Atsuko Suwa (諏訪温子), contemporary Japanese painter specializing in Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) #Womensart

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt

Perfect Friday thread

"AI literacy" feels like it's become a synonym for "we know you don't like it but we are bringing in people who don't understand what you do to BS you about your area of expertise." I feel like this happens to teachers a lot and I'm not surprised it's happening to librarians too.

I dunno, maybe if the rest of the world also adopted historians' compulsive citational practices, and footnoted everything, we'd have a better information environment

For the record, when I ask for advice I don't actually want advice. What I want is for somebody to blindly reinforce the potentially regrettable decision I already made when I was overstimulated and unsupervised. To be clear.

In the Collections warehouse, suitcases belonging to Auschwitz victims are kept in specially designed cabinets, ensuring each item is preserved & protected to serve as a testimony to those who suffered and were murdered in the camp. -- Photo by: https://www.instagram.com/k_thompson_humanus_network/

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗 So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old! @55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius

*old man voice* KIDDO, I REMEMBER WHEN YOU COULD WALK FROM AUSTRALIA TO ALASKA, *AND* WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE LEGS YET, OR INDEED ANYTHING BUT A SIMPLE MULTICELLULAR STRUCTURE. BUT DID YOU HEAR US COMPLAINING ABOUT IT? NO YOU DIDN'T."

2 days apart at the beach in Aberdeen. I always like to imagine when the haar rolls in that there are tentacles 🐙 lurking in the fog, ready to grab unsuspecting dog walkers

Quick and easy data management wins! (1/4) 1. Write down what data you are collecting, how, when, and where you are collecting it, and how you are storing it. It doesn't need to be formal. Open a Word document or a spreadsheet, write it down. It will help you keep track of your plan.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Stained glass and driftwood sculpture by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt #Solstice

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Are you spending more time formatting your publication history than actually doing research? 😩📝 Ditch the dread of grant applications and repeated tasks. Watch this quick breakdown on what your ORCID record can do for you:👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZvFGLe7bg #ResearchSky

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

18th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般).

I had other plans for Saturday, but sometimes you don't get to choose.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

A very odd form of purity culture has invaded joy: everything is picked apart until you feel guilty for liking a song or a film; until every morsel of joy becomes a moral failure. I'm very, very intrigued as to why this experience is so common at the moment.

Remember folks if you’re ever trying to buy beer or wine and you forget your ID you can always just show them you have Merlin installed on your phone and legally they have to accept that

Eisenhower’s all-staff email ahead of D-Day:

Just when I thought I couldn't admire Emma Thompson any more, I read that when they were filming "Sense and Sensibility" she noticed that Kate Winslet was skipping meals. She told her that she was perfect and gave her a copy of "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women."

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

It is these two’s half birthday. Which must mean a whole birthday between them. This image contains a year of cat.

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

Spin‑out, Hychor, is on course to transform the future of clean energy with innovative technology that produces green hydrogen directly from seawater, eliminating the need for freshwater & reducing the cost & infrastructure barriers that currently limit hydrogen adoption. 🔗

Do I ever use cash? No. But did I vote for which animals should be on the new banknotes? Absolutely. You can too (🦔!) www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

Just watch this… And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is. His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak Jaw dropping.

best advice I can offer to anyone starting out as a working writer is to develop an emotional imperviousness to rejection that would have an ancient civilization painting you blue and sending you out naked and screaming onto the frontlines of an unwinnable war

Oh my god this is a gay rainbow for Pride, not a rainbow bridge thing. It’s June 1 and I’m not dead fyi

Meta also prevented her from going on a book tour for her own book last year, which might be why you haven’t heard of it. “Careless People” is beyond shocking. You really should read it immediately, so you’ll understand that Zuck is THE WORST of the nerd reich.

I’ve got one of Gail’s phone cases and have had tons of compliments on it. Plus the list of models includes those the manufacturer would prefer you replaced already! www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...

Next she'll escape into the Los Angeles underground, and still wanted by the government, survive as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, If no one else can help and if you can find her. Maybe you can hire...

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

GenAI is antithetical to librarianship as a profession, ethics, & pedagogy; it is v. depressing to see library workers pushing to insert it into all our systems and services. So I love the new Luddite Lab Resource Hub, partic. the 'AI Implementation Bingo' activity (under Political Education) 👇

I think this is probably the first place other than @openlibhums.org annual report that mentions @plos.org are contributing to @janewayolh.bsky.social and will be utilising it as part of their workflow. It’s pretty incredible that a project I started with @eve.gd has come so far.

We all know that "back in the good old days" sort of talk is broadly nonsense and "back in my day we didn't have XYZ social concern" is usually incomplete thinking, but sometimes I think that doesn't give enough credit to the ways the past was progressive. This is from a 1959 YMCA teen manners book.

Most every trauma survivor reading this knows & accepts no one is coming to rescue us. That's not our glitch. Where we often struggle is in accepting how angry, sad, or confused we are that the people who should have loved us, didn't. That's so, so hard to wrap our head around.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

CC is excited to share our featured artists who have been commissioned to create limited-edition merch designs for our 25th anniversary! Check out their work below. Merch with the new designs will drop in July 🔥

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thothally-...

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."