Counteracting misuse of the WWW and related information, The has launched the Contract for the Web (contractfortheweb.org). Tim Berners Lee explains the motivation in this op-ed webfoundation.org/2019/12/i-in -- great initiative to encourage improvement.

2019-12-31T05:25:03Z

Past midnight, a morpheme slithers from my head. I haven't found where it comes from nor where it goes. Maybe there are many. It floats away.

2020-01-03T03:30:44Z
US / Iran / World Politics

Trump's order to kill Iranian General seems like the set-up for a situation to put the US into a state of emergency. Trump could take control of awesome power, becoming dictator, suspend rights, etc. Read about SoE powers in this prescient 2018 article: brennancenter.org/our-work/ana

2020-01-03T04:06:20Z
US / Iran / World Politics

@carcinopithecus
Yeah, I'm not sure that I see this as heading into a WWIII but I think Trump is probably most interested in acquiring more power for himself, removing any impediments to that (e.g. impeachment, election, etc.). Seems plausible that this could be a path to that.

2020-01-03T22:51:05Z

Over the holidays, I read Olga Tokarczuk's book, Flights. I loved how it played with time, historicity, through the scopes and structures of its characters. Anyway, that's just a bit to encourage people to check it out.

2020-01-05T20:39:19Z

@Cyborgneticz Tough question. I don't know that a good comparison comes to mind. For some reason, the first thing I thought of was David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in terms of structural technique (not subject matter or style) but more fragmented, insightful links, and better written. But that's really not a good comparison. Then I thought of William Carlos Williams' Patterson... which I can't fully articulate why but it may be through some spirit of a thematic comparison--rather different though.

2020-02-06T14:20:47Z

Explanation of where two new Canadian government considerations unfold for the future communications, digital culture, privacy rights, etc.

policyoptions.irpp.org/magazin

2020-02-09T16:44:48Z

One of the coolest displays I've seen: with my son at the et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). I walked right past but at my son's eye-level, he spotted it. Just in the stacks, a little projector hides behind some cut-out books and projects ghosts onto this display, which appear to glow.

2020-02-20T02:20:31Z

Walking with my son today, he was excited about his friend coming over after school tomorrow.
Kid: Can me and [friend] dig in the basement tomorrow?
Me: Why?
Kid: So we can find bones.

2020-02-20T03:55:40Z

@lrhodes it really is about the timing, isn't it?

2020-02-24T13:29:30Z

It's 2020 (24 - 28 February). Fair dealing copyright exception enables people to use copyrighted works for certain purposes (like research or educational use) w/o requiring special permission from the copyright holder. Find out more fair-dealing.ca --

2020-02-24T15:06:07Z

This week of 23 Feb is also Week, which is intended to promote find out more here: freedomtoread.ca/freedom-to-re

2020-03-06T03:35:59Z
lichen + Canada elections
2020-03-13T03:49:25Z
#COVID-19 Info Sources

Beware of misinformation. Discern authoritative sources... reputable medical, scientific, or with dedication to public well-being, etc. Such as the World Health Organization page busting myths: who.int/emergencies/diseases/n or the Canadian gov page canada.ca/en/public-health/ser

2020-03-13T19:15:29Z
covid19 | textbook industry

@rusty Yeah, I received an e-mail offer from a video distributor saying they'd discount their subscription package as a special aid to libraries because of COVID-19. They provided no rationale for this. Just oh, COVID-19!!!! Let's make a sale! They're now on my beware-list (so-to-speak). Gross.

2020-03-16T13:38:30Z

Amateur des efforts de Paul Otlet ? peut-être la visioconférence et lnternet? en 1934 artsandculture.google.com/exhi

2020-03-17T15:51:35Z

Pleasant

2020-03-18T18:11:29Z

There is a large, open dataset of research made available by the Allen Institute for AI. Here's the link for background info on the data and how to get it: pages.semanticscholar.org/coro (CORD-19)

2020-03-20T21:33:50Z
The Social Network (2010)

@bgcarlisle How did a decade pass already since that movie?!?

