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John Lee @johnleewriter.bsky.social · 15h

This looks like a great event at Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch! vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68b1f...

Alcuin Wayzgoose: Letterpress Print & Book Arts Fair

The Alcuin Society and Vancouver Public Library are pleased to present the biennial Alcuin Wayzgoose, the largest letterpress print and book arts fair in Vancouver! Come and meet more than 27 many sk...

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 12h

This is important and everyone working in a gallery, library, archives, or museum should participate.

#library #archives 📚

Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 6d

Government launches consultation on new AI strategy. This one has a tight timeline - responses due by the end of the month. Can respond to a survey or offer comments. Says it expects the new strategy to be developed by the end of the year.
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Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 9h

Lucy Pickering and I first talked about research ethics nearly 30 years ago. Now we’re launching a call for chapters on experiences of ethics review.

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e...

#ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview

Ethics Review In Practice

I have known Lucy Pickering for a long time. I first met her almost 30 years ago through a mutual friend, and I got to know her well some years later when we were doing our PhDs at the same time. W…

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 7h

The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

Ryan Byrnes on the Khalidi Family’s Battle to Protect Their Library From Ultra-Orthodox Settlers

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#books #libraries

Khalidi Library, from the opening c. 1900. From right: Hajj Raghib al-Khalidi, Sheikh Taher al-Jaza’ireh (from Damascus), Sheikh Musa Shafiq al-Khalidi, Sheikh Khalil al-Khalidi, Sheikh Muhammad al-Habbal (from Beirut)

Costumes and characters, etc. Mohammedan sheikhs and effendies in front of Bibboth Khaldieh, Jerusalem

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Sheila Webber @sheilawebber.bsky.social · 6h

Call for proposals for the BOBCATSSS 2026 International Conference on Library and Information Science

There is a call for proposals for the BOBCATSSS 2026 International Conference on Library and Information Science taking place 20-22 January 2026 at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. The theme is Thinking for Tomorrow: Redefining Information Networks in the Digital Age. Deadline for abstracts is 31 October 2025. "BOBCATSSS is an annual symposium in the field of library and information science. It is a tradition which has been passed on from one country to another since 1993. It is held under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and is organized by students from at least two universities." This year the universities are Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania and Faculty of Letters and Arts, and Romance Studies Department, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. More detail here https://bobcatsss2026.org.ro/conference-theme/

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 6h

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me

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Cartoon showing a man reading from a dictionary to another. He says "So, it turns out confirmation bias means exactly what I expected it to mean|"

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 5h

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

Declining literacy rates aren’t a new issue for B.C. — or Canada.

Standardized test results have been on a downward swing countrywide for over 20 years. What’s the fix?

Second in a series. By @kehyslop.bsky.social. #bced #bcpoli #canpoli

Math and Reading Scores Are Declining in BC. Why? | The Tyee

And what’s the fix? Second in a series.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

“It is hard to know who to blame, but if you can embody it in immigrants, then you have somebody who people can grasp as a target, as a kind of cause of their hardship.” #abpoli

‘Shameless’: How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants | The Tyee

Divisive scapegoating, including showing a slanted video, fits the populist playbook, says an expert.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Part 6 of #OneDrop, our poetic celebration of #reggae has...dropped! This week we look at all things #Wailers, with a great poem from Geoffrey Philp and some great tunes...

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One Drop Poetry | Substack

Poems celebrating the world of Reggae music. Click to read One Drop Poetry, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 1d

This week we’re continuing to wake up our social media presence with… ME! 🌊

Hi everyone, I’m Riley Cotter. Right now, I'm a Research Specialist and MSc student (almost finished!) at CLEAR.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Panel 1
A figure stands at a lectern
"This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything."
The screen is completely packed with such things

Panel 2,3,4,5.
Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"

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Windspeaker.com @windspeaker.bsky.social · 1d

“It's almost like I need to write and so I write every day and…I'll just start writing and it's usually images that I've stored in my head for the past few days or months or years.”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #poetry #books

Writing is cathartic, says poet, who voices his trauma in new collection

Joseph Dandurand’s latest collection of poetry, I Would Like to Say Thank You, is a raw look into a life that has been both hard and rewarding.The Kwantlen First Nation poet calls writing poetry catha...

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Mount Royal University Library @mrulibrary.bsky.social · 20h

Learn more and apply for access: library.mtroyal.ca/undergraduat...

MRU Library Website: Undergraduate Research HQ: About

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 16h

Minifie feels the generation coming up in the film and television industry is some of the biggest talent she’s ever seen, creating a “renaissance in Indigenous storytelling.”

On Face to Face, she shares her advice to future storytellers: “keep it weird.”

