Holly Ranger
@themauvedesert.bsky.social
"The boosting of AI by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education [and] libraries... Fascism and AI... are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"The boosting of AI by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education [and] libraries... Fascism and AI... are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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one thing that is so horrible about the AI interwoven into every medium of communication is the prompt to summarize. no, actually, I want to read closely and carefully the words which my beloveds are writing to me!
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
one thing that is so horrible about the AI interwoven into every medium of communication is the prompt to summarize. no, actually, I want to read closely and carefully the words which my beloveds are writing to me!
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The next DigiPres North meeting is booked in for world digital preservation day #WDPD25
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy!
If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres
Where we'll be discussing TeraCopy!
If you're a Northern digipres person without an invite and want to come along drop me a message!
#digipres
a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .
ALT: a man with a beard is standing in the snow with the words `` i belong in the north '' written above him .
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Counterpoint: this is a net negative and more deeply entrenches Clarivate in the broader affinities of scholarly communications; ORCIDs and other PIDs are already (quite reasonably) contested, and such affinities will reduce confidence from many communities and participants.
🎉 We are delighted to share that Clarivate is #ORCID's newest Certified Service Provider!
Try out the recently improved and relaunched Web of Science search & link tool now!
👉 https://orcid.org/signin
#Researchsky
Try out the recently improved and relaunched Web of Science search & link tool now!
👉 https://orcid.org/signin
#Researchsky
October 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Counterpoint: this is a net negative and more deeply entrenches Clarivate in the broader affinities of scholarly communications; ORCIDs and other PIDs are already (quite reasonably) contested, and such affinities will reduce confidence from many communities and participants.
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Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector | Insights
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
View from my train window: a house decorated for Halloween, with a skeleton on the roof, cobweb netting stretched over the garden, and a giant England flag draped over the garage. 10/10 visual metaphor for the rotting empire lurching relentlessly on 🧟♂️ Spooky!
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
View from my train window: a house decorated for Halloween, with a skeleton on the roof, cobweb netting stretched over the garden, and a giant England flag draped over the garage. 10/10 visual metaphor for the rotting empire lurching relentlessly on 🧟♂️ Spooky!
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📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇
🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...
Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
📣 Reminder: Sheffield Library is recruiting for an Open Research Manager/ local UKRN ORCA! Applications close next Wednesday, 22 October 👇
📢 Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.
🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...
Open Research Manager
Open Research Manager
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📢 Come work with us! The Open Research Manager is a reformulated role in our team - it would suit someone with a strong research support background, but I'm happy to chat to anyone about the role and criteria.
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Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.
OSF
osf.io
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.
Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇
I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
September 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇
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This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25
Finally, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, who found 68 kinds of problems with systematic reviews, including lack of diversity in the review team: "a bad systematic review is worse than a non-review" because of the assumption of a gold standard doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #OpenFest25
Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Finally, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, who found 68 kinds of problems with systematic reviews, including lack of diversity in the review team: "a bad systematic review is worse than a non-review" because of the assumption of a gold standard doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #OpenFest25
Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Now @alicejanegibson.bsky.social is talking us through how systems theory/ systems thinking can help us map and understand research culture as an ecosystem, locating the leverage points for transformative impact across the ecosystem #OpenFest25
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
September 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
In our final online panel, a great paper from Batool Almarzouq, who shows how - if you follow the sources back - the same extractivist dynamics that transfer wealth from the global south to the global north in neocolonial projects play out in the open science funding landscape #OpenFest25
Thanks to @nickshepp.bsky.social for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research #OpenFest25
Valuing a broad range of research contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT is not enough commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/c69y2lr3...
