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Catherine Fonseca

@cathygoweeee.bsky.social
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Academic librarian, chicana, & avid viewer of trash tv (she/ella)

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
This is a little mean but I also think the idea that “AI must be taught in college” is an older generation projecting their own tech incompetency and anxiety onto a younger one. It sounds interchangeable from saying “TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat should be taught in college,“ which is just lame.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026
This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t.
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/08/2026
OSF will continue to support study planning and preregistration, as well as community-run preprint services. Our overview explains what's changing, what will continue, key dates, & where to find detailed guidance. We've also shared why these changes are necessary. (🧵2/2)
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shift, the OSF Projects workflow – the part of the OSF used for project collaboration, file management, and storage – is being phased out as an active workspace. This change does not affect persistence and accessibility of existing public projects. We are very sorry for the disruption that this will cause for OSF users.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I know I’m officially old because I finally see the value of cover letters. Related: #mlis grads, I am literally begging you to read the job posting before applying. I want so badly to give y’all a chance. But you have to prove you know what job you’re applying for (🧵)
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Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Signed up to Claude, because sometimes I do worry I'm being overly critical and maybe when people say "I use Claude for research; it's great!" that I've missed something and should test it out. It is - I cannot emphasise this enough - shit at summarising literature. Because of course it is.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“AI in libraries” should be “what can you tell us about corporate profit-driven control of search and retrieval” instead of “when are librarians going to get on board.”
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026
I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.
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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"I want to talk about the way that the survival of the AI industry depends upon you, the generation coming of age right now, agreeing with them that you have essentially no say in your own future." medium.com/center-on-pr...
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An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"
An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France Dear students, As you know, in …
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Catherine Fonseca @cathygoweeee.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Actual new course being offered by wvu's new 'civic center' that was mandated by our conservative legislature, forced on us, and entirely unwanted by the majority of wvu faculty, students, and even administrators.
Screenshot of course listing for "The Last Men: Liberalism & the Death of Masculinity"
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Some people should never have access to students. “AI requires no ramp-ups, no meetings, and absolutely no emotional support…The issue is not whether my students are valuable. In long run, they are invaluable. The issue is that their value emerges slowly, whereas AI delivers immediate returns.”
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Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
There isn't enough literacy training in the world to counter this level of social violence
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google. The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google. Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/google...
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Google's AI Searches Love to Refer You Back to Google
The company's generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, like Google Search and YouTube, over third-party publishers.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/03/2026
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
University administration has been so busy convincing people over the years that “shared governance“ equals information sharing. It doesn’t! It means shared decision making.
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Bless her heart. She's never checked out a book from a library, has she?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/02/2026
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the agency’s new grant guidelines could fund projects that encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...
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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I need faculty to get on board with helping residents, post docs, phd students, masters students etc understand that you can only do a systematic review in less than 6 months if (a) there's only a tiny amount of evidence and (b) you're not doing anything else for those 6 months.
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
i am convinced that the phrase “AI is here to stay” is a psyop
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Laura Lipke 🦀 @liblaura.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thank you @msjennmo.bsky.social & @cathygoweeee.bsky.social for their incredible prowess in the publication of this rebuttal! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.site · 22/03/2025
#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?
the horrors persist, but so DOI (a doi is a persistent identifier for academic papers, e.g. 10.1000/182)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"AI can save you time." You miserable fool. You stupid baby. Technology can't save you time. The mechanical clock and the Google Calendar have chopped your life into small pieces to be sold, and you think adding more technology will let you keep some of those pieces for yourself?
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Biblioeclectica @biblioeclectica.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
It was so disillusioning to me to discover that library admins in particular loved buzzwords & popular ideas (back then it was “innovation”) but weren’t actually serious about DOING librarianship the best & most ethical way. Glad I’m not trying to figure out how to teach info lit in the “AI” age.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I want library leaders who can conceive of resistance, who can imagine different futures, not who say "welp, this is the world, guess we have no choice" at every single turn of politics or technology.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.
Screenshot of popup window on Elsevier website advertising their AI product to "read strategically, not sequentially... ScienceDirect AI extracts key findings from full-text articles, helping you quickly assess an article's relevance to your research.. unlock your AI access"
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I encourage my colleagues in higher ed to memorize the law about recording your state (e.g., is it a two-party consent state?) and to have a clear policy about recording written into your syllabus. The right knows this is an avenue of attack and has legalized video bounties in FL and TX.
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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Fighting against library training on using genAI for citation management is NOT how I want to spend my time “People are using it, so we should do trainings on it whether we agree or not” No we don’t, we, as a research library, can adhere to a higher standard and give them good management info
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
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The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/07/2025
UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
List of programs for elimination from the Indiana state legislature
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around? The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more. We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...
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AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog
This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...
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Catherine Fonseca @cathygoweeee.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hollis was there for less than a hot second but ok. Also rude to use an image of the library for this weird feitishization of affluence & nostalgia trip for days of yore when SSU was the whitest public institution in CA.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech
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Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Catherine Fonseca @cathygoweeee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Love to see Dan's coverage of the fight in Davis/Thomas against data centers get national coverage. Supplying energy for voracious genAI computing is just the latest scheme for exploiting West Virginia & Appalachia.
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Catherine Fonseca @cathygoweeee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Finally got the chance to write about West Virginia libraries in the collaborative community newsletter I contribute to: bit.ly/3YXs1wz
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Stacked Against Us
On the growing precarity of our library systems
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
'If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.' www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform
If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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davfred finds out @davebrarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
WOO WOO 🚂 📚
Library book spine label. The call number reads “RI 974.51 WOO WOO”
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨ASK YOUR UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN TO TURN OFF AI SUMMARIES ON PROQUEST🚨
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Catherine Fonseca @cathygoweeee.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I contribute to Morgantown Scout, a locally-focused progressive substack, here's my most recent write-up: morgantownscout.substack.com/p/the-colleg...
Image depicts a small seedling. Text reads The College Catch-Up: Updates on WVU and the Statehouse
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 07/04/2025
Don't trust anyone who follows the word 'permanent' with the word 'digital'.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The purpose of education and going to college is not to habituate students to genAI or get them locked in to an AI vendor, and it's pretty nuts how willingly academia is falling for this brand of corporate "AI literacy" being sold by big tech as "free".
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
BREAKING — Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staffers who were put on admin leave on Monday just got letters letting them know they’re a part of a Reduction in Force (RIF) and that their job will be “abolished” effective May 4th in accordance with Trump’s EO, per copy reviewed by me.
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hot off the presses. It was an absolute pleasure to put this together with @liblaura.bsky.social! Takeaways: 1. Don't assign systematic/scoping reviews to your students! 2. Don't ask your university librarian to support this terrible idea! journals.indianapolis.iu.edu/index.php/hy...
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Rethinking Systematic Review Assignment Design in Graduate Health Science Education from Librarians' Perspectives | Hypothesis: Research Journal for Health Information Professionals
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