Elle Ann
@libraryleo.bsky.social
An ADHD librarian if you couldn't tell from all the madness. Co-editor of NAG journal Taking Stock. Systems. Wellbeing. Environmental sustainability.
Anyone else out there working from home on Vodafone and therefore not working from home? I've been ill and a bit overwhelmed for a few weeks and I took the opportunity to mop the kitchen floor. I MOPPED THE KITCHEN FLOOR. Very proud of myself.
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Anyone else out there working from home on Vodafone and therefore not working from home? I've been ill and a bit overwhelmed for a few weeks and I took the opportunity to mop the kitchen floor. I MOPPED THE KITCHEN FLOOR. Very proud of myself.
Wow my anxiety is through the roof today. Might try to revive my dead blog, Anxious Librarians. It was apt then and it's apt now.
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Wow my anxiety is through the roof today. Might try to revive my dead blog, Anxious Librarians. It was apt then and it's apt now.
Petition to add single's nights to conference social events.
If you think I'm joking then I'm joking. If you think it could work then schedule it plz.
If you think I'm joking then I'm joking. If you think it could work then schedule it plz.
September 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Petition to add single's nights to conference social events.
If you think I'm joking then I'm joking. If you think it could work then schedule it plz.
If you think I'm joking then I'm joking. If you think it could work then schedule it plz.
Reposted by Elle Ann
They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
Funnily enough Outlook, if I'm reading or writing an email, and flip to my calendar to check something, I'd quite like to be returned to the email I was working on???? Radical I know.
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Funnily enough Outlook, if I'm reading or writing an email, and flip to my calendar to check something, I'd quite like to be returned to the email I was working on???? Radical I know.
Reposted by Elle Ann
"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.
Reposted by Elle Ann
See this quoted thread for highlights from the lead author of this important paper!
My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵
My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
See this quoted thread for highlights from the lead author of this important paper!
My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵
My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵
It's awful but I do miss the more lively discussions had on the bird app during library conferences. Cmon get your butts on bluesky.
September 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It's awful but I do miss the more lively discussions had on the bird app during library conferences. Cmon get your butts on bluesky.
As ever I feel extremely lucky to be able to attend, present, appreciate, criticise, eat, drink, and be merry, at the international group of ex libris users conference. 4 years in a row! #igelu2025
September 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
As ever I feel extremely lucky to be able to attend, present, appreciate, criticise, eat, drink, and be merry, at the international group of ex libris users conference. 4 years in a row! #igelu2025
How is the presumably vast energy increase from embedding AI into every single product and task and search being measured and offset, particularly considering Clarivate's goal to be net zero by 2040? #igelu2025
September 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
How is the presumably vast energy increase from embedding AI into every single product and task and search being measured and offset, particularly considering Clarivate's goal to be net zero by 2040? #igelu2025
At least I've given the Italian mosquitos something to snack on
After 3 days in Florence, I arrived in Siena, headed to the first pharmacy I saw, and just said, 'Buena Sera... Le Zanzare!'
After 3 days in Florence, I arrived in Siena, headed to the first pharmacy I saw, and just said, 'Buena Sera... Le Zanzare!'
September 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
At least I've given the Italian mosquitos something to snack on
After 3 days in Florence, I arrived in Siena, headed to the first pharmacy I saw, and just said, 'Buena Sera... Le Zanzare!'
After 3 days in Florence, I arrived in Siena, headed to the first pharmacy I saw, and just said, 'Buena Sera... Le Zanzare!'
Just remembered that my flounce around Florence is actually a work trip and I have to do work things tomorrow? Crazy
September 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just remembered that my flounce around Florence is actually a work trip and I have to do work things tomorrow? Crazy
Heading to Florence today!
September 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Heading to Florence today!
On Monday I'll be starting a new role as Library Management Systems Administrator, fixed term until December 31st aahhhhhhh
a close up of a white kitten with its mouth open and looking at the camera .
ALT: a close up of a white kitten with its mouth open and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On Monday I'll be starting a new role as Library Management Systems Administrator, fixed term until December 31st aahhhhhhh
Reposted by Elle Ann
One of the things I keep telling teachers and students is that when you use genAI, you don't always know if the result it cranks out is plagiarized or not. If you use copy/paste that text or even just use it as a quote, you could be plagiarizing without even knowing it.
August 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One of the things I keep telling teachers and students is that when you use genAI, you don't always know if the result it cranks out is plagiarized or not. If you use copy/paste that text or even just use it as a quote, you could be plagiarizing without even knowing it.
If you see this post a robot:
August 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you see this post a robot:
When you don't win the toy at the webinar but 2 weeks later 3 are hand delivered to your office 🤯 @technologyfromsage.bsky.social thank you and thank you to your son for attending Exeter Uni otherwise my desk would be devastatingly turtleless right now
June 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When you don't win the toy at the webinar but 2 weeks later 3 are hand delivered to your office 🤯 @technologyfromsage.bsky.social thank you and thank you to your son for attending Exeter Uni otherwise my desk would be devastatingly turtleless right now
Let's say I was in a position to interview for a systems librarian post within the next 2 months - any advice?
May 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Let's say I was in a position to interview for a systems librarian post within the next 2 months - any advice?
On the lookout for more UK/EU/Global librarians to follow. My feed is currently overwhelmingly US, and while it's important, it's real bleak (I'm so sorry) and I need to know more about what's happening here and elsewhere.
May 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
On the lookout for more UK/EU/Global librarians to follow. My feed is currently overwhelmingly US, and while it's important, it's real bleak (I'm so sorry) and I need to know more about what's happening here and elsewhere.
Reposted by Elle Ann
So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
That's a long time in the microwave.
mashable.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Starting this one today
May 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Starting this one today
Also trying desperately to carve a niche for myself and develop skills that might help me finally permanently progress in libraries
May 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Also trying desperately to carve a niche for myself and develop skills that might help me finally permanently progress in libraries