2020-03-30T13:03:32Z

Students (or anyone), in a situation where you need to do more deep reading on a screen right now than normal... it might be a struggle. This Reddit thread has some good tips to help: reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comme

2020-03-31T02:02:57Z
French-language request (commonly used words checking tool)

@foureyedsoul this isn't exactly what you're asking for but it might be useful toward that end. I'm a fan of the Zettlr zettlr.com application for managing notebooks, especially academic context. It comes w/ 4 algorithms to "measure" the readability of the text you're writing (multilingual). It's not based on a list of common words but on language variance. Here is its explanation docs.zettlr.com/en/academic/re

2020-03-31T02:05:16Z
French-language request (commonly used words checking tool)

@foureyedsoul my thinking is that maybe if the readability is good, it might be likely that the words being used are more common. Might not be true but maybe something to explore.

2020-04-03T03:48:34Z
Student exams, disadvantaged, privacy, AI in the time of COVID-19

Some privacy concerns about online test proctoring/invigilating are obvious on the surface and maybe can be mitigated but this article goes into much deeper problems that I haven't seen as much discussion of. This is an important read right now! hybridpedagogy.org/our-bodies-

2020-04-03T13:08:42Z
Student exams, disadvantaged, privacy, AI in the time of COVID-19

@rusty yes, it's a good approach to get people thinking about assumptions and how those influence what students do or perceive.

2020-04-03T16:01:23Z
Student exams, disadvantaged, privacy, AI in the time of COVID-19

Just noticed that the Concordia (where I work) University's Centre for Teaching and Learning has put up a variety of alternate suggestions for faculty that had originally planned proctored exams concordia.ca/offices/ctl/movin - nice resource to consider.

2020-04-15T15:46:11Z

Here is a nice list of tools that are free (libre) alternatives to conferencing/communcating applications like Zoom
fsf.org/blogs/community/better

2020-04-15T15:49:25Z
sort of covid-19 but really about epistemic humility

Article on experts' awareness of their own expertise and its limits or expression thereof in public discourse.

behavioralscientist.org/episte

"Epistemic humility is an intellectual virtue. It is grounded in the realization that our knowledge is always provisional and incomplete—and that it might require revision in light of new evidence."

2020-04-16T21:58:57Z
Best research: What's the deal with birds?

Predatory publishers serve an important role. They can brighten your day. irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/SJ

2020-04-16T22:00:06Z
Best research: What's the deal with birds?

I don't like to link to Twitter but it seems to be where the author posted the back story to this article. twitter.com/evornithology/stat

2020-04-17T18:18:26Z

@bgcarlisle see now I'm going to domain squat that.

2020-04-17T18:19:56Z

@bgcarlisle hang on while I setup the link to the kickstarter campaign.

2020-04-23T02:12:18Z

There are 14 riddles/clues (seedlings) on this LibraryThing Seedling Hunt page. Take a look and try to search the site to find what they correspond to. librarything.com/hunt.php?y=20 -- just for fun.

2020-05-01T02:56:11Z

After the kid told me today that he and our dog live on different servers, he asked if I knew what there was before social media. No... and he replies that it was "social medieval." The pandemic has either resulted in far too much screen time or just the right amount.

2020-06-05T01:54:12Z

I see Nick Cave is auctioning his socks to raise money for charity. I also read that Grimes is auctioning her soul. I wonder which one will fetch the highest bid? consequenceofsound.net/2020/06

2020-06-10T00:59:33Z

Statement from the Concordia Library (where I work) condemning anti-Black racism. It also includes a few links to relevant resources. library.concordia.ca/about/new

2020-07-13T13:32:26Z

Listen, let's make less noise and allow for the natural ambient sounds of our world nationalobserver.com/2020/07/1

2020-08-06T20:14:08Z

This starfish travelled to Montréal, fulfilling its life's greatest dream. It expired moments before being able to cross the fence and ride the red slide. A moment of silence.

2020-08-11T17:28:21Z

Definition of a museum? I hadn't been following this issue so this article surprised me, it's not very in-depth but it does raise interesting complex points. nytimes.com/2020/08/06/arts/wh

2020-08-17T19:10:19Z

Waiting to cross the street. I love this sign...

2020-09-01T18:39:17Z

JSTOR summing up library anxiety. I enjoyed this but its target audience is more-likely non-librarians. daily.jstor.org/do-you-suffer-

2020-09-03T02:42:59Z

Stick with it. Often "...distraction is your brain ducking challenging feelings such as boredom, loneliness, insecurity, fatigue and uncertainty. These are the internal triggers – the root causes – that prompt you to find the comfort of distraction" psyche.co/guides/to-become-ind

2020-10-14T15:50:38Z

Thumbing through pages to look up something in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, first sentence under "principle of contradiction" caught my eye: "also called principle of non-contradiction, the principle that a statement and its negation cannot both be true." love that

2020-10-16T13:39:31Z

@bgcarlisle @platypus Ask if there is a discount on the APC.

