Elizabeth Stregger
@estregger.bsky.social
Knitting, data, cats. Librarian in a small town in New Brunswick. (she/they)
Speaker (French): “…. besoin…”
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Speaker (French): “…. besoin…”
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
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✨📢 ENABLAR is a new initiative from @jisc.bsky.social + @proghist.bsky.social, bringing library and archive practitioners into dialogue with digital humanities researchers.
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
✨📢 ENABLAR is a new initiative from @jisc.bsky.social + @proghist.bsky.social, bringing library and archive practitioners into dialogue with digital humanities researchers.
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
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📢Employment opportunity at PKP!
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
📢Employment opportunity at PKP!
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
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ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R
In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals
sr.ithaka.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
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Anyone have examples of research-creation or practice-led research projects by librarians or as part of information science generally? These could be called other things, including arts-based research, artistic research, and even design inquiry.
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Anyone have examples of research-creation or practice-led research projects by librarians or as part of information science generally? These could be called other things, including arts-based research, artistic research, and even design inquiry.
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If you are an educator, here's our curated list of educational games to help improve your students' ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. deepfakestracker.org/digital-lite... More games will be added later this fall.
Digital Literacy Games – deepfakestracker.org
Digital Literacy Games – A curated list of educational games to test your ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. Creating Disinformation Games Cat Park Players are challen...
deepfakestracker.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you are an educator, here's our curated list of educational games to help improve your students' ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. deepfakestracker.org/digital-lite... More games will be added later this fall.
Neurodivergent joy.
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Neurodivergent joy.
The lack of transparency on this project is unending. Butler reports that the province HAS NOT made a decision on comprehensive review, despite what our mayor was told. Time to contact all our representatives. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tantramar council turns down call to oppose proposed natural gas power plant | CBC News
NB Power announced in July that its Renewables Integration and Grid Stability project would be built near Centre Village. Since then, many residents and environmental groups have been vocal in their o...
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The lack of transparency on this project is unending. Butler reports that the province HAS NOT made a decision on comprehensive review, despite what our mayor was told. Time to contact all our representatives. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
www.404media.co
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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CFP Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...
Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”
| Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de
September 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
CFP Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Causing immense stress for Canadian small businesses, not just because of the costs, but because the systems and mechanisms for implementing this don’t even exist yet. Canada Post says they’re on-boarding a third-party tech provider, but it hasn’t happened yet.
The Trump administration is making buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas far more complicated, slow, and expensive.
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-tariff...
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-tariff...
Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield
Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.
www.404media.co
August 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Causing immense stress for Canadian small businesses, not just because of the costs, but because the systems and mechanisms for implementing this don’t even exist yet. Canada Post says they’re on-boarding a third-party tech provider, but it hasn’t happened yet.
Reposted by Elizabeth Stregger
Generative AI changes what things mean because it focuses on words, not the meaning. It adds words, changes meaning, and makes "plain language" that is not accessible. We know, because we tested it. Generative AI has no place in plain language. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/07/asan...
July 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Generative AI changes what things mean because it focuses on words, not the meaning. It adds words, changes meaning, and makes "plain language" that is not accessible. We know, because we tested it. Generative AI has no place in plain language. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/07/asan...
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[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
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Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
loom.ly
July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Reposted by Elizabeth Stregger
This guest post by Jay Singley on ACRLog is a must-read.
"In the age of AI, our access to information is not spared from these attacks. We must uncover answers to the questions Safiya Noble, Joy Buolamwini, and others elicit: Who and what is safeguarded through AI tools in discovery searches?"
"In the age of AI, our access to information is not spared from these attacks. We must uncover answers to the questions Safiya Noble, Joy Buolamwini, and others elicit: Who and what is safeguarded through AI tools in discovery searches?"
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
acrlog.org
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This guest post by Jay Singley on ACRLog is a must-read.
"In the age of AI, our access to information is not spared from these attacks. We must uncover answers to the questions Safiya Noble, Joy Buolamwini, and others elicit: Who and what is safeguarded through AI tools in discovery searches?"
"In the age of AI, our access to information is not spared from these attacks. We must uncover answers to the questions Safiya Noble, Joy Buolamwini, and others elicit: Who and what is safeguarded through AI tools in discovery searches?"
Tantramar friends: this has a short environmental consultation period. Sounds like they’re planning info sessions, not consultations… echoing national energy projects.
Read the letter from Atlantic Wildlife Institute linked in this story and join the Zoom on Jul. 21/22
warktimes.com/2025/07/19/m...
Read the letter from Atlantic Wildlife Institute linked in this story and join the Zoom on Jul. 21/22
warktimes.com/2025/07/19/m...
Mayor, MLA, environmental expert question plan for big Tantramar gas plant
Tantramar Mayor Andrew Black says it’s “incredibly unacceptable” that the town was not informed or consulted before NB Power announced construction of a 400 megawatt, natural gas …
warktimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Tantramar friends: this has a short environmental consultation period. Sounds like they’re planning info sessions, not consultations… echoing national energy projects.
Read the letter from Atlantic Wildlife Institute linked in this story and join the Zoom on Jul. 21/22
warktimes.com/2025/07/19/m...
