When I submitted a paper to AI & Society the email confirmation sent me to a website that told me my language quality score was only 3/10 but RUBRIQ could fix it. I study this stuff, so uploaded my paper to RUBRIQ, which proceeded to introduce scientific fabrication and change scientific terms.

Because it's good to share the good stuff: last week I got to give a presentation to a group of Ph.D. students in linguistics about 'AI' in language research, and they were all extremely receptive to the idea of critical AI literacy. They'd all done an assignment where they summarized an article 1/3

Det var ikke lett å finne et sted å bo i Tromsø da vi flyttet dit for ti år siden, og på den tida var det veldig få enheter på Airbnb. Nå er det tusenvis, og regulering trenges, absolutt. Tromsøværinger må kunne bo i byen! Godt at saken løftes av NRK.

X-rays were discovered on this day November 8 in 1895, by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, allowing us to see inside the human body. 🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...

Spreading this to reach the librarians of higher education here 🎉 #bibliosky #glam #openscience

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

Aftenposten trykket kronikken jeg skrev om dette: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

3yo asks me to build a beehive with magnet tiles. Me: Well a man-made beehive tends to just look like a box. 3yo: I want a she-made beehive!

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

🗣️📢 Call for short essays, poetry and short fiction: LOOMING ‘zine (issue 2, winter 2025). Deadline: Dec 1 LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech. CC @kconrad.bsky.social Submit to: [email protected]

Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please? Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be. Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚

(Updated link: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...)

My latest article, out now in Katina Magazine: 'How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing' Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought... Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Ledig stilling som leksikograf ved UiB, med arbeidsoppgaver knyttet til de tre ordbøkene Norsk Ordbok, Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka. Søknadsfrist 18. november! www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

Four books to get to know me (nonfiction edition)

LOVED this text on how we understand AI: "It’s hard to imagine LLMs becoming so widely used without the conversational metaphor, which is exceptionally elegant, efficient, and easy to understand. But the metaphor is responsible for a number of problems: practical, psychological, and philosophical."

NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket har en ledig fast stilling som overingeniør/avdelingsingeniør med oppgaver innen digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester! Søknadsfrist 17. november. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket har en ledig fast stilling som overingeniør/avdelingsingeniør med oppgaver innen digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester! Søknadsfrist 17. november. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

really excellent paper if you've been wondering wtf is going on with AI marketing these days

The American Studies Association of Norway is holding an online event this Friday (October 24) on 'Challenging Times for American Studies'. There'll be a talk from Curt Rice followed by a round-table discussion of the topic. More info here: asanor.org/events/onlin...

In/around #London? 🗣💬 Come to a #Book Launch for: Teacher Agency in #Multilingual Pedagogies by Thomas Quehl (@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Wed 12 Nov 4-5:30pm) @naldic.bsky.social's Christina Richardson & I will be discussants, with chair Vally Lytra #edusky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

AWS being down is a great reminder that letting Amazon own half the internet is a really bad thing we've allowed to happen

‘baby zebra needs help with the deity palanquin’ is a phrase one probably couldn’t expect to hear before becoming a parent

This is a fascinating listen on how researchers uncover rural LGBT+ lives in the archive, and the difficulties in doing so compared to in urban histories:

Heier på det Terje skriver her: "Alle selskaper og institusjoner som benytter seg av KI i form av språkmodeller burde ansette noen som virkelig kan språk og kildekritikk til å hjelpe til med alle former for tekstarbeid, rapportskriving, og til å være KI-kontrollører av tekst, bilde og film." #DH

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

På vei til #DHKO2025 i Hamar! Gleder med til to dager med presentasjoner, verksteder, og gode kolleger. Leser litt i Termlosen (vi skal etablere en termgruppe for digital humaniora på norsk) og litt i Babel av R.F. Kuang. En tilfeldig kombo, men de passer ganske bra sammen. @dhko.bsky.social

Not only is this a phenomenally stupid and destructive idea, but I really wish techbros would stop naming things after Tolkien's work. "It plans to start with an 18-meter test satellite named Earendil-1 which the company has applied to launch in 2026."

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The inclusion of 'hexasyllabically' is my favorite detail here. *chef's kiss*

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

The deadline to register for this year's DHKO conference is *this Thursday*, October 9!

Quality trolling from the dictionary, I support it! 👏👏

Fra 🌳 til 🅿️ . Det er til å gråte over korleis vi erstattar natur og matjord med betong: www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I've been thinking a lot about how important our language choices are in discussing generative AI and this blog post from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social really gets at why: "When vendors feed you language, it’s in the hopes that you’ll regurgitate it to sell their product for them."

Ikke overraskende. "a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies. [...] Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."

"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

applied linguists and translators: what's your favourite academic paper on machine translation and its effects on translators? 🐦🐦 #lingsky

Hi, can I interest you in some fantasy written by a nonbinary author? With trans and intersex characters? Not based on a franchise by a transphobic author! Dragonfall, Emberclaw, and my rewritten debut, Pantomime, are out now, and I could very much use some help getting the word out about them. 💖

Would any of you wonderful people like to review a paper on the impact of generative #AI on #SystematicReview integrity? It would be suitable for people with a good understanding of Systematic Reviews. I am not having much luck getting reviewers.... Thanks.

I anledning den internasjonale tegnspråkdagen kan dere se denne dokumentaren på knappe 38 minutter:

Først ut denne høsten er Marit Sjelmo, stipendiat på NTNU med "Hva kan litterære reiseskildringer fortelle oss om 1800–tallets Norge?" Sjelmo vil fortelle om hvordan hun har jobbet med Norsk reiselitterært korpus fra et makroperspektiv ved hjelp av digitale verktøy. 📍Påmelding i lenke under:

👩🏻‍🏫 Vi ønsker velkommen tilbake til DH-lunsjforedragsrekken, et samarbeid mellom Digital lab på UiB og D-lab på NTNU! Høsten 2025 kan du få med deg digitale DH-foredrag følgende datoer og tidspunkt: 🟧 Tors 25. sept kl. 11.30-12.00 🟧 Tors 23. okt kl. 11.30-12.00 🟧 Tors 27. nov kl. 11.30-12.00

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

I love this! Makes me think about how realizing that helping people find stuff they're not able to find on their own is something that brings me real joy is part of what got me interested in librarianship in the first place.