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  It took 2 hours in the Extreme Air Conditioning in my library but I'm finally cold. Chicago is thickly humid and the outside of the building windows are foggy with condensation. The building inside is still humid--even with the AC. So I'm not sure if I should put on my office jacket or if I should just go outside for 7 seconds.

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  RE: https://digipres.club/@dsalo/117214300923261489 Hey...look at what I'm starting :D

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  I use Tusky on my phone to access Mastodon and that has a multi-user option. I.... set up whatever Tweetdeck-like appearance I have going on in my browser for my primary glammr.us account. I honestly have no memory of doing this. Does anyone know how I turn this into a multi account because I need to track 3 accounts now.

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  @hedgielib and @dsalo are pleased to annnounce that IMLS has awarded us a $290,116 3-year Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant to conduct Valid or Void: Critically Evaluating Technology Trends for Academic Library Adoption. @ValidOrVoid We will investigate academic-library leader decision making to build a tool to support evidence-based technology evaluation and adoption. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services RE-259930-OLS.

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  Okay so annual conference locations/nose counts are here https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/past-and-future/pastannualconferences But does anyone know where the archived list of conference presentations is?

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  So, normally I don't like to point to specific survey instruments because the problems are endemic across the discipline. But this one is problematic to the point that someone needs to reach out to this student and help them understand human subject research ethics. https://www.reddit.com/r/librarians/comments/1wc9xed/mlis_student_looking_for_library_workers_for/ I am not on reddit but if you are on the state library association they are expecting to speak at next month or at whate...

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  Megan Sapp Nelson and @hedgielib are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a $187,554 two-year Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to conduct Missing the Middle: Identifying Structural Issues Facing Mid-Career Librarians. @missingthemiddle

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  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

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  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

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

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  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

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  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/

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  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.

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

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  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.

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  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

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

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  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

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

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  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.

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  "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...

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

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  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/

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  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

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

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  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

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  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.

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

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  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...

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