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Britt A
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Mitacs Postdoc in Open, Collaborative Scholarship (Arts & Hum), INKE Partnership || Postdoc in Open Social Scholarship, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic) || PhD in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies ('23, Carleton U)
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Woohoo 🎉 publication day!! So excited to be a part of this excellent volume, available open access!!
Gorg!! Congrats 🎉
My final manuscript in! And now I give you..... COVER REVEAL (US cover, UK is sooooo different but it's not public yet)
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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If you're a librarian interested in supporting the Open Book Collective, check out our website (openbookcollective.org) or email us at [email protected] to find out how! #AcademicSky #OpenAccess 📚
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Your data, your ownership, your rules.

Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.

Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Join | Mozilla Data Collective
Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"Rather than attempting to reach the final draft of ourselves, we should find the courage to keep revising." Susan David 🫟🖌️☀️
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The Canadian Conference on #OpenScience and #OpenScholarship last October was really something. Here's our chronicle/recap of the event !

#OSCanada

@balloonleap.bsky.social @simonvbellen.bsky.social @raysiemens.bsky.social
Recap of the 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship | Open Scholarship Policy Observatory
ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Deborah Dean, you genius. It's been far too long since I last picked this book up, far too long since I last taught a course, but revisiting this slim lil resource has been akin to breathing in the scent of freshly picked wildflowers. Delightful!
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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In the small industrial city of Trois-Rivières, thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users.

Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.

thelogic.co/news/the-big...
Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI - The Logic
Thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users
thelogic.co
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
HAMILTON, ON - Local residents this morning report driving past an excitingly long lineup and assuming it was for a blowout Black Friday sale, before realizing that it was just a regular queue for a b...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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ARTICLE | The Cloud Isn't Weightless

'Digital activities account for 40% of the CO₂ emissions we can emit without triggering global warming’ — a reminder that online life has an offline cost.

Words by Teodor Georgiev

@biofuelwatch.bsky.social

Full article: bit.ly/4pul1lw
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
😂
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Kindergarten teachers: hey parents, we are going to practice presentation skills tomorrow, can you send a picture of your child's favourite stuffy?
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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It is amazing actually what good pedagogy can accomplish by guiding students, incl. in their very first year of university, through the substantive work of facing serious course materials head-on with discipline-specific approaches. Relying on synthetic text critique is really not it.
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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New Funding Opportunity to Help Digitize Arctic Collections Across Canada – Internet Archive Canada https://internetarchivecanada.org/2025/11/18/new-funding-opportunity-to-help-digitize-arctic-collections-across-canada/
New Funding Opportunity to Help Digitize Arctic Collections Across Canada
We’re pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for **Canadian archives, libraries, museums, and other memory institutions** to take part in a digitization initiative focused on the **Arctic Circumpolar region**. With funding from the Rasmuson Foundation, this project supports the digitization of **primarily textual collections** (including ephemera), to preserve and share materials connected to the Arctic Circumpolar region and broader Northern histories. The project focuses on digitizing primarily textual collections, including ephemera, related to: * The **Arctic and Circumpolar regions**** ** * **Canadiana** and Northern regional histories * The **fur trade** , including materials tied to voyageurs and trade routes extending into Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan * **Canadian railroad history** , especially involving northern expansion and infrastructure * **First Nations cultures and histories** , with particular attention to the North and the Northwest Coast (British Columbia) Digitization work will be carried out by **Internet Archive Canada** at its Toronto digitization centre. Participating institutions will receive complete digital copies of all materials processed. ### **Access, Reuse & Visibility** All digitized content will be made openly available on **archive.org** , and featured on a dedicated portal for Arctic and Northern materials: **circumpolarnavigator.org**. All funded projects must be completed by **October 2026**. ### **How to Participate** If your organization holds collections that align with this initiative, you’re invited to get involved (by December 31, 2025): * Submit a digitization inquiry form: https://digitization.archive.org/contact-us/ * Or express interest directly by emailing **[email protected]**** ** This initiative presents an opportunity to surface and share the stories, histories, and cultural heritage of Canada’s northern regions. We look forward to collaborating with institutions across the country to broaden access to these vital collections.
internetarchivecanada.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Congrats Susan!! You've made such important contributions to the library and open community 🤗 wishing you all the best 😃
Last Thursday, CARL held a reception at LAC in Ottawa to celebrate Susan Haigh as she prepares to retire after 11 years as our Executive Director. 👏

We were joined by many from across Canada and beyond to honour her remarkable contributions to Canada's research library landscape.
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Would you like to connect with library publishing professionals across Canada? ☕📚

Join the pilot LP Community Coffee Chats—one-on-one virtual meetups to share ideas and build connections. // Participez à nos « pauses-café » pour échanger et tisser des liens !

👉 www.carl-abrc.ca/news/announc...
Announcing Library Publishing Community Coffee Chats - Canadian Association of Research Libraries
November 20, 2025 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Library Publishing Community Engagement Team would like to invite you to participate in our pilot coffee chat program! This program ...
www.carl-abrc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Glad ur comfy tho
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Folktale Week day 6: storm

where the charm gets blown away

#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #kidlitart #illustration
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
So glad I managed to attend this talk! It was a great refresher and reminder of the importance of people power + coalition building. Thanks @archive.org and Cory Doctorow!
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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ASHA workers in India hold communities together — through care, data, and trust.

#MozillaFellow @priyagoswami.bsky.social dives into what happens when “care work” becomes “data work.”

A powerful read on tech, gender, and the future of digital labor.
datasociety.net/points/from-...
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I support the vision of a better, healthier internet, because I agree that people make the internet great, not billionaires. mzl.la/manifesto
The Mozilla Manifesto
These are the principles that guide our mission to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the web.
mzl.la
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Woohoo 🎉 publication day!! So excited to be a part of this excellent volume, available open access!!
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM