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Anne Bergen
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Relationships, research, evaluation, and design. She/her. https://knowledgetoaction.ca/
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
publicdomainreview.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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parismarx.com
“There is an ascendant and erroneous idea that [sovereignty] means funding the Canadian tech sector. … There is scant time allotted to questioning the foundational assumption that more technology, or Canadian copies of it, are beneficial for sovereignty, or beneficial at all.” — @biancawylie.com
Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism — Resources for today's policymakers
By Bianca Wylie In 2021, in the Journal of Social Computing, historian Jonnie Penn made the argument for “Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize.” As he summarizes:   “Tech critics become...
www.policyready.ca
December 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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ginnybraun.bsky.social
Now published…

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
journals.sagepub.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Dec 20
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Heck yeah!! I know some of the people quoted here and I am so fricking proud to say they come from my region!! No research on us without us 💜

permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/redefining-a...
Redefining Arctic research with equity at the center - Permafrost Pathways
Indigenous leadership and equitable partnerships must determine the future of Arctic science.
permafrost.woodwellclimate.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
"To attempt to find useful information + instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product... You think about how different it all was: when pages loaded quickly, half the internet wasn’t locked behind paywalls..."
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
screenshot of my post
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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miriamposner.com
Medieval book carousels
Medieval Book Carousels
Medieval readers, especially studious ones, must have cursed their desks from time to time. It is not easy to manage desk space when working with often large and clunky medieval books. Scribes and …
medievalbooks.nl
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
"But to call the crime femicide — a sex- or gender-specific term — is in fact a radical rethink in a climate of neutrality that too often masks the disproportionate burden women and girls bear for some forms of male violence."
Why Canada needs to recognize the crime of femicide — on Dec. 6 and beyond
More than 1,100 Canadian women and girls have been killed by men since 2018. So why is the federal government dragging its heels in adding femicide to the Criminal Code?
theconversation.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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sesmith.lol
Love @colindickey.com's cultural criticism and this is a really intriguing four-part series on the weird, clunky, void spaces proliterating around us, which he (rightly!) connects to a legacy of gothic aesthetics.
WITHOUT CARE (1) – HILOBROW
www.hilobrow.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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quinnanya.me
A marvelous thread of textile designs! Makes me think of a possible assignment for next year's Data Visualization with Textiles: put together a selection of patterns/stitches/etc. and have students pick some and think about how they'd work them to represent data. #DHmakes
rabihalameddine.bsky.social Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Nov 30
Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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theflytrapmedia.com
In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:
Honoring Alice Wong: Reprinting Bitch Magazine's Access Series
Alice Wong, who reshaped the world of disability media, joined our ancestors on November 14, 2025. The Flytrap is proud to reprint her curated Access Series for Bitch Magazine.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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ukdsimpact.bsky.social
🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉

@michaelapawley.bsky.social, a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, reflects on the emotional challenges of working with sensitive secondary data and shares practical steps for researcher wellbeing.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/sensitive-da...
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
. @audreywatters.bsky.social on AI+grief: 'In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were forced to use a tech that severs us from creative expression, dignity, truth. There is no choice, we're told. "Get over it." "Move on."'
AI Grief Observed
These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University. "There is no good way to say this." These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s l...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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ivacheung.com
Friends! With 2 weeks till 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving, I'm asking for your help to get my FREE cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many people as possible.

Please share here and elsewhere, and let your local food pantries know about it so they can give out the URL during turkey drives! ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
ivacheung.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Pushing for open access is not enough. We need a push to end profit.
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 11
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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dgbassani.bsky.social
A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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anildash.com
There is so much opportunity in the new alt media! There is so much potential in those who do not want to be prisoner to a Substack platform that is actively fighting their social goals. www.anildash.com/2024/06/14/t...
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Super interesting
brynnsherman.bsky.social Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Oct 29
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
The federal government is currently making an announcement about new funding for women and 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations. This pre-budget announcement (and the new funding) is happening *entirely* because of all the public outcry and pressure we've mounted over the last few months re: cutting WAGE by 81%
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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eiui.bsky.social
As science is key to finding solutions to many issues today, #science #communication has been “catapulted” into prominence globally. Fischer et al. propose a framework consisting of 4 ideal-types for cross-county comparative study of science communication @jscicom.bsky.social doi.org/10.22323/148...
Title, authors’ names, abstract, and key words from a paper about a framework for comparing science communication across countries
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
"Lalonde criticized the lack of attention to women’s issues more generally during the federal election.

“That was a huge red flag that we saw in the election season, and we’ve seen it played out since women are not part of the conversation,” Lalonde said."
Gender-based violence support groups criticize planned federal funding cuts - Capital Current
Organizations combating gender-based violence may face significant challenges because of a proposed 80 per cent federal funding budget cut.
capitalcurrent.ca
October 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM