New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
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"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
🧶 Today is World Wide Knit in Public Day 🌍 a reminder that preservation is not passive, it's made a stitch at a time.
Check out Mlle. Riego de la Branchardière’s THE KNITTING BOOK (1848), part of our Victorian Knitting Manuals collection 👉 archive.org/details/krl0...
#WWKIPDay #Knitting
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2026 "Position Paper, Measuring Research Outputs with Bibliometrics" uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/46eabd...
Why “Book-Shaming” Won’t Solve the Children’s Literacy Crisis in the USA #literacy #reading
Why has #socialmedia become less social? Sociologist Angèle Christin on how #algorithms shape our society.
Librarians have always been amazing! Pack Horse Library project: “On approach, she is surrounded by children of all ages … and distributes as many picture books and youth novels as possible, taking note of which the children like best.”
#KidLit #Librarians
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[Blogged] Learning from Google Scholar and why a tool does not need to be flawless to be useful - so far my hot takes series of post has not gotten much push back. Maybe because I'm mostly preaching to the choir? This one I feel goes furtherest...
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Mylee Joseph
Mylee Joseph
Mylee Joseph
Mylee Joseph
Are you researching the history of monarchy and coronations in Britain and Ireland? The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) offers two free reading lists on medieval monarchy and on the monarchy from the Tudor to Windsor periods. Access them: buff.ly/RqsH6Gz
The library rules (and so do library streaming services)
Lorraine McCown
Aaron Tay
Institute of Historical Research
The Verge
Local councils and Public Libraries Victoria say the way public libraries are funded across Victoria needs reform, with communities in Melbourne's growth corridors described as "chronically underfunde...
What 2004 can teach us about 2024 — and the librarians who keep getting the lesson wrong
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Do algorithms shape our lives? What did clickbait look like before the internet? Why do journalists start writing differently when metrics are introduced? What does any of this have to do with…
The nation’s official advocate for children’s books says most of them are “crud.” But matters of literary quality don’t explain why kids aren’t reading.
This current Position Paper is an update from 2016. The inaugural paper provided a high-level review of issues relevant to understanding bibliometrics, and practical recommendations for how to appropr...
