Miguel Varo
@mvaro.bsky.social
Bibliotecario en la @bibliotecaus.bsky.social. Formo parte del #GTEstadísticasREBIUN. Mis intereses: #bibliotecas #tecnología #sostenibilidad #política #pensamientocrítico #libros #aprendizaje #pensamientolateral #educaciónsuperior #tendencias
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How Search Decides What You See — Textbook Edition
A librarian's guide to how search systems decide what you see. Moves from Boolean admission rules and inverted indexes to BM25 ranking, embeddings and dense retrieval, rerankers, query transformation,...
aarontaycheehsien.github.io
Intégration de l'IA générative dans les formations à la maîtrise des données dispensées par des bibliothécaires à l'intention des étudiants en sciences et en ingénierie
infoDOCKET@infodocket.bsky.social · last wk.New Journal Article Integrating Generative #AI Into Librarian-Led Data Literacy Instruction For Science and Engineering #Students www.infodocket.com/2026/08/07/j... #dataliteracy #GenAI #libraries #librarians #RDM
Open access is usually presented as a public good. Research becomes freely available. Knowledge travels further. Scholars, practitioners, policymakers and members of the public can read work that might otherwise remain behind a paywall. 🧵
Uso de agentes de IA para detectar errores en la literatura científica
Nature [Unofficial]@nature.com.web.brid.gy · last wk.Según el estudio citado por @lseblogs.bsky.social , la ampliación del #voto municipal en #España a personas de Europa del Este en 2007 y de América Latina en 2011 no alteró significativamente el apoyo al PP, al PSOE ni a la izquierda radical #inmigración
LSE Blogs@lseblogs.bsky.social · 2w agoShould immigrants be given the right to vote in elections? And what political implications would this have? On @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social @tarekjaziri.bsky.social show that granting voting rights to immigrants in Spain has had little impact on party vote or seat shares.
Ahora todo el mundo tiene opinión sobre la Odisea, política migratoria e ingeniería forestal … 😑
"Une disposition-clé du règlement européen sur l’intelligence artificielle entre en vigueur dimanche 2 août. Les concepteurs et utilisateurs professionnels de systèmes d’IA devront mentionner que leurs contenus ont été créés par cette technologie, sous peine d’amendes."
Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 2w agoIntelligence artificielle : la mention « généré par IA » devient obligatoire dans l’UE
A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.
Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges
iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…
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Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other leading companies working on artificial intelligence endorsed a letter urging the U.S. government to slow the development of AI if it becomes too rapid.
OpenAI, Anthropic ask U.S. government to consider slowing down AI
The rivals endorsed a letter signed by hundreds of AI company employees asking for international diplomacy to slow progress on the technology if it gets too rapid.
washingtonpost.com
Deadly wildfires like those now gripping France and Spain are often cited as evidence of the need to tackle climate change. But do these events lead to real political change? @timwapps.bsky.social @antvalentim.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @lstoetze.bsky.social @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
There is little evidence extreme weather events spur political action on climate change - LSE European Politics
There is no evidence of a shift in the political attention paid to the environment in the aftermath of extreme weather events like flooding and wildfires.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
#EngagedLibraries promote information literacy. ℹ️ The Empowering Informed Communities project develops opportunities to help library staff support information literacy through fun and games. ➡️ Learn more and find resources: oc.lc/4pNtbH5
Les #IA #AI s'imposent comme médiateurs entre les publications académiques et les usagers de la #bibliothèque universitaire #academiclibrary À condition que le modèle de données repose sur métadonnées structurées (découvrabilité) et des permaliens fiables (accessibilité)
Understanding Generative AI-mediated User Engagement with Academic Library Resources
This study empirically analyzed generative AI as an emerging discovery pathway to academic library resources. Utilizing web analytics from August 2023 to October 2025, the research identifies a signif...
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"The propagation of AI slop [...] is making science less trustworthy. But in parallel, AI enthusiasts are telling the world that the remedies should all be easy to automate, creating the impression that journals can not only catch more errors but also do it more efficiently and cheaply."
