This is an excellent thread.

We had loads of fun recording podcasts with our @jisc.bsky.social Community Champions at #Digifest25 earlier this year. Been re-listening to them as we prepare for our 2026 champions programme. Nominations for 2026 are now open! Link below in next post. soundcloud.com/jisccommunit...

Get your nominations in for our Community Champions 2026! I know there's loads of you out there doing great work in your respective professional communities. Calling all librarians, learning tech folk, teaching and learning and IT crew.

Excited to be running our first Community Hub at this year's Security Conference in Manchester!

Been dipping in and out of #ALTcRadio today - excellent stuff! They've got a packed agenda over the course of the #altc25 conference today and tomorrow. Great way to feel involved if you can't be there in person. www.thethursdaynightshow.com

Can you tell I’m bored on a train? What’s your fave Pitbull song? Me and my sister regularly talk about how loads of songs in the early 2010s were all about not being able to pay your rent but still going out to party anyway. I WORK MY ASS OFF, I STILL CAN’T PAY IT THO. youtu.be/bTXJQ5ql5Fw

Sometimes I sit on here trying to think of something profound or witty to say and it’s just like all craic and drive has left my body because of the *state of the world* and all that. So…what has everyone had for their tea? I had a toastie from Greggs before I go on a train. Classy

📚 News from Goldsmiths Library: we've launched our new Library Framework, our strategic plan for the next few years. I'm most pleased our Framework is values-driven and hope it includes what you expect from us: focus on critical #infolit / #critlib, anti-racism and community. Read it here ⤵️⤵️⤵️

Registrations for @jisc.bsky.social's Connect More on 2-3 December are now OPEN! And the deadline for speaker submissions has been extended until Wednesday 15th October, so get your submissions in ASAP if you want to take part! Link for submissions in next post. www.jisc.ac.uk/connect-more

Hello BlueSky friends! The call for papers for Jisc's Connect More December event is now open! Closing date: 10th October. We're now doing two of these events per year, so there's plenty of opportunities to put something forward. www.jisc.ac.uk/forms/submit...

I'm running another webinar soon that's essentially a basic (practical) intro to using Lego Serious Play approaches, everyone gets a pack of Lego in the post, so very hands-on. 21st Nov, 1:00-4:30pm, £90 pp. (Slightly more outside the UK for postage! But no USA, sorry.) legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk

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Couldn't write it better could ya 🤪 Feels like we're genuinely living in an episode of The Thick of It.

Sick to death of those SAP AI ads on LinkedIn showing office staff rolling down a hill or swimming underwater. So weird and annoying.

🗨️ Census data users – we want to hear from you! We are running a survey to better understand how and why you use our census datasets and what you want to see from us in future. Completing the survey will enter you into a draw for a £25 Amazon voucher. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jisc/censu...

Oh no - I'm not on Twitter/X this year to see Jeremy Clarkson's inevitable daft tweet about his crap A Level results.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Anyone else feel like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and me?

Just another relatable National Trust sign

I opened X and there was a negative post about Blake Lively’s sexual harassment case at the top of my suggested posts feed. I clicked on the account and it has no profile image, 8 followers, and 24 posts since 2020–including 6 Ray-Ban scam ads. These disinfo campaigns are so blatant, yet they work.

Community is the glue work holding everything together - pass it on! 🤩 A great write-up of the key themes of our fantastic day in June with our Community Managers and @rosiesherry.com communities.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/07/2... #community #communitymanagement

Eeee remember all that stuff in the news at the start of the 00s about how people would get brain tumours from too much mobile phone use and how that just hasn't happened at all?! Conspiracy theories of the time.

ICYMI we are recruiting for several Subject Librarians to join Goldsmiths to lead relationship management with our academic schools. Also, we are recruiting a third Subject Librarian! This is a permanent contract, 0.5 FTE role: jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/subj... All closing 10 August.

