Normally I'm very nice about EMR. As commutes go, it's fine.
But today we've had short trains both ways, half an hour delay in the morning, more than that this evening and now they're kicking us off at Chesterfield.
Had enough today.
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own.
Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think.
We must not give away that gift.
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I know. I'm a coffee person down to my bones.
It's a great sadness in my life that I just don't really like tea.
Wow! Congratulations on your perseverance.
I like an open plan space, but I'm not convinced I want to live in what appears to be the offices of an AI startup...
Now you've got me thinking - I had a meeting at 11am today. And at 11am last week! It's obviously the time for meetings.
The details in this thread are another deeply undesirable turn in the state of uk academia.
I didn't think you were 😊 I'm just interested that there are people that loved one and hated the other, they felt very much in the same vein to me.
The Dragon Republic is the book of hers I really struggled with.
I loved both...
Can't get to conferences but still want to know what's going on? Alice helpfully lets you know all the hashtags, so if people are posting (and if I'm there, I will be) you can see what they have to say.
Looked at the time and was like "Oh, nearly late for my meeting!". Apart from when I log in it turns out it's currently 8.30 not 9.30 😂
I'd romantised in my head my days of working with the institutional repository, following a process and not having to think about a million things at once.
Now I'm having to cover the data work I realise I was wrong. I hate it. I'd like to go back to just leading the team?
This pops up just as I'm writing an editorial about how training people in AI should really be mostly training people about misinformation.
I was just coming here to say this. I actually often feel sorry for the other side when I'm watching England Women.
As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"
this is such a terrible idea
it violates every decent programming principle (like DRY)
it wastes massive resources by design
it fractures all the good things about shared libraries, & isolates users bc nobody’s code will be identical
this is basically juicero for code on steroids
The Crick is hosting a full in-person day of workshop and panels about open research policy - useful for librarians, data stewards, research managers etc. Tues 21st April.
We'd love to see you there!
We're looking for a pro-active HE/research librarian, keen for responsibility, who likes being involved with a range of different tasks and is able to see the library service as an interconnected whole.
If this sounds like you - why not apply? (must be able to work in London for some of the week).
The problem with wearing a suit to work and never remembering to take off your lanyard is no matter where you are people think you work there!
This public service announcement is brought to you by me helping someone find their train 😂
In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.
We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.
May be nice to cut-out the box for reference
plos.io/47dPeOW
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New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version!
It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Would you like to come and work in my team? Feel free to get in touch to chat about the role.
We have these at work - they don't even properly have lids. Lovely easily recyclable idea that is very difficult to use in practice!
In any other sector this would be front page news along with government funding announcements.
The UK just seems to not value higher education.
The OpenAlex blog about pricing makes a Bridgerton joke and I am all for it 😂 blog.openalex.org/openalex-api...
That is true.
Awww, this is nice on the importance of librarians to scientists. It's not always easy to feel valued in the role.
I hate oranges and uncooked apples are the most boring thing imaginable.
