"I want to talk about the way that the survival of the AI industry depends upon you, the generation coming of age right now, agreeing with them that you have essentially no say in your own future."
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The republican majority is terrified by the non-existent specter of a 'woke,' 'leftist,' 'brainwashing' boogeyman in higher ed and this is their pathetic intrusion under the guise of civility & viewpoint diversity, things already present on college campuses for anyone who'd bother to look
Screenshot of course listing for course entitled 'Explorers and Conquerors'
Seriously? Do we really need to glorify expansionism and imperial conquest at the present moment? More course listings if you can stomach it at www.wcwvu.org/courses
Screenshot of course listing for "The Last Men: Liberalism & the Death of Masculinity"
Actual new course being offered by wvu's new 'civic center' that was mandated by our conservative legislature, forced on us, and entirely unwanted by the majority of wvu faculty, students, and even administrators.
Some people should never have access to students.
“AI requires no ramp-ups, no meetings, and absolutely no emotional support…The issue is not whether my students are valuable. In long run, they are invaluable. The issue is that their value emerges slowly, whereas AI delivers immediate returns.”
There isn't enough literacy training in the world to counter this level of social violence
The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google.
The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google.
Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/google...
Try Anna Ferris & Jenn Monnin's "Systematic Review(ish) Assignments" workshop materials: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
They have a list of scaffolded assignment ideas here: osf.io/gphyr/wiki?w...
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
University administration has been so busy convincing people over the years that “shared governance“ equals information sharing. It doesn’t! It means shared decision making.
Bless her heart. She's never checked out a book from a library, has she?
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the agency’s new grant guidelines could fund projects that encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
I need faculty to get on board with helping residents, post docs, phd students, masters students etc understand that you can only do a systematic review in less than 6 months if (a) there's only a tiny amount of evidence and (b) you're not doing anything else for those 6 months.
I have also had recent experiences of references being called prior to 2nd interview and not being put up after the full interview day despite being an institution with big $. The lack of candidate care was a big factor in declining the offer (privileged to have an existing job).
i am convinced that the phrase “AI is here to stay” is a psyop
+1 Been on several searches at MPOW lately which have been limited/uncompetitive. I've been surprised to see so few LIS grads in said pools, despite the gig being aligned to new librarians. I think many folks discount the ad because MPOW isn't a big destination state, despite its beauty & COL.
Equally grateful to you both, for setting off the spark that culminated in this rebuttal & shepherding it through a long journey. I couldn't have persisted otherwise!
Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal!
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the horrors persist, but so DOI (a doi is a persistent identifier for academic papers, e.g. 10.1000/182)
#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?
"AI can save you time." You miserable fool. You stupid baby. Technology can't save you time. The mechanical clock and the Google Calendar have chopped your life into small pieces to be sold, and you think adding more technology will let you keep some of those pieces for yourself?
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
It was so disillusioning to me to discover that library admins in particular loved buzzwords & popular ideas (back then it was “innovation”) but weren’t actually serious about DOING librarianship the best & most ethical way. Glad I’m not trying to figure out how to teach info lit in the “AI” age.
I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.
Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.
And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.
I encourage my colleagues in higher ed to memorize the law about recording your state (e.g., is it a two-party consent state?) and to have a clear policy about recording written into your syllabus. The right knows this is an avenue of attack and has legalized video bounties in FL and TX.
Fighting against library training on using genAI for citation management is NOT how I want to spend my time
“People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not”
No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info
[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
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UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
