Well, the play journal I set up / edit has just been rejected by SCOPUS with strong "reviewer 2" energy, including some plainly incorrect comments! <Sigh> Ah, well, I suppose that's the game.

Trying to resurrect the @nlisn.bsky.social newsletter! Bit rough and ready for this first one, but aiming for one a month again. nlisn.org/2026/02/18/n...

A nudge that this conference is open for contributions! (Though still plenty of time to get your thinking caps on). #Neurodiversity #LIS

The news about students seeking compensation from universities for COVID teaching has made me quite sad. I can't say what happened at those universities, or what those student's experience was. My present university did not appear to be in the list. But what I can say is...

Nominations close today for this year’s Information Literacy Award! You've got until 17:00 (GMT) to share the amazing #infolit work that you and your colleagues are doing. Remember you can self-nominate or nominate others. buff.ly/RC43zzP

Sharing this: Online talk on the 10th March "The Neurodiverse Museum – thinking about neurodivergence & the cultural sector differently!" www.rluk.ac.uk/icil/ Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries #RLUKICIL #GLAM #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #History #Heritage #HiddenDisability

Last few days to book for the "Working with and understanding neurodivergent colleagues webinar" on 16th February (£50pp). Ticket sales close on 13th Feb. More info on the booking page! ndcolleaguesfeb2025.eventbrite.co.uk

Prep all done, box of stuff packed, all ready for a neurodiversity workshop in North Wales (Denbigh) on Wednesday! (Driving across there tomorrow.)

✨We're launching Our First Conference 🥳 (July, Leeds) 📣Call for papers is on: nlisn.org/conference/ We welcome anything related to neurodivergence & #library, information, or #archive work. Short or long talks, workshops or wildcard ideas #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #LibraryWorker #Librarian

My daughter and her boyfriend made bows in the woods this weekend! Guess I did something right bringing her up :)

Last few days to book for the "Working with and understanding neurodivergent colleagues webinar" on 16th February (£50pp). Ticket sales close on 13th Feb. More info on the booking page! ndcolleaguesfeb2025.eventbrite.co.uk

We're delighted to launch the call for papers for the ALN Conference 2026. 24 June online, 6 July at Manchester Metropolitan University. This years theme is "Reimagining Openness in Academic Libraries" Further details on how to submit are at: www.academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/aln-conferen... #ALN26

Do you know someone who is an outstanding practitioner of Information Literacy? Nominations for the 2026 #infolit award close on Friday (6 Feb, 17:00 GMT). Don’t forget - individuals & teams can self-nominate or nominate others. Nominate via our website: buff.ly/hB0446A

This week QUT Library published Research Right! through QUT Open Press. qut.pressbooks.pub/researchright/ Research Right is an online, interactive resource focused on teaching the foundational information literacy skills required in higher education. #OER #QUTOpenPress #InformationLiteracy

Still not booked your place for #LILAC26? We know you’ll want to after you’ve seen our amazing draft programme: buff.ly/ZJfnhsk Our early bird rate ends on Friday (6 Feb) – don’t miss out! #infolit #digilit

The LILAC draft conference is out and it looks amazing! Including the Learning Sets workshop I am running with @infolitgroup.bsky.social. Details here if you want to take part! infolit.org.uk/keep-that-li...

A custom #letterpress print for someone this morning, this was a faff to find the right typeface to fit on the size card, and in the layout, that they wanted!

I really do hope kids have been doing the Andy Burnham dance in schools this week... youtube.com/shorts/ri4Fs...

Last chance to submit something to this lovely conference, so if you've something half written, now is the time to get it finished!

Anyone in the US or Canada, the timings on these would probably work for East Coastal people, but I'd happily run webinars later to catch more time zones if they were of interest!

The latest PLA newsletter is out! Last chance to submit to the annual conference, details of online and in-person meet-ups, a chance to get involved at UKGE, a free event from UAL, phew! Tons of lovely things happening :) playfullearningassoc.co.uk/january-2026...

