How Stephen Lewis helped changed the world's mind about HIV/AIDS. Excerpts from his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures, titled “Race Against Time." www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... via @cbcnews.ca

Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me

"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....

This one is worth it.

First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.

#ArtemisII

I just took the most amazing 30 mins break in my day... you should too.

This is so well done. 👌

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Last night, CBC Ideas broadcast selections from Stephen Lewis's 2005 Massey Lectures "Race Against Time." Just amazing. Have a listen:

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Bombing infrastructure is totally sick. Hospitals, for instance, rely on power and water. Short-term generators can only last so long. Without supplies, they have no meds. You are killing those with cancer, kidney failure, and heart disease - taking away their final moments on Earth.

Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people.

Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

Can you share some training materials and/or tips? I'm working to support Avi Lewis who was just elected leader of the NDP in Canada and we are looking to energize Democratic Socialists across all of Canada

An infographic titled "The Types of Open Access: A Field Guide," styled with Stardew Valley pixel art icons representing different materials. Ten types are listed: Gold Open Access (gold ingot icon): The journal has no paywall, generally paid for by authors through APCs (article processing charges). Diamond Open Access (blue diamond icon): Gold but no APC. Funded by an institution, scholarly society or collective. Hybrid Open Access (brown lump icon): This journal lets you pay a ransom to open individual articles but still charges subscription fees to the community. What a bargain! Green Open Access (grass icon): Author self-archives their own copy on a preprint server or research repository. Can usually be done with paywalled articles under certain conditions. Bronze Open Access (bronze ingot icon): It's freely available on the publisher's website but has no CC license. Is this a mistake? What is this? Silver Open Access (silver ingot icon): I'm giving a runner up prize. Could have been gold but for some reason the author chose a CC BY-NC-ND license. Pyrite "Fool's Gold" Open Access (pyrite nuggets icon): Oops! Predatory publishers will take your APC money, but their services are fake. Beware! Geode Open Access (geode icon): A librarian can break this open for you using the power of interlibrary loan. Black Open Access (skull and crossbones icon): I don't know who started calling it this, but it just means piracy. They'll steal anything, including OA valor. Slime Open Access (grey slime icon): Just slide into the author's DMs and ask for a PDF. You'd be surprised how often this works.

100% accurate guide to the types of Open Access #academicsky 📚

Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse Découvrabilité | La domination croissante des géants de l’édition sur l’écosystème mondial de la publication savante est un fait largement documenté; cependant, l’essor récent de bases de données plus...

"si les grands éditeurs restent très présents dans l’écosystème, leur poids relatif diminue"
YES, BUT
"ils continuent de contrôler les revues considérées comme les plus prestigieuses"

superbe analyse de @simonvbellen.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & @lariviev.bsky.social pour @acfas.ca

Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse Découvrabilité | La domination croissante des géants de l’édition sur l’écosystème mondial de la publication savante est un fait largement documenté; cependant, l’essor récent de bases de données plus...

Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse www.acfas.ca/publications... avec @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @simonvbellen.bsky.social @acfas.ca @chaire-dcsf.bsky.social

Why I’m heading off to Winnipeg for my first political convention in 31 years Avi Lewis is the leader the NDP needs now

When people of differing views can all find a home in the NDP & hear their views articulated by various leaders, the tent grows. Conversely, when people who hold views that diverge from the leader are told to bite their tongues, they leave.

Full piece here:
sethdklein.substack.com/p/why-im-hea...

The statement Carney coulda made but chose not to.

Incredible commentary from this Swiss announcer, who accurately characterizes the Israeli team as "Self-defined zionist to the core...who posted several messages in favour of the genocide in Gaza...calling it ‘the most morally just war in history.’”

Solidarity to a real one.

A post i made back in August, reply to someone, occasionally gets liked (up to 80). But the likes comes in waves--10 in the last 24 hours, after months of no activity. Is that just a like refreshing the post in other's feed? Seems odd.

