Beth Tapster
@bethtapster.bsky.social
NHS Librarian. Likes trees, always overwhelmed. Very interested in AI in health but in a sceptical cautious way obvs.
My eldest finished sixth form today (🫠). Very amused to learn that during leaver's assembly the school finally acknowledged their most notorious alumni Liz Truss, as a warning to learn to be good with money and have decent principles (accompanied by an embarrassing photo of her as a student there) 😂
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My eldest finished sixth form today (🫠). Very amused to learn that during leaver's assembly the school finally acknowledged their most notorious alumni Liz Truss, as a warning to learn to be good with money and have decent principles (accompanied by an embarrassing photo of her as a student there) 😂
This morning I managed to retrieve a clinician's 3000 word assignment that they had accidentally deleted twenty minutes before their submission deadline. I have never felt career satisfaction like it.
May 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This morning I managed to retrieve a clinician's 3000 word assignment that they had accidentally deleted twenty minutes before their submission deadline. I have never felt career satisfaction like it.
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The ultimate catch-22 for refugees:
You have to be in the UK to seek asylum BUT
According to our government,
You are illegitimate if you come here through irregular means...
AND you are illegitimate if you come on a visa, too 🤔🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIP...
You have to be in the UK to seek asylum BUT
According to our government,
You are illegitimate if you come here through irregular means...
AND you are illegitimate if you come on a visa, too 🤔🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIP...
Another BACK DOOR to seek asylum?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The ultimate catch-22 for refugees:
You have to be in the UK to seek asylum BUT
According to our government,
You are illegitimate if you come here through irregular means...
AND you are illegitimate if you come on a visa, too 🤔🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIP...
You have to be in the UK to seek asylum BUT
According to our government,
You are illegitimate if you come here through irregular means...
AND you are illegitimate if you come on a visa, too 🤔🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIP...
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Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field:
www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field:
www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
Gaaaahhh. Of interest to #medlibs ...so happy we pay so much to publishers for high quality work like this!
Medical textbook is pulled from shelves after an extract found stating the line – "It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice."
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1...
$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’
Peter Purgathofer looked over “Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy” by Nanasaheb Thorat, published in March by Springer Nature. On page 25, he found why we pay Springer the big bucks: [h…
pivot-to-ai.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Gaaaahhh. Of interest to #medlibs ...so happy we pay so much to publishers for high quality work like this!
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This is what I was talking about during my keynote at @lilacconf.bsky.social #LILAC25 last week for all those who asked, what can they do and how to be involved in challenging the way big tech shape oir worlds ✨️🤘
💃I am super excited to join Hopeful Technologists led by the brilliant @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social to try & figure out how can we create a better tech future through the Society for Hopeful Technologists www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-... pls fill out the survey so we can see how to do this!
Survey: Society for Hopeful Technologists — Careful Industries
Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Complete this survey to help shape the Society for Hopef...
www.careful.industries
April 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is what I was talking about during my keynote at @lilacconf.bsky.social #LILAC25 last week for all those who asked, what can they do and how to be involved in challenging the way big tech shape oir worlds ✨️🤘
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This week’s column is on AI slop and the aestheticisation of fascism. Happy Easter! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik
A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This week’s column is on AI slop and the aestheticisation of fascism. Happy Easter! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An excellent addition to the "How to read a paper" fold - focus is clearly on health but the introduction has wide relevance as do many of the questions 📚 #medlibs
Our new paper!! Led by @drpauldijkstra.bsky.social with @jessrmorley.bsky.social and awesome medical student Yosra Mekki. #digitalhealth #medsky #episky
How to Read a Paper Involving AI.
bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
How to Read a Paper Involving AI.
bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI)
This paper guides readers through the critical appraisal of a paper that includes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical settings for healthcare delivery. A brief introduction to the diff...
bmjmedicine.bmj.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
An excellent addition to the "How to read a paper" fold - focus is clearly on health but the introduction has wide relevance as do many of the questions 📚 #medlibs
Already hoping to find a way to be back next year- so I'm very pleased that it will be in Yorkshire! I've had such a great time at my first LILAC-it has been both practical and inspiring (and fun) (and it dispelled some negative preconceptions I may have had about it as a conference 😬!). #lilac25
We’re so excited to reveal that the location of #LILAC26 will be @sheffielduni.bsky.social We hope to see you all there next year. Thank you to everyone that joined us at #LILAC25 and safe journey home.
April 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Already hoping to find a way to be back next year- so I'm very pleased that it will be in Yorkshire! I've had such a great time at my first LILAC-it has been both practical and inspiring (and fun) (and it dispelled some negative preconceptions I may have had about it as a conference 😬!). #lilac25
Booked early afternoon train home from #lilac25, partly due to maternal guilt + wanting to be home by bedtime, partly because I'd usually be completely over it by day 3 of a conference.
Still glad I'll be home by bedtime but I reallllly didn't want to leave yet and I'm gutted to miss the afternoon.
Still glad I'll be home by bedtime but I reallllly didn't want to leave yet and I'm gutted to miss the afternoon.
April 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Booked early afternoon train home from #lilac25, partly due to maternal guilt + wanting to be home by bedtime, partly because I'd usually be completely over it by day 3 of a conference.
Still glad I'll be home by bedtime but I reallllly didn't want to leave yet and I'm gutted to miss the afternoon.
Still glad I'll be home by bedtime but I reallllly didn't want to leave yet and I'm gutted to miss the afternoon.
