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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Had to deal with another "but people don't use books anymore, it's all online" convo today after being asked what I do... it's so tiring.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What's people's feelings about postnominals in email signatures? I go back and forth. I work with academics and it's a quick way to communicate that I know what I'm talking about. On the other hand, a library colleague recently mentioned they nearly put them off asking me a question.

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

See what’s new at CILIP and our Member Networks this week! Discover events, training, and activities—many free or discounted for members. New opportunities are added often, so check www.cilip.org.uk/community-events/upcoming-events

Schedule of CILIP events from September 8 to 13 including online sessions and a museum visit in Wakefield.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And also not use their wealthy/famous/connected contacts to get their kid a job.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Annoyed I can't make this but I heard Elinor speak at LILAC in Cardiff in 2025 and it was incredibly powerful stuff - would definitely recommend attending just for Elinor but the rest of the programme looks like it's shaping up to be excellent too!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

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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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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🗓️ What's on at #CILIP this week? Great opportunities to visit the British Museum & Newnham College & a dive into AI & RAG hosted by CILIP London, CILIP RPG (for those outside full time work) & CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group 🔸Check our full listings: www.cilip.org.uk/events/event_list.…

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel”

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CILIP International Library & Information Group @cilip-ilig.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We are delighted to be joined by CILIP President Carryl Allardice at our next event: 🗣️ "Meet the CILIP President" 🗓️ Tues 7 July | 13:00 (UK time) 🎟️ Free & open to all! More information, including a booking form, here: bit.ly/4guSXx6 Do tune in, if you can! 🙂

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CILIP London and South East @ciliplondon.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Join us on a visit to King's School Canterbury Library! This visit will be hosted by Philippa Rose, Head Librarian. 📅 Tues 21st July '26 🕠 5.30pm - 7.00pm 🗺️ Kings School Canterbury Library, Kent CT1 2ES For more info and to register click here: tinyurl.com/Kings-canter...

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🗓️ This week: the archive, sustainability, copyright & planning for Green Libraries Week. Sessions hosted by @cilip-arlg.bsky.social CILIP with Naomi Korn Associates, and CILIP UK e-information Group 🔸CILIP events: FREE or discounted for members 🔸Sign up for top class CPD: ow.ly/Rl6n50ZbJei

Schedule of CILIP events from June 16-17 including webinars on archives, sustainability, copyright, social media, and green libraries.

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Thinking of Professional Registration and embarking on your chartership journey? Or are you already on it? Check out our training & information sessions where you'll work with peers and mentors and have the opportunity to ask questions. See all our events to end of 2026: ow.ly/n6nO50Z9g2I

Blue graphic promoting CILIP Professional Registration for career growth and CV enhancement.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thinking about revalidating but never quite find the time? Why not join me on Thursday morning for #CILIP Revalidate in a Morning and get it done!

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Journal of Information Literacy @jinfolit.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Editorial: Alison Hicks outlines the great content in this latest JIL issue. We also meet JIL’s new associate editors—Yvonne Eadon, Charlotte Im, Yucong Lao and Sarah McNicol—who each share their thoughts on information literacy. Read here: doi.org/10.11645/20.... #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy

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Four new associate editors walk into a journal… | Journal of Information Literacy

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

All this week, we're celebrating our fantastic volunteers for #VolunteersWeek. Thank you for all the work you do for your #CILIPCommunity! Interested? Contact us at professional.services@cilip.org.uk for an informal chat.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Looking forward to digging into this issue of JIL - lots of interesting stuff. Plus my LILAC26 conference report, which I promise is not just about trams...

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Cannot wait until I no longer have to deal with emails entitled "Skirt and Sock Expectations"

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Save Our Libraries Essex @sole-essex.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

LIBRARY CAMPAIGNERS CONDEMN BAN ON LIBRARIES PROMOTING PRIDE We condemn an order by the newly elected leadership of @Essex_CC to its library service not to promote #Pride, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ identity, culture, and history. www.yourharlow.com/2026/06/02/r...

