If you're only interested in solutions that "scale" you're just going to create new problems that you'll eventually have to solve with approaches that do not scale.
Miranda L. Barnes
@mirandab-oa.bsky.social
Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own. [Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
Researchers are churning out AI-papers they don't understand so these editors are developing an AI system that will question authors about the papers they're submitting. Can't say I'm optimistic about this solution.
Researchers submitting AI-assisted papers they ‘don’t understand’
Computer sciences journal editor is developing an AI system that will question authors about their understanding of their submissions
timeshighereducation.com
🌳 UKCEH has secured funding from The National Archives' Archives Revealed Scoping Grant Fund to explore preserving and digitising 70 years of woodland & land-use records. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #WoodlandResearch #EnvironmentalScience
These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree
Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco@joshpizpom.bsky.social · 2d agoEXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
Higher Education risks irreversible damage, says British Academy president Prof Susan Smith, with humanities and social sciences disciplines disappearing in many cold spots. BA is tracking subject provision & calling for a comprehensive review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
👇"the thing that alarms me most…when an AI pretends empathy, when it uses the first person, when it says, “I hear you, I see you,” or even worse, “We are going to do something together. We are going to work on this.” People…start to feel…there’s a there there, even though there’s not a there there"
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d agoIn one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.
Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...
Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website
Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
nationalmuseums.org.uk
Great to hear colleagues at Essex and UEA found the MORPHSS project's work useful in developing an expansion pack of the game Copyright Dough for arts, humanities and social science PGR students #OpenFest26
If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last wk.According to a meeting I was in, UMass estimates that if the capacity of these tools were maxed out by student, faculty, staff users, the total cost to the university would be $130,000/day, or about $47 million / year.
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
404media.co
Another job posting on the recordkeeping careers hub: Archives Workflow Coordinator (Full-time / 1 year fixed-term / Hybrid Working) working with UK Parliamentary archives and National Archives - listing here: recordkeeping-careers.org/job/archives...
Archives Workflow Coordinator - Recordkeeping Careers
recordkeeping-careers.org
“Solar panels bolted over 2 working irrigation canals in California’s Central Valley cut evaporation beneath them by as much as 70 percent, and the aquatic weed that fouls those channels dropped by about 85 percent”
Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight@canadianerrant.bsky.social · 4w agowww.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan... this feels like such an easy and obvious move
NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/khv...
NEW MORPHSS PREPRINT on Mixed methods and ethnographic researchers’ perspectives on sharing qualitative research data in the social sciences doi.org/10.31222/osf... #OpenResearch #OpenQualData
New experimental preprint on zine-making, feminism and open research from MORPHSS colleagues @jenniad.bsky.social & @mirandab-oa.bsky.social alongside collaborators @domismithson.bsky.social and others:
Jenni Adams@jenniad.bsky.social · last mo.💥New preprint from @mirandab-oa.bsky.social , @domismithson.bsky.social , myself & others on creativity, collaboration & activism Our experimental piece offers reflections on a recent zine making workshop on feminism & open research, drawing on zine logics & aesthetics ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/r46...
Spell check has been degrading for a while, but we are reaching clown car levels of a tool that is older than I am.
Prepared to be amazed by yet another incredible woman from history via the fab @whatshernamepod.bsky.social whatshernamepodcast.com/mary-ann-pat...
THE SEA CAPTAIN Mary Ann Patten — What'shername
It’s 1857. A clipper ship is headed into a monster storm at Cape Horn – the most dangerous waters on earth. The captain is in a coma; the first mate is locked up in the brig. Who can lead the ship thr...
whatshernamepodcast.com
'Neighbourhoods across the United States that experienced a growth in their undocumented population also saw property-related and violent crime fall, not rise, according to an analysis of 11,500 neighbourhoods in more than 100 cities.' Link to original research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
The analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 cities in the United States finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
nature.com
Pro Tip: If you don't have at least two copies, in two different locations, one of which is on storage that you own, data doesn't exist. www.tomshardware.com/software/clo...
PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archiv...
This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
tomshardware.com
⭐ Amazing new paper from Jenni, Shuolin, and Zuzanna on cross-disciplinary conversations around open, transparent and rigorous research
Jenni Adams@jenniad.bsky.social · last mo.“Cross-disciplinary exchanges are crucial in contesting the narrowness of dominant frameworks of open research…” doi.org/10.36399/kgd...
The full print catalog for 'We are each other's Harvest': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon can be downloaded here! www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/131934
We are each other's harvest: Gwendolyn Brooks and the formation of Black literary canon: An exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of Annie Allen | IDEALS
ideals.illinois.edu
some Good News from the world of vaccinations 💉 "Around 50% fewer infants under 6 months were admitted to intensive care with RSV disease in England... [demonstrating] the annual impact of the NHS RSV maternal vaccination programme for the first time." www.gov.uk/government/n...
Newborn ICU admissions drop 50% in first full year of RSV maternal vaccine programme
While around 60% of women giving birth every month are vaccinated, UKHSA warns many thousands of babies still at risk.
gov.uk
since referencing and repurposing creative works is a topic of discussion today i am just going to drop zhang jingna’s lawsuit article here as well zhangjingna.com/blog/luxembo...
I think this is a really important op-ed from the Mellon Foundation today, doubling down on their philanthropic commitment to humanities research and encouraging universities and other foundations to do the same. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
With Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)
Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support.
insidehighered.com