#OpenFest25
#OpenFest25
Valuing a broad range of research contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT is not enough
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thanks to @nickshepp.bsky.social for posting links from our panel on recognising and attributing contributions to research #OpenFest25
First up on #OpenFest25 Day 2 is @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social with a call to approach 'open' as a social process (rather than an end goal) to revive its original DIY radical ethos and practice
September 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
First up on #OpenFest25 Day 2 is @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social with a call to approach 'open' as a social process (rather than an end goal) to revive its original DIY radical ethos and practice
Powerful presentation from @lyndamk.bsky.social of @datarescueproject.org on ongoing work to rescue and preserve digital and physical federal data targeted by the Trump administration www.datarescueproject.org #OpenFest25
Data Rescue Project
Preserving public data
www.datarescueproject.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Powerful presentation from @lyndamk.bsky.social of @datarescueproject.org on ongoing work to rescue and preserve digital and physical federal data targeted by the Trump administration www.datarescueproject.org #OpenFest25
@emmawilson.bsky.social on how challenges in finding+accessing research literature harms bibliographic diversity, ending with a key point: "proprietary [research information] systems don't work for us *as researchers*". How do you evaluate the lit. when you can't even read the abstracts? #OpenFest25
September 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@emmawilson.bsky.social on how challenges in finding+accessing research literature harms bibliographic diversity, ending with a key point: "proprietary [research information] systems don't work for us *as researchers*". How do you evaluate the lit. when you can't even read the abstracts? #OpenFest25
@drbeth.bsky.social providing an overview of 25 years of 'open' and EDI in this space. Appreciated the critique of the ways peer review comments enforce nativism and epistemic hegemony (trans or feminist researchers told they are 'biased' must add more cis men to make the research more 'rigorous')
Last run through of my talk for #OpenFest tomorrow, pretty much bang on an hour so I'm going to have to speak fast and attempt to not go off track.
Hopefully it'll be an enjoyable, if general, overview of EDI issues in Open Research. I hope you'll come along!
sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
Hopefully it'll be an enjoyable, if general, overview of EDI issues in Open Research. I hope you'll come along!
sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...
OpenFest 2025
OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:
sheffield.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@drbeth.bsky.social providing an overview of 25 years of 'open' and EDI in this space. Appreciated the critique of the ways peer review comments enforce nativism and epistemic hegemony (trans or feminist researchers told they are 'biased' must add more cis men to make the research more 'rigorous')
In the midst of seemingly overwhelming fascism and racism, sometimes it helps that we can do tiny things in our jobs to resist - so I'm very much looking forward to spending 4 days with people thinking about how to make research and publishing more equitable and inclusive #OpenFest25
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
In the midst of seemingly overwhelming fascism and racism, sometimes it helps that we can do tiny things in our jobs to resist - so I'm very much looking forward to spending 4 days with people thinking about how to make research and publishing more equitable and inclusive #OpenFest25
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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OpenFest 2025 begins tomorrow! To whet your appetites, here's a new podcast from our colleagues (and chief organisers!) at Hallam on this year's theme: Open Research and Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (OR+EEDI)
Spotify podcast alert: #OpenFest25 Open Research + EEDI
Together with @openresshef.bsky.social, joined by
@jenniad.bsky.social@reddite.bsky.social, Dr Keith Fildes and Dr Jim Uttley we discuss EDI research design (and support) with more robust + reliable data.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Together with @openresshef.bsky.social, joined by
@jenniad.bsky.social@reddite.bsky.social, Dr Keith Fildes and Dr Jim Uttley we discuss EDI research design (and support) with more robust + reliable data.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
September 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
OpenFest 2025 begins tomorrow! To whet your appetites, here's a new podcast from our colleagues (and chief organisers!) at Hallam on this year's theme: Open Research and Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (OR+EEDI)
The Act's potential to restrict 'the open availability of any online content that the UK Gov deems to be "harmful".... impacts on us as publishers, technologists, and info professionals... small OA presses, libraries with online catalogues, metadata aggregators, or providers of publishing software'⬇️
Our colleagues @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social express some of Copim's concerns around the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with particular consideration of how the Act creates barriers to scholar-led open access publishing (and for their readers): doi.org/10.21428/785... @copim.bsky.social
copim.pubpub.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The Act's potential to restrict 'the open availability of any online content that the UK Gov deems to be "harmful".... impacts on us as publishers, technologists, and info professionals... small OA presses, libraries with online catalogues, metadata aggregators, or providers of publishing software'⬇️
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And lovely to see the data and code available under a CC0 licence too! doi.org/10.5061/drya...
August 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
And lovely to see the data and code available under a CC0 licence too! doi.org/10.5061/drya...
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In less than a month now, we will be launching our next OpenFest to discuss #openresearch filtered by the principles of #EEDI, the main theme of this year's event. Join us online!
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...
August 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
In less than a month now, we will be launching our next OpenFest to discuss #openresearch filtered by the principles of #EEDI, the main theme of this year's event. Join us online!
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...