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@aspiring404error.bsky.social
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Medical Librarian. AI skeptic. Cartoonist. Misinformation and disinformation researcher. She/her

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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wonder if faculty/admin have any clue about what students feel about them using AI. I feel like so many assume students are all for faculty usage while stuff like this column existing imply a far more mixed reception.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh hey, I see you’re covering that part of RFK’s book. My condolences given the nonsense per sentence.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh man, I remember when Francesca Gino got busted and while he caught a few strays, I was surprised he mostly walked away fine. I wonder if this is what gets him and if he would have walked away from the Gino mess if he wasn’t a white dude.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Like I don’t know, just something I would explore in a world where I had funding. #ai #highered
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
nytimes.com
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It (Published 2025)
Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Examples: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Students want their instructors to discuss AI, that I think is fair, but instruction and usage are two different categories. Do students actually want AI use in their instructors? I feel like big stories have suggested no.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You know what’s under-explored with AI in higher education: how do students feel about their instructors using AI. I feel like so much focus is on how teachers can use AI in the classroom and far less people are asking what students actually feel about it.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
(Tbc the transphobia alone is more than enough reason that this bill is bad, but it feels important to note this bill is up to 2 agenda that are hand in hand.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Literally see the Heritage foundation. www.heritage.org/gender/repor...
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Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Anyone who doesn’t suffered from terminal transphobic brain would realize this is just a bill making obstacles to any girls doing sports. Your daughter wants to play soccer? Pay up for all this testing AND subject her to this level of examination. More girls will just not play. Which is the goal
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I think the main takeaway from this Hank Green stuff is that you are not smarter than the “built to maximize engagement” machine. You can go in with a line in the sand and the machine is built to push that line until you’re under the oceans waves. #hankgreen
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Cons of drawing a comic about copyright law: few people will read is because they think copyright law is boring Pros of drawing a comic about copyright law: crossover event of the season of public domain characters
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think the best example of “you don’t need technical drawing skills to make something compelling” is XKCD. It’s stick figures and one of most popular comics on the web!
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Last three years not two, but my big thing was don’t be afraid to take a visiting or temp job right out of school if you don’t have a lot of library experience. It’s not ideal but it will gain you a lot of valuable experience that gives you a leg up when applying later
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oh man I need that hat, where did you get it?
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The thing missing from this article is 1. Where does one find the time to do all this extra labor in a library market that demands extra work for less pay and time and 2. The issue that the work, even when done, may be possibly ignored entirely by institutional motivations
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Libraries are such an important resource for unhoused people. Restricting access based on housing status is antithetical to the idea of a public library
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Like the issue I have with this is, as stated in the article, it’s not like these positions are being added to the team for more staffing to deal with these issues but instead replacing vacancies. The overwork remains, there’s just now a trendy title.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The amount of extra work that falls onto librarians laps due to AI absolutely requires extra staffing, but I think the position of “AI librarian” is absurdly narrow when what is actually needed is Information literacy librarians and staffing #libraries www.chronicle.com/article/does...
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Does Your College Need a Librarian for AI?
