Em Johnson (she/her)
@missemilielib.bsky.social
Academic librarian at Swinburne University #researchpublishing #openaccess #scholarlycommunications
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I am taking 5 months of uninterrupted long service leave at full pay Aug-Dec this year!
Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset
Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset
@dorassessment.bsky.social hi DORA! Your metrics toolkit at www.metrics-toolkit.org isn't available - the website is returning an error? Is this available elsewhere?
www.metrics-toolkit.org
August 19, 2026 at 2:27 AM
@dorassessment.bsky.social hi DORA! Your metrics toolkit at www.metrics-toolkit.org isn't available - the website is returning an error? Is this available elsewhere?
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This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.
May 19, 2026 at 9:20 PM
This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.
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This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.
Thank you Eleanor Colla for finding this - Rick Anderson writes 'Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now?' #academiclibraries #priorities #open #scholarlycommunications | doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now? | Insights
doi.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Thank you Eleanor Colla for finding this - Rick Anderson writes 'Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now?' #academiclibraries #priorities #open #scholarlycommunications | doi.org/10.1629/uksg...
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This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
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Latest OASPA data shows dramatic growth in OA articles from past decades is plateauing - OASPA https://www.oaspa.org/news/latest-oaspa-data-shows-dramatic-growth-in-oa-articles-from-past-decades-is-plateauing/
www.oaspa.org
January 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Latest OASPA data shows dramatic growth in OA articles from past decades is plateauing - OASPA https://www.oaspa.org/news/latest-oaspa-data-shows-dramatic-growth-in-oa-articles-from-past-decades-is-plateauing/
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Building a Sustainable Commons: Why community governance is the bedrock of Open Scholarly Infrastructure - OpenAIRE Blog https://www.openaire.eu/community/blogs/sustainability-holy-grail-building-a-sustainable-commons
Building a Sustainable Commons: Why community governance is the bedrock of Open Scholarly Infrastructure
Simply being open is not enough; infrastructure must also be enduring. The Open Science movement stands at a critical juncture. While the principle of making research outputs open is now widely accepted as a prerequisite for progress, the true challenge remains: achieving long-term sustainability for the core infrastructures that make this openness...
www.openaire.eu
January 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Building a Sustainable Commons: Why community governance is the bedrock of Open Scholarly Infrastructure - OpenAIRE Blog https://www.openaire.eu/community/blogs/sustainability-holy-grail-building-a-sustainable-commons
theconversation.com/the-5-stages... #academicpublishing #enshittification @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social and Martina Linnenluecke, Jan 6 2026
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
theconversation.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
theconversation.com/the-5-stages... #academicpublishing #enshittification @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social and Martina Linnenluecke, Jan 6 2026
*tiptoing quietly back into my work socials* shhh
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 AM
*tiptoing quietly back into my work socials* shhh
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OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals.
Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet?
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www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet?
📚
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A Dublin-based organization that manages the Dewey Decimal System and partners with libraries worldwide has laid off dozens of central Ohio employees, citing the rise of…
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org
July 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals.
Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet?
📚
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet?
📚
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...
I am taking 5 months of uninterrupted long service leave at full pay Aug-Dec this year!
Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset
Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset
June 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I am taking 5 months of uninterrupted long service leave at full pay Aug-Dec this year!
Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset
Why have I got such an appalling accrual, I hear you ask? Well indeed, and therein lies the irony of librarian burnout. #VocationalAwe #IdentityAsProfession #WorkLifeBalance #ReframeAndReset
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The N8 Research Partnership has today released a landmark statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarly research is published
June 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The N8 Research Partnership has today released a landmark statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarly research is published
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With open access conferences happening on the other side of the globe, we thought we'd celebrate OA in the lands down under with a link to the OA Toolkit for Aotearoa NZ Researchers. While only a basic tool, it's completely customisable for individual institutions oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
Open Access Toolkit for Aotearoa New Zealand Researchers | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org
June 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
With open access conferences happening on the other side of the globe, we thought we'd celebrate OA in the lands down under with a link to the OA Toolkit for Aotearoa NZ Researchers. While only a basic tool, it's completely customisable for individual institutions oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
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The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women
We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality
Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality
Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers
journals.plos.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women
We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality
Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality
Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
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Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around?
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
June 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Faster science is sloppier science. Don't we already have more than enough useless studies, retracted papers, and junk journals floating around?
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
The last thing we need is AI enabling people to produce more.
We need a slow research movement and we need it yesterday.
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I had the pleasure of giving a keynote for the ANZREG conference earlier this week titled 'Beyond provocation: Reimagining systems through care, critique, and community.'
