I actually know a bunch of Brazilians in Canada who do exactly that. The headache of going through immigration processes make them excellent immigration consultants. I was told several times that I should become one too. I would certainly not be living on a basement now if I took that advice. 😂😭

Always enjoy @philmoscovitch.bsky.social's clear-eyed reporting on AI and was inspired to revisit the public consultation survey on AI from October.

There's a report out now!

And I have Notes!

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

The Stockholm archipelago in Sweden is lit up in a golden bath of sunlight, with a mysterious mist hanging low in front of the silhouetted island. The water shimmers like a glowing, rippling mirror. The use of archipelago photography in PKP's newsletter represents the distributed yet connected nature of free and open source software as well as open access communities. The photo was taken by PKP's Jason Nugent on his travels.

📰 Inside PKP's community newsletter, "Archipelago"

* Interview w/ new Managing Director, Teresa Lee
* Demystifying #FOSS w/ Alec Smecher
* Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA w/ @markhusk.bsky.social
* #OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6

And more: lists.publicknowledgeproject.org/archive/arch...

YOU ROCKED IT! ✨

My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed The danger of almost-perfect tech

Raffi Krikorian's piece in The Atlantic piece digs into what happens when automated systems lull us into trust, then fail in the split second when it matters most.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I've been coming across so many great open science initiatives in other fields that I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the efforts happening in the Education Sciences.
New blog post! 💡

cghlewis.com/blog/ed_open...

Modular Peer Review Working Group A working group hosted by Continuous Science Foundation (CSF) and PREreview exploring how peer review can evolve in a modular publishing ecosystem.

Follow the outputs of the PREreview + @continuous.foundation Modular Peer Review Working Group in real time 🙌

🧩 Session 2 was all about identifying reviewable components from multiple stages of research, and associating them with different signals or evaluation functions:
bit.ly/3PG1stO

Curious about Open Education?
We encourage you to register for 'Open Education Talks 2026', where ASAPbio Resident, Melissa Chim, will discuss Open Educational Resources and the Future of Open Science.
oetalks.opened.ca

👋 Hello! Any news about the selection process?

CHOCADA

QUE COISAS 👀

Nasa nega vínculo com brasileira que diz ser astronauta | G1 Jovem anunciou viagem espacial, mas empresa não tem autorização.

amg as vezes me perco e faço piadas com camadas demais
g1.globo.com/google/amp/m...

a primeira astronauta brasileira™️

quando vai ver ela só tem um png da nasa

There will also be a Q&A session on the 12th March. Register here to get a Zoom link: bit.ly/nebula3-qa

The Nebula #OpenScience training in collaboration with NASA is BACK!

This 6 weeks program is directed to anyone interested in developing open research practices.

Participation is free, and the registrations are open for the next cohort (April through May): lnkd.in/ecs_i8Cc

a woman with a surprised expression says fun ALT: a woman with a surprised expression says fun

ALRIGHT!!!

For a moment I thought you were describing a class activity and thought “FUN!” 😂 I’m sorry it’s not a class activity!

⏳ Hora de conhecer tudo sobre os eventos de celebração do Dia dos Dados Abertos no Brasil! Afinal, eles já começam no final desta semana!

✨ O #ODD2026 no Brasil tem patrocínio do AppCívico, do Jusbrasil, da ASK-AR e da Linked Data.

👉 Acesse os links de inscrição: ok.org.br/noticia/tudo...

Mixed feelings of loving Mozilla for implementing a quick toggle on and off for AI on Firefox, but also hating that they've put AI on the browser in the first place.

I'm reviewing a PhD candidate's comprehensive exam manuscript for tomorrow (I'm late! I know!) and
1. I can't believe people delegate that to LLMs nowadays - it's so much fun!
2. It feels outdated to ask students to go through qualifying exams and hand over a PDF for evaluation in 2026.

The wonders of metabolism! Here we have breakfast very often around noon and lunch anytime between 6pm and 11pm (!!!), and still hubs need one/two snacks before 2am. It’s wild in here!

Exhausting! I hope at least people will take the chance to ask all the questions that *I* have to you about the 3pm dinner as a night owl and idk get me a report?

That sounds equal parts exciting and scary! YAY!
I also feel nervous with job-related gatherings longer than a workday, it’s like my outie bleeds into my innie 😂

Open Monograph Press (OMP) for Open Education - Public Knowledge Project PKP celebrates Open Education Week by sharing open monographs and textbooks published using its free Open Monograph Press (OMP).

Open Education Week 2026 is coming the first week of March! #OEWeek26

In 2024 and 2025 we featured communities around the world using PKP's scholar-led, community developed #OpenMonographPress for open education.

Are you using OMP to share knowledge openly? Tag us!

pkp.sfu.ca/2024/03/06/o...

"then tried to convince me that I wanted to solve a different problem"

Laughing way harder than I am allowed to.

I’m glad that was a happy ending! I love a good tax story with a happy ending.

Join us for Love Data Week 2026 | SFU Library

Happy Love Data Week!

For #LoveData26, libraries at @sfu.ca, UBC, UNBC, and @uvic.ca join up, offering a series of talks and workshops. All events are hosted online and registration is open to everyone!

www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish...

#OpenData #DataVisualization #DataRecovery #DataPreservation

Uai, pra mim os bots sempre aparecem com um aviso (isso no Zoom), e aí eu tenho a opção de não deixar entrar ou botar pra fora na hora que entra. Nem pergunto pra pessoa se pode tirar, se ela não perguntou pra mim se tudo bem usar o bot. Em geral ninguém nem sente falta 😂