Laura J. Wilkinson
@laurajwilkinson.bsky.social
Experienced practitioner of info & library management, research publishing, teaching & learning, and knowledge workflows. #ScholarlyCommunication #DiamondOA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8922-7839 | https://lwilkinson.eu/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8922-7839 | https://lwilkinson.eu/
We’re offering 2 years of Proton Pass to cultural institutions worldwide
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Free password manager for cultural institutions | Proton
To help defend our cultural heritage, Proton Pass Professional password manager plans are free for two years to qualifying organizations. Learn more.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We’re offering 2 years of Proton Pass to cultural institutions worldwide
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What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." - Balzac
by Lee Fang
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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." - Balzac
by Lee Fang
www.leefang.com/p/what-happe...
What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." -Balzac
www.leefang.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." - Balzac
by Lee Fang
www.leefang.com/p/what-happe...
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." - Balzac
by Lee Fang
www.leefang.com/p/what-happe...
20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me
by @hedgielib.bsky.social
hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...
by @hedgielib.bsky.social
hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...
20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me
To listen to the generative AI enthusiasts and vendors with exclamation riddled decks, you would think that every boring and mundane task was now easily handled, freeing me up to lead that mythical…
hedgehoglibrarian.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me
by @hedgielib.bsky.social
hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...
by @hedgielib.bsky.social
hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...
Reposted by Laura J. Wilkinson
Wellington weather update: our weather station blew away overnight
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wellington weather update: our weather station blew away overnight
AWS outage takes down half the internet. Here’s how we fix it.
by Elena Constantinescu
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by Elena Constantinescu
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AWS outage takes half the internet offline — What now? | Proton
An AWS outage is disrupting Alexa, Slack, and other major platforms. Here's what it shows on our reliance on Big Tech and how to respond.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
AWS outage takes down half the internet. Here’s how we fix it.
by Elena Constantinescu
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by Elena Constantinescu
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Reposted by Laura J. Wilkinson
Out today!
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
Bowdoin, Brown, Browsers, Back-ends, Boards, Beards, and a Bibliography, Volume I by Wilkinson and Eve | Blurb Books UK
Find Bowdoin, Brown, Browsers, Back-ends, Boards, Beards, and a Bibliography, Volume I by Wilkinson and Eve at Blurb Books. This book celebrates the life and wor...
www.blurb.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Out today!
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
One of the best things I have done this year is to edit, with @laurajwilkinson.bsky.social, a book-length festschrift for @gbilder.com.
The book is available to buy at Blurb (www.blurb.co.uk/b/12575812) but also, of course, OA at zenodo.org/records/1737...
Let me tell you about it...
Can you guess who…
- can blow up a computer from the command line?
- managed the tech for an archeological dig from a tomb
- advocated for persistent IDs as infrastructure for scholars, not just about them
- cares about provenance and history for schol comm infra as for cheese
- can blow up a computer from the command line?
- managed the tech for an archeological dig from a tomb
- advocated for persistent IDs as infrastructure for scholars, not just about them
- cares about provenance and history for schol comm infra as for cheese
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Can you guess who…
- can blow up a computer from the command line?
- managed the tech for an archeological dig from a tomb
- advocated for persistent IDs as infrastructure for scholars, not just about them
- cares about provenance and history for schol comm infra as for cheese
- can blow up a computer from the command line?
- managed the tech for an archeological dig from a tomb
- advocated for persistent IDs as infrastructure for scholars, not just about them
- cares about provenance and history for schol comm infra as for cheese
Rights Reservation
Guidance on practical tools and protocols to help publishers reserve rights and protect content from unauthorized AI training
stm-assoc.org/ai-trusted-r...
Guidance on practical tools and protocols to help publishers reserve rights and protect content from unauthorized AI training
stm-assoc.org/ai-trusted-r...
Rights Reservation - STM Association
Rights Reservation
stm-assoc.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Rights Reservation
Guidance on practical tools and protocols to help publishers reserve rights and protect content from unauthorized AI training
stm-assoc.org/ai-trusted-r...
