The ability to gather and report information without authorization from the government is pretty much the definition of a free press

Nothing harder than finding something to watch when you enjoy political/historical documentaries but hate WWII documentaries (especially those made from Anglophone perspectives).

The solution is clearly to double the number of testicles per young man through Dr Brinkley patented xenotransplantation of goat testes! Improves virility, hardiness and balance!

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...

So, who is taking bets that the pause of the REF is for an AI-ification implementation or an AI-related policy change?

Today in "AI made me do it" ...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Fantasy as an assembly-line commodity leaves me cold.

Dismay as north of England universities miss out on share of £54m talent fund. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The hardest thing about being bilingual is that in English I only have access to one, default accent. No more posho accent I can put on, and more critically: no more chav accent that makes everyone *just* a little bit anxious and worried about what you may be unleashing.

The real struggle of adulthood is eating regular, balanced meals when there's no one else around who also needs to eat. Nothing stopping me from eating some berries, watermelon, and pickles from the jar and calling it a day.

📢 Applications open for the 2026 Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship on 11 August, just a couple of weeks away, closing 6 October! 🚀 You don't have to be writing software yourself, just interested in promoting good research software practice. It's UK-based but there are 3 places […]

The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social. This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.

My real beef with commercial publishing-based infrastructure is the absolute tonnes of labour we have to pour into work that will go absolutely nowhere because SMT and academic colleagues have bought into it 💀

Something about not being allowed to be very wrong, very confidently and very publicly from a young age may have something to do with it 🤷‍♀️ (Though when we talk about actual ML as opposed the genAI, there will be the 'traditional' tech gender imbalance.)

🎉 Excited to see our project 'CRediTs for Students? – Promoting Student Authorships in Psychology' recognized alongside so many other inspiring initiatives! If you're interested in implementing something similar, reach out! Or check out our OSF page: osf.io/tygsp/.

hey do you think i could hire a dude on fiverr to go lick the chernobyl elephants foot real quick just real quick need someone to lick the foot

Have now made a Freedom of Information Request, so let's see if we find out how much the University of Warwick paid Vogue Singapore to advertise one of their senior leadership team with photos of his wardrobe ('talent's own'). www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost...

Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.

Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture. But let me elaborate. 🧵

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

UKHE in 2025

🧵 1/? It is time for my birthday tradition once more: what loyalty programmes/cards give me the best birthday freebies and discounts? I may have limited family, but luckily the companies taking my money 364 days a year have my back 😌 Last year's favourites: * Neuhaus chocolate * Lindt * Booths

What a good day to be a librarian and have eyes.

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network. The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models. 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...

There's something deeply ironic as someone with a severe dog allergy about nearly being bitten by a "service" dog outside a random corner shop 🙃

"We are very sorry about your cancer diagnosis, but you should have thought of that 20 years ago, when you decided to marry a Danish man."

Sometimes librarianship is me, my cornershop energy drink and my gummy bear vape against the world.

Same in the UK. My partner recently asked our Scottish Labour MP's office when his surgeries are and was told they're posted on Facebook a week before they happen. So to talk to my Westminster representative I have to go on Facebook and hope the algorithm throws up that post.

You know you've truly made it as a librarian when you've been spending enough time on vendor websites to get personalised YouTube ads from them 🫠💀

Are there #medlibs who could help me locate a database and (and I cannot believe I am saying this) whether it (still) exists? I cannot find trace of it, outside of the occasional reference. Not on the org's website either... It's: RECAL Legacy (National Centre for Prosthetics & Orthodontics)

Indiana Jones and the 👍 response on a nationwide mailing list.

Anyone want to hire me? I’m in the mood for new challenges and a change of direction. I’m qualified, experienced, knowledgeable; also fully house-trained, with all my own teeth, a (mostly) agreeable disposition, and a fabulous wardrobe. 📚 www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-...

They're also not very accurate. More about this and a resource to help track your own here www.bishuk.com/bodies/track...

Reclaiming academic publishing: @ojcollective.bsky.social is a community-led, no-APC #openaccess alternative to corporate publishers + transformative agreements/ big deals. Fund #diamondOA. Cancel TAs & big deals. Let’s build something better, together: www.openlibhums.org/news/795/

If you are a scholar or practitioner interested in comics you must have thoughts about GenAI. This is an opportunity to think seriously, establish dialogue, and draw lines of future enquiry. 200-word abstract submission deadline: 10 July 2025. comicsandai.org/call-for-pap... #CFP

High court tells UK lawyers to stop using AI after fake case-law citations

It’s the happiest day of Elon Musk’s life because he finally posted something people actually want to read

Lots of initiatives currently asking libraries to support better/no-fee approaches to open access publishing and it's probably worth reminding these initiatives that they won't help their case if they treat libraries as mere chequebooks rather than partners and experts in this space.

Being at a place that accepts donations, I can tell that people are just uncomfortable throwing away books and use the library as a dumpster

TIL that in 1191 the archbishop of Ely hired troubadours to "extol his merits" so "people spoke of him as though his equal did not exist on earth." Me annoyed at Twitter bots in my replies 🤝 medieval peasants being bothered on their way to the inn.

Shout this, by @casmudde.bsky.social, from the rooftops. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect. I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now. Check it out in pdf form: drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...

"Huws said she had received offers from other larger publishers keen to acquire the journal but only on condition that it massively increase the volume of articles published and the frequency of publication." This sounds like real problem here, not Diamond OA.

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

🧵 My views after #UKSG2025, regurgitated from linkedin. Themes of lack of money, wider turmoil, malevolent tech but with opportunities everywhere to do things differently now

More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25