Not long (16th Feb) before my "working with and understanding neurodivergent colleagues" webinar, but still a little time left to book! ndcolleaguesfeb2025.eventbrite.co.uk

THREAD of the day right here

I signed up to the government's AI Skills Boost Hub to check its suite of courses and I am sad to report that the free AI training looks even worse than the thread below suggests aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/

After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->

The date for our next event is the 25th Feb, so you've got plenty of time to get it booked😉 'The experiences of neurodivergent professionals in academic libraries' Join Claire Camp (Kings college) discussing her research⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-experi... #Library #Neurodiversity #Employment #HE

Ready for The Nutcracker!

i just want to make sure everyone remembers Axomamma, the Incan goddess of potatoes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axomamma

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

Game Changer: Exploring the Role of Board Games in the Lives of Autistic People link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BoardGames #Autisim #GameBasedLearning

Thanks to @lizcable.bsky.social, our Lead for External Engagement, Playful Learning Association will be there!

The latest PLA newsletter is out! Last chance to submit to the annual conference, details of online and in-person meet-ups, a chance to get involved at UKGE, a free event from UAL, phew! Tons of lovely things happening :) playfullearningassoc.co.uk/january-2026...

Call for interactive sessions for #PlayfulLearning closes midnight on Monday 2nd February! If you work at the intersection of #learning and #play for adults, take a look. This year's theme is "Into the Woods". playfullearningassoc.co.uk/conference/ #GBL #games4Research #seriousGames #creativeHE

Call for contributions for the first NLISN conference is open. We welcome anything related to neurodivergence and library, information, or archive work as short talks, longer talks, workshops or wildcard submissions. Please submit your ideas via our form by 2nd April 2026. forms.gle/y5SsGXZ4to2P...

Realised that my pudding bowl will just about fit into this pan, so cooking a suet pudding together with a beef stew for my tea tonight 🤤

I continue to be impressed with how my parsnips have done this year! And the leeks of course...

For those of us in the UK, dropping an email to your MP won’t take long!

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

Just posted the lad a chunk of advice, patterns, and my measurements, let's see if he knits me a Gansey! Spent an hour talking to an expert in Whitby yesterday afternoon, getting advice to pass on 🙂 🧶

Knitting pattern advice please! (Bearing in mind I do not knit.) My son has said he'll knit me a jumper, I've suggested a Gansey as I'm living near the Yorkshire coast, so seems appropriate! He wants me to send him a (straightforward?) pattern to follow - any suggestions?

In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3

Just spotted a ballet company is at Darlington next week with 3 different ballets, so I'm now off to see the Nutcracker on Monday evening and Cinderella on Tuesday! Always feels a bit weird going by myself, but looking forward to unexpected ballet in a few days 🩰My daughter will be jealous...

Watching Harry Hill's new "podscarf" over lunch, with Stewart Lee on the first episode, absolutely brilliant! youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?...

Just seen a slide in someone's presentation with a (small) set of references all in different formats, like it's specifically designed to wind up an autistic librarian like me 😆

Printer in residence required: www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

Call for contributions for the first NLISN conference is open. We welcome anything related to neurodivergence and library, information, or archive work as short talks, longer talks, workshops or wildcard submissions. Please submit your ideas via our form by 2nd April 2026. forms.gle/y5SsGXZ4to2P...

Our call for speakers for @nlisn.bsky.social's online event focusing on neurodivergence and entry into the LIS profession is still open! We're interested in all angles, speakers, levels, library types. And if you've not submitted anything before or aren't sure if it's suitable, please get in touch!

Couldn't be bothered to do any work stuff today, so I'm at Bowes Museum for the first time!

Can now reveal stuff about the @nlisn.bsky.social conference we've been setting up, it'll go out to mailing lists and the like next week in a bigger push, but our first NLISN conference will be 16th / 17th July this summer in Leeds :) nlisn.org/conference/