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Bryony Hooper

@bryonyhooper.bsky.social
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Digital Preservation Manager at the University of Sheffield. Interested in digipres, RM, archives and human rights. All views expressed are my own.

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well that’s a hot pro-glove use with books take
It's interesting that my entire life they said wear gloves to protect from deteriorating the delicate pages. Oils on our hands and fingertips increase the rate at which old paper deteriorates. And now we have a world wide government focused on rewriting history and they've magically changed the rule. Now they want you to use your hands when handling old manuscripts and rare books.
And they've told you it's good for the books.
Almost as if they want the knowledge in those books to naturally disappear. Just something to think about. I've got a couple of old books myself.
And I plan to continue using soft cloth gloves and thin tongs with soft cloth on the tips to handle my rare books. But hey, that's just me. I like to do research and make decisions based on that rather than listen to what everyone else says. As the old saying goes, if everyone is jumping off a bridge, will you jump too?
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Got a bit busy with work so never responded to bemysource's first request for feedback (it sits in my drafts). But I am so happy to see that others are on the archives mailing are responding and articulating the amazing work of archive staff and the services they supply all users!
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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Gwent Archives has an exciting opportunity for an Archives Apprentice to join their team and develop a career in the archives and heritage sector.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The NRA archive listserv has an advert for a research service. That's fine (if there is a need, someone will monetise delivering it). I just find the company a bit "funny" as it A. Insults the archive services its business model relies on (archives don't respond to enquiries apparently)
Screen grab of a website highlighting the cost efficiency of a company's archive research service. The text states that when emailing a registrar it takes 3-12 months, usually silence
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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our Senior Archivist Arantza wrote a blog post for #EYAArchitecture ! Fairground architecture fans will love this one... 🎡😍🎠
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
EThOS platform restored #ArchcivesInTheNews link.bl.uk/kxk
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EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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tiffAH! Real Monster @bakedpotiffa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#supportyourlocallibrary
Fox News with the headline “Libraries turning into drug-infested, sex dens.”
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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Somewhat depressing that although the British Library is one of the headline cases, the article (and seemingly the report behind it) then pivots to talking solely about Galleries and Museums, ignoring Libraries. And Archives aren’t even mentioned. Don’t forget the L and A in GLAM!
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UK’s museums and galleries left vulnerable to cyber-attack and theft, MPs warn
Report by Commons committee says government has failed to make concrete changes after recent security failures
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Cool post at the British Library! Barker Postdoctoral Fellow in Born-Digital Archives: 'Co-design a research project for a 12-month funded-fellowship, embedded in our expert curatorial and research teams'. LLMs for Personal Digital Archives ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...
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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hot 🥵 off the press! This summer, the National Fairground and Circus Archive is hosting a one-day symposium on women in circus. For free! Students can also apply for a UK travel bursary to get to the University of Sheffield 🐎 Book your free place, online or in-person: tinyurl.com/WomenInCircu...
Black and white archival photographs of female circus performers on a red background. Text reads: Women in Circus Symposium, Wednesday 5 August. Free, open to all.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
University of Sheffield in the news BBC News - University of Sheffield Arts Tower and record-breaking lift turn 60 - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Sheffield Arts Tower and record-breaking lift turn 60
The Arts Tower features a paternoster lift, running on a continuous cycle while passengers access it.
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Mark @thelamarky.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Full stop
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Archives in the news And archives at risk www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Archives in the news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Orgreave inquiry chair 'encouraged' by evidence appeal response
More than 100 responses and 2,500 pieces of documentary evidence have been submitted to the inquiry.
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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We invite you to the 2026 Malkin Endowed Lecture, “𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗼 .𝘁𝘅𝘁: 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱” with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social at 5:30 p.m. ET on Monday, 6 July at UVA’s Shannon Library, Room 330. A livestream will also be offered via Zoom. Details at tinyurl.com/RBS-Kirschenbaum.
A graphic with the words/letters "text" "txt" and ".txt" stacked in repeated cascading layers. At the top of the image, the word "text" is in bold red while the other layers fade out. As one moves down the page, "text" fades out while ".txt" in black letters fades in.
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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We were delighted to meet the family of Dr Lydia Henry last month and show them our collection the Lydia Henry Documents. Dr Lydia Henry (1891-1985) was the first female graduate in medicine from the @sheffielduni.bsky.social Medical School in 1916 💊💉 Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/3ctz5tya
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Join the next #DPClinic & discover how to future proof your #PhD thesis! Explore the new ‘Preserving E-Theses Resource Pack’ with @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 🕰️ 22 June @ 2:00pm 📍 Online 🎟️ buff.ly/P9X0EWi Photo: Sebastian Kuss, Unsplash
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#DPClinic June - Future Proofing PhD Theses: showcasing the new ‘Preserving E-Theses Resource Pack’ - Digital Preservation Coalition
Click here to check your local time.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/06/2026
Nostalgia Content xkcd.com/3256/
Comic. [Person in front of images of pogs, a Tamagotchi, and huge fungal tower over mossy ground.] PERSON: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep? [caption] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the Early Devonian.
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No Time to Wait @nttw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Dear colleagues! Our call for proposals is still open for #nttw10! All the info and link for submitting here: mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait10. Look forward to reading you!
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Morticia Addams Shocked While Reading Book
ALT: Morticia Addams Shocked While Reading Book
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Whoop, my #iPRES26 paper got accepted! Eek, my #iPRES26 paper got accepted.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Sarah Middleton #dpc summarises her workshop on advocacy For more, see (1) Novice to Know-How: Advocacy share.google/zVWSrMBtyeNo... (2) Digital Preservation Advocacy Toolkit share.google/DVVqZQEIrPSf...
Summary slide highlighting advocacy in digital preservation and speaker
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Great keynote by Jane Milne from NRS. Lots of insight sharing this slide on the tipping point of physical vs digital deposits #dpc
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Good morning from Scotland! Here for the @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy network and member's forum. Currently there is sunshine. At 7am there was not (just slippy granite and some views)
Picture overlooking Edinburgh from Arthur's Seat in the rainPath in hollyrood park
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Phew, I would say I enjoyed peer reviewing for iPRES. But I wouldn't want to say I'd like to do any more conference paper reviewing for quite some time
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Andy Jackson @anjacks0n.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It was a joy to be invited onto the @code4thought.bsky.social podcast to talk about Making Data Last: www.dpconline.org/news/code-fo... #DigiPres
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Making Data Last: Andrew Jackson on the Code for Thought Podcast - Digital Preservation Coalition
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I'm not sure how I feel about "blending the nostalgic soul of the 80s with the peak convenience of today..." share.google/XAWa7fY45ZHe...
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Wireless Cassette Player - Maxell USA
With this masterfully engineered player, blending the nostalgic soul of the 80's with the peak convenience of today’s wireless technology just became a reality. At its heart lies a stabilized transpor...
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Archives / Records Management in the news BBC News - Retired Sheffield photographer demands answers over pension - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Retired Sheffield photographer demands answers over pension
Retired photographer Ian Stocks says he has been on an
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Libraries in the news www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 18/03/2026
i love how so much of digital accessibility is just reaffirming what librarians have been trying to tell you for 1000 years: METADATA IS IMPORTANT, ACTUALLY
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(C)aroline Sam(P)son @sampscaroline.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I've loved my time with #ArchivesWM! We're a friendly, supportive group and are looking forward to welcoming some new trustees later this year.
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.site · 02/03/2026
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A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart".
Horizontal axis categories:
Contents purist: Must contain books
Contents neutral: Must contain information
Contents rebel: Can contain anything
Vertical axis categories:
Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian
Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone
Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody

