Elle Ann

Wow my anxiety is through the roof today. Might try to revive my dead blog, Anxious Librarians. It was apt then and it's apt now.

Petition to add single's nights to conference social events.

If you think I'm joking then I'm joking. If you think it could work then schedule it plz.

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

Omg twins 😂

Woops got COVID

Funnily enough Outlook, if I'm reading or writing an email, and flip to my calendar to check something, I'd quite like to be returned to the email I was working on???? Radical I know.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.

See this quoted thread for highlights from the lead author of this important paper!

My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵

5 hours to home

It's awful but I do miss the more lively discussions had on the bird app during library conferences. Cmon get your butts on bluesky.

As ever I feel extremely lucky to be able to attend, present, appreciate, criticise, eat, drink, and be merry, at the international group of ex libris users conference. 4 years in a row! #igelu2025

How is the presumably vast energy increase from embedding AI into every single product and task and search being measured and offset, particularly considering Clarivate's goal to be net zero by 2040? #igelu2025

I have 17 mosquito bites

At least I've given the Italian mosquitos something to snack on

After 3 days in Florence, I arrived in Siena, headed to the first pharmacy I saw, and just said, 'Buena Sera... Le Zanzare!'

Amazing! I got to Siena this evening, managed to pack a lot into my 3 Florence days and now my feet hurt 😂

Just remembered that my flounce around Florence is actually a work trip and I have to do work things tomorrow? Crazy

Heading to Florence today!

Got somewhere sorted?

a close up of a white kitten with its mouth open and looking at the camera . ALT: a close up of a white kitten with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

On Monday I'll be starting a new role as Library Management Systems Administrator, fixed term until December 31st aahhhhhhh

One of the things I keep telling teachers and students is that when you use genAI, you don't always know if the result it cranks out is plagiarized or not. If you use copy/paste that text or even just use it as a quote, you could be plagiarizing without even knowing it.

If you see this post a robot:

Meee! I don't see us turning on the research assistant any time soon but it'll be good to see how people are evaluating it.

I'm staying in Florence for 3 nights beforehand and I'm so excited!

I can't say I do! I get distracted too much when I'm just listening and miss too much!

Have you seen Chicago? 😂 I was processing this Cicero book and the Cell block tango came to mind

I think this means she is bisexual

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When you don't win the toy at the webinar but 2 weeks later 3 are hand delivered to your office 🤯 @technologyfromsage.bsky.social thank you and thank you to your son for attending Exeter Uni otherwise my desk would be devastatingly turtleless right now

If only they would accept a karaoke performance instead 😔