Monica Keane
@monicakeane.bsky.social
Special collections librarian. I'm interested in literary history, gardening and baking cakes. Personal account.
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Metadata is hard especially for Medieval Manuscripts ... check out our latest blog post about the @peripheralmss.bsky.social project: peripheralmss.org/metadata-for.... #midwestmss #medievalmss
Metadata for Discovery of Medieval Manuscripts Materials – The Peripheral Manuscripts Project
peripheralmss.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Metadata is hard especially for Medieval Manuscripts ... check out our latest blog post about the @peripheralmss.bsky.social project: peripheralmss.org/metadata-for.... #midwestmss #medievalmss
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I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate.
It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵
It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵
Ctl+F this
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate.
It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵
It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵
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Geologists, too! Not too long ago someone commented to me that there’s little value in rock sample and core libraries because everything important had surely been digitized. Relatively little has (and, even if it has, it’s hard to run a chemical or physical test on an image or PDF file).
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Geologists, too! Not too long ago someone commented to me that there’s little value in rock sample and core libraries because everything important had surely been digitized. Relatively little has (and, even if it has, it’s hard to run a chemical or physical test on an image or PDF file).
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This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...
Someone needs to leak it
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Someone needs to leak it
😳
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🎁: "Missions have shifted or shattered. Entire agencies were deleted. Nearly 300,000 employees were forced out of the federal workforce."
National Endowment for the Humanities staff were just 116 of these terminated positions, but the work we did - our livelihoods - mattered to many more. #NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities staff were just 116 of these terminated positions, but the work we did - our livelihoods - mattered to many more. #NEH
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🎁: "Missions have shifted or shattered. Entire agencies were deleted. Nearly 300,000 employees were forced out of the federal workforce."
National Endowment for the Humanities staff were just 116 of these terminated positions, but the work we did - our livelihoods - mattered to many more. #NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities staff were just 116 of these terminated positions, but the work we did - our livelihoods - mattered to many more. #NEH
As intellectual property, a syllabus seems much more akin to a recipe than substantial creative expression
December 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As intellectual property, a syllabus seems much more akin to a recipe than substantial creative expression
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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A non-existent paper attributed to Ben Williamson has already been cited 42 times.
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A non-existent paper attributed to Ben Williamson has already been cited 42 times.
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
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I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
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Digitization & cataloging is complete for 20 manuscripts in the collection of Zavičajni muzej Visoko, a regional history museum in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The manuscripts include Islamic theological and devotional material in Arabic, Turkish, and Bosnian.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/441W3BJ
Learn more: https://bit.ly/441W3BJ
December 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Digitization & cataloging is complete for 20 manuscripts in the collection of Zavičajni muzej Visoko, a regional history museum in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The manuscripts include Islamic theological and devotional material in Arabic, Turkish, and Bosnian.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/441W3BJ
Learn more: https://bit.ly/441W3BJ
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Woman consulting a book from Olivierio Gatti’s 1619 engravings of Giovanni Francisco Barbieri’s [Il Guercino’s] drawing book, plate 18. (JMcC)
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Woman consulting a book from Olivierio Gatti’s 1619 engravings of Giovanni Francisco Barbieri’s [Il Guercino’s] drawing book, plate 18. (JMcC)
There are profoundly fewer opportunities for humanities Phds, but also journalists, editors, writers, cultural heritage workers... pretty much any profession that people with interests like mine would have ever considered.
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
There are profoundly fewer opportunities for humanities Phds, but also journalists, editors, writers, cultural heritage workers... pretty much any profession that people with interests like mine would have ever considered.
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Gilt-boxes, decorated with scented lead-based paste [pasta di muschio] & illustrated with ancient Greek and Roman legends, were popular in Italy between about 1470 and 1570, & were used for storing small personal effects. This one is c. 1510, Venetian (V&A Museum, London)
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Gilt-boxes, decorated with scented lead-based paste [pasta di muschio] & illustrated with ancient Greek and Roman legends, were popular in Italy between about 1470 and 1570, & were used for storing small personal effects. This one is c. 1510, Venetian (V&A Museum, London)
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My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
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When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.
Busy day working in the school native garden 🌱 #CaliforniaNativePlants
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Busy day working in the school native garden 🌱 #CaliforniaNativePlants
I'm looking at you, Shasta Tiki Punch
Every state in the United States has a disgusting soda that only they know about and that’s kind of beautiful
December 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I'm looking at you, Shasta Tiki Punch
Is this not grounds for a defamation lawsuit?
Q: Does the White House have a response to a judge ordering the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE detention? Will you appeal?
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Is this not grounds for a defamation lawsuit?
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Q: Does the White House have a response to a judge ordering the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE detention? Will you appeal?
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Q: Does the White House have a response to a judge ordering the immediate release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE detention? Will you appeal?
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
LEAVITT: Absolutely. The White House opposes this activism from a judge. He is a proven human trafficker
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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Really neat example of how everything about an object—binding, foxing, water damage, annotations—can help us understand it.
December 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Really neat example of how everything about an object—binding, foxing, water damage, annotations—can help us understand it.
Imagine you are the grandmother.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Imagine you are the grandmother.