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Alice Corble

@dralicecorble.bsky.social
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Transdisciplinary scholar-activist-educator working on anticolonial library and archival praxis at UCL. Neurospicy Queer. Always (un)learning. Own views not my employer's etc.

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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
Also, @newscord.org have provided templates for filing official complaints to IPSO here: newscord.org/action/jason... The more of us who do this the better. You can also adapt the versions shared by @smnolas.bsky.social here lnkd.in/p/euMZq4ki
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
DONATE: GoFundMe set up by Patrick Vernon to support the family of #JasonArday with funeral and associated costs at this incredibly difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Signed and shared. Also, @newscord.org have provided templates for filing official complaints to the press here newscord.org/action/jason... The more of us who do this the better. You can also adapt the versions shared by @smnolas.bsky.social here lnkd.in/p/euMZq4ki
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The Mail printed a psychiatrist's guess at Jason Arday's mind. Hours later he was found dead.
A diagnosis-shaped headline at 1:01am on the day he died. His childhood disability interrogated one minute before the ambulance call. A mockery column deleted without a word. File five IPSO complaints...
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@newscord.org have provided templates for filing official complaints to the press here. The more of us who do this the better. newscord.org/action/jason...
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The Mail printed a psychiatrist's guess at Jason Arday's mind. Hours later he was found dead.
A diagnosis-shaped headline at 1:01am on the day he died. His childhood disability interrogated one minute before the ambulance call. A mockery column deleted without a word. File five IPSO complaints...
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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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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Reminds me of my favourite library joke. Q: Why did the librarian fall over? A: Because they were in the Non-Friction section.
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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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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Is CILIP now run by Freemasons?
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Maybe the extra pen is to make up for the lack of extra fingers?! lol
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“This is what diversity looks like to us”
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Blank books, blank newspapers, fake humans performing vocational awe, no Global Majority diversity network… “A mark of highest distinction and visionary leadership.” 🎭🤢😵‍💫🤦‍♀️
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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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Floorlibrarian @floorlibrarian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy Librarians Day everybody. Here's my colleagues - #PublicLibrarians from #CapeTown. youtu.be/ztprrqbKLrQ?
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City marks South African Librarians Day by welcoming 23 new library leaders
YouTube video by City of Cape Town
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
@cilip.bsky.social @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social @cilipcymru.bsky.social @cilipscotland.bsky.social @publiclibraries.bsky.social @publiclibrariesmag.bsky.social @ala-pla.bsky.social please share among your networks
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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 · 11/04/2026
"You cannot hope to benefit from a “shared history” with someone if you completely refuse to entertain, even for a second, just what their experience of that history was." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Reform’s temper tantrum about slavery reparations shows it doesn’t understand Britain’s place in the modern world | Kojo Koram
The party’s talk of visa bans for countries seeking reparative justice is not just undemocratic – it displays staggering ignorance about geopolitics, says professor of law and political economy Kojo K...
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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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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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thank you for sharing this - I was not aware of her amazing work and now very much want to read it and to listen and learn more!
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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
“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 ...
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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
“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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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Indeed. See also: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money | Christopher Marquis
In a university ecosystem that breeds hunger for status, Epstein made scholars feel like celebrities
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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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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Czechoslovakia Radio 1968: Improvised Audio Device – greg.org
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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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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Beautiful timeline cleanse 💜
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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 · 04/02/2026
Typical! Grrr...Sigh.
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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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