Playing balloon keepy uppy in the hall and walked straight through a glass door. Sum total of injuries was a tiny shard of glass in my knee and no more balloon

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Recent cat commission. Hit me up if you need a pet painted.

The New Year is a good time for making changes, and we’ve decided the time is right to use BlueSky and LinkedIn as our main social media platforms, and to no longer post on X. Do give us a follow and please do share this post.

back at work and my true calling: verifying my identity

Anyway - the reason I was asking was this fascinating post from @aarontay.bsky.social (again) - particularly useful is placing these in context of federated and discovery level search tools #medlibs 📚 aarontay.substack.com/p/mcp-server...

"I can’t directly connect to an MCP (Minecraft or Multi-Channel Protocol) server". Thanks copilot - I am all good for Minecraft right now

This from @aarontay.bsky.social is excellent - challenging people to be more subtle in where AI is in our tools and which parts of that are an issue for us as individuals or a service aarontay.substack.com/p/what-do-we... 📚

It would be unfair to pick out a formative book - I basically read everything I could get hold of

the robot also doubling over as if it kicked itself in the balls too makes this ten times funnier

Just a lovely thing. Fully into my man of a certain age local interest books gift era

Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Second batch of the season

Librarians are going to be busy / tearing their hair out 📚

Very sad to hear Dr Paul Ayris has passed away. He was a great champion of libraries and open access, hugely influential, and very supportive of us at #ebookSOS. A great loss to the library and research communities. www.leru.org/news/in-memo...

Quakers in Britain are continuing to work to ensure that all Quaker communities are inclusive of gender diversity, following a decision in 2021. A new document provides both theological background for this, rooted in the commandment to love one another, and practical guidance. 1/4

Glad that colleagues across Keele Uni and partner NHS libraries were able to successfully integrate their Alma with the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub #medlibs 📚 ciliphlg.com/mission-coll...

You do *not* need a shift key! Real hackers have a keyboard with separate uppercase and lowercase. The caps lock key is for wimps 😄 (As seen in the very fine Kauri Museum outside of Auckland.)

This is hilarious and terrifying in equal measure.

Adore the British-themed mural in my hotel in Valletta, including: yassified Virgin Queen, Churchill with pigeon, and for some reason General Rochambeau (not very British? like really pointedly not? did they think he was Nelson? wrong number of arms for a start) in a Spitfire that says “dong” on it

Email advertising new features on an AI tool that sets off all manner of IP alarm bells

This is interesting from @tripdatabase.bsky.social exploring the kinds of questions where there is limited evidence with reasons why #medlibs 📚 blog.tripdatabase.com/2025/12/12/w...

Essex Vets XC V50 team bronze!!!!!!

Tired now

Think that today may be your last day. Logs off to clean bathroom

When you realise the implication of a search tool combining searches not result sets (can't NOT two otherwise identical searches with different limiters applied to find the uniques). Is this normal?

Christmas finally getting started. I'll be paying my annual pilgrimage to visit the little guy next week

Another cracking #ChingfordLeague night racing under the lights with Loughton AC at the Velopark

Donald Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The type of action not befitting a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

BRB just pouring myself a large glass of olive oil

Fantastic piece of work this

Do I know any non NHS library people who manage EBSCO Discovery Service? Looking for someone to try something for me. Or does anyone know an EDS instance with guest access open? 📚 #medlibs

Londoncentric is great and this looks like an excellent cause that still has a bit of room on their "Double your money" Big Give target - why not drop a couple of quid their way and have it topped up nicely?

📢 London/near London library people: would anyone like to be my stunt double on CILIP London's Festive Literary Pub Crawl (18:30 - 20:30) tomorrow (9th Dec)? I have a bug and can't go. 😕 If you'd like my place, to have a whale of time/meet your soulmate (no pressure) please let me know.

Yeah no

Was saddened to hear of this sale

Car alarm keeps going off. Frequency of occurrence rising. Not helping my afternoon

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Love cross country with my club. A Ware Cup win for the mighty LAC women and a near miss second for the persistent LAC men!

Totally agree with Paul. However I am annoyed with the BBC for using a photo with another excellent scientist and not naming her. So it's Lucy Collinson, Head of the Electron Microscopy STP @em-stp.bsky.social at @crick.ac.uk

I've now opened a raffle for this embroidery landscape - direct link below! The listing has full details for the reason and how to enter, the process, etc. This is a vital moment for me so any post engagement/shares will be extremely helpful! victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art

🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲 If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with: - pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!) - a link or details on how people can buy I will boost you! Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄

We're a not-for-profit holiday site in Falkirk, Scotland, set up to fund maintenance of a listed building and mental health work. We have six quirky glamping lodges, each sleeping 4. One unit has special features for people travelling with cats, another for dogs. www.heartofscotlandholidays.com

Join me for the first of my six webinars in 2026 for the CDI - looking at the impact (and potential future impact) of automation and AI on different occupational groups and what this could mean for career planning and management. #FutureOfWork #CareersLeader #Careers #LMI

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Christmas wouldn't be the same without it