Guidance on practical tools and protocols to help publishers reserve rights and protect content from unauthorized AI training
stm-assoc.org/ai-trusted-r...
Acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift's dialect changes across different eras of her career
by Miski Mohamed & Matthew B. Winn
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158, 2278–2289 (2025)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
by Miski Mohamed & Matthew B. Winn
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158, 2278–2289 (2025)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift's dialect changes across
different eras of her career
Across different stages of her career, Taylor Swift has moved in and out of communities that have distinct regional or socio-cultural dialects. Her extensive hi
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift's dialect changes across different eras of her career
by Miski Mohamed & Matthew B. Winn
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158, 2278–2289 (2025)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
by Miski Mohamed & Matthew B. Winn
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 158, 2278–2289 (2025)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Reposted by Laura J. Wilkinson
This is a must read to understand the context of Britain's universities and their finances.
ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This is a must read to understand the context of Britain's universities and their finances.
"Every Noise at Once was a long-running attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space... in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier."
This is the craziest genre-map of musical sub-genres on the internet. Will take a lifetime to explore this. What a treasure! everynoise.com
Every Noise at Once
everynoise.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"Every Noise at Once was a long-running attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space... in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier."
Reposted by Laura J. Wilkinson
dang, i love the UI on this, too! Each stitch and its name on a little purple button. It's an excellent way to organize the information and make it easy to scroll through/find something specific.
The Royal School of Needlework (RSN)'s Stitch Bank aims to digitally conserve and showcase the wide variety of the world’s embroidery stitches and the ways in which they have been used in different cultures and times.
rsnstitchbank.org/wall
#Pattern #Handcrafts #Sewing
rsnstitchbank.org/wall
#Pattern #Handcrafts #Sewing
Stitch Wall - RSN Stitchbank
rsnstitchbank.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
dang, i love the UI on this, too! Each stitch and its name on a little purple button. It's an excellent way to organize the information and make it easy to scroll through/find something specific.
The Royal School of Needlework (RSN)'s Stitch Bank aims to digitally conserve and showcase the wide variety of the world’s embroidery stitches and the ways in which they have been used in different cultures and times.
rsnstitchbank.org/wall
#Pattern #Handcrafts #Sewing
rsnstitchbank.org/wall
#Pattern #Handcrafts #Sewing
Stitch Wall - RSN Stitchbank
rsnstitchbank.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Royal School of Needlework (RSN)'s Stitch Bank aims to digitally conserve and showcase the wide variety of the world’s embroidery stitches and the ways in which they have been used in different cultures and times.
rsnstitchbank.org/wall
#Pattern #Handcrafts #Sewing
rsnstitchbank.org/wall
#Pattern #Handcrafts #Sewing
Dr. Carla Hayden continuing to advance public knowledge as new senior fellow at Mellon Foundation
www.wypr.org/show/midday/...
www.wypr.org/show/midday/...
Dr. Carla Hayden continuing to advance public knowledge as new senior fellow at Mellon Foundation
The former Librarian of Congress and past head of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library discusses her new but familiar role at the Mellon Foundation: advancing public knowledge through libraries and archive...
www.wypr.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Dr. Carla Hayden continuing to advance public knowledge as new senior fellow at Mellon Foundation
www.wypr.org/show/midday/...
www.wypr.org/show/midday/...
[preprint] Comparing Five Generative AI Chatbots' Answers to LLM-Generated Clinical Questions with Medical Information Scientists' Evidence Summaries
by Mallory N. Blasingame, Taneya Y. Koonce, Annette M. Williams et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
by Mallory N. Blasingame, Taneya Y. Koonce, Annette M. Williams et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Comparing Five Generative AI Chatbots' Answers to LLM-Generated Clinical Questions with Medical Information Scientists' Evidence Summaries
Objective: To compare answers to clinical questions between five publicly available large language model (LLM) chatbots and information scientists. Methods: LLMs were prompted to provide 45 PICO (pati...
