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Genevieve Gore

Genevieve Gore

@genski.bsky.social

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Health sciences librarian at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We may seem to be screwed, but let's keep trying.

Public Health 41%

Computer science 27%

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404 Media @404media.co · 4d

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.

But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

www.404media.co

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

WHO @who.int · 23d

International #LeadPoisoning Prevention Week starts today.

Leaded fuel was banned around the world in 2021.

But lead can still be found in paint used in:
🏡 homes
🚸 schools
🛝 playgrounds
🪀 toys

Let’s ban lead in paint. 🔗 bit.ly/4qblGcM

An infographic with the title “FACT: Lead is toxic.” It explains that lead is harmful to everyone and damages the reproductive system, kidneys, liver, blood, and brain. It shows three groups affected:

Young children: most vulnerable because their nervous systems are still developing; they absorb 4–5 times more lead than adults, which can cause intellectual disability, poor school performance, and behavioural issues.

Adults: lead exposure increases the risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke.

Pregnant women: lead exposure damages many organs and affects the developing fetus.

Reposted by Philip Nel, Geneviève Gore

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 23d

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Sabine Pahl, Margot C. Finn , and 3 more Stephan Lewandowsky, Sabine Pahl, Margot C. Finn, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Patrick Stokes, Geneviève Gore

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Oct 9

Though Israel and its allies have derided Palestinian resistance groups for holding hostages in Gaza, Israel itself is holding thousands of Palestinian hostages, both dead and alive, in its own prisons.

At least 250 Palestinian bodies have not been returned to their families.

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

McGill Department of Global and Public Health @mcgilldgph.bsky.social · Oct 9

Hello Bluesky! We're a new department at @mcgill.ca, @mcgillspgh.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca! Get to know the Department of Global and Public Health! Swipe through to explore some of the programs and opportunities that we offer.

The words "Who are we?" on a light purple background

Text on light purple background: "We’re part of the School of Population and Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science. Our goal is to address health inequities and advance public health locally and globally."

Reposted by Delphine K. Farmer, Zen Faulkes, Brian Weatherson , and 3 more Delphine K. Farmer, Zen Faulkes, Brian Weatherson, Catherine J. Frieman, Geneviève Gore, Catherine M. Hulshof

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Oct 6

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Oct 5

Ha'aretz: John Oliver's presentation tonight on Netanyahu and his Gaza war has been banned from dissemination in Israel, with no explanation being provided for the action.

'Deadliest War': John Oliver slams Netanyahu in show not available for streaming in Israel

The Episode of 'Last Week Tonight' Deals With the War in Gaza and the Prime Minister, and Is Not Available to Watch in Israel. HBO, Which Broadcasts Oliver's Show, Declined to Comment

www.haaretz.com

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Kate Saylor @ksaylor.bsky.social · Oct 4

Tip #10: Testing for Key Article Inclusion in PubMed #MLAUXCaucus #ExpertSearching #SystematicReview #medlibs Tip shared by @carrieprice.bsky.social uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2022/03/tip-...

Tip #10: Testing for Key Article Inclusion in PubMed

uxcaucustips.blogspot.com

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

lluisanglada.bsky.social @lluisanglada.bsky.social · Oct 3

"In many universities, conversations about openness still revolve around research outputs: journal articles, monographs, and data. But if we’re serious about knowledge equity, then teaching content has to be part of that conversation too"

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Sep 30

An Indigenous child is being hurt and you can help. Will you?

Dr Cindy Blackstock

www.cbc.ca/documentarie...

OPINION | An Indigenous child is being hurt and you can help. Will you? | CBC Documentaries

The documentary The Good Canadian outlines the consequences of failing to press politicians to address systemic discrimination against Indigenous people.

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

SRLibProblems @srlibproblems.bsky.social · Sep 29

To be clear, the problem is not the tool (Citation Chaser or Lens.org, where Citation Chaser gets its metadata from). The problem is the publishers that are withholding and preventing the abstracts from being openly available.

And the impact in this case, is on screening at the title-abstract level

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson, Anupam Chander , and 32 more Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson, Anupam Chander, Colin F. Camerer, David Lazer, Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer, Jonathan Wolff, Harvey J. Miller, Dustin Mulvaney, Fabián Muniesa, Jacob Montgomery, Bruce D. Baker, Joseph Schafer, Juan Cole, Jonathan Hopkin, Melanie C. Green, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Christine Kooi, Bessma Momani, Aaron Gerow, David Murakami Wood, Kate Starbird, Henry Jones, Nils Zurawski, Woodrow Hartzog, Clayton Littlejohn, Blair Fix, Geneviève Gore, Albin Wagener, Pádua Fernandes, Pepper D. Culpepper, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Farah Mendlesohn, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 27

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

Reposted by Benjamin Mason Meier, Smith, Geneviève Gore

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Sep 26

It’s one thing to withdraw from global health

It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals

NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!!

healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...