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If you are in central London TONIGHT and you think "I'll just wait for the buses to get quieter bcos tube strike" then come to the free launch of our Festival of Storytelling at Science Gallery London (London Bridge) 6pm and have a drink with us and swap a book: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

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Festival of Storytelling - Opening Event and Book Swap – Science Gallery London, Tue 2 Jun 2026 - Welcome to the Digital Future Institute's Festival of Storytelling! Join our launch to learn about th...

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"News organisations are in a unique position to counter false and harmful narratives," writes TBIJ's Gareth Davies "That opportunity, and people’s trust, should not be squandered for the sake of generating clicks"

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just finished reading Drained by @leahruppanner.bsky.social and feel very seen! A wonderfully hopeful book that doesn’t shy away from the structural issues but gives practical strategies for everyday life too. Timely reminder of the link between mental load, identity and normative gender ideas.

Photo of book cover of Drained by Leah Ruppanner with the subtitle: reduce your mental load to do less and be more

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Working on a systematic review search strategy and couldn't find one of the target papers so did a bit of detective work and realised I was missing out a key search term... just added it in and it managed to add over a 100 papers to the results... not sure if this a win for the authors or not 😂

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hilaryonline.bsky.social @hilaryonline.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Give this a share if you get chance please. So many cisgender women who do not want this for the trans+ community or the division it causes for us all notinourname.org.uk

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Home - Not in our name

Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's Fairer Share Day by the way... I wasn't just randomly thinking about Nationwide...

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I know people are a bit funny about changing banks but for the last few years I've received at least £100 each year from Nationwide as part of their Happy Fairer Share Day. It's the closest feeling to getting a bonus I've ever had. Would highly recommend. Plus building societies rule.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

LIbrarians. A moment of silence for our museum colleagues.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What would be cool is if Google bought back 2001-era search. Mind boggling speed and performance, no promo BS. They could even call it something stupid like Raw Dog so Joe Rogan and the people who did those weird things on flights like it. And, most importantly, it would work! Imagine that.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It is very funny to me, a person who fact-checks copy and breaks down transcripts as a basic part of my job, to see people who have never done either of those things at all thought-experiment what it might entail and what kind of theoretical efficiencies a chatbot might provide

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CILIP East @cilipeast.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join CILIP East for a 45 minute introductory tour of the @theul.bsky.social exhibition: Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers with Dr Chris Burgess at Cambridge University Library. 16/06/2026 @ 12:15. Register here: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

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CILIP: the library and information association

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Maybe we'll get some spoons in our tearoom with all the extra cash...

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing intimate user data with Google and Meta without consent.

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Unite the Union: University of Cambridge Branch @unite0775m.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

University workers in Cambridge are on strike today. Demands are a Cambridge weighting to help with living costs.

Pickets wearing red tabbards, with red flags and placcards. Some are doing a clench fist salute. They are standing in front of an iron gate and gothic arch of a university building in Cambridge.

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Tony Padilla #JFT97 Don’t buy the S*n @proftonypadilla.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Dear academic colleagues. Please sign and share this open letter expressing your support for Physics & Astronomy at Nottingham, as the university plans unnecessary and devastating cuts. One in three academics staff expected to lose their jobs nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...

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Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Her comment about the 4 in 5 reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the economic importance of HE as a sector, partnerships with local industry and the NHS, and that other rather important work of universities alongside teaching - research.

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#LibrariesChangeLives Week is for EVERY library in EVERY sector. Public, school, academic, health, workplace - all change lives every day. Join #CILIP to celebrate the breadth of what libraries contribute to society: www.cilip.org.uk/page/libraries-cha…

Three people sitting on a couch engaged in reading and discussion, promoting literacy through libraries.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

As someone who knows a bit about door knocking, canvassing and local elections, I cannot overstate the significance of DID NOT VOTE that gets overlooked by pretty much everyone. DNV2024 turning out for Reform coupled with LAB2024 going Green is the story of LE2026.

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Jane Pothecary @janepoth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Looking forward to attending as much of #CALC26 as I can over the next few days. Fabulous programme @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social 👏

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“Blue Labour” has comprehensively failed, because even if if you are willing to be exceptionally cruel to immigrants (and some people seem worryingly happy to), you can never outflank the actual fascists, while you’ll lose voters who see immigrants as people.

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