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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael J. Fox receives the Order of Canada 🇨🇦🥰

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PSA: The Trump administration changed the form used to register and request absentee ballots, removing the checkbox for US citizens who have never lived in the US(even though some are eligible to vote under state law). The change could block eligible voters and was made without proper public notice.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m definitely cheering over the Phillies because what’s up with the Atlanta Racists?

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Funny, that.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also true of anti-semitic, anti-trans, anti-immigrant 'jokes', Islamophobia and so much more.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨The Canadian government wants to make it easier for companies to keep wages low and harder for workers to push back, by weakening the right to strike and collectively bargain. Not on our watch. Send a message to the government now. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/5i6N07KG

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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"WHEN can I get my flu & COVID-19 vaccines?" 💉SEPT 28 for HIGH RISK groups -65+ yrs -Hospitalized patients & staff -Residents & staff in chronic care settings -Healthcare workers 💉OCT 26 for the GENERAL PUBLIC news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 23/09/2026

The more I think about this as I wake up this morning, the more I realize that journos covering this story should probably include the fact that a doctor local to this synagogue received an antisemitic COVID conspiracist death threat about 6 months after this shooter left the army.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I want to say “this isn’t supposed to happen so close to home”. I want to say “this isn’t supposed to happen anywhere”. But I can’t. Antisemitic violence happens here. And everywhere. The question is, “Will you say anything if you hear it? Or see it?” quinteist.com/belleville-p...

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UPDATE: SIU investigating exchange of gunfire near Belleville synagogue; officer, man injured - The Quinteist - 100% independent, local news for the Quinte region

Yom Kippur services at Belleville’s Sons of Jacob synagogue have been cancelled after an exchange of gunfire near the building Sunday evening left a man with life-threatening injuries and a police off...

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Well Canada it’s time to call us maybe??" As Damian Boeselager (Member of the European Parliament) just released this video

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OTOH our similarities seem overblown, but in addition to this I think of all the things that weirded my husband out when we moved here. Like the work-life balance or attitude to drinking.

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OCADFA @ocadfa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What does it actually take to sustain an art and design university? Read the full article here: www.tinyurl.com/OCADFA2026

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/09/2026

"The union said that its members had rejected Elsevier’s pay offer, which “failed to offer a significant real-terms pay increase to staff” despite the company making an adjusted operating profit of more than £1 billion in 2025."

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Workers at The Lancet to stage first strike in title’s history - Research Professional News

Union members at 200-year-old medical journal vote overwhelmingly to walk out over stagnating pay

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Cover reveal of my upcoming book! I wrote about women's health and the history & politics of wellness culture in the West. It's a wide-ranging discussion beginning in the early 1800s and ending with alt-health's jarring turn towards far right ideology in 2020. Coming out January 2027!

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Her Body, Her Cure - University of Toronto Press

On the Personal & Political in Wellness Culture

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Drug Lord only had to offer Ontarians $300. It's bad enough to be bought, but worse when you can be bought cheap

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Andrew Wakefield has one of the most highly cited papers. Not a measure of quality

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am not old enough for this to be a Heritage Minute

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Welland Canal is entirely in Canada. Shame if something happened to it.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Churches, libraries, breweries and labour unions? They hit all my fave places!

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A country that has the death penalty isn’t really in a position to complain about medical assistance in dying. Death should only be in the government’s control?

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I appreciate the freudian slip of whiny Elon

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I get nowhere near this many, but also don’t have kids in daycare. But the rest definitely applies. And my God sometimes they are so convoluted I can’t figure out what they want!

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"He also got a new tattoo of a Confederate flag, which the board said was widely linked to “racist ideologies.” Bushby, however, said he didn’t know what the tattoo artist was doing until the piece was done and questioned whether it was relevant to his case."

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 18/08/2026

Morning commute on a bike lane that Doug Ford wants to rip out. 21 bikes and 4 cars clearing an intersection in 23 seconds. Which mode fights congestion?

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Bad + Bitchy Podcast @badandbitchy.com · 15/08/2026

Opening up the news and seeing that Jason Arday died was awful. His life was ended before he died by an establishment that used him for their “Woke 1” era to sanitize their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and are now hanging him out to dry when convenient.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I can both believe someone did something wrong and believe they are a human being deserving kindness and compassion. What is wrong with our world?

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no cloud. Just buy a portable hard drive and store it for yourself. They cost about $70. No monthly fees.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cochrane will be in Kyoto in 2027! I loved Kyoto when I was there (redacted) years ago. I think I might need to plan a trip back.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Existential dread? Anxiety? Low self-esteem?

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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a key point that our head librarian pointed out to me. Flat or declining library budgets combined with rising ebook costs mean that increasingly the work of curating the collection is managed by outside vendors w no sense of specific institutional needs or attendance to concerns about AI.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A medical student, not a doc, but I was told you can get rabies by being bitten by a cadaver. To be fair, he was tired and I'm pretty sure he meant to say carnivore.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I know Americans are upset about the cost, but Canadians are worried about the implications

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am phenomenally stressed at the moment, so I'm going to clean my office.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

Boone Regional Library in Columbia is hosting a “queer-led story time” directed to toddlers and preschoolers, with time to “meet new friends” afterwards.

We’ve sent a notice to the library reminding them that providing pornography or sexual material to minors is against Missouri law.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I no longer live there, but I still feel we need to stop with the Old Boys.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

About to make my first ‘trip’ over the border this weekend (driving the kids to the airport). Not happy about it.

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Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Absolutely anything to avoid funding public transit

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Peter Johnson @libraryvines.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#medlibs - Reflecting on the potential for AI with cataloging and article indexing, I was reminded of my favorite PubMed mis-indexing example.

the metadata of a PubMed article with a title of "Bulls in a China Shop: Narcissism, Intragroup Conflict, and Task Cohesion" that has MeSH terms including "Animals," "Cattle," and "China" (the country)

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