Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

Not an academic so much as someone who's had a big impact on science, but John Inglis of CSHL Press & openRxiv is one of the nicest men you could possibly meet.

The thing I find so bizarre is folks showing up and saying, look this thing AI did and just sending it out into the world. Even though its awful, not just banal, completely wrong and weird. If an intern gave you this level of output you'd be letting them go...

Here, Rosalind Franklin's colleague Maurice himself argues to the head of their lab in London that their data should not have been leaked to Watson and Crick. You're welcome.

Super congratulations to @canopyrobin.com !

It just proves the saying that it's not enough to be clever, you should also be kind. Doing some cool science isn't enough when all anyone can talk about when you die is what an awful person you were.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Whitelands College, now part of @uni-roehampton.bsky.social The card shows the May Day procession, which was (and who knows, maybe still is?) A Thing at the college If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

It's the Crick Annual Science Meeting today - a great internal conference including everybody. The library team have a poster highlighting our Open Science services (shown). We're also on the general ITO poster which has a really cool monopoly based design!

If Tom wins this I'm going to be so annoyed. He shouldn't have even been in the final, he was saved over and over in the last few weeks. #gbbo

Libraries: Advocating for #RightsRetention is key for #OpenAccess. It provides immediate OA/reuse, accelerates OA, and clarifies copyright. Make every article accessible! 💪📚 Use the flashcards: tinyurl.com/3385jfhz

British Library Board statement: www.bl.uk/about/press/...

Academia runs on three fuels: caffeine, impostor syndrome, and poorly documented code from 2017

Kind of funny how people are identifying any place that publishes even the most inconsequential stuff and then flooding it with AI junk.

I've been thinking about open step-wise protocols/methods today. It feels way more directly useful than (lots of, maybe most) open data, but much less in use. I'm wondering why it's yet to really take off. #OpenScience

Some days I have Darwin days. Today is one of those (I'm not very poorly, but I can't get rid of this stupid cold). "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

If you missed the talk on class in HE librarians by @patchedelbows.bsky.social last week, don't despair! Here's the doi, you can catch up now 😀 doi.org/10.52843/cas...

What do librarians look like? Stereotyping of a profession by generative AI doi.org/10.1177/0961...

This is fun. Occasionally it does return a working clock, but mostly they're brain-breakingly odd.

The Nature manuscript advisor bot has no appreciation for the craft of paper writing 😂

We still have some spaces left on our Christmas literary pub crawl! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/Festive-Pub-...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

As part of a piece of work I'm doing to make sure our researchers are only using AI that's appropriate I just asked ChatGPT to repeat a systematic review screening. Worked quite well for the subset, but when I put all the abstracts in it decided nothing was written in English & excluded it all 😂

Yes! My favourite moments are always when meme of the day hits icebox plums 😁

The NIH has insisted there are no banned words But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25 Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

I keep seeing AI in libraries as being split into two groups: Grp 1 - ignores it, doesn't understand it, gets left behind. Grp 2 - understands it, onboard with using it, librarian of the future. How about a 3rd group that understands it but bc of that thinks most writing/library uses are rubbish?

Well this has made my day. Petition to encourage people to keep their unhinged titles when they post it publicly!

And it’s a wrap! Thanks to all attendees for your hard work in analysing bioimages with open source software to make science more reproducible. Best of luck for your image analysis adventures!

This is a completely unhinged government statement (I even went to check it was real bc wtf). It reads like an aggrieved intern wrote it. It really is just childishness all the way up isn't it?

Soft trackies while beasting squat and bench day 😉💪

This has been my unequivocal experience, as someone who has read through a great deal of marketing material. The vendors—presumably knowledgeable about their own products—cannot point to any evidence to support them. They exclusively play on vague fears about “marketability” and “staying current.”

It’s nearly Halloween, so don’t forget to buy plenty of sugary treats and snacks. You’ll need something to eat while you sit at home in the dark, pretending to be out.

"Relying on LLMs for literature summaries without independent verification could lead to the unknowing citation and perpetuation of false information." #AcWri #SciComm

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Picard management tip: Initiate positive changes. If not you, who?

Keep asking librarians things rather than AI. We're way less likely to lie to you!

So frustrating that this is still happening! Further down the thread you can find a list of publishers in health/biomed that won't take a preprint. Close to (but not) 0. Particularly important for PhD students and postdocs to not have to wait month & months for publication when job searching.

This week is pretty special for us at @openlibhums.org. It's #OAWeek & also 10 years since we launched as a publisher! As my brilliant colleague Dr Rose Harris-Birtill writes in her Editorial, academics must speak up with "radical hope and courage": olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... #OAWeek25

Are you registered to come to @patchedelbows.bsky.social's talk next week on Social Class in HE librarians? If not -> cassyni.com/events/4ttck... #Librarians #Libraries #skybrarians

I've signed this open letter. #CofEpeeps, lay or ordained, if you want the church to become more fully affirming of LGBTQ+ folks, please read this letter from Inclusive Church and consider signing it. www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...

This is obscenely low, hard to justify putting the time in for these odds.

Librarians and library workers: “We’d like seamless access, security for our patrons’ information, plus more things to try with APIs and macros.” Vendors: “Okay, but what if instead we gave you and your patrons a glorified Clippy who just made shit up most of the time and sucked up gobs of power??”

Posting a little late, but Happy ##InternationalPronounsDay. Some words from our Committee Member Binni:

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

Sharing our love of society publishing today at the @crick.ac.uk - goodies from @royalsociety.org @microbiologysociety.org and @biologists.bsky.social and showcasing @chronoshub.bsky.social Although lots of the really good items had already gone by the time I got down there! #openaccessweek

Another day when the assimilation of the internet into a tiny number of hands becomes obvious. AWS (Amazon web services) goes down and takes half the internet with it!

This is a big issue in Medicine, but its also a big issue elsewhere. The shove all the Internet just into a box approach to training data just allows AI to exaggerate existing biases 😟

This highlights the major worry I have with gen AI. When ppl use it for something they dont know about it seems great, quickly finding & synthesising info. Use it for something you do know about & its quickly clear how often wrong answers are served up. But it's mostly used in the 1st case.

A really useful article in UKSG Insights on the sound UK legal basis for interlibrary loan and how it relates to lending subscribed material across international borders: insights.uksg.org/articles/10....