Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
lisalibrarian.bsky.social
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
@lisalibrarian.bsky.social
Computer science 35%
Education 23%
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

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"for faster service, you can access your account on our web site"

my phone menu brother in Christ, believe me, if I could do the thing on your web site, I already would have
"for faster service, you can access your account on our web site"

my phone menu brother in Christ, believe me, if I could do the thing on your web site, I already would have

Basically, we can never do any more remodeling bc my lesbian contractors retired.

I think this would be amazing. Not embarrassing at all. Rather a great gift to others who worry that changing things is a sign of failure.

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading every piece!

Oh look, I have the most read 2025 piece! That it was about the attempt to cut indirect cost rates on federal grants by fiat is I think indicative of the kind of policy chaoes we've been seeing.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/05/t...
The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen - The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.
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Flashback! So nice to hear from you!

I’ve had an incredible career in public higher education in Illinois. It’s been a privilege to work with so many amazing students and dedicated colleagues, and to have so many opportunities to grow, learn, and pursue my passions. It's not easy to leave, but I'm excited for what's next. (2/2)

Happy New Year! 2026 will be a year of change for me. After 34 years of service, I’ll be retiring from the University at the end of May and beginning a new chapter — launching my own consultancy focused on working with publishers and libraries (more on that soon!). (1/2)

Apologies if this is too much; I can't resist sharing my incredibly niche knowledge borne of decades of obsession with goldfish crackers. FlavorBlasted is more cheese. Mega is just bigger in size and, I think, throws off the development of the prefect amount of exterior crunch to internal cracker.
There’s a lot of complex stuff going on but gosh yes basically this.
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Becoming a tenured professor is a bit like becoming an NBA forward or a successful recording artist. (Or a novelist or a working fine artist or a pediatric cardiologist.) The supply is massively greater than the demand, and everyone is excellent. This is a hedge fund of yourself, not a career goal.

A friend made a video clip if you want to watch my UN remarks.

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It's been a busy four years!
orcid.org ORCID @orcid.org · Dec 18
ORCID ED @cshillum.bsky.social reflects on our accomplishments in 2025, and over the past four years, under our current strategic plan.

🌍 1,500+ org members in 69 countries
🆔 10.5M active users
🤝 net. of partners throughout the schol. comm

Read more https://info.orcid.org/2025-year-in-review/
ORCID @orcid.org · Dec 18
ORCID ED @cshillum.bsky.social reflects on our accomplishments in 2025, and over the past four years, under our current strategic plan.

🌍 1,500+ org members in 69 countries
🆔 10.5M active users
🤝 net. of partners throughout the schol. comm

Read more https://info.orcid.org/2025-year-in-review/

Such a "pinch me am I dreaming" moment today. That's me, at the podium of the UN General Assembly, speaking on behalf of IFLA and the world's libraries. What an honor to contribute to the WSIS+20 Plenary and to represent!

Of those I've seen, such are framed as benefits delivered by the publisher.

It's fascinating to see emerging defenses of the utility of barriers after decades of arguments that the end goal should be to make everything as open and reusable as possible with minimal friction.

Today's exhibit: creativecommons.org/2025/12/10/i...
Integrating Choices in Open Standards: CC Signals and the RSL Standard - Creative Commons
Creative Commons is partnering with RSL to integrate attribution and reciprocity into the new 's RSL 1.0 standard.
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I’m turning down journal reviews if the journal doesn’t update activities to ORCID. I get a lot of requests and I need to prioritize somehow. I ain’t collecting “reviewer certifications” from Genome biology and scientific reports, etc., when Nature Family and ACS give me credit for my time.

I am so charmed by this. A great reminder that the world is so much bigger than our own part.

See also - international students' obsession with our campus squirrels.
It wasn't until I saw a chipmunk, an animal I wasn't entirely convinced actually existed, that I understood other people's excitement about seeing Australian fauna
It wasn't until I saw a chipmunk, an animal I wasn't entirely convinced actually existed, that I understood other people's excitement about seeing Australian fauna
ORCID @orcid.org · Nov 25
🗣 Thanks to Wiley for sharing this POV from ORCID Board Chair @lisalibrarian.bsky.social

Watch the full interview here.

#Researchsky #ORCID #ORCIDBoard #Wiley #Librarians #ResearchInstitutions #ScholComms #AiLiteracy
AI Literacy, agents, peer review: Insights from the library with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe | Chats Ep3
What happens when #ai agents become the primary way #researchers interact with scholarly content? Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (@Illinois1867 and Apoorva Shah (VP Product Management, @johnwileysons explore how #ai is transforming #libraries publishing, and #research discovery. From debating whether AI handles #peerreview better than #humans to how agents are replacing #web browsers for research, this episode tackles the fundamental questions facing academia. What's the role of a #librarian when AI can instantly synthesize information? How do publishers enhance the AI-driven ecosystem? 👉 Learn more about @johnwileysons AI initiatives: https://www.wiley.com/about-us/ai-resources/ Key topics: *Understanding AI agents as research assistants *The evolving role of libraries and librarians *Why peer review isn't AI's biggest threat to publishing *Digital rights and authentication for AI agents *Building AI literacy programs *Publisher-library collaboration in the AI era Essential viewing for: *Libraries navigating the AI transformation *Publishers rethinking business models *Researchers developing AI literacy *Institutions making strategic AI investments This conversation challenges assumptions while offering practical insights for anyone at the intersection of AI and scholarly communication.
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This was the day Apoorva Shah and I discovered we could literally talk for hours about discovery, researchers, and AI. Probably good they edited to just a few highlights!
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AI Literacy, agents, peer review: Insights from the library with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe | Chats Ep3
YouTube video by Wiley
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NEW: Over the past two years, my JSTOR colleagues and I have been partnering with librarians & archivists to co-create a "collections processing tool"—a new kind of service that empowers practitioners to expand discovery & impact of distinctive collections at scale. about.jstor.org/blog/what-is...
What is a collections processing tool?
Roger Schonfeld introduces the concept of a collections processing tool—a new, community-driven system that reimagines how special collections are described and discovered. With JSTOR Seeklight, this ...
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Followed the replies, and now I must wash my eyes out.
What's your favorite AI hack?

@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social chefs @lyconrad.bsky.social, @roohighosh.bsky.social, @irfanullah.bsky.social, @lisalibrarian.bsky.social, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Dianndra Roberts, and Tim Vines share theirs here:
Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack? - The Scholarly Kitchen
We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?
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100% agree with you that "am not sure a license change is the technical solution to this social problem."