Great shout-out to the brilliant work of @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and Careful Industries during the discussion on the keynote from @elinorcarmi.bsky.social #lilac25
April 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Great shout-out to the brilliant work of @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and Careful Industries during the discussion on the keynote from @elinorcarmi.bsky.social #lilac25
Brilliant keynote from @elinorcarmi.bsky.social - definitely going to read the report on my way home! openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31...
April 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Brilliant keynote from @elinorcarmi.bsky.social - definitely going to read the report on my way home! openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31...
Combining my Lilac experience with my love of outdoor pools by visiting the National Lido of Wales before the conference dinner...managed a (lovely) 15 minute swim before we all had to evacuate because of a thunderstorm 😂
April 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Combining my Lilac experience with my love of outdoor pools by visiting the National Lido of Wales before the conference dinner...managed a (lovely) 15 minute swim before we all had to evacuate because of a thunderstorm 😂
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"If you're providing an online system with very personal data about you, like your face or your job or your favourite colour, you ought to do so with the understanding that those data aren't just useful to get the immediate outcome — like a doll." I have to explain this to students almost daily!
April 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"If you're providing an online system with very personal data about you, like your face or your job or your favourite colour, you ought to do so with the understanding that those data aren't just useful to get the immediate outcome — like a doll." I have to explain this to students almost daily!
Jess Haigh's presentation about her research on the impact of LILAC is full of really informative descriptions of the practicalities of her research process and getting research done without funding or a supervisor. So useful to see this discussed in detail. #lilac25
April 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Jess Haigh's presentation about her research on the impact of LILAC is full of really informative descriptions of the practicalities of her research process and getting research done without funding or a supervisor. So useful to see this discussed in detail. #lilac25
First conference I've been to with a live musical performance (of an original folk song about information literacy no less) in the keynote. Jane Secker's keynote was amazing in all the ways! #lilac25
April 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
First conference I've been to with a live musical performance (of an original folk song about information literacy no less) in the keynote. Jane Secker's keynote was amazing in all the ways! #lilac25
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Is traditional information literacy like folk music, and AI literacy our moment to "go electric"? Under the hype about AI we still need a solid foundation of information literacy, but we may need to rethink some of our models and practices #lilac25
April 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Is traditional information literacy like folk music, and AI literacy our moment to "go electric"? Under the hype about AI we still need a solid foundation of information literacy, but we may need to rethink some of our models and practices #lilac25
Really enjoyed this session, wondering whether there is any scope to try out something like this across NHS libraries to help us develop our teaching practice... #lilac25
Day 2 at #lilac25 has kicked off with a brilliant presentation from two librarians from the university of Houston, Texas on reflection for assessing information literacy. Hand-wrote my notes but wanted to share this awesome toolkit they've put together:
libteach.pubpub.org/reflectionto...
libteach.pubpub.org/reflectionto...
Reflection Toolkit · UH Libraries Teaching & Learning
Activities, questions, documents, and processes for using critical reflection as a way to evaluate student learning, boost self-efficacy, and document teaching.
libteach.pubpub.org
April 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Really enjoyed this session, wondering whether there is any scope to try out something like this across NHS libraries to help us develop our teaching practice... #lilac25
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Here is a very good post by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on responsible use of AI.
For those of us who think by writing (me included) the writing is the thinking and there’s no point getting AI to do it. But not everyone thinks by writing.
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
For those of us who think by writing (me included) the writing is the thinking and there’s no point getting AI to do it. But not everyone thinks by writing.
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Here is a very good post by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on responsible use of AI.
For those of us who think by writing (me included) the writing is the thinking and there’s no point getting AI to do it. But not everyone thinks by writing.
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
For those of us who think by writing (me included) the writing is the thinking and there’s no point getting AI to do it. But not everyone thinks by writing.
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
Made an extremely regrettable choice by eating in the hotel bar because I'm too tired to move...this macaroni cheese looks and tastes like it came out of a sachet and cost just under half of my (very cheap) room for the night 😭
April 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Made an extremely regrettable choice by eating in the hotel bar because I'm too tired to move...this macaroni cheese looks and tastes like it came out of a sachet and cost just under half of my (very cheap) room for the night 😭
Relatable insights from Katie Smith on the work they've been doing to evaluate attitudes of NHS staff returning to study. Themes are very recognisable from the staff we work with-lack of confidence in their academic skills (although they often have more skills than they recognise!) #lilac25
April 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Relatable insights from Katie Smith on the work they've been doing to evaluate attitudes of NHS staff returning to study. Themes are very recognisable from the staff we work with-lack of confidence in their academic skills (although they often have more skills than they recognise!) #lilac25
Feeling very relieved that my #lilac25 presentation was during the first session this morning so I can now relax and enjoy the rest of the conference, which all looks great. (If I can stop obsessing about all the stupid things I said/didn't say when I presented...)
April 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Feeling very relieved that my #lilac25 presentation was during the first session this morning so I can now relax and enjoy the rest of the conference, which all looks great. (If I can stop obsessing about all the stupid things I said/didn't say when I presented...)
This is an incredibly brave, moving and powerful talk, 'speaking truth to tech gods.' Definitely worth a watch. youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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April 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This is an incredibly brave, moving and powerful talk, 'speaking truth to tech gods.' Definitely worth a watch. youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
Information literacy anthem..❤️
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
April 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Information literacy anthem..❤️