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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
about 1 month ago
Whoa damn
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Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians
The move follows years of internal and external pressure.
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/microsoft-fires-head-of-israeli-subsidiary-and-other-managers-over-surveillance-of-palestinians/
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Kevin Sanders
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See also
@simonxix.com
's work such as
opensauce.simonxix.com
,
opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/
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Association for Scottish Literature
about 1 month ago
“Our Three-Voiced Country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing 26–28 June,
@sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social
, Skye Tracing interconnections between Gaelic & other Scottish writing, from the Celtic Revival to the start of the new millennium
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
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2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
The Association for Scottish Literature/Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Conference 2026 will be held at, and in association with, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Friday to Sunday,
https://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-bhliadhnail-asl-2026/?lang=en
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The Past and other Places
about 1 month ago
Angus Archives is open on an appointment basis at its new home in Arbroath Library. Up to 4 visitors at a time. Items from the archives and local history collections by request.
#skystorians
#LocalHistory
#genealogy
#FamilyHistory
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angusalive.scot/local-family...
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Visit Us: Local Family History • ANGUSalive
What's OnHoliday ActivitiesVenue HireSchool VisitsFrom Tuesday 6 May
https://angusalive.scot/local-family-history/visit-us/
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Copim
about 1 month ago
[KEYNOTE] Join
@joedeville.bsky.social
@openbookcollective.bsky.social
at CIVICA Open Science Conference! 📆 Wednesday 20 May 📍 LSE and online ▶️ Register via Eventbrite now
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CIVICA Open Science Conference
A full-day conference open to the CIVICA network, featuring keynotes, panels, lightning talks and networking opportunities.
https://buff.ly/t8963XB
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Jane Winters
about 1 month ago
Counting down to publication day on Thursday
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UCP Workers Guild
about 1 month ago
We know we’re stronger together as we work toward a more equitable, sustainable, and transparent workplace. ✊ Please repost, share, and support our union via our Action Network campaign:
actionnetwork.org/letters/were...
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We’re the UCP Workers Guild. Help our union get recognized!
The University of Chicago Press produces and distributes books and journals that meet the highest standards of scholarship, foster public understanding, and enrich cultural life. For over 130 years, p...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/were-the-ucp-workers-guild-help-our-union-get-recognized-2?source=direct_link&
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Matthew Noe 🔜 #alaac26
about 2 months ago
"...will share concrete examples of building internal AI capacity, improving access and accessibility, and developing ethical guidance..." the way ethics keeps getting tacked onto AI training in libraries like an afterthought or a "we better at least say a couple of words" is driving me up a wall
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Rich Welsh
about 2 months ago
Exhibition - Red Easterhouse: Building a people's archive. Stories of collective struggle in greater Easterhouse. The Easterhouse Living Archive is an ongoing community project to unearth, preserve and engage with the working class histories and struggles of Easterhouse..
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Samuel Moore
about 2 months ago
"We presented a new problem posed by Open Access agreements: the phenomenon of value extraction, whereby institutional APC coverage for publication in major journals is leveraged to secure authorship in the absence of substantive intellectual contribution"
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The phenomenon of ‘value extraction’ in Open Access
Open Access (OA) agreements were introduced to remove financial barriers to scientific dissemination and promote equity in knowledge access. As Article Processing Charges (APCs) have shifted from i...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2026.2661668
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This is awful, horrible. I'm so sorry - for you, for the students, and for all of us. It looks like it was a magnificent, carefully, thoughtfully tailored course.
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about 2 months ago
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Dr David Rundle
about 2 months ago
Interested in Caroline Minuscule or in things Celtic or in Alfred the Great? Then come and hear Dr Jason Chess at the latest London Palaeography Seminar
@ies-sas.bsky.social
: Tuesday 28th April, 5:30pm. Book here for in person or online attendance:
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Celtic reception of Caroline and its contribution to the Alfredian Renaissance
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/celtic-reception-caroline-its-contribution-alfredian-renaissance
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📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola (Christopher Hylland)
about 2 months ago
The most famous warm-up in football history. On this day in 1989, Napoli faced Bayern Munich at Olimpiastadion in Munich and Diego (inadvertently) created a piece of art for the ages 🥹
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Stephen Curry
2 months ago
Good piece. “If your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”
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Katherine Mackinnon
2 months ago
Got lots of
@radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social
tours coming up this month including a new Migrants Made Glasgow tour and some Revolutionary Glasgow tours as part of the Glasgow Trades Council's May Day programme
radicalglasgowtours.com
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https://radicalglasgowtours.com/
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Martin Paul Eve
2 months ago
It is great to see these principles on open monograph acquisition from RLUK. My only criticism is of "there should be evidence that the initiative is financially viable (or established for at least two years)". So how are new models supposed to start?
www.rluk.ac.uk/shared-princ...
