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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“we need to talk to young people about reading to outrun and outfight injustice… Reading human work to insist that we are human. Reading for liberation and emancipation; reading for intellectual freedom, and to have the strength to fight in the arenas of the mind” www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I hope the librarians at the University of Ghent find themselves unable to find a single document that racist asshole requests from here on in. Sorry, mate, not sure where it vanished off to, maybe try another one, oh dear, that one’s gone missing, too.

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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rest in Peace Dr Jason Arday. Such devastating and abhorrent news. Deepest condolences to his family, loved ones, and all have been touched by his intellect, insight, integrity, humility, and humanity. #RacismKills #AcademiaKills #MediaKills #BlackLivesMatter #BlackAutismMatters #NoJusticeNoPeace

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New CILIP website is a mess of AI slop images. Check out the images of senior professionals and try and imagine the prompt that generated them. All backed by walls of fake books that look like the ones sold by the yard to furnish pubs www.cilip.org.uk/learn-develo...

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Chartered Fellowship - FCLIP

A mark of highest distinction and visionary leadership. You’ve shaped the profession. Now, join its most prestigious ranks. Fellowship (FCLIP) is the highest level of professional registration awarde...

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 10/07/2026

I had a wonderful chat with @bmitra.bsky.social about the promising potential of atproto for creating emancipatory information access systems - check out @jedi-workshop.bsky.social and arxiv.org/abs/2601.09600 So much valuable know-how that would be amazing to apply for search/IR on atproto ✨ >

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Information Access of the Oppressed: Freirean Design for Emancipatory Information Access

Online information access (IA) platforms are targets of authoritarian capture. We explore the question of how to safeguard our platforms and ensure emancipatory outcomes through the lens of Paulo Frei...

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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Calling all UK & US #publiclibraryworkers! Please consider completing this timely and important research survey by my UCL Department of Information Studies MA student @juliagmac.bsky.social, examining #publiclibrary "neutrality" amid cuurent cultural-political polarisation. #critlis #librarysky

Drawing of an elephant's legs, stepping on the tail of the mouse, with the following quote by Desmond Tutu sandwiched between the legs and trunk of the elephant: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

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Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

An interview with @dlocaribbean.bsky.social was just published in @archivoz.bsky.social. "The Caribbean in the Open: Inside the Digital Library of the Caribbean," is in English (www.archivozmagazine.org/en/) & Spanish (www.archivozmagazine.org).

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About us - Archivoz

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Hot off the press! Check out our newest dLOC handbook, co-authored by @chancyms.bsky.social & @katielcoldiron.bsky.social! dloc.com/AA00115422/0...

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Please sign and share this petition to set up an independent inquiry into the unfair placement of West Indian children into Educationally Subnormal (ESN) schools from the 1950s to the early 1970s. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Set up an independent inquiry into West Indian children placed in ESN schools

We want the Government to commission an independent inquiry into the unfair placement of West Indian children into Educationally Sub Normal (ESN) schools from the 1950s to the early 1970s. This inquir...

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

#OTD in 1942, Walter Rodney was born. In this post I reflect on his life through one of his most popular works, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". I consider the imperative of the continuous process of learning and unlearning and a Sankofa state of mind. folukeafrica.com/walter-rodne...

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Walter Rodney: Illuminating the road from mental slavery

The mind achieves freedom last.

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

dLOC endorses the Freedom School Spring 2026 Webinar Series from our friends at Archiving the Black Web. For more information, including registration links, please visit www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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Antony Beevor: Trump shows signs of dementia. He can’t be controlled

The bestselling historian, 79, has written about some of humanity’s darkest moments — and believes the West is totally unprepared for the threats it faces

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/03/2026

“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List

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No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

One of the things I talk about in my work is how we erroneously believe that the passage of time is what brings about change. In actual fact, it is our action to change things that brings about the passage of time. Otherwise, we are trapped in repeating and expanding patterns.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 27/02/2026

Siddarth Soni starting his keynote with a Jesse Shera quote contextualising his idea of activist librarians and radical librarianship. #CopimConference

A quote from Jesse Shera about the moral imperatives on librarians.

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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Latest additions to the Studies in Imperialism series: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...

Book covers of Bremner & Maudlin, Inner Empire: Architecture & Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950 and Robinson-Dunn, An Inner Empire of Many Cultires: Baha’is, Muslims, Jews & the British State, 1900-20

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 23/02/2026

The BBC removed part of Akinola Davies Jr.’s winning speech at last night’s #BAFTAs: “Archive your loved ones. Archive your stories yesterday, today, and forever. For Nigeria, for London, the Congo, Sudan, free Palestine.” (deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-...)

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If you weren't around at the time and never heard what Jackson's oratory was like, this is what it was like. If you heard it before, you know you want to hear it again.

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Belgian museum caught in row over trove of DR Congo mineral records

KoBold Metals and DR Congo are pushing a Brussels museum to release records that would help map valuable metals

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I get so angry with people (the usual suspects) having a go at organisations like the RNLI or National Trust. One claimed that the lifeboats were for the use of English people only. Sorry nothing could be further from the truth. The original resolutions of the Royal National Lifeboat 1/3

The old and the new, RNLI lifeboats past and present off the coast of Whitby.

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UCU @ MMU @manmetucu.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is a fab explainer of many of the issues HE is facing. Solidarity to our @unisonmmu.bsky.social colleagues who are fighting for us all. Brilliant to see the student support and solidarity too. youtu.be/uIqntto9TdY?...