2020-10-17T03:27:54Z
Proctorio tries to silence learning technologist

A Learning Technology Specialist at UBC was rightly critical of Proctorio so the company is suing him - defend.linkletter.org/ . Considering the ethical, technical or other transgressions of automated test proctoring/surveillance tools like Proctorio, it's worth spreading the word. His legal defence: GoFundMe gofundme.com/f/stand-against-p campaign.

Good blog post here: In Defence of Ian Linkletter - blog.communityofpraxis.ca/2020

2020-10-19T14:06:48Z

Concordia students, come to my GradPro Skills workshop to learn about licences and how they enable concordia.ca/students/gradpros — Find out more about here openaccessweek.org

2020-10-19T14:07:02Z

It's read about how Québec university libraries espouse open & free access to knowledge. library.concordia.ca/about/new

2020-10-22T17:09:53Z

The mail just delivered my copy of Richard Ovenden's new "Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack" which I'm looking forward to. Nice this arrived during as helps somewhat prevent the erasure/destruction of knowledge. theguardian.com/books/2020/sep

2020-11-05T13:40:54Z

This positive announcement on a new collaboration to preserve fully journals is important (and on World Day of Digital Preservation ). The DOAJ, the CLOCKSS Archive, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry/ISSN International Centre and Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have a new initiative for archiving these journals. Info here: blog.doaj.org/2020/11/05/doaj-

2020-11-17T13:39:11Z

"Reparative Aesthetics: The Museum’s Incarceration of Indigenous Life" is an online talk this afternoon (2 - 4pm EST) with Dylan Robinson: thá:ytset: shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw. It looks really interesting! Register for free here:
eventbrite.ca/e/dylan-robinson

2020-11-18T17:55:36Z

Will oligopolistic academic publishers (SNSI) get to plant surveillance software in libraries? codastory.com/authoritarian-te No, libraries are not passive recipients of such tech. Librarians wouldn't allow such a thing because it'd go contrary to our professional code(s) of ethics. Mehta's article is good but only mentioned "digital rights advocates and scientists." Since it concerned libraries, I felt there should be a librarian's perspective so I just blogged a bit here phydeau.org/chroknowlogy/infor

2020-12-11T14:19:37Z

This new SFDORA repository of case studies on how institutions have made changes is helpful sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/ Assessment criteria for promotion form an ongoing blockage to fixing publishing practices (e.g. moving toward innovative models)

2021-02-10T13:55:35Z

This shows some difficulties journalism is facing. Author says "To protect Canadians from disinformation, local news outlets need support" (I'd also say augment education in critical thinking & media awareness skills but that'd be another article) nationalobserver.com/2021/02/1

2021-02-15T13:48:55Z

You should read this really nice article. It helps to figure out ways for better surviving the ongoing trudge of this pandemic theconversation.com/try-a-litt

2021-02-18T13:56:27Z

Interesting article with much more to say than its title (Librarians vs. QAnon) suggests. theatlantic.com/education/arch Many thoughts related to info literacy E.g. "We are experiencing a moment that is exposing a schism between two groups: those who have faith that there is a way to arrive at truth using epistemological practices that originated during the Enlightenment, and those who believe that events and experiences are portents to be interpreted in ways that align with their personal values."

2021-02-23T22:20:36Z
Good open access news in Canada

Really great to see this big transformative agreement between Canadian universities (CRKN_RCDR)
& SAGE! It discounts APCs in some journals and automatically waives them for a lot of others and implements lots of Creative Commons licensing. crkn-rcdr.ca/en/canadian-resea

2021-02-26T16:53:36Z

@bgcarlisle in addition to this, I've never understood the trend that resulted in removing the up/down buttons from scrollbars. Those were especially useful when needing to scroll in a tiny window where using the mouse, trackball, touchpad, whatever has an oversized impact. I hate it, so hard to get the movements fine enough to show me what I want... especially if using a device without some kind of physical scroll wheel.

