Tania Gottschalk

Launch of new version of Cochrane Handbook for Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. Online, open to all. www.cochrane.org/events/previ...

Am I ready to walk away from Meta? I’ve only been hanging for sentimental reasons.

This article is awesome in pointing out the limitations of AI in a way that is completely understandable

Voted but also saluted the salmon

Thanksgiving Town Tour

Amazing Winnipeg! So proud to recognize this amazing person who taught Canada so much. Meegwetch!

Truth

WTG MapQuest! ✊

"Their hydronyms" is a legitimately funny punchline.

Social media trust paradox...👇 "...more than 1 in 5 users still report making health-related decisions based on what they see on these platforms." "Nearly 80% of users believe that health information on social media is false or misleading." medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07...

The Case Against Splitting Up the MMR Vaccine www.stopantivaxpropaganda.org/p/the-case-a...

this is the person to follow and the thread to read to understand all the evidence about Covid vaccines in pregnancy - to sum up - highly protective of mother and baby from covid, no increased risks of miscarriage or stillbirth or premature birth, and covid in pregnancy is bad for mother and baby!

Was fun riding in Cumberland with the bros

Bike lanes aren’t a problem to be solved – they’re how people get around. Cycling lanes need to be treated as transportation infrastructure, not a transportation problem, by @cailynn.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Interesting research on the health care and fiscal costs of hot days. Amazing use of Scrubs gifs.

When it comes to designing cities for biking and walking, Ghent Belgium may still not be as well known as Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Paris yet, but it’s one of the most inspiring cities in the world. I was honoured to do some work with them in 2019. Watch @streetfilms.bsky.social’s fantastic video:

[Blogged] AI Search Is Rebundling Everything Libraries Know About Discovery Ten established traditions, an emerging eleventh, and why libraries need to have a more holistic view of discovery aarontay.substack.com/p/eleven-way...

Very good summation @ndarney.bsky.social www.noaharney.com/the-cost-pro...

So in case you were wondering, one of the reasons Alberta wants to separate is because they want to be smol 🫤https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/drumheller-separatism-debate-9.7261829

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Thread worth reading

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Every day is a great day to support your local library.

Good thread

🚴‍♀️ GoByBike Week is rolling! Join the community for a week of riding, connecting, and celebrating healthy, sustainable transportation. Whether you're commuting, cruising, or rolling on any set of wheels, every trip counts.

'In the Oumi analysis, Gemini 2 provided answers that were “ungrounded” 37 percent of the time, meaning the AI Overviews cited websites that didn’t support the information they provided. But with Gemini 3, this jumped to 56 percent.' futurism.com/artificial-i...

How many more studies does your city need proving that people on bikes and on foot spend more on shopping streets than people in cars? Bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth

Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.

I wish this applied to all trans Americans and I suppose trans UK citizens as well now. Protections for gender identity and expression were added to the Canadian Human Rights Act in 2017 and the sky remains in place.

What you need to know about red eyes. #TheDoseCBC www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

Astalavista Google, it was nice knowing you.

Polluting our knowledge base...👇 AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... YEP: "If you introduce an infinite paper-writing machine to a system that defines productivity by the number of papers written, people will use it..."

Midi Health’s cure for structural oppression is a supplement. Why their cortisol support supplement is shit. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

For the after work crowd — I would especially love to see more signatories from the special teaching universities and the colleges. I am feeling my decreased reach since we all did a post-Twitter scatter, so please help me share if you’re in support.

Our new study explored how well various AI chatbots responded to health questions on various topics. Sum: not great. Nearly half (49.6%) of responses were problematic. See study: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4... via @bmj.com

"3,827 pedestrians and cyclists are injured in BC every year, and most of those crashes occur at intersections"

How do publishers extract money, free labor, and data from universities? Read it in this open-access blog: socialsciencespace.com/2026/04/how-... Based on chapter 9 of this open-access book: doi.org/10.66742/VPY...

🚨 Great analysis of 21 harmful LIES by RFK Jr makingsciencemakesense.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-ask... by @jessicamalaty.bsky.social @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social SUM: LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE!

NEEDED to support Diamond OA in Oz - theconversation.com/so-much-rese... *unis recognise editor work in workload models *funding bodies incl the ARC introduce direct support for diamond *research assessment policies stop favouring international prestige *uni libraries coordinate efforts to support

🚨 The dangerous #peptide trend? Wellness influencers. 🚨 Health Canada warned against buying peptides online. CBC News easily bought some www.cbc.ca/news/health/... "...limited evidence of safety and risks that include hormonal imbalances, the growth of cancerous tumours, & liver or kidney damage."

THORNY: "we inhabit a continually shifting, lawless terrain, where ethics and integrity are at constant risk of being sacrificed for the benefit of productivity and commodity. The onus falls to us—the publisher—to put in place guidance on the acceptable and responsible use of generative AI"

Good piece. “If your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”

Museum Day in València

Go science! Go art! #steam #stem

Random València on a Wednesday

Universities are the cash cow of publishers like Elsevier. Universities pay with: 1) money, 2) free labor, 3) data. But this can change! Read how we can fix this in our open-access book Fixing Academia (chapter 9): fixingacademia.wordpress.com/chapter-9/.