Several years ago I co-started a collection of LGBTQ+ resources for library, knowledge & information workers, which I now maintain ie I add useful links when I come across them. Follow this new Bluesky account which updates when new items are added. Feel free to suggest resources!
🥳 The call for papers for OpenFest 2026 is now live! It's OpenFest's 5th birthday this year, and we can't wait to read your proposals on this year's theme: "People and Place". Read the full call and find the online submission form at the link below: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
In our latest preprint at EarthArXiv, we show how the shift from “ion-adsorption” to “ion-adsorbed” rare earths reflects AI-driven terminological drift that risks weakening process-based understanding in geochemistry. doi.org/10.31223/X5K...
Congratulations!! 🎉 This is going to be so good 🔥🔥🔥
Overton! Thanks - yes, I think all we can do at the moment is create a mosaic of small meaningful snapshots.
There are good initiatives and resources such as @altmetric.com and @makedatacount.bsky.social's call for proper citation, as well as the @pathos-project.bsky.social resources on monitoring and assessing academic, social, and economic impacts... But what am I missing? Thank you! 3/3
authors to gently break the news that the 100s of (in one case >2000) views and downloads they've quickly racked up weren't 'real', but ofc there's much more for which we don't have direct oversight/analysis - and it will become more pressing if views/downloads are included as a REF metric... 2/3
🧠 Question for the hive mind: now that bot and crawler activity has rendered views and downloads mostly meaningless, is anyone thinking about how best to track and measure actual impact? For data especially, but resources and outputs more broadly. For our own repositories, we've contacted... 1/3
🥳 Today marks the 1st birthday of our Data Stewards Network! Last year, we ran a mix of expert-led workshops & informal networking sessions. To continue the momentum into 2026, we held a co-production workshop to prioritise future activities. Full write-up here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
I'm pleased to have co-authored a new article out today in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Kevin Sanders, @sluginkpress.bsky.social, and I reflect on the Radical Librarians Collective and how we situate radical librarianship alongside critical librarianship. doi.org/10.33137/cja...
It's taken me five weeks to write this essay on knowing and, more importantly, not knowing; on epistemology & the Epstein episteme, or the 'knowledge' economy (Biblical sense). It took a panicking, trapped fox to unlock it, and it includes a hottt pic of young Engels.
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
This sounds fun! Looking forward to finding out what gets binned!
Thanks, Fran, that's useful to understand - and the degradation of Google Scholar is disappointing.
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Has anyone else found examples of this? Apparently Primo is creating temporary catalogue entries pulled from the Google scholar landing pages of non-existent works - genAI created and accumulating citations in other genAI articles... Slop all the way down!
Now unlocked: we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social
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Great presentation at Jisc DRC today from the NFCS Network+ project exploring the cultural and epistemic challenges to creating a national federated data infrastructure. Francisco Durand del Fierro: "infrastructure is relational and political". Scoping review report here: zenodo.org/records/1764...
Maybe not all women see themselves as walking wombs! Maybe Tara Selter's not cis!
I know I shouldn't be surprised to encounter TERF brainworms in a Guardian book review, but it's so weird to critique the narrator of On the Calculation of Volume for "never once in three volumes allud[ing] to her period, surely for a woman in her 30s a definitive marker of time."
Looking forward to reading your positivist-creep preprint! There are many parallels with the worst of metascience research, too - applying positivist methods to assess the robustness of other forms of knowing/ research...
Journal editors can also help by encouraging inclusion of ORCiD numbers.
2. In manuscript submission systems, solicit identities, ORCIDs, and the contributions of acknowledgees in the same way as co-authors.
We're interested in working with publication systems on this.
WOKE SOFTWARE LICENSE Version 1, :3 Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you're woke. Basically the AGPL license but only when you're woke. None of us are free until all of us are free, the same goes for software.
finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
"The boosting of AI by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education [and] libraries... Fascism and AI... are working to accelerate one another."
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Source!: bsky.app/profile/samb...
Yes! I saw someone describe such a binary argument as one that mistakes 'practice' with genAI tools for 'literacy' in genAI tools
Ah - thank you for the film recommendation - I will seek it out! So nice to hear that your students responded so positively to your selection.
What a lovely idea! There's a great Columella passage about beekeeping that has stayed with me, which they might enjoy ('bees are prone to melancholy...'). Feel like there is a pedagogical article for you to write there about the literal violence of learning Latin/ acculturation into elite violence!
Yes yes! Congratulations! Can't wait to read it 🤓
Hope you had some wine and a good sleep!
one thing that is so horrible about the AI interwoven into every medium of communication is the prompt to summarize. no, actually, I want to read closely and carefully the words which my beloveds are writing to me!