Catherine Fonseca
@cathygoweeee.bsky.social
Academic librarian, chicana, & avid viewer of trash tv (she/ella)
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March 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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"AI can save you time." You miserable fool. You stupid baby. Technology can't save you time. The mechanical clock and the Google Calendar have chopped your life into small pieces to be sold, and you think adding more technology will let you keep some of those pieces for yourself?
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"AI can save you time." You miserable fool. You stupid baby. Technology can't save you time. The mechanical clock and the Google Calendar have chopped your life into small pieces to be sold, and you think adding more technology will let you keep some of those pieces for yourself?
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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It was so disillusioning to me to discover that library admins in particular loved buzzwords & popular ideas (back then it was “innovation”) but weren’t actually serious about DOING librarianship the best & most ethical way. Glad I’m not trying to figure out how to teach info lit in the “AI” age.
September 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It was so disillusioning to me to discover that library admins in particular loved buzzwords & popular ideas (back then it was “innovation”) but weren’t actually serious about DOING librarianship the best & most ethical way. Glad I’m not trying to figure out how to teach info lit in the “AI” age.
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I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.
September 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.
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Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.
And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.
And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.
September 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.
And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.
And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.
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I encourage my colleagues in higher ed to memorize the law about recording your state (e.g., is it a two-party consent state?) and to have a clear policy about recording written into your syllabus. The right knows this is an avenue of attack and has legalized video bounties in FL and TX.
September 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I encourage my colleagues in higher ed to memorize the law about recording your state (e.g., is it a two-party consent state?) and to have a clear policy about recording written into your syllabus. The right knows this is an avenue of attack and has legalized video bounties in FL and TX.
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Fighting against library training on using genAI for citation management is NOT how I want to spend my time
“People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not”
No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info
“People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not”
No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info
August 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Fighting against library training on using genAI for citation management is NOT how I want to spend my time
“People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not”
No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info
“People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not”
No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info
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[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
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UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
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Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around?
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
June 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around?
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
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New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...
AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog
This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...
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June 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...
Hollis was there for less than a hot second but ok. Also rude to use an image of the library for this weird feitishization of affluence & nostalgia trip for days of yore when SSU was the whitest public institution in CA.
Opinion | Sonoma State's former dean of arts and humanities explains what went wrong. chroni.cl/3FyF2WZ
Opinion | The Strangling of Sonoma State
How misbegotten ideals tanked California’s “Public Ivy.”
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June 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hollis was there for less than a hot second but ok. Also rude to use an image of the library for this weird feitishization of affluence & nostalgia trip for days of yore when SSU was the whitest public institution in CA.
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Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
theamericanvandal.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech
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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Love to see Dan's coverage of the fight in Davis/Thomas against data centers get national coverage. Supplying energy for voracious genAI computing is just the latest scheme for exploiting West Virginia & Appalachia.
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
There's controversy over a possible new data center in rural Davis, West Virginia. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with journalist Dan Parks.
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May 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Love to see Dan's coverage of the fight in Davis/Thomas against data centers get national coverage. Supplying energy for voracious genAI computing is just the latest scheme for exploiting West Virginia & Appalachia.
Finally got the chance to write about West Virginia libraries in the collaborative community newsletter I contribute to: bit.ly/3YXs1wz
Stacked Against Us
On the growing precarity of our library systems
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May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Finally got the chance to write about West Virginia libraries in the collaborative community newsletter I contribute to: bit.ly/3YXs1wz
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'If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.'
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Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform
If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.
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May 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
'If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.'
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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🚨ASK YOUR UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN TO TURN OFF AI SUMMARIES ON PROQUEST🚨
It's at platform level, so libraries were given the choice about whether they want it on or off. We can either toggle it on and off ourselves through the admin platform or ask the supplier to do it for us, but it's for *everyone* not just individual accounts. First stop would be the your librarian!
May 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🚨ASK YOUR UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN TO TURN OFF AI SUMMARIES ON PROQUEST🚨
I contribute to Morgantown Scout, a locally-focused progressive substack, here's my most recent write-up: morgantownscout.substack.com/p/the-colleg...
April 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I contribute to Morgantown Scout, a locally-focused progressive substack, here's my most recent write-up: morgantownscout.substack.com/p/the-colleg...
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Don't trust anyone who follows the word 'permanent' with the word 'digital'.
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Don't trust anyone who follows the word 'permanent' with the word 'digital'.