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I failed to watch Labyrinth several times at film night in primary school. The falling scene with the helping hands was seriously horrific for me. Still never watched it.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking on the bright side of losing my voice. Everyone thinks it's totally reasonable when you cancel your meetings 😂

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love Darwin for this quote, it is perennially useful. I am also poorly and stupid and hate my book.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well today is one of the most depressing and annoying days at work I've had in sometime. Loving that for me.

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Francis Crick Institute Library & Information Services @fci-library.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's CRUK change of Open Access policy day. Comms have gone out to all Crick grant holders, but the tl;dr is "no more spending your CRUK grant money on OA funds". Lot's of other ways to make your paper OA though, so don't forget to talk to your friendly, neighbourhood library team.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I saw this being launched I couldn't understand the design. Why make it bepedal, why make it so tall? It was always going to fall/be pushed over 😂 I'm impressed that they actually managed to make Evri worse!

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Senate House, @cam.ac.uk Here's a jigsaw of the postcard: buff.ly/lAWI3bl If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old picture postcard showing a monochrome photograph of the inside of the Senate House at Cambridge, all parquet and panelling and ornate ceilings; and an embossed colour image of the university's arms

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do always bring a water bottle, I tend to think that looks prepared rather than anything negative.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I could bring a coffee to interviews I would be 100x better. I don't work without a coffee on me at all times, so all those coffee-less interviews aren't really getting me. I don't bc of this attitude.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Woop! Article accepted in the Scottish Journal of Open Research. It's an article about open methods, @protocolsio.bsky.social, and funder open research policy.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good noise cancelling headphones, water/coffee, thinking about when you want to eat. All essential!

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I either think of it as work time (if you can arrange shorter days on site) - helpful for bigger picture stuff. Or I treat it as the time I might just be sat on the sofa at home. Queue up good streaming tv on phone (always download, don't trust wifi). Or kindle.

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Dr Theresa Oakley @archaetexts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

c.org/zyLJYVV4sy Petition for a sensible 50p stamp price for Christmas cards! Please sign!

c.org

Sign the Petition

Save Christmas Cards - Urge Royal Mail to introduce a 50p seasonal Christmas stamp

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Okay, but my original post was about supplemental data not counting as open data in our policy. Not about whether people should be sharing their data. You seem to be arguing against a point I'm not making.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've always been of the opinion that if you think your data is genuinely useless to others then just put in a few examples. But put them in a repository rather than in a document at the end of the paper.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But is it honestly less work formatting it into a word or pdf file than putting the original files with a quick readme into figshare or zenodo? I know my research has a tiny amount of data compared to yours, but I've never found that it would be easier to format it for supplementary data.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

100% - if you share things as supplemental data at the Crick it's not data sharing according to our policy. Because it's nearly always in a form that's difficult to use (tables as pdfs etc.)

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

To incentivise time keeping for everyone else, but then to give the chair license to run over into the coffee break...

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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

An ode to the organisations that brought you 'Doing More With Less' "Pizza Parties Don’t Fix Burnout”: The State of Librarian Mental Health bookriot.com/the-state-of... #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Librarian #Library #LIS #Burnout

bookriot.com

"Pizza Parties Don't Fix Burnout": The State of Librarian Mental Health

Library workers are feeling increased pressures to be everything to everyone, and the impact on their mental health matters.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A blue plaque has been unveiled at the National History Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire for palaeontologist, Dorothea Bate. Self taught, she published more than 80 scientific papers, despite spending most of her career without a permanent paid position. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Carmarthen fossil hunter Dorothea Bate recognised with blue plaque

Dorothea Bate discovered the dwarf elephant and the myotragus, an extinct goat-like antelope.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Finally got around to dyeing some test pieces in my quest to learn about using plants for fabric dyeing. Super pleased with the colour (turmeric). White muslin included in the photo for contrast.

Bright yellow fabric alongside white fabric

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bit of a weird ask - does anyone have copies of CILIP & RLUK conference programmes, with abstracts, from 2025 - 2022? (I already have CILIP 2025 bc that's still on the website) I'm contacting the orgs as well, but thought I'd check here in case any of you are hoarders 😉

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Sadly Dawn won’t be able to join us any more. Good news! There is an opening for someone to come and explore science and Star Trek! As the remaining speakers are all white I’d love to have some other voices included. Recommendations (and self recommendations) very welcome.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ooh, if you could put me in touch that would be brilliant. Thanks!

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yep, thanks Holly, that'd be great.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks! I'll investigate.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks David - good idea.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A call out to the network - I really like to talk to someone who has worked in prison libraries & has experience of providing LGBTQ+ books in that sector. Is this you? Or do you know someone who I could talk to?

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A little bit of writing this morning. Still incredibly behind on the book, and now reaching the stage where I mostly hate it. So that's a fun Saturday for me.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yeah, I was in a union as a postdoc. There was literally no point, they weren't interested in us, I don't think they ever did anything for us. Far too busy worrying (only) about academic pensions.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Obvs hate this re unions. But also, I've always felt that PGRs were the equivalent of apprentices with the thesis essentially being the apprentice piece. Postdocs = journeymen. Employed by a master but not bound to them. Considered competent. They are workers, and so unionisation is appropriate.

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Margarida Cardoso Moreira @margaridamcm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dear #LondonEvoDevo colleagues, don't forget to register for our next meeting (deadline on Sep 15th). It would be wonderful to see a lot of our #Cambridge colleagues.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I use gamer chairs - great support because they expect you to be in them for hours at a time. Usually tall at the back though, so depends if you like that style.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sometimes I think to myself would I be happier if I ran a book/coffee shop with a microbrewery on the side? And then I remember that would be really stressful, so chances are I wouldn't...

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thank you, but I'm awful at giving back other people's books so I won't borrow it.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I haven't - I've been looking for something a bit different to read next so maybe I'll give it a go.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sad to see the what's happening at this place (now Bishop Lincoln). They gave me my first qualified library job, and though I fairly quickly moved on, I will always appreciate the enormous amount of faith they put in me - inviting me to all sorts of pretty senior research committees & REF things.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nice! Thanks for highlighting it.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just read someone's post about doing the Reading triathlon. Rather than the place, I thought it was the reading triathlon and I was intrigued. Hardback, paperback, audiobook?

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm not sure it wasn't already, but I'm on board. Writing Star Wars Day as 5/4 rather than specifically May 4th is an abomination though.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

After months of back and forth with technical specs and legal agreements I think 🤞I might finally get two projects in place this week. Send me all the good thought y'all!

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I can't imagine a better ending to a life than the outpouring of love and grief at her passing that I'm seeing. That's how you know you won at life.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

there's not a lot of super rich people who really earned their wealth, and very few who used it to truly make the world better. as much as i love her music, it's that part that i've always loved the most about Dolly Parton

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