iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

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Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions "

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is my favorite recent @doctorow.pluralistic.net 🧵. Setting up a bulletin board and posting on it is hugely popular and entirely trivial. Unsurprising that AI agents did it, and not at all a harbinger of doom.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

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Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley

(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Remember when we said your fundraiser dollars could help you choose what gets added to the Queer Liberation Library? Well, you donated, you chose, and now THEY’RE HERE!!! 💘🫶💋 Thank you for helping us build the library of our collective dreams. We love you! libbyapp.com/library/quee...

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Homosaurus (homosaurus.org), an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary, is recruiting! I'm a member of the English Term Development Committee, and we anticipate reaching out to applicants in September. Application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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CAPAL-ACBES @capal-acbes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

CAPAL needs a member of the association who is a student in a MLIS or equivalent program OR recent graduate (within the last three years), to guide our Student Committee as its Chair for 2026-2027. If interested, reach out to nominations@capalacbes.org by July 31, 2026 .

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Joel Feder @joelfeder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...

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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me For Days over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me

A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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How to talk about

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Julia Bullard @julzbullard.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The @cais-acsi.bsky.social conference starts this afternoon (Pacific time)! Join us for an announcement of this year's awards and a keynote by the BC Heritage Emergency Response Network. No registration needed, all links up at cais2026.ca/program/

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Program | CAIS2026

The full conference proceedings are available on Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS. Conference Program Please note that all times are in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Paper presentations wi...

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We like our theory dense, our fiction filthy, and our library very, very queer. 🌈📚 Help us stack our shelves and improve access to queer content across the country. 👉 the 🔗 now to support our Annual Pride Fundraiser on Givebutter. xqa.onlypult.me/j7Qe

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CAIS-ACSI @cais-acsi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The CAIS conference is looking for moderators! To volunteer to moderate a paper presentation session, select an open session from our schedule (cais2026.ca/program/) and contact conference@cais-acsi.ca or julia.bullard@ubc.ca with your choices. We'll follow up with details. Thank you!

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

ty so much for the support! our annual fundraiser just started, folks can learn more here: givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-...

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Pride 2026 with Queer Liberation Library!

smut with a side of theory

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

alternatively: poetry & queerness are similar in how they both refuse explanation. all the most beautiful things refuse.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 14/05/2026

very delighted that I can now announce the Homosaurus was successful in two seperate #SSHRC applications. First up is a $50,000 Connections Grant "A Community de communautés: supporting the Québécois Homosaurus" which supports the implementation of the #Homosaurus in QC-FR

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Anita Mazur, Polytechnique Montréal
Hortense Chopart, Université de Montréal
Mylène Larivière-Langlois, Université de Montréal
Nicolas Longtin-Martel, Archives Gaies du Quebec

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A Community de communautés: supporting the Québécois Homosaurus
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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It’s bright outside, and we’re getting brighter indoors! Learning about Controlled Vocabularies with @julzbullard.bsky.social and the UBC iSchool.

The sky is blue above the UBC west mall, looking northwards. Trees line each side of the mall, people are visible, but in the distance.

First page of the slide printout for a seminar on Controlled Vocabulary Governance presented through the UBC School of Information. A land acknowledgement is shown.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Today we’re publishing an important investigative story by Emily Enns. This story maps the connections between a group of mostly retired academics and think tanks to sow doubt about the historical truths of residential schools in Canada. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

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Who’s Behind the Residential School Denialism Movement? | The Tyee

A network of retired academics and think tanks is chipping away at established truths.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Today us a great day to get a library card! I love using the Queer Liberation Library for *free* through my digital library app. @queerliblib.bsky.social My queer 16yo self would have been life-affirmingly-overjoyed to have access to this! And now we do 🥰 www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

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Members — Queer Liberation Library

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Julia Bullard @julzbullard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I have too many books out from the library! Which should I read first?

A pile of five novels:
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Son of the Morning by Awaeke-Emezi
The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
I'll Make a Spectacle Out of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker
honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 25/04/2026

pls repost! Are you an academic or someone who has published academically who has requested name changes in your works because you were married (or used to go by a former name)? please let me know via reply/DM/the contact form on my website if you're willing to chat about! #AcademicChatter 🗂️🗃️📜📚

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Appreciate doing an interview as a higher ed expert and having to do a quick, "oh, wait, you know I left a Texas university for Delaware right?" I got to read through my SMU resignation letter again for this interview which was fun. Snippet below! www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship

Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

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Julia Bullard @julzbullard.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

For me, it's Sarah Gailey! Never been wrong to pre-order, always something totally new

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

hey friends! this is a common question but a good, warm-fuzzy one: who are your ride or die, auto-buy authors? who have you read everything by, who's new releases do you get really excited for?

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CAIS-ACSI @cais-acsi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The nomination deadline for our annual CAIS Awards has been extended to April 26 at midnight EST. See the details about each award on our website: cais-acsi.ca/Awards Nominate an exceptional researcher, practitioner, or student in the field of Information Science.

