Director: AI and Ideas Adoption The University of Manchester Library
Manchester, England
Joined May 2013
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The 2nd day of #RLUK25 begins with a keynote talk by @ciaran_talbot @UoMLibrary
Chairing and introductions to the day by Katie Eagleton @fearandsequins
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Good morning #RLUK25 delegates!
We’re ready to say hello at @RCPspaces ground floor where you can collect your conference badge and bag.
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Charles Dickens was born #OTD 1812. In July 1847 he performed in a benefit show at Manchester’s Theatre Royal with various members of his family and circle of friends. This rare playbill from our collections records the particulars. (1/2)
ALT Playbill advertising a benefit for Mr Leigh Hunt with a performance of Ben Johnson's 'Every Man in his Humour'. Charles Dickens is listed as performing in the role of Captain Bobadil.
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1/5 🚨 The AI landscape has changed. When LLMs weren't powerful enough, everyone obsessed over performance metrics. Now that AI is being deployed everywhere, we're seeing the real cost of sidelining safety.
That's why we're launching Libra-Leaderboard. leaderboard.librai.tech/Lead…
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Our Library Subject Guides have had a makeover just in time for the new academic year!
Explore online learning resources, check out upcoming workshops, and stay in the loop with all the latest materials for your subject.
Find your guide here subjects.library.manchester.…
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Manchester’s new £1.7bn innovation district and neighbourhood opens the doors to its first building, while unveiling its new name as @Sister_mcr.
manchester.ac.uk/about/news/…
Welcome to #Sister.
We’re delighted to unveil our new name – representing collaboration between industry & academia – as we evolve from ID Manchester & mark the next phase of Manchester’s new #innovationdistrict.
🔗 Watch our Manifesto: vimeo.com/1012680587/e0d55b7…
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Introducing Sister: Manchester’s new £1.7bn innovation district!
Renold Building, opening in November, will welcome @SusVentures as the first major customer — a milestone in this 15-year project to create 10,000 jobs & drive £1.5bn into the local economy
bit.ly/3TGiF5O
Welcome to #Sister.
We’re delighted to unveil our new name – representing collaboration between industry & academia – as we evolve from ID Manchester & mark the next phase of Manchester’s new #innovationdistrict.
🔗 Watch our Manifesto: vimeo.com/1012680587/e0d55b7…
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Introducing PaperQA2, the first AI agent that conducts entire scientific literature reviews on its own.
PaperQA2 is also the first agent to beat PhD and Postdoc-level biology researchers on multiple literature research tasks, as measured both by accuracy on objective benchmarks and assessments by human experts. We are publishing a paper and open-sourcing the code.
This is the first example of AI agents exceeding human performance on a major portion of scientific research, and will be a game-changer for the way humans interact with the scientific literature.
Paper and code are below, and congratulations in particular to @m_skarlinski, @SamCox822, @jonmlaurent, James Braza, @MichaelaThinks, @mjhammerling, @493Raghava, @andrewwhite01, and others who pulled this off. 1/
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Just released: The @ARLnews and CNI's Deluxe Edition of the ARL/CNI #AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures, including:
-The Final Scenario Set
-The Strategic Context Report
-The Provocateur Interview Report
Learn more at: doi.org/10.29242/report.aisc…
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Broadside ballad 'The Northern Ditty' features in 'Sonilluminations', a sound installation by researcher and composer Patrick John Jones, inspired by the collections.
Visit the soundscape at the Rylands until Saturday 27 July, including this catchy 19th century ballad. 🎶
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We are currently experiencing technical difficulties affecting some services which is related to the global incident being reported in the news today.
staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/ne…
Looking forward to the CILIP Conference this week. And to joining Mia and Glen on the AI and the Digital Humanities panel #CILIP24 I hope to see you there! invt.io/1txbkn7hfsa
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Todays the day! Welcome to the Academic Libraries North Conference 2024. We have a packed agenda and we can’t wait to welcome our delegates for the in person day of our conference! #ALN24
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Recognise any artists on this Unique Record in Aid of the World's Refugees?
Drop in to a Humanitarian Archive Collections Encounter on Thursday 20 June, 2-3.30pm, to explore how celebrities, students, and governments rallied together in support of refugees worldwide in 1959-60.
ALT Record cover titled 'All Star Festival' including an artist line-up that includes Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Kicking off our Day 2 with @ciaran_talbot, Associate Director: AI and Ideas Adoption, talking about exciting things happening in our @UoMLibrary with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 🤖
#UoM200
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Our plans to build a Manchester Digital Campus have taken an important step forward as we acquired five acres of the former Central Retail Park in Ancoats, from @ManCityCouncil earlier this week.
Read the full press release bit.ly/GPA-MDC-Land
#TransformingCivilService