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
[preprint] Comparing Five Generative AI Chatbots' Answers to LLM-Generated Clinical Questions with Medical Information Scientists' Evidence Summaries
by Mallory N. Blasingame, Taneya Y. Koonce, Annette M. Williams et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
by Mallory N. Blasingame, Taneya Y. Koonce, Annette M. Williams et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
by James Marriott
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
And the end of civilisation
by James Marriott
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
by James Marriott
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
And the end of civilisation
by James Marriott
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
Is It Enough to Say a Journal Is ‘Peer Reviewed’? The Case for Rating Journals Based on Peer Review Quality
by Ashutosh Ghildiyal & Gareth Dyke
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/16/g...
by Ashutosh Ghildiyal & Gareth Dyke
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/16/g...
Guest Post — Is It Enough to Say a Journal Is 'Peer Reviewed'? The Case for Rating Journals Based on Peer Review Quality - The Scholarly Kitchen
Peer Review Quality Ratings could offer a powerful step toward restoring faith in the scholarly research system, highlight exemplary practices, and ensure that robust, verified science continues to il...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Is It Enough to Say a Journal Is ‘Peer Reviewed’? The Case for Rating Journals Based on Peer Review Quality
by Ashutosh Ghildiyal & Gareth Dyke
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/16/g...
by Ashutosh Ghildiyal & Gareth Dyke
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/16/g...
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week (and Every Week): Correlation and Causation
Sometimes you have to say, "we don't know."
by Stephen Johnson
au.lifehacker.com/entertainmen...
Sometimes you have to say, "we don't know."
by Stephen Johnson
au.lifehacker.com/entertainmen...
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week (and Every Week): Correlation and Causation
Sometimes you have to say, "we don't know."
au.lifehacker.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week (and Every Week): Correlation and Causation
Sometimes you have to say, "we don't know."
by Stephen Johnson
au.lifehacker.com/entertainmen...
Sometimes you have to say, "we don't know."
by Stephen Johnson
au.lifehacker.com/entertainmen...
An Open-Source Maintainer's Guide to Saying No
Stewardship in the age of cheap code
www.jlowin.dev/blog/oss-mai...
Stewardship in the age of cheap code
www.jlowin.dev/blog/oss-mai...
An Open-Source Maintainer's Guide to Saying No
Stewardship in the age of cheap code
www.jlowin.dev
September 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
An Open-Source Maintainer's Guide to Saying No
Stewardship in the age of cheap code
www.jlowin.dev/blog/oss-mai...
Stewardship in the age of cheap code
www.jlowin.dev/blog/oss-mai...
Deprecating co-access: Crossref plans and timelines
by Isaac Farley & Sara Bowman
doi.org/10.64000/w6p...
by Isaac Farley & Sara Bowman
doi.org/10.64000/w6p...
Deprecating co-access: Crossref plans and timelines - Crossref
TL;DR
To date, there are about 100 Crossref members who have made use of our co-access service for one or more of their books. The service was designed to be a last-resort measure when multiple partie...
doi.org
September 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Deprecating co-access: Crossref plans and timelines
by Isaac Farley & Sara Bowman
doi.org/10.64000/w6p...
by Isaac Farley & Sara Bowman
doi.org/10.64000/w6p...
AI Darwin Awards
Honouring Those Who Asked "Can We?" Without Ever Asking "Should We?"
aidarwinawards.org
Honouring Those Who Asked "Can We?" Without Ever Asking "Should We?"
aidarwinawards.org
AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions
Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.
aidarwinawards.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
AI Darwin Awards
Honouring Those Who Asked "Can We?" Without Ever Asking "Should We?"
aidarwinawards.org
Honouring Those Who Asked "Can We?" Without Ever Asking "Should We?"
aidarwinawards.org
Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change
We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.
By Melissa H. Cantrell and Lauren Collister
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.
By Melissa H. Cantrell and Lauren Collister
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change
We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.
katinamagazine.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change
We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.
By Melissa H. Cantrell and Lauren Collister
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.
By Melissa H. Cantrell and Lauren Collister
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...