James Truitt (he/him)

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Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics.

Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.

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The virus of fake science is spreading: LLMs are hallucinating references that scholars are citing, and editors of real scholarly journals are accepting in published articles.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

Scholarly communication cannot function anymore without a reference authenticity check that determines whether works cited are authentic and actually support the claims they are cited for.

#publishing #reference #citation #integrity #fraud #LLM #AI #fakescience

Just by the numbers, Audubon’s Birds of America is a spectacular book—it cost $35,000 in today’s money, and weighs as much as a full size special collections curator. https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/12/17/audubon-at-scale-inside-the-double-elephant-folio-of-birds-of-america/
Audubon at Scale: Inside the Double-Elephant Folio of Birds of America | Bibliomania

During the pandemic, I dabbled in birding, and ever since, I’ve noticed more and more references to birds across cultural media—from literature to music. With the holiday season fully in swing, I’ve heard “The Twelve Days of Christmas” echoing through stores bedecked with evergreen garlands and festooned with sparkling ornaments. Until this year, though, I …

The Library of Congress
As academic nightmares go, this one seems way worse than just showing up for a test you forgot to study for. https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/a-collection-of-almanac-prints-in-conversation-with-the-collector#96300

I've published my digital Celtic Knotwork Workshop Booklet, yay!

https://ko-fi.com/s/f1a74eaf4b

It's 'Pay what you want over £5', and it's 10 worksheets (four of them are re-usable printable template sheets) that guide you through the basics to more complex techniques.

Huge thanks to the few of you who helped me test this and provided awesome feedback on earlier versions <3

#MastoArt #CelticKnot #ArtTutorial #Learning

Reference emails that just say "I have heard that you have [x]" drive me crazy. Is it a legend passed down among your people for generations? Did you slip a shoeshine boy a fin to give you the word on the street? Telling us why you think that is often key to finding the thing you want. (And telling us that AI told you is valuable information of a different sort.)
J'appelle une librairie indépendante de la ville où habite mon papa pour y acheter, à distance, un ouvrage que je veux lui offrir. Ça ne me coûte que le prix du livre et lui donne l'occasion d'une sortie dans ce magasin pour y découvrir sa surprise. J'ai pu m'occuper d'un cadeau à la dernière minute, aucun risque de difficulté de livraison. J'ai pu avoir une sympathique conversation au tel avec un gentil libraire. Éviter les grandes plates-formes commerciales c'est vraiment pas un exploit...
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all being bucketed under "AI", is misleading. This is why @emilymbender and @alex say to name the specific thing being discussed rather than calling it "AI". 🧵
@moriel An excuse to post my favorite holiday meme!
I'm taking a shift as the lobby greeter this morning and my most important role so far has been chasing down people who tentatively peer in the door but are afraid to come in. By god you're going to experience the joy of special collections if I have anything to say about it!