Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)

@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social🐘&🐦 = @SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy

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Kate Griffin
@griffinkate.bsky.social

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

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Center for Open Science
@cos.io

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Apologies to everyone, after some tech failures, re-recording and staff illness, we've finally managed to get the recording for this event out: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BOSE_Uninten... do share!

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Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)@sarahhlib.bsky.social

New event for all those interested in the intersection between #OpenData and AI analysis: Unintended consequences of open datasets: is agent-driven secondary analysis publishable? - 01/07/26, Online, 11-12. Book now: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BOSE26_OpenD...

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

I will be curious to see if this causes Emerald to change it's stance on zero embargo green.

Jeroen Sondervan@jeroenson.bsky.social

Another one bites the dust - or maybe better: extreme capitalism in scholarly communication: www.researchinformation.info/news/wiley-a...

researchinformation.infoWiley acquires Emerald Publishing in £337m deal - Research InformationDeal adds nearly 500 journal brands, 8,000 book titles, and a substantial archive of case studies and backfile content
Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

An interesting discursive thought piece: katinamagazine.org/content/arti... though I do think the open licence is a bit of a sticking point for me as if an article's copyright isn't legally defined correctly it will only lead to pain in the future.

katinamagazine.orgWhat Counts as Diamond Open Access? China Has Its Own Answer.Diamond OA is frequently associated with Latin America or European community-led initiatives, with China left out of the conversation. It shouldn’t be.
Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

OxFOS26 is now archived and linked in ORA: dx.doi.org/10.5287/ora-... This is the programme but if you go down to 'related items' it is linked out to all the respective events. Which in turn have their respective slide deck for download and recording link in the 'notes' field. Thanks ORA team!

dx.doi.orgOxford Forum of Open Scholarship 2026 — programme of events - ORA - Oxford University Research ArchiveNow in its fourth year, the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship is a cross-university event organised by the Bodleian Libraries in partnership with the Research Practice team, with additional sponsorship...
Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Turns out you CAN make the human liable for what they submit using GenAI.

mia ridge@miaout.bsky.social

'Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement' www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...

tomshardware.comLinux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreementAfter months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code.
Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Today in 'the horrors Librarians make up' the term 'yassified clippy' came up when discussing how to make Copilot even worse. The vision was: a modernised vector style clippy with the Copilot GenAI behind it. Suffice to say it was agreed to be a bad thing.

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Professor Caroline Edwards
@theblochian.bsky.social

Incredibly powerful quote from Elaine Sykes to finish this very moving plenary in her memory: “Librarians, this is a call to arms - for change to happen we need to be courageous leaders, even though it seems an impossible task…” Moved to tears here at #UKSG2026

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Comming up soon! Am I nervous? Yes, yes I am nervous. Be gentle with me!

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Just sent off my speaker form for #UKSG2026 - My first time ever speaking (Though I will be with conference veterans @cathdishman.bsky.social @tmorley24.bsky.social and @beckywojturska.bsky.social ) Let me know if you are at UKSG (and selfishly: if you'll be a friendly face for my talk!)

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

We always say 'as open as possible as closed as necessary' so what would be some necessary closures for research. I'll start with the obvious - Data or information that would be considered protected under the data protection act for persons still living (obvs!)

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Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

One I heard last year: The researcher does two types of research and one of those research types conflicts with the other (say research in criticism of an authoritarian regime and then work with researchers who live in that regime) and both being connected and open presents a case for damage!

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

We always say 'as open as possible as closed as necessary' so what would be some necessary closures for research. I'll start with the obvious - Data or information that would be considered protected under the data protection act for persons still living (obvs!)

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Still time to book onto #OxFOS26 - Though the in-person day is getting crowded!

Bodleian Health Care Libraries@bodleianhcl.bsky.social

OxFOS (Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship) is a Uni-wide conference for anyone interested in making research more open & trustworthy, free to attend & generally open to all, regardless of affiliation, until spaces are filled #OxFOS26 buff.ly/YIuJiQR @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social

Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social

Quick post to admire this logo. LOOK AT IT. Canadian maple leaf visualised as a network to represent a Repository CoP just sooooo good.

Open Access Tracking Project@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

Canadian Repositories Community of Practice Repository Knowledge Mentorship Program 2026-2027 - Canadian Association of Research Libraries https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/canadian-repositories-community-of-practice-mentorship-program-2026/

carl-abrc.caCanadian Repositories Community of Practice Repository Knowledge Mentorship Program 2026-2027 - Canadian Association of Research LibrariesJanuary 23, 2026 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Canadian Repositories Community of Practice invites you to join its 2026-2027 cohort of the Repository Knowledge Mentorship Program. This program […]