A pink and white graphic advertising that applications/nominations are open for the annual CAIS awards. The four available awards are the Master's Research Award, Doctoral Dissertation Award, Emerging Leader Award, and Career Achievement Award. cais-acsi.ca/awards has more details. The deadline for nominations has been extended to April 26, 2026, midnight EST.

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Saturday's student-led event at UT-Austin raised awareness about censorship & book bans, and featured great conversation w/ lots of energy. Proud to have been a part of it. (Also, as a lifetime Longhorn, I'm kinda stoked I finally made it into The Daily Texan.) thedailytexan.com/2026/03/30/w...

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Where Did All the Books Go?: Student hosts conversation on censorship, book banning

After reading about Japanese incarceration camps in America in the book “The Buddha in the Attic,” English senior Riley Williams wondered what other parts of history were left out of her classes. “I r...

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Really interesting discussion about how most research doesn't have enough metadata to tell you if its what you're looking for - on the other hand AO3 has a really helpful metadata schema. #UKSG2026

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Avery Everhart @averyeverhart.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Has PornHub ever given academic researchers access to their data? I feel like if they have someone within the sound of my voice will know…tysm

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

From a recent police board meeting, crime trends year over year up to Q3 2025. Something clearly stands out! And yet despite ABC being in a constant moral panic about crime, it's the one thing they consistently ignore (or sometimes actively make worse).

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Julia Bullard @julzbullard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We had folks from @queerliblib.bsky.social visit class last night for a guest lecture! Hard to say how awed I am by what they've built and how happy I am such a thing exists. Canada: someday!

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Heron Greenesmith, Esq. @herong.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another book you should read instead of watching *another* iteration of that racist transphobic bs. RF Kuang's Babel. Nebula-award winning exploration of imperialism and racism at a school lots of stairs and turrets, if that's your thing.

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Babel by R F Kuang | Papercuts Bookshop

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternat...

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 21/03/2026

You do "emotional labour" when you are producing an inauthentic emotional state as a product to be sold, which, like the factor lineworker producing a widget all day long that *they* don't own, is a form of alienation a la Marx.

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Julia Bullard @julzbullard.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The right way to read fresh-off-the-presses critical cataloguing work is in a chat thread with @brimwats.com. There's so much to praise about this analysis and writing! www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/seeking...

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Seeking Approval, Confronting Objectivity: Neutrality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Approval Process – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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erin rose glass @glass.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

puregenius.education

The World's First Fully Automated Genius System

Experience the future of education with PureGenius - an AI-powered learning platform that unlocks every student's potential. Sign up for early access today.

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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 17/03/2026

All Canadians over 16 are invited to comment on this Transport Canada public consultation on headlight glare: tc.canada.ca/en/corporate... Please participate if you're able! The brightness of LED headlights is out of control, and they're a real hazard to drivers and pedestrians.

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Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat

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The Fresno State Library invites you to a FREE webinar!
Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today Ethics, Power, and Possibility
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT/ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET.

Please join us for a conversation with four nationally known librarian leaders in the critical cataloging/critical librarianship movement. They will explore how we can continue to move forward with this important work in the shifting political landscape. The panel will also discuss why it matters in higher education and in society today more than ever.
Speakers

1. Emily Drabinski
Associate Professor and
Chair, School of
Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York

2. Dr. Karen Snow
Professor and Ph.D. Program Director,
School of Information Studies, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois

3. Violet Fox
Creator of The Cataloging Lab, Minnesota

4. Billey Albina (FKA Amber Billey) Social justice rockstar librarian turned clinical social worker, Toronto, Canada.

Host:
Julie Renee Moore Special Collections Catalog Librarian, Fresno State Library, California State University, Fresno.

Use the QR code to register!

This webinar is sponsored by
The Womack Lecture Series
named for late librarian emeritus, Printise J. Womack, at Fresno State.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote? I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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The Danger of Silence When Academic Freedom Is Under Threat

Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 08/03/2026

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then cheknews.ca/residents-at...

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Residents at trailer park call eviction by K'omoks First Nation unfair

People living in a trailer park in the Comox Valley say the K'omoks First Nation eviction leaves them in a financially difficult spot

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material. Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.

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By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News

Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 02/03/2026

NEW FROM ME: While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game

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Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game.

The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

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Jeanine Finn @jftitone.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

As a 2016 UT Austin PhD grad, the speed of the deliberate dismantling of this public university is stunning. I wasn’t naive about Texas politics but still. Damn.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16/02/2026

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

A graph of database connections, showing a massive spike at around 18.30.

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“For those who are just learning about Tumbler Ridge for the first time, know that it is so much more than the events of this week. The town is a portrait of resiliency. It has survived against the odds and emerged stronger.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

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A Love Letter to Tumbler Ridge | The Tyee

The northern community faces some of its darkest days ahead, but is famously resilient.

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