At a time when many institutions are grappling with the technology and its implications, some are turning to librarians for leadership.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
AI is such a large term: is a user someone who uses Google? Goes to a chatbot for research question? Asks for help spelling? These are all “users” but I think some of them fall into what we picture an AI user more than others.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am really curious about the actual percentage of librarians who are pro ai to ai skeptical to ai refusal
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Honestly I wonder how much of this book’s popularity was 1. The title slaps and 2. It said “trauma can impact the physical body” and no one read past that.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I think a common myth around AI is that students are the ones who want it implemented, they’re the ones clamoring for it, and that’s why faculty has to follow suit. This thread is a narrow sample size, but I think it illuminates how that isn’t true. It’s admin buy in above all else.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If you watch anything on YouTube or use Instagram you will get a clickbait ad about “chemicals in your food” with a dude wearing a white lab coat. Honestly, @wtyppod.bsky.social could do a whole episode on the supplement industry.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Maybe, but the power of “clean eating” influencers is a huge market that’s been popularized by a lot of celebrities. That’s gonna outweigh any one lesson.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My girlfriend is a chemist and I love sending her photos of ads that claim to be “free of chemicals” because she’s like “mmm antimatter”
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If I understand correctly, since AI removes direct access to a source, it obscures the potential bias and perspective of the source’s original context? That would track.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This highlights an issue I’ve seen with AI as an information source: it obscures the actual source. You can train a bot on only factual info, but the AI disguises what perspective that information is coming from, which obscures bias inherent in perspectives of historical events.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Love that she’s calling iron salt “ferrous sulfate.” It’s such a classic “I will use the chemical term for this word to make it scarier!” People really are petrified of chemicals as a concept
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Oh hey, this is my post! Thanks for sharing! And yes, in a reasonable country it should be the manufacturer at the very least, but that’s easier said than done, especially in the States where financial legal recourse against tech giants can sometimes be seen as “cost of doing business”
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"What we need now isn’t another class on how to use CoPilot but an institutional reflection on the emotional and mental cost of quickly advancing these tools in higher education. AI in academia is making a perfect cocktail for burnout, and we are already fatigued." 📚
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Guest Post — AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest blogger says academic librarians don't need another class on how to use AI, but an institutional reflection on the emotional and mental cost of rushing innovations.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The output is for the illusion of knowledge production and literally nothing else, which makes it so deeply frustrating.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
AI being implemented into a lot of popular reference tools without much notification that we might start seeing these mistakes without students intending to use AI. It will make it hard to tell what’s an error of a software not disclosing what’s under the hood vs blatant plagiarism 2/2
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The thing about AI citations is that they’re wrong in a way humans really don’t do: they Frankenstein pieces of journals together into one citation, something you wouldn’t see with a person unless they were trying to write a citation entirely from memory. I do worry with 1/2
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I do wonder if this is why some AI companies are rolling out “AI fact checker” tools, knowing that there is increased human labor they have created. Of course, AI fact checking by AI is a useless solution but it slows AI companies to create the problem and the “solution”
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s a rare minority but it does happen. I would say it’s more common of those who require a walk through looks for any other reason than blatant AI plagiarism: professors don’t want to see their students are blatantly cheating and I get that. It’s a lot nicer to think it’s an accident.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I forgot to add: And let me tell you, academics do not always hear “this article doesn’t exist and is AI generated” and go “I trust this research librarian.” Some of them WILL fight you on it, argue it’s your failure to find something, so you will have to also spend time walking them through it.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
You would think it would just be checking the DOI but what if there’s a typo? What if the publisher changed hands and broke the link? What if there is no DOI and it’s an old rare text? There’s so many options that aren’t AI use and you have to rule them out.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
2/2 and then explain that all to a patron who is potentially annoyed it took this long. And that doesn’t rope in steps revolving academic misconduct if it’s one of those cases.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I can second this: the amount of time to locate a fake citation is longer than you think, partially because plagiarism (should) be a serious accusation. You gotta check the DOI, then the list of the author’s work log, then the journal page (assuming you have access) 1/2
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I don’t know if you’re American, but it’s also a very American way of thinking, where we associate good health with moral righteousness and illness/disease with wrongdoing.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Yeah, money is absolutely a factor. I think this sort of mindset appeals to the wealthy because health is something you can’t buy, at least not as a guarantee. Money can absolutely move the odds in your favor, but there’s still bad luck, and people hate that.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The idea that health can be “bootstrapped” is deeply appealing to readers and thus gets clicks. People want to believe they can prevent becoming ill or disabled by doing the “right” thing, rather than it being chance.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Big “francesca gino” levels of irony over here.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m working on a comic about data and big data, and the temptation to make a Star Trek joke is high.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Claiming AI hallucinations can be caught by citation checking is a naive: even if it was scalable, what about AI citations that cite real pieces of work but entirely make up the contents. I’ve seen this in action: a whole table made up from thin air citing a real textbook as the source #medlibs
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For example, when testing an AI tool, it cited a table from a very real chapter of a very real textbook correctly, but the table wasn’t in it at all. In fact, the table wasn’t entirely made up. Which you wouldn’t catch unless you checked that the in text citation matched the source.
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R.K @aspiring404error.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The amount of time it takes to check references is substantial, and that’s just assuming you’re looking to see if it exists. It’s an even more labor heavy task to check if the it’s actually saying what it’s cited as saying, which is another hallucination issue we don’t touch on as much as we should.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
@arxiv
 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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Thomas G. Dietterich
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
Thomas G. Dietterich
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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