Do try to remember that the EHRC guidance only affects service providers and not employment, so if you work somewhere where there are toilets or changing rooms for employees that aren’t open to the public then your employers are wrong if they try to stop you from using facilities for your gender

We must also remember that IR systems collect huge amounts of personal data on users (their search queries, clicked links to websites, keystrokes and mouse-movements, etc.) and make them available to be retrieved by corporate and government actors constituting powerful mode of user surveillance. 8/

This is important because from print media to search engines, all information access media are sites of political conflict b/w liberation & oppression. These Orwellian risks aren't hypothetical; we see real examples today of state & private actors trying to manipulate our information ecosystems. 9/

While concerns of user surveillance and censorship are not new, generative AI's ability to produce persuasive language / visualizations + our ability to align these models = key new ingredients for building systems of mass manipulation. Also concerning: emerging risks of Digital Blackface. 10/

cc: scientists who work with protected human data, and especially those ones who are also AI evangelists

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

After the embarrassment of the UK's chartered institute for library workers launching their new slop generated website last week, this is a v. heartening and inspiring conversation w/ librarians in the US teaching patrons about surveillance tech, data privacy, and to trust their Luddite instincts 👇

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2w ago

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

Registration for #OpenFest26 is now open! Join us to explore "Open Research: People and Place" through talks, workshops, panels, and more. Register now: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch... @openresshef.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

Trying not to get wound up by this use of GenAI on CILIP's website... (Were I overthinking it, I'd think it says: are librarians principled enough to take a stance against GenAI? No. But are they competent enough to use it well? Also no. Ah, but can they proof-read websites? Still no.)

Huddersfield Exposed@huddersfield.exposed · 2w ago

Just waiting 'til you check out the binding on this book 🤯

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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Appreciate Prof Bender's clarity here, as always - particularly the point down the thread on how the undefined term 'AI' is used to prevent ridiculous proposals sounding ridiculous: 'we must teach students how to use chatbots!'; 'probabilistic synthetic text extruders will revolutionise research!'.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.

So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>

+ join our @ukrepro.bsky.social Open Research Manager @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social on Thurs 25 June for 'Monitoring Open Research Awareness and Engagement across Disciplines at UK Institutions', on the complexities of monitoring OR practices. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/595b20...

Join our Research Data Steward @qsaikia.bsky.social next Tuesday 23 June for a webinar on 'Tools for Data FAIRification: overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse' - inc. Data Stewardship Wizard and Electronic Lab Notebooks. Register here: forms.gle/mYggXAjskoXd...

Tools for Data FAIRification - overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse

Join us on Tuesday 23rd June, 13:00–15:00 BST, to hear from experts who have developed advanced tools for data FAIRification. Please note this meeting will be via Google Meet

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Our team are involved in 3 webinars over the next two weeks. Join Head of Open Research @themauvedesert.bsky.social this Friday 19 June for a panel discussion hosted by @researchconsulting.bsky.social on contributor recognition in research. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Is it a new thing for academic publishers to fuck up the stable DOI by including the weird academic library proxy? It's a DOI! Do not include the academic library proxy!!!

(basically it's not just an issue for researchers and data librarians - that's the whole point when we talk about open data)

#IASSIST2026 Public data matters and its disappearance is a loss for a democratic society @lyndamk.bsky.social

News from the @datarescueproject.org - at #IASSIST2026

Final few days to submit your proposal for #OpenFest26! Deadline: 23:59, 30 May. Submit online via our webpage: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

OpenFest 2026

OpenFest is our flagship celebration and exploration of open research. This year, OpenFest will take place 15th-18th September 2026.

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Domi Smithson@domismithson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last chance to submit to #OpenFest26 - deadline 30 May ⏳ With @openresshef.bsky.social and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social , we’re building a programme on Open Research: people and place. We’re inviting talks, workshops & sessions on open research and collaboration. Don’t miss this one out!

