Jennifer Findlay
@jenniferfindlay.bsky.social
Delegated my memory to the internet long ago. Kindness is cool. Scotland's Library and Information Professional of the Year 2023. All views my own. She/her. Trans rights are human rights. Greatest achievement: using up an entire lip balm.
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It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today.
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today.
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.
And then the light returns. 💡
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What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
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I couldn't help it: after I wrote that, I had to find out what an AI generates if you ask it for "a boot stamping on a human face forever". [Cue Tony Hart gallery music.]
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I couldn't help it: after I wrote that, I had to find out what an AI generates if you ask it for "a boot stamping on a human face forever". [Cue Tony Hart gallery music.]
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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I don't think that's honey...
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I don't think that's honey...
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I've only seen The Herald report it accurately: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2568...
'Dr Beth Upton is the real winner in the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling'
NHS Fife’s handling of the dispute between Peggie and Dr Upton was an absolute dumpster fire but Dr Beth Upton should have cause to celebrate.
www.heraldscotland.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I've only seen The Herald report it accurately: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2568...
Booked myself up for more crime and history fun at the @surgeonshall.bsky.social events!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scienc...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scienc...
The Science of Guilt
A new Play by Raymond Friel. Step into Victorian Edinburgh and Become the Jury. The Verdict Is Yours!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Booked myself up for more crime and history fun at the @surgeonshall.bsky.social events!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scienc...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scienc...
Librarian? No self respecting librarian would be piling books on the floor like that.
This is a bookseller, surrounded by piles of stock that for the love of god will someone just come in and buy so they can use their desk again?!? 😂
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
This is a bookseller, surrounded by piles of stock that for the love of god will someone just come in and buy so they can use their desk again?!? 😂
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Librarian? No self respecting librarian would be piling books on the floor like that.
This is a bookseller, surrounded by piles of stock that for the love of god will someone just come in and buy so they can use their desk again?!? 😂
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
This is a bookseller, surrounded by piles of stock that for the love of god will someone just come in and buy so they can use their desk again?!? 😂
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
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If anyone is planning their semester and wants to add some Antarctica content, I am available to Zoom in, especially before March! Feel free to reach out.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If anyone is planning their semester and wants to add some Antarctica content, I am available to Zoom in, especially before March! Feel free to reach out.
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My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
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Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
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‘Blanket’ ban of trans people from gender-appropriate facilities likely unlawful.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘Blanket’ ban of trans people from gender-appropriate facilities likely unlawful.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round.
Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Sandie Peggie's claims against Upton dismissed & most of her claims against NHS Fife are dismissed. Questions remain for NHS Fife over the process they pursued, which led to Peggie's harassment claim being partially upheld.
The tribunal ruled Upton's use of female changing facilities not unlawful.
The tribunal ruled Upton's use of female changing facilities not unlawful.
Tribunal says Sandie Peggie was harassed by NHS Fife but dismisses all other claims
The nurse was suspended by NHS Fife after complaining about having to share a changing room with a transgender doctor.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Sandie Peggie's claims against Upton dismissed & most of her claims against NHS Fife are dismissed. Questions remain for NHS Fife over the process they pursued, which led to Peggie's harassment claim being partially upheld.
The tribunal ruled Upton's use of female changing facilities not unlawful.
The tribunal ruled Upton's use of female changing facilities not unlawful.
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1/4 Cockatoos are winning the trash can war against Australians
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
1/4 Cockatoos are winning the trash can war against Australians
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Human motivation to protect them falls five times faster than cockatoos' motivation to open them, and increasing protections makes cockatoos better at it.
(paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The conflict between "No heritage artefacts have been affected by this damage" & "between 300-400 works, mostly books, were affected by the leak - and that the count was ongoing."
It's ok, it was just 19thC "Egyptology journals" and "scientific documentation."...
The conflict between "No heritage artefacts have been affected by this damage" & "between 300-400 works, mostly books, were affected by the leak - and that the count was ongoing."
It's ok, it was just 19thC "Egyptology journals" and "scientific documentation."...
Water leak in Louvre damages hundreds of books
The leak in the Egyptian department comes just weeks after a jewellery heist that put the museum's security infrastructure under scrutiny.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The conflict between "No heritage artefacts have been affected by this damage" & "between 300-400 works, mostly books, were affected by the leak - and that the count was ongoing."
It's ok, it was just 19thC "Egyptology journals" and "scientific documentation."...
The conflict between "No heritage artefacts have been affected by this damage" & "between 300-400 works, mostly books, were affected by the leak - and that the count was ongoing."
It's ok, it was just 19thC "Egyptology journals" and "scientific documentation."...
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Hear me out. Holiday gift idea.
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hear me out. Holiday gift idea.
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if WOC were barred it would be a white women's conference. if queer women were barred it would be a straight women's conference. if you bar any group of women from a women's conference, you do not have a women's conference, you have a conference of female people who are ok with prejudice.
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
if WOC were barred it would be a white women's conference. if queer women were barred it would be a straight women's conference. if you bar any group of women from a women's conference, you do not have a women's conference, you have a conference of female people who are ok with prejudice.
Recommended @christinamartin.bsky.social Ashes To Admin on course yesterday on Burke and Hare, for engaging & humane info about managing deaths without next of kin. Another attendee recommended The Specimens by Mairi Kidd about B&Hs often forgotten victims. Yes, we have interesting tastes in books!😂
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Recommended @christinamartin.bsky.social Ashes To Admin on course yesterday on Burke and Hare, for engaging & humane info about managing deaths without next of kin. Another attendee recommended The Specimens by Mairi Kidd about B&Hs often forgotten victims. Yes, we have interesting tastes in books!😂
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Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
AI dialogues shifted political support by 2 to 3 points in trials, eclipsing standard ads. Roughly one-third of this effect persisted for a month. However, models optimized for persuasion proved more factually error-prone.
#MLSky
#MLSky
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…
Well that was excellent! A super engaging and incredibly well informed tutor, and lots of interested folks asking good questions.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Well that was excellent! A super engaging and incredibly well informed tutor, and lots of interested folks asking good questions.
Ready to do some learnin'!
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Ready to do some learnin'!