We're also hiring two Library Supervisors to lead day-to-day operations, support and manage frontline staff and deliver a high-quality, inclusive service at Goldsmiths. 2x 0.5 FTE: 1 fixed-term and 1 permanent; closing 17 Aug. ⤵️⤵️ jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/libr... & jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/libr...

We’re hiring! We’re excited to recruit four Senior Library Assistants, a new role for Goldsmiths Library. Our SLAs are based in four specialist teams in the Library, while working collaboratively cross-service to maintain operations and provide an excellent user experience. Closing 31 Aug. ⤵️⤵️⤵️

I'm too tight to pay for regular botox, so what Korean skincare brands do I need to spend hundreds of pounds on instead?! 😜 Need your reccs!

How come it’s 2025 and nobody has yet invented a decent bottle design for hair conditioner that actually lets you get all of the product out of it?!

My new project! Funded by @isrfoundation.bsky.social, with lovely colleagues @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social and @autgeek.bsky.social First time I've ever had funding for research 🥳 #Neurodivergent #AcademicSky #LivedExperience #CreativeResearch

Been pondering about "gamification". Does the research behind it point to different values and personality types being more receptive to it? I genuinely couldn't care less about badges or credentials etc. but I guess some people get a buzz and motivation from it?

The more this all goes on, the more it feels like I've taken something and am accidentally on some kind of extended trip. Humans have learned absolutely nothing in the last 90 years. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Went to see Jurassic World Rebirth yesterday. Felt like the most unrealistic part of the movie was the fact they were shutting down museums because the public were “sick of dinosaurs”. Surely would never happen! 🤣🤪

I'm really excited to announce that I have had my first article published in the @jinfolit.bsky.social! I hope this article sparks conversations about how workplace information literacy is experienced by autistic librarians.📑📑 journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/...

#KateNash does it again in #BrassEye Parady mocking UK TERFs 😂⤵️

Great conversation all about library systems and metadata work and how supporting each other and working together is vital to this work. Elly is one of our 2025 community champions and it's been great to have more library folk at #Digifest25 @ellycope.bsky.social soundcloud.com/jisc-communi...

Anyone out there in my BlueSky followers using Microsoft Viva for Knowledge Management related stuff? We're wanting to experiment with this stuff within our team and wider communities we support and I'm keen to get some insight from those already using these tools. #community #knowledgemanagement

This afternoon, members from the advice team share their experiences and findings in creating an accessible digital future. #TNC25

We're underway at #TNC25 with Jisc being represented by @jamesclay.bsky.social who is hosting a birds of a feather session on how NRENs can shape the future of education in Europe. Standing room only!

Still time to book your place and join me this Wednesday for my @altmetric.com talk - The Research Radar

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This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Librarians: assemble!

I love how humans' brains work and that "time travelling" is the most logical explanation to this. 🤣 www.indy100.com/news/nike-tr...

In 2025 I’ve lost my aunty and my grandma in the space of a few months. Since 2020 it also feels like I’ve experienced a run of difficult life events from pregnancy and a preterm birth during Covid, relationship breakdown and having to re-discover myself and what I want from life. It’s A LOT. 1/x

My son is having a MEGA dinosaur phase at the moment and it turns out that I am also getting right into it! There’s so much YouTube content of adults making videos of their Jurassic World figurines fighting each other and I’m here for it. 🦖🦕🤣

Jisc communities came together at Digifest 2025 to share ideas, tackle challenges, and explore the future of education. Read how collaboration is driving real impact.

To any normal person "stop selling them military materiel" would be rung one of sanctions, not some wild last resort

Want to find out more about this @jisc.bsky.social co-creation project?! Here's the podcast we recorded with Laura Hutton, Subject Specialist in Accessibility, and two of our FE Acessibility Training Matrix project members at #Digifest25. on.soundcloud.com/V5aCabKXNheJ...

The UN warns that in the next 48 hours, 14,000 babies in Gaza could die due to Israel’s blockade. After 11 weeks of blockading aid, Israel cleared nine trucks to enter Gaza yesterday. It takes 500 aid trucks per day to meet people's basic needs.