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Nancy Foasberg
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ScholComm librarian, board gamer, birder, lurker. She/her

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
"How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing"
https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-102825-1
"Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics."
How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing
Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org

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Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · 11d
Oooohhh the “Halloween Voter” ones are PRETTY GREAT

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 20d
Really pleased with the opening keynote of today's SJSU OA Conference that @camitchell.bsky.social & I gave re. #DefendResearch & the Declaration origin story. Lots of great sessions on the program for the rest of the day; check it out! scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...
Open Access Conference | Conferences | San Jose State University
open access | open education | conference | institutional repository
scholarworks.sjsu.edu

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 23d
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 28d
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com

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Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Sep 17
I think there was a Judge John Hodgman episode about him!

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Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Sep 16
Peter Suber making some great points about how Green OA can counteract censorship <3 #nisoplus25

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · Sep 15
You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Aug 11
Apparently we didn't learn our lesson from working with Google books

These partnerships are extractive and never end well

www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI
The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.
www.iowapublicradio.org

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Aug 5
NEW: Senior UCLA and University of California officials say they will negotiate with the Trump administration over lifting $339 million in medical and science grant freezes. No decision has been made about terms of an agreement, including a potential fine www.latimes.com/california/s...
UCLA will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes
UCLA and University of California officials said Monday that it will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes.
www.latimes.com

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Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social · Jul 25
Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!

punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
punctumbooks.com

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · Jul 22
Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.

And the blocking of content…
“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...
acrlog.org

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · Jul 21
is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...
docs.google.com

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · Jul 15
not a libguide but this was suggested: acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...
AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog
This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...
acrlog.org

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 2
Springer Nature makes clear that federally-funded authors who want to publish in SN journals will have to pay #APCs.
https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/us-federal-agency-compliance

Submitting articles to one of SN's non-OA or subscription-based journals, to avoid the APC, is not an […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Jun 11
ooooh new paper out today. a couple of years ago a big group of us were like "hey let's spend a few weeks painstakingly looking up the sources of every official bird common name" and as of today, you too can join us in our ornitholetymological (yes i made that up) rabbit-hole:
AvianLexiconAtlas: A database of descriptive categories of English-language bird names around the world
Common names of species are important for communicating with the general public. In principle, these names should provide an accessible way to engage with and identify species. The common names of spe...
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Sarah Todd @sarah-todd.bsky.social · May 29
Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.

www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · May 27
Academic publishing is a field that requires precision. Generative AI makes errors. It is a virtually useless type of tool for tasks that require precision, like academic publishing.
apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · May 27
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · May 12
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov

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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · May 10
The firing of the Librarian of Congress is worse than many appreciate. The Librarian is appointed for a ten year term by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. The position is nonpartisan and runs the critically important Congressional Research Service.

www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
Librarian of Congress firing is latest move in upheaval of U.S. cultural institutions
President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.
www.npr.org

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · May 9
For the nonlibrarians who follow me, I wish you could have felt *how excited* my library colleagues were when Carla Hayden was nominated. So respected for her work as a big-city library director & ALA president, back when ALA stood up against the Patriot Act. Impeccable library & leadership cred. 1/

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · May 9
Carla Hayden was president of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social when ours was one of few organized voices opposed to the USA PATRIOT Act.

Librarians have been fired all across the federal government, gutting not just ours but the world’s intellectual infrastructure. Devastating.

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · May 7
If you read this article at a superficial level, it's confusing.

If you try to really understand what's being said, it's probably the most intellectually dishonest article I've seen since.... the last time I read a piece of conservative media that pretended to be moderate, I guess?
Respecting Privacy of Thought in DEI Training | Antelman | College & Research LibrariesAntelman
Respecting Privacy of Thought in DEI Training
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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Apr 24
“the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is pleased to announce a special funding opportunity to support the design and creation of statues of important American historical figures for the planned National Garden of American Heroes.” bit.ly/42KlpCz
NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes
bit.ly

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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · Apr 16
Search extended, join us in the CUNYverse, academic librarians! Brooklyn College is hiring an Eresources Librarian, Instructor or Asst Prof! Info here: cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/... (and feel free to ask me ?s)
Jobs | City University of New York
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Apr 11
Google et al were hungry for these more-difficult-to-process objects, such as paintings, on which to train their models. Museums were happy to partner with them as they splashed out money on digitizing their holdings and for the promise of "coolness" and relevance derived from association with tech.

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Molly @molly-rocket.bsky.social · Apr 5
Here's my lightning talk about AI at #acrl2025 this morning. Thanks to @nicoloff.bsky.social for recording.

youtu.be/H2UdS1MqH8w?...
Take a Breath. Most Students Don't Need AI Skills
YouTube video by Molly June Roquet
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Apr 1
American Journal of Sociology needs to clarify this: the use of "may" is disqualifying. Does posting a paper on @SocArXiv constitute prior publication in the eyes of AJS overlords? If so, we're done here. If not, please correct. www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...