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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I don't think i have a default but See my vest *does* pop up more than is strictly reasonable 🤔

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Urgh. The ick is definitely descriptive of the feeling for this!

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Great article and "the ick" 100% describes my increasing feeling towards AI writing. As soon as I suspect something is AI generated text, I usually just stop reading it now. www.lexacademic.com/blog/ai-and-...

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AI and ‘the ick’ | Lex Academic Blog - Lex Academic®

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I have been there foxes. Oh I have been there.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Oh wow this is now a very different event to when I used to go as a postgraduate!

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I assumed this was about the US at first, but no, this is in the UK. We *cannot* go down this route.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Ta I'll take a look again prob tmr and see what happens! And yeah I have a lot of books on my goodreads 😉

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Not seeing the import option anywhere on my profile page. Also my export is in excess of 1k - will I break it?!

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hah and I forgot that bsky doesn't do gifs, so that gambolling panda now is just a most confusing image.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It is both a gambol and to gambol! A versatile word.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

You may wish to consult this splendid tome for further learning 😉

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Top marks for alley and roundabout!

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ended my day with a beer in the garden. Glorious weather!

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Oh my, these are excellent! I particularly like "ice shoggles". Come to Birmingham and we can teach you such fine (but nor weather related) vocabulary as gambol, the cut, gulley, and island. Want to take a guess at any of them?? 🤔

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Better than last time I came up, that was quite mizzly!

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Up early and heading towards Leeds. Looking forward to a day with excellent colleagues @masudk.com and @jsendall.bsky.social 😁

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

And i cant help but feel an implicit assertion here that no one in a PSD role could possibly be an intellectual

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Ngl I kinda love how bad it is

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

We ride at dawn!! (Also reported)

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

When I talk to friends outside of HE and use terms like Vice Chancellor etc apparently all they can think of is the Unseen University

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

100% this, it is baffling to me.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You do look a little like you've spotted something quite concerning on the floor 😅

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You would certainly hope so! It's been the mantra for years with "conventional" searching and with ref man software after all.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Definitely, they did a great job! Welcome for a visit to BCU any time 👍

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"the AI librarians knows that the quality of the question impacts the quality of the answer" #UKSGForum2024

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

oh 'ello, didn't realise you were here!

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"Not everyone has to be an innovator of early adopter but being a laggard can be as risky" @drachiarelli.bsky.social #UKSGForum2024

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Damyanti Patel @damyantipatel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Very much enjoyed listening to Peter Barr from Sheffield about collection development & tackling the issue of the ‘print burden’ , will have to check out their strategy #uksgforum2024 - www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libr...

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An overview of the Library's mission statement and the standards we maintain.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I do like the concept of the 'meh' factor of AI generated content - sometimes sounds good on the surface, but really often a list of lists #UKSGForum2024

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I am so going to try this as a prompt at some point! Side note - a friend and I once rewrote his dating profile using ChatGPT in the style of such characters as Jeremy Clarkson, Lord Flashheart of Blackadder fame, & others. Results were mixed...

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Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Really interesting point from Pete Barr at @sheffielduni.bsky.social library about mentally separating provision of content from collection of content. Collections can add value to an institution not only academically but also culturally, symbolically and for conservation purposes #UKSGForum2024

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Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"Students don't just want an old fashioned PDF plonked in front of them." Ian Moroz from BibliU at #UKSGForum2024 BibliU is using AI to break PDFs down into segments, quizzes, etc. Revolutionized publisher willingness to engage with new business model. #OER

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Yes & I think this is increasingly going to be a skill that everyone needs to have - beyond the university context, in schools / life more generally. There are a lot of potential risks that could stem from a naive engagement with AI (albeit a lot of those beyond the purview of today's discussions!)

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I guess this is where academics need to adapt their pedagogy around authentic assessment, how can we ensure students engage critically with genAI and the process rather than simply submitting an easy output? #UKSGForum2024

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@jsendall.bsky.social ending with a call to action - don't fear AI. If anyone has a profession to engage with the opportunities and challenges, it's the library, knowledge and info community.

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Already spoken to lots of colleagues some of whom I haven't seen in ages 💜 the library community #UKSGForum2024

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Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ah thank you! Positioning yesterday's talk felt quite tricky so good to know it landed well 😀

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