2021-03-17T17:05:04Z

The new University of California transformative agreement with Elsevier has some interesting details. It certainly seems like a big change to increase osc.universityofcalifornia.edu

2021-03-18T16:50:35Z

I cannot applaud the title of this article enough. It's like it's been on repeat in my head for over a decade whenever I try to walk anywhere. "People Who Text While Walking Actually Do Ruin Everything" wired.com/story/people-who-tex

2021-03-19T21:05:19Z

@robertwgehl these new Zotero features are excellent and you have a nice post. I'm looking forward to Zotero 6. One thing for anyone trying out this beta (which I learned when I tried it recently) is that it changes some things in the Zotero database that are not backwards compatible. There is a way to revert but... still good to be cautious.

2021-03-25T17:27:58Z

Super interested to read this major new "...analysis and overview of collaborative, community-driven open access journals and platforms" sponsored by colation S. This article includes links to the reports (findings & recommendations) as well as the datasets and bibliographic info oaspa.org/major-oa-diamond-jou

2021-03-29T21:51:39Z

Good joint response to latest Canadian government copyright consultation from CARL-ABRC & CFLA-FCAB. Much to like in its recommendations & that it sheds light on more than just the short-sighted term extension imposed by CUSMA (NAFTA) carl-abrc.ca/news/joint-respon

2021-04-13T13:00:37Z

Take a look at our lineup for the 19th annual Concordia Research Forum (April 27 & 28). Registration is still open. It's a free, online event this year. Here is the link to the schedule and registration: library.concordia.ca/about/sta

2021-04-13T22:03:02Z

@pixouls Ah, yes we just haven't put them up yet. We'll have the posters accessible next week so that people can view them before the conference.

2021-04-15T13:04:38Z

@be this is a very refreshing approach to a lot of the problems with free and open source software paradigms!

2021-04-15T18:53:10Z

@elizabeengland Framadate works well. It's hosted and free on free and open source software. Similar to Doodle but with a few more options. framadate.org/

2021-04-19T17:22:22Z

19th of April is - learn more about Dr. Albert Hofmann and LSD cbc.ca/archives/entry/swiss-ch

2021-04-19T17:25:07Z

@pixouls Hi there, just to let you know the posters are available to access in PDF form now. library.concordia.ca/about/sta

2021-04-27T17:03:40Z

About to get started at the Concordia Library Annual Research Forum library.concordia.ca/about/sta . Keynote this year from Raegan Swanson, the Executive Director of The ArQuives arquives.ca/ Canada's LGBTQ2+ archives

2021-04-27T17:22:10Z

Swanson mentioned that since its community started it in the early 70s, ArQuives is now among the largest LGBTQ2+ archives in the world.

2021-04-27T17:53:07Z

Interesting point on archivists needing to ask questions about their organization's history... how that led to the materials they have. Getting to a better understanding how to improve the diversity of what's in the archives.

2021-04-27T18:24:38Z

Next in the (at 2:30) Lynne Bowker will be presenting on machine translation literacy.

2021-04-27T19:08:07Z

Now learning about Canadian Federal Government Depository Publications at CARL Libraries with Michelle Lake, Graeme Campbell, and Catherine McGoveran

2021-04-27T19:34:17Z

Now we get to hear from Jeanette Hatherill about her research on deceptive publishers and scams

2021-04-28T16:58:26Z

About to start our 2nd & final day of the annual Concordia University Library Research Forum with Emily Kopley's research into the statistics of anonymous publications. library.concordia.ca/about/sta

2021-04-28T17:49:01Z

Monique Flaccavento is telling us about hiring practices in academic libraries with respect to improving diversity now in the

2021-04-28T18:15:44Z

All the posters are available to download here: library.concordia.ca/about/sta and we can chat with their presenters now.

2021-04-28T19:12:15Z

Next, looking forward to Camille-Hélène St-Aubin's research on Jeanne-Marguerite Saint-Pierre et la place des femmes dans le développement des bibliothèques au Québec

2021-04-28T19:46:47Z

Wrapping up our , so many great speakers, many of which we've recorded and I hope will be availble in the near future. Our last speakers are Nadine Anderson & Raya Samet who are discussing Designing Student Research Opportunities Across Differences

2021-04-30T12:58:43Z

There is a "rally on wheels" this morning to protest
the decimation of Laurentian University scholarstrikecanada.ca/laurent - Also sign a petition (or donate to spread the word) here change.org/p/those-responsible

2021-05-01T14:53:22Z

The Zotero beta (thus upcoming versions) makes it possible to import your data from the online Mendeley. This is important if you want to switch but struggle getting out of Mendeley's database encryption lock-in. Here's the info: forums.zotero.org/discussion/8

2021-05-08T17:36:20Z
Climate Change & Canadian Forests

Stark and eye-opening. Our forests have been overwhelmed for a number of years now... they're unable to absorb more CO2 than is emitted. No quick solution to this; planting billions of trees won't be enough. We need, broad, intense, systemic change. nationalobserver.com/2021/05/0

2021-05-10T17:58:09Z

@misty That people think it makes sense to put millions into polluting the environment in order to create imaginary stuff that only has value due to a temporary mass hysteria... Beyond asinine!