Devika Madalli describes the Bharat Open Science Platform during her One Nation, One Subscription presentation at the Global #DiamondOA Summit. BOSP is the new OA publishing infrastructure by INFLIBNET for Indian Journals based on #OJS from PKP (@pkp.sfu.ca) for open research for all Indian research

Unfortunately, I did not get my visa in time, and I had to cancel. I'll still be presenting remotely for the workshop on Day 1.

We the same many of the same challenges and principles at @pkp.sfu.ca

Big congratulations to @ellenforget.bsky.social, who has just, I see, won a fellowship from SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) for a project on “A History of Tactile Writing and Reading”!

Regional Feature: Canada’s Leadership in Diamond Open Access - Public Knowledge Project Canada is positioned as a leader in diamond open access with a strong foundation, investment in open infrastructure, unique funding models, wide-spread adoption of Open Journal Systems (OJS), and a fo...

📰 PKP's community newsletter, Archipelago Issue 8, came out at the end of November -- check out this feature!

📌 Regional feature: Canada’s leadership in diamond open access

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/28/r...

#DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #CanadianPublishing #AcademicSky

Defend workers’ rights. Introduce a bill of rights for gig workers to guarantee labour protections, collective bargaining rights, and fair wages. Build a 21st-Century Copyright Charter to guarantee fair compensation, enforce workers’ rights, and modernize licensing. Rein in digital surveillance in the workplace. Require AI transparency and consent from all Canadian companies.

Workers in the gig economy face precarious working conditions, low pay, and no protections.

Meanwhile, trillion-dollar tech corporations are profiting off artists, journalists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers – while paying little or nothing.

We need a new vision for the digital economy.

Text on green background: "Dignified Work in a Digital Age." Below, a logo reads "Lewis for Leader".

The NDP must be a political home for every worker – white collar, blue collar, or no collar.

That means defending workers’ rights that have been under attack for decades while confronting new threats posed by app-based gig work, AI, and precarious jobs.

Our plan → https://lewisforleader.ca/

Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?

Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP

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@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.

**SPOTTED**

@OpenAlex gets a mention in the New York Times today:

"The center at Leiden has begun producing an alternative ranking that is based on a different academic database, called OpenAlex. Harvard is No. 1 in that ranking, but the trend is the same: 12 of the next 13 schools on the […]

We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Name Retweets Views Iqra Khalid 0 88 Maggie Chi 1 33 Hedy Fry 0 246 Maninder Sidhu 8 906 Maninder Sidhu 2 269 Shafqat Ali 1 72 Shafqat Ali 0 53 Rob Oliphant 1 216 Aslam Rana 0 48 Rob Oliphant 3 215 Taleeb Noormohamed 3 645 Rob Oliphant 2 188 Rob Oliphant 0 119 Eleanor Olzewski 3 221

Eleanor Olzewski 1 124 Randeep Sarai 0 167 Randeep Sarai 0 105 Anita Anand 8 2000 Sima Acan 0 120 Anita Anand 5 1400 Ali Ehasassi 13 2000 Ali Ehasassi 33 15000 Anita Anand 21 8200 Anita Anand 3 963 Maninder Sidhu 131 19000 Maninder Sidhu 2 450 Yasir Naqvi 1 233 Sameer Zuberi 0 141 Randeep Sarai 0 141

Randeep Sarai 0 124 Terry Duguid 0 359 Sameer Zuberi 0 124 Marjorie Michel 0 58 Marjorie Michel 3 93 Sima Acan 0 78 John Zerucelli 2 132 Anita Anand 5 1200 Anita Anand 25 2800 Francois-Philippe Champagne 60 6300 Francois-Philippe Champagne 9 1500 Anita Anand 37 4400 Anita Anand 7 2400 Marianne Dandurand 0 25 Anita Anand 78 10000 Anita Anand 5 1800 Ben Carr 2 205

Do Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X?

I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday

Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets

34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs

3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement

If the NDP really wants to set themselves apart, this should be a no brainer for them.