Examples represented on the grid:
Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library
Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library
Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library
Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library
Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library
Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library
Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library
Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library
Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks 📜 www.popsci.com/technology/f...
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The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Representation of Archives in the media: Watched Madame Le Blanc last night and she visited an Archive. The Archivist insisted on nitrate gloves for touching paper records (better than white gloves... I guess), and then brought over a coffee to the desk with the papers on.
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a woman in a purple shirt screams with her mouth wide open
ALT: a woman in a purple shirt screams with her mouth wide open
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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Call for papers now OPEN! 📣 Join The National Fairground and Circus Archive in a one-day symposium to celebrate the role of women in circus through history 🎪 Want to present your research at @sheffielduni.bsky.social? Keep reading 👇 [1/7]
Red background with black and white figure of a variety of women circus performers, for example on an aerial rope and horse. Text reads: Women in Circus Symposium, Call for papers, Monday 23 March, University of Sheffield
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Procrastination has led to some forced weather metaphors in a proposed iPRES paper. I take themes (Horizon in this case) a bit too literal and need to just ✍️ something interesting!
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Really looking forward to this!
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Archives in the news V&A Museum acquires YouTube’s earliest video from 2005 | CNN share.google/anY7B1TTvlMD... #archives #digitalpreservation
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YouTube’s earliest video has been deemed museum-worthy | CNN
London’s V&A museum has added YouTube’s first video to its collection, displaying 2005’s “Me at the zoo” in one of its galleries.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#noiselife www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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‘Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers
Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"A British historian has uncovered a Europe-wide programme in the 1930s and 1940s in which restorers repaired and cleaned historic church and civil records, making them legible so that the Nazis could detect anyone with Jewish ancestry." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Nazi letters reveal paper restorers’ role in compiling Holocaust ‘hitlist’
Exclusive: Research uncovers programme to make centuries-old records legible to detect people’s ancestry
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Archives (of the future?) in the news: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #Digitalpreservation #archives #data
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Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data
Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...
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The Cyberattack That Exposed The Fragility Of Digital Heritage
Saturday 28 October 2023 is a date that will live long in the memory of staff at the British Library. As they arrived for work that day, they encountered
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UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
CLOSING NEXT WEEK 🚨 Send us your feedback on The National Archives’ digital capacity building strategy, Our Digital Century, that ends this year! Your responses will help us evaluate the programme and ensure future initiatives meet the sector’s needs: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/OISX44/ (1/2)
A person sits at a desk in a dark room making high resolution photographic copies on a computer.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The @ads-update.bsky.social Archeology Data service (ads) are looking to recruit a Digital Archives Assistant. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/digi... #digipres #digipresnorth #archivejobs
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Jobs - The University of York
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Managed to just send a message that just said hell. Not hello. Just hell. To someone I wanted to give professional advice to but haven't spoken to in 20+ years. On a public forum.
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in a room on fire .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in a room on fire .
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Morning! #MosaicMonday
A Roman Mosaic. Trust us. This is a wolf. It may look like Batman after he's fallen asleep at a party and his "mates" have "decorated" him, but it's a wolf.
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📢 We want to find out more about the training needs for long-term e-thesis preservation YOUR professional experience is essential to understanding current institutional practices, challenges & opportunities 👉 Take our short survey by 16 Jan buff.ly/Zf4mlLH @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
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Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Archives in the news This share is not about whether they should have redacted the data (they shouldn't of), it's about using such bad redaction techniques. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks
Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening
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