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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Precisely why AI companies have been working so hard to shove it down our throats, whether we want it or not. They’ve been building themselves a tax-payer-guaranteed safety net.
I say let them fail! AI hasn’t been around long enough or working well enough, to be that system-critical yet.
I say let them fail! AI hasn’t been around long enough or working well enough, to be that system-critical yet.
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
The AI boom has been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Precisely why AI companies have been working so hard to shove it down our throats, whether we want it or not. They’ve been building themselves a tax-payer-guaranteed safety net.
I say let them fail! AI hasn’t been around long enough or working well enough, to be that system-critical yet.
I say let them fail! AI hasn’t been around long enough or working well enough, to be that system-critical yet.
The same Google search that plops an AI summary at the top of the results page 🙄
'"This is why people also use Google search, and we have other products that are more grounded in providing accurate information."'
That's alright then, a Google search or other Google products will fix it. Problem neatly sorted.
That's alright then, a Google search or other Google products will fix it. Problem neatly sorted.
Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, Google boss tells BBC
Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The same Google search that plops an AI summary at the top of the results page 🙄
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I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
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If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday:
Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city.
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...
Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city.
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...
Lobby Your MSP! — UCU Edinburgh
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday:
Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city.
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...
Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city.
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...
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"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities.
VIVE la Diamond OA!
VIVE la Diamond OA!
The Open Book Collective is delighted to share a new update from our Collective Development Fund awardees at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/second-u...
Update on OBC's Second Collective Development Fund Award: Enhancing Open Access Book Publishing at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities.
VIVE la Diamond OA!
VIVE la Diamond OA!
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There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here:
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies
Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here:
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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We don't share our expertise with right-wing rags.
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We don't share our expertise with right-wing rags.
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Response from the APA:
“The obituaries are a highly valued part of the American Psychologist. We offer access to the journal as part of our APA membership. If you are interested in membership, please let us know”
“The obituaries are a highly valued part of the American Psychologist. We offer access to the journal as part of our APA membership. If you are interested in membership, please let us know”
Latest academic hot take: it is gross and inhumane and wrong that obituaries are ever held behind a paywall that publishers profit from
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Response from the APA:
“The obituaries are a highly valued part of the American Psychologist. We offer access to the journal as part of our APA membership. If you are interested in membership, please let us know”
“The obituaries are a highly valued part of the American Psychologist. We offer access to the journal as part of our APA membership. If you are interested in membership, please let us know”
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reading about Rosalin Franklin again and if there was any justice in this world they'd give her a posthumous Nobel
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
reading about Rosalin Franklin again and if there was any justice in this world they'd give her a posthumous Nobel
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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.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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...
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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!
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Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout. Ends tonight at 11:59pm GMT!
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Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout. Ends tonight at 11:59pm GMT!
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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.
🎃🍫🍬👻
Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results.
🎃🍫🍬👻
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.