Exciting news - I have actually updated the Library Conferences on BlueSky page, and it now has current and previous 2026 sections! Lots to do to add in events I have noted in screenshots and saved emails, but good progress.

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

@saraluckelman.bsky.social, relevant to your interests!

Oh fun. Will still personally verify when I'm not on my phone, because librarian, but plausible.

JayHenge is happy to announce a new call for stories! Clockwork Oceans & Lunar Dreams: A Vernean Odyssey. Have you ever been inspired by the works of Jules Verne? Now's your chance to share your imagination's adventures with us! zurl.co/b49pI

Recent Commissions! Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

I cannot stress enough how good this book was, nor how important to read. Section 28 was monstrous. I don't think the post-millennial queer gang, who didn't grow up with its bullshit permeating their lives, realise just how bad it was.

The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, and I would take "Landscape with five houses' by Malevich. It looks very meh in photos, but I saw it in person when it was in London for an exhibition and was moved to tears. It's transfixing.

Oh no. Oh Pete. A beloved friend and colleague. I will miss him.

Sarah's bedroom in the movie Labyrinth is one of the best examples of set design as environmental storytelling and foreshadowing/backstory in the history of cinema. Everyone knows it is filled with things that you see later in the film, but there's even more that you don't notice at a glance.

Well this looks excellent! Having traumatised myself with an element of work I was doing with records, I'm now VERY conscious of the risk to myself and others when dealing with these materials. Sadly I have a meeting clash for this, but you should all book! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/looking-af...

Oh man. If this ever makes it to PlayStation, I'll be there with bells on. It looks awesome.

I will defend with my last breath the value of fanfiction, and it's because of stories like this one.

Oh look, another rabbit-hole to go down.

This is a thing of beauty.

*ominous swan noises*

Apparently this weekend various cinemas are showing the Labyrinth. For its 40th anniversary. WHAT. This is not okay.

‘Hope isn’t a plan.’ Yeah? Neither is ‘this is really hard so let’s not even try.’

Am I listening to #9lc? No. However, I'm taking great pleasure in following the hashtag as a precursor to watching Carols From King's in a couple of hours, since they almost always duplicate the weird stuff for that broadcast. And it looks like we are in for some EPIC weird.

I refuse to give over the required age verification information to get my DMs out of hock. If you know me in real life, drop me an email; if not, whatever communication you're making should be appropriate for a public space anyway, so just pay a skeet.

Sad to hear this. He was a constant while I was working at UCL.

It's tonight, gentlebeings!

Worried about the environmental impact of using #LLMs in ( #DH ) research, but not sure where to start? I got you covered! We reviewed the research & ran a #DigitalHumanities case study with carbon reporting, sharing all the tools, code & info: doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... ( #DHd #GreeningDH)

Soon. Soon you can come discuss one of my favourite books with me!

IF YOU DON'T OWN IT PHYSICALLY YOU CAN'T GUARANTEE ACCESS. (Shouting at streaming services, not at Chris.)

Some I still know. One, I live with. Most have vanished into the dark night of lost social media sites.

"...generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. Because their purpose is to generate content, they cannot indicate that no information exists; instead, they will invent details that appear plausible but have no basis in the [...] record."

Why am I choked up, though?

Public transport isn't just for Middle Earth. Narnia's getting in on the act! I've drawn a subway map covering all 7 books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Follow the plots lines, but don't touch the third rail! #Narnia #Maps #Subway You can buy prints on my Etsy store: www.etsy.com/listing/4345...

Well these are breathtaking.

Major news for anyone interested in 20th-century history. Or, you know, how not to do a war crimes.

Dear Cambridge, try harder.

This whole thread is GLORIOUS. Long, but glorious.

!!!!!!!

The witch made him hot chocolate. "They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am." He took a sip. "They say I can overcome any hardship." "Mm," said the witch. "And I can. I do." The witch said nothing. "But I shouldn't have to!" "No." The witch held the hero as he wept. "No, you shouldn't."

‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology

Bookings just opened for December's Really Popular Book Club @theul.bsky.social . Come listen to me ruin all your fond childhood memories of Narnia.

The cover's out! Happy to say that I've got a chapter on how libraries explore the Necrocene and ecological grief in "Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief", edited by @librarianchef.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social. Out from Bristol Uni Press next year!

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

The day I went for a meeting at Corpus and was confronted with this painting on the wall of the meeting room remains one of the most surreal experiences of my life.

Support library workers! 📚📜

Pembroke is flying the College flag today to mark the admission of Professor Polly Blakesley as its new Master. Professor Blakesley will be Pembroke’s 55th Master, and the first woman to hold the role. A short admission ceremony will take place this evening.

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

Strong work, gang.

Who do I know who might be able to decipher some German shorthand[?]? Front and back of a postcard found in the Spanbroekmolen Crater in 1918, a colleague of a colleague is trying to find out more.

For Pride Month, I wrote about queer history, intergenerational kinship, and what I'm calling "archival grief" (with a side tangent about '90s evangelical alt-rock acts). Thanks are due to Alice Langley for encouraging me to write about this, & to Sam Tegtmeyer for the Sara Ahmed quotation.

This is the BEST news. Oh my goodness.

Just casually getting out a book with a curse inscription to go on display with the silver cup with a curse inscription. As you do. #CambridgeLife #LibrarianLife

CILIP always has and always will support the whole library, knowledge and information workforce, and all service users – including trans people. Read our statement: www.cilip.org.uk/news/699534/...

List piece on dualshockers about linguistic games - and great, HV is in it, but also - PataNoir! The Gostak! Suveh Nux! This is a good list. The Gostak is an all-timer.