‘It's relentless’: New documentary highlights discrimination against Indigenous Peoples | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 23h

👀 ICYMI: "Although the PCE won’t solve all the sector challenges, without it we are destined to support a sub-standard research culture and environment that will end up costing good research and researchers."

#REF2029 #PCE #ResearchCulture

The People Culture and Environment element of REF2029 is already changing the sector — we shouldn’t give up on it now - Impact of Social Sciences

The future of the People Culture and Environment element of REF 2029 is currently under scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with institutional decisionmakers as part of the COMET study, Gemma Derrick,…

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 23h

Gitxaala producer and filmmaker Leena Minifie recently co-directed and produced the documentary The Good Canadian.

Tonight on Face to Face, she shares how the film highlights the ways Indigenous people are discriminated against from right from birth.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20h

There's no reason #YoungWizards can't go trick-or-treating. But the results may be unexpected... At #Ebooks Direct, as the Spooky Season gets going: NOT ON MY PATCH. ebooks.direct/products/not...

Background: A pumpkin that seems to have... unusual eyes. Foreground captioning: "Too much candy corn. Too many zombies. And Ultimate Evil with a pumpkin spice latte. ...Tag along on a Young Wizards Halloween. Now at Ebooks Direct."

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 17h

Indigenous midwifery practices are seeing a revival across the country.

In Quebec, on the Mohawk territory of Kanehsatà:ke, the first home birth in 50 years took place shortly before the official opening of their new multigenerational women’s space.

Indigenous midwifery revival sees first home birth in 50 years in Kanehsatà:ke | APTN News

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Sheila Webber @sheilawebber.bsky.social · 1d

Information Literacy & Information Behaviour in performing arts

An interesting lengthy blog post from an arts librarian, reviewing some literature on the information behaviour of practitioners and students in performing arts, and adding her own experience to draw some conclusions. Ross, C. (2025, October 2). Reframing Traditional Models: Research Needs in the Performing Arts. ACRLog. https://acrlog.org/2025/10/02/reframing-traditional-models-research-needs-in-the-performing-arts/ One article she cites is: Fleming-May, R. A. (2025). The information needs and behaviours of creative artists: A meta-ethnography of research, 2019-24. Information Research, 30(CoLIS), 551-566. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30CoLIS52315 Photo by Sheila Webber: old photo of the Boathouse in Bamberg, September 2025

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss our free, online Open and Engaged Conference 2025, as part of #InternationaOpenAccessWeek.

This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.

Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...

A collage of images including a person with headphones on working at a desk, a person weaving straw together and someone in a lab holding a bottle. A open padlock graphic is laid over each image and text reads Open and Engaged 2025. Who owns our knowledge? Monday 20th, Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd October, online conference..

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

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Cartoon of a duck on a psychiatrist's couch responding "quack!" to every word association prompt. Caption: Word association in ducks

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Windspeaker.com @windspeaker.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s something I’d done many times before … and ended up kind of stopping and looking at these, you know, hundreds of mugs that probably had all been gifted at potlatches.”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #culture #tradition #art #BC #Vancouver

Gallery exhibit shows the tradition of giving it all away makes for truer wealth

The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art has launched an exhibit titled NDN Giver that will run until Feb. 22, 2026.It is curated by Amelia Rea, who is the assistant curator at the gallery in Vanc...

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Sarah Polkinghorne @sarahpolk.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, like all forms of leisure.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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UVicAnthro @uvicanthro.bsky.social · 1d

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#WomenInScience #Archaeology #DigIt #StoneAgeStyle #IceAgeArt #BeforeAgricultureWasCool

As a kid, Dr. April Nowell, a Paleolithic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology in our department, always loved history and wanted to be directly involved in discovering it. When her mom came across an ad in the local newspaper asking for volunteers to work on a site in Old Montreal, she jumped at the chance! One week of excavating and this 18-year-old was hooked. Quoted in the local newspaper, who knew that this moment in 1987 would kick off a career leading to interviews with the CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, CNN, and more!

💡 April is still out there digging, but today her research focuses on reconstructing the lives and contributions of Ice Age kids and teenagers to human cultural evolution with recent publications on children making ceramics and on how teens experienced puberty in the Upper Paleolithic.

🌍 She also collaborates with colleagues on the study of cave art in southern Australia and on the lifeways of early humans in Jordan where her team uncovered tools with the world’s oldest identifiable blood on them. We now know that 350,000 years ago, these hunter-gatherers ate everything in their environment from ducks to rhinos!

📕Dr. Nowell’s groundbreaking work is captivating audiences worldwide, especially with her book, Growing Up in the Ice Age and the Nature of Things documentary Little Sapiens featuring work with Drs. Mary Lewis and Jennifer French on CBC-Gem and will soon be broadcast in France and Japan. She's even got a Wikipedia page! Talk about making history

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