Leiden University Library published Nomenclator, world's first institutional library printed catalogue #OTD 1595. ⁦‪University of Leiden

Can anyone on #MedievalBluesky help please? I am looking for a piece of medieval artwork showing a representation of Death hiding his face so as not to frighten the child whose life he is coming to claim. Think it was part of a #DanseMacabre I saved it on Twitter and now can't access that account.

Stress Awareness Month Research can be stressful: deadlines, publishing pressure, data management, and compliance. Over the next month we will be sharing information and tools to help support researchers manage these pressures and to raise awareness about stress within research culture. #Kings

Today is the Spring Equilux for the southern half of the UK, where daylight is closest to 12 hours From tomorrow, days will be longer than the nights until late September Check out the explainer here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=3Oc5...

Call for recommendations 🙏 At our next journal club, we're going to be discussing predatory and non-reputable practices in research publishing. We're looking for recommendations for articles or papers on this topic. If you know of any please let us know!

Happy 10th Birthday to the FAIR principles! The guiding principles of data management were first published in this comment piece 10 years ago today. They state that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. You can read the article here: www.nature.com/articles/sda...

Shocked to hear about the fire in Glasgow, an old stomping ground of mine. Thinking of all the crews involved in combatting the fire, and especially those from Maryhill fire station.

Really hoping that @paralympicsgb.bsky.social will be sharing these (as well as the athletes’ profiles of course) as the games progress.

So glad I’m not the only person who inadvertently sometimes says Canadia.

Data management is a core part of good research practice. To kick off Love Data Week, our data lifecycle shows data's journey through planning, collecting, organising, storing, preserving and sharing to support open research. #LoveData26 #KCL

Often feels like anyone who is critical of GenAI is immediately labelled a neo-luddite. But these criticisms are legit: they don't come from fear or ignorance, they come from a genuine concern about environmental degradation, loss of privacy, reduced human connection, & exploitation for profit.

Creative Commons Licenses are ill-equipped for the AI era and the rapid ingestion/scraping of open content by bots. - training for AI doesn't fit traditional copyright definitions because text is converted into statistical patterns that are tokenised processed and used for probability-based outputs.

‘England win by 4 wickets’: strong late entry for most surprising phone notification of the year.

Tucking into my now-traditional Christmas Eve meal of lightly smoked salmon with samphire, peas, salad and new potatoes. So so good.

“I don’t know what to have for lunch,” I find myself thinking. I have a fridge full of cheese. 🙄

I don’t know who needs to know this, but if you like lemony desserts, Waitrose limoncello mince pies are delicious.

Investigating adjustable height desks. Surprised (though probably shouldn’t be) that going lower than a standard desk is not more common #OfficeFurnitureIsAFeministIssue

How did people with deafness or hearing impairment communicate in the Middle Ages? This post discusses sign language and the story of Thomas Tillsye - one of tne first recorded uses of sign language in England. wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

FFS #Ashes #ItsTheHopeEtc

My first wicket of the #Ashes!

Ah. #Ashes

“#GameOfWool is to knitting what The Hundred is to cricket.” Discuss.

Oh ffs, this is just stupid and lazy. Not a trace of real interest in showing how knitting works. Everyone's being let down by #Gameofwool, even Tom Daley. I'm very disappointed in the judges not insisting on better. Surprised no-one jumped ship when they realised quite how rubbish it really is.

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

I ordered a feather/down duvet online and it arrived today. It is noisy. Is that normal? Am I just too used to synthetic duvets?

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Anyone else getting ‘Bad gateway’ errors on Gateway to Research?

A bit late to the #strictly party this evening but I think the long hair and round specs is a good look for Craig.

That moment when you've just started digging an archaeological trench and a visitor comes along and eats your finds...🤦‍♂️ #FindsFriday #EdibleArchaeology 🐑🐏

I have ten of these PHYSICS FOR CATS pins to give away! Share the post below👇 for a chance to win one. (UK only: you can share from anywhere but I can't send you a pin).

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

Is it wrong that I love Nadiya’s sparkly leg warmers? #strictly

OA-doing library folks can any of you help with this query?

The current fad for putting AI in everything reminds me of the 19th-century fad for adding electricity to everything, without thinking about why. Electric girdles! Electric garters! Electric hairpins! Electric tea cups!

Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

Anyone have any tips for good places to get dinner in Wimbledon? Preferably not fancy.

Great thread about alt text, thanks Alice!

Leiden may not be high on many tourism lists but I highly recommend it for a long weekend away: windmills, museums, canals, botanical garden, waterside cafés… all very walkable.

Lovely two days watching county cricket. Can Essex snatch victory from the jaws of a draw?

I am attempting to shift my mindset around what every weekend train traveller dreads (rail replacement bus service) and trying to appreciate it as a complex logistical exercise instead.

All of this thread is clearly true but this is the truest. (Yes I missed it yesterday, it's still worth it.)

I've updated the Art for Sale section of my website with some new drawings: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?

A cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

Relatable.