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Pascal
@pascaliensis.bsky.social
Bayesian librarian & attribution historian
Boolean engineering since 1995
P&RP my own : about citation, information literacy & tabletop role-playing games
«Citez-vous les uns les autres»
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Almost 50 Years of Academic Research on Tabletop Role-Playing Games: Historical Evolution and Bibliometric Analysis
pmartinolli.github.io/JDR50bibliom...
#TTRPG #Quarto #RStudio #Bibliometrics
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Bingo critique de l'utilisation de l'IAg pour repérer des documents avec les outils spécialisés tels que Asta, Elicit, SciSpace, Consensus, Undermind, Liner, Keenious, Futurehouse,etc.

On ne perd pas son jugement et on repère les limites de ces outils! boite-outils.bib.umontreal.ca/ld.php?conte...
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Vous vous souvenez des intimidations d'Erwan Seznec contre un bénévole de #Wikipédia, début 2025 ?

Saisi, le @cdjm.org vient de rendre un avis : « le recours à des menaces de divulgation d’informations confidentielles […] caractérise une méthode déloyale et une intention de nuire. »
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire

go.nature.com/4qMYGRw
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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How influential is Apocalypse World?

This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.)

www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The first photo of my new book, courtesy of my editor... "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" comes out in early December! Feel free to pre-order it today! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Bingo critique de l'utilisation de l'IAg pour repérer des documents avec les outils spécialisés tels que Asta, Elicit, SciSpace, Consensus, Undermind, Liner, Keenious, Futurehouse,etc.

On ne perd pas son jugement et on repère les limites de ces outils! boite-outils.bib.umontreal.ca/ld.php?conte...
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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My latest piece, on open access and scholarly publishing - revealing my inner fangirl to the world in the process (you are not shocked, I know) 📚 #AcademicSky
How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing
Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.
katinamagazine.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Drew up a poster for what was probably my favorite movie at age 6: the Rankin-Bass/Topcraft animated feature FLIGHT OF DRAGONS
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Plein de ressources intéressantes et instructives à découvrir parmi la documentation en Français de la Journée Libre ABC sur les softwares en licence libre pour les bibliothèques et archives. Notamment sur #zotero #opensource #freesoftware

libreabc.ch/programme
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Instead of reading Elon Musk's BAD analysis of LOTR, why don't you read my GOOD analysis, in which I expand on some @bretdevereaux.bsky.social thoughts about how systems of magic and morality work in Middle-earth, and how they're essentially the same thing.
Intention Matters: The Magic of Middle-earth
Credit: Aronja-Art Today I want to talk about how magic works in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and associated legendarium, as well as how systems of morality and values function …
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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PaperAsk: A Benchmark for Reliability Evaluation of LLMs in Paper Search and Reading | arXiv prepint
Test de fiabilité d' #AIGenerative
#LLM pour la recherche de publications scientifiques
Guess what ? "missing over 60% of relevant literature"
PaperAsk: A Benchmark for Reliability Evaluation of LLMs in Paper Search and Reading
Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as research assistants, yet their reliability in scholarly tasks remains under-evaluated. In this work, we introduce PaperAsk, a benchmark that systemat...
arxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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GM Tip:
Narrate failures through the competence of the PCs against a hazardous world.

They're a skilled thief, but the trap is rusted.
They have a glib tongue, but the guard is already being coerced.
They're strong, but even a giant couldn't lift this portcullis.
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books
Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books
Hermann/Pixabay Following our coverage this summer of a book with citations that did not exist, we asked you to send us examples of other books with similar issues. One reader took the request as a…
retractionwatch.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Transparency makes @wikipedia.org one of the most trusted sources of information on the internet.

From History tabs tracking every edit to Talk pages revealing editors’ discussions, Wikipedia runs on consensus decision-making that is visible to everyone.

Learn more ➡️ medium.com/freely-shari...
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ICYMI un épisode où il est question de fausses chartes, de fausses reliques, de faux titres de noblesse, et bien sûr de faux testaments et faux jugements faussement scellés (Robert D’Artois represent)

youtu.be/XELxxFeBkfE?...
407. Vraies histoires de faux, avec Nicolas Sarzeaud
YouTube video by Paroles d'histoire
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Document Forgery

xkcd.com/3160/
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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1) At last! Having submitted last April, the gears of academic publishing have finally ground round and my article on Twilight: 2000 in the Journal of American Studies is now available! And it's open access, so anyone can engage with it!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces
www.cambridge.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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🧵 1/
🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Black Sessions
Durant des années, le rock, le soir sur France Inter, c'était Lenoir. Et les concerts au studio 105 des plus grands noms de la scène pop et rock. Les fameuses Black Sessions.
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Black Sessions : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Inter
Durant des années, le rock, le soir sur France Inter, c'était Lenoir. Et les concerts au studio 105 des plus grands noms de la scène pop et rock. Les fameuses Black Sessions.
www.radiofrance.fr
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Il aura fallu presque deux ans de travail pour produire cet essai titanesque autour du chef-d’œuvre de Frank Herbert.

Appliquée et sérieuse, cette vidéo est la plus aboutie visuellement du YouTube francophone sur Dune.

Bravo La Séance de Marty !

Lien : www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NQB...
September 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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En 1966, à 21 ans, elle arrive à Saigon, seule, un Leica à la main et 100 dollars en poche. Catherine Leroy veut "être proche de l’histoire et la comprendre". Elle impose son regard sur le front des conflits, avant d’être oubliée.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/DEK
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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How can Wikidata support collaborative and interoperable epigraphic editions? Join us Nov 11, 2025 at the Institute of Classical Studies (or online) for Recording Inscriptions: Epigraphic Editions and Wikidata!
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata
ics.sas.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM