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Nicole Dalmer

@nicoledalmer.bsky.social
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McMaster University Associate Professor & Gilbrea Centre Director (Acting). I look @ info, care, tech, libraries, & aging. I love coffee & pinball. she/her

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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The Sound, Nature and Wellbeing in Ageing conference was one for the books - what an absolutely fantastic time thinking, listening, and sharing together. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Dr. Vera Gallistl from Karl Landsteiner University opens up this year's Gilbrea Centre Seminar Series! "Lakes, Forests, & An Iron Ore Mountain: More-Than-Human Kinships Of Older Adults In Times Of Environmental Change" Sept 29, 2025 @10.30am EST on Zoom REGISTER: mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Honoured to be awarded this year's ALISE/Connie Van Fleet Award for Research Excellence in Public Library Services to Adults! alise.org/page/connie-...
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 08/07/2025
Goodbye cremation and caskets, hello “human composting” and aquamation. Journalist Ellen Himmelfarb unpacks how the dearly departed and their loved ones are getting creative with death: thewalrus.ca/death-disrupted/
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Sharing an op-ed I wrote with Dr. Saara Greene about our work that's exploring how older women access cannabis-related information and support, and how their experiences can inform more inclusive policies and technologies. To access the full (paywalled) article: www.thespec.com/life/health-...
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Not quite sure these lil Nicoles could have quite imagined where I’d end up but today I hit a major career milestone: TENURE!!! I’m an Associate Professor! Massively and wholly grateful to everyone who helped, challenged, cared for, and caffeinated me along the way.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Job posting of potential interest www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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Dalhousie University hiring Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthy Aging in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 2:26:10 AM. Position DetailsPosition InformationPosition Title Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Artificial…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sharing my doctoral student's (Amanda Bull) important PhD study - please participate, if you're able, and/or circulate with your networks! 🚨Attention all Canadian workers, aged 55+🚨 This is your opportunity to shape age-inclusive workplaces!
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Tomorrow! All are welcome!
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Sharing a new project with @gallisv.bsky.social! agingindata.ca/projects/fro...
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From Bones to Bytes: A Digital Discourse Analysis of Aquamation - Aging in Data
Aquamation, also known as water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis, is an emerging technology of body disposition that uses water, heat, and alkaline chemicals
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'm so very excited to be hosting Viivi Korpela, PhD Candidate from the University of Jyväskylä at the Gilbrea Centre! All are welcome to come (in person or online) to hear her share her doctoral work about digital citizenship in later life. To register for Zoom access: bit.ly/4j8xHLx
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CdnAssocGero @cagacg.ca · 28/04/2025
CAG President Dr. Brad Meisner invites you to submit your abstracts to #CAG_2025: Radical Relationality and Aging, October 23-25 in Montreal mailchi.mp/cagacg/cag20... @bamphd.bsky.social
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I'm kicking off a study that's exploring older Canadians' questions and information practices around their death and end-of-life care needs. I would be grateful if you could circulate this study within your networks. This survey can be accessed via: bit.ly/4lEqd58
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Sharing my take on the implications of #publiclibraries being asked to wear an increasing number of hats while also navigating budget cuts with @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Staff at Fort Frances Public Library speak out as northwestern Ontario town tightens budget | CBC News
As municipalities across northwestern Ontario contend with tighter budgets, the union representing staff at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre say the facility cannot afford any cutback...
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Please come work with me! A full-time Contractually Limited Appointment (CLA) position at McMaster's Department of Health, Aging & Society has recently been posted. careers.mcmaster.ca/psp/prcsprd/...
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Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I also love this use by @nicoledalmer.bsky.social of floorplans to make things more concrete, to enable young people to imagine tech in their later life. Really interesting findings too @enas-agestudies.bsky.social
Conference presentation slide showing floorplans individualised by research participants with pink marks.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'm looking forward to speaking with and learning from queer, older women living in the GTA about the ways in which they access cannabis-related information, support, and community. I would be grateful if you could circulate this poster in your networks.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"My institution neither values nor respects what I do. I can't in good conscience encourage anyone else to dive into that mess."
chronicle.com
What It’s Like to Work in Higher Ed
Key findings from our survey of higher ed’s work force
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old
As 100-year lifespans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work, and retirement.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It's official!
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Nicole Dalmer appointed Acting Director of Gilbrea Centre - Faculty of Social Sciences
Congratulation to Nicole Dalmer, assistant professor in Health, Aging and Society, who has been appointed acting director of the Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging. Housed in the Faculty of Social Sc...