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
science.org
Introducing #Claude for #Teachers \ #Anthropic Claude for Teachers offre aux enseignants américains de primaire et 2aire, dont l'identité a été vérifiée, un accès gratuit à ses fonctionnalités premium : bibliothèque de compétences pédagogiques, programmes fondés sur des evidence-based datas
Introducing Claude for Teachers
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
anthropic.com
El estado de las políticas de gestión de datos de investigación en Europa #datosdeinvestigación #Europa #Políticas
OpenAIRE@openaire.bsky.social · last mo.📊 71% of EU countries have policies in place, yet implementation varies widely. EOSC Track provides insights into how data management practices evolve across Europe. 👉 Discover more: www.eoscobservatory.eu/explore/open... #EOSCTrack #DataManagement #OpenScience #ResearchData #EOSC #SciencePolicy
New study: Articles from #PaperMills can get "50 to 100% more #citations than other papers" even with fewer downloads. One cause for the extra citations is mutual citation by the same papers. Primary source (preprint) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Summary in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals
Research and scholarship are shaped by article citations, which underpin the communication of ideas, assignment of credit, journal impact factors, and author career progression. Given their key influe...
biorxiv.org
B!SON recomendador de #revistas en #accesoabierto creado por #DOAJ
DOAJ@doaj.bsky.social · last mo.B!SON, a recommender for open access journals – grazing on DOAJ data Have you tried B!SON yet? It is a simple tool that points authors to relevant #OpenAccess journals based on a few pieces of information about their manuscript. blog.doaj.org/2026/07/08/b...
Algunos problemas en el uso de software de detección de #IA en trabajos académicos en las #universidades en la actualidad 👇🏼
Nature [Unofficial]@nature.com.web.brid.gy · last mo.
🔎 ¿𝐂𝐨́𝐦𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐚𝐲𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐫 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧? En el webinar de @crossref.bsky.social Bárbara Rivera López, nuestra Community Manager hablará del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Metadatos de Financiación. 📅 7/7 | 15:00 UTC 🔗 crossref.org/events
Researchers need dedicated tools, not “off the shelf” AI to aid with academic writing. Akhilesh Ayer @cactusglobal.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Researchers need dedicated tools, not “off the shelf” AI - LSE Impact
Author surveys show researchers regularly turn to generic “off the shelf” AI tools Akhilesh Ayer argues for a more careful research-centric approach.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Regular reminder that research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue.
Christopher Barrie@cbarrie.bsky.social · 7mo agoI've learned that Edinburgh University is planning to cut 20% of academics in some departments To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews. The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
🗣️"In the arts, humanities, and social sciences, approaches to research are diverse, but often no less open than in their STEM counterparts" #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences - LSE Impact
Discussing the findings of a new report on open practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences, Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore and Stephen Pinfield argue to support open research in…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Un guay me dijo que era complicado vivir enfadada con la mitad de la humanidad:"háztelo mirar". Me cayó la cara de vergüenza ajena con esta versión posmoderna del antiguo insulto machista "amargada", "avinagrada" Manda cojones [perdón] con la ignorancia de género. cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/07/03/m...
La policía descubre redes internacionales de hombres que utilizan grupos de chat en línea para drogar y violar mujeres | CNN
Una operación policial internacional que abarca siete países ha desmantelado redes altamente organizadas de delincuentes que drogan y violan a sus parejas y utilizan grupos de chat en línea para ayuda...
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El futuro de la #alfabetización informacional no consiste solo en distinguir lo verdadero de lo falso, sino en hacer visibles los marcos conceptuales, institucionales y algorítmicos que moldean el conocimiento #AlfabetizaciónInformacional #Bibliotecas #PensamientoCrítico
LSE Blogs@lseblogs.bsky.social · last mo.Information literacy needs to evolve from more than fact checking to mean the critical examination of frameworks, assumptions, and forms of visibility. Anupama Saini @unisouthampton.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Im going to say it again library chatbots should be more than just glorified faq searchers. They should search your holdings, recommend your librarian experts appropriately at very least
bibCheck, outil développé par l’Inist-CNRS et l’IRIT, vérifie vos références bibliographiques en s’assurant de sa présence dans Crossref ou DataCite tout en veillant à ce que l’article associé ne soit pas rétracté
Comment utiliser bibCheck sur sa bibliographie Zotero ?
Vérifiez vos références bibliographiques présentes dans Zotero devient un jeu d'enfant grâce au web service bibCheck
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Está claro que el servicio de biblioteca en universidades privadas en España (con honrosas excepciones) es puro relleno. La ratio Persona usuarias por personal de biblioteca lo demuestra... app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrI...
