📢 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!

📣Job alert: geophysicist required for seismic interpretation at shallow geothermal research sites. Its only a short term role, but is on the existing SmartRes Project (www.imperial.ac.uk/earth-scienc...) with @geophysics-adam.bsky.social @geosolutions.bsky.social. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

🔵 #RLUK26 #CFP | Stewardship in challenging times: the role of libraries in supporting civic society 📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all. 🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf

CNI will act as a cooperating org for the symposium Truth, Knowledge, & Society in Victoria, Canada in Sept. The event will launch the Kula Academy, a library-based institute of advanced studies at the University of Victoria: www.eventbrite.ca/e/kula-acade....

It was lovely to join the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries online cohort this morning to share our University of Leeds Libraries AI Principles and how we developed them, as well as 4 use cases from Frances Varley, Eddie Meehan, Stuart Bowes and Simon Popple. @dcch-leeds.bsky.social

📣 We're hiring: Head of Service Delivery The #HeadofServiceDelivery holds strategic responsibility for the service delivery function for #researchers at the @nlireland.bsky.social. ⭐ More info + #apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor... 📅 Apply by: 3pm, 19 September 2025 #jobfairy #libraryjobs

Be the first to meet our finalists, before FUAM 2025 opens this week! 🥳 This annual showcase gives graduates from the School of Design and @fahacs.bsky.social a spot in our Galleries Get ahead of the game, and get to know the four selected finalists...

📢 Applications open for the 2026 Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship on 11 August, just a couple of weeks away, closing 6 October! 🚀 You don't have to be writing software yourself, just interested in promoting good research software practice. It's UK-based but there are 3 places […]

UCC Library is recruiting a Head of Special Collections & Archives. Lead the development, digitisation, and promotion of our rare books, manuscripts & archives. Apply by 12pm, 19 Aug: www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

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If I had the cash. Having my own ramparts is tempting www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

It really is your last chance to register! T minus 15 ⏰

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Exciting news: over £59m announced to support the Government’s new compute roadmap. Our investment will support the career development of researchers and innovators, enabling UK-wide capability and access to digital infrastructure. More: www.ukri.org/news/governm... or ⬇️🧵1/

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh announces the launch of a new website, The People’s Dispensary featuring a digitised and transcribed collection of 18th century case notes of the Edinburgh Public Dispensary from its foundation in 1776. buff.ly/UzShOzg

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system. Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Join @jisc.bsky.social online next week to explore how organisations can deepen collaboration to tackle shared challenges in #OpenAccess We have an exciting panel of speakers lined up for you! 🌐 Strengthening through collaboration 📅 21 July 2025 | 10:00–12:00 BST 🔗 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/stren...

It's great to see the next generation of librarians contributing to conversations started at the Knowledge Futures Symposium last month 👏 Ellie Weale, Librarianship student at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, shares her reflections in our latest blog post. Read now: bit.ly/4kqHa16 #LKFS2025 #LibSky

Findings from publicly funded research should be publicly available.

20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30. 1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.

The 2nd day of the sessions sponsored by #DigitalMedievalist at the #IMC2025 is coming to an end with roundtable on digital tools chaired by @lisafdavis.bsky.social with contributions from many fantastic digital medievalists. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

The Knowledge Futures Symposium was such a great day, find out more about the discussions we had on the day about how we can open up our knowledge structures for use and creation by all www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...

The International Medieval Congress is back next week from 7 to 10 July ⚔️    ‪ @imc-leeds.bsky.social, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies, will draw medievalists from over 60 countries, and we expect to welcome thousands of attendees 👇  www.imc.leeds.ac.uk   #IMC2025

I am looking forward to #IMC @imc-leeds.bsky.social coming to Leeds and my first time speaking at it.

❗Today is the last day to sign up for our Research Culture Community of Practice event on 14th July!!! The event is open to anyone working or studying at Leeds, or anyone who works closely with Leeds. Spaces are vanishing rapidly so don't miss out.

Missed out on the Edinburgh Open Research Conference, or just want to rewatch the talks? No worries - we have you covered! Recordings, slides and abstracts are all available on the EOR journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/eor/issue/vi...

The 1995 Persuasion adaptation is on the iPlayer again. Thoroughly recommend.

The Government is hiring for a chief scientific adviser for the Home Office - tough job but important to bring evidence to that Department. £125k-£145k. The current post holder is a social scientist, and it could lend itself to someone from that background www.gov.uk/government/n...

Last Friday, we hosted the Knowledge Futures Symposium 📚 We heard from inspirational speakers who examined how knowledge is created, shared and exploited today, and were challenged to think and discuss our role in creating a more equitable and open knowledge future. #LKFS2025 #Library #LibSky

“Data is never neutral” - here is @adamrutherford.bsky.social data checklist #LKFS2025 - a wonderful way to conclude today and the brilliant conversations we had today.

Remembering our dear friend Elaine Sykes from the @infolitgroup.bsky.social and @lilacconf.bsky.social committee: infolit.org.uk/remembering-...

here's my presentation to the super #LKFS2025; super important conversations. Many thanks to @masudk.com and colleagues for showing the way to knowledge futures. and here's Allan Ginsberg on the library dancefloor! anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/k...

“The Library is a dance floor, let’s dance” what a wonderful statement by @christophersmith.bsky.social at #LKFS2025