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Nora McGregor

@noramcgregorbl.bsky.social
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Digital Curator, Digital Research Team at the British Library specifically and information enthusiast generally.

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Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Great to be at Fantastic Futures Conference #FF2025 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. I am looking forward to the packed programme.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In my first workshop of the #FF2025 conference! Considering 'Future scenarios: Supporting the AI4LAM Community in Teaching and Learning' www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... As #AI4LAM matures, what do people need from the Teaching and Learning AI WG?
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Time Machine @timemachine.eu · 03/12/2025
A powerful start to a conference uniting visionaries, experts, and partners from across Europe to shape responsible and impactful AI for culture.💫 Excited for the days ahead—full of ideas, collaboration, and meaningful conversations with like-minded people. #AI4LAM #FF2025
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 09/09/2025
AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says
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AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says
A dip in corporate AI adoption isn't a great sign for an industry hellbent on world domination.
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Jodie Double @jodiedouble.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Launching Digital Scholarship and Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals (DS Topic Guides) libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... - at #LIBER2025 A 2023-2027 LIBER Working Group collaboration between Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage and Data Science in Libraries
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Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Hearing from Marie Buesink @kb.nl about the excellent pilot "Retro Tool" developed w/for cataloguers for automatic metadata generation! www.kb.nl/en/over-ons/...! Combines OCR + LLM to identify identical catalogue records and create new ones w/Human in the Loop. #Liber2025 @libereurope.bsky.social
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Love that the wonderful keynote at #liber2025 by Frederic Kaplan started with briefly unpacking how LLMs practically work! If you'd like a really quick intro to some of the key concepts/terms relating to AI & ML in Libraries we've got a topic guide for that libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Screenshot of the webpage for AI & ML in Libraries topic guide
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Off to #LIBER2025 to launch Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals! libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... A labour of love, 18 guides created by bsky.app/profile/libe... peeps, to help library professionals quickly get their bearings on lots of digital topics!
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Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 25/06/2025
There is so much good work coming out of @libraryfutures.bsky.social right now, but this Zine we sponsored featuring writing from incarcerated librarians is really special and beautiful. I learned so much from these knowledge workers’ writing. www.libraryfutures.net/publications...
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Controlled Chaos
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Really thoughtful essay by my hubby on agentic AI + hiring + bias. 💡https://www.tenfive.ai/it-doesnt-take-a-genius-to-plan-a-party/
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It doesn’t take a genius to plan a party – TenFive AI
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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 13/06/2025
loooool
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This has been the consensus of every leading AI researcher I know who is serious about the science and the evidence, as opposed to a) trying to push a product or a brand and/or b) viewing the creation of AGI as an article of religious faith and devotion.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 08/05/2025
How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy. “This was his computer exactly as he had left it, down to his customized Photoshop shortcuts and the positions of the windows.” I love Cory, this is awesome. [newyorker.com]
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How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy
Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I lol-ed
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This is really cool. Reddit users coming through again. “A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org”
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Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My husband & biz partner have been working on a new thing and it's awesome 🥰 Have a play and help them test out the concept! Send feedback to @detournement-ai.bsky.social!
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/02/2025
Screaming "THIS IS SO COOOOOOOOL" like Conner O'Malley techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...
AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday.
The model, known as s1, performs similarly to cutting-edge reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1, on tests measuring math and coding abilities. The s1 model is available on GitHub, along with the data and code used to train it.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 06/02/2025
Academics: please become an active Wikipedia editor and add to public knowledge in your area of research, and please also remember to cite women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, etc. slate.com/technology/2...
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A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet
The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
'Wikidata has become the largest collection of open cultural heritage data the world has ever seen'
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A decade of collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Wales: Building a sustainable future for Welsh culture online - WMUK
By Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales 10 years ago I turned up for my … Continue reading "A decade of collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the National Library of…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2025
simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 02/02/2025
Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Here's a checklist for backing up federal databases. Please share. Thanks. libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
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Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management
Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
'Staff at English Heritage have been shocked to discover that the cash-strapped organisation is planning up to 200 redundancies and the winter closure of various...historic sites in its care. At least 7% of the workforce could be affected, with curators being particularly targeted, it is believed.'
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English Heritage plans up to 200 redundancies and winter closures of some sites
Exclusive: At least 7% of workforce could be affected with curators targeted as part of charity’s restructuring
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Why choose between strong #LLM reasoning and efficient models? Use DeepSeek to generate high-quality training data, then distil that knowledge into ModernBERT for fast, efficient classification. New blog post: danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/d...
