Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/09/2026Amplifying this bat signal—the Beef & Sheep Lab has skins for us we can use to make inking balls & we need help from folks who know how to work with animal skins 5139
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today I've been reading articles about the future of Information/information systems dated from 1945 to 1980. The problems: already too much to read and scientific outputs rapidly expanding. No suggestion ppl publish less. Focus is building better tools for search, discovery, synthesis, etc. 151
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ohhhhh, yeah, this is exactly why I can find them useful at work but not at home; my work life starts every day with identifying a collection of tasks I will be doing (at which point it becomes possible to label some of them as AI-doable or not). but identifying those tasks is itself a task 0142
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such. 9827210
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They do. But they also say authors should submit their own work, declare funding and COIs, etc. So, you know. 🤷🏼♀️ As long as we look to journals to catch bad behavior rather than the field to deal with it (shame, censure, expulsion, etc), well, 🤷🏼♀️. 022
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is a journal that intends to charge an APC but doesn't for x years to get established really a diamond journal? www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comHundreds of ‘free’ academic journals have started charging feesA study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years. 101
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When I was in library school, the theory of unknown/undiscovered public knowledge was the rage. There was some evidence to validate it but it took a lot of effort. Wonder if the theorist is alive to see this ... 031
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sub your scholarly topic for Ted's, and the observation stays the same. GenAI models are the new mass media, whether we like or not. You cannot "should" people out of using them. You might be able to convince them to go beyond. But the first question is if experts w know what non-experts are told. 143
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 21/09/2026I don't disagree with all of this but I'm not convinced that in the pre-AI world "a paper stands or falls on procedure, not on whose lab it came from" is correct. Academic knowledge production has always been about fairly bad indicators of prestige and reputation. giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-o...giorgio.gilest.roThe Weimar of knowledge – la bottega 151
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14/09/20262. Second, own and demand the particularity. Small liberal arts colleges are not “higher ed” nor is Harvard “higher ed.” (Good grief!) The federal $$ dimension is v different, the whole business model is different. 6/ 182
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Suggestions as a consumer of this literature, if not a producer of it. 1. Always first, understand the history. Higher ed helped power the US economically and socially in the mid to late 20th c. Higher ed collaborated with industry and govt it fueled incredible research esp./ not only In STEM. 5/ 173
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Whoa. Amazing. Congrats to the team. 020
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am struck again by how many people seem to believe that if something is published, but isn't published open access, the author can 100% control who can use it. 050
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We don’t talk enough about how much of our days have become entangled in determining what’s real. What’s genuine. What’s human or what’s synthetic. What’s worth our time after having already spent it. It’s a grotesque skill we’ve all been forced to master, and a waste of energy none of us can spare. 24627140
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am somewhat chagrined that this might motivate me... 131
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Are pencils making a comeback with adults? Data point that has me wondering: self-intros in my class today included "share your favorite writing utensil," and fully half the students shared some sort of pencil! 050
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Dolly Parton and scholarly communities. For IP, science, literacy, justice and inclusion. Great set of posts, one of my favs of the wonderful voluminous tributes. 0106
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We all know what an absolute legend #DollyParton was - read @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social’s tribute by @lyconrad.bsky.social @dacrotty.bsky.social @lisalibrarian.bsky.social @dianndramarie.bsky.social @acochran12733.bsky.social Roy Kaufman & me scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/28/g...scholarlykitchen.sspnet.orgGoodbye Dolly - The Scholarly KitchenDolly Parton touched so many people's lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing. 053
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026As I would expect, many of the ideas are "invent journals" -- create gateways, charge fees, and increase quality standards. But there are other ideas ... a convo worth reading. 030
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Pondering ... are job ads copyrighted? 110
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Less in touch with University rhythms since retiring and drove straight into move-in traffic this morning. Oops! 030
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Today I learned one way Champaign-Urbana is different. Even summer without most students around we have coffee places open until 9. 030
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026And I believe (with no evidence, to be clear) that women are damaging our organs taking ibuprofen to manage symptoms that aren’t addressed or taken seriously. I have a friend who can’t take Advil now after years of self medicating for roof pain no one cared about. Her liver can’t tolerate it. 1243319
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more. 141114100
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is interesting and useful - by @lisalibrarian.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/28/c...scholarlykitchen.sspnet.orgCategorizing Open Access Business Models - The Scholarly KitchenModels for funding open access journal article publishing can be sorted into three categories, organized by who pays and what they pay for: transactional, collective action, and subvention. 002
