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Right then, this is the one. I'm all in. I want to talk with you about libraries, Higher Ed, communications, and LIFE. As a freelancer I run workshops on marketing, social media and presentation skills: https://www.ned-potter.com/training
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Let's say you can ignore all the ethical issues with GenAI (which I can't but anyway) - what alarms me about Starmer's total uncritical embrace of AI is, it's just a massive bubble driven entirely by hype with no actual profit and that, surely, is precarious thing to become a 'world leader' in.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Well listen on the library websites we don't use LOGOs we use artfully shot images people holding phones with social media on, but Bluesky is there... www.york.ac.uk/library/cont...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is excellent obviously but I really recommend @threadotweets.bsky.social generally, it's a daily dose of pure TAKES on the world in a way that makes me like humans

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

💥New: @andytattersall.bsky.social presents new data on the extent to which UK universities are continuing to engage with X and shifting their activities to alternative social media platforms. #AcademicSky #AcademicSocialMedia #X

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's interesting, this. I've felt conflicted about it, because I'm appalled, but every day hundreds of things happen in the US that are beyond horrific, and I don't comment on most of them. It seems parochial to suddenly get involved cos it's library related, but also we should be talking about it

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Some legends here!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Really good stuff from @siobhanh.bsky.social on the absolutely bleak Clarivate announcement.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Hi librarians, if you suffer from vocational awe (as always see @fobettarh.bsky.social's work on this) then behold this absolutely appalling shit below and lo, you will be cured.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I have a half-formed thought on this... It's no longer accurate to say GenAI can't look up information, right? ChatGPT etc will now search the internet and give references for things. BUT, it also still makes articles up, and I wonder if it's a matter of how you're prompting it?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I'm assuming this is an AI rewriting of my posts that has misunderstood categorisation here. Unless: is a 'Ned Guide' an actual thing I've just not heard of..? (Tell you've spent too much time writing about Bluesky without telling me you've spent too much timing writing about Bluesky 😄) #NedGuide

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Incidentally I went through the Libraries & Archives on Bluesky MEGALIST fairly recently and added loads of libraries from the starter packs to it. Unlike the Packs this isn't sector-specific, it's everyone. (And, it's a List). I think there's around 100 accounts on it. 📚 bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Done! 44 academic libraries on this now: go.bsky.app/7nXffYF

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The arm of the organisation that includes Elsevier had "revenue of £3.05bn, giving it an adjusted operating [profit] margin of 38.4 per cent." To put that in context: - Google's operating margin is 33.03% - Apple's is 29.7% - Exxon Mobil's is 14.61% - Toyota's is 11.98% - Amazon's is 6.53% 👀

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

It's not often I literally actually lol at a meme, but this is just lovely stuff 😄

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Very much agree with this. Talks need to be written like a play, rather than a novel (or, indeed, an article)...

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