Confessions of a Science Librarian

ScienceBlogs is no more: Confessions of a Science Librarian is moving As of November 1st, 2017, ScienceBlogs is shutting down, necessitating relocation of this blog. It's been over eight year...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/10/31/scienceblogs-is-no-more-confessions-of-a-science-librarian-is-moving

Science in Canada: Save PEARL, The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory Deja vu all over again. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Canadian science under the Ha...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/09/26/science-in-canada-save-pearl-the-polar-environment-atmospheric-research-laboratory

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters The last one of these was in mid-June , so we're picking up all the summer stori...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/09/11/the-trump-war-on-science-daring-blindness-denying-climate-change-destroying-the-epa-and-other-daily-disasters

Friday Fun: Is Game of Thrones an allegory for global climate change? After a bit of an unexpected summer hiatus, I'm back to regular blogging, at least as regular as it's been the last year or...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/08/18/friday-fun-is-game-of-thrones-an-allegory-for-global-climate-change

The Trump War on Science: EPA budget cuts, More on climate change, The war on wildlife and other recent stories Another couple of weeks' worth of stories about how science is faring under the D...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/06/16/the-trump-war-on-science-epa-budget-cuts-more-on-climate-change-the-war-on-wildlife-and-other-recent-stories

Around the Web: A quick list of readings on "predatory" open access journals As a kind of quick follow up to my long ago post on Some perspective on “predatory” open access journals (prese...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/06/13/around-the-web-a-quick-list-of-readings-on-predatory-open-access-journals

The Donald Trump War on Science: Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement and other recent stories For people who are wondering why I'm not doing more of my patented chronologies or collectio...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/05/31/the-donald-trump-war-on-science-pulling-out-of-the-paris-climate-agreement-and-other-recent-stories

Job posting: Physical Sciences Librarian and Head of Steacie Science and Engineering Library, York University, Toronto Come work with me! Be my department head! Here's the full posting : >�...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/05/02/job-posting-physical-sciences-librarian-and-head-of-steacie-science-and-engineering-library-york-university-toronto

Friday Fun: Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary Like with La La Land a few months back , here we have a jazz-themed documentary that I haven't seen yet but have read an awful lot about...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/04/28/friday-fun-chasing-trane-the-john-coltrane-documentary

My remarks at the Toronto March for Science Many thanks to the organizers of this past weekend's March on Science here in Toronto . They invited me to be part of the amazing roster of speakers ...

https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2017/04/24/my-remarks-at-the-toronto-march-for-science