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I'm fascinated that the shadow libraries get sympathy but Anthropic gets anger bc they used the shadow library. www.ft.com/content/e6d1...ft.comThe race to collect every book ever writtenWhen the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution 241
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic? 1536728
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/07/20261983 I paid the University of London Library to do an electronic search of The Philosopher’s Index for every philosophy paper with ‘Exploitation’ in title or abstract for my MPhil thesis. It was done over phone lines to California, in the middle of the night, when phone charges were cheaper. 616614
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 14/07/2026There are people who decry the corporate and proprietary homogenisation of the internet and personal computing; people who yearn for community-led alternatives. When you point out that those alternatives exist and all they have to do is use them, they say, "No, not like that." 174
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Cue publishers mentioning a VoR benefit that the source files aren't published? www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comWhoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be sharedPasswords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions. 012
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026SN flips a journal to open, and the associate editors resign. 011
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Sharing my new venture. I'm excited to expand my work with scholarly publishers and platforms, facilitating deeper integration of library perspectives in their work. librarianintheloop.comlibrarianintheloop.comLibrarian in the Loop LLCIndependent advisory services helping scholarly publishers and platforms access trusted library perspectives to inform their decisions. 073
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 28/06/2026"So the 1% list reproduces the same prestige hierarchy with the same biases it claims to replace." Of course, it could be that they really just are THE BEST. Or it could be that this is a bad ranking 😂 021
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Champaign-Urbana folks/visitors, my retirement party is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 24, 2-4 pm in the Main Library, room 428. Please come by and have some cake! 041
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Apparently, Chrome decided that if I had finished purging all the paper files in my office before my end-of-month retirement, I probably didn't need any of the tabs I had open either. #lolsob 040
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Everyone in schol comm, please repeat after me: Standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; standardization does not equal quality control; stand . . . 1103
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 16/06/2026📢 Academics & journal editors: I'm working on a story about donors using financial intermediaries to fund studies "anonymously". - Is this common in your field? - Does your uni have rules to prevent this? - Would your journal accept a declaration of an "anonymous donation"? 📱sehill.11 on Signal 3711
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 13/06/2026@ryancordell.org of interest I imagine 030
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Earlier this week, I shared my conversation with Todd Toler as he takes on a new role at Ithaka S+R about the future of scholarship in the AI world. Such exciting opportunities are ahead! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/10/b...scholarlykitchen.sspnet.orgBuilding Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler - The Scholarly KitchenA conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs. 000
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Universities aren't great at compromising when they form a consortia to do tech things, so, instead, they spend lots of money on commercial tools with limitations they wouldn't accept in a consortia arrangement? 030
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I didn't realize until today that a previously preprinted manuscript wasn't eligible for posting on verixiv. One of the authorship checks: "confirms authors have not submitted the preprint elsewhere" (verixiv.org/for-authors/...)verixiv.org 010
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 09/06/2026My essay “New Antiquities” & @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s “Why Literary Studies Must Embrace Computing” don’t EXIST yet are cited in this “peer reviewed” essay on AI and DH . Guess we didn’t lead the “cultural turn” in DH either! 🤬https://knowledgeableresearch.com/index.php/1/article/download/697/614knowledgeableresearch.com 44214
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Scaling up! "The acquisition deepens Wiley’s proprietary content position for use in AI and data analytics, at a moment when demand for trusted peer-reviewed research content is accelerating rapidly as corporations build out AI models and applications." 200
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026"A publisher that has developed a library relations strategy has built a substantial organizational infrastructure for learning from the library community." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...scholarlykitchen.sspnet.orgWhy Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy - The Scholarly KitchenPublishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives. 110
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 19/05/2026This is scholarly misconduct. We have seen university presidents removed from their positions for far less. Why are we saying it's just an editing error if "it was AI" The lack of accountability is astonishing 055
Reposted by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026"The publishers who invest in library relations are making a bet that trust is a strategic asset." @lisalibrarian.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/19/w...scholarlykitchen.sspnet.orgWhy Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy - The Scholarly KitchenPublishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives. 012
