Emma Wilson

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Eek. How to spot arsenic coated books.

blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/how-...

Your annual #medlibs Halloween reminder that "Chocolate"[Mesh] has only been in use since 2017. (OK, to be fair previous indexing is "Cacao"[Mesh] 1963-2016, but STILL.)
Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results.
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Proud to be repping some @openlibhums.org merch this Hallowe’en!

I’m a huge advocate for what @theblochian.bsky.social & the whole team do to sustainably grow Diamond Open Access academic publishing.

P.s. commercial publishers really are eating your journal’s brains! Let’s keep horror in fiction 🧟‍♂️

I love it 🧟

Also yay, nice to see you here!

A manuscript illustration of a very cute bat with a smile on its face. It looks extremely friendly and nice

it is halloween, so we must all look at my beloved bat from BL Harley MS 3244 f. 55v

I’m excited already!

The "Is this a pigeon meme", but with Springer Nature thinking another open access journal is useful for open research.

Cooking up some memes for a @reproducibilitea.org session on Open Research next week. This is gonna be fun!

[Dangermouse theme]

Trunkless legs
History's dregs?
Was astounding, was amazing, now he's dead
Rameses
All great deeds
Are forgotten, are all rotten, prompting dreeeeead
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameseeeees

100% agree with you!

I struggle to spend more than 30 seconds on LinkedIn 🫣

In my experience, some of the binary seems to come from people in group 2 tending to assume people in group 3 are actually group 1.

That’s incredible feedback, keep doing what your doing!

Keeping to time is an accessibility issue! People need breaks between sessions in conferences for all sorts of accessibility reasons - whether for cognitive load, to take medication, needing bathroom breaks, check blood sugar or anything else! Making an effort to keep to time is inclusive.

In celebration of Open Access Week 2025, the Knowledge Commons team presented a webinar on Knowledge Commons, KCWorks, and the Future of Open Access. KCWorks is an open repository platform designed… Open for All: Knowledge Commons, KCWorks, and the Future of Open Access

Did you miss our #OpenAccessWeek webinar? Our team shared how you can use KCWorks to disseminate your scholarship and publications...AND gave a sneak peek at a major system upgrade that'll be launching very soon. You're not going to want to miss it!

🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGq...

100% agree!

“AO3 reminds us that platforms can be built by and for communities, without extractive profit models or exclusionary hierarchies. It shows what’s possible when infrastructure is treated as a public good, and when participation is scaffolded, not gated.“

Such a great piece!

Thanks for writing and sharing, I love this so much!

Okay, everyone needs to ALT text for accessibility purposes but also for muted words (I don't want terrible people turning up on my feed - name them!)

Interesting. A library decides they can’t renew a database because their users would immediately violate the license terms by using the university’s Microsoft products that have force fed copilot into everything.

Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory

Poor Ebony 😢

You can write any old fanciful nonsense about how AI is going to fix all of science as long you say how we need to use it *responsibly* and how it will *never replace humans entirely*.

How AI exposes the hypocrisy of academic publishing - ABC Religion & Ethics Academics punish students for using AI, even as they gift their own research to a publishing business that directly feeds the research into the very models that we caution students against using — wit...

"What this means for humanists is stark. The very articles and books we painstakingly produce are being fed, legally and lucratively, into AI systems that will soon replicate, and perhaps replace, our intellectual labour."

www.abc.net.au/religion/how...

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it.

PSF therefore declined the funding.

Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution - Impact of Social Sciences Drawing on political theories of non-alignment, Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research.

“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.”

Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.

Amazing piece, thanks for sharing!

Publishing open and shareable scientific findings without breaking the bank - our panel discuss emerging and future models fo sharing research outputs. @earthowned.bsky.social, @marstonlab.bsky.social, Mahesh Karnani and Matt Nolan #EN-PM

Weather app screenshot showing today's sunset time of 4:40pm. My serotonin is withering as we speak

I have seen three separate 'the sun won't set later than 6pm here until Feb' posts and give a hollow laugh each time

Scotland entered The Big Dark a while ago 🌚

The unsaid part here is that if you don't feel this way about big brand names, you must be less human in your DNA.

But really it's just eugenics ravings and a need by execs to see the slop be used so they weren't wrong to adopt it. I'm sure this predatory crap is in their contracts at this point.

Tech companies will sell you every conceivable flavor of personal ambition except ‘be decent to other people and try not to leave the world worse than you found it’

Thanks Emma - delighted you enjoyed the book! ✨