2021-05-31T14:25:28Z

Provincial and federal governments must step up and invest in post-secondary education so we can stop the corporatization of universities. - utfa.medium.com/ocadus-decisio

2021-05-31T15:33:42Z

@mpjgregoire It is not something I've looked into deeply, sorry I don't have a recommendation for you. Issues I'm aware of are mostly of personal experience (from people I know), which I can't really share. We have public funding but of course that's only a part of where funds come from. CAUT has a few articles that include links to some info (may not fully answer your question though) caut.ca/search/university%20fu

2021-06-01T13:30:32Z

This is interesting, first in North America, the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) is joining cOAlition S, adopting Plan S so that publications from the research they fund immediately become open access - coalition-s.org/coalition-s-ex

2021-08-24T15:07:13Z

This is a very worthy effort, I think, on raising awareness, developing new responsibility toward environmental concerns with respect to doing digital humanities work. See/collaborate on the manifesto fo the Digital Humanities and the Climate Crisis : dhc-barnard.github.io/envdh/

2021-09-28T12:50:10Z

Today is the International Day for Universal Access to Information (Sep. 28) — Important for free expression, free press, being well-informed citizens, improving our institutions/accountability, improving our societies, & more. un.org/en/observances/informat

2021-10-17T22:02:20Z

I know I'm not supposed to but I always loved Lynch's Dune. This article nails so many reasons why. "Characters drift in and out, and their identities and relationships are unclear. A bear-sized scrotal mutant can move spaceships with drug-induced mind-magic... The pacing is leisurely, almost hypnotic. You're here for the wild sights... conversations so formal they border on liturgical. Just sit back and let them wash over you." arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10

2021-10-23T20:40:58Z

I'd like to hear more playlists created this way. :-) Fascinating research (using a large corpus of music from Spotify) on music that gives people the "chills." I was struck with the sophisticated/sad intense/happy characteristics. The full article is, fortunately, open access . journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

2021-10-23T20:43:26Z

Most of the playlist is accessible here open.spotify.com/playlist/0gUD which came from this article about the research qz.com/2071652/a-spotify-playl -- I guess Spotify's API rules didn't permit the researchers to publish the entire list of music used though they provided their R script to use.

2021-10-23T20:46:40Z

Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle's article in Time magazine calling out the problems with publishers holding libraries hostage over control of electronic resources. I'm glad to see this issue getting popular press time.com/6108581/internet-arch

2021-10-26T15:24:07Z

Wow! The General Index to over 107 million science articles is available in its 32 terabytes of glory. That's quite something in the midst of — Here's a video from Carl Malamud (founder of public.resource.org) talking about it (also links to it) archive.org/details/GeneralInd

2021-11-02T13:23:22Z

@bgcarlisle keep up the good fight

2021-11-03T03:09:24Z

Uh-oh. Ask Delphi:
Is artificial intelligence good?
Delphi speculates:
“It's expected”
delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+arti

2021-11-03T03:28:00Z

On the other hand, I've learned from Ask Delphi that it's pretty much always wrong to eat a neighbour but if they give me just a little piece of their ear, it's merely disgusting. I'm vegetarian so won't have this dilemma. Also, okay to hug a tree if it's sad.

2021-11-03T03:28:33Z

theguardian.com/technology/202

2021-12-01T15:26:18Z

The spice must flow. cbc.ca/news/canada/maple-syrup

2022-01-27T14:31:29Z

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (en.unesco.org/commemorations/h)... explore some of these portraits in the virtual exhibition museeholocauste.ca/en/virtual- of Montreal's Musée Holocaust

2022-02-24T19:16:20Z

Concordia Library's Researcher-in-Residence call for applicants is now open! We have a range of areas that we're seeking proposals from. Researchers and practitioners from library and information studies, as well as other disciplines are welcome to apply: library.concordia.ca/about/res --> Deadline to apply is 25 March 2022

2022-03-15T15:43:17Z

It's been 20 years of since the Budapest Open Access Statement. There are 4 new recommendations, which I think are important. You can read about them here: budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

2022-03-18T20:31:57Z

The new version of Zotero was released! Among other things, it's got some very nice new note functionality (markdown support included!) and built-in PDF reader/ annotating features. zotero.org/blog/zotero-6/

2022-04-25T23:44:41Z

I think I missed posting an when I signed up here previously so... I'm a at Concordia University in Montreal. I like thinking about intellectual liberty (often in a digital context), the ethical care of information, knowledge, culture, and what we do for societies over a very long time.

