AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start What it looks like when the AI search conversation and understanding gets serious

[Blogged] AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

The department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social is excited to announce a new Graduate Certificate in Health Data Analytics

Fully online

www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-...

Using the US-Israeli war on Iran as a smokescreen, the Israeli government ratified 34 new settlements in a single decision—more than half the total approved during 2025, which had already set records in settlement expansion.

Hall of fame FT correction

Adopting a united front against paper mills - Research Information Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe outlines the work of United2Act Against Paper Mills, working to address the challenge of paper mills

@lisalibrarian.bsky.social co-chair of United2Act, shares an update on phase 2 of this collective action against paper mills.
United2Act is a project from COPE supporting coordinated, practical responses to the challenge.
www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...
@researchinfo.bsky.social

people rightfully love this Mary Oliver poem, and I do too, but I also like you can read it from the perspective of an angry goose chasing someone out of a park

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

How many times can we “obliterate “ Iran’s nuclear capabilities? How many years will Iran be “weeks away” from attacking the U.S.? How many wars can Netanyahu get us into? How many centuries will countries continue fighting religious wars? How many trillions must be spent to feed the military industrial complex? How many innocent men, women and children must be killed and displaced from their homes? END THIS WAR NOW

WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?

Essential medical supplies delivered in Lebanon, where escalating violence has driven some 1.2 million people from their homes. The shipment, a collaboration between Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, WHO and @unicef.org will contribute to trauma care and disease management.

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

IFLA selects London, United Kingdom to host the 2027 World Library and Information Congress The Hague, Netherlands – 23 October 2025 – The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has selected London, United Kingdom to host the 2027 Wo...

Dates for your diary, 9-13 August 2027 when the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) comes to the UK www.ifla.org/news/ifla-se... International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) hosted by CILIP alongside the whole UK sector, we're expecting over 4,000 delegates

“Reading Rainbow” host Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts.bsky.social) celebrates the library as a place where everyone is welcome

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

1 week of war = 11 billion $

Next time we hear that there's no money for health, education, science, humanitarian aid, we remember this

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

I really really really don’t want to have to go look for a new home.

Are we entering the era of Understanding-as-a-Service? kucharski.substack.com/p/how-much-t...

Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

"The AI can access articles from Elsevier’s own collection and those of its four partners: Emerald, the Institute of Physics, the New England Journal of Medicine Group, and Sage Publications". Interesting Wiley isnt on the list. Based on partnership agreements with tools like Scite, Consensus (1)

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The news is now public: "A majority of academics in the Faculty of Science have joined the Association of McGill Professors of Science."

Welcome AMPS, to the #unionuniversity !

AMPL - AMPD ♥️ mcgillscience.ca

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

❤️

LESSS 2026 - Register Register Now for LESSS 2026 June 15-18, 2026 11:30am - 3:30pm

#medlibs and #evidencesynthesis nerds - the next Library Evidence Synthesis Services Symposium (LESSS) is upon us and open for free registration 😊 sites.google.com/view/lesss/r...

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

Wikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem

go.nature.com/4pXIv2d

Or, Heated Rivalry only exists because of CanCon requirements. Otherwise CTV/Bell/Crave would have just imported another American show.
Just because it's successful doesn't mean that it isn't a product of the ecosystem it was created in.

Love having our security constantly being threatened by our security partner