Heather Martin
@heatherbrezo.bsky.social
Yes, you have seen me at the library (currently Duke University).
Here to learn and share about GLAM, Black studies, literature, comics, literacy, and whatever is floating through my mind.
Here to learn and share about GLAM, Black studies, literature, comics, literacy, and whatever is floating through my mind.
Literacy for everyone
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Literacy for everyone
From the article: “LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth.”
The struggle is real for librarians who have to find ways to gently suggest to students (without shaming/alienating them) that the problem is not that we can't find the sources they cited, but that the sources don't really exist because they used GenAI to write their paper and bibliography.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
December 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
From the article: “LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth.”
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Amazon announces Ask This Book AI bot. Authors and publishers were not asked to be included and cannot opt-out.
New Kindle Feature Uses AI to Answer Questions About Books—And Authors Can't Opt Out - Reactor
The new feature, called Ask this Book, is already drawing controversy and unanswered questions.
reactormag.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
lordt
Apply for research travel grants to support using collections at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke U. Application deadline is February 27, 2026. Ask questions and get application tips in an online information session on January 14, 2026.
Research Travel Grants Open for 2026 - 2027 - The Devil's Tale
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is now accepting applications for the 2026 – 2027 Research Travel Grant Programs, offering awards of up to $1,500 to support research projects as...
blogs.library.duke.edu
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Apply for research travel grants to support using collections at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke U. Application deadline is February 27, 2026. Ask questions and get application tips in an online information session on January 14, 2026.
Found this post from @jilltxt.bsky.social after receiving a cold call from a Paperpal rep about implementing the product on my campus. I hope our students aren't relying on this for writing.
Also, did AI tell Paperpal I was the best person to contact? If so, another fail.
Also, did AI tell Paperpal I was the best person to contact? If so, another fail.
I guess Paperpal was even worse. But RUBRIQ is not good. I am deeply concerned for young scholars who may think they have to go along with this nonsense. jilltxt.net/ai-copyediti...
AI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing
This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the …
jilltxt.net
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Found this post from @jilltxt.bsky.social after receiving a cold call from a Paperpal rep about implementing the product on my campus. I hope our students aren't relying on this for writing.
Also, did AI tell Paperpal I was the best person to contact? If so, another fail.
Also, did AI tell Paperpal I was the best person to contact? If so, another fail.
Reposted by Heather Martin
This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act
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Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
We do not want to pay for this AI bubble.
He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We do not want to pay for this AI bubble.
Reposted by Heather Martin
This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Reposted by Heather Martin
Hmmm….
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hmmm….
Roll call vote for cloture/blocking consideration of True Shutdown Fairness Act to pay ALL federal employees during shutdown. The Yeas are against paying all workers and for letting POTUS choose who gets paid and mass fired. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
October 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Roll call vote for cloture/blocking consideration of True Shutdown Fairness Act to pay ALL federal employees during shutdown. The Yeas are against paying all workers and for letting POTUS choose who gets paid and mass fired. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Reposted by Heather Martin
Archiving the Black Web @atbw.bsky.social has two learning opportunities coming up soon. Sign up to find out when applications are available.
Web Archiving School: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
Information Integrity and Web Archiving Fellowship: tinyurl.com/atbw-iiwa
Web Archiving School: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
Information Integrity and Web Archiving Fellowship: tinyurl.com/atbw-iiwa
October 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Archiving the Black Web @atbw.bsky.social has two learning opportunities coming up soon. Sign up to find out when applications are available.
Web Archiving School: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
Information Integrity and Web Archiving Fellowship: tinyurl.com/atbw-iiwa
Web Archiving School: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
Information Integrity and Web Archiving Fellowship: tinyurl.com/atbw-iiwa
Just watched a presentation on the HBCU Digital Collection of primary sources from HBCU libraries and archives, a goldmine for researchers and available online for all. hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/digital/
October 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just watched a presentation on the HBCU Digital Collection of primary sources from HBCU libraries and archives, a goldmine for researchers and available online for all. hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/digital/
Reposted by Heather Martin
"AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help."
October 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help."
