Ryn (they/them)

A tiny room with no windows and overhead lighting, which is probably fluorescent. It has one black pleather reclining chair, three blue fabric corporate type chairs with wooden arms, and a white laminate round table with metal legs. All the furniture is shoved up against the walls. There is a white plastic casing around the walls around 3 feet high with several plug and ethernet sockets. The floor is shiny and dark grey. There is literally nothing else in the room. No natural light. Looks shit, frankly.

This is a wellbeing room in my university.

Cover of the zine "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave", featuring a design of bold color blocks inspired by the opening titles of the TV show "I Think You Should Leave"

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

Today in Collecting Media we visited the Materials Library!

As a principal investigator on large public data collection projects (like PSID), I can clearly say that using standard language to describe publicly available data is not only *NOT* plagiarism, it is, in fact, best practice to ensure rigorous reproducible science.

SCREAMING! my only regret is that you couldn't see my reaction live

A buzzword I hate is how data is meant to provide "decision support," which in practice means that the data analyst nerds (it me) are pressured to massage their data until it supports whatever decision the highest-paid person in the room already wanted to make in the first place.

I resent how AI has commandeered every research agenda, curricular program, funding initiative, policy agenda. Every grant program, fellowship theme, new funding initiative: AI + [Fill in the Blank]. AI and Society! AI and Public Health! AI and Pedagogy! AI and Rubber Chickens! I really don't care.

Omg too relatable 😂

asking the reference librarian if they're mad at me

Protocols developed a priori are considered a best practice in evidence synthesis methods.Your librarian may be able to assist with the protocol methods. The... Develop and Share Your Protocol With Your Librarian | A Plea | SR Education | Methods Monday

It's Methods Monday (mostly for evidence synthesis methods!) and today I talk about why, where, and how to do your protocol for your systematic and scoping reviews.

youtu.be/lHccnT4oIbU

TL;DR: Write the damn protocol!

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

Noah is even wearing my work uniform!

Hey #medlibs folks, I took a stab at creating a very basic Feed that just searches for the hashtags #medlib and #medlibs. Feel free to add it to your feeds if you want to: bsky.app/profile/did:...

And of course, some of those stars include impulsively bought seasonal snacks, nine hours of sleep, a questionable amount of caffeine, crisp autumn air, and a eerily quiet inbox...

Channeling the powerful & rare combo of working from home, empty calendar, full motivation, and solid focus today! ✨️ Gotta mark it here for proof that sometimes the stars DO align. 😎

Episode 13: Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin), June 8 2023 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3... Emily and Alex talk to UC Berkeley scholar Hannah Zeavin about the case of the National Eating Disorders Association helpline, which tried to replace human volunteers with a chatbot--and why the dataf...

We can be irreverent in deflating #AIhype, but we do it because the harms are realt. Esp when LLMs are presented as useful to vulnerable populations.

@alexhanna.bsky.social and I were fortunate to discuss with
@hzeavin.bsky.social on #MAIHT3k ep 13.

Thx to @ctaylsaurus.bsky.social for production!

oh nooo 😭 wish this was surprising to me

You've been training your whole life for this era and now you're skeptical? Ai made this!

You can tell how #medlibs pilled I am already by the way I just thought:
"In a way, our content/networks on social media are really just like microdatabases in an era of competing vendor platforms, making decisions in part based on terms/ethics/interfaces/features/etc."

Because of the unique social media chaos going on right now, I keep opening Xwitter instead of BlueSky and vice-versa, and then getting confused and disoriented about the interface and features on both platforms. I no longer judge my parents for their inability to comprehend DMs vs SMS texts.

Now that I've seen your skeets re: lawn mowing noise and NextDoor, the scythe element can take this character arc in so many funny directions!

Working on digital privacy for students means reading stories like this one again and again and screaming into the void.

Catching up with elementary school librarian ex-coworkers has me missing working with kids sooooo much, but has also left me feeling so grateful I'm not in that work environment anymore. Unfortunately, med students don't play foursquare and Pokémon Go with me yet. 😭

Bingo.

All patron records, regardless of age, should be private and between that patron and the library. And even then only until the loaned item is returned.

Agreed! I met a public librarian in my neighborhood buy nothing group when she bequeathed me a taxidermy squirrel slap bracelet that the rest of her family was too terrified of to keep 😂

Nah, I’m good.

I’ll wait in line.

You need knuckle tats that say hee hee hoo hoo

Venmos for those affected by the shooting at Nudieland:

Caitlin's venmo: @cait-angelica
Tonio's venmo: @tonio-alarcon-borges
Aaron's Venmo: @aarondive01
Fe's Venmo: @felixmcguire

Just yesterday on Bluesky I read how authors on Amazon and Goodreads have had shitty AI generated books attached to their author profiles and thought, “Oh, that would be terrible.” I checked and, well, fuck me, I’ve only written two books, folks, these ain’t mine. 📚