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Sarah Polkinghorne @sarahpolk.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI, there's an October 15 deadline for papers, etc. for the Information Seeking In Context (ISIC) conference, Montréal, June 2026.

I'm co-chairing papers and happy to help with questions. Except the question of Fairmont bagels vs St-Viateur bagels - that's personal.

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www.mcgill.ca/isic2026/

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Anna Koop @akoopa.bsky.social · 8d

Tech women! My friend is doing a study on women in tech and information systems. Interview and a few diary entries, easy. All tech connections welcome.

Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jul 23

🪅🪅🪅 I am recruiting participants for my doctoral research project. Please share widely. ✨✨✨

Are you a woman working in a technology-focused role?
Have you worked in such a role in the past 5 years? [photo of women discussing around a table with a laptop on it]
If this is you, contact me!
I am conducting a study on women's experiences working in the technology sector. For more information, please message me here with your email address or email me directly s3957798@student.rmit.edu.au
RMIT UNIVERSITY

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · 28d

Very succinct 😘

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Re-upping this endorsement! I’m still recruiting. Please get in touch 💫

Sarah Polkinghorne @sarahpolk.bsky.social · Jul 23

Mary is a gem; her study is timely and very fascinating. Highly recommend participating if the topic resonates with you!

Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jul 23

🪅🪅🪅 I am recruiting participants for my doctoral research project. Please share widely. ✨✨✨

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Highly recommend this talk by @emilymbender.bsky.social with Kobi Leins if you want to know what AI even is, understand the ethical considerations, and learn how to resist the seemingly all-encompassing push of the AI lords !!! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine - ABC listen

Is the world really in the midst of an AI revolution, or is it all just clever marketing, powered by immense amounts of money, capital and hype? This episode arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises...

www.abc.net.au

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Aug 17

www.marygreenshields.com/research

Research Project — Mary Greenshields

www.marygreenshields.com

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Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · Aug 8

Tell me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research without telling me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research

@economist.com @eui-history.bsky.social

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

"Soon after its founding, however, it became apparent that the EUI’s splendid digs might be distracting its scholars. As one insider explained to Charlemagne: “Left to their own devices, the academics began producing studies of the wool trade in 15th-century Flanders and suchlike.” He was joking—up to a point. A search for recent articles on the EUI’s database produced a list headed by “Silk consumption and dressing practices in late-medieval Catalonia”. In 1993 the university set up a new division, the Robert Schuman Centre, to keep things forward-looking and relevant, but with mixed success. In 2017 a School of Transnational Governance was founded in the hope that this would finally do the trick."

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Aug 10

The purpose & the significance 😅 ! Sigh.

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you 😘

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Are you a woman working in a technology-focused role?
Have you worked in such a role in the past 5 years?
Contact me!
I am conducting a study on women's experiences working in the technology sector. For more info, pls message me or email me [email protected]

Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jul 23

🪅🪅🪅 I am recruiting participants for my doctoral research project. Please share widely. ✨✨✨

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 16

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
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16 June 2025
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jun 8

It’s conference szn! Very happy I had the opportunity to attend one of my favourites again #CoLIS #CoLIS25

It’s a rare and wonderful pleasure to be able to spend time with my… | Mary Greenshields

It’s a rare and wonderful pleasure to be able to spend time with my incredible supervisory team, Lisa M. Given (FASSA, FASIST) & Dana Mckay , and a superpowered group of IS scholars. Very thankful...

www.linkedin.com

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Joann Cattlin @joanncattlin.bsky.social · Jul 10

Sharing my first #phd paper with @lisagiven.bsky.social on Information relations for social change: exploring the information behaviour of academics undertaking impact work informationr.net/infres/artic... #researchimpact #informationbehaviour 🎓

Information relations for social change: exploring the information behaviour of academics undertaking impact work | Information Research an international electronic journal

informationr.net

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thank you ♥️ wywh

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Jun 2

Presenting my research in its current state #CoLIS25 ♥️

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · May 19

One of my favourites in Florence - Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti ♥️

Facade of Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · Apr 29

If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Questioning AI Resource List

Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

docs.google.com

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Apr 29

A couple of Canadians celebrating an ABC victory 🎉

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Apr 29

So very thankful for the results of this election. Onward and upward 🇨🇦

Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · Apr 29

Congratulations Mark Carney on your electoral victory.

The longstanding friendship and strategic partnership between the people of Europe and Canada will keep getting stronger based on our shared values.

I wish you all the very best 🇪🇺🇨🇦

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Apr 28

I made extra sure that my vote got from Florence to Ottawa last week (by paying an outrageous sum to a courier) precisely because of this nonsense 😟

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Paul R. Pival he/him @ppival.bsky.social · Apr 16

New blog post

Librarians and teachers amongst the heaviest users of AI - The 2025 AI Index Report distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2025...

#distlib #ai

Occupational representation in Claude usage data vs US workforce distribution

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Sarah Polkinghorne @sarahpolk.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hello to this excellent news! Thank you @libmaryan.bsky.social, @haileysiracky.bsky.social

"We think of love as joy plus solidarity"

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Apr 9

Happy to see Library Trends’ issue 70 (4), “Joy of Information,” now permanently available OA via the Illinois Library’s repository, IDEALS. www.ideals.illinois.edu/collections/... Thanks again to @haileysiracky.bsky.social & Jenna Hartel for choosing @sarahpolk.bsky.social & my “Love is a Lens” ♥️

Library Trends 70 (4) Spring 2022: Joy of Information | IDEALS

www.ideals.illinois.edu

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Hailey @haileysiracky.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is a really exciting development! Co-editing this issue was one of the loveliest projects I've had the opportunity to work on:

Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Apr 9

Happy to see Library Trends’ issue 70 (4), “Joy of Information,” now permanently available OA via the Illinois Library’s repository, IDEALS. www.ideals.illinois.edu/collections/... Thanks again to @haileysiracky.bsky.social & Jenna Hartel for choosing @sarahpolk.bsky.social & my “Love is a Lens” ♥️

Library Trends 70 (4) Spring 2022: Joy of Information | IDEALS

www.ideals.illinois.edu

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Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social · Apr 9

Happy to see Library Trends’ issue 70 (4), “Joy of Information,” now permanently available OA via the Illinois Library’s repository, IDEALS. www.ideals.illinois.edu/collections/... Thanks again to @haileysiracky.bsky.social & Jenna Hartel for choosing @sarahpolk.bsky.social & my “Love is a Lens” ♥️

Library Trends 70 (4) Spring 2022: Joy of Information | IDEALS

www.ideals.illinois.edu

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