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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 7d

Are you interested in the practice of Citizen Science but unsure where to begin? 🤔

A good starting point might be the resources on our webpages which can support the planning, development, and delivery of Citizen Science projects 📒

👉 buff.ly/mkGTQ7Z

Citizen Science support and training

Discover tools, training, and guidance to help you plan and deliver impactful citizen science projects.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 16d

Job alert!✨
We are looking for a multimedia designer - a role creating visual content for digital & physical displays, utilising skills in graphic design, video production & editing to enhance UCD Library comms & engagement initiatives.

Apply by 12 noon 7 Oct at www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... #jobsIE

UCD Richview Library - a brick library with clock, leafy hedges and a brick path leading to the library.

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ISSDA @issda.bsky.social · 18d

The Irish Health Survey (IHS), 2024 dataset is now available to request on ISSDA Dataverse: doi.org/10.7929/ISSD...
To request please follow the request process in the terms tab.

#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive

@ucdlibrary.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Irish Health Survey (IHS), 2024

www.ucd.ie

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 19d

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 19d

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.

And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20d

Ireland’s Kate O’Connor secures stunning silver at World Championships

Dundalk heptathlete adds yet another personal best in the javelin with throw of 53.06

www.irishtimes.com

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Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social · 20d

5 PBs in 7 events ... even with a knee injury. Grit.👏💪

Caolán Scully @caolanscully.bsky.social · 20d

Kate O'Connor.

Certified legend ☘️

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 #Job Reminder!
Come work with us as our new Student Engagement Librarian. Lead on the development & delivery of UCD Library’s Orientation and engagement activities & programmes with both new & existing students.

Apply by 12 noon, 25 September
www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...

#LISjobsIE #LibraryJob

UCD's James Joyce Library building at dusk with trees and bushes in the foreground.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Sep 10

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning

As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake

www.irishtimes.com

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · Sep 9

My essay on the tense relationship between authors and AI, as embodied in a major lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now in the Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Opinion | What a New Landmark AI Settlement Will Mean for Authors

Creators should demand credit, not just compensation.

www.chronicle.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

The AI authorship issue is real. We've caught papers that looked OK but had references to works by the *journal editors* that *do not exist*. Like, don't send us papers citing papers we know we didn't write, right?

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 5

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 5

“…there's something else emerging. A kind of pragmatic acceptance coupled with creative subversion. They're showing up, playing the game, but building escape routes. Nobody believes in the corporate role anymore, even while performing it perfectly. The belief is gone but the performance continues.”

The death of the corporate job.

Last week, I had coffee with someone who works at a big consulting firm.

thestillwandering.substack.com

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · Sep 4

'Library work puts the librarian in touch with every human interest ... the profession on which all other professions and occupations depend' Love this old ALA graphic spotted on LinkedIn, anyone have a year for it?

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Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social · Sep 5

Students "possess some facts but don’t know how they know them or where they got the information. The result is that it’s very difficult to evaluate and put them into context.”

Decline in reading is inhibiting learning, academics warn

Business school faculty say changing consumption of news and longer form writing limits understanding

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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Continuing our #BackToSchool series (Only six more days to Welcome Week!), we'd like to share this excellent guide from @ucdlibrary.bsky.social on using #OpenAccessBooks and #OERs in teaching libguides.ucd.ie/openaccess/e...

An image of the wall of a library with an upper gallery, the bookshelves are covered by glass panes and the shelving is warm coloured wood, lit by brass lamps image copyright: University of Aberdeen Asset Bank, all rights reserved

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 4

Many thanks Aberdeen! #OpenAccessBooks & #OERs are increasingly an important element of the research & T&L toolkit, and we are delighted to provide this information for not only our own staff & students, but the wider community.🙏

@ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdtl.bsky.social @mishdalton.bsky.social

Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Continuing our #BackToSchool series (Only six more days to Welcome Week!), we'd like to share this excellent guide from @ucdlibrary.bsky.social on using #OpenAccessBooks and #OERs in teaching libguides.ucd.ie/openaccess/e...

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · Sep 2

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

Cover matter: Navigating Open Research A Guide for Early Career Researchers
From CONUL - consortium of national and university libraries #openResearch #irishResearch

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 1

Introducing Research Essentials @UCD Library - free workshops for UCD students, researchers & academic staff! Now available to book. Topics include #GIS, #ResearchData, #OpenAccess & more. All sessions are lead by UCD librarians.

Check out this trimester's schedule at hub.ucd.ie/usis/W_HU_ME....

Light blue graphic with UCD James Joyce Library facade and blue and yellow geometric shapes. Research Essentials (free workshops) at UCD Library.

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · Aug 29

The copyright of academic books and articles generally belongs to the publisher, not to the author. If one of your books or articles is in LibGen, it is the publishing house that will get any damages, not you. You may get additional royalties, but they would be a tiny percentage of the damages.

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢Career opportunity!
Come work with us as our new Student Engagement Librarian. Lead on the development & delivery of UCD Library’s Orientation and engagement activities & programmes with both new & existing students.

Apply by 12 noon 25 September
www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...

#LISjobsIE #LibraryJob

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