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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome)
@hannahshelley.bsky.social
Librarian, creative technologist, aspiring shitposter
📍 Dharug country (Sydney, Australia)

Blog/Shrine to the 2000s internet hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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the 29th prime minister of australia (a useless centrist who was done in by his own party) had his official portrait unveiled this week, and
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Words to live by
Or as my old drama teacher used to say “Teeth and tits, girls and boys, show ‘em your teeth and tits’
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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This raises a very real question about how we talk about AI. To call this slop is to downplay the fact that it was published in an esteemed journal. We used to call such things fraud, but this suggests the publisher is innocent. AI has changed the terms of debate. We urgently need new norms.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Finally, a metric that favours the humanities!
Love it: this article argues tongue-in-cheek for a new metric that combines the weight of a researcher's published books divided by the number of years since their doctorate.

It is normalised: "A kilogram of philosophy weighs the same as a kilogram of physics."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Another impossible beauty standard
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It's hard to believe self help books are brimming with wisdom when they all have titles like "Girboss the fuck out of this shit!" "Your life is a fucking mess" and "The subtle art of being a cunt"
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up. By @debmsu.bsky.social

"shift of the tool people reach for first for finding information is at the heart of how ChatGPT has changed everyday technology use."

theconversation.com/the-chatgpt-...
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up
ChatGPT has dramatically altered how people retrieve information, muscling aside Google search as the first stop on the hunt for answers.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Do you think the dirty water tank is jealous of the clean water tank?
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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License to ILL

Inter
Library
Loan
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I got a bad feeling about this update
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
New blog post talking about how I became a librarian, vocational awe, and Christianity
Ikigai for people with no calling
Some personal reflections on work and purpose.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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A good magician never reveals his terrible loneliness
June 29, 2023 at 3:01 PM
I cringe every time someone says "librarians should run the world!" like they're a whimsical moral caste of people instead of just people in a regular job, and who may think your cutesy praise is patronizing, actually.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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when you call console.log() this is what happens
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I get the feeling that "the students" are an entity that, to academics, is similar to what "the children" are to politicians.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Pepsi Max > Coke > Coke Zero > Pepsi
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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darkly funny that the first movie personally greenlit by trump is about a guy who would be barred from entering the country and a cop who would be fired in an anti-DEI purge.
‘Rush Hour 4’ is officially in the works.

This comes after Donald Trump personally requested Paramount to revive the franchise.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
On more than one occassion I have used Skyfeed builder as an advanced search tool. It's good for tracking down posts when you don't remember the exact phrase but you remember a few words you can put into a simple regex. It can also retrieve from people's reposts, not just original posts.
SkyFeed
Real-time app for Bluesky with a powerful Feed Builder
skyfeed.app
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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RSS rules. RSS never became less relevant. RSS is a way to claw your agency back from silicon valley algorithmic timelines. That said if you use it you really are a sicko
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hey ARC DPers with career interruptions- take a "print screen" of what you enter in your career interruptions boxes- seems like the ARC will never make this info roll over so do your future self a favour if it's a complicated set of dates 😭 (yes I have it saved elsewhere) @arc-tracker.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM