If you're looking for the original study: 'Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence', Cheng et. al., 2026 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ArXiv version: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995

This is not wrong, is it. What a world.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

The web never stands still 🌐 ... and neither do the challenges of preserving it. The #DPC is preparing for the return of its Web Archiving Special Interest Group (WA-SIG), bringing DPC Members together in a welcoming and transparent space where Members can exchange ideas, surface challenges […]

just let people pee, ffs

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

My friend (<- they don't get to deny this) @sexhistorian.bsky.social is advertising for a PhD stipend. It's an amazing project at an amazing department with amazing supervisors, and if you know anyone suitable, let them know. www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

the guy painting our hallway is listening to joe rogan at full volume and i am wondering what i have done to deserve this

If you've been thinking that website you use a lot must be stable and reliable because it has an ac dot uk domain? It *might* be fine. But it's no guarantee.

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

I wrote about Infinite Jest’s wild 30-year journey online—from feminist YouTube stunts to sexist 4chan posts to Luigi Mangione’s Goodreads. How far down the rabbit hole do DFW bros go? What do the memes reveal about our relationship to literature & the internet? lareviewofbooks.org/article/infi...

Call for Papers: Archival Practice in Complex Systems: Risk, Ethics, Infrastructure, and Evolving Institutional Roles, Collaboration, and Governance. @araukie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mr45nf35 #Archives #RecordsManagement #CallForPapers #Libraries #DigitalPreservation #OpenAccess

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

Save The Lavender Menace archive. Please share / donate 🏳️‍🌈 www.scenemag.co.uk/scotlands-on...

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

my well-meaning brother-in-law bought the baby a tiny piano and I may never again know what life without migraines is like

grateful to the algorithm for teaching me that all I want in life is to strip paint off skirting boards

🌍 New from DPC: the draft Carbon Footprint Toolkit is now open for comment and testing! Read it, try it, and share your feedback: buff.ly/Bd7ccCb #DigitalPreservation #Coalition #community #digipres #carbonfootprint

Another fantastic #archives job klaxon 📢📢 #ProjectArchivist role on ‘Beyond The Dear Green Place: Recovering the Lost Works & Literary Networks of Archie Hind’ strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/I/...

I hate this place

Incredible job opportunity klaxon 📢 - RA working on Wellcome Trust project, Reproductive Justice, Healthcare & History: Community Engaged Histories of Reproductive Health Care and Activism in Scotland and Alberta 1967-1990. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States. lastcampaign.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

the fun thing about a february full of never-ending sicknesses is

hell hath no fury like a toddler with a head cold

🧵 Curious how researchers, journalists, and artists dig into the web’s past? 🌐 WAYS OF WORKING WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE shows how the #WaybackMachine opens up a world of discovery and creativity. Learn more ⤵️ www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w... 1️⃣/5️⃣ #WebArchives #DigitalResearch

This incredible story underscores, amongst other things, the need for trust and transparency in arching tools, and for web archiving toolchain to be fully open source and archives to be verifiable.

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

I'm not saying I'm allergic to being in england but it did only take me an hour of being here to break out into a rash so I'm not not saying it

📢 DPC Members 📢 Join us on 3 Feb, 2-4pm UTC for 💾 Copy That Floppy… LIVE! 💾 An online workshop with Dr Leontien Talboom, covering floppy disk preservation and a live demo of the full workflow, from setting up a workstation to verifying results. Sign up here: buff.ly/4TEiF2k

celebrating #BurnsNight with a visit to the commemorative bin, such a high honour for our national poet from Glasgow City Council

Andrea Kocsis' exhibition was an absolute pleasure to behold. I strongly recommend catching this if you can!

Free event at the British Library on Monday 9 Feb (18.30 GMT): ‘Web archive research in an age of Smart Data’

If you know someone who is considering having kinetic switches installed in their home, I beg you to intervene

if you're curious about where all the squeaky floorboards in your house are located, may I suggest having a baby?

that will self cataloguing post at the BL is an absolute DREAM job but a takehome pay of £23k in London is absolute unliveable

“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w

Are you a web archive user, or would you like to know how to / more about using web archives? Book now for a half-day workshop this October to learn more about the UK Government Web Archive and shape our future offering for researchers: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...

a lot of these guys really envision a future where technology relieves us of the burden of human experience

ok cool not a big deal at all

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

current level of newborn-induced brain rot: deep dive into mr blobby's wikipedia page

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

Beginning to doubt that wokeness is the biggest threat to higher education

I used to be an egregious "I love you, man" drinker but maybe it wasn't the alcohol maybe any large amount of liquid does this to me

treated myself to a broken wrist for 2024, what a delight