Amanda Ross-White

ACAB, but some are more than most

A woman in a sunglasses and sunhat in Lake Ontario

Hot day at work, so I went for a swim. #medlibs #canmedlibs

A rundown of how major Canadian news outlets headlined the IDF killing Al Jazeera journalists (and which wire service they used):

CBC News: Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif among journalists killed in Israeli strike (Thomson Reuters)

The weird Dulles cousin would hang out at the Georgetown branch of the DCPL. Arrest him for loitering!

Good morning to the new cohort of Health Professions Education students @queensuhealth.bsky.social ! Can't wait to talk to you about the importance of a scholarly practice and why evidence matters. Or why we look at peer reviewed research and not some dipshit on Twitter for advice!

DC doesn't have the ability to fight back. This is about intimidating federal workers and their families and warning other cities about what will happen.

Welp, we’ll be seeing lots of DUI charges and new pickups in town

The cruelty is the point

And yet, you were absolutely fucking silent in the provincial elections in Ontario earlier this year.

Can someone explain why @mark-carney.bsky.social hasn’t announced Canada will invest and support new vaccine development?

I learned to drive on the ‘84 model. And even won the Hottest Lap award at Dice on Ice

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Being optimistic in these times is a challenge, but if you are a #librarian working in #healthsciences or #medlibs and want to either volunteer to be a promotion letter writer OR find librarians to do this for you, please take a look at this project: osf.io/e7mb2/

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Missing Bike Alert: Gray Norco Help find this missing bike!

Hey, hey #ygk if you have seen my stolen grey Norco, I want it back: project529.com/garage/bikes...

Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel

Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel theonion.com/orlando...

I respect him more than Katy Perry… or at least I used to.

MSG is bad. Came from one clearly racist letter to the editor in a reputable journal.

But meritocracy!

I’m a neurologist. My brother has schizophrenia. I support making involuntary commitment easier “We don’t hesitate to treat a stroke patient who denies their deficits. Psychiatry must be granted the same clarity and the same clinical urgency," writes a neurologist whose brother has schizophrenia...

Trump won't do anything good about mental health, but agree our current system doesn't work. What this misses is that the 80s end of institutionalization was predicated on family (read: women) staying home and providing care www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... via @statnews.com

Why Women Are Weary of the Emotional Labor of ‘Mankeeping’

So there’s a word for what I’ve been doing all these years!!!

#MomSky

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

They would be 18 in September. This reads like how I felt too. How I still sometimes feel.

Canadian print media...notice anything odd?

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Don't think this issue is unique to Montreal

“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...

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.

And the blocking of content…

This thread following the FDA panel on antidepressants in pregnancy is wild. And, I actually know a thing or two about the topic. SSRIs are safe. In pregnancy. While breastfeeding. They've been used for over 30 years.

We are failing the most vulnerable in our society.

Imagine that. Female dominated labour isn't valuable.

We need THE and others to include peer review to rankings, because that's the only thing universities care about.

They are a pain in the ass when you’re an executor of a will. The number of times they expected my elderly mother to drive to a specific TD branch 3 hours away just to sign some shit.