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Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads.

open source software available in public repositories targeted through supply-chain attacks .... "repositories that haven’t yet made MFA mandatory should do so in the near future." arstechnica.com/security/202...

@katjathieme.bsky.social

"we work on ourselves in order to help others but also we help others in order to work on ourselves" - Pema Chödrön (LOVE this quote!!)

New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky

rdcu.be/etk07

The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +

Theme — International Open Access Week

OA week theme announced: "Who owns our knowledge?"
@sparcopen.bsky.social

www.openaccessweek.org/theme

I'm really interested in keeping track of this. Comparing papers on Google as a search engine (and the politics of search engines in general) and the moment we are in now with AI is on my overlong list of topics to explore...

Right? Cuing up giltrow and my meta-genre texts for reading + digestion... But first, closing out the socio-rhetorics + failures manuscript! So close!!

@katjathieme.bsky.social -- chatting with Sara Doody (a genius when it comes to RGS / RGT and meta-genre) more in the hopes of figuring out who writes in the RGS world in support for or against "the" essay as genre -- anyway, the essay as META-GENRE (coordinating discourses) is sthg we shd consider

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Oh, freeing us up to focus on the "actual" creative parts, you say... Huh.

I am an expert in writing studies and (dare I say) socio-rhetorical theories of genre, and I have no idea what a "formal essay" is beyond a piece, likely of writing, that is maybe (?) longer in form? (So looking forward to troubling this with you, Katja!)

10000% yes

How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books? As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...

"How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?"

Read the article on the Katina Magazine by Lucy Barnes, Iva Melinscak Zlodi, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and Niels Stern: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

@alittleroad.bsky.social

@nielsstern.bsky.social

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I continue to reflect on a tension I'm experiencing between the ideas I have re: protection v. policing. All signs currently point to this tension not resolving anytime soon. I think it's a good thing...

Kanehsatake 35 years later: Remembering the day Canada sent in the military to violently clear Mohawk land for a golf course The 1990 siege marked a nationwide turning point in Indigenous resistance — now there’s a new threat to the sacred Pines

Remembering Kanehsatake ✊🏼
ricochet.media/indigenous/l...

FRANÇAIS: ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/l-etat-de-la...

ENGLISH: ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/the-state-of...

Really excited to share this policy guide on research security in Canada, written by @aaronmauro.bsky.social!!
It's a topic that I didn't know I needed to know more about (& I got to edit it!). Available on the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory in ENGLISH and FRENCH...Links in thread below

We are joining @migrantrightsca.bsky.social and 200 organizations in calling on Prime Minister Carney to withdraw Bill C-2.

If passed, it gives the cabinet the authority to ramp up deportations “en masse,” violate people’s rights to due process, and expand surveillance powers. It must be rejected.

Coming soon to Canadiana. Digitized editiions of Wayves Magazine in collaboration with Dalhousie University.

🏳️‍🌈 This #PrideMonth, we’re thrilled to share that CRKN and Dalhousie U are teaming up to preserve Atlantic Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ history!

281 digitized editions of Wayves magazine (1983–2012) will soon be available on Canadiana, capturing decades of queer voices.

Stay tuned & happy Pride! 🌈

Congrats Team @federationhss.ca on such a vibrant (and HUGE) gathering!!

Looking forward to digging in 🪏🌱

Action Plan for Open Repositories in Europe: IMPACT-REPO March 12, 2025 – Today, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR are publishing a plan of action to strengthen and future-proof research repositories in Europe.  A robust repository netwo…

Don't miss our recently published "Action Plan for Open Repositories in Europe: IMPACT-REPO" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... It outlines what repositories need to do in the coming years to take them to the next level. Thanks @libereurope.bsky.social @sparc-eu.bsky.social @openaire.bsky.social

Seeking Buddha in Gaza As a Buddhist and a Jew, Linda Hess considers how to respond with wisdom and compassion to the violence inflicted on the people of Gaza and the rage she feels about it. Paintings by Malak Mattar.

"May I know that my peace and the world’s peace are not separate; that our peace in the world is a result of our work for justice.” 🕊️
www.lionsroar.com/seeking-budd...

Text reads: Generative AI, LLMs, and Knowledge Structures. Featured event. June 1, 10:30 - 12:00. Logo of INKE and Congress 2025. | Le texte lit : L'IA générative les grands modèles de langage et les structures de connaissances. Événement spécial. Logo d'INKE et du Congrès 2025.

First Featured event at #congressh at @gbcollege.bsky.social! Presented by the Federation and Implementing New Knowledge Environments, this panel explores the evolving relationship between commercial platforms, generative AI, and digital public knowledge infrastructures.

🔗 ow.ly/oQVQ50VOLmA

This is a more useful, more research-grounded piece about AI and education.

Gah... Feeling the feels for my US based colleagues and Canadian ones with US based funding right now. What a gong show. 🤬

Thank you so much to the @eff.org for this amazing conversation, and for all of your ongoing support for Digital Defense Fund as we meet the tech security needs within and beyond the abortion access movement!