BREAKING: UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch

NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win

healthpolicy-watch.news

Reposted by Geneviève Gore, Lisa A. Kramer

Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · Sep 24

Reminder to fill out this CRA survey and say YES to automatic tax filing cra-arc-survey-sondage.ca/f/s.aspx?s=d...

Automatic tax filing consultation

Powered by SimpleSurvey.com | Build and manage your own online survey, voting, form and panel management applications.

cra-arc-survey-sondage.ca

Reposted by Simon J. Greenhill, Elizabeth Stokoe, Cathy N. Davidson , and 7 more Simon J. Greenhill, Elizabeth Stokoe, Cathy N. Davidson, Jussi T. Eronen, Devon Greyson, Alan Richardson, Michael W. Kraus, Woodrow Hartzog, Geneviève Gore, Elisa Freschi

Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · Sep 22

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

www.science.org

Reposted by Wouter Poortinga, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, John Horgan , and 27 more Wouter Poortinga, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, John Horgan, Simon J. Greenhill, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Philippe Quirion, Elizabeth Stokoe, Pierre Bataille, Lesley A. Hall, Peter Campbell, Magnus Johansson, Nils Gustafsson, Smith, Felicity Callard, Melanie C. Green, McKenzie Wark, Christine Kooi, Charlotte Taylor, Michael Veale, Eleanor Robson, Manuel Puppis, David Murakami Wood, Guy J. Curtis, Lisa Diedrich, Evert Meijers, Matti Vuorre, Geneviève Gore, Albin Wagener, Mary McAuliffe, Sarah Brouillette

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 17

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · Sep 8

Data available upon request is not acceptable.

Search/es available upon request is also not acceptable.

If you are going to do science, do science, please.

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Prof. Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli 🎓🌎🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 @munizfraticelli.bsky.social · Sep 8

So happy and proud to see so many @mcgillarts.bsky.social colleagues, including many from the @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social department, attending the #AMPFA Welcome Back Week and even getting involved in the faculty association's governance!

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · Sep 8

INSPECT-SR has launched today — a new tool for researchers to detect problematic randomized controlled trials.

🔗 Find out more here: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

#INSPECTSR #ClinicalTrials #EvidenceBasedMedicine #SystematicReviews #ResearchIntegrity

A hand with a magnifying glass focuses on a chart with a rising trend line and bars. Text reads, "New tool detects problematic trials before they distort evidence." The background features torn grid paper and abstract shapes, with a scientific and investigative theme.

Reposted by Erich Fromm, Sander van der Linden, Felicity Callard , and 4 more Erich Fromm, Sander van der Linden, Felicity Callard, Julia M. Wright, Geneviève Gore, Raji C Steineck, Southern Africa

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 31

FYI

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sociologist Nathan Kalman-Lamb, based in Fredericton, said he was required to hand over his phone during a recent trip to a conference in South Carolina.

"He claimed that it was just going to be a very cursory search," Kalman-Lamb said, explaining the officer's actions are legal.

"But the document that he gave me said they reserve the right to copy all the contents of your phone and distribute them to every American military and intelligence agency."

Reposted by Serge Egelman, Geneviève Gore

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 30

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Choosing the VPN That's Right for You

VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP). This masks your IP address, which can be an...

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here's a scary example. Run the following in OpenAlex API where publisher is Elsevier AND has abstract AND excludes open access papers. api.openalex.org/works?filter...
You get ZERO! If you include OA you get about 20%+ . This figure was >75% when Bianca was doing her analysis in late 2024! (6)

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here comes ASTA — scholarly research assistant w/ coverage via corpus of 108M+ scholarly abstracts & 12M+ full text in Semantic Scholar. Initiative of Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) "to accelerate scientific discovery through trustworthy open-source agentic AI." Untested. wiki.ubc.ca/Asta_(agenti...

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Aug 27

More Than 350,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv Call for Gov’t to Accept Ceasefire Deal

More Than 350,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv Call for Gov't to Accept Ceasefire Deal

In Israel, nationwide protests are continuing. On Tuesday, more than 350,000 people gathered at Tel Aviv's public plaza calling on the government to accept a ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza. Large protests were also held in Jerusalem. This is Mich...

www.democracynow.org

Reposted by Erin O’Donnell, Geneviève Gore

ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 24

The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data.

Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater

Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

www.propublica.org

Reposted by Lindsay M. Tedds, Alan Richardson, Julia M. Wright , and 1 more Lindsay M. Tedds, Alan Richardson, Julia M. Wright, Geneviève Gore

Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · Aug 19

1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 18

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”

Reposted by Iain Davidson, Robert B. Reich, Mary Jane Curry , and 1 more Iain Davidson, Robert B. Reich, Mary Jane Curry, Geneviève Gore

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Aug 13

U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:

700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start

Combined.

Reposted by Geneviève Gore

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · Aug 6

Was looking through some courses from Datacamp, linkedin learning, Udemy etc for introduction to ai content. The library carpentry one in development looks promising Intro to AI for GLAM share.google/2axmdSJ939bG... for concepts (1)

Intro to AI for GLAM: Summary and Setup