Read the letter from Atlantic Wildlife Institute linked in this story and join the Zoom on Jul. 21/22
warktimes.com/2025/07/19/m...
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Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
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Hey, @arquives.ca is hiring a 2SLGBTQIA+ education consultant to promote the importance of using primary sources to teach history with secondary school educators and others.
Deadline: 20 July 2025
Pay: $35/h, flexible schedule, remote
More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-...
#AcademicSky 🌈🗃️ 🏳️⚧️🗃️
Deadline: 20 July 2025
Pay: $35/h, flexible schedule, remote
More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-...
#AcademicSky 🌈🗃️ 🏳️⚧️🗃️
July 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hey, @arquives.ca is hiring a 2SLGBTQIA+ education consultant to promote the importance of using primary sources to teach history with secondary school educators and others.
Deadline: 20 July 2025
Pay: $35/h, flexible schedule, remote
More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-...
#AcademicSky 🌈🗃️ 🏳️⚧️🗃️
Deadline: 20 July 2025
Pay: $35/h, flexible schedule, remote
More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-...
#AcademicSky 🌈🗃️ 🏳️⚧️🗃️
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Ever feel like your brain just stopped cooperating during perimenopause?
For many women, that’s not just brain fog—it might be undiagnosed ADHD colliding with hormonal shifts.
We're finally starting to connect the dots. It's about time. 🧠✨ vajenda.substack.com/p/adhd-and-m...
For many women, that’s not just brain fog—it might be undiagnosed ADHD colliding with hormonal shifts.
We're finally starting to connect the dots. It's about time. 🧠✨ vajenda.substack.com/p/adhd-and-m...
ADHD and Menopause: What We Know and What We're Learning
A Look at How Hormone Changes Might Be Fueling Cognitive Struggles for Women with ADHD
vajenda.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ever feel like your brain just stopped cooperating during perimenopause?
For many women, that’s not just brain fog—it might be undiagnosed ADHD colliding with hormonal shifts.
We're finally starting to connect the dots. It's about time. 🧠✨ vajenda.substack.com/p/adhd-and-m...
For many women, that’s not just brain fog—it might be undiagnosed ADHD colliding with hormonal shifts.
We're finally starting to connect the dots. It's about time. 🧠✨ vajenda.substack.com/p/adhd-and-m...
“… a Mount Allison professor’s introduction to environmental science winds up as fodder for a fake video criticizing Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan. We talk with environmental scientist Josh Kurek and fake news expert Erin Steuter”
Segment starts at 2:15.
www.chmafm.com/welcome/mt-a...
Segment starts at 2:15.
www.chmafm.com/welcome/mt-a...
Mt A professor's voice ends up in a fake Armenian political video » CHMA
Voice of the Marshes, Campus & Community Radio in Sackville, NB
www.chmafm.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“… a Mount Allison professor’s introduction to environmental science winds up as fodder for a fake video criticizing Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan. We talk with environmental scientist Josh Kurek and fake news expert Erin Steuter”
Segment starts at 2:15.
www.chmafm.com/welcome/mt-a...
Segment starts at 2:15.
www.chmafm.com/welcome/mt-a...
Latest listen: The Book Eaters by @sunyidean.com - best take on vampires I’ve read in ages. Stubborn queer character written and narrated by neurodivergent people…. I know from the interview that it wasn’t written as neurodivergent representation specifically but it resonated.
June 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Latest listen: The Book Eaters by @sunyidean.com - best take on vampires I’ve read in ages. Stubborn queer character written and narrated by neurodivergent people…. I know from the interview that it wasn’t written as neurodivergent representation specifically but it resonated.
My favourite way to knit yellow is in a rainbow, a gradient, or yellow-green. The feeling of light or shifting landscapes.
For #ShowMeYourKnits yellow week, here is a pair of Freddy Beach Socks by @knitsiphappy.bsky.social knit in a one-of-a-kind colour dyed by Lichen and Lace. 🧶
For #ShowMeYourKnits yellow week, here is a pair of Freddy Beach Socks by @knitsiphappy.bsky.social knit in a one-of-a-kind colour dyed by Lichen and Lace. 🧶
June 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My favourite way to knit yellow is in a rainbow, a gradient, or yellow-green. The feeling of light or shifting landscapes.
For #ShowMeYourKnits yellow week, here is a pair of Freddy Beach Socks by @knitsiphappy.bsky.social knit in a one-of-a-kind colour dyed by Lichen and Lace. 🧶
For #ShowMeYourKnits yellow week, here is a pair of Freddy Beach Socks by @knitsiphappy.bsky.social knit in a one-of-a-kind colour dyed by Lichen and Lace. 🧶
Flourish by Curious Handmade was my May sock project. I knit them in @indigodragonfly.bsky.social Good Trouble Sock. I think these are my first orange socks! Gotta fill in the gaps in my sock rainbow. 🌈 🧶
June 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Flourish by Curious Handmade was my May sock project. I knit them in @indigodragonfly.bsky.social Good Trouble Sock. I think these are my first orange socks! Gotta fill in the gaps in my sock rainbow. 🌈 🧶