Introducing Our New Project: Below the Algorithm — AI + Planetary Justice Alliance Behind every battery, every circuit, and every device are minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, and rare earth elements. This is the first Research Diary for our newly launched project, Below the Alg...

Another great project from the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance: "an open-access and evolving map" for "trac[ing] the true costs of the raw materials" used to develop AI technologies.

I hate the impermanence of it all. Death by a thousand subscriptions.

Marbled paper in red, blue and black

Marbling. Unsurprisingly messy.

cover of the Beta Band Champion Versions EP with a tigers head, in front of record collection

Champion.

Great piece 👏

What is a University Press? I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...

What is a University Press?

On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.

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Did some artwork for the great @sun13music.bsky.social to accompany this lovely piece.

The Power and the Glory: How Arne Slot guided Liverpool Football Club to the Promised Land The Dutchman led the club to its 20th English league title in his first year at the helm.

In a first for the site, today we pivot from music and take a look at @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social's season and how Arne Slot guided the team to the Premier League title in his first year as head coach.

Artwork by @samgill.bsky.social.

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THE CUBICAL | Future Yard | Future Yard Live show with rockabilly band The Cubical at Future Yard, Birkenhead on 17 July 2025. Live music gig concert in Merseyside, Liverpool.

futureyard.org/listings/the... can’t wait for this one!

Keith Hudson :: Pick A Dub

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2024 heralded the 50th anniversary of this seminal dub record – one of the first of its kind – and it’s no exaggeration to say this release from Jamaican producer Keith Hudson remains one of the genre’s high-water marks.

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’

Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What makes me mad about AI in education How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it

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Beth Gibbons: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

This was a ton of fun. Twenty minutes’ gorgeousness for you.

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It turns out, it doesn't matter if you're a children's librarian in Kentucky, a medical librarian in Massachusetts, or the literal Librarian of Congress...

They'll accuse you of the same culture war nonsense all the same.

Like some of us have been saying for years.

Ready to band together yet?

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“Avril 14th” 2025. For those who celebrate.
Thank you Aphex Twin for the timeless piece of music.
Once you become the bearer of a beloved piece of repertoire, it grows and changes with you. It is new with each performance. And you can never stop visiting it, or it goes away. Music is magic. 🌸

IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Calling all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers - Join us for IHR@Liverpool on 9 June 2025. A one-day workshop on the subject of Difficult Histories. Travel bursaries available. www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

Always love these.

Amen to this.

Group photograph of office staff members at the Fasken law firm, six women of various ages in an old fashioned office building behind desks with typewriters.

Attorneys general from 21 states (AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI) filed a lawsuit against the administration to stop the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) & other agencies Git 'em

www.infodocket.com/2025/04/04/n...

April 5th (1997 Remaster) YouTube video by Talk Talk - Topic

Happy April 5th, to those who celebrate

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A good chunk of the Gen AI argument is based on the same flawed discussion that there's been around skills for far too long.

A fundamental lack of understanding of what an idea is.

Visual art is not just 'a picture'. Having an idea about a single moment in a story isn't writing.

Thread...

Incredible track!

Librarians and other administrative/professional folks in UK higher education, now is the time to join a trade union. They can support you through a redundancy process or employment dispute, but typically you need to have joined before the issue arises, not after.

Brilliant record, my favourite Bejar.

Gutting IMLS is devastating. There’s funding to states that help provide access to the internet, electronic resources, programs that are meant to help the community. I don’t think people realize how big of a digital gap there is and how much libraries and museums supplement educational needs.

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

AI is not your peer, so why is a respected journal pretending it is? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cosmic Concerto (Life Is People) YouTube video by Bill Fay - Topic

RIP Bill Fay, a songwriting master. youtu.be/Tpc_5OREg2k?... This song came out when my wife was pregnant with our first child, and man, did it speak strongly to me.

At last someone agrees with me! What an album.