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Nancy Foasberg

@nfoasberg.bsky.social

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ScholComm librarian, board gamer, birder, lurker. She/her

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, John L. Provis, Peter Thorne , and 12 more Richard S.J. Tol, John L. Provis, Peter Thorne, Rosemary A. Joyce, Ian Hall, Shawn Graham, Christine Kooi, Dolly Jørgensen, Erin O’Donnell, Aurélien Mondon, Catherine J. Frieman, Nancy Foasberg, Farah Mendlesohn, Evan Roberts, Esther Peeren

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 25d

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 25d

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

www.rollingstone.com

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Nov 28

Part of what makes this different from previous iterations of misreading/misunderstanding is that these claims do not arrive to the students within specific sources and contexts, but rather appear as generalized un-sourced truisms.

Reposted by Elena Litchman, Paolo Crosetto, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls , and 4 more Elena Litchman, Paolo Crosetto, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Greg Linden, Ryan K. Brook, Karen O’Leary, Nancy Foasberg

Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Nov 25

Ugh, that link doesn’t work. Trying again: forms.gle/tSwSVjKEt81o...

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Nov 25

Also, the syllabus is here: opencasebook.org/casebooks/14...

CopyrightX: Libraries - 2025 syllabus | H2O

opencasebook.org

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Nov 25

Anyway, let me know if you have questions about it, or (if we’ve worked together) if you’d like a recommendation

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Nov 25

It’s a pretty intense 12-week class, so there’s a high time commitment, but it doesn’t cost money. And it’s great! I took it and I learned a lot. They work through specific cases and the philosophy behind them

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Nov 25

Library friends who want to learn about copyright: The CopyrightX: Libraries application form is open! forms.gle/tswsvjket81o...

Reposted by American Library Association, Nancy Foasberg

Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · Nov 20

Academic library leaders, come join us at CUNY! Application review begins 12/10. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · Nov 19

AND, by having students do projects ABOUT this narrative and this goal of robbing and reversing middle class power, they then understand and "get it" big time. (We've even seen students reject AI because they think it is a plot to disempower them by cheating them of real learning, esp first gen.)

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Nov 15

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Nov 14

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Nov 12

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Reposted by Philip Young, Nancy Foasberg

Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Nov 11

Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC https://sparcopen.org/our-work/guide-for-authors-complying-with-policies/

Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 3

"How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing"
https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-102825-1
"Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics."

How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing

Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.

katinamagazine.org

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Nov 1

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Oct 31

Oooohhh the “Halloween Voter” ones are PRETTY GREAT

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · Oct 21

Really pleased with the opening keynote of today's SJSU OA Conference that @camitchell.bsky.social & I gave re. #DefendResearch & the Declaration origin story. Lots of great sessions on the program for the rest of the day; check it out! scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...

Open Access Conference | Conferences | San Jose State University

open access | open education | conference | institutional repository

scholarworks.sjsu.edu

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jonathan A. Eisen, Elizabeth Stokoe , and 8 more Anna O. Law, Jonathan A. Eisen, Elizabeth Stokoe, Martin Paul Eve, Jacob Montgomery, Smith, Alan Richardson, Julia Lynch, Nancy Foasberg, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Southern Africa

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Oct 19

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · Oct 14

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Sep 17

I think there was a Judge John Hodgman episode about him!

Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social · Sep 16

Peter Suber making some great points about how Green OA can counteract censorship <3 #nisoplus25

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy, Nancy Foasberg

Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · Sep 15

You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Aug 11

Apparently we didn't learn our lesson from working with Google books

These partnerships are extractive and never end well

www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI

The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.

www.iowapublicradio.org

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Aug 5

NEW: Senior UCLA and University of California officials say they will negotiate with the Trump administration over lifting $339 million in medical and science grant freezes. No decision has been made about terms of an agreement, including a potential fine www.latimes.com/california/s...

UCLA will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes

UCLA and University of California officials said Monday that it will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes.

www.latimes.com

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social · Jul 25

Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!

punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

Reposted by Alison Hicks, Nancy Foasberg

Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · Jul 22

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t.

And the blocking of content…

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog

Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · Jul 21

is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Questioning AI Resource List

Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

docs.google.com

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · Jul 15

not a libguide but this was suggested: acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

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...

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 2

Springer Nature makes clear that federally-funded authors who want to publish in SN journals will have to pay #APCs.
https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/us-federal-agency-compliance

Submitting articles to one of SN's non-OA or subscription-based journals, to avoid the APC, is not an […]

Original post on fediscience.org

fediscience.org

Reposted by Nancy Foasberg

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Jun 11

ooooh new paper out today. a couple of years ago a big group of us were like "hey let's spend a few weeks painstakingly looking up the sources of every official bird common name" and as of today, you too can join us in our ornitholetymological (yes i made that up) rabbit-hole:

AvianLexiconAtlas: A database of descriptive categories of English-language bird names around the world

Common names of species are important for communicating with the general public. In principle, these names should provide an accessible way to engage with and identify species. The common names of spe...

journals.plos.org

Reposted by François Soyer, Nancy Foasberg, Michael Evans , and 2 more François Soyer, Nancy Foasberg, Michael Evans, Kevin Grant, Haley A. Branch

Sarah Todd @sarah-todd.bsky.social · May 29

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.

www.notus.org/health-scien...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.