Reposted by Heather Martin
Trump & the GOP are not just saying they don’t want undocumented immigrants to have health care — they’re saying they don’t want millions of Americans to have health care if it means any undocumented immigrant gets cared for in an ER.
Not “pro-life”. #TrumpShutdown
Not “pro-life”. #TrumpShutdown
October 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Trump & the GOP are not just saying they don’t want undocumented immigrants to have health care — they’re saying they don’t want millions of Americans to have health care if it means any undocumented immigrant gets cared for in an ER.
Not “pro-life”. #TrumpShutdown
Not “pro-life”. #TrumpShutdown
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
—Assata Shakur
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
—Assata Shakur
September 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
—Assata Shakur
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
—Assata Shakur
"The Digital Yard: An Exploration of the HBCU Digital Library Trust." This event is designed to introduce and celebrate a significant initiative committed to preserving and sharing the rich cultural and academic legacy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the digital age.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Digital Yard: An Exploration of the HBCU Digital Library Trust . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for a special, virtual open house, "The Digital Yard: An Exploration of the HBCU Digital Library Trust." This event is designed to introduce and celebrate a significant initiative committed to...
harvard.zoom.us
September 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"The Digital Yard: An Exploration of the HBCU Digital Library Trust." This event is designed to introduce and celebrate a significant initiative committed to preserving and sharing the rich cultural and academic legacy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the digital age.
Reposted by Heather Martin
"Intel Corp., whose new largest shareholder is the US government, isn’t renewing a partnership with North Carolina Central University’s law school that sought to increase the company’s pipeline of recruits from diverse groups" news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and... @bloomberglaw.com
Intel Ends Funding for HBCU Legal Pipeline Amid Trump Deal
Intel Corp., whose new largest shareholder is the US government, isn’t renewing a partnership with North Carolina Central University’s law school that sought to increase the company’s pipeline of recr...
news.bloomberglaw.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Intel Corp., whose new largest shareholder is the US government, isn’t renewing a partnership with North Carolina Central University’s law school that sought to increase the company’s pipeline of recruits from diverse groups" news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and... @bloomberglaw.com
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We think the removal of #FederalData is pretty fowl. Check out our website, consider joining our flock, and learn how to make your #DataRescue skills take flight:
www.datarescueproject.org
www.datarescueproject.org
September 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We think the removal of #FederalData is pretty fowl. Check out our website, consider joining our flock, and learn how to make your #DataRescue skills take flight:
www.datarescueproject.org
www.datarescueproject.org
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SAVE THE DATE: We are excited to co-host #Harper200 Sept. 19-21. We invite you to attend in person! The weekend festivities include a dance performance, scholarly panels, poetry readings, receptions, and more. Most events are free. Learn more & register at:
coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward - Colored Conventions Project
coloredconventions.org
July 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
SAVE THE DATE: We are excited to co-host #Harper200 Sept. 19-21. We invite you to attend in person! The weekend festivities include a dance performance, scholarly panels, poetry readings, receptions, and more. Most events are free. Learn more & register at:
coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
Bring on the Cordyceps mutations
August 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Bring on the Cordyceps mutations
Reposted by Heather Martin
if you can, please consider donating to fobazi's road to recovery. we love you, fobazi, and we are so grateful for all she's done as a friend, community member, writer and speaker, and library and information science worker ❤️
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena
gofund.me/c8485b58
gofund.me/c8485b58
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
August 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
if you can, please consider donating to fobazi's road to recovery. we love you, fobazi, and we are so grateful for all she's done as a friend, community member, writer and speaker, and library and information science worker ❤️
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James Baldwin was born August 2, 1924 in Harlem.
August 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
James Baldwin was born August 2, 1924 in Harlem.
Students mapped Dizzy's tour using material from “The John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie Collection” at Vanderbilt University Libraries. Covers stops in Iran, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Greece.
Mapping Dizzy Gillespie's US State Department Tour
Jazz and Cultural Diplomacy during the 1950s
storymaps.arcgis.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Students mapped Dizzy's tour using material from “The John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie Collection” at Vanderbilt University Libraries. Covers stops in Iran, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Greece.