University administration has been so busy convincing people over the years that “shared governance“ equals information sharing. It doesn’t! It means shared decision making.

Bless her heart. She's never checked out a book from a library, has she?

Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the agency’s new grant guidelines could fund projects that encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.

I need faculty to get on board with helping residents, post docs, phd students, masters students etc understand that you can only do a systematic review in less than 6 months if (a) there's only a tiny amount of evidence and (b) you're not doing anything else for those 6 months.

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

i am convinced that the phrase “AI is here to stay” is a psyop

Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?

"AI can save you time." You miserable fool. You stupid baby. Technology can't save you time. The mechanical clock and the Google Calendar have chopped your life into small pieces to be sold, and you think adding more technology will let you keep some of those pieces for yourself?

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

It was so disillusioning to me to discover that library admins in particular loved buzzwords & popular ideas (back then it was “innovation”) but weren’t actually serious about DOING librarianship the best & most ethical way. Glad I’m not trying to figure out how to teach info lit in the “AI” age.

I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

I encourage my colleagues in higher ed to memorize the law about recording your state (e.g., is it a two-party consent state?) and to have a clear policy about recording written into your syllabus. The right knows this is an avenue of attack and has legalized video bounties in FL and TX.

Fighting against library training on using genAI for citation management is NOT how I want to spend my time “People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not” No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.

Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around? The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more. We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

Hollis was there for less than a hot second but ok. Also rude to use an image of the library for this weird feitishization of affluence & nostalgia trip for days of yore when SSU was the whitest public institution in CA.

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Love to see Dan's coverage of the fight in Davis/Thomas against data centers get national coverage. Supplying energy for voracious genAI computing is just the latest scheme for exploiting West Virginia & Appalachia.

Finally got the chance to write about West Virginia libraries in the collaborative community newsletter I contribute to: bit.ly/3YXs1wz

'If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.' www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

WOO WOO 🚂 📚

🚨ASK YOUR UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN TO TURN OFF AI SUMMARIES ON PROQUEST🚨

I contribute to Morgantown Scout, a locally-focused progressive substack, here's my most recent write-up: morgantownscout.substack.com/p/the-colleg...

Don't trust anyone who follows the word 'permanent' with the word 'digital'.

The purpose of education and going to college is not to habituate students to genAI or get them locked in to an AI vendor, and it's pretty nuts how willingly academia is falling for this brand of corporate "AI literacy" being sold by big tech as "free".

BREAKING — Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staffers who were put on admin leave on Monday just got letters letting them know they’re a part of a Reduction in Force (RIF) and that their job will be “abolished” effective May 4th in accordance with Trump’s EO, per copy reviewed by me.

Hot off the presses. It was an absolute pleasure to put this together with @liblaura.bsky.social! Takeaways: 1. Don't assign systematic/scoping reviews to your students! 2. Don't ask your university librarian to support this terrible idea! journals.indianapolis.iu.edu/index.php/hy...

As a former humanities scholar, I would just like to remind tenured and TT faculty that no US president's admin would be able to pose such a dire threat to the entirety of US higher education without the decades-long erosion of shared governance that accompanied corporatization.

AI in education is: - A political project to get even more private tech into schools and universities - Habituating children and students to industry-defined and -demanded "jobs of the future" - Often not actually "AI" ...

Bookshop.org is launching an ebook store to take on Amazon 📚 www.theverge.com/tech/597137/...

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

Some people are appalled by suggestions that systematic reviews might require time, resource and expertise to do well. This is some of the most influential research we do. We should probably do it properly?

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

And now for the announcement: While many of our plans for the award funds will take time to implement, one can start immediately. To thank our users and encourage scientific debate, we’re introducing $1,000 rewards for selected PubPeer comments! Yes students and postdocs you read that right: $1000

🔇 We are delighted to let you know that a new chapter, ✨Search methodology for evidence syntheses✨ has been added to the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL... #EvidenceSynthesis

After failing out of jazz performance in college, I was *shooketh* by an incredible info lit session during my Spanish linguistics class (s/o LatAm librarian Luis Gonzalez) and then went on to pursue my MLS.