Amanda Ross-White
amandarosswhite.bsky.social
Amanda Ross-White
@amandarosswhite.bsky.social
Medical Librarian. Writer. Mom. Moved over fully from the Bird app. Loves: Jesus, gin, swearing. Hates: Racism. Anti-vaxxers. All tweets my own and not always coherent. Highly eclectic. Already appreciate longer character limits. #canmedlibs #medlibs
Veterans fighting for Freedom?
"The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) are shocked and disappointed to have had a joint Freedom to Read Week event discussing censorship and book-banning cancelled by the contracted venue."

writersunion.ca/news/reading...
Reading Event at Calgary Legion Cancelled During Freedom to Read Week | The Writers' Union of Canada
writersunion.ca
February 19, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Sharing this prison birthday cake recipe for absolutely no reason: humansofsanquentin.org/henoks-priso...
Henok's Prison Birthday Cake | Humans of San Quentin
humansofsanquentin.org
February 19, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Please. Everyone knows CityNews is Everywhere.
Alberta's Ministry of Education says it is blacklisting CityNews unless it agrees to the UCP government's demand to unpublish a news article and publicly apologize to them
February 19, 2026 at 2:26 PM
MPOW just had a survey on the use of AI and I want to use this instead of what I wrote, because it is much more eloquent. I said that AI needs to be yeeted into the sun.
i included this in my syllabi this year
February 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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🚨FLOOR-CROSSING ALERT!
February 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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«It is time to recognise that evidence synthesis is its own scientific discipline. It requires expertise like other fields of science.» @sinisavilaakso.bsky.social, @nealhaddaway.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...
Biased evidence isn’t an accident. It’s a feature of a broken system. | Matthew Grainger
"It is time to recognise that evidence synthesis is its own scientific discipline. It requires expertise like other fields of science."
www.linkedin.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Reposted by Amanda Ross-White
Of the $6.4B announced for Ontario PSE yesterday, 45% or so was just taking $ out of SFA and handing it to institutions.

Another chunk of $, maybe as high as $3B (unclear) involved taking $ announced in '24 and '25 & putting it into the base out to 2029-30

Actual new $ over 2025-26 base? $0-2B.
February 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I just want to pause for a moment to think about how furious people were about Trudeau’s free vacation from the Aga Khan and juxtapose that with free trips from Epstein.
February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I’m sad. Baseball won’t be the same
Legendary Blue Jays Broadcaster Buck Martinez Announces Retirement

Press Release: www.rogerssportsandmedia.com/the-latest/l...
February 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Where's my 80,000 Euros/year salary for pretending to work somewhere else?
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
#medlibs #canmedlibs
A devastating loss for the librarian community
February 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I didn't know MUN had a white elephant in the UK like we do!
PSA: it is in fact possible for universities to address financial challenges by slashing (incredibly expensive and largely useless) admin positions.

Memorial University just downsized VPs from 7 to 3.

Yes we can!

universityaffairs.ca/news/memoria...
February 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
This is wild. I can't understand people who order even the most basic things.
Ma'am you are spending 1/3 of your post-tax income on doordash
February 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
UG:
1. The Chemistry of Food
2. History of New France
3. WW2 in Film
4. French
5. Littérature Québécoise
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Russian for Russian Specialists
2. Translation as Literary Crime
3. Sociology of Medicine
4. Clinical Ethics
5. Tree Climbing
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 12:47 PM
This is a fucking nightmare
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.

prism.openai.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 PM
I got my booster in the spring. I know I was vaccinated according to the schedule of the time, but wanted to get the booster to be certain
Reminder that if you were vaccinated for measles between the late 1950-1980s, you got one dose, not the two doses that are recommended now. You will think you’re protected, but you may not be! Get your titers checks or get a booster.
January 28, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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“At 14 research agencies Science examined in detail, departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s. “

www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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We want to hear from you if you've seen federal agents detain someone in #Maine, if you know someone who is in #ICE custody, or if you have faced repercussions for observing their activities. If you prefer to contact a specific reporter or editor, you can via email or Signal. Click to learn more 👇
Help us report on ICE activity
We want to hear from you if you have witnessed federal agents detain someone in Maine, if you know someone who is in ICE custody, or if you have faced repercussions for observing their activities.
themainemonitor.org
January 24, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Apparently it’s snowing back home?
January 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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"The American Nurses Association (ANA) is deeply disturbed and saddened to learn of the death of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse, in Minneapolis earlier today." www.nursingworld.org/news/news-re...
Statement from the American Nurses Association regarding the death of registered nurse Alex Pretti
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is deeply disturbed and saddened to learn of the death of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse, in Minneapolis earlier today. We extend our condolences to Alex’s loved...
www.nursingworld.org
January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
January 22, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The Canadians absolutely ratioing this guy (I post, from curaçao)
Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
January 17, 2026 at 2:16 PM