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Julia Zwicker

@juliamz.bsky.social
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Canadian-Australian. Public servant. Librarian. QUT grad. Looking for belonging, not to fit in. Formerly jzgarnett

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 27/07/2026
“As a librarian, I think it’s important to see this as advancing digital literacy and helping people reclaim their autonomy over whether they want to use AI tools." techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’m reading chapter 3 of the audiobook of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and I’m losing it 🤣 💩 #IYKYK His narration adds so much to the experience.
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@kimtairi.bsky.social I’m looking forward to hearing from you for Research Support Community Day!
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One of my all-time favourite romances 🥰 treat yourself!
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
@oliviawrites.bsky.social dammit Olivia, Karl is making me cry 😭 so squishy 🥺 How do you do it? 🩷
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Amy Winfrey’s Muffin Films, The Bloggess, CakeWrecks, and a small list of my favourite food bloggers. I also had a group of blogger friends who wrote and commented on posts regularly, and we had a charity blog-off 😊
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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
this intrepid fellow will lead us to the weekend
A brave chipmunk holds his beloved staff and gazes out from his burrow home that’s covered in ancient, soft green moss. He wears a hooded cape and other warrior/guide accoutrements…and looks as though he’s ready to begin a long journey. In the background, softly painted, is a large and ancient forest with huge trees. It’s an old place full of lore.
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 10/03/2026
The Carney government is also cutting prison librarians to save…$2.5m. This is now a theme with the federal budget - it’s not about cost savings, it’s about destroying access to knowledge and information. #Cdnhist
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
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Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free
Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
‘The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’ www.ft.com/content/e4b7...
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AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget
Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I told someone about a few of the dates I’d been on with my new partner and she said WOW you guys go on fun dates! (Museum photography exhibit on a rainy day, picnic and a classical music performance, pizza and a play…) You, too, can plan fun dates! 💕
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Many people, including many librarians, like to talk up libraries being "more than just books." And while it is true we've always been more than just a warehouse, I think that framing does our work a disservice. (1/3) 📚
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Renée Watson wins the Newbery! She is a treasure and so is this book. I just gifted it to a young reader friend. It's a book in verse, so accessible, about grief.
Cover for All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson, blue background, African American girl looking to the side, unsure and hopeful
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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 16/07/2025
COVER REVEAL! The cover for Silver & Blood is here, and it’s stunning!! 😍 Art by the incredible @luisapreissler.bsky.social! A desperate mage finds her fate intertwined with the handsome, mysterious man who saves her from a deadly beast. Preorder links: www.jessiemihalik.com/book/silver-...
The Silver & Blood Cover. An illustration featuring a man with pale skin and dark hair in a black, open front tunic standing behind a woman with pale skin and long, dark brown hair in a silver dress and holding a dagger with a castle in the background. Preorder now, available January 27, 2026.The Silver & Blood cover surrounded by a list of vibes/tropes with arrows pointing toward the cover. The tropes are: Fairytale vibes, but make it sexy; He’s grumpy, She throws an apple at his head; Found Family; Forced Proximity; Magical Library; Magic, monsters, and mayhem, oh my!
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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Throughout these adventures, Pullman assembles a motley crew of characters who not only challenge power, but the rigid social and gendered expectations imposed on them by those powers." #TheRoseField is out today, I'm so excited!! @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/why-philip-p...
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Why Philip Pullman’s Books Are More Important Than Ever in Speaking Truth to Power
When we first encounter Lyra Silvertongue, neé Belacqua, she is hidden in a wardrobe and listening intently to her uncle, Lord Asriel, give a presentation to Oxford scholars on his findings about D…
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 29/09/2025
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events and resources - September 30th and beyond
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Vancouver Events 2025
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Orange Shirt Day events around Vancouver on September 30, 2025 and beyond
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It’s adorable when guys dismiss Jane Austen as saccharine romantic fluff because I suspect none of her critics will write novels of such sharp comedy and keen understanding of human nature that they’re still being read by millions of people 250 years in the future.
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Association of Canadian Publishers @cdnpublishers.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The Canadian publishing industry calls for the repeal of @youralberta.bsky.social's discriminatory book ban. The revised directive continues to restrict access to literature, stigmatize marginalized communities, and undermine the expertise of educators & librarians. publishers.ca/repeal-alber...
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Canadian Publishing Industry Calls for Repeal of Alberta’s Discriminatory Book Ban - Association of Canadian Publishers
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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