🔗 Talk and slides: www.emiliabell.com/2025/06/13/b...
🔗 Talk and slides: www.emiliabell.com/2025/06/13/b...
Beyond provocation: Reimagining systems through care, critique, and community - Emilia C. Bell
Keynote at ANZREG Conference 11th June 2025 Slides | Recording [when available] Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0), except for any content quoted from ...
www.emiliabell.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I had the pleasure of giving a keynote for the ANZREG conference earlier this week titled 'Beyond provocation: Reimagining systems through care, critique, and community.'
🔗 Talk and slides: www.emiliabell.com/2025/06/13/b...
🔗 Talk and slides: www.emiliabell.com/2025/06/13/b...
I'm engaging less with my work/professional social media these days. It's a bit overwhelming out there, and I'm pulling in my antennae while I seek an acceptable balance for work/life
June 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'm engaging less with my work/professional social media these days. It's a bit overwhelming out there, and I'm pulling in my antennae while I seek an acceptable balance for work/life
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As we say on the internet, "some personal news."
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
June 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
As we say on the internet, "some personal news."
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
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Journal Article: “Defining quality in peer review reports: a scoping review” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Defining quality in peer review reports: a scoping review - Knowledge and Information Systems
This study examines the challenge of defining quality in peer-review reports, a crucial yet underexplored aspect of academic publishing. Reviewers are vital gatekeepers of scientific knowledge, but un...
link.springer.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Journal Article: “Defining quality in peer review reports: a scoping review” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/ar... ? Summarization feature Publishers are making libraries sign terms that say you can't upload their content into public ai clouds so yes technically this would be violation if user puts in full text and it gets Summarized
Endnote
support.clarivate.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/ar... ? Summarization feature Publishers are making libraries sign terms that say you can't upload their content into public ai clouds so yes technically this would be violation if user puts in full text and it gets Summarized
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A Librarian’s Guide to AI in Academic Search Tools katinamagazine.org/content/arti... - I was asked to write this rather than bloat out a review article I was doing for Katina. I struggled a lot with this, trying to keep it concise, vs technically accurate while handicaped by my limited knowledge
A Librarian’s Guide to AI in Academic Search Tools
As Katina covers the integration of AI into academic search tools and other library products, this guide offers useful background information on the technology.
katinamagazine.org
May 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A Librarian’s Guide to AI in Academic Search Tools katinamagazine.org/content/arti... - I was asked to write this rather than bloat out a review article I was doing for Katina. I struggled a lot with this, trying to keep it concise, vs technically accurate while handicaped by my limited knowledge
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CREEPY: Academia.edu has generated an AI podcast for my paper:
Kingsley, D.A. and Kennan, M.A. (2015) “Open access: the whipping boy for problems in scholarly publication”, aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/i...
It is *kinda* OK, but the asides are slightly off putting (an emphasise the wrong points)
Kingsley, D.A. and Kennan, M.A. (2015) “Open access: the whipping boy for problems in scholarly publication”, aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/i...
It is *kinda* OK, but the asides are slightly off putting (an emphasise the wrong points)
Open Access: The Whipping Boy for Problems in Scholarly Publishing
With this paper, we hope to foster debate about the place of open access (OA) in scholarly publishing. After providing a background to OA’s development and current state, we examine some of the accusa...
aisel.aisnet.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
CREEPY: Academia.edu has generated an AI podcast for my paper:
Kingsley, D.A. and Kennan, M.A. (2015) “Open access: the whipping boy for problems in scholarly publication”, aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/i...
It is *kinda* OK, but the asides are slightly off putting (an emphasise the wrong points)
Kingsley, D.A. and Kennan, M.A. (2015) “Open access: the whipping boy for problems in scholarly publication”, aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/i...
It is *kinda* OK, but the asides are slightly off putting (an emphasise the wrong points)
I would love to see this kind of graph for the academic publishing sector
May 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I would love to see this kind of graph for the academic publishing sector
200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.
Share, boost, join and show them love.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
Share, boost, join and show them love.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
Redirecting to: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live
wclivestream.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.
Share, boost, join and show them love.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
Share, boost, join and show them love.
It is here: wclivestream.com/watch
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They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building.
Join the stream and show your support!
Join the stream and show your support!
Tune into the 💯 hour Weather & Climate Livestream, brought to you by US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk due to proposed budget cuts. Learn about the federally funded science that makes weather forecasts and climate predictions possible!
www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...
www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...
Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream
YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream
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May 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building.
Join the stream and show your support!
Join the stream and show your support!