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
in my 'critical perspectives on aging' grad seminar (my favourite!) and our first set of facilitators are exploring critiques around successful aging. loving this first exercise they've brought forward asking us about our associations with successful aging.
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North American Network in Aging Studies @nanetworkinaging.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Please join us for the 2nd Virtual Anti-Racism & Anti-Discrimination Speaker Series! Wshkiigmong Dibaajmownan/Curve Lake Storytelling: Anishinaabe Growing Old/Aging, Anishinaabe Affirmations and Refusals Dr. Nadine Changfoot (@trentuniversity.bsky.social) Feb 13 | 9-10AM PDT / 12-1PM EDT
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Looking forward to hosting UBC's Dr. Julia Henderson who will be speaking to "Arts Against Ageism" at the upcoming seminar co-sponsored by The Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging and the Dept of Health, Aging & Society | Jan 29 | 12.30-1.30pm | in-person or online | more info: bit.ly/3VnqDBv
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NPR @npr.org · 01/12/2024
In cohousing communities, neighbors share common spaces, chores and a sense of connection that benefits everyone. For some, it's an answer to the isolation of parenting that many families feel today.
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How to be not lonely? 'Cohousing' is an answer for some people
In cohousing communities, neighbors share common spaces, chores and a sense of connection that benefits everyone. For some, it's an answer to the isolation of parenting that many families feel today.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🌟 TODAY! 🌟
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Quite thrilled to be part of the inaugural Global Fellows End-of-Life Care Program with Death with Dignity and Completed Life. completedlife.org/global-fello...
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
FRIDAY! The inaugural session of the North American Network in Aging Studies' (NANAS) Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Virtual Speaker Series with Dr. Saskia Furst. Register: ubc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
The Metro NY Library Council, which serves a few hundred libraries + archives across NYC + Westchester (and for which I serve as board president), is launching a new ecological library — www.libraryfield.org — and soliciting CFPs for a community engagement consultant! metro.org/jobs/communi...
A screenshot of the Library Field website featuring, in playful type, the words “Library Field,” and the subhead: a place based initiative in West Chester county brought to you by Metropolitan, New York library council
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
💬 My most prized participant quote I've heard to date is central to this new publication in The Gerontologist where we explore the impact of #age labels in #publiclibraries on #olderadults
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
You and the Computer, from General Electric, 1960; illustrated by Bill Charmatz www.modernillustration.org/archive/gene...
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
to be used in all forthcoming #agestudies courses 👀 🕰️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1e0...
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The Generation Gap | 2024 Lamb ad
Watch out for the Generation Gap: the impassable chasm that's divided Australia.#sharethelamb #2024LambAd #australianlamb
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
The New Yorker has a good article on the cyber attack that has done such damage to the British Library, and affected the Fantasy Exhibition I worked on (I was on the Advisory Board): www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library
The library has been incapacitated since October, and the effects have spread beyond researchers and book lovers.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Working with a top-notch team connected with McMaster University’s Community Research Platform, we’ve been taking a close look at the new (& vital!) social work program at Hamilton Public Library. #publiclibrary #socialwork Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to:
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Program at Hamilton Public Library shows how libraries can expand the social services they provide
The public’s intensifying needs necessitate an expansion of the library’s role in our communities.
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Barb Marshall @socbarb.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
My first post here — and I’m happy that it’s to announce the first two short videos from our research group on Aging and Digital Culture (Stephen Katz, Kirsten Ellison, @nicoledalmer.bsky.social, Megan Graham and yours truly) vimeo.com/showcase/107...
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Wrinkle Radio with Sally Chivers @wrinkleradio.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Wrinkle Radio podcast season 2 is live! Featuring @nicoledalmer.bsky.social about the connection between information work & dementia care + the public library. Find it wherever you get podcasts. Transcripts & shownotes sallychivers.ca/wrinkleradio Enjoy and remember: Don’t panic! It’s just aging.
A dark blue square that readings Wrinkle Radio with Sally Chivers, Information Piles and Palaces, Episode 7 with Nicole Dalmer. There’s a cartoon image of Nicole and one of a microphone that looks like a fingerprint-tree ring.
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Nicole Dalmer @nicoledalmer.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Take a listen to my conversation with @sallychivers.bsky.social of the @wrinkleradio.bsky.social podcast, as I share some of my research loves: information work, care work, the public library, & the fullness of later life | sallychivers.ca/episode-7-in...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
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Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
"We deserve a better death" Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet.
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