Joshua Chalifour @jc@scholar.social

Listen, let's make less noise and allow for the natural ambient sounds of our world https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/12/news/listening-silence-why-we-must-protect-worlds-quiet-places

Statement from the Concordia Library (where I work) condemning anti-Black racism. It also includes a few links to relevant resources. https://library.concordia.ca/about/news/#guid=https://library.concordia.ca/about/news/#i09_Jun_2020_12:43:12_EST #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterMontreal

There are 14 riddles/clues (seedlings) on this LibraryThing Seedling Hunt page. Take a look and try to search the site to find what they correspond to. https://librarything.com/hunt.php?y=2020 -- just for fun.

I don't like to link to Twitter but it seems to be where the author posted the back story to this article. https://twitter.com/evornithology/status/1224775369783435264

Predatory publishers serve an important role. They can brighten your day. https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/SJRR.MS.ID.000540.pdf

Article on experts' awareness of their own expertise and its limits or expression thereof in public discourse.

https://behavioralscientist.org/epistemic-humility-coronavirus-knowing-your-limits-in-a-pandemic/

"Epistemic humility is an intellectual virtue. It is grounded in the realization that our knowledge is always provisional and incomplete—and that it might require revision in light of new evidence."

Here is a nice list of tools that are free (libre) alternatives to conferencing/communcating applications like Zoom
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch

Just noticed that the Concordia (where I work) University's Centre for Teaching and Learning has put up a variety of alternate suggestions for faculty that had originally planned proctored exams https://concordia.ca/offices/ctl/moving-courses-online/transition/online-assessment.html - nice resource to consider.

Some privacy concerns about online test proctoring/invigilating are obvious on the surface and maybe can be mitigated but this article goes into much deeper problems that I haven't seen as much discussion of. This is an important read right now! https://hybridpedagogy.org/our-bodies-encoded-algorithmic-test-proctoring-in-higher-education/

Students (or anyone), in a situation where you need to do more deep reading on a screen right now than normal... it might be a struggle. This Reddit thread has some good tips to help: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/frac5o/how_do_you_manage_to_read_deeply_from_a_screen/

There is a large, open dataset of #COVID19 research made available by the Allen Institute for AI. Here's the link for background info on the data and how to get it: https://pages.semanticscholar.org/coronavirus-research (CORD-19)

Pleasant

Amateur des efforts de Paul Otlet ? peut-être la visioconférence et lnternet? en 1934 https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/les-origines-de-l-internet-en-europe/QQ-RRh0A?hl=fr

Beware of #COVID_19 misinformation. Discern authoritative sources... reputable medical, scientific, or with dedication to public well-being, etc. Such as the World Health Organization page busting myths: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters or the Canadian gov page https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html

It's time to choose our national lichen! Go vote, Canada. Info is here https://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-news/news/press-releases/vote-national-lichen-project-led-canadian-museum-nature-rai and vote here: http://nature.ca/lichenvote