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“[The book] unsettles; it dislodges librarianship from its inertia within settler logic, demands that we recognize the stakes of our current predicament,& shows us a tangible way forward.[…]what makes [it] special is its conviction that librarianship in North America is capable of transformation.”

Grateful for this excellent review of Lydia Z & my edited volume, Land in Libraries, by Anna Szapiro ❤️‍🔥

Mary Greenshields (@libmaryan.bsky.social) and I wrote about library love (including the gaps between love and knowledge and material support) a couple of years ago. No paywall

www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128800

Merry Christmas, all! As my mother says every year when asked what she wants for Christmas: peace on earth ♥️ I echo that and will add: peace begins at home ♥️ Grateful for my peaceful life in Italy with my kid, 2 dogs & tortoise.

Magical

analysis of power and data as the last colonial frontier is insightful. In particular, the discussion of Indigenous data sovereignty and contrast with the exploitive, extractive nature of the tech bro model is affirming and hopeful ♥️ 2/2

Is this thing still on???

If you’ve not read Empire of AI, please do. It’s accessible & lifts the curtain on how we got where we are today with the predictions machine. Though none of the gory details with be surprising to students of the tech world & Silicon Valley, Hao’s 1/2

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/

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.

Very succinct 😘

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

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...

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...

www.marygreenshields.com/research

"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."

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/...

The purpose & the significance 😅 ! Sigh.

Thank you 😘

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 s3957798@student.rmit.edu.au

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

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

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 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."

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

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) &amp; Dana Mckay , and a superpowered group of IS scholars. Very thankful...

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

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 🎓

Thank you ♥️ wywh

Presenting my research in its current state #CoLIS25 ♥️

Facade of Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti

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

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...

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

A couple of Canadians celebrating an ABC victory 🎉

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

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 😟

Occupational representation in Claude usage data vs US workforce distribution

New blog post

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

#distlib #ai

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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