In meeting w colleagues (who are both shades of biologist-by-training) discussing tree classes at a very high level Me: is this what it feels like when I talk about books? Them: YES

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I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

I do think most of our understanding, maybe not in systems librarianship but in other functional areas especially re: reference/instruction, stops at “the catalogue was good and now the discovery layer is bad” and despite boundless curiosity in other areas, can’t articulate why

I‘m boosting this point (there are some key areas where I diverge from Aaron in the larger thread, respectfully) but this is really true, not as a universal but as a pattern in how librarians (including me) have been situated vis-a-vis our search infrastructures, and I’d like to talk more about it

I have now worked at two rabidly intense sports-fandom universities (2 different sports) and I have to tell you I still don't get it. Happy for you, I guess, but don't get it.

Some days you go to a meeting and are informed that we laser-cut our own rigid-hettle loom and then you OBVIOUSLY have to go investigate

Gave this today, lots of good discussion, was really pleased

Learning about softwareheritage.org 's great browser extensions for saving code on github etc www.softwareheritage.org/browser-exte...

god bless the people who set the start time for the 9 am meeting at 9:15 am

this thread is funny and accurate but I think understates the weirdness that EVERYTHING that happens with LLMs happens in language space. Like language really is how you shape and navigate the manifold and you're using it in this extremely weird way where it's ordinary words but /

tomorrow I'm giving a training called "What is AI and why is it happening to me" for my colleagues. I'll do it again later in April, and will likely offer this more broadly to my campus soon, but in the meantime, if anyone else would benefit from this info, here it is hfroehli.ch/2026/03/24/w...

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is sunsetting at the end of this year. Current info htrc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

2 things can be true, I think, for teachers/educators: 1. We can be skeptical/frustrated with what is happening with AI right now in education 2. We can still be curious and try to learn what it might be like for students who are using it Which is what I tried to do here—

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Also yes let's be honest a lot of the time discovery layers benefit vendors not users, they're a largely unnecessary additional product with significant search limitations due to competing proprietary interests and they overcomplicate matters especially when metadata in them isn't properly managed

Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.

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I've wondered about this too, and according to the News on the Web Corpus, it really is surging! I'd have to dig into the data a little more to see where the increase is coming from, but something is definitely going on here. www.english-corpora.org/now/?c=now&q...

#AI4LAM Fantastic Futures 2026: Trust in the Loop, co‑hosted by @librarycongress.bsky.social National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian explores how #libraries #archives and #museums can build  trustworthy, accountable, human‑centered #AI ecosystems

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New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with @jtauber.com: Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries. We introduce regex with actual corpus linguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[ Happy to send anyone a copy! doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8

The NYT front page is 49 megabytes, larger than the original install disk size for Windows 95 thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

Today is the official publication day for the hardback version of "Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora" (ebook was published earlier). Many thanks to series editors @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for your support 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...

This is an an article that I WISH so badly I had as a grad student so I would know where I was in the process and what the expectations were at every stage (by a now-colleague). This should be given to every student starting + finishing grad school www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Maybe for everyone *applying* to grad school too.

This is an an article that I WISH so badly I had as a grad student so I would know where I was in the process and what the expectations were at every stage (by a now-colleague). This should be given to every student starting + finishing grad school www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I cannot sign a contract that I know we will immediately and automatically violate. We are left to discontinue a product that we never planned to cut, and no strategic considerations were involved." source.colostate.edu/guest-column...

New article + associated blog post from David-Antoine Williams - finding words on Twitter in the OED thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/published-tw...

Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

As AI mania has swept the world, it has led to some surprising realignment of values, particularly among those who support openness and access to knowledge. This is the first post in a series about the choices that knowledge institutions face as AI reshapes how their collections are used.

damn, I didn’t have WaPo on my surveillance pricing bingo card (adding this to my emerging dystopian “bingo card” thread)

Ours are a bunch of different programs and efforts dressed up in a trench coat to produce something that looks coherent. In my experience many digital collections seem to have come from pressure from users & admin to have stuff to show

Libraryland is kind of plagued by “do more instruction & outreach!!!” but this is a cool idea for people who want a little intro to the field beyond of course I know libraries, I use them all the time

arXiv.org appears to be spinning off into its own org, with this job listing for a Chief Executive Officer jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

The Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) setting a good precedent, affirming the right to refuse AI for both instructors AND students. The whole "Resolution 2" in the linked document below is worth reading. h/t @evenannaliese.bsky.social cccc.ncte.org/wp-content/u...

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

I'm trying to understand what's going on at Grammarly and what's changed in recent years. For those not in the know, Grammarly was an NLP darling for a long time, very present at our conferences, and it was a Ukrainian company based in Kyiv that now has new CEOs and is based in SF. What's the story?

we are seeing this everywhere, over and over again. Also, human scale downloading is specifically different than bot-scale Get the things you want while you still can

The Grammarly mess is interesting because pre-AI they had a tool that had received a fair bit of adoption and even support in some writing and higher ed sectors and they torched all of that good will in less than 24 hours

I am probably not there, I don't have books worth of written language to draw from (just a million tweets and skeets and what-have-you) but even I, relatively OK with some forms of AI, am bothered by this

ASU hosts a biennial Chaucer celebration, join us March 26-26 for Chaucer's Women! english.asu.edu/chaucer-cele...

The Tune Inn is a vital detail here for anyone who has spent time in/on/around Capitol Hill

Exciting news: 🧂🌊 SALT LAKES TOUR DATES! 🪰🙌 Join me this spring! Details are on most of the venues' websites, but please let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to help out.

I spent my HS + UG career being told that Freytag's pyramid of dramatic structure was THEEE most import thing for understanding drama, so I wanted to see how it worked @ scale Google scholar tells me that Freytag's pyramid is still thriving in Indonesia/Malaysia culturalanalytics.org/article/id/6...

I've just done 2 grad library-instruction sessions where I have to cover AI summaries & my talking point to them has become: You are in grad school to learn. You did this bc you like your topic, you are interested You CAN use the AI generated summary but what do you lose by doing that? 1/

Job: The University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint someone to a 21-month post associated with a research project called "French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

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