“Living among these neighbours, and loving them all, is inextricably tied up with my faith. Through my relationships with my neighbours, I come to understanding something of the divine which is in us all.” Paul Parker reflects on having neighbours and being a neighbour.

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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Thinking about the period where my dads car stereo used to get nicked regularly - cannot think when I last heard of a car stereo going!

Comes to something when you are left wondering if your late mother would have ended up being deported

Spent a chunk of yesterday evening with a few members of the local Wombles group helping a load of Beavers do a litter pick and I don't think parents are nearly grateful enough to those who lead groups for their children

nformation literacy statement from King's College Libraries and Collections. Includes AI and consideration of NHS alongside students and academics 📚 www.kcl.ac.uk/library/asse...

New blog post: LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/llms-are-still-surprisingly-bad-at-simple-tasks/ I asked three different commercially available LLMs the same question: Which TLDs have the same name as valid HTML5 elements? This is a pretty …

"I'm not on that committee" is a longstanding #medlibs joke but preferable than termination & 2 consultants when it comes to advisory feedback about MEDLINE. More about that & a Sept 25th update about a European alternative PubMed project. eagledawg.blogspot.com/2025/09/medl...

I like these from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social 0 simple follow ups to encourage users of LLMs to get something better from them mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/my-surpris...

I begin to see why this person might have a back problem. (Ad from Stuff's front page)

Given the water mains in Loughton blow roughly once a week I hope it will be a closed loop water cooling set up

All the details for Michael Rosen Day November 13 www.michaelrosen.co.uk/michaelrosen...

Comfy

My favourite thing about visiting friends with cats is just how affronted they manage to look at the wrong human stepping through the door

Niftier than the average discarded libary shelving. At a rather higher than the usual - please come and take me away - price point however 📚

Hearing about thefelixproject.org sound like good folk

Exhibition, ‘A body of knowledge’ is open! 10 Sept 2025 - 23 July 2026. history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... Discover the surprising treasures of the RCP Heritage Library & explore how 500 years of book-collecting have built a wondrous, enduring library. @rcphysicians.bsky.social #BodyofKnowledge

Google "I Feel Lucky" button clearly no longer viewed as in anyway an actual thing / no longer being used as it spins to a random search like "I feel hungry" on mouse over

AJP Taylor - not a referencing guy

This explains what the noise outside just now was then!

Sitting hear scratching my head as to why AU search isn't working correctly on EDS and finally spot that I have natural language search turned on #ErrorDiary

Eating jelly babies to celebrate being able to get back into my work stuff

Let's call it not a vintage year for spuds #allotment

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

@tinareynolds.bsky.social this was the bookshelf in my room in a place we hired in Church Enstone over the weekend

Going to be a beautiful day

Yeah well whose fault is that??

One of the things that has worked ok this year #allotment

Summer athletics season is coming to a close and having got someone to teach me how to Fosbury flop I jumped an age group record for my athletics club yesterday. It wasn't very high in high jump terms but it was great to learn something new and achieve a goal

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

THREAD: v niche sport-based plea! The N.U.T.S. (National Union of Track Statisticians) Athletics & Olympic Archive & Library will be evicted from its current premises in ten days, and urgently needs either a) a permanent home or b) temp storage. Croydon area preferred but all offers welcome. (1/4)

Just wrote an extended email about how wildcards interact with other features of EBSCO interfaces to give unexpected numbers of results and feel I may have peaked as a health librarian #medlibs 📚

Why would you take a spreadsheet which can do hundreds of correct calculations near instantly and shove in some AI so now it can be slow and wrong? Put down the shiny thing and back away slowly.

After doing some beta testing of EBSCO Scholarly Graph this is a fun example of how these things trip up #medlibs 📚

Looks like a fun way to explore challenges of academic publication opensciencestudies.eu/the-research... 📚

In other news. I am mostly eating beans at present. The bean pancakes on this being the latest use www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Urgh. Great start to the day. Hopefully the new version of OneNote will restore some of the abilities it had before the current version?

This sounds like a documentary version of marsh's book Do no harm so I would highly recommend it > Confessions of a Brain Surgeon review – life-changingly exquisite television www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

New blog post: Books will soon be obsolete in school https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/books-will-soon-be-obsolete-in-school/ I recently had a chance to ask a question to one of the top AI people. At a Q&A session, I raised my hand and asked simply "What is your estimation of the future …

Introductory talk here is excellent - still watching the follow on discussion

More depressing work by my local public library. These don't look like previously public spaces but they have the dingy vibe that is increasingly prevalent in our library libraries.essex.gov.uk/digital-cont...

@vlparkinson.bsky.social did you read this one of this was the research assistant you were referring to in your post?

Yeah!

Excellent examination of this AI search assistant for Summon. TL:DR some bits might be useful some of the time but loads of issues ruthtillman.com/post/summon-...

Spoilers, but this week’s Donut Squad is taking no prisoners 💪 @neillcameron.bsky.social

Just realised I went with the favourite phrase I learned when I used to use Duolingo - Por favor no!

Please no