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Beth Tapster

@bethtapster.bsky.social
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NHS Librarian. Likes trees, always overwhelmed. Very interested in AI in health but in a sceptical cautious way obvs.

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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
That's definitely the point he was making, think the wording would have been different if not an off the cuff answer!
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Synchronicity!
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Me too! This is the perfect temperature for an event...😂
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My eldest finished sixth form today (🫠). Very amused to learn that during leaver's assembly the school finally acknowledged their most notorious alumni Liz Truss, as a warning to learn to be good with money and have decent principles (accompanied by an embarrassing photo of her as a student there) 😂
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This morning I managed to retrieve a clinician's 3000 word assignment that they had accidentally deleted twenty minutes before their submission deadline. I have never felt career satisfaction like it.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The ultimate catch-22 for refugees: You have to be in the UK to seek asylum BUT According to our government, You are illegitimate if you come here through irregular means... AND you are illegitimate if you come on a visa, too 🤔🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIP...
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Another BACK DOOR to seek asylum?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field: www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
(actually I suppose I don't find it weird, it makes sense in the context of all the other, very real issues around genAI + political/social power structures, but it runs the risk of undermining those valid arguments if we aren't accurate, logical and contextual when discussing environmental impact)
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I found this really useful, logical and sensible and I dare not repost it as I would be ripped to shreds.. I really care about the climate and sustainability, and I find it weird that this is the one online activity that gets this response when I've never seen anyone shaming gamers for energy use...
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Oh interesting! I don't have access to the book, been trying to hunt down more sources...
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Gaaaahhh. Of interest to #medlibs ...so happy we pay so much to publishers for high quality work like this!
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is what I was talking about during my keynote at @lilacconf.bsky.social #LILAC25 last week for all those who asked, what can they do and how to be involved in challenging the way big tech shape oir worlds ✨️🤘
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This week’s column is on AI slop and the aestheticisation of fascism. Happy Easter! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik
A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ah yes, we pedestrians and public transport users have had all the power for too long... It's about time someone thought of the poor car drivers who absolutely haven't had the whole infrastructure designed around them and don't have any negative impact on their surroundings or the environment 🙄🙄
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I'm slightly reassured that someone else got drowned on their way to the dinner... I was soaked to the skin when I turned up and couldn't quite believe how dry everyone else was 😭😂
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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
An excellent addition to the "How to read a paper" fold - focus is clearly on health but the introduction has wide relevance as do many of the questions 📚 #medlibs
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thanks to all the @lilacconf.bsky.social organisers and speakers and all the lovely people I've met for making it such a brilliant experience #lilac25
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Already hoping to find a way to be back next year- so I'm very pleased that it will be in Yorkshire! I've had such a great time at my first LILAC-it has been both practical and inspiring (and fun) (and it dispelled some negative preconceptions I may have had about it as a conference 😬!). #lilac25
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
There was a steam train at the station though so that was nice.
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Booked early afternoon train home from #lilac25, partly due to maternal guilt + wanting to be home by bedtime, partly because I'd usually be completely over it by day 3 of a conference. Still glad I'll be home by bedtime but I reallllly didn't want to leave yet and I'm gutted to miss the afternoon.
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
www.careful.industries/about
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About Us — Careful Industries
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Great shout-out to the brilliant work of @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and Careful Industries during the discussion on the keynote from @elinorcarmi.bsky.social #lilac25
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Brilliant keynote from @elinorcarmi.bsky.social - definitely going to read the report on my way home! openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31...
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City Research Online - What Mobilises People Against Big-Tech?
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Combining my Lilac experience with my love of outdoor pools by visiting the National Lido of Wales before the conference dinner...managed a (lovely) 15 minute swim before we all had to evacuate because of a thunderstorm 😂
Outdoor pool in the rain!
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"If you're providing an online system with very personal data about you, like your face or your job or your favourite colour, you ought to do so with the understanding that those data aren't just useful to get the immediate outcome — like a doll." I have to explain this to students almost daily!