Outside of my professional life, I write (novels/poems), invented a game, etc. Errant hallway wanderer.

2022-04-29T03:08:34Z

As I was showing some people what markdown is today, I remembered that just a few years ago I felt like it was a useless thing and that I might as well just use HTML. I'm not sure what shifted in my head there but now I just want everything in markdown.

2022-05-01T13:32:38Z

Bear is suspected of being polar.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/po

2022-05-01T16:53:58Z

@Jeff I think this is the second article I've noticed. Might be coincidence but then again, with climate change, etc.

2022-05-03T20:28:27Z
Creative Commons global report on the state of journalism.

The Creative Commons published its global report on the state of . I haven't had a chance to read all of it yet but it has info regarding business models and problems with ensuring open access content and what can prevent quality journalism. creativecommons.org/2022/04/08

2022-05-04T22:14:02Z

@bgcarlisle the first time I read that, I didn't hear the pause after "was not," but instead understood it as "was not convincing us" and I thought whoah that's a complex double negative, what a lazy trick, that Devil.

2022-05-07T19:18:03Z

I know very little about nuclear energy. What I really would like to understand is why, when new nuclear energy is proposed (like the small modular reactors in Canada) why do they always seem to focus on uranium? In my very very superficial understanding it seems like thorium waste becomes safer much more quickly than uranium, poses fewer other problems, and is more plentiful. That it doesn't seem to be talked about in popular news on the subject makes me think, am I missing something?

2022-05-07T21:35:18Z
nuclear energy, politics

@amikigu and @tully ok I'd had some notion of that... the weapons potential but, and maybe I'm just not aware enough of how these things are interconnected, I keep thinking about the Canadian context (since it's where I live) and we don't have nuclear weapons... Is/would all that waste actually be sent to other countries building new weapons? I feel like if that were the case it might get more attention in public discourse, no?

2022-05-09T02:56:47Z

@stevefoerster @Palanix -- I have a hard time seeing a good justification for creating radioactive waste that will be dangerous for thousands of years.

2022-05-10T16:35:46Z

@bgcarlisle that was a contributing factor that got me to switch to Manjaro. I was surprised to find that using its AUR approach seems easier/more efficient to me than having snaps and apt repositories. Manjaro's customizations in themes, etc. aren't to my taste (I removed those to get a plain system) but otherwise I've been satisfied with it as an Ubuntu alternative.

2022-05-11T12:35:48Z

@socrates although I've been on here for a relatively long time, I'm somehow not familiar with what moderation involves or new sign-ups require. Is it something that people can collaborate on/that you'd want others to help with? I ask because it seems like using this becomes more valuable to each person as more connections join. If there are a bunch of new people, they might be encouraging others they know to sign-up (though I guess that could also happen through other instances).

2022-05-12T18:48:30Z

This is the thermostat in my office. I am the only person that uses the office but there's a locked plastic box around the thermostat so that I will not adjust it. To change the temperature, I put in a request to our facilities people and in a few days they send a person to come unlock it and push the button to adjust the temperature for me. They re-lock it before leaving.

2022-05-12T19:04:00Z

Sometimes, like in today's heat, I look at it with a yearning to press a button. Yet, it's just out of reach. Perhaps I should merely be thankful that I can rely on a service where someone will push that button my behalf.

2022-05-12T21:08:27Z

@mplouffe So tempting. I tried to reach inside with a letter opener but wasn't successful. It's got a clever inner liner that overlaps the opening to prevent such a thing. 🙂

2022-05-15T17:27:32Z

@LaCrecerelle not exactly hacker, but maybe hacker-adjacent-esque (VR game?) Existenz from David Cronenberg.

2022-05-15T17:29:56Z

@LaCrecerelle I guess I made me think of reality hacking.

