Text Shot: Some employees report outright refusing to use AI tools. Others have even admitted to tampering with performance reviews or intentionally generating low-output work to make AI appear less effective.  As AI becomes ubiquitous across society, many people are growing to hate it. A recent NBC News poll found just 26% of registered U.S. voters have a positive view of AI, while 46% hold a negative view.

Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout | Fortune fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen… #AI #jobs #resistance

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HTRC Sunsetting Workshop HathiTrust funding for the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) ends later this year, and its services are expected to conclude in the fall. Since HTRC was founded, we have had the privilege to work with...

Janet Swatscheno has been sharing this link and additional details on listservs: HT are offering a workshop to be held on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 3pm-4pm Eastern to describe next steps. Register for the workshop here: forms.gle/8vQ9DbYepbtj....

Call for Papers – HICSS 2027 Mini-Track Accessibility, Justice, and Critical AI in Sociotechnical Systems Minitrack

📍 January 5–8, 2027 | Hilton Waikoloa Village
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Forging Ahead | Home Librarianship and Information Services in Times of Technological, Cultural, and Political Changes

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Call for Proposals: Join the ASIS&T Midwest Chapter Symposium exploring librarianship amid tech, cultural & political change

Nov 15, 2025 | Crystal City, VA

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New study by @hendrik-erz.de and Manika Lamba! Where they analyze acknowledgement sections of Master- and PhD-theses to determine which support systems get acknowledged, utilizing large language models to annotate a corpus of 1200 theses between 1960 and 2021
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Research article "What Does Politics & Gender Publish? Trends, Methods, and Topics in Gender and Politics Research" by Carolyn Barnett, Michael FitzGerald, Katie Krumbholz and Manika Lamba. Abstract begins: We draw on a comprehensive dataset of metadata about journal articles substantively related to gender and politics published in 37 political science journals through the end of 2023, including Politics & Gender, to characterize and compare trends over time and the most prominent topics addressed by these journals. We show that the volume of work published by Politics & Gender has increased over time, has become increasingly quantitative in nature, and tends to focus on questions related to women running for political office and the nature of women’s political representation. These patterns closely reflect broader tendencies in the gender and politics research published by general-interest political science journals.

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@cbarns.bsky.social , Michael FitzGerald, @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social & @manika.bsky.social outline the trends in publishing in P&G compared to general-interest and other gender and politics journals in "What Does Politics & Gender Publish? "

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The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in theses Research on acknowledgment sections of scientific papers has gained significant attention, but there remains a dearth of studies examining acknowledgm…

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Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!

Are you doing multi-label classification?

I am interested to know more about it! Did you already have a handed-coded file ready for Llama to learn on?

Great to see not one but *two* outstanding UIUC iSchool colleagues on the ballot for @ach.bsky.social Exec! Thanks to both @wenyishang.bsky.social and @manika.bsky.social for accepting nominations.

There are a few more hours to vote if you're an ACH member, so hop to it!

Are you a researcher or programmer interested in Hathitrust Digital Library text data? #HTRC is pleased to announce a call for applications for our NEH-funded TORCHLITE #hackathon from May 21-23, 2024. htrc.github.io/torchlite-ha...

The Internartional Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS), IGI Global is looking for new submissions. Please consider submitting your work here:

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Please contact at manika@illinois.edu if you need help with APC waiver.

2023 Winter School: Word Vectors & Embeddings (11th & 12th December 2023, 8AM to 11 AM ET)

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