Abigail Goben
@hedgielib.bsky.social
Data, Open Scholarship, Libraries, Knitting, Cats. I named Executive Function Theft. The opinions of the Hedgehog Librarian, Professor. Chicago-based. She/her #knitting #data #executivefunctiontheft https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/
Big assoc between evaluation and prestige & paper topic "...raises an important question: To what extent do the editors and reviewers at elite journals tend to overlook great scientific contributions that lack these advantageous author and manuscript characteristics?" www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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“This Survey is Anonymous” : LIS Survey Demographics and Reidentification Risk www.asist.org/meetings-eve... Join me to see the example that has at least 14 demographic questions....
I assume one of the requesting providers is @rnflex.bsky.social Eli Lilly to allow more patients to apply for special access to unapproved obesity drug www.statnews.com/2026/08/03/e...
Eli Lilly to allow more patients to apply for special access to unapproved obesity drug
Doctors are asking how to get retatrutide for their patients, after Eli Lilly gave one man early access.
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Time to reread @scalzi.com "When the Moon hits your eye"
kay taylor rea@kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 3h agolmao
AI can’t fix a shitty partner www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post... @lyz.bsky.social links back to the Silicon Valley "an Uber for [Everything I Would Otherwise Expect a Woman to Do for Me] and put this with @katemanne.bsky.social 's on sycophant culture yesterday and I am tired
AI can’t fix a shitty partner | Men Yell at Me
Every year, before the school year starts, I take a full day to make sure all the sports, music, and academic calendars are properly put int
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Yarn. I can buy stunning independently or small business dyed yarns from around the world. Colors and textures that beginning knitter me could never have imagined.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
"We searched the entyre internet!" What archivists heare: "We searched the entyre small airport bookeshoppe!"
Just think of how many fewer settings I'd have to turn off *again* Sounds great. Could we do it tomorrow?
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Oh this was a *choice* My local PCP/hospital system (not the one where I work) had an EPIC update. This resulted this morning in an absolutely ridiculous appointment this morning -- over an hour to get Shot 2 of a 3 shot vaccine series. (1/) #GetVaccinated
Missouri voters on Tuesday rejected an attempt by the Republican-controlled Legislature to make it harder to pass citizen-sponsored amendments to the state’s constitution, preserving a tool that voters across the country have relied on to pass laws their legislatures would not. nyti.ms/3TCTELv
My brain is so good at convincing me that I haven't done anything in "the last year/few months."
automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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"We can hold far more than six contradictory ideas in our data banks before breakfast. Now, be seized.” -- Service Model / Adrian Tchaikovsky
this post is so good and necessary and everyone should read it
My Favorite Thing: The Cat That Hates Me + That One SFF Author Who Hates Everyone (Thoughts on Exile) | Micaiah Johnson
The first time I fed Sasha she sliced open my hand and bit my leg so hard it bruised. The second time I fed Sasha she hissed and swiped, but
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Micaiah Johnson@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 3d agoVery nervous about tomorrow’s blog on Patreon so have some out of context quotes from it as a treat 💜
Todays substack on AI for paper writing - does it work? (spoiler: no, and you probably don't want it to either) open.substack.com/pub/redpenbl...
Does anyone have the "show me your sheep and potatoes* tweet? Lord I hope I saved that thread (about apocalypse stories, warlords, feeding knights etc)
Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d agoWHERE DOES YOUR FOOD COME FROM IF WINTER IS YEARS LONG AND GENERALLY THE SEASONS ARE UNPREDICTABLE, GEORGE
Because you know, we Faculty set the starting salaries for all the industries.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Fae: Behold, mor— Me, suspiciously: Are you AI? Fae: What? Me: Because you’ve got some weird looking feet Fae: What are you talking about Me: I don’t use AI, thanks. ::walks away:: Fae: What just happened
@indyfromspace.bsky.social (my mom is reading your book and enjoying it) Apparently both you and I's grandfathers worked in photo intelligence during ww2. I wonder if they worked together 😊
So if you discover this author because you saw Book 3 somewhere and you want to go back and try Book 1.....well....you'll have to look elsewhere. The only person this helps is the publisher. Blocking people from discovering doesn't help the author, that's for sure.
So one of my hypotheses for the popularity of LLMs - as someone who's been doubling as my team's engineering manager the last few months, and listening to eng management podcasts - is that they give time-constrained eng managers the illusion that They Can Still Code. 1/
Looking at this and then at who they hired to replace him.
CubanX@cubanx.bsky.social · 11mo agoFrom John Unsworth, just-retired dean of libraries at U of Virginia: "21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance. It’s about AI in the service of fascism, as a ... #democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism 👉 Vote 'em Out!
My laptop moves from the home dock to the work dock where I have consistent accessories at each location. Real keyboard forever
Ea-nāṣir@jedgarnaut.bsky.social · 3d agoFlip side: I hate typing on the phone to the point where I will go open up my computer if I have to write more than a paragraph. Additionally, I hate the flat laptop style keyboards because I can't feel them correctly.
@mammalssuck.bsky.social do you have a new Mastodon account?
"We should make a list" he says As he watches me add something to the already established list that I've been keeping going indefinitely.
