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From Elon Musk’s Grok declaring itself "MechaHitler" to ChatGPT users spiraling into dangerous delusions, artificial intelligence wreaked havoc with humanity on an unprecedented scale in 2025.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From Elon Musk’s Grok declaring itself "MechaHitler" to ChatGPT users spiraling into dangerous delusions, artificial intelligence wreaked havoc with humanity on an unprecedented scale in 2025.
Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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ICYMI - Check out Emma Hak-Kovacs' article on how academic librarians can support science literacy in undergraduate students.
ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd #Dalhousie #ICYMI
ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd #Dalhousie #ICYMI
Cultivating a science literate society: Academic librarians’ role and approach for promoting science literacy in undergraduate students
| Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management
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ojs.library.dal.ca
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
ICYMI - Check out Emma Hak-Kovacs' article on how academic librarians can support science literacy in undergraduate students.
ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd #Dalhousie #ICYMI
ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd #Dalhousie #ICYMI
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💡New DJIM article: Cultivating a Science Literate Society 💡
Emma Hak-Kovacs explores how academic librarians can help undergrads use scientific information effectively.
Read here: ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #InformationLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd
Emma Hak-Kovacs explores how academic librarians can help undergrads use scientific information effectively.
Read here: ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #InformationLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd
Cultivating a science literate society: Academic librarians’ role and approach for promoting science literacy in undergraduate students
| Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management
...
ojs.library.dal.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
💡New DJIM article: Cultivating a Science Literate Society 💡
Emma Hak-Kovacs explores how academic librarians can help undergrads use scientific information effectively.
Read here: ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #InformationLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd
Emma Hak-Kovacs explores how academic librarians can help undergrads use scientific information effectively.
Read here: ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article...
#ScienceLiteracy #InformationLiteracy #AcademicLibraries #HigherEd
Yay!
The Canada Post strike has delayed the distribution of the fall issue of Best Books for Kids & Teens. While we wait, we are making the digital edition available for all!
Check it out 👉 www.bookcentre.ca/best-books-f...
Check it out 👉 www.bookcentre.ca/best-books-f...
December 5, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Yay!
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Just yesterday, Yale released their findings about Russia extensive kidnapping of Ukrainian kids. My novel, Kidnapped from Ukraine: Under Attack is about that crime. It will be published in January.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Kj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Kj...
Kidnapped from Ukraine#1: Under Attack by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
YouTube video by Scholastic
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December 5, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Both US and Canada now have this fuller synopsis posted on their websites for WRITTEN ON THE DARK so I can share. (I actually hate jacket flap or catalogue copy, but that's another curmudgeon issue!) Release date is last week of May. Pre-orders now up.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783078...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783078...
Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay: 9780593953983 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana, All the Seas of the World, and A Brightness Long Ago comes a sweeping new novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Both US and Canada now have this fuller synopsis posted on their websites for WRITTEN ON THE DARK so I can share. (I actually hate jacket flap or catalogue copy, but that's another curmudgeon issue!) Release date is last week of May. Pre-orders now up.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783078...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783078...
Murphy, our beloved book corner cat, 🐈 welcomes you to Lisa's Book Corner on Bluesky.
Or he would if I hadn't just woken him up for a photo. My bad. Now he's just going to stare judgingly at you.
#bookcorners
#cats
#booksandcats
#welcome
Or he would if I hadn't just woken him up for a photo. My bad. Now he's just going to stare judgingly at you.
#bookcorners
#cats
#booksandcats
#welcome
December 5, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Murphy, our beloved book corner cat, 🐈 welcomes you to Lisa's Book Corner on Bluesky.
Or he would if I hadn't just woken him up for a photo. My bad. Now he's just going to stare judgingly at you.
#bookcorners
#cats
#booksandcats
#welcome
Or he would if I hadn't just woken him up for a photo. My bad. Now he's just going to stare judgingly at you.
#bookcorners
#cats
#booksandcats
#welcome
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I remember reading this when the book came out and thinking "Nah, way too pessimistic".
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 AM
I remember reading this when the book came out and thinking "Nah, way too pessimistic".
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.
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Advertisers want fluff. Citizens need truth.
In his first piece for The Walrus, writer Marc Edge calls for a reset in Canadian journalism, asserting that the future of the industry hinges on what matters most: hard-hitting, investigative reporting. thewalrus.ca/tech-titans-...
In his first piece for The Walrus, writer Marc Edge calls for a reset in Canadian journalism, asserting that the future of the industry hinges on what matters most: hard-hitting, investigative reporting. thewalrus.ca/tech-titans-...
November 29, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Advertisers want fluff. Citizens need truth.
In his first piece for The Walrus, writer Marc Edge calls for a reset in Canadian journalism, asserting that the future of the industry hinges on what matters most: hard-hitting, investigative reporting. thewalrus.ca/tech-titans-...
In his first piece for The Walrus, writer Marc Edge calls for a reset in Canadian journalism, asserting that the future of the industry hinges on what matters most: hard-hitting, investigative reporting. thewalrus.ca/tech-titans-...