'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Panel Discussion I will be discussing my Disabled Christ images, disability, Deaf and Neurodivergent theology with the excellent Hannah Lewis Tim Rourke and David Harknett At Leicester Cathedral Monday 3rd August 2026 leicestercathedral.org/exhibition-s...

Today I ran an Empower course on Making Business as Usual Visible and I have already had a request to run it bespoke. Libraries run on BAU, specialist highly skilled BAU but often nobody notices in the wider organisation, nobody notices the work that quietly happens but we need to shout about it!

As part of our Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice Project​ we are running a short(ish!) survey. If you are a UK academic librarian or research manager please do consider responding

Anyone in the land of ERMs have thoughts on CORAL vs. Air Table? 📚 Also is there a BlueSky group for eresources librarians beyond the skybrarian feed?

UK petition for immediate ban on sale or promotion of "Smart glasses" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76.... (At the very least, they should be renamed 'shart glasses'). [Reposted as I ballsed up the URL before and Bluesky doesn't allow edits]

I've been using Startpage to do Google searches anonymously, without personalization or tracking, and am really impressed. www.startpage.com/en/about-us

Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.

Come to a cool(ish) church building tonight and be entertained! A charming compère will try his best to make sense of the ever so slightly bonkers programme. Excellent singing as per usual.

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

Here we go. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Gift of freshly picked strawberries, still a little warm from the sun #TinyJoys

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.

Last push for concert next Sat by leicestershirechorale.org.uk at the hidden gem that is @frjohannes.bsky.social’s church in central Leicester.

Don't forget! Deadline is 17 July 2026

Our great new tool from @ourworldindata.org visualises where immigrants in a country come from, and which countries its emigrants go to. Have a play ourworldindata.org/where-do-mig...

Did something to my right intercostals. Why oh why in the week with a bit more exercise?

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

Keep indie bookshops thriving and WIN a £250 gift card this Independent Bookshop Week 📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

this week's essay is about the problem I think we're all finding that we're just not reading as much as we used to - and what we can do about it. I've been thinking for a while that I want to create a kind of Couch to 5k for reading. Any takers? naomialderman.substack.com/p/doing-enjo...

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

🚨New job alert 🚨 Want to feel like you're making a difference with your skills? Come and join a team of research support librarians working in the House of Commons. It's a great place to work and a really varied role. Full details: hrhoc.parliament.uk/ce0912li_web...

Oh man. Spouse has had gastric symptoms on and off for 3 weeks now and went to drs. Tests to come. I’m freaking out with worry.

I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

Da stimme ich sowas von zu! "Liebe ist das bedingungslose Interesse, an der Entfaltung der geliebten Person." Dr. Gerald Hüther

At a choral weekend and staying on a very leafy campus, so: music, nature, pepole. Everything’s right in the world.

It's been the best 'live departures' website for British trains for some time, but the addition of an app makes it so much easier to use on your phone. For iPhone: apps.apple.com/gb/app/realt... For Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

We've had a question about COUNTER and GDPR, and what can or cannot be shared between data centres in different jurisdictions. Check out the answer on today's post: www.countermetrics.org/usage-gdpr/

because I know y’all can’t click and read

Where is our safe space now? What about the cis women who don't want men in their toilets and now trans men are supposed to come in with us? Like, I love you trans bros but how am I supposed to tell the difference between a trans man obeying the rule and some actual man who is actually a threat?

basically, we've utterly erased the rights & healthcare access of a vulnerable minority because a very small group (of apparently very well-connected) of people became fanatical about it & the (also very small) group who decide press coverage decided they needed relentless coverage

Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us. This is a post about trans kids.

Lush poppies along this morning’s dog walk.

Someone who’s visited us sent me this (sorry no source)

After waiting weeks for an email reply I walked over today and spoke directly to another team. Tasks coordinated, timeline decided.

🚨We are hiring🚨 We are recruiting for 2x Archivist posts: Archivist (Access and Engagement) - fixed-term until March 2028. Project Archivist (Setting the Record Straight) - fixed-term, 12 months. To find out more about the roles and apply take a look at our website⬇️. #archives #jobs

Does anyone need an excellent research librarian? Like can do clinical and public health and pharmaceuticals really really well? Also knowledge, skills, and personal interest in the environmental and marine sciences? Can write scientific/technical reports? Permanent or contract work? Let me know!

‘Now, in controlled evaluations where Mythos Preview was explicitly directed and given network access to do so, we observed that it could execute multi-stage attacks on vulnerable networks and discover and exploit vulnerabilities autonomously’ New AISI blog www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

#TinyJoys are these red edges on the tulip

First evening outside this year #TinyJoys

Wanted to run early on, but chatted to family instead. Then needed to look into (non-work) emails and started sorting the inbox - amazingly nearly done. Another distraction avoided by going for that run after all. It’s not even midday. I’m winning

I would like different news please

Alarm off b/c not at work. Wakeup time well before normal alarm time. 😵‍💫

#TinyJoys 1) run in the sunshine 2) first attempt at Esterházy torta 3) ideas for song programme & time to look into it.

Just been looking at stats for Likes/Reposts on the @cilipmdg.bsky.social account, particularly those related to the recent #MetaFutures Conference (11-13 March); the account only has 352 followers; I'm wondering where the #metadata #discovery #cataloguing #cataloging #librarians are hiding? 📚🐈

#TimyJoys is a bunch of rescued flowers from other wilted ones still holding after more than three weeks.

What Scrolling Did to Reading Why books feel harder, what the science shows, and how to rebuild the capacity. cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/what-scrol...

This was a good week for noticing #TinyJoys in flora & fauna, in people, in art.

Looking forward to performing as “vocalist” for the first time - out of comfort zone is good for you they say.

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