Guillaume Pasquier

i think everyone can benefit from therapy. but if you arent ready to take that step yet, this 2 hour podcast could still be quite a cathartic release for you. highly recommend.

Écrire fâchimse ? 😅

This is Literally the Job Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.

"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised."

Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.

Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

Petit guide d'autodéfense contre l'extrême droite à usage des libraires.
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#résilienceinformationnelle
#librairies

UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point - LSE Impact Data collected on UK universities’ use of social media shows academic engagement with X is at a tipping point with more institutions off the platform than on.

👀ICYMI: "What is clear from my data is that many of those who set up elsewhere on Bluesky, Threads and in very rare cases, Mastodon, did so in a half-baked fashion."

✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them. The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.

In 2023 we showed in a PNAS article that AI can very effectively adapt to humans' folk theories about what is AI writing and be "more human than human" @mjakesch.bsky.social

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n...

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

I'm still surprised by anyone who defends Trump's tariff policy.

That's a good one

OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense

JC Staff, c'est les mêmes qui ont fait One Punch Man saison 3 ? 😬😬😬

Y'a des gens qui croient ça ? Après tout ce temps ? Genre au XXe siècle je veux bien mais maintenant ?

Panel One. Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books" Dog-walker "Really?" Panel Two. Front, becoming agitated "It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!" Panel Three. Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?" Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped."

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

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The Librarians Film | Official Site Librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting on the frontlines of democracy

J'ai une place à donner pour voir "The Librarians" à Montbenon (Lausanne) ce soir. Je tousse tellement que je ruinerais la séance des autres même avec un masque.
thelibrariansfilm.com

Je fais pareil. C'est pas compliqué de se mettre de côté jusqu'à ce que les gens soient sortis.

Une manifestation d’extrême droite ouvertement raciste (c’est un délit) dont des éditions précédentes avaient engendré des heurts et des violences qui n’est pas interdite par le Préfet.
Et qui mobilise des effectifs de police (nos impôts) pour les « protéger » d’éventuelles réactions…

Mario kart justifie l'achat de n'importe quelle console Nintendo.

"Unfortunately, no library schools apparently include a curricular unit on 'Denying Wrongful Authority.'"

Thanks to @zinelib.bsky.social for this perfect interview with/by Sandy Berman.

lowereastsidelibrarian.info/interviews/s...

Yes, and the whole "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence" aka Hanlon's razor doesn't apply to things like white supremacy, patriarchy, etc. These systems need constant top down fascistic control. modelthinkers.com/mental-model...

This is Not Fine | The Nib This is Fine Dog speaks out in a world gone mad.

I prefer the follow-up thenib.com/this-is-not-...

Même sans menace, rien que savoir qu'une personne avec qui je suis en conflit possède une arme à feu me met très mal à l'aise. Je n'imagine même pas le sentiment quand il y a effectivement menace.

Les gens qui se plaignaient que le wokisme allait empêcher l’enseignement de la culture classique et notamment de l’antiquité sont en train d’empêcher l’enseignement de la culture classique pour lutter contre le wokisme.

The Rise of AI-Generated Fake Journals in Scholarly Research Explore the rise of 'imaginary journals' and AI's impact on scholarly communications, disrupting research norms and challenging authenticity.

The Rise of AI-Generated Fake Journals in Scholarly Research blog.cabells.com/2026/01/07/l...

YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Everything Was Already AI

NEW VIDEO: Everything Was Already AI youtu.be/Km2bn0HvUwg

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

These people never cared about "saving Western civilization"-which they know little and care less about.

The only thing they understand is WesternCivTM

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Why Fascists Always Come for the Socialists First Contrary to right-wing myths that the "Nazis were socialist," fascists despise socialism and want to destroy it. Here's why the left poses such a threat to them.

Leftists often misunderstand the right, this is something I've been thinking about a lot recently and @mattpolprof.bsky.social has nailed it www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...

Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen Todd Carpenter looks back on the past quarter century of a digital revolution in scholarly publishing

Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/08/h...

5 things for University Librarians to think about when exiting a Read and Public agreement The landscape of UK higher education has recently shifted, with news that terms have been agreed with five major academic publishers via Jisc negotiations. While some might be tempted to view this as a "done deal," another perspective would describe it as a pragmatic reflection from the sector that further negotiation on terms is simply no longer possible. The harsh reality is that, given the severe financial challenges facing the sector, many of these agreements will remain fundamentally unaffordable for many institutions.

It's a nightmare scenario for a Library

You likely don't want to leave a huge Read and Publish deal, it's complex & very messy

But you won't always get to choose. If you HAVE to do it, here are some tips from someone who has been there (Happy New Year btw)...