Emma Wilson
@emmawilson.bsky.social
Working in research data management, FAIR principles, and information retrieval; neurodivergent; she/they; views my own
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Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
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@abeba.bsky.social
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
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It’s a good day to talk about women scientists. Let’s also remember Margaret W. Rossiter, who died in August of this year.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That
The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It’s a good day to talk about women scientists. Let’s also remember Margaret W. Rossiter, who died in August of this year.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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March 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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If you missed the talk on class in HE librarians by @patchedelbows.bsky.social last week, don't despair! Here's the doi, you can catch up now 😀
doi.org/10.52843/cas...
doi.org/10.52843/cas...
Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar
Seamlessly organise, run and publish academic research seminars. Get started in minutes.
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you missed the talk on class in HE librarians by @patchedelbows.bsky.social last week, don't despair! Here's the doi, you can catch up now 😀
doi.org/10.52843/cas...
doi.org/10.52843/cas...
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Last day to get yourself a spooky 33% off ALL our books!
Whether you like eerie Gothic, terrifying horror or dreadfully good dark fiction - we have something for everyone.
Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout. Ends tonight at 11:59pm GMT!
www.hauntpublishing.com/books
Whether you like eerie Gothic, terrifying horror or dreadfully good dark fiction - we have something for everyone.
Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout. Ends tonight at 11:59pm GMT!
www.hauntpublishing.com/books
Books — Haunt Publishing
Haunt publishes books in the Gothic, horror and dark fiction genres.
www.hauntpublishing.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Last day to get yourself a spooky 33% off ALL our books!
Whether you like eerie Gothic, terrifying horror or dreadfully good dark fiction - we have something for everyone.
Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout. Ends tonight at 11:59pm GMT!
www.hauntpublishing.com/books
Whether you like eerie Gothic, terrifying horror or dreadfully good dark fiction - we have something for everyone.
Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout. Ends tonight at 11:59pm GMT!
www.hauntpublishing.com/books
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Your annual #medlibs Halloween reminder that "Chocolate"[Mesh] has only been in use since 2017. (OK, to be fair previous indexing is "Cacao"[Mesh] 1963-2016, but STILL.)
Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results.
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Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Your annual #medlibs Halloween reminder that "Chocolate"[Mesh] has only been in use since 2017. (OK, to be fair previous indexing is "Cacao"[Mesh] 1963-2016, but STILL.)
Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results.
🎃🍫🍬👻
Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results.
🎃🍫🍬👻
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Proud to be repping some @openlibhums.org merch this Hallowe’en!
I’m a huge advocate for what @theblochian.bsky.social & the whole team do to sustainably grow Diamond Open Access academic publishing.
P.s. commercial publishers really are eating your journal’s brains! Let’s keep horror in fiction 🧟♂️
I’m a huge advocate for what @theblochian.bsky.social & the whole team do to sustainably grow Diamond Open Access academic publishing.
P.s. commercial publishers really are eating your journal’s brains! Let’s keep horror in fiction 🧟♂️
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Proud to be repping some @openlibhums.org merch this Hallowe’en!
I’m a huge advocate for what @theblochian.bsky.social & the whole team do to sustainably grow Diamond Open Access academic publishing.
P.s. commercial publishers really are eating your journal’s brains! Let’s keep horror in fiction 🧟♂️
I’m a huge advocate for what @theblochian.bsky.social & the whole team do to sustainably grow Diamond Open Access academic publishing.
P.s. commercial publishers really are eating your journal’s brains! Let’s keep horror in fiction 🧟♂️
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it is halloween, so we must all look at my beloved bat from BL Harley MS 3244 f. 55v
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
it is halloween, so we must all look at my beloved bat from BL Harley MS 3244 f. 55v
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Cooking up some memes for a @reproducibilitea.org session on Open Research next week. This is gonna be fun!
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Cooking up some memes for a @reproducibilitea.org session on Open Research next week. This is gonna be fun!