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Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models - Research Libraries UK
RLUK's Collections Strategy Network (CSN) has developed a set of principles to guide RLUK members when evaluating future investment in Open Access Monograph models. These take into account the need to align investments with local strategy and activities but also recognise the opportunity libraries often have to influence a wider agenda by pushing
https://www.rluk.ac.uk/shared-principles-open-access-monograph-models/
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Zack Whittaker
2 months ago
New: France said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows to the open-source software Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. tech. Comes at a time of growing instability and unpredictability on the part of the Trump administration and weaponization of sanctions, etc.
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France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/
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Project Gutenberg
2 months ago
Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day! Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore. Brittany Allen
lithub.com/today-is-the...
#books
#literature
#blacklivesmatter
#NationalBlackBookstoreDay
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Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!
The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore…
https://lithub.com/today-is-the-very-f
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Ryan Randall
2 months ago
Miranda's short thread makes excellent points, particularly about how Substack's whole game is locking in you & your audience. If you're looking for more alternatives & how to move to something better (maybe Buttondown or Ghost?), here's a website with options & ways to migrate.
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Decided to start logging and perhaps reviewing my reading here. This'll cheer you up no end when it's raining outside. Best read with a glass of water they couldn't keep the dust off.
2 months ago
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Glen O'Hara
3 months ago
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...
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Management consultants are ruining UK universities
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
https://www.ft.com/content/5032f1bd-7196-4636-82b6-16ed040f99f1
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United Humanists
3 months ago
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Simon
3 months ago
All finished! The full text of my presentation is available at
opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/
#UKSG2026
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Erika Gaffney
3 months ago
Job opportunity: Curator (European Art) at Glasgow Life in Glasgow, UK
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/gla...
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Liz Gotauco
3 months ago
The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?
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3 months ago
For all the
@warburginstitute.bsky.social
fans out there…
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Anthony Moser
3 months ago
Thanks to the efforts of the international ai haters union, specifically
@valluanino.it
, I Am An AI Hater has now been translated into Italian. Pretty sure my Sicilian grandfather would have been pleased. Solo noi esseri umani siamo in grado di odiare. Rivendico la mia umanità.
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Odio l’IA
Odio l’IA. Forse sembro cattivo, ma sinceramente la odio così tanto che non m’interessa.
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2026/03/20/odio-l'ia.html
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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball
3 months ago
So I discovered that the bagpipe song I really like times perfectly with the Napoleon Dynamite dance. Then a bunch of other stuff happened and I am so sorry but this exists now and I'm far less sorry than previously implied.
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YouTube video by Z. Mann Zilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmRCJzSPrg
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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections
3 months ago
📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...
🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
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Mary Grace
3 months ago
With Gaza's Libraries in Ruins, Palestinians Fight to Preserve Historical Memory
#archives
#library
📚
truthout.org/articles/wit...
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With Gaza’s Libraries in Ruins, Palestinians Fight to Preserve Historical Memory
More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.
http://truthout.org/articles/with-gazas-libraries-in-ruins-palestinians-fight-to-preserve-historical-memory/
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Roslin Kerr
3 months ago
Very excited to be involved in organising an upcoming PGR-led Symposium hosted at
@glasgow.ac.uk
on 11th June 2026 with some really talented peope, titled 'A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices from Seventeenth Century Scotland'. Do give us a follow
@scot17thcentury.bsky.social
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Association for Scottish Literature
3 months ago
I’m out here now on the roof. Look! I had to get nearer the sky, For the city was too full of rooms And I can’t be content with a window… —Margaret Tait, “A Poem for a Morning” from Margaret Tait: poems, stories & writings,
@carcanet.bsky.social
2012
#poem
#poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017379...
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Pat
3 months ago
I'm so delighted to be involved in setting up a symposium on 17th C Scotland. It now has a
@bsky.app
presence. Early-modern researchers, please give us a wee follow, and consider joining us on 11 June
@scot17thcentury.bsky.social
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Simon
3 months ago
Don't use Zoom.
