My new year resolution for 2026 is to put my AirPods back in the case every time. I haven’t lost any for a while (which is good as I am not allowing myself to buy a new set if I lose these ones) but it is so annoying when you need them and find they’re in a pocket uncharged.

Mum sent me this photo of my Dad from Christmas Day. 6 months ago I woke up to ‘call home right away’ messages as my Dad had a heart attack necessitating a hasty and stressful trip around the world to be with family. He has made a great recovery thanks to the amazing cardiac care team 💜

Quote post with a song you can’t hear without thinking of a movie it was in. Underworld- Born Slippy. Trainspotting m.youtube.com/watch?v=XiMr...

My Uncle Jim Tait passed away this week. He was a marine artist born in Unst (Shetland) and mostly painted seascapes. I thought it would be nice to share some of his work. He had such a talent for capturing light and the movement of the sea.

Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.

Only the 3rd of December and already got #Whamageddon that’ll teach me for going into a shop ‘just for a look’ Good luck to all those still in the game! #lLastChristmas

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

It’s my favourite month! Sparkles and twinkly lights everywhere, my birthday is mid-month so good timing for festive parties, time off and seeing loved ones. Really going to try quitting it with refreshing the ARC website and checking the tracker bot.

Brain is full of bees today. So much going on, mostly good but very much a time of transition and uncertainty which I find (to put it mildly)… difficult. Just struck me that I will finish up teaching at what is still UniSA on 18th December and start again in Adelaide Uni on 5th of Jan.

You just died, the sixth picture on your phone is what killed you… This is in Shetland and so could have been the plot of a tv show.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild. 1. Puffin 2. Golden Eagle 3. Red Squirrel 4. Echidna 5. Kangaroo

The 4th edition of ACMI’s Future of Arts Culture & Technology symposium now has Early Bird tix on sale. Feb 11-13 with first round of speakers announced. Expect some new provocations … www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Thanks to the Australian Society of Archivists for a fabulous conference. Great to see everyone, including @williamkilbride.bsky.social

Really enjoyed the #RAILS2025 conference in Sydney and presenting with Cameron Pierson from UBC about our work on AI and queer archival research. Looking forward to attending the ASA conference tomorrow!

Aaand to round out #RAILS2025 the announcement that the new AU will host #RAILS2026... come and see us next year!

(Most of) the final panel for #RAILS2025... featuring Drs Anita Dewi, Jo Kaeding, Ellie Abdi and @lizzytait.bsky.social

🎓 Next Thursday the State Library of Victoria Theatrette will come alive with our HCV Annual Lecture! We can't wait to hear from Emeritus Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO, who will be speaking on AI and history making with time for audience Q&A after the talk. ➡️ Tickets: tinyurl.com/3swhembd

I'm looking forward to presenting a keynote on my homebrew game history research at the Replaying Japan conference at RMIT, September 1-3. sites.google.com/view/replayi...

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

#JobAlert Senior Curator at State Library of Victoria (full time): https://careers.vic.gov.au/job/senior-curator-858678 #glam #libraries

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

An incredible lost medieval manuscript with rare stories from the Merlin and King Arthur legend discovered and now digitised. (Image below from Cambridge University Library) www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merl...

🕹️🎮 Game Worlds @acmimuseum.bsky.social Opens 18 September 2025 🎟️Tickets go on sale this July 💌 Join the waitlist at: www.acmi.net.au/game-worlds #ACMIGameWorlds

The Digital Preservation Coalition has shared recordings from its workflow webinar series. You can find them here: www.dpconline.org/events/previ... #digipres #archives #library 📚

Please help spread the word: Tenure Track position in Computational Social Science at University of Koblenz :-)

Job alert / rare *casual* *entry level* museum collections role at @acmimuseum.bsky.social - jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobtools/jnc...

Metacognition of medical knowledge in LLMs: “Models consistently failed to recognize their knowledge limitations and provided confident answers even when correct options were absent.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Green Energy Transition is not just a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It must also be a transition of power from corporations to the people. I’m glad that Shetland Islands Council is being bold in this regard.

Call for contributions for RAILS (Research Applications in Information and Library Studies) Conference 2025 railsconference.wordpress.com

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

4 guides for those researching race, queerness, gender & disability in the records of Shakespeare's Globe #EarlyModern 🗃️ - essays - the theme in plays, productions & records - advice on searching the catalogue - glossary - select biography - links - bibliography www.emsoc.co.uk/blog/how-man...

Enjoying catching up with family including floofs- this is my Aunty’s cat Banjo 🖤

Ooh thanks for the welcome @tomesandtech.bsky.social always love a good visualisation!

Hi from Scotland where I am visiting family for the festive season. Lovely to be home despite the jet lag and 30 degree drop in temperature. Here is me and my sister Pamela.

Hi everyone! Last week I was at the RAILS conference in Perth where I got to catch up with GLAMR colleagues. Met some people who I’ve worked with but never met irl before. Here are some fab archivists who I presented with (L-R) Dr Louise Curham, Fiona Blackburn, Robyn Garcia and Lizzy Tait