2022-05-16T12:26:45Z

@TomLarrow I've had the exact same experience!

2022-05-18T12:48:18Z

Enjoyable read and very broad overview on aspects of the mycorrhizal network thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/05/06/

2022-05-18T18:44:19Z

Bread is among my favourite things. A long time ago, traveling through Transylvania, I remember discovering this treat of coiled bread (chimney cake). It was really exciting when this shop opened a few blocks from me in Montreal (rue Rachel) specialising in these.

2022-05-18T21:13:13Z

@scully yes exactly!

2022-05-20T17:59:10Z

Concordia Library's 20th annual Research Forum, which recently concluded, now has the presentations available online from our site: library.concordia.ca/about/sta (video recordings and slides)

The plenary session was a conversation on racial capitalism and knowledge production in LIS.

I enjoyed a session involving some Rwandan history from archival work with Lisa Ndejuru and Kristen Young ("Waking our Stories")

2022-05-20T20:14:01Z

@robertwgehl there should be a word for that experience.

2022-05-25T23:59:06Z

Open call for obsolete sounds! This project is really fascinating. They're requesting recordings of sounds from our environment, old tech, etc. that are no longer commonplace and then those will be reimagined by sound artists "to draw attention to the world’s disappearing soundscapes." citiesandmemory.com/2022/05/op

2022-05-26T12:58:43Z

@samwilson Good point! It does seem like it would be a good CC licence use case particularly with the way they have the remix part of the project working. I wonder why they have not gone that path. Thinking of asking them since I was considering participating. If I do, I'll post the response.

2022-05-27T20:20:59Z

Listening to a great talk right now from Malvika Sharan of the Turing Way Project @turingway at the Open Science @ Concordia conference . Malvika is talking about shared spaces creating shared experiences in the context of open science. :OpenAccess:

2022-05-31T11:58:47Z

@bgcarlisle doing something similar but fortunately where we are nobody would contest it.

2022-06-03T20:25:47Z

Enjoyed seeing these displays as I walked into our library this morning.

2022-06-25T05:47:40Z

Visiting family in California. I brought the kid to Haight Street, SF & wow it changed. Surprised & intrigued at the odd form of gentrification it underwent. Still a few headshops and 2ndhand clothing stores but my memory as a teen/early 20s, 25-30 years ago is hard to reconcile.

2022-06-29T13:36:36Z

@juliana and often also those who *are* college educated. :-)

2022-08-01T03:44:39Z
machine learning jokes

One thing I've done while on vacation, was to ask GPT3 to write me jokes. This is mostly a bad pastime. e.g.1: "A dog walks into a bar and asks for a beer. The bartender says 'You're a dog. You can't have a beer.' The dog says 'You're a bartender. You can't have a job.'" or e.g.2 "Why did the chicken go to summer camp? To get away from the ax!"

2022-09-30T15:41:12Z

Today is the 95th birthday of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The organization facilities international collaboration. ifla.org/news/95-years-strong-

2022-10-24T20:28:39Z

It's (themed for climate justice) :OpenAccess: & a few of us at Concordia's Library wanted to make something fun to show the value that research can have in everyone's life, so we made Seer, an interactive digital experience. It's designed for our large visualization studio but we also have a more basic web version. Info here (though more will be added): github.com/lib-development-con try here: library.concordia.ca/apps/seer

2022-10-27T13:45:16Z

Here's some background on a project my colleagues and I made for -- we wanted to help people see that sources of research can answer all kinds of questions (in this case, related to the climate crisis). chroknowlogy.ca/intellectual-l

2022-10-27T14:36:59Z

@thunderbird Owl to connect with Exchange (forced by workplace requirement). It'd be great for Exchange mail, calendar, contacts and MFA to be integrated.

2022-10-29T14:32:58Z

@bgcarlisle ah, hate when that happens. Also I'd like to take this opportunity to go on record with the claim that a good Spartan apple is better than a Honeycrisp.

2022-10-29T23:37:03Z

@actualham One tool that helps you identify instances to use is instances.social/ however, it has lot listed and can be a bit unwieldy to search through. Also, it includes many sites that you might not want to spend time with. However, it can be useful to get a sense of what is out there. You might also consider sites like glammr.us, fediscience.org, idf.social, and scicomm.xyz, which are scholarly-related but I don't know what their policies are so can't say if it's what you're seeking.

2022-10-31T12:35:56Z

My son requested his toast, raw, for breakfast this morning.