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Today I’ve been making lots of plans for the next month or two, both work and home. In everything, I’m feeling the weight of a lot to do! #OscillatingOctober #Day2

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Today I’ve been making lots of plans for the next month or two, both work and home. In everything, I’m feeling the weight of a lot to do! #OscillatingOctober #Day2

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why is it that Outlook thinks that when I’m scrolling up my inbox to find emails from a few days ago, I must want to go to the top of my inbox to see the emails from a year ago?!

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today I walked out to chess club and back, having sat working all day. It was nice to walk, to see lots of people, and to chat. #OscillatingOctober #Day1 We had been planning for Celebrity Traitors, but will have a bumper night tomorrow!

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

4. Not with a bang, by Temi Oh 5. Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz (audiobook) 6. Everybody’s Perfect, by Jo Walton #2026reads #AugustReads I wrote a blog post inspired by reading Not with a bang, and buying Everybody’s Perfect.

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Into (and out of) Edinburgh theatre narratives

Reflection on theatre seen at the Edinburgh Festival 2026, the links with other fiction, including books, and the effective of experiencing narratives for a second time. By an academic librarian on…

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1. Releasing our burdens: a guide to healing individual, collective and ancestral trauma, by Richard Schwartz & Thomas Hubl 2. We burned so bright, by T.J. Klune (1st book read by this author, keen to read more!) 3. The kraken wakes, by John Wyndham (audiobook, reread) #2026reads #AugustReads 1/2

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I had to make the hard decisions to cancel something due to the trains being down. Though I still managed a full and interesting day of work from home. #SeptemberStrengths #Day30

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve got very behind posting about books I’ve read this year. Will try and get caught up throughout today. 1. The Name Game, by Beth O’Leary (audiobook) 2. Me and Mr. Darcy, by Alexandra Potter (audiobook) 3. American Fantasy, by Emma Straub #2026reads #Julyreads 1/2

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I had to make the hard decisions to cancel something due to the trains being down. Though I still managed a full and interesting day of work from home. #SeptemberStrengths #Day30

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today, despite my dodgy knee having had a major comeback yesterday, I continued to walk on each side of my commute, and don’t think I’m the worse for it. Though not feeling better either #SeptemberStrengths #Day29

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I was doing our librarian Helpdesk drop-in & I actually got students come with my kind of enquiries. Lovely after a summer of on call & quiet before that. I like appointments, but it is a thrill to be getting on with work & have a colleague direct someone over to me #SeptemberStrengths #Day28

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I admitted that I needed to rest to get over the annoying fresher’s flu (and to combat the fact that I’m constantly sleep deprived) and went back to bed for several hours. I felt so much better afterwards. #SeptemberStrengths #Day27

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I for some reason decided to put on an optional sign-up in person class first thing Monday of week 1. I thought I might regret it, and not have much interest. But it is fully booked! Remains to be seen how many people actually attend, but I am pleased.

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This evening I have had my work laptop on, to do some reflective writing for something with an upcoming hard deadline (ideally done ages ago!). It’s been useful - I love prompts for getting me to think. More to do tomorrow. #SeptemberStrengths #Day26

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Karen from Finance @blkreparations.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what happens to me

A diagram showing how a process moves from “great new idea” to “start new project” and on to “tell everyone” and then the process skips “finish project” and jumps right back to starting again with another “great new idea” and repeats the process; so every project remains unfinished because the process skips finishing the project in favor of just starting a new project every single time. No project is every finished

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over today and yesterday I have obsessively listened to the audiobook of The Traveler, by Joseph Eckert. It was brilliant. And having a brilliant audiobook has meant that I’ve done a lot more walking #SeptemberStrengths #Day25

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today positive progress was made, in multiple ways, on something that I’d begun to feel a tiny bit uncertain of. Though this has come with more questions. #SeptemberStrengths #Day24 Deliberately being vague here, as I document my life on the internet, mainly for my own future reference!

