Genevieve Gore

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.

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

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

"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...

'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

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.

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-...

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.

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

Dr Cindy Blackstock

www.cbc.ca/documentarie...

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.

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.'

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

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

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...

And great news! This CRA survey on making it easier and cheaper to file income tax returns was actually **easy** to fill in

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

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...

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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...

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."

FYI

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

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)

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

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!

“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?”

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.

Un député libéral mêlé au divorce entre McGill et son association étudiante – Pivot Anthony Housefather, connu pour ses positions sionistes, a fait pression auprès de l’administration contre une grève en soutien à la Palestine portée par l’association.

Enfin, notre enquête a révélé qu'Anthony Housefather a aussi fait pression auprès de l’administration contre une grève en soutien à la Palestine portée par l’association.

👉 pivot.quebec/2025/06...

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)