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Thoth Open Metadata
3 months ago
Join Thoth &
@copim.bsky.social
at
#UKSG2026
. Take a look at the programme for sessions we'll be speaking at, and come and find us at stand no. 66 👉
buff.ly/faReDap
Plus we're hosting the legendary
#CopimCorner
on Monday 30 March - all welcome! 📚 🤝 🍻
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Randall Munroe
3 months ago
Star Formation
xkcd.com/3222/
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Open Book Collective
3 months ago
RLUK's new principles call for collective funding, not-for-profit governance protected from commercial acquisition, bibliodiversity, and transparency. For us here at the OBC, these principles are at the core of our operating model. 📚
#OpenAccess
#DiamondOA
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RLUK's new Shared Principles for OA Monographs points straight to the OBC - Open Book Collective
RLUK, a consortium of UK and Irish research libraries, recently released their Collections Strategy Network’s Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models: a ne...
https://obc.copim.pub/rluks-new-shared-principles-for-oa-monographs-points-straight-to-the-obc/
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Lucy Barnes
3 months ago
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Andy Mitchell
3 months ago
The Ghost of White Hart Lane, a play about John White, is coming to Musselburgh (near Edinburgh) this summer.
www.tickettailor.com/events/musse...
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Buy tickets – The Ghost of White Hart Lane – Loretto Theatre
The Ghost of White Hart Lane – Loretto Theatre, Multiple dates and times - We are delighted to bring The Ghost of White Hart Lane by Martin Murphy to Musselburgh. Spurs and Scotland star John White wa...
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/musselburghfestival1/2113619
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David Zipper
3 months ago
Currently reading one of Jane Jacobs' lesser known books, written decades after Death and Life. Her loathing for cars (and Robert Moses) did not diminish with age. "Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities."
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Mike Small
3 months ago
When a Community Comes Together: People Power and the Lessons of Kenmure Street by Gerry Hassan
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/19/w...
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Robert Chapman
3 months ago
Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
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Books from Below: A Radical Bookshop for Newcastle
Opening new radical bookshop, coffee shop, and community space in Newcastle UK!
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfrombelow
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Open Library of Humanities
3 months ago
We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03:
www.openlibhums.org/news/883/
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CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available …
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/883/
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Simon
3 months ago
I've been given this graphic to promote my upcoming lightning talk at UKSG 2026 in Glasgow so please look at this graphic and, if you're attending the conference, come to the session.
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Andy Mitchell
3 months ago
Thursday this week is the deadline for comments on Historic Environment Scotland's proposal to designate the site of the first Hampden Park as a scheduled monument - giving formal protection to a key football heritage site. All the info you need is at
portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=150...
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Remains of First Hampden football ground pavilion, Kingsley Gardens, Glasgow (300085180)
Remains of First Hampden football ground pavilion, Kingsley Gardens, Glasgow (300085180)
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:decision,500004313
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Librarianth
3 months ago
On today's episode of "Instantly Believeable"...
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Andy Mitchell
3 months ago
#OTD
13 March 1873 the Scottish Football Association was founded at Dewar's Temperance Hotel in Glasgow, where eight clubs resolved to 'form themselves into an association for the promotion of football according to the rules of the Football Association'.
www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
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The Scottish FA’s founding meeting in 1873
Dewar's Temperance Hotel in Glasgow holds a special place in Scottish football history. It was there on 13 March 1873 that eight clubs resolved to 'form themselves into an association for the...
https://www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-history-news-and-blog/the-scottish-fas-founding-meeting-in-1873
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Matthew Cheney
3 months ago
Today in academic publishing nuttiness: I went to look for a book from 2010 from U Penn Press on a relatively popular topic. It's available at $60 in hardcover and ebook. No paperback. Went to look for the author's newer book from U Iowa Press. $85 paperback or ebook. What are we doing here?
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Open Book Collective
3 months ago
We are delighted to share an update from the second project funded by our Collective Development Fund in 2025: 'Knowledge accessible to the community’: CLACSO as a platform to democratize scholarly publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean’
obc.copim.pub/update-on-cd...
#OABooks
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‘Knowledge accessible to the community’: CLACSO as a platform to democratize scholarly publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Building on CLACSO’s history of researching, implementing, and disseminating Diamond open access, this project addresses asymmetry between associated centers in Latin America regarding knowledge of op...
https://obc.copim.pub/update-on-cdf-award-knowledge-accessible-to-the-community-clacso-as-a-platform-to-democratize-scholarly-publishing-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
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