Dr Beth

We've got a sign by our backdoor saying "Use the front door" 😂

I cause chaos in Sheffield because I refuse to use the backdoor (we're both from the South). We spent a lot of money on a beautiful front door, and my friends aren't tradesmen or servants in the 19th century. Use the front door.

It's the way to get an enormous amount done, but it's also a good way to crash and burn.

Equally, I am on the fence!

Brilliant opportunities to make serious change are appearing the week. Which is great, but is the amount of work actually feasible?

I am who I am though, so I won't be saying no even if it isn't 😂 We'll make it happen.

Meme Biblio holds the phone On the phone: chatGPT: "You're absolutely right - you found it"

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

This distrust in Al is reflected across the research conducted within this project-including the literature review, public and professional surveys, and deliberative workshops in this research. Distrust will have a significant impact not only on citizens' acceptance of Al-based products and services, but also on their willingness to provide data for commercial and public sector Al-based products and services. Without trust and with broader fear of Al, individuals express a reluctance or discomfort in engaging with Al. This restricts their ability to build Al skills.

however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely

Not surprised at all - I've found it's really good at giving you strategic sounding paragraphs, quick over views, promotional language, but as soon as you need accuracy it falls over.

Cautionary tale to keep your systems up to date 😭

If you know it's from Edinburgh but are having trouble finding it on your own I'd contact the library directly - just use the general/helpdesk email.

Chances are they'll either be able to get it for you, suggest a different route (or occasionally explain why it's impossible to get it...)

In the app this is in

☰ > Settings > Content and media

I’d recommend turning all toggles off

I'm seriously thinking about only travelling on my Irish one once my red covered passport's time is up.

I've not really posted about it, but what I have done is started the ball rolling to update our GenAI guidelines, because it just hadn't occurred to me that someone might have been using it as a storage solution...😂😭

What a weird approach! I think the main problem of an AI based tool that adds friction is it's just going to send users to free frictionless tools that aren't designed for discovery, ChatGPT etc.

Last term I ran a few seminars for research about/by Librarians and Schol Comms folks. You can access the videos here: cassyni.com/series/KVXBf...

Now it's time to find some more speakers - do you have a research project you'd like to talk about? Tell me!
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#Librarians

Last term I ran a few seminars for research about/by Librarians and Schol Comms folks. You can access the videos here: cassyni.com/series/KVXBf...

Now it's time to find some more speakers - do you have a research project you'd like to talk about? Tell me!
forms.office.com/e/RM82jweEjT

#Librarians

Is Clarivate Nexus just a new name for the Torment Nexus? We shall see I guess...

www.uksg.org/newsletter/c...

Fair, I have no doubt they are actually a million miles away from autonomous functioning humanoid robots...but also, I just wish they'd stop trying to build them 😂

Have these tech guys never seen a SciFi film about robots? I thought they were meant to be nerds.

They always go rogue. ALWAYS.

Given GenAI already seems perfectly capable of unethical and dangerous behaviour, giving it arms seems like a really bad idea.

Ooh, non-alcoholic beer (which I'm trying to get more into). Maybe I should buy some, bc Drop Bears *are* cool!

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a rowing eight in their boat on the Thames, or maybe the Isis. The card is headed "Oxford Crew, 1907"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the @ox.ac.uk boat race crew of 1907

The crew were 3 from Magdalen, 3 from Christ Church, and 1 each from Balliol, Merton and Trinity

Cambridge won by 4 1/2 lengths

If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

The thing about the bloke who lost stuff bc ChatGPT shows the extent to which people still haven't understood that TECHNOLOGY IS NOT BUILT FOR YOU ANY MORE. It is purely, entirely self-serving, with zero obligation to, or care for, its users. Everything is on you; you cannot rely on software.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

AI slop is everywhere in scientific publishing, we’re only catching the easy-to-detect stuff (like when you happen to peer review a manuscript with a AI-hallucinated reference of a paper you apparently wrote)

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Interesting, but the conflation of inclusion and diversity rather confuses the point. While they have overlap, they are not the same thing.

An image on a window of a cartoon Koala wearing a hat, drinking a coffee with a tshirt that says Drop Bear est. 2026

This on the side of a new Sheffield Hallam cafe gave me a good giggle on the way to the station this morning.

Drop bears aren't Indigenous to this country though- I wonder if they're an international student?

oh my god. Davos is a German speaking part of Switzerland.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"The objects found inside an excavation - as in an archival collection - were created by an individual or group of individuals"

As a manager/team lead I spend so much time trying to big up the achievements of my team and make sure they get the credit that they deserve.

So I'm always completely blindsided by team leads that just...don't. Like, what do you think your job is?

This is possibly the most British thing I've ever heard, using bureaucracy for the greater good!

Not sure you can quite understand how excited I am about this!

A step towards my goal of making a comprehensively linked open ecosystem, moving from dataset to journal article (see how it was used) to preprint (the directors cut version 😉) and back to data to see what other articles used it.

A display of children's books with a sign that says 'Read 6 or 7 new books.'

New display in the children's library.

If you don't get it, ask a young person.

(you probably still won't get it but don't worry - we don't get it either) #67meme