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• Post #4471927

  MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html H/t @hypervisible

• Post #4471926

  College professors face an emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading entire books https://phys.org/news/2026-07-college-professors-emerging-students-longer.html

• Post #4471925

  The Secret Sacred: Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome, Stone https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo258381763.html

• Post #4471924

  Medical artificial intelligence (AI) models hold the promise to improve global access to high-quality diagnostics1. However, the training data underlying these models often contain sensitive patient i https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10688-0

• Post #4471923

  Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/

• Post #4471922

  FYI -- I have emailed the Actual Karen Schneider about the proliferation of fake accounts for her that are popping up. She's looking into it.

• Post #4471921

  More evidence Mars once had water emerges from old Spirit rover data https://phys.org/news/2026-07-evidence-mars-emerges-spirit-rover.html

• Post #4471920

  Scientists' biographies may demotivate, not inspire, children to study science https://phys.org/news/2026-07-scientists-biographies-demotivate-children-science.html For my colldev people.

• Post #4471919

  American Red Cross declares national emergency as blood supply runs low https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-red-cross-blood-shortage-national-emergency-donations-b3023303.html

• Post #4471918

  How to Spot an AI-generated Fake Pattern https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/how-to-spot-ai-fake-pattern/

• Post #4471917

  Today's survey demographics *Exact Job Title * Other people with these job duties y/n (points at institution size) * Degrees You Hold * Years since most recent degree Oh and it had flipped Likerts -- some with positive on right; other questions with positive on the left

• Post #4471916

  New Earthworks and LIDAR https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10835-7

• Post #4471915

  Today's "anonymous" survey demographics MLS y/n Year Graduated Number of Libraries worked in since graduation Years at current job Year of Birth Institution FTE Carnegie Classification Public/Private State Primary Job Area Tenure y/n Rank Year of Last Promotion Y'all I'm not sure there's an academic librarian in the country I couldn't identify with all of those details.

• Post #4471914

  "All responses will be confidential and no personal identifying information or IP addresses will be collected" Let's see if we agree. The recruitment email tells us that there will be 10 demographic questions, so I already have an eyebrow raised in advance. How many years as librarian (range) How many years at current job (range) Tenure Track / Rank Then at the end of the survey additionally: Gender Race Hispanic y/n Carnegie Classification (Also not Dean and ye...

• Post #4471913

  Governing Intelligence: Universities, Algorithmic Power, and the Ethics of Inequality https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/132651924/Governing_Intelligence-libre.pdf Cites #DataDoubles

• Post #4471912

  If you've been following "Today in survey demographics" -- I'm giving an update on the data/instruments I've gathered so far next week: https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webinars/lis-survey-demographics/

• Post #3918746

  From the editor in chief at Science AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aek5570

• Post #2376283

  RE: https://glammr.us/@hedgielib/116437586678163377 Today it has updated to about every 3rd time I open Outlook on my phone.

• Post #2376282

  I have stopped reading past the headlines of emails from NFCDD so many times they are offering to take me off of their mailing list

• Post #2376281

  Good morning especially to the DataDoubles team because our end of project White Paper is helping me quickly get a new administrator up to speed on why I have about 3000 exclamation points in any conversation related to student data.

• Post #2376280

  Medical Board Wants AI Doctor Program 'Immediately Suspended' | MedPage Today https://www.medpagetoday.com/practicemanagement/informationtechnology/120995

• Post #2376275

  They surveyed about Librarian participation in IRB and only ask about literature review? I serve on my biomedical IRB and it has little to do with the lit review -- it's about my expertise related to data management and where data is being shared, repository usage, etc. More recently I'm the data/AI re-identification Cassandra. This is an extremely narrow and disappointing view by the author of how librarians actually contribute to IRBs https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/art...

• Post #2376274

  Yale Uni having a 50% off sale.....

• Post #2376273

  Search Data Privacy in Academic Libraries: Qualitative Perspectives of Members of Marginalized Groups | Gariepy | College & Research Libraries https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/27129/34978

• Post #2191132

  The people who care are having the hardest time https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/the-people-who-care-are-having-the-hardest-time

• Post #2033296

  We're having conversations at my institution about GenAI Use for scholarship . Here are some questions and thoughts I've had. What Guidance Do We Give Junior Colleagues & Peers on use of AI? http://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2026/05/04/what-guidance-do-we-give-junior-colleagues-peers-on-use-of-ai/

• Post #1715739

  TINYCAT SWAG TinyCat 10th Birthday Hunt | LibraryThing https://www.librarything.com/hunt/43

• Post #1500040

  New editorial from Rebecca and me! We looked at whether libraries were giving their faculty credit in P&T norms for evidence synthesis. Most are silent on the topic. This is labor intensive interdisciplinary scholarship that needs to be recognized, documented, and rewarded -- while also recognizing that librarians need space to do / lead their own scholarship. https://jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/article/view/2202

• Post #906662

  Do AI Scribes Actually Save Doctors Time? | MedPage Today https://www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbasedmedicine/workforce/120606 Not really-- the study finds it means they can squeeze in more appointments about 1 every two weeks. It's just increasing their workload.

• Post #559730

  "Among the 309 articles, more than half (183 articles, 59%) contain either at least five tortured phrases or a single blatantly tortured one (e.g., ‘artificial brainpower’ instead of ‘artificial intelligence’). If we broaden the scope to include all articles with at least one tortured phrase, the proportion rises to 79% (245 out of 309 articles)." How a Tortured Conference Becomes a Series: An Analysis of Conference Manipulations https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11363742