Tania Gottschalk 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat “Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat www.science.org/content/arti...

"More than 130 citations in 4 years." Meow, Larry!

Oh wait. “All you have to do is put some fake papers on ResearchGate.” And buy citations.

Critical: Let's clean up research!

Addressing the Challenges of Online Misinformation and... : Obstetrics & Gynecology ices that are unsupported by the literature and guidelines or, in some cases, harmful. Health care professionals committed to evidence-based medicine should be aware of myths and misleading menopause-...

Addressing the challenges of misinformation about menopause. My article was just published in the Green Journal, who have made it free for all to read! journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

The Netflix series is great

Half a billion dollars to be spent on Montreal road repairs this year, officials say - Montreal | Globalnews.ca Maja Vodanovic, who sits on Montreal's executive committee, says the city is trying to get as much work done this year as possible but it will take years to complete.

True. But the quality of the concrete used to build the freeways was terrible and they have to spend beaucoup bucks to make them safe www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Oui but also non. Cosmopolitan, historical yes. But also kinda ugly in some parts and you could not pay me to drive on their freeways

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...

190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!

We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Did you know that Riverside Park is the only designated river swimming area in Kamloops?
The safest time to swim here is when a lifeguard is on duty. 👇

Omg

Unbelievable…

You can go back to the old model where the journals are owned by universities and scholarly societies. Its easy enough now to publish an open access journal provided you have committed faculty or society membership. Why are we signing away content to Elsevier or other fat cat publishers?????

Yes....

I would add…ensuring none of them is allowed to display a 🇨🇦 flag of any form

New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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Marmot furever!

@in-otter-news.bsky.social Otters furever!

The University of Winnipeg is launching a first-of-its-kind course that will introduce undergraduate students to classics, religion and Indigenous studies all at once.

Late to this one, but Huang's conceptualization of AI literacy should make clear the term has been captured by the AI industry and its continued use should raise questions for educators about how AI literacy is being defined and, perhaps more importantly, by whom and for what ends.

I ❤️ this for you!

Very helpful

German Cucumber Salad Recipe German Cucumber Salad is a refreshing summer salad made with simple ingredients! This easy recipe is perfect for a potluck, family dinner, & summer cookout.

Make it with a nice Gurkensalat and some bratwurst. Also don’t forget the Currywurst. If you are going brats, my favorite is Weiss wurst. Helmuts Sausage Kitchen in Vernon makes a lovely version. platedcravings.com/german-cucum...

It’s the German way!

It’s a good message. But this picture has a cedar in it and we’ve been repeatedly told by the fire department not to plant these

Yes

Time to tackle “car brain”

Springer Nature to retract machine learning book following Retraction Watch coverage A screenshot from June 26 shows the book had been accessed 3,782 times. Springer Nature is retracting a book on machine learning that had multiple references to works that do not exist, Retraction …

Springer Nature to retract machine learning book following Retraction Watch coverage

The move comes two weeks after we reported on the book’s fake references.

Time line cleanse. Waiting out a thunderstorm on Sheridan Lake, BC