Adding Schneider and Migge's chapter "The colonial roots and continuities of AI language culture" to my TBR list immediately.

Reader, I married him

Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

The new issue of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social (3:2) features a special series titled "Generative AI" and "Writing in Higher Education." View the full TOC: buff.ly/HslUNXA Critical AI is based at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, learn more & subscribe: buff.ly/MlIbMDB

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

i know this is hardly a new take but isn’t it WILD that wikimedia has to ask for donations to keep itself afloat when every LLM in the world has been trained on wikipedia data?

Y'all, every time I see del Toro's Frankenstein poster in my feed, I just think about Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.

Surely someone on the #DHMakes hashtag would be interested in “lead[ing] the establishment and day-to-day management of the Community Craft Library & Archives” at the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC? www.centerforcraft.org/news/now-hir...

Someone asked me last month what this looks like now, and I finally have some pictures of it!

@fvandervlist.bsky.social and I are pleased to share that our book 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 will be published with Polity in June/Aug 2026! We are reaching out to colleagues who teach courses where the book might be of interest for an inspection copy: forms.gle/k85pemd8BTQv...

I’m flabbergasted that this has never existed before, though I probably shouldn't be. What a milestone!

I love that many of the replies to Gretchen’s post mention the same things I thought of immediately after hearing ‘muuushroom muuuushroom!’ in my head (Homestar Runner, Salad Fingers). Really reinforces the point!

If this is part of your defense of using generative AI, you really can't make the argument that generative AI is going to contribute to efficiency or productivity. Just...why? Seriously, why?

It's quiet at the library desk today, so I'm going to do a little thread with a few of my favorite reads from this year. First up, appropriately, is The Library: A Fragile History by @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen. profilebooks.com/work/the-lib...

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

This sounds great! Wish I could attend! It's a @unesco.org webinar on 17 Dec 2025, 14:00-15:30 (Paris time) Title: Protecting and promoting #cultural and #linguistic diversity in the #digital environment #langsky 🗣💬 #edusky www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

I have an friend who is trying to research textiles/textile history in relation to libraries (e.g. the history of textile related community groups/activities in library spaces). Does anyone have any suggestions for books / journals? @quinnanya.me - I thought you might know?

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

When librarians make a workplace advent calendar. ❤️

"Vi trenger, med andre ord, mennesker i førersetet, spesielt når det gjelder tekster som ikke egner seg for maskinoversettelse; vi trenger mennesker som ivaretar den rollen oversettelse spiller i det nevnte rommet." www.forskersonen.no/kronikk-kuns...

Gratulerer med verdens dag for språkvitenskap fra Trondheim, Norge!

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Norway folks, Tronsmo has it in stock!

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

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Ledig stilling som universitetsbibliotekar/førstebibliotekar innen forskningsstøtte ved UiA! Søknadsfrist 11. desember: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Journalists, why not reach out to some of the fine people in my replies to ask them how the British Library cyberattack of 2023 has had an impact on their research, their creative work, and their careers? This could make for a powerful piece revealing the human side to the damage this has done.

Am looking for PhD students to supervise under this particular call! And v interested in Home student applicants - please share with any ambitious DH/LIS students you know who are on the technical side…

Hey! Northern hemisphere folks: this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important! You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!

PANTOMIME & SHADOWPLAY (El's Version) are out now (SHADOWPLAY released this week!), and MASQUERADE will be out in 2026. Would you like to read a whimsical, cosy-adjacent gaslamp fantasy? An inters3x, nonbinary lead joins a circus of magic and later takes to the magician's stage. Found family.

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So, that in mind: Who has suggested readings for Challenges to Intellectual Freedom in Academic Libraries? I've got some ideas, but I'd love to crowdsource some!

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"Det er alt for farleg å bruke det i yrke der kunnskap er viktig, og det gjeld veldig mange yrke: Journalistikk, utdanning, forsking, prosjektarbeid og mykje anna." Takk for at du bruker den faglige tyngden din til å si klart i fra @jilltxt.bsky.social 💚

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p... It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

Det snør på Dragvoll, folkens! Nå er vinteren her.

Phonics is foundational metalinguistic awareness, and to learn that so many kids have been deprived of that in reading instruction is actually really heartbreaking.

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

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...