the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Reading the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at 7yo's bedtime and forgot how scary it is. Don't know how we're going to cope with Aslan's death at the stone table

Come along to this free webinar tomorrow evening! I will be one of the speakers, talking about FWS and its practical implications. Free Webinar - For Women Scotland Decision: What Unions, Lawyers and Employers Need to Know | Garden Court Chambers share.google/4wIImm9a3T6M...

For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰🐇: Love the facial expression on this blue bunny, it just keeps getting funnier the longer you stare back at it😂 China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1654-1722), porcelain w/ blue glaze, Newfields collection: collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/23070/

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Great presentation from @nataliiak.bsky.social and Zeynep Aydin from the IDAHO project on "identification of hurdles to open access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"

A new article from my PhD research in JLSC: 'Open knowledge through soft power, diplomacy, and the library: A theoretical analysis and critique.' doi.org/10.31274/jls... #ScholComms #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #OpenKnowledgeDiplomacy

Brilliant thread from @keyne-unable.bsky.social on why the introduction of digital ID (and the encoding of 'birth sex' in a single government record) has long been an objective of anti-trans campaigners in the UK 👇

So depressing to see "unfunded hobbyist research" brought up as a real thing that needs to be "dealt with" by university senior management

Glad to see the students back! A small group of them just got on the tram dressed as knights

Picked this from the local library and then checked the author and she is a terf! Why would you write a feminst dystopia about the rise of a christian fascist government where queer people are (v quickly) sent to concentration camps & then dedicate your time to being transphobic on social media?

Come work with us!

The man in the queue behind me said Oh excuse me miss, you dropped ---- and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground And he said Umm --- And I said Oh! My conker! :(

I mean that would give @katefoneill.bsky.social something fun to work on

Ewan Maccoll singing one of my favourites - My Old Man - "beware of the man with the silicon chip / hold onto your job with a good firm grip" youtu.be/ZlJ6P9EkoWw?...

This looks amazing!

Wandered into a part of parenting instagram where everyone was banning their kids from wearing hoodies and crocs and thought maybe that is the answer, I should just ban the kids from wearing hoodies and crocs and life would be easier

Went to buy a bottle of rubicon for the train at Bristol Temple Meads WH Smith and it was over 3 quid!

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

The musical version of weeding discourse

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

People sharing screenshots of the Google AI summary in whatsapp groups are stressing me out

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

An NHS doctor who was working at St. Thomas' hospital, which is on the route where the far right marched:

kinda wanna put this ~1925 ALA poster on the inside of my library science zine

Pretty excited to have booked tickets to see Matilda the Musical in London with elder kiddo 🎵🎶

Just discovered who Prue Leith’s son is

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Petition for this to come to Sheffield

English flags gone up all along Hillsborough High Street I seeeee 😬😬😬

Kids wait until you're just putting them to bed to ask the really difficult questions like "what's a soul?"

What is this update from school, you ask. Ah, it's a letter from proud "father-of-two" Keir Starmer to all parents

Can't believe my fire awareness training is due again. The passing of time etc etc

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

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

In town for work today so stopped to listen to Sheffield Palestinian Solidarity Campaign read out the names of the children killed in Gaza. 6 hours of reading and they were still on the 3 year olds, if you want to know the scale of the devastation

Pissed off about this, BBC does a story about who's putting flags up in my town and doesn't do the basic work to stand up the obvious story of what's going on.

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

This was great from @batoolmm.bsky.social - not often you see discussion of open science explicitly referencing universities' harmful investment in fossil fuels and weapons #openfest25

Always a pleasure to hear @simonxix.com @kjsanders.bsky.social and @samuelmoore.org articulate their vision of open access publishing - also thanks to Hannah Hillen from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & @reddite.bsky.social for being an excellent chair

TODAY 👇

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice, edited by Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38... [1/n]

Learning about the @datarescueproject.org in the US - rescuing datasets (often related to sexuality, gender identity & the history of slavery and racism) targeted by the Trump administration #OpenFest2025

I waited less than a month and Your Party is facing a situation where two key figures (Adnan Hussain and Mark Serwotka) have endorsed transphobic positions and/or are associated with transphobic groups and orgs.

Labour seems really set on paving the way for fascism.

@drbeth.bsky.social providing an overview of 25 years of 'open' and EDI in this space. Appreciated the critique of the ways peer review comments enforce nativism and epistemic hegemony (trans or feminist researchers told they are 'biased' must add more cis men to make the research more 'rigorous')

Labour scooping people off the streets. This happened in July and he was detained for a mont

Looking forward to tuning into the #Openfest25 talks this week, starting with this one on EDI and Open Research by @drbeth.bsky.social

12 years ago I was finishing my Librarianship MA dissertation and @tigslater.bsky.social brought me this homemade noodles, cake and a hipflask of whisky to take to my all-nighter in the library ❤️