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[Dangermouse theme]
Trunkless legs
History's dregs?
Was astounding, was amazing, now he's dead
Rameses
All great deeds
Are forgotten, are all rotten, prompting dreeeeead
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameseeeees
Trunkless legs
History's dregs?
Was astounding, was amazing, now he's dead
Rameses
All great deeds
Are forgotten, are all rotten, prompting dreeeeead
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameseeeees
[Ducktales theme]
Vast and trunkless legs of stone
I-n the, de-sert
Standing out there all alone
It's un-pleasant
A shattered visage
might be a mirage
Hubris! Woo hoo!
Vast and trunkless legs of stone
I-n the, de-sert
Standing out there all alone
It's un-pleasant
A shattered visage
might be a mirage
Hubris! Woo hoo!
The name on the plinth is Ozymandias
Christopher Robin despaired with Alice
Two trunkless legs are all that stand
Except for a face and lots of sand
Says Alice
Christopher Robin despaired with Alice
Two trunkless legs are all that stand
Except for a face and lots of sand
Says Alice
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
[Dangermouse theme]
Trunkless legs
History's dregs?
Was astounding, was amazing, now he's dead
Rameses
All great deeds
Are forgotten, are all rotten, prompting dreeeeead
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameseeeees
Trunkless legs
History's dregs?
Was astounding, was amazing, now he's dead
Rameses
All great deeds
Are forgotten, are all rotten, prompting dreeeeead
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameses (dun dun dun dun dun]
Rameseeeees
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Keeping to time is an accessibility issue! People need breaks between sessions in conferences for all sorts of accessibility reasons - whether for cognitive load, to take medication, needing bathroom breaks, check blood sugar or anything else! Making an effort to keep to time is inclusive.
Nobody makes enemies by finishing their talk early…
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Keeping to time is an accessibility issue! People need breaks between sessions in conferences for all sorts of accessibility reasons - whether for cognitive load, to take medication, needing bathroom breaks, check blood sugar or anything else! Making an effort to keep to time is inclusive.
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Did you miss our #OpenAccessWeek webinar? Our team shared how you can use KCWorks to disseminate your scholarship and publications...AND gave a sneak peek at a major system upgrade that'll be launching very soon. You're not going to want to miss it!
🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGq...
🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGq...
Open for All: Knowledge Commons, KCWorks, and the Future of Open Access
In celebration of Open Access Week 2025, the Knowledge Commons team presented a webinar on Knowledge Commons, KCWorks, and the Future of Open Access. KCWorks is an open repository platform designed…
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Did you miss our #OpenAccessWeek webinar? Our team shared how you can use KCWorks to disseminate your scholarship and publications...AND gave a sneak peek at a major system upgrade that'll be launching very soon. You're not going to want to miss it!
🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGq...
🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGq...
“AO3 reminds us that platforms can be built by and for communities, without extractive profit models or exclusionary hierarchies. It shows what’s possible when infrastructure is treated as a public good, and when participation is scaffolded, not gated.“
Such a great piece!
Such a great piece!
My latest article, out now in Katina Magazine: 'How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing'
Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought...
Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought...
Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“AO3 reminds us that platforms can be built by and for communities, without extractive profit models or exclusionary hierarchies. It shows what’s possible when infrastructure is treated as a public good, and when participation is scaffolded, not gated.“
Such a great piece!
Such a great piece!
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Okay, everyone needs to ALT text for accessibility purposes but also for muted words (I don't want terrible people turning up on my feed - name them!)
October 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Okay, everyone needs to ALT text for accessibility purposes but also for muted words (I don't want terrible people turning up on my feed - name them!)
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Interesting. A library decides they can’t renew a database because their users would immediately violate the license terms by using the university’s Microsoft products that have force fed copilot into everything.
Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory
Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory
Fascinating to see how one academic library vendors is trying to restrict students/faculty using LLMs.
source.colostate.edu/guest-column...
source.colostate.edu/guest-column...