What happens when we learn a new shortcut between places we thought were unconnected? Hannah found that the hippocampus rapidly adjusts its representations of environments to join them into a connected map - excited to share this final paper from her PhD work with me and @mariamaly.bsky.social !
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2024
Important to note that, when discussimg the things that protect you— steganographic watermarking, getting your consent to use your data, removing your data from their models— "AI" companies have shifted from saying that they're "impossible" to complaining about the expense & hassle. That is to say…
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Fatma and her family in Gaza have lost everything and urgently need our help for food and basic necessities—every donation can make a real difference. If you’re able, please consider clicking the link below to donate or share it with others. Thank you! gofund.me/73a830ece
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Donate to Urgent support for Fatma and Sadiq, organized by moon stainton
Hi, I'm Moon from Canada and I'm making this fundraiser for Fatma in Gaza! They have… moon stainton needs your support for Urgent support for Fatma and Sadiq
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Books about historical women composers! Most are nonfiction, however there is some fiction: novels about real composers & also fictitious ones. There are lists of books about women composers, however none of them focus solely on fiction. So I made a database: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Novels/Fiction About Women Composers
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
American adults have such a pervasive culture of demanding obedience from children, and that will always be antithetical to art.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Read my latest:
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Gaza is starving
Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
And I'd say it again. The vast majority of book banners fall in two categories: people who want to defund public education in all forms, and straight up bigots. The "concerned parent" model is an extremely narrow slice.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"But without AI how will I know what books are in the library?" Catalogers:
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a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a vest is sitting with his hands on his hips .
Alt: a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a vest is sitting with his hands on his hips .
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/04/2025
Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20/03/2025
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club and 9 more books are under review for a statewide ban in South Carolina. There will be a hearing tomorrow 3/13. I'm not optimistic that LNATTC will survive this challenge, but it's still possible. Context here: www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/3/...
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Telegraph Club Considered for Possible Statewide Ban in South Carolina — Malinda Lo
I recently learned that my novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club , along with nine other books, has been challenged at the state level in South Carolina.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/03/2025
Thread. I endorse much of this. My take is this: we cannot ask people to keep spending money at places they feel are unethical.
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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
45% of single parent households in NZ are living in poverty. The vast majority of single parent households have a woman parent. That’s a lot of kids and women living in poverty. #nzpol
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am thankful for: 1. Clean water to drink 2. Cancer treatment for my dad 3. Cozy blankets on snowy days
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
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Colleen Murray @cmgenealogy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Do you use Library & Archives Canada? They are conducting a survey which will pop up when you visit their website. Genealogists need to let their opinions be heard so that we can get improved access & services. They won't know if we don't tell them! #CanadianGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Opting out of AI is way too difficult and the overview can be wrong if it’s gleaned info from an incorrect source.
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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
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AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.
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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Has someone in #highered much smarter than me (a librarian) written about the issues with generative AI from an information literacy perspective? Since 2014, w/ university librarians, we've taught my students the CRAAP test (CSU Chico) for evaluating sources. library.csuchico.edu/sites/defaul...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/12/2024
Is your iPhone sharing photos data with Apple by default?
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Is your iPhone sharing photos data with Apple by default?
It is, but you can change it.
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Julia Zwicker @juliamz.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
If you see this post a beach photo from your gallery.
Deep blue sky with wispy cloud, barely visible ocean because the tide is out. A long piece of driftwood at the middle ground and dark sand with a few broken white shells in the foreground.
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Heather Hill @rollin-academic.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Were you a Canadian public library worker during the COVID-19 Lockdowns? We’re doing some research on your experience. tinyurl.com/y77dx2wr #publibs #libraries #librarian #libraries
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/07/2024
If you haven't visited Wedgeford, you're in for a charming surprise. Who doesn't enjoy a sleepy nineteenth century Kentish village, full of sheep, excellent food, a tiny diaspora Asian community, and more people who secretly aren't of noble blood than you can shake a stick at?
"Milan is one of the reigning queens of historical romance."
--The Washington Post

Covers for The Duke who Didn't
The Marquis who Mustn't
The Earl who Isn't
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