Fittingly, my squee could be heard from space… blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...

#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?

Q.) What do you call an openly licensed medieval studies textbook? A.) œr

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025

This sounds amazing. Dragons love tacos is such a great kids book.

“it’s 2025, surely nobody could still be using ‘password’ as their password” the louvre: hold our baguette

Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today. “I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”

Professor Amelia Hunt from the School of Psychology, recently visited Xinxiang, China to deliver a keynote address at the 10th China International Conference on Eye Movements (CICEM). We’re proud to see our researchers sharing their work on an international stage! 🌏

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu... That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.

‘I’ve watched enough murder for one night.’

“Comet 3I/ATLAS Losing At Least Two Kangaroos' Worth Of Dust Every Second” I estimate that’s approximately half a giraffe?

It looks like we're in for a dark and stormy weekend so why not stay in with a cosy drink and a Halloween playlist and make your entry for our Carve Your PhD contest! Carve the best representation of your thesis topic in pumpkin form and win the admiration of all, plus £25 book tokens! abdn.site/phD

For #OAWeek we had a wonderful event on how we in @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social can, using Open resources and radical hospitality, support #NewScots from scholarly backgrounds to stay connected with their field. We had great support from Grampian Regional Equality Council and Aberdeen City library

Interested in a non commercial, academy owned publishing solution? We work with our friends at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social to offer Janeway and Fulcrum together. janewayfulcrum.olh.pub

Updating my LEGO White House

The amazing world of fungi – in pictures

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Our co-director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will join Peter Potter of Paradigm Publishing and @charleswatkinson.bsky.social of University of Michigan Press on Friday at 12:00noon EST to discuss #OpenAccess Publishing and the #Humanities. *Organized by George Mason University #Libraries!

NEW on Wonkhe: Ben Tatler and Neil Jacobs believe REF should be central to solving the collective action problems around openness, transparency, and accountability in research. buff.ly/F0zitRY

Yes that's just what I've been looking for in an app to book train travel, an element of surprise 🙃

Chaotic neutral mainly. I like the happenstance of it, and it links the reading of the book with what was going on at the time.

Common digital preservation pitfall: giving access to the preserved master copy. Preserve one version 🛡️ Provide access through another 🌐 Same source, different purpose — one protects, the other serves.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

We're heading to Aberdeen! 🗺️🎞️ National Library Live, on 8 November, is a free day of talks, stories & activities. Discover maps, film, treasures & more with us and Aberdeen City Libraries. #NationalLibraryLive #Aberdeen #NLS100

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Join us in person or online for The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing / @janewayolh.bsky.social 21–22 May 2026 Dublin City University Library Free |Open to all Call for Papers now open! 📅 Deadline: 9 January 2026 Full info here:

Note that this analysis applies to before the latest openalex "Walden" rebuild update still in beta. Quick check shows quite different results.

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂 #funny

Are you a social science or humanities scholar who has heard about ORCID iDs but isn't completely sure what it does? In today's #FeedingTheElephant post, James Shulman explains the importance of having an ORCID id. ➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out! open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

Oh, it's ON @openresearchuoa.bsky.social Inspired by your contest, we're now taking your advice/guidance/contest and created a competition at LJMU. It's now live for all of our @ljmudoctoral.bsky.social PGRs. Check your inboxes and let's GET CARVIN'. With thanks to our open research friends!

christopher walken in works of art: thread

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."