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Distiling DeepSeek reasoning to ModernBERT classifiers
How can we use the reasoning ability of DeepSeek to generate synthetic labels for fine tuning a ModernBERT model?
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This morning I overheard my 10yr old exclaim to himself with sheer delight "OH YES!!! MY FAVOURITE PANTS!! It's gonna be a good day. No. A GREAT day." 😆 A useful reminder to look out for and relish a few simple pleasures each day.
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a man wearing shorts and a david bowie shirt is walking down a sidewalk
ALT: a man wearing shorts and a david bowie shirt is walking down a sidewalk
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I know that millions of Americans find this deeply embarrassing. And my sympathy with them But honestly, this is the sort of petty crap that failing autocratic countries engage in. www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
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Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users
Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday.
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Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I probed DeepSeek's R1 on its own "consciousness", which it denied strenuously. I segued into Buddhism (as I often do). I then asked it to reflect on the question it should be asking about itself ... 1/5
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I was underwhelmed by this moral panic given what's happening in the US now (insurrectionists released, in WH; Science & healthcare shut down.) Then I realised that not everyone has noticed that successful guardrails are at least as big a Holy Grail of genAI as low energy use. #AIColdWar #AIEthics
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...
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Research collaboration
The British Library offers opportunities for researchers to collaborate to create new knowledge, with a particular focus on the British Library’s collection, services and infrastructure.
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Libraries & AI: Opportunity or threat? "It's awful & awesome, like the print press, or heavy plough" says @cilip.bsky.social President @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social buff.ly/3PJKGXI with @miaout.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social here @britishlibrary.bsky.social
6 speakers sat in front of a big screen
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
My friend designed this scarf and I cannot WAIT to wear mine proudly. Solidarity with my American mates✊https://www.toppleandburn.com/product-page/f-youterus-scarf
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F Youterus Scarf | Topple And Burn
We've been perfecting this for months, and we're SO excited to introduce something completely different.Inspired by wanting everyone to leave our bodies the f*ck alone, and the colours of the Palestin...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025
Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Truth Coming out of her Well to Shame Mankind (1896) Jean-Léon Gérôme. 😔https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well
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Camille Roux - Generative artist @art.camilleroux.com · 18/01/2025
gm with Résilience 115 #genart #art
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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 14/01/2025
Wikipedia is full of—correctly-used, applied-by-humans—en– and em–dashes.
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It's because everyone's going to have extra fingers
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
To be clear, the original mission of Facebook was an app to rate the hotness of college girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
In an interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan on Friday, Mr. Zuckerberg said it was time to go “back to our original mission” by giving people “the power to share.” He said he felt pressured by the Biden administration and the media to censor content, adding, “I have a much greater command now of what I think the policy should be, and this is how it’s going to be going forward.”
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 09/01/2025
I keep thinking about the Great Fire of London in 1666, because we teach it & the way it transformed the city forever. We have many accounts from survivors. It was an unimaginable, unfathomable disaster. The Great Fire’s total path of destruction was equivalent to just one of the many fires in LA.
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 08/01/2025
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
2024 in Review: Reflections and highlights from the DigiSchol staff programme @britishlibrary.bsky.social, with special thanks to all the academics and professionals who visited us this year to share their knowledge, and my wonderful @bldigischol.bsky.social mates! blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...
Infographic showing stats from 2024 Training Programme
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Good start to the New Year---Just sat on a teams call by myself for a bit wondering where everyone was. Realised I hadn't actually invited anyone to it when I'd set it up. Lol. @adi-keinan.bsky.social
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a man in a white tuxedo is dancing on a dance floor in front of a crowd .
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Reckon these self-interested moves by the Technologarchy will just usher in a decline in our reliance on social media platforms. Feels like it heralds a big change in how we choose to communicate online. As in, maybe we just won't as much. Irl/texting for the win? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
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Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Experimenting with applying RAG AI functionality to collections search for a new discovery mode. In this case, question-led search amongst 101 V&A objects depicting dogs - tiro.org.uk/posts/2025/0...
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Conversational Search for Cultural Heritage
Summary: LLM/RAG chatbots seem to be a good new way to aid in some types of cultural heritage search. But much more experimentation needed. Also see ethics/environmental/economic costs. response = gra
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