Ian Clark

Academic Services Manager. CPD25 Task Group chair. Photographer. GenX 90s throwback…ellipsis lover…privacy advocate…and more. All views my own. (he/him)

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Given encryption is going up the agenda again in the UK, a good time to re-up my article from 2016 on encryption technologies, digital inclusion and the role of library workers. https://t.co/viPi586exK

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

@NaomiLASmith Thanks Naomi!

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

(note: southeastern was renationalised a while back, so it is possible to have nice trains run by the state, who knew.)

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Train has had a makeover.

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Nice, but not as nice as having that area to myself in the morning.

No people plus Kid A in the ears makes for a very chilled start to the day.

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

“It is not enough to warn simply of what generative AI spits out, it is critical to understand how and why it has produced the information to answer our queries, not least in the context of efforts to embed decolonial methodologies across the academy.”

https://t.co/eek50Sw5Vn

[Nicholas Poole OBE Hon. FCLIP @NickPoole1]

Let me be clear @thetimes @oliver_wright: #libraries are a statutory duty. Changes to services must be based on evidence of local need & impartial Equalities Impact Assesments. Financially-motivated closures will likely be subject to Judicial Review https://t.co/Yp7FQxFa5y

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

questions that are simplistic, naive, and uninformative:

should big tech self-regulate?
can we debias data?
does AI pose an existential threat?

if you are regurgitating these and similar questions, i can't take your concern on the current state of AI very seriously

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Signal will never undermine our privacy promises & the encryption they rely on. Our position remains firm: we will continue to do whatever we can to ensure people in the UK can use Signal. But if the choice came down to being forced to build a backdoor, or leaving, we we'd leave.

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Artifical Intelligence and Information Literacy: New Problems, Same Solutions? https://t.co/eek50Sw5Vn

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Artifical Intelligence and Information Literacy: New Problems, Same Solutions? https://t.co/eek50Sw5Vn

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

@melon_h Wow, that’s amazing news, Helen! Very best of luck!

[Lords Industry and Regulators Committee @HLIndustryCom]

Today we published our report on the Office for Students, the regulator of higher education in England. We found that the OfS must do better and that the sector faces a looming financial crisis. Read on to find out more 👇 [1/8] https://t.co/tWbpUcRtPB

[British Psychological Society @BPSOfficial]

These are concerning figures.

The NHS Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs have shown that psychologically-led mental health support for staff can play a crucial and cost-effective role in workforce retention.

But, urgent investment is needed to support staff.

#FundNHShubs

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

TikTok revolutionising my PowerPoint game. Now there’s an algorithm that truly delivers…

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Perhaps Arif Ahmed can have a word with the government about Prevent and the Investigatory Powers Act then...

[Jim Dickinson @jim_dickinson]

"Students must be able to explore views which others find offensive" https://t.co/ddirMQVhw0

[Oonagh (she/her) @LibrarianOonagh]

This is excellent guidance and a great template for further work to be done in the HE and library sector @ciliplgbtq @CILIPinfo

[Campaign for Freedom of Information @CampaignFoI]

The Campaign's director Maurice Frankel is speaking at a half day in-person FOI workshop at the Central Library in Cambridge on September
19, 13:00 to 16:30 Book a free place https://t.co/2BQS9eUAd5 #supportCFOI

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Being a bit of a Naomi Klein fanboy, looking forward to her latest book...

[WIRED @WIRED]

🧵 Leftist author and climate activist @NaomiAKlein got confused with far-out Covid truther Naomi Wolf so often, it almost broke her sense of self. To find it again, she wrote a whole book about losing touch with reality. https://t.co/tPqlOBK7yc 1/5

📷: Kamil Bialous

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

@Abebab Congratulations :)

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

@ZapTheLibrarian @Abebab No worries :)

[Ian Clark @RawClarkTexts]

Presenting a library staff briefing on critical generative AI use this morning which will explore how people feel about it, touch on the data that drives AI referring to @Abebab’s work and demonstrate one of the tools and how it can be used carefully to aid literature searching.