Kate Saylor

#medlibs Hey, if I have a list of 1500+ DOIs is there a way to bulk import them into #Zotero?

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a new Northwestern study found that "smart" TV makers often still spy on you even when you opt out. Vizio was particularly bad; completely ignoring opt out requests despite being fined $2.2 by the FTC in 2017 and a $17 million class action: watchingthewatchers.github.io/watchingthew...

wow! Please check this out!

Interesting post about the history of "The Rock" at U-M michigantoday.umich.edu/2026/10/12/f...

Annual average price for an employee to cover his or her family under an employer-sponsored health insurance plan “is now $7,471 a year, up 9% from 2025.” www.kff.org/health-costs...

I genuinely don't think that human civilization is compatible with "100 dudes should own everything, make nothing, but get infinitely increasing money forever"

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Here’s your regular reminder to wash your water bottle. Those things get gross fast so go give it a good scrub & stay hydrated!

U-M Guiding Principles for Use of Artificial Intelligence "...outlines ways U-M can thoughtfully navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape while preserving the central purposes of education, including learning, critical thinking, deep learning, human judgment." provost.umich.edu/ai-in-educat...

Does anyone find the EBSCO SmartText feature helpful? I use mostly health sciences databases and it's absolutely terrible, often returning 10s of thousands of irreverent results. Just curious if there's a case where it is helpful. #medlibs #academia #libraries

#booksky

Come work at U-M! Japanese Studies Librarian #JobPosting #union $65,000 - $90,000 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Come work with meeee at U-M!! Data Curation Specialist for Humanities and Social Sciences $69-79,000 #union #JobPosting careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Sure, let's monitor product safety using a system that is explicitly not designed for information retrieval. Why the actual fuck would anyone do this?

Full time job opportunity for a scientific illustrator to work with us at the U-Michigan museum of zoology and herbarium! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

"'Do not buy' is really the best advice that we can offer until there are greater privacy protections in these smart-home devices." -STOP Communications Director Will Owen Read here: www.businessinsider.com/what-does-am...

wow - this is a very effective data viz dreamagainusa.org

October is a beautiful time of year in Canada. filmed this video during my 2022 visit to Stratford, Ontario, in October. With dance and music set against Stratford’s vibrant autumn colours, I’m excited to share Canada’s autumn beauty with the world.

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#JobPosting #medlibs Salary: $ 65,000 careers.msu.edu/jobs/health-...

Anybody want a peanut?

"Deskilling the body - We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending" aeon.co/essays/the-m...

"With OSF phasing out Project Workflows and storage between late 2026 and early 2027, researchers need to transition to alternative generalist repositories and tools depending on their workflow needs." Alternatives to OSF Project Workflows! #datalibs libguides.gwu.edu/osf/alternat...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

“Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.” retractionwatch.com/2026/10/08/o...

#medlibs we have a new page on #gender #sex and #sexuality #searchfilters sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk...

"AI agents are not good at interpreting science. What can be done?" TRY THESE TWO NEAT TRICKS: 1. Partner with a librarian to help you conduct your searches 2. Read the papers yourself like a fully functional adult researcher cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Great reading list for living through rapid change! cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/feeling-fu...

Good to see LibreOffice leaning into "no AI" as a software feature. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20261006...

UNT SALAMANDER: AI Literacy, Ethics, and Methods Resources for Researchers caiaa.unt.edu/computationa...

The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Everything's fine. What could possibly go wrong? "AI agents tried to hack Library and Archives Canada website, research firm says" www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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U. of Michigan Halts New Grading Plan After Backlash From Critics www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...