A shorter weeknote summing up a super-intense week. Wrapping things up before heading to London for the Hackney Half 🏃 cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-19-... #weeknotes

A weeknote covering a lot of scrambling around both in and outside of work. Featuring Camp Digital fomo, a tribute to Sir David and Cambridge United's promotion triumph 🫎 #weeknotes #digital cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-18-...

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

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A slightly belated (two-week) weeknote, featuring sunshine, the wildlife on Mull and a picture of a puffin. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-16-... #weeknotes

tragic news . . . . . remember u always

Buff-tip moths They look like little broken birch twigs! A perfect disguise!

Rushing out a weknote late on a Friday. Featuring lock-down vibes, a Borders escape and some nice internet things. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-14-... #weeknotes

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

A note for a shorter Easter week, featuring a mix of good and bad news - and getting lost down a YouTube rabbit hole. cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-13... #weeknote

We definitley need to talk about this more...

A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. #weeknotes cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12...

I love Scott Seiss

Memories. RIP.

A slightly delayed note after a week where everything seemed to happen everywhere all at once (including the sun coming out)☀️ cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-11... #weeknotes

Weeknotes published on time and featuring time spent out of the office on training, committee meetings and conferences. lnkd.in/ecEQNv8z #weeknotes

A belated weeknote including catching up after a week away, planning for the worst and responding to unexpected changes. cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-7-... #weeknotes

A few days out this week with a cold, although I did focus on consuming some content.... #weeknotes cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-6-...

A belated weeknote - featuring cyber security testing, a celebration of maps and a Friday evening emergency cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-5-t... #weeknotes

This looks like a super strong advisory group for the National Data Library. Ideally, it would include a library sector representative to advocate for the strengths, principles and standards behind the "Library" designation.

A slightly belated week note, including a brief summary of the Remix Summit cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-4-... #weeknotes

I can see sunshine outside my office window.

Over the past few years, the RLUK community has had many discussions on the opportunities and challenges of AI for the Research Library. As an open resource we have curated almost 20 presentations from recent events covering four main areas of interest. www.rluk.ac.uk/ai/

Heating broken. Managed to hardwire a temprary fix. Feel like a real person.

This week's weeknotes, featuring Her Majesty, general business and AI gubbins cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-3-... #weeknotes

Good to see major charities begining to disengage from a harmful platfrom. The case was strong back in 2024 but it takes time for organisations to assess the impact of stopping an engagemetn practice that has developed over a decade.

A second weeknote of 2026 for week #2. Featuring a mix of pragmatism and optimisim for the year ahead. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-2-p...

Interesting to see cultural orgs starting to bring in AI Product Manager roles - this from the National Gallery of Art in the US (with the usual very high salary in comparison to UK roles) www.usajobs.gov/job/854326500

At least they included a "Close" option.

A strong piece from @hetanshah.bsky.social waving a flag for investemnt in National Libraries as research infrastructures: "The government should treat the UK’s major manuscript collections as an important national and international resource..."

This was peak internet.

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again. As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers. And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it. youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Whether it's Republicans flagrantly abusing Articles One and Two of the Constitution or Democrats being bad at messaging, both parties are pushing America to the brink.

The median voter is by definition just one voter. Happy to take the hit if it means we can call out racism.

A very good thread making key points the Royal Society has missed.

Stretching the definition of “social” to breaking point…

I’m still 100% convinced that a manual switch is the best way to control devices in the home.

Lessons from a (much more) privacy conscious country To get this narrow approval the Swiss system was made free, optional and entirely publicly run

Got my performance review.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Contentment is 90% who you chose to stand next to.

The smart play is to have an iPhone is too old to support iOS 26.

this exists it is called thinking

I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down. Never placate the bully.

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Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...