GenAI is antithetical to librarianship as a profession, ethics, & pedagogy; it is v. depressing to see library workers pushing to insert it into all our systems and services. So I love the new Luddite Lab Resource Hub, partic. the 'AI Implementation Bingo' activity (under Political Education) 👇

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Academic citations fabricated by AI are now a widely recognized problem. But the scale of their production and circulation is still pretty shocking. This is quite a neat, accessible site presenting the results of the 2.5m papers study published in The Lancet this weekend www.maxtopaz.com/citadel

!!! The soundtrack is also v v good: open.spotify.com/album/4QtWb6...

I Saw The TV Glow (Original Soundtrack)

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Nat Guest@unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PSA I Saw the TV Glow is finally on Netflix in the UK

Have any data repositories cracked this? IIRC, one of the biosciences repositories/ seed & pollen banks reported how difficult it is to get visibility of this; exacerbated by sporadic citation/referencing/ acknowledgement practices, even when terms of use request acknowledgement of the resource.

Kirsten the (ex) Librarian@librarykirsten.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Special collections and archives folks, do you have searches set up in any databases to find mentions of your collections in published research? E.g. in references and acknowledgements. Currently using Dimensions to help out a colleague with this but wondering if there are better ways.

Have any data repositories cracked this? IIRC, one of the biosciences repositories/ seed & pollen banks reported how difficult it is to get visibility of this; exacerbated by sporadic citation/referencing/ acknowledgement practices, even when terms of use request acknowledgement of the resource.

Kirsten the (ex) Librarian@librarykirsten.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Special collections and archives folks, do you have searches set up in any databases to find mentions of your collections in published research? E.g. in references and acknowledgements. Currently using Dimensions to help out a colleague with this but wondering if there are better ways.

Special collections and archives folks, do you have searches set up in any databases to find mentions of your collections in published research? E.g. in references and acknowledgements. Currently using Dimensions to help out a colleague with this but wondering if there are better ways.

Several years ago I co-started a collection of LGBTQ+ resources for library, knowledge & information workers, which I now maintain ie I add useful links when I come across them. Follow this new Bluesky account which updates when new items are added. Feel free to suggest resources!

LGBTQIA resources for library, knowledge & information workers@queer-lis-info.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This account (admin is @brynolf.bsky.social) will be updated when new posts are added to the padlet padlet.com/brynolf/LGBT.... Selected resources will also be highlighted here, every now and then. Suggestions for new resources are gratefully accepted here or via the padlet. 📚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

🥳 The call for papers for OpenFest 2026 is now live! It's OpenFest's 5th birthday this year, and we can't wait to read your proposals on this year's theme: "People and Place". Read the full call and find the online submission form at the link below: sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

OpenFest 2026

OpenFest is our flagship celebration and exploration of open research. This year, OpenFest will take place 15th-18th September 2026.

sheffield.ac.uk

Domi Smithson@domismithson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Planning is underway for #OpenFest26, themed People and Place. We invite contributions exploring how openness is shaped by communities, cultures, and contexts. Submit proposals via the online form by midnight, 30 May 2026: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch... #openresearchconference

In our latest preprint at EarthArXiv, we show how the shift from “ion-adsorption” to “ion-adsorbed” rare earths reflects AI-driven terminological drift that risks weakening process-based understanding in geochemistry. doi.org/10.31223/X5K...

🧠 Question for the hive mind: now that bot and crawler activity has rendered views and downloads mostly meaningless, is anyone thinking about how best to track and measure actual impact? For data especially, but resources and outputs more broadly. For our own repositories, we've contacted... 1/3

🥳 Today marks the 1st birthday of our Data Stewards Network! Last year, we ran a mix of expert-led workshops & informal networking sessions. To continue the momentum into 2026, we held a co-production workshop to prioritise future activities. Full write-up here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Data Stewards Network - Data Stewards Network co-creation workshop February 2026

Data Stewards Network events planning 2026

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I'm pleased to have co-authored a new article out today in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Kevin Sanders, @sluginkpress.bsky.social, and I reflect on the Radical Librarians Collective and how we situate radical librarianship alongside critical librarianship. doi.org/10.33137/cja...