hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 5hI hear if you put a copy of Bakunin under your pillow tonight, you'll dream of the praxis you are going to marry. 110
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 5hThere is a Wikipedia editor out there who is so proud of this. 070
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 21hAlso lol, hahaha, etc etc, I am definitely still confused. (And I came to this conclusion independently of Quebec politics) 020
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026(I'm assuming you mean that you don't love that they acknowledge there may be a gap, and the policy should have been written so there isn't one? But curious if that is a correct assumption on my part?) 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As a copyright librarian, I love this as a process 😅 (They are definitely still going to come to me first to try to solve the impossible impasse, and I can't actually get away with hand waving and saying "talk to Daddy", but they may get a better sense of Policy vs Reality as a result). 120
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The good news is I had to submit both my annual activity report and request for research leave during that time...🥴 120
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I've been "medically confused" for the past two and a half weeks, so I both apologize and don't apologize for whatever I may have said in that time. 130
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My littlest anti-gripe: they say to contact your funding Agency if you can't find a way to compliance with the journal you want to publish with. I love that for them! 030
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My biggest gripe: NOTHING on this appears in the Finance pre-budget report. That doesn't mean it won't make it into the Fall Budget, but: if you want national infrastructure, you have to fund national infrastructure (and support the maintainers). bsky.app/profile/astr... 131
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026But I think the biggest change is in the framing - explicit recognition of the value of diamond/ scholar led, some signals that APCs are *not* preferred, rights retention sample language (you know I'd prefer a Secondary Publishing right too, though), and recognition that other countries exist! 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Some of the positive changes - from a longer than expected consultation period - include requiring OA strategies from institutions (which many of us at smaller institutions argued was a good thing), and providing but not requiring rights retention language. 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Canada's national funder OA Policy, as of 2027, will require *immediate* access for peer reviewed articles, on a *trusted Canadian platform* - Érudit, Canadian institution OJS, or Canadian uni IR. No more embargoes. 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Tri Agency Open Access Policy got a *big* update! I'm actually pretty happy with it compared to previous drafts, which just goes to show that I can be won over with a nice little Preamble and Statement. 😅 163
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Smart of them to have me on the edge of my seat all Thursday/ Friday, then just slide it past on a Monday morning! 😅 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We should just start putting the weirdest and spiciest stuff in Z. No one will ever find it. 040
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Man, remember when "You built a pipeline" was a sick burn? 050
Reposted by hyperbolbriMichael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026wrote about this for maisy. there's a lot happening rn in music around rights and ownership, making the prospect of AI possibly lucrative and appealing to people who have a vested interest in perpetuating music as a financial asset that we don't really see in film maisonneuve.org/article/penn...maisonneuve.orgPenny for Your BotsMusic companies and organizations are racing to work with AI tools, but they risk further marginalizing artists and creativity. 183
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thought I had on the edge of a dream: What if instead of clay discs, they used discs made of gummy bear material? It's sweet shooting. 051
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People being willing to do the work, AND then become the case law is truly heartbreaking, in a good way. 030
Reposted by hyperbolbridustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost." 5261114
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dynacare wait as of 8 am this morning was 3 hours, which is a bit brutal for fasting tests. 😭 220
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I was on a no chocolate/ no dairy/ no other things diet for migraines in high school, and :shudder:. Chalky chalky carob and powdered almond milk. 000
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🎵In-SOM-ni-a 🎶 ( to the tune of Victoria by The Fall) 120
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Or maybe it is still bad and my tired brain filtered it all while looking up the /+-_#@# wikipedia specific format 010
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They reversed a lot of that! Now it is just a link to Chegg at the top of every page. :/ Which, hilariously, can't cite the OWL site itself correctly. But I will try to switch my brain to Excelsior! 230
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We had a prof in *Library School* who absolutely refused to accept MLA 7th edition changes, while requiring it. 😅 030
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm angrily putting all my slides's titles in Title Case. 120
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I *suspect* it is a mix of "I don't actually know/ understand anything about students and info lit, maybe this is what it is?" and "I keep trying to explain these stupid arcane rules about semi colons and it isn't sinking in, maybe someone else can try" both of which are well meaning but WRONG 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The temptation every time someone asks me to talk about it is just to put the Purdue OWL site up on a slide and walk away 😅 320
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yah, other people's justifications for APA that I have come across point to that part, without ever getting into the initials thing (is it equity serving? Or just so I can forever be confused with a guy who writes about turtle cloaca?) or sentence case. Convenient. 130
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yah, this is where I always land, no matter how hard I try not to. So I should just warn the prof "know that I'm going to tell students that people who care about/ enforce arbitrary citation syntax rules are cops who love power trips" 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I decided to prep for tomorrow's class by trying to think/ lecture critically about *why* APA is the way it is, and I have spent most of the day on it, and have decided it is because they love chaos, and not the fun kind, the kind that is fucking Weird About Capitalization. 130
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Next time someone asks me to cover APA, I should be more upfront and let them know that I'm a citation anarchist, and if you ask me to come talk about APA it will result in me shit talking about APA, because it is what APA deserves. 280
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I LOVE doing guest lectures as a Librarian. I fucking LOATHE covering citation syntax. 4150
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026TIL that elephant shrews (sengi) are more closely related to elephants than shrews, and if that doesn't sound like an Ig Noble... 140
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Higher Ed gets "durrrrrr.... jobs". And renters get a tax break, the favourite tool of "god forbid we don't leave everything to the whims of the market" economists who are vaguely starting to notice things around them might be bad. 100
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Suggested increases to Canada Council for the Arts and Canada Music Fund, compensation for AI training, a $3 device levy, Online Streaming Act is in there twice, community radio initiative, and stable long term CBC funding. 110
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Interesting things in the House Finance Report / Recommendations for Budget 2026. *Lots* on culture. www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...ourcommons.caCommittee Report No. 4 - FINA (45-1) - House of Commons of CanadaCommittee Report No. 4 - FINA (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada 101
Reposted by hyperbolbriAndrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey everybody, I’m taking the advice of every elected official I’ve ever yelled at who’s said “if you think you could do such a good job why don’t you try running for office”. Schools are super important for all of us, not just those of us with kids in the system, and I’m excited to fight for them.andrewkohan.comAndrew Kohan for Trustee in WSD Ward 2. Look Out for Kids! 76425
hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Saw a Brad Gross sign today on the North End... Next to a Brad Gross "For Sale"/ real estate sign. 😅 120