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Jess Haigh's presentation about her research on the impact of LILAC is full of really informative descriptions of the practicalities of her research process and getting research done without funding or a supervisor. So useful to see this discussed in detail. #lilac25
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
First conference I've been to with a live musical performance (of an original folk song about information literacy no less) in the keynote. Jane Secker's keynote was amazing in all the ways! #lilac25
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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Is traditional information literacy like folk music, and AI literacy our moment to "go electric"? Under the hype about AI we still need a solid foundation of information literacy, but we may need to rethink some of our models and practices #lilac25
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Really enjoyed this session, wondering whether there is any scope to try out something like this across NHS libraries to help us develop our teaching practice... #lilac25
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Here is a very good post by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on responsible use of AI. For those of us who think by writing (me included) the writing is the thinking and there’s no point getting AI to do it. But not everyone thinks by writing. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
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Responsible-ish GenAI dos and don’ts: text edition — Careful Industries
Seven things to bear in mind and three responsible-ish AI strategies
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I really should have done the same! 😂
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Made an extremely regrettable choice by eating in the hotel bar because I'm too tired to move...this macaroni cheese looks and tastes like it came out of a sachet and cost just under half of my (very cheap) room for the night 😭
Insultingly pallid bowl of macaroni cheese
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
So true! The (always considerable) thrill of finding stout on tap increases tenfold between March and August...
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I once had to explain what stout is to a bar tender 😞
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thank you!
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thank you! One of the things I forgot was to move on to my slide of references (😬), which mentioned that all the images in the presentation are from the brilliant @betterimagesofai.bsky.social - a great resource for non robot, thoughtful images on AI!
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Relatable insights from Katie Smith on the work they've been doing to evaluate attitudes of NHS staff returning to study. Themes are very recognisable from the staff we work with-lack of confidence in their academic skills (although they often have more skills than they recognise!) #lilac25
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Feeling very relieved that my #lilac25 presentation was during the first session this morning so I can now relax and enjoy the rest of the conference, which all looks great. (If I can stop obsessing about all the stupid things I said/didn't say when I presented...)
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is an incredibly brave, moving and powerful talk, 'speaking truth to tech gods.' Definitely worth a watch. youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Information literacy anthem..❤️
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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education. The answers are wrong! They did not ask permission! The answers are WRONG! How is this science?!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”
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Matt Johansen @mattjay.com · 25/03/2025
Gentle parenting through military leaks
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Pro-AI hype and Anti-AI doom are so deeply personal and polarized for a reason: they are the only visions of the future anyone is offering at all. In my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, a look at the loss of faith in participatory politics that frames AI hype, but also its backlash.
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Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press
To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Interesting looking free online/in-person event tonight on AI, by The British Academy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a... #EthicalAI #AI
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Ask the Experts: can we trust AI?
As ChatGPT and generative AI become part of our everyday lives, how can we know what or whom to believe? Tackle the challenges and opportunities that AI presents to our ideas of trust and truthfulness...
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
With no safe routes available to ppl fleeing danger, irregular journeys to the UK will continue. Our MPs must understand there are realistic, humane alternatives to REGULATE the arrival of asylum seekers. 🙏 Pls email your MP to attend this important event help.care4calais.org/page/168077/...
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Will your MP support 'Change' and back safe routes?
Take two minutes to email your local MP and ask them to attend the launch of Care4Calais' new safe routes report.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Brilliant piece by Siva Anandaciva from the Kings Fund on the implications of abolishing NHS England. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/03/2025
the internet would be so cool if it wasn't evil
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"‘They know what you are working on, they know what you are submitting, they know the results of your peer reviews... They control every part of the process + register every action you take... When Eiko Fried.. asked Elsevier for his personal data[,] he received [100s of K's] of data points..."
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Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data
Academic publishers get rich collecting and then selling data from researchers. That is extremely concerning, say UG researchers.
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