Izzy Eddyshaw
@izzyed.bsky.social
Health sciences librarian, weird little sci-fi nerd. She/her
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Izzy Eddyshaw
@izzyed.bsky.social
· Mar 20
I'm trying to keep track of how the situation in the U.S may affect access to NLM resources, all going on this library guide which has explainers, alternative resources, and further reading. Suggestions/corrections very welcome libguides.exeter.ac.uk/c.php?g=725268 #medlibs #pubmed
From the German National Library of Medicine, beta version of site for tracking additions and deletions to PubMed now available #medlibs
Datenqualität sichtbar gemacht: Mit Pubservatory zeigt @zbmed.bsky.social, wie sich Inhalte in #PubMed verändern. Neue Einträge und gelöschte Dubletten, transparent und interaktiv.
Beta-Version testen: https://pubservatory.zbmed.de/
#Fachl...
weiterlesen
Beta-Version testen: https://pubservatory.zbmed.de/
#Fachl...
weiterlesen
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
From the German National Library of Medicine, beta version of site for tracking additions and deletions to PubMed now available #medlibs
the vampire community continues to bombard me with unsettling little messages
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
the vampire community continues to bombard me with unsettling little messages
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🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Seems bad, but at least we can use PollutionBot3000 to summarise this article with questionable accuracy if we can't be bothered to read it though, eh. Must make sure to consider both the pros and cons
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Seems bad, but at least we can use PollutionBot3000 to summarise this article with questionable accuracy if we can't be bothered to read it though, eh. Must make sure to consider both the pros and cons
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today I cheerfully said to a class full of slightly dazed-looking students, "I appreciate it's Monday morning, so you're probably all a little tired". Blank, befuddled stares followed. Lads, turns out it's not Monday. I'm fine.
October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Today I cheerfully said to a class full of slightly dazed-looking students, "I appreciate it's Monday morning, so you're probably all a little tired". Blank, befuddled stares followed. Lads, turns out it's not Monday. I'm fine.
Reposted by Izzy Eddyshaw
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
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AI 🤝 fascism
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
AI 🤝 fascism
got some lads working on some scaffolding on our house, having some very sweet conversations, including but not limited to such lines as: "Mate you're a great scaffolder - you just need to have more confidence!"
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
got some lads working on some scaffolding on our house, having some very sweet conversations, including but not limited to such lines as: "Mate you're a great scaffolder - you just need to have more confidence!"
Reposted by Izzy Eddyshaw
Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed
There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…
There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…
Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed
There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's not being maintained. The notice is the same as the one displayed during a shutdown in 2018.
hildabastian.wordpress.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed
There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…
There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…
Had a great time at Titus Andronicus at Hampstead Theatre this weekend, highly recommend. Leaned effectively into the fact that the play as written is objectively hilarious. Also I got given a blanket to protect against all the blood sprays 😊
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Had a great time at Titus Andronicus at Hampstead Theatre this weekend, highly recommend. Leaned effectively into the fact that the play as written is objectively hilarious. Also I got given a blanket to protect against all the blood sprays 😊
Genuinely have seen circulating entirely serious suggestions to use AI generated people for library focus groups. Because finding real participants is too hard.
People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Genuinely have seen circulating entirely serious suggestions to use AI generated people for library focus groups. Because finding real participants is too hard.
Reposted by Izzy Eddyshaw
"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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IMPORTANT 🧵
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
September 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
IMPORTANT 🧵
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
They've got it backwards: autistic people take more paracetamol due to all the headaches caused by neurotypical people constantly spouting nonsense takes*
*obligatory disclaimer that paracetamol and autism have nothing to do with each other, and we live in a hell world
*obligatory disclaimer that paracetamol and autism have nothing to do with each other, and we live in a hell world
September 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
They've got it backwards: autistic people take more paracetamol due to all the headaches caused by neurotypical people constantly spouting nonsense takes*
*obligatory disclaimer that paracetamol and autism have nothing to do with each other, and we live in a hell world
*obligatory disclaimer that paracetamol and autism have nothing to do with each other, and we live in a hell world
Reposted by Izzy Eddyshaw
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
September 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
Co2 and electricity use aside, here's some fun facts! Data centres can consume 5 million gallons of *drinking water* a day, while approx 2/3rds of post-2022 data centres have been placed in areas already experiencing drought or water stress.
Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year
Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock ‘hyperscale’ unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Co2 and electricity use aside, here's some fun facts! Data centres can consume 5 million gallons of *drinking water* a day, while approx 2/3rds of post-2022 data centres have been placed in areas already experiencing drought or water stress.
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it’s time, if you haven’t already done so, to shut down your twitter account, and tell the institutions you are part of to leave too.
there’s no way any UK museum, university, politician or any of us should still be on that far-right platform
there’s no way any UK museum, university, politician or any of us should still be on that far-right platform
I couldn't find a full transcript of the Musk conversation with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) at yesterday’s London demonstration so I made one myself
many shocking bits to this but perhaps especially the rhetoric of English villages under attack from “marauding"
many shocking bits to this but perhaps especially the rhetoric of English villages under attack from “marauding"
September 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
it’s time, if you haven’t already done so, to shut down your twitter account, and tell the institutions you are part of to leave too.
there’s no way any UK museum, university, politician or any of us should still be on that far-right platform
there’s no way any UK museum, university, politician or any of us should still be on that far-right platform
I am begging you people to stop describing concerns about or objections to generative AI tools as "fears". I am not scared of AI. Now, the fascist-enabling, Trumpian, amoral tech CEOs who you are cheerfully allowing to dictate to you the information you have access to. They're scary, yes.
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I am begging you people to stop describing concerns about or objections to generative AI tools as "fears". I am not scared of AI. Now, the fascist-enabling, Trumpian, amoral tech CEOs who you are cheerfully allowing to dictate to you the information you have access to. They're scary, yes.
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Do it.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Do it.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.
I compared current pages with wayback machine equivalents from Jan (I'm fun). Can't see any big changes to actual scope/policy, except for no longer accepting print journals, and complete removal of LSTRC with its named members, substituted with references to "external, expert consultants".
After getting rid of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, the NLM is now announcing that it is "modernizing journal selection". So far, the description of journal selection is just scrubbed of committee mentions. "More information will be shared in the coming months." #medlibs […]
Original post on mastodon.nu
mastodon.nu
September 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I compared current pages with wayback machine equivalents from Jan (I'm fun). Can't see any big changes to actual scope/policy, except for no longer accepting print journals, and complete removal of LSTRC with its named members, substituted with references to "external, expert consultants".
Day 1 in our new house and we are being BURGLED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
August 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Day 1 in our new house and we are being BURGLED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
Hey we've noticed that u take showers sometimes lol. Can u not though because we need literally all of the water available in order to power our big machine which takes your art and rips it up and stitches it back together wrong so that we can pretend it's our own work. This is super necessary"
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hey we've noticed that u take showers sometimes lol. Can u not though because we need literally all of the water available in order to power our big machine which takes your art and rips it up and stitches it back together wrong so that we can pretend it's our own work. This is super necessary"
"you can't possibly comment on how good a generative AI tool is unless you've used it" -> "you can't possibly comment on how stress-relieving it is to walk around whacking strangers on the head with a comedy-sized saucepan unless you've tried it"
August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"you can't possibly comment on how good a generative AI tool is unless you've used it" -> "you can't possibly comment on how stress-relieving it is to walk around whacking strangers on the head with a comedy-sized saucepan unless you've tried it"
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.