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“Universities Are On Fire”: Staff Strike at MMU Over Pay

YouTube video by The Northern Rose

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Mira @miraphorism.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/02/2026

Racism is not a mental health condition or a cognitive issue, it is simply racism. Implying that it is a form of pathology is a great distancing tactic to avoid engaging with your own role in it!

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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Recommended reading for all those of us working at the technofeudalist coalface of Higher Education...

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

“Written w/ the precision of an archival historian & the moral urgency of a political intervention, the book dismantles one of the key myths of British national identity: that the monarchy stood above, apart from, or uneasily adjacent to the transatlantic slave trade.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...

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Empire by Omission

by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and...

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Ophelia @notcordelia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A friend reached out to me to ask if I could help bring attention to the plight of queer and trans refugees in South Sudan and her gofundme for her and her friends whose need for #mutualaid is incredibly urgent. Please share this post and donate to the campaign. Sophie & her friends need your help.

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Trans Community and Survival in South Sudan: An Interview with a Trans Refugee

[Author’s Note: I have never run an interview on this blog before so this post will be different than my normal personal essays and media analysis. A friend of mine reached out to ask if I wo…

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/01/2026

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Signatories to the letter, requesting that the article be removed or amended are mostly older prominent scholars of the Caribbean who are not necessarily on this platform, which is why I agreed to share it. The concern was that without a social media effort, @theguardian.com would ignore the request

Signatories to the open letter about the Guardian article, in alphabetical order
Paola Vargas Arana, Research Associate, History, University of Manchester
Desirée Baptiste Independent Scholar and Writer,
UK
Holly Brewer Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Steve Cushion Senior Research Fellow, UCL
Institute of the Americas
Nicholas Draper Co-founder, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave Ownership at UCL
Claudius Fergus, Former Head of the Department of History, UWI, Trinidad and Tobago, Independent Scholar
Rupert Lewis Professor Emeritus of Political Thought, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Gelien Matthews Head of Department of History.
University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Ian Randle Founder of lan Randle Publishers, the first commercial publishing house in the English-speaking Caribbean to specialize in scholarly books
Alvin O. Thompson Professor Emeritus of History, University of the West Indies, Barbados

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

OPEN LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN
Dear Editors,
We write in reference to a recent article published in the UK online edition of The Guardian on Friday, 23 January 2026, which carried the following misleading headline: "British crown was world's largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals."
The article in question, by Chris Osuh, showcases a new book by Dr. Brooke Newman, The Crown's
Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy (Harper Collins, 2026). But Newman's book is not the original source of that claim. That claim derives from earlier scholarship, the painstaking archival work of a Black historian of Caribbean heritage: the late Roger Norman Buckley.
It is unfortunate that the silencing of his original scholarship appears in the profiling of a book advertised as uncovering silences. While it is great to see public attention brought to the history of the Crown's involvement in slavery through the new book and its profiling in The Guardian, the headline compromises The Guardian's efforts to address the legacies of slavery generally and its own institutional links when it extracts and reframes earlier work by a Black scholar as a revelation new to this book.
The relevant passage in The Crown's Silence draws on original scholarship by Roger Norman
Buckley in Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815 (1979). Dr. Brooke Newman repeats Buckley's figures, which she cites (referencing page 55 of Buckley's book, see attached) while changing his "British government" to "Crown." She then converts his careful "perhaps the largest individual buyer" to a more conclusive claim, changing his "British government" to "king" but without citing Buckley for that claim which is on page 56 of his book (see attached) and which, uncited in Newman's book, is the Guardian headline.
There is room for popular histories that rely largely on the secondary scholarship of other historians. But other historians have not been silent.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

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Taking Action in Higher Ed

Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

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Elizabeth Stregger @estregger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Perfect timing for an upcoming guest lecture on epistemic injustice (and algorithms and AI). This whole issue of Kula looks excellent: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku... Great to be reading Sam Popowich again!

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Citational Politics and Justice | KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians.

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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"If...knowledge (...know-how) and thought have parted company for good, then we would indeed become the helpless slaves, not so much of our machines as of our know-how, thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous it is." H. Arendt, 1958

A mechanized creature, half-human half-serpent, from Johannes de Fontana’s 15th-century manuscript Belli Corum instrumentorum liber cum figuris. (Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/frolicsome-engines-the-long-prehistory-of-artificial-intelligence/)

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Check out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work. sites.google.com/view/critica...

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Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"In my experience, academic work that acknowledges racism, inequality, oppression & climate injustice is in no way easier than any other form of learning. It is oftentimes harder, more complex, as it is fighting against the grain, and THAT is exactly why we need to bring care to our teaching."

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Join us next week for our virtual book talk, Sociology of hope. Adrian Scribano will join us to discuss his books themes of revolution, utopia, social change, and collective action. 📅 Wed 21 January ⏰ 6.30pm 🎟️ Free and open to all | register to attend⬇️

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Sociology of Hope | Book launch at LSE

Join us for our book talk, 'Sociology of Hope' | Wednesday 21 January 2026 | 6.30pm to 8pm | Online (via Zoom)

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

'There is no humane colonialism There is no democratic colonialism There is no non-exploitative colonialism' - Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander, politician, revolutionary... President (1933-1986)

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