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Alice Cann
@alicecann.bsky.social
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Uni business librarian, Mum, Researcher. #SystematicReview, searching. Books & reading, esp. scifi (& on tv). Hashtag obsessive. Blogger: https://researcherlibrarian.wordpress.com #AliceWrites Past focuses: left wing politics, aphantasia, gentle parenting
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · Aug 21
My 2nd blog post of the week, and 2nd in my series about saving searches, is all about changing to the new EBSCO platform. My initial perspective on good and bad things, and a focus on the process I used to prepare, ensuring I continue to have access to all my #SystematicReview searches #AliceWrites
EBSCO changes: adjusting and preparing
An academic librarian’s report on exploring the old and new EBSCOhost database platforms for literature searching, with a process for keeping access to saved searches.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 15h
Today has been a long day of work - emails and teaching prep and teaching (always too much content). Then a busy evening of cooking at home. It’s all nice, but I am dreaming a bit of a day off. #OntologicalOctober #Day14
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 15h
Today has been a long day of work - emails and teaching prep and teaching (always too much content). Then a busy evening of cooking at home. It’s all nice, but I am dreaming a bit of a day off. #OntologicalOctober #Day14
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 1d
I know I use it every so often, when apply for a bank account or whatever, but I can’t remember when I actually learnt it. I know my husband knows his too.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 1d
I know my National Insurance number off by heart. I suppose there must have been a time when I needed to use it really regularly. And it is convenient now to be able to reel it off when needed.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve had an enjoyable day at work - busy with teaching and prep (among other things), and an enjoyable evening out in London, much of it talking about teaching and prep (among other things). Two librarians out together - we honestly didn’t only talk about work… #OntologicalOctober #Day13
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve had an enjoyable day at work - busy with teaching and prep (among other things), and an enjoyable evening out in London, much of it talking about teaching and prep (among other things). Two librarians out together - we honestly didn’t only talk about work… #OntologicalOctober #Day13
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Sarah Elaine Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social · 1d
A Brief History of Postplagiarism: Or, Why Fabrication is Not the New Flattery - drsaraheaton.com/2025/10/13/a...

#AcademicIntegity #GenAI #PublicationEthics #FabricatedReferences #Hallucinations
A Brief History of Postplagiarism: Or, Why Fabrication is Not the New Flattery
In this post I share how I discovered a peer-reviewed article on postplagiarism that includes fake references, including attributed work that I never wrote. I summarize legitimate contributions to …
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 2d
I wish I had done this in my first year of university!
However, I will not be the person who tells you it’s a good idea to skip multiple lectures and seminars, as during my first year, I actually used the fact that the year counted for 0% to hone my essay-writing and assignment skills, hoping that in the years following, I would be able to score those higher marks when it counted!
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 2d
Today I’ve done quite a bit of shopping, out in our local town with my daughter. It is a struggle with there being so few clothes shops (and other shops) compared to when we driest moved here (I’ve been remembering the old shops), but we had some success at least #OntologicalOctober #Day12
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 2d
Today I’ve done quite a bit of shopping, out in our local town with my daughter. It is a struggle with there being so few clothes shops (and other shops) compared to when we driest moved here (I’ve been remembering the old shops), but we had some success at least #OntologicalOctober #Day12
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 3d
Today I didn’t do anything, and yet I did so much. Jobs around the house are very time consuming, but glad I have made progress. #OntologicalOctober #Day11
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
Interesting post about generative AI use in marking & a reason-people not having time to mark.

I’m thinking about how marking should be a useful experience for the assessor, not only to provide feedback and grading for students, but to learn about needs and from students’ ideas. The ideal anyway.
It is deeply upsetting when a student turns to a chatbot to offload their learning, but to see faculty follow suit and do similarly by using AI to grade students to save time is beyond demoralizing to our profession and undermines the very principle of learning. It also creates some unsettling questions for both students and faculty. Namely, what’s the point of any of college if no one wants to do the work?
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
Tho what I have to show for myself is clearing following a spilt cafetière, working together to unblock the sink, chasing a missing supermarket delivery, & dealing with it when it arrived-work in progress! & making juice & fruit salad.
I’ve barely gotten to what I thought in advance I needed to do.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
A Saturday at home with no specific plans (though lots to do and lots on my mind) is a wonderful week. And really needed after a busy work week. I love busy weekends with plans too, but am so glad to be able to potter today.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
I have split the slide into two now, but have to admit I’m relying on my enthusiastic talking to the slide to make it come to life.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
I showed my daughter this slide last night (after she’d shown me the snazzy slides she’d created for something at school) and she said it had too much on it and that I need to have pictures (not just screenshots from EBSCO!). And have a ‘quiz time’…
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
It’s been a good evening. We’ve started #CelebrityTraitors and #Uncloaked (spotting the usual chess board in the latter - looking forward to seeing the game develop). A great watch, and the only reason we didn’t watch Thursday’s episodes was tiredness #OntologicalOctober #Day10
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
It’s funny (and lovely) to have a notification on Facebook saying @brunellibrary.bsky.social has created a event that you might want to attend, and then look at it and see that it’s for an event (Bloomberg) that I’m running myself.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
It’s been a good evening. We’ve started #CelebrityTraitors and #Uncloaked (spotting the usual chess board in the latter - looking forward to seeing the game develop). A great watch, and the only reason we didn’t watch Thursday’s episodes was tiredness #OntologicalOctober #Day10
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
There are times (like now) where I’m so proud of a slide I’ve created. I’m sure I’ll come back to it another time, with critique and areas for developments. But right now I think this slide will very important for my uses in many things.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
Glad I hadn’t yet made a recorded demonstration for sharing, but a shame that the two modules I’ve already demonstrated it too won’t have had the best example.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 4d
Have realised that my workaround for setting up searches in multiple journals in EBSCO databases (since the Publications authority on the new platform doesn’t do what the old search did) also doesn’t work ideally. I have another workaround, but it’s not as straightforward.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 5d
For me the concept of needing/wanting to imagine fiction as a particular place just isn’t there. I have the information the author needs me to have, as they’ve written it, and putting in more detail would be a distraction from getting on with the story. It’s not something I think about in the moment
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 5d
I’m creating a search example, worked through in PowerPoint slides with screenshots, that I hope will be an example to use and extract from in lots of teaching this year. I’m having fun! It is building on things I developed last year, along with new ideas I have developed more confidence in.
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