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I cannot cope with the "well sure it can't do that now, but who knows what it could do in the future!" attitude to genAI on literally any topic. It is very fancy auto complete. It cannot develop feelings any more than a potato or someone who doesn't like cinematic masterpiece Mamma Mia 2 can

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How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole ➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...

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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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Librarians are trying to plan for the 45% reduction of ERIC. While the Department of Education has not (yet) released a title list of journals that are being de-selected, we're trying to create a list via a grassroots effort. View and contribute journal titles here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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I'm trying to keep track of how the situation in the U.S may affect access to NLM resources, all going on this library guide which has explainers, alternative resources, and further reading. Suggestions/corrections very welcome libguides.exeter.ac.uk/c.php?g=725268 #medlibs #pubmed

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Hello- we’re excited to be starting out on our Bluesky journey! We’re here to connect with academics and the #HigherEd community at Exeter University and beyond. We’ll be posting updates on the support we offer University of Exeter staff and students for research and teaching. #ExeterUniLib

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I've signed - have you? #DefendResearch Here in the UK, we may not be facing the same challenges as our US colleagues, but make no mistake, we'll be affected by them just the same. This is not just an attack on US research, it's an attack on global research.

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We're hoping to keep this as up to date as we can, so if anyone knows of anything else we can add, please comment here or on the post itself. Thanks.

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Hi everyone. If you see news articles about the science crisis that we should repost, please share with us. And pl share gift links if the source is paywalled like WSJ or STAT, or if you can share text we can excerpt/screenshot. Thanks! 🧪

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“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus… “Even the top people can’t keep track because they’re hiring and firing so much. Direct supervisors of those who were terminated didn’t even know that it was happening.”

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Happy stabbing Caesar day!

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Weekend reads: Frustration over unpaid peer review; NIH axes research grants; publishers sue Meta

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Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

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Handy - nay, VITAL - guide from @uvalibrary.bsky.social to repositories hosting rescued US government data. Never thought we’d find ourselves in such a situation, but…interesting times, hey? 📚

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A 1 for me - sun is shining!

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#pubmed increasingly patchy, and currently down entirely. A good alternative is europepmc.org. If you are within an institution with access to Embase (Europe produced), start getting familiar with it. And talk to your librarians - we can help!

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 And a lovely, sunny, clear day today, too. Spring is making an entrance

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With #BP announcing that they’ll slash investment in renewables, today feels like a particularly good day to sign @chrisgpackham.bsky.social petition to end fossil fuel greenwash👇

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Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

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CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals. Read more👇 www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

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Librarianship has never been neutral. Cataloguing and classifications are always-already political.

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Seeing the screenshot of Elon Musk, billionaire Nazi dismantling the US federal government, quote tweet Palmer Luckey, cofounder of the autonomous weapons and surveillance company Anduril, about the superiority of AI-assisted teaching tells me a lot about the political project of AI in education.

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The days are dark, the world is dire, it is time therefore for my annual 2004 BBC North & South rewatch. This will fix me I'm pretty sure

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If we (library workers) have to use programs with AI crammed in, we should at least investigate how the AI was trained & if it was created with pirated & stolen material we should try to disable the AI & register a protest with the program creators as well as look for more ethical alternatives

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Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #medlibs

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Academics, Authors, Artists in the UK here is a CRUCIAL #DigitalFriday task - the govt's consult on AI use of our hard work ends 25 Feb. It's deliberately intimidating but here's a guide to filling in the 9 crucial questions (u don't have to answer it all!) againstthebox.substack.com/p/time-to-ha...

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

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Essential reading for all Library and Book folk with even a passing interest in LLMs and generative artificial intelligence: AI & Copyright (in the UK) by Chris Haughton 📚 📜

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You likely know many of the obvious signs of #burnout, such as feeling exhausted and disengaged at work. But there are plenty of other less obvious red flags that you should pay attention to, in both your own feelings and attitude and in your work environment. www.fastcompany.com/91269165/how...

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The BBC studied the use of its content in LLM output. It found that 91% of the output had mistakes. 51% of the mistakes were "significant." I will not give up this fight. This technology is detrimental to human knowledge. www.bbc.co.uk/aboutt...

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Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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📣📣📣 please. We just want to communicate with all you.

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reposting to fix typo in the tags #medlibs #canmedlibs #ukmedlibs

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I think using the plagiarising pollution machine for, say, lesson planning or email writing because it's convenient and saves time, should be treated the same way as just dumping all of your rubbish into the street because it's quicker than having to use a bin.

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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

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From an email I just received. Things are getting bleak, y'all. #medlibs

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A dark day for transparency in science.

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In all the news about US government websites being wiped, there’s no way NCBI could be at risk, is there? (Are there copies of GenBank and Pubmed? 🤔)

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I got a sponsored place last year and it was a fantastic experience!

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Big thanks to #Library Freedom for their bookmark outlining the ethics of AI. It can be found here⬇️ libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u... #AI #Ethics #Disinformation #Information #Librarian #KIM #LIS

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If they pull PubMed, do we have a plan B? #academicsky?

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And of course we mustn't forget the Golden Rule: "hate thy neighbour"

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outrageously unfair that you can be so brave and pull yourself through all the 600,000 cold, dark days of January, only for your reward to be the 800 billion trillion days of bloody February

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If the Depp-Heard fiasco didn't, the Blake Lively smear campaign should drive home an important media literacy lesson that I'm afraid many are missing: when it seems like everybody is suddenly talking about something, consider the possibility that the viral moment was engineered.