Isaac Wink

Guest Post — Cultivating Serendipity and Protecting Night Science - The Scholarly Kitchen As AI-driven search reduces friction in information-seeking, what happens to serendipity, frustration, and “night science”?

Guest Post — Cultivating Serendipity and Protecting Night Science scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/05/g...

Getting told the coupon code is invalid. Is it still active?

Is September 4, 2025 the first time that a person’s name appears in the NYT crossword on the day that they die?

📃 Report from the pilot workshop at the #Kentucky #Geological Survey meant to introduce #researchers to #DataManagement, sharing & stewardship practices, as well as related obstacles.

📍 Hosted at @universityofky.bsky.social in May 2024.

👉 Find more: doi.org/10.3897/rio.....

Head, King Library Press The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research and education enterprise. As part of that mission, we are looking for an enth...

New full-time #BookLab job just dropped for the #KingLibraryPress: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/580...

Please share widely as you can, I am on the search committee and am also happy to chat about what it means to live in Kentucky.

Yes, AI tools writ large can do very impressive things, but odds are still good that the specific “AI-integrated” product being sold to you is probably a scam.

Language should be used to introduce clarity, and AI as a marketing term does the exact opposite. It lumps a bunch of different technologies together and assumes that people won’t ask questions for fear of looking ignorant about the shiny new thing.

“AI” is a marketing buzzword first and a technology second, and as a buzzword, its main function is to be a magic handwave that suggests that a product is complicated and therefore, presumably, good.

I’m forever appreciative of your decade-long advocacy for the giving the attorneys general treatment to all plural two-word nouns.

A blessed pairing of posts on my feed.

Me with “misled”

www.datarescueproject.org

And on company time, no less!

Subject: [Bikecoop-announce] Please let me go Body: I lived in Champaign 10 years ago for a year. I never went to a bike coop event, although I think it’s a great idea. I have been trying to get off this mailing list for a decade. Please let me go. I don’t own a bike and I live in Alaska. Every time I reply to the unsubscribe link, I have a different outcome. Sometime it doesn’t say anything, but I still get your emails. Sometimes it bounces back. Sometimes it says undeliverable. Can you help?

Incredible email sent out to the whole listserv

In my own work with library patrons I’ve tried reframing data management not as a system that that prevents mistakes from ever happening, but one that makes them easier to identify and fix.

In cases where consultants are hired to repackage unpopular decisions management wants to make as coming from outside experts, I think admins will still rather say “Deloitte told us to do it” than “ChatGPT told us to do it.”

(Mirror Twin in Lexington, KY)

Menu at a bar with a Double-Stuffed Stout

I am a Pop-Tart conservative (no new Pop-Tarts, there are only 4 good flavors and we already know what they are) and an Oreo progressive (keep making the weirdest possible flavors of Oreos that humans can imagine)

Can you share it please I need it

That’s Pop-Tart paleoconservatism and it’s too extreme for me.

Sour Patch Kids Oreos

I am a Pop-Tart conservative (no new Pop-Tarts, there are only 4 good flavors and we already know what they are) and an Oreo progressive (keep making the weirdest possible flavors of Oreos that humans can imagine)

How dare you fail to properly de-identify by leaving my handle in

Still figuring out my personal balance of trying to write widely vs. for my profession, but hoping to engage with both!

Back to Basics: Considering Categories of Data Services Consults Consultations are fundamental to data librarianship, serving as a vital means of one-on-one support for researchers. However, the topics and forms of support unique to data services consults are not a...

Plus a more niche commentary for JeSLib on library data services consults: publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/artic...

Guest Post - The Truth Is in There: The Library of Babel and Generative AI - The Scholarly Kitchen The short story “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges provides an opportunity to consider the veracity of AI-generated information.

I haven’t been publicly active on social media previously so have nothing to recreate, but as a first foray for new connections, here’s a piece I wrote last year on generative AI and The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/04/g...

Tuning into the Eras Tour livestream for the rep portion every night so I could be the first to announce in the groupchat if the bodysuit ever changed and tonight I’m vindicated I feel like I’ve predicted the rapture and have finally been right

If the edible pop tart mascot were Catholic would he get ashes like this or like this:

Oh your sweet disposition
And my wide-eyed gays