Guest column: When publishers’ fear of AI prohibits basic uses
"This fall, the CSU Libraries engaged in contract renewal negotiations for its subscription of SciFinder, a database aggregator provided by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society."
source.colostate.edu
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Interesting. A library decides they can’t renew a database because their users would immediately violate the license terms by using the university’s Microsoft products that have force fed copilot into everything.
Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory
Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory
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You can write any old fanciful nonsense about how AI is going to fix all of science as long you say how we need to use it *responsibly* and how it will *never replace humans entirely*.
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
You can write any old fanciful nonsense about how AI is going to fix all of science as long you say how we need to use it *responsibly* and how it will *never replace humans entirely*.
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"What this means for humanists is stark. The very articles and books we painstakingly produce are being fed, legally and lucratively, into AI systems that will soon replicate, and perhaps replace, our intellectual labour."
www.abc.net.au/religion/how...
www.abc.net.au/religion/how...
How AI exposes the hypocrisy of academic publishing - ABC Religion & Ethics
Academics punish students for using AI, even as they gift their own research to a publishing business that directly feeds the research into the very models that we caution students against using — wit...
www.abc.net.au
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"What this means for humanists is stark. The very articles and books we painstakingly produce are being fed, legally and lucratively, into AI systems that will soon replicate, and perhaps replace, our intellectual labour."
www.abc.net.au/religion/how...
www.abc.net.au/religion/how...
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The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it.
PSF therefore declined the funding.
Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains
PSF therefore declined the funding.
Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it.
PSF therefore declined the funding.
Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains
PSF therefore declined the funding.
Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains
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“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.”
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
Art as Knowledge – Why research needs a non-aligned revolution - Impact of Social Sciences
Drawing on political theories of non-alignment, Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“These aren’t ‘soft’ alternatives to ‘hard’ research. They are different technologies of knowledge that can access realities other methods miss.”
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
Excellent piece on the need for plural & inclusive visions of knowledge creation.
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Publishing open and shareable scientific findings without breaking the bank - our panel discuss emerging and future models fo sharing research outputs. @earthowned.bsky.social, @marstonlab.bsky.social, Mahesh Karnani and Matt Nolan #EN-PM
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Publishing open and shareable scientific findings without breaking the bank - our panel discuss emerging and future models fo sharing research outputs. @earthowned.bsky.social, @marstonlab.bsky.social, Mahesh Karnani and Matt Nolan #EN-PM
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I have seen three separate 'the sun won't set later than 6pm here until Feb' posts and give a hollow laugh each time
Scotland entered The Big Dark a while ago 🌚
Scotland entered The Big Dark a while ago 🌚
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I have seen three separate 'the sun won't set later than 6pm here until Feb' posts and give a hollow laugh each time
Scotland entered The Big Dark a while ago 🌚
Scotland entered The Big Dark a while ago 🌚
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The unsaid part here is that if you don't feel this way about big brand names, you must be less human in your DNA.
But really it's just eugenics ravings and a need by execs to see the slop be used so they weren't wrong to adopt it. I'm sure this predatory crap is in their contracts at this point.
But really it's just eugenics ravings and a need by execs to see the slop be used so they weren't wrong to adopt it. I'm sure this predatory crap is in their contracts at this point.
Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The unsaid part here is that if you don't feel this way about big brand names, you must be less human in your DNA.
But really it's just eugenics ravings and a need by execs to see the slop be used so they weren't wrong to adopt it. I'm sure this predatory crap is in their contracts at this point.
But really it's just eugenics ravings and a need by execs to see the slop be used so they weren't wrong to adopt it. I'm sure this predatory crap is in their contracts at this point.
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Tech companies will sell you every conceivable flavor of personal ambition except ‘be decent to other people and try not to leave the world worse than you found it’
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Tech companies will sell you every conceivable flavor of personal ambition except ‘be decent to other people and try not to leave the world worse than you found it’