Research has shown the significant hidden toll of poor office design on productivity, health and employee retention.

Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities. Reposts appreciated!

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53

I also love that you can see me in my dumb straw hat reflected in its eye 👀👀👀

Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) Novice to Know-How (N2KH) training provides a structured learning pathway to build confidence and practical skills #DigitalPreservation

Librarians are wonderful. “Use AI to explore. Use libraries to verify. Use your brain to evaluate.”

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

comparia.beta.gouv.fr is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot) #FF2025

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

When David Alejandro Sánchez Gómez photographed this orchid in Colombia, he didn't know how special it would turn out to be. 🧵⤵️

Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water. Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Somebody asked about this on another platform – and I'm once again grateful to libraries for reinvigorating anti-algorithmic means of discovery :)

New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

Everything #GideonHaigh says. The unrepentant carelessness and spiritual emptiness of the library’s decision makers (and the government that put them there) is jawdropping: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit. Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:  blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...

I recorded a video for my #slvresidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #glam websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalhumanities

If you want to know more about how we built the cooperative that supports @transkribus.bsky.social, and how coops are a way to actually operationalise responsible AI, then please read our paper, which was the basis of my talk. This is about community open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-16

Would I could find a fine frog!

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests www.abc.net.au/news/science...

We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️ Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/ #Georeference #MapMonday #Maps

Hey! My post about my #slvresidency made it into the Editor's Choice section of the latest @DHNow: https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org

📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland" 👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Library of Congress has a really good planning framework: libraryofcongress.github.io/labs-ai-fram...

Everything Open 2026 is Coming to Canberra! The three day conference will have presentations on a range of open technologies topics from community members and project leaders. Call for Sessions is now open 🧑‍🏫. If you have something to speak about submit your proposals today!

New research could block AI learning from your online content www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

The dictionary is a living, breathing and evolving record of how language is wrapped up in who we are as Australians. It is vital we protect it. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-anu...

"The archival field has been navigating the shift from bespoke, individualized practices to scalable, systemic solutions informed by field-wide, best practices/standards, all while contending w/ the on-the-ground realities of fragmented workflows+limited resources" about.jstor.org/wp-content/u...

Take me down to the octopus city Where the socialisation is Unexplained but pretty

The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/

[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...

OCLC explains the lay offs, "Artificial Intelligence and other technology changes require different skills and provide opportunity for efficiencies..." 📚 www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...

This is such cultural and intellectual vandalism. The Australian National Dictionary Centre is straightforwardly the sort of thing a national university worthy of the designation would support and sustain

Mitchell Starc takes the fastest five-wicket haul ever, Scott Boland becomes the best bowler since WWI, and the West Indies flirt with the lowest score of all time. These are the records to tumble on a remarkable day of Test cricket in Jamaica.

I can't believe ANU is proposing to disestablish ANDC @ozworders.bsky.social‬. Over the last 20 years of writing I've often consulted staff over the origins of obscure words and phrases. We need the dictionary to record and explain our changing language. www.smh.com.au/national/fro...

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

With Glitch closing down, I've moved my micro app that helps you create persistent links into the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch database: https://wraggelabs.com/recordsearch-links/ #archives #histodons #maintenance

The Swedish National Archives shared 1.2m images of handwritten documents from 1600-1900+ In addition, they share a model for writing to text Such marvelous data opportunities, kudos 📈🤖🧠 medium.com/@linnea.karl... Example: sok.riksarkivet.se/om-soktjanst... huggingface.co/datasets/Rik...

👀 Funded collaborative PhD: Document Detectives: A Crowdsourced Approach for Reuniting Strayed Documents at the UK National Archives www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...

The Biodiversity Heritage Library needs a new home after all the Trump-fuckery at the Smithsonian. They've issued a call for support. Any #glam organisations that can help? https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/ (via @siobhan_leachman on LI)

Latest coverage of ‪@medimurdermaps.bsky.social‬: Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337 Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-lover www.theguardian.com/education/20... #History 🗃️

GLAM Workbench ­– preprint for 'Building User-Friendly Toolkits and Platforms for Digital Humanities'

When RMIT decided to junk a rare, $160k weaving loom, a group of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. The story of this loom felt like a snapshot of everything that’s wrong with how we treat arts and crafts in tertiary education, so I wrote this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

A new book demonstrates how humanities librarians and scholars brought special expertise, experience, and attributes that were critical to the defense of democracy in the face of tyranny.

📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing. The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library. Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress. 🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays) ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...