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I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.

Via @cawston.bsky.social's https://cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12-monsters-only/

Weeknotes #12: Monsters Only

A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. What happened this week? Monday began with a useful chat with one of our Board members about a large-scale AI roll-out across a multi-national organisation. Initial scepticism has been replaced by seeing dedicated agents delivering huge time savings. Context is

Cawstonotes

Laura J. Wilkinson 1d ago

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science: Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it

By Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer

https://nautil.us/how-tiny-shortcuts-are-poisoning-science-1279176

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science: Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it

Laura J. Wilkinson 1d ago

Jen Gentleman 2d ago

Little did you know this was preparing you for a life of plugging cables into the right hole

Laura J. Wilkinson 3d ago

Text & Data Mining – E-Resource Licensing Explained

https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/eresourcelicensingexplained/chapter/text-and-data-mining/

Text & Data Mining – E-Resource Licensing Explained

This guide puts complex legal concepts and terms into understandable language for those librarians and library professionals without legal training.

E-Resource Licensing Explained

Laura J. Wilkinson 3d ago

Crossref is sunsetting Event Data:

Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data

https://doi.org/10.64000/rzbn5-wjy58

Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data - Crossref

We’re excited to announce a new data citation API endpoint and are seeking your feedback. The new service makes existing data citation relationships in our metadata available, thereby surfacing this part of the research nexus. At the same time, we’ve decided that it’s time to move on from Event Data.

www.crossref.org

Laura J. Wilkinson 4d ago

Jess Rose 4d ago

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are:

🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role
💻️ where you can use your programming and data skills
🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too
🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job

https://careers.cats.org.uk/job/851046

(Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology at Cats Protection, £49k, apply by April 3)

#FediHire

Careers | Work with cats | Cats Protection

Are you looking for #YourPurrfectJob? Take a look at a career with Cats Protection.

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 20

Compound Interest Mar 20

Spring is here in the northern hemisphere! Here's a graphic from the #PeriodicGraphic archives in C&EN looking at the pigments that give daffodils their golden glow: https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i15/Periodic-Graphics-Chemistry-Daffodils.html

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 20

📍 PinDrop Day #17
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802 / 1000
https://playpindrop.app

PinDrop — Daily Geography Challenge

Drop a pin on 5 locations across the globe. New challenge every day. How well do you know the world?

PinDrop

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 18

What is an email address?

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-address

What is an email address? A guide to your digital identity | Proton

What is an email address, really? Discover how it works, what makes one valid, and simple tips to keep yours private.

Proton

Laura J. Wilkinson Mar 16

Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address with Proton

https://proton.me/blog/born-private

Born Private: Reserve your child’s first email address | Proton

Give your child a safer start online. Reserve a private, secure, no-ads address with Proton Mail that stays sealed until your child is ready.

Proton

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