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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 11h

Book Cover of the Day:

Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses, Edward Gorey cover of dancing cat under full moon and woman in long dress.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 11h

Moss spore capsules usually have 1 or 2 rings of peristome teeth around their open mouth. In Tortula muralis, the teeth are long & spirally twisted to form a slender tube that twists & untwists in response to humidity changes. This peristome is 1.4 mm long. Stereo pair; viewing instructions in ALT.

An orange-brown tube of spiralled threads, open at the top where the threads are unravelling and un-twisting to release spores. A few tiny pale green spores are visible.
To view this side-by-side stereo pair in 3D, use the viewer from my book, or try to look at the left photo with your left eye and the right photo with your right eye. If you can do Magic Eye, it's the same technique. Cardboard tubes might help and keeping the picture small certainly makes it easier.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 14h

🧵Spotted at a Zinefest in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two young humans (10?) with big hair and punk rock attitudes are explaining to a customer that their zine about what life was like in the 80s is not ACTUALLY accurate, but, like, MIGHT be accurate. (There is a dinosaur on the cover.)

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21h

I'm on this panel with Joy & 3 other judges from across the world (credit to IAFA for making a real effort not to be solely US & UK) & want to echo the point she makes later in this thread: the standard of submissions has been INCREDIBLY high. & only 5 books can go on the shortlist; it feels unfair!

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 21h

Here's the teaser art for Captain Marvel, just sent over by Marvel:

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Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 19h

In the 2026 Lilburn Lecture (Nov 2), Peter Walls will speak about working with composers as a performer, university colleague and an arts administrator. This will be the 13th of these annual lectures, which are held at the NZ National Library in Wellington. Details 👇 natlib.govt.nz/events/lilbu...

Lilburn lecture — Composers at work

Part of Lilburn Lecture series

Monday 2 November 2026, 6pm to 7pm

Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, (lower ground) National Library Wellington. Entrance on Aitken Street.

events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Free. RSVP essential as seats are limited.

In the 2026 Lilburn Lecture, Dr Peter Walls ONZM, orchestra and choir conductor, music administrator and musicologist, will talk about his encounters with composers, from performing their works at secondary school to recent years as a conductor.

Includes photo of a man with white hair smiling warmly, wearing a blue blazer and white shirt, against a light grey background.

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 20h

Riddle me this: how come when Nat government *must* increase defence spending by $5 Billion Nats say they just have to borrow it but when similar Billions are required for Pay Equity for women they pretend this isn’t possible? #NZPol

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 09/10/2026

"Can I help you?" the magic shop proprietor asked. "What swords do you have?" "Only one, today. This is 'Hyvla', the sharpest sword ever made." "Any conditions on it?" "Before sheathing, the blade must be quenched in porridge or it will dull." "That's inconvenient." "I also have this pot..."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hark! heare the wynde blowe! Wacche the sonne ryse! Runninge yn the shadowes, Curse thy love, curse thy lies. And yf thou ne dost not love me now Thou wilt nevir love me agayne - Ich kan yet heare thee sayinge: Thou wouldst nevir breake the chayne #FleetwoodMac #OFMD

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Auckland Women's Centre @akwomenscentre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's here! The Coalition for the Safety of Women & Children's Election 2026 scorecard of 2 halves: 12 new steps from violence towards freedom & 8 steps to halt & reverse current regression. Thanks @tepaatimaori.bsky.social @greens.org.nz @labournz.bsky.social for replies - at www.awc.org.nz/20steps

We're demanding to move forward 12 steps towards a better future:
TPM & Greens - full commitment across all
Labour - a mix of no, some, full commitment & TBA
Opportunity, National NZ first, Act - no response

And to repair what's been broken 8 steps to reverse the damage
TPM - full commitment across all
Greens - full commitment across all apart from not considering back pay & interest for pay equity (orange as supports pay equity)
Labour - a mix of no, some, full commitment & TBA
Opportunity, National NZ first, Act - no response

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 09/10/2026

Here are some more pics from the pūtangitangi maternity ward. #nzbirds A day old 🥹

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Gavin / G. B. Ralph @gbralph.com · 09/10/2026

Tomorrow is Bookshop Day 🇳🇿📚 Bookshops across NZ will be doing all sorts of fun stuff. See you there? #Books #Bookshops #BookshopDay #NZ 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀📚🌎🌈✒️

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Jo Simons (she/her) @josimons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It‘s Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day tomorrow 10 October and all sorts of events will be on at bookstores. Here in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland there’s a bookshop tour. I wonder how many I could visit in a day … #pukapuka #Books www.booksellers.co.nz/event/auckla...

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Auckland Bookshop Tour 2026 | Booksellers NZ

1 GRAND PRIZE, 12 DAYS, 17 BOOKSHOPS, ENDLESS ADVENTURE How to participate: STEP ONEVisit your nearest participating bookshop and pick up an Auckland Bookshop Tour Map! STEP TWOCollect stamps from 7–1...

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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh hai my booky friends. Did you know it's Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day tomorrow (Saturday 10 October)? We've linked to local Ōtautahi Christchurch events, & bookshop pics. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/bookshops/ Scorpio fans - the expansion opens āpōpō! Here are pics from yesterday. ^DR #pukapuka

Owner Dave Cameron outside new expansion of Scorpio Books

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Jo Simons (she/her) @josimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Funny and clever and sad, this one’s going to be sticking with me for a while, I just zoomed through it. Friendship, loss and ghosts in 80s Manhattan. “Waiting on a friend” by Natalie Adler. #BookSky #Reading

Hard cover book in sunset colours Waiting on a friend” by Natalie Adler. Cover blurb reads “A beautiful study of friendship, of how loss unmoors us, and how if we keep turning toward love, anything is possible.” - Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 05/10/2026

If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this. **Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers** math.mit.edu/~elmos/petit...

Currently, authors posting to arXiv have no control over whether bots scrape their full-text PDFs and LaTeX source files.

We are calling on arXiv to implement a simple permission toggle during submission, allowing authors to decide what automated scrapers can access:

Full Access: Bots can read and scrape the full text and source files.

Metadata Only: Bots are restricted to the Title, Abstract, and Citation metadata.

Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today in why your librarian is stressed: academic journals increase in cost about 5% every single year while our funding continues to, at best, stagnate. And that's just the things we already purchase, much less the new acquisitions our patrons need or want.

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6if... NB: there were at least 32 false or misleading statements made by PM Luxon (Hipkins 1, corrected in real time)

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The Leader's Debate: Fact Checked.

YouