" She described the Budget as a "missed opportunity" to invest in disabled services, resulting in a "deepening inequality and injustice". " www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well done for raising this case. Asking Councillors to say whether they'd like elections [to hold] is a typical asking turkeys if they'd vote for Christmas. If the govt is sincerely interested in local opinions, they should ask the voters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For Christians who are against modern reproductive science. Remember #Christmas is the story of #surrogacy, #adoption, #foster and step, even single parenting, non-biological father, donated egg; essentially, the blended family. Just in case you misunderstood your #Bible. #DonorEgg #BlendedFamily

"We can’t wait for government intervention to save us: we need to develop our own #community-led solutions... "[...] "The failure of these infrastructures are having significant effects on many research #communities." - Simon Bowie on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Picked up this freebie at a conference stall this week. The description on the packaging is indescribable! There was also no paper or link accompanying the product either, thereby leaving the branding unclear! #Questionable #Branding #Reputation

"People sense fear in different way." "I don't know how I sleep at night if I think people are inherently bad. "👏🏾🎉🎉 - Lines from 'The Brenda Line' by @harrymould.bsky.social #AlfredFagon #Theatre #Arts #BlackTheatre #Samaritans

Watching the winning play at the Alfred Fagon Award, "The Brenda Line" by Harry Mould. It's rable-rousing, imaginative, and relatable. The writing is throughly a gem. Congrats to the writer, Harry Mould. #AlfredFagon #Theatre #Arts #BlackTheatre #Community

Thank you to everyone who came to the UKSG Forum in Brighton. There was such buzz from the networking between the great sessions. Thanks to programme chairs Tim Leonard and Magaly Taylor & also to our conference chair @charlierapple.bsky.social and opening keynote speaker @godwyns.bsky.social

Feels like coming home being here among theatre and art community at the quite exclusive Alfred Fagon Award event, at the Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre, London. Fate seems to be pulling me back to creative arts which I've been thinking of a lot lately. #AlfredFagon #Thearre #Arts #BlackTheatre

Thank you for being our keynote Godwyns!

From the world of Scholarly Communication yesterday to Law today, at the Northeastern University of London for my former mentor Professor Ursual Smartt's book lunch: 'Media and Entertainment Law, 6th Edition'. It was an honour to learn from her as a young Magistrate. #Jusrice www.ursulasmartt.com

It's been a productive day here at #UKSGForum2025. The talks were inspiring, including some images of floppy disks shortbread in a baking contest to improve open-data community. Kudos to the programme committee, and of course the amazing @charlierapple.bsky.social keeping us all moving. 👏🏾

Halfway through, and I've seen great projects by libraries and institutions here at #UKSGForum2025, the spectrum of community engagement being deployed is staggering but shoiwing positive move nonetheless. #CommunityEngagement

You're right! 👌🏾Sadly, time was limited, a lot was left out. #Co-creation as I mentione early on, and also in the @elife.bsky.social Ambassador example I shared re peer review training, is a key cornerstone of #CommunityEngagement in building trust & addressing power dynamics. #UKGSForum2025

Starting off the schedule by talking about "Discovering the hidden insight between data points". Starting off by stating that AI and technological changes aren't going to replace people - we still need humans for stories, context, unheard voices. #UKSGForum2025

Was exciting reading the article about the project, wishing I could take part in it. It'd continue to be a relevant educational tool for #OA for the vast majority of academia's key audience - students. Could also be applied for business models, etc. #ScholComm. #CommunityEngagement #UKSGForum2025

Shout out for you @katrinesundsbo.bsky.social ! Godwin onwuchekwa at #uksgForum2025 citing the OA Escape Room as a good example of community engagement in libraries @hannahcrago.bsky.social

The session, "Zandra Rhodes' colourful heritage: Inspiring future generations of young designers & creative practitioners", demonstrates correlation & transferable knowledge to #ScholComm, librarians & researchers. Involving communities at every stage is the icing on the cake for me. #UKSGForum2025

Interesting to see how @uwtsdlib.bsky.social is engaging and supporting their student #community's adaptation to and using AI. @missoliviareads.bsky.social and her colleague, Tara Johal shares some inspirational processes deployed while remaining mindful of the evolving landscape. 👍🏾 #UKSGForum2025

The crowd here at @uksg.bsky.social Forum is lively and engaging. And it had been impressive seeing their enthusiasm towards #participation in their projects. We are hopefully making progress on #community #engagement in scholarly communication. #UKSGForum2025

Great keynote from @godwyns.bsky.social on finding the hidden insight between data points - drawing on lived experience,meeting communities where they are and unlocking local knowledge #UKSGForum2025

"Usage data and vibes" - oh no, and I thought librarians aren't fun. Stephanie Gibson, of University of Suffolk shares their experience as a small and evolving institutional library. #UKSGForum2025

#UKSGForum2025 How community engagement can make an impact and the power of "the bigger picture" not just what the data says. The library as a "community centre of knowledge" - what a mesmerising keynote from @godwyns.bsky.social to start this day!

#UKSGForum2025 @godwyns.bsky.social starting us off talking about the "hidden points" between data - what is left unsaid, and the power of community. As an ex secondary school teacher, this brings me back to so many of the students who achieved so well personally, but by data made little progress 👏🏼👏🏼

It's kicking off now in Brighton for the @uksg.bsky.social Forum. Honoured to give the keynote today discussing "Discovering the Hidden Insights Between Data Points". Engaging #communities within sectors is a no-brainer. Don't ignore them.

"For too long now, research has been trapped by indicators that actually have nothing to do with the intrinsic quality of the scientific advances set out in a publication". - @alainschuhl.bsky.social, Deputy CEO for Science, CNRS 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #ScholComm #Research www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

"Sometimes the victims are forever desperately the same; sometimes the situation is reversed and the victimisers of yesterday become the victims of today; or vice versa." - Amin Maalouf, author, in 'On Identity'.

Really? "act of calculated violence"? after "INTENTIONALLY" driving into a crowd & injuring 130+ people? Can someone explain why this isn't called #terrorism this time? Because this nice wording deviates from the way other perpetrators of such crimes are labelled! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"They should protect kids with safeguards, not silence." - John Ruddick, New South Wales parliamentarian. #SocialMedia #Ban #Safefuard #YoungPeople #Children www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"For me, the experience of being a trans migrant is shaped by this tension, between the freedoms I chase and the limits I confront, between the borders that confine me and the borderless kinship I come from.” - Tara Asgar #Trans #LGBTQ #Imigration #Safety www.advocate.com/news/immigra...

#Disability Action's Head of Accessibility Nuala Toman has called on Government to abandon its plans, saying the moves would, "punish people for being disabled and push many deeper into poverty and isolation." - www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The debate about jury-less courts. "Juries are not the cause of the backlog. The cause is the systematic underfunding and neglect that has been perpetrated by this government and its predecessors for years." - Riel Karmy-Jones KC, chair, Criminal Bar Association www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Prime Minister of Albania captures this absolutely succinctly: "Official policy should never be driven by ethnic stereotyping. That is the very least humanity expects from the great Great Britain." Even Suela Braverman's feels like child's play now. #UK #Imigration www.bbc.com/news/article...

"... The BBC sets out five main arguments for why it does not think it has a case to answer" in their argument with the President of the United States. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Front-line services need more investment, but to do this off the backs of making thousands of experts redundant is a false economy. ... "To imply these are administrators shows a complete lack of understanding of their roles and how they contribute to patient care." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The US Supreme Court has rejected hearing the case challenging marriage equality. "The move leaves marriage equality intact, marking a quiet but significant moment in a decade-long legal battle over the scope of religious exemptions in public office.“ www.advocate.com/news/supreme...

What if research infrastructures were open by design — built for transparency, collaboration & inclusion from day one? IOI's Katherine Skinner , Laurel Haak, and @kristenratan.bsky.social explore how to engineer openness into research systems. investinopen.org/blog/enginee...

Majority of Nigerians themselves had spent a lifetime framing corruption, violence, and any and all atrocities as either #religious or #tribalistic, attacking other Nigerians like me who suggests otherwise. Now sadly, the chief crusader is ready to exploit that lie. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"All saints day reminds us that it's not about perfection, it's about direction... not 'glorial' fame, but faithfulness in [the] small things." - Revd Rachel Gouldthorpe, Bolsover Parish Church on All Saints Day.

"If individuals disagree with what our Government is doing on certain matters they are entitled to protest about the Government's actions or inactions," - Judge Paul Dugdale sitting at Salisbury Crown Court. #JustStopOil #Rights #FossilFuel #ClimateChange www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great article! My take is that more needs to be done to increase awareness among authors. In Open Science community engagement, we always see/learn of the lack of knowledge around licensing. And now with the advent of LLMs, CC-BY could easily be abused.

She said the [Labour] party could not win support by "trying to 'out-Reform' Reform". 🤷🏽‍♀️ - Lucy Powell, MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Kier Stammer probably vehemently rejects this statement by his supposedly new deputy. 🤦🏾‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"If a number makes you look good, who cares if it’s wrong?" This insightful article by @jelena3121.bsky.social raises pertinent questions about the role of universities in sustaining competitive rankings instead of fostering collaborative reflection. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

All this because Pride has been turned into a commercial spectacle - sold as entertainment for exploitation by pretend allies - through these so-called charities, instead of the protest it was meant to be. www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK govt face-saving meh aftr Maccabi Te Aviv rejects their meddling 🤦🏾‍♂️ "We are deeply saddened Maccabi Tel Aviv have turned down their away fan allocation but we respect their right to do so" - govt spokesperson. BBC News - Maccabi Tel Aviv will not accept Villa tickets www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Such heartbreaking story, but also a lesson that siding with nationalists and tyrants only goes so far in keeping you safe. Because the moment they're done with one group, they find another. Your turn could be sooner if already a member of the 'Other'. #Hate #Racism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh no! In the nearly 18 months that I have used @duolingoverde.bsky.social intensely on a daily basis, today is the first time I've noticed it being down for maintenance. Good streak, Duolingo!👍🏾👏🏾 I give it to you.

UK Government loses bid to block Palestine Action ban appeal This is an interesting development... something that happens due to an independent judiciary. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Every tyrant believes themself to be a victim." - Guillermo Del Toro.

Never watched The Traitors, but its concept mirrors our times: suspicion on all sides turns people into enemies—the "Other" undeserving of dignity. Fear takes over, and with it comes insensitivity. A game on TV, a crisis in real life.