Joshua Chalifour @jc@scholar.social
Digital Scholarship #Librarian for Concordia University, Montréal. Exploring the junctions of physical and digital information ecosystems. http://chalifour.org
Not that I'd advocate promoting information literacy through sarcasm.
Showing how social media use links to mental illness, The Economist reported on a study from the Royal Society for Public Health (UK).
Since #Mastodon wasn't listed among the culprits, it must be ok! 😉
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How Philosophy Makes Progress:
http://dailynous.com/2018/05/27/how-philosophy-makes-progress-agnes-callard/
I especially liked this bit:
"Philosophy, by contrast, is bitter, and we want to know what good it will do us, and when, finally, it will be over. It is not pleasant to be told that maybe you don’t know who you are, or how to treat your friends, or how to be happy. It’s not pleasant to have it pointed out to you that maybe nothing you have ever done matters, or that, for all you know, there is nothing out there at all."
#hnefatafl was an abstract strategy board game that Vikings loved. I hadn't been aware of it until reading this interesting Atlas Obscura article on its history (check it out, worth the read) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-hnefatafl-viking-board-game
Of course, BoardGameGeek has more info https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2932/hnefatafl
I just read about this library services platform #FOSS project called FOLIO. Looks promising! https://opensource.com/article/18/6/folio and their site is here https://www.folio.org
Without knowing anything about Hannah Gadsby, I just watched her show "Nanette" and it's possible that I've never seen as masterful a work of stand-up "comedy". It transcended a stand-up routine and I'm not quite sure how to immediately describe it. It certainly gave me some new paths of understanding on LGBTQ and women's issues. But I think that alone would be too restrictive a description for all that she conveyed. Look it up, it's stunning. Everyone should see it.
This article about the utility of literature reviews (in a science context) offers some provoking thoughts about cumulative literature reviews (CLR). #litreview
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/06/19/to-save-the-research-literature-lets-make-literature-reviews-reproducible/
I love Arundhati Roy's writing and this article in the Guardian has her asking if the novel can be a city, which is a complex and multi-faceted way of conceiving it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/17/arundhati-roy-interview-you-ask-the-questions-the-point-of-the-writer-is-to-be-unpopular
💬« Mettre notre liberté d’expression dans les mains de robots » Qwant s'exprime sur la proposition de la Commission européenne d’une Directive sur le droit d’auteur dans le Marché Unique du Numérique. https://blog.qwant.com/fr/proteger-le-droit-dauteur-avec-des-robots-un-risque-pour-les-droits-et-libertes-fondamentaux/
@bgcarlisle during our last discussion of the Librarian Research Institute, the topic came up of how to stay connected (people wondering about setting up groups on LinkedIn, hesitant over Facebook)... so... of course, I plugged scholar.social (and Mastodon) as ways to connect with each other and other researchers. Maybe some of those ~30 people will try it out now.
I've been participating in an all-week long CARL #librarian research institute, which has been a super way to bring back to mind important considerations in the research process and reflect on my questions. It's been eye-opening too, to see how much the attitudes involving librarian research vary from institution to institution. #lri2018irb
Mnemonic techniques... mentions a variety from different cultures https://aeon.co/ideas/this-ancient-mnemonic-technique-builds-a-palace-of-memory
I enjoyed this read "How Digital Archives Delete the Human Experience" though I'm not sure its resolution gave us fully what the title promised. I also appreciate that it touched on digital preservation/access issues being regularly dealt with, but in an approachable way for a popular audience. https://thewalrus.ca/how-digital-archives-delete-the-human-experience/
This study trained bees to recognize the value of less than 1 so this article says bees understand 0. It's the first time for an invertebrate insect. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/study-suggests-honeybees-have-zero-knowledge-1.4695906
Great Mordecai Richler display at the Concordia #Library right now! It includes items from our special collections and I especially like that it includes his #typewriters! https://library.concordia.ca/about/news/#guid=http://library.concordia.ca/about/news/#i06_June_2018_11:00:14_EST (more here: https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/english/research/mordecai-richler-reading-room.html)
The impending sale of GitHub to Microsoft is another example of what happens when we fixate on #opensource IP but not equitable corporate ownership models. How *should* the repository of most free, open software projects be owned?
Les #échecs, un jeu excellent pour la santé: "La longévité des joueurs d’échecs serait identique à celle des athlètes physiques et bien meilleure que celle de la population générale, avec une espérance de vie en moyenne de sept ans plus élevée"
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2018/05/30/les-echecs-un-sport-qui-conserve_5306665_1650684.html (payant)
It was our last day for our True North Science Boot Camp 2018 #TNSBC18 & we heard about developing a data visualization application for DNA from my colleague Tomasz Neugebauer, University of Rhode Island's library's new AI lab, U of Alberta's great ScienceLiteracyWeek collaborations, and it ended with a super talk w/ Concordia's Jeremy Clark on "Bitcoin & Blockchain: Landscape & Future Directions". I really enjoyed getting to hear about work from such a broad variety of subjects and disciplines.
today, we're at McGill university, starting with Nitika Pai and her HIV self testing app, then Najmeh Khalili-Mahani on a game clinic for stress prevention, and Catherine Guastavino on urban noise management.
