Wonderful to see @lulgalleries.bsky.social on the BBC website with Dr. RJ Wade sharing insights into our latest exhibition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy birthday to us! 🎂 Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited! RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

🤖 @coar-repositories.bsky.social has announced the new Dealing with AI Bots website that provides a wealth of information on bots & #crawlers impacting the services and operations of open #repositories, including mitigation strategies. See: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

The Call for applications for the DISKAH Fellowship scheme 2026-2027 is now OPEN! Funding is available to broaden skills for engagement with Digital Research Infrastructure #DRI in the #ArtsandHumanities research: www.diskah.org/fellowship-2...

Want to level up your library career this year? We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme. Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026

Lovely walk in the crisp snow this morning.

At the University of Leeds, we are seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Lead Engineer to lead a project development team for Digital Library services, to support digital access to the Libraries’ Cultural Collections? It is a fantastic opportunity: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Happy New Year from Cultural Collections & Galleries! 🎆 We hope you've had a well deserved rest and we can't wait to welcome you back. 💜

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough

Christmas on University of Leeds campus

We are hiring a Digitisation Studio Manager to manage our Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service! 📸📖🏛️🖥️ £41,064 - £48,822 per annum, full-time, open-ended Closes 5 Jan 2026 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Get in touch if you'd like to know more!

Job Klaxon! PDRA role at @designinf.bsky.social: with the data analytics team at CoSTAR Foresight Lab. Full time, 2026–29, contributing to UK wide #costarnetwork analysis on creative industries and creative technologies. Closes 5th Jan! Please share. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Code: github.com/jasonclark/a...

Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025! Check out the full programme at www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... So excited to hear from Rachel Coldicutt as our opening keynote #FantasticFutures2025

“Careful Consequence Check” mentioned in the #FF2025 opening keynote by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025

Abstracts for the long papers on now www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... and the short papers www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... - find out more about brilliant work on maps, assessing archival records, computer vision and language models, and AI for art collections #FF2025

Great to be at Fantastic Futures Conference #FF2025 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. I am looking forward to the packed programme.

Regretting leaving my woolly hat at home this morning.

Great to see SPARKLE/PRVoices and the new Enact service mentioned here. Thanks to AHRC for funding this crucial work to support practice researchers. @jennye.bsky.social, @scottmclaughlin.bsky.social

It's the final week to submit to the #RLUK26 #CFP - closes this Friday! #RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections. Our virtual conference is open to all. ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf

We are looking for a chair of our new Department of AI and Society. The vision is to create a future where AI systems are built by society, for society. Please share widely. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816

University Cultural Collections and Generative AI: Critical Approaches in a Library Context doi.org/10.48785/100... @dcch-leeds.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social

🔵 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the #RLUK26 call for papers - Stewardship in challenging times The virtual #RLUK26 Conference will explore how libraries can navigate complex intersections of academic freedom, censorship & contested spaces+collections ℹ️ Read the full #CFP @ bit.ly/RLUKconf

In case you missed it! Catch the recording of @rluk.ac.uk's latest Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries seminar here: www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-dema... 📹 Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social

🗣️Speakers: 🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds) 🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)

🚀 Small Grants Programme NOW OPEN! Funding available for UK heritage science & conservation projects 📂 Enhance access to heritage resources (£25k) 💻 Build virtual research environments (£15k) w/ STFC Hartree Centre Deadline: 28 Nov 2025 Funded by @ukri.org #RICHeS Read more here: buff.ly/iFoKHNX

**Job opportunity** Deputy Head of Archives and Libraries Starting salary: £48,448 Contract type: Permanent Location: John Sinclair House, Edinburgh Full details and how to apply can be found here: rb.gy/ta6q44

Uk library peoples! Concerned about inter library loans and copyright in the light of potential journal cancellations? Well m’colleague and all round delightful chap, Andrew Johnson, has written all about it here so hopefully you can stop your panics doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Online Meeting is OPEN. The meeting will be held Jan. 27-29, 2026 and is free and open to all. Learn more at: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Clearing the cobwebs of my mind away

Join us - launch event of Leeds Institute for Societal Futures. Bringing key stakeholders together to find solutions to some of society's most urgent challenges. 🗓️29/9/25, 3-5pm 📍University of Leeds 🔗Register bit.ly/46dcU54 #Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #LISF societal.leeds.ac.uk

📢 We are Leeds Institute for Societal Futures – connect with us at our launch event. 🗓️29/9/25 ⏲️ 3-5pm 🚩@universityofleeds.bsky.social 🔗http://bit.ly/3Ie3ka1 - please register Society needs to change - let's change it together. societal.leeds.ac.uk #Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #LISF

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

We’re delighted to announce the third #RLUK #AHRC @armauk.bsky.social Research Catalyst Cohort #REPRCC for academic libraries. Over the next year they will develop their research confidence, skills & capabilities bit.ly/47JXXty 🎉 Congratulations #librariesXresearch cohort! 👇

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If you do #DigitalMedievalStudies consider submitting to panels we are organising for #IMC2026 by @imc-leeds.bsky.social, sponsored by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social! Feel free to get in touch if you have questions!

Our director Alex Bamji spoke with Neil Buttery on The British Food History Podcast about a 400-year-old English book on cheese, now held by Cultural Collections at Leeds. The podcast explores cheese, health, regional varieties, and cheese haters! Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/1We5...

Check out these opportunities with Leeds Social Sciences Institute @societal.bsky.social 💼

'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2

🟢 #RLUKDSF | Thinking Fast & Slow about #AI | 🗓 8 Oct Join us in Oct to hear Paul Gooding (Glasgow) discuss principles for determining ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ approaches to #AI implementation to help libraries better respond to the challenges of implementing new technologies 🎟️ Sign up bit.ly/RLUKDSF

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

📢 We are hiring 2 Deputy Director (DD) roles at Leeds Institute for Societal Futures. Find out more about these leadership opportunities! DD Education 👉 bit.ly/4p5WHqC DD Research & Engagement 👉 bit.ly/4mPoKJy Society needs to change, let's change it together. #SocietalFutures #UniversityOfLeeds

Looking forward to #HeritageOpenDays later this month! Join us at the Miners' Hall, Barnsley, on 16-17 September - a fantastic opportunity to see inside the NUM & Yorkshire Miners' Association's historic home & find out more about the union archives www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e...

I really loved writing this about Austen’s best novel and hope you love it (and the novel) too! Please vote with pride and prejudice for Pride & Prejudice!!

The 1985 Transport Act was one of the biggest policy failures of recent decades. Nothing better describes this than the chart below by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.

Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out. I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!