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today I had a nice random conversation and scifi fantasy books. And multiple other conversations about books actually, with students at our Library stall at welcome week. My librarian activity isn’t usually fiction book heavy, and then occasionally it is #SeptemberStrengths #Day23

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This evening I was out in central London, and felt so much at home. I loved the smell as I came out of the station onto The Strand. I loved being asked for directions, I loved seeing all the people. And of course conversation and catch up with a friend #SeptemberStrengths #Day22

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today was all about getting ready for new students. I’m not actually ready, but have made progress #SeptemberStrengths #Day21

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today was all about getting ready for new students. I’m not actually ready, but have made progress #SeptemberStrengths #Day21

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today we watched My Fair Lady. I know & love many of the songs from this, but probably haven’t watched it in full for 30 years. While I still love the songs, & enjoyed watching it, the story is even more problematic than I expected. & various random areas for improvement #SeptemberStrengths #Day20

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” The late great KURT VONNEGUT

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today was a not leaving the house day. And needed. I’m so glad, after a busy week, that I didn’t make plans. Just cleaning, cooking, washing and reading filled up the day #SeptemberStrengths #Day19

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today I got talking to a stranger at the station, helping her with her route and buy a ticket. It was a nice interaction. I had to rush off to get my train though. I’ll never know whether she managed to get to the train in time #SeptemberStrengths #Day18

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Big news. I have just closed my web browser that I’d gradually added about 50 tabs to over the last few days. I may come to regret this as I need them all again, but everything was getting too hard to find.

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The final session at #bfe26 is a panel discussion. Designing Employability: Connecting Curriculum, Technology and Careers. Gonçalo Santos, our host from Bloomberg, and two colleagues from industry: Renee Williams from Barings and Anna Liu from TD Securities.

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now we’re hearing from Lucia Milena Murgia and Andrea Calef, from UCL. Andrea is MSC programme leader. Lucia is the Bloomberg Lab Manager. Their talk is on The Handbook of Bloomberg for Education #bfe26 Thinking about us, and what we do with our students, what we teach

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now at #bfe26 Theo Nwankwo from Sheffield Hallam University is talking about Innovating Teaching and Learning using the Bloomberg terminal. Photos showing difference between the previous basic Bloomberg room they had in the past, and the trading room they have now.

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now Daniel Cernin, Director of the Financial Laboratory at the Uni of Southampton. Launched following immense pressure from student societies. But no much structure in how it was organised. Students using the nice computer room with dual monitors for other things #bfe26 I recognise this issue!

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now our second keynote at #bfe26, Simon Markey, about Bloomberg.com I like the personal introduction - sleep (or lack thereof) as a parent. Challenges for me are different with teenagers compared to toddlers, but still there…

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Then launched Teacher toolkits, professor guides, activities for students. Last year they launched the Bloomberg Spreadsheet Analysis (BQL) certification. I’ve done most of this (it’s good) then got distracted by learning Bloomberg Query Language for our specific needs in a different way #bfe26 3/?

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Secondary data collection in Bloomberg – supporting and relearning

A business librarian’s experience of teaching and supporting secondary data collection, with a focus on Bloomberg, BQL.

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now at #bfe26 we’re hearing from Gonçalo Santos, head of University Relations at Bloomberg (for our region at least). I had a very valuable meeting with Gonçalo recently, learning about lots of useful developments (some of which I’ve been exploring - always more to do!)

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The keynote sense sharing off with at #bfe26 is Ana Andrade from Bloomberg Economics, speaking about ‘High Oil, High Yield and AI-hype’

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve taken the train into London today, attending the Bloomberg Academic Roundtable. Looking forward to all the ideas and discussion, to inspire me for the coming term #bfe26 Though also feeling conflicted as I don’t have my day to work from home and get all the things done …term time is coming!

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yesterday I was feeling frustrated at how hard I was finding it to create sentences with different examples of paraphrasing (for an activity I’m developing). Then I switched the article I was citing from, to a completely different topic, & it all felt so much more possible #SeptemberStrengths #Day17

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another value of working in a Library. I was getting towards the end of a public library e-book on Libby, but didn’t finish it before it expired, with a long holds list (I usually avoid borrowing ebooks & just get audiobooks, cos of this). But I realised we might have it in print at work. And we do!

A paperback book. Stories of your life and others, by Ted Chiang. Blurring black to yellow cover, with a mathematical formula in the shape of a human head. Library stickers on the spine.

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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today we’ve watched S1 Ep2 of Stranger Things (we started again last night). My children persuaded me we should get Netflix again & rewatch. We’ve seen it 3 times before, but it’s interesting watching it again (for the 1st time since season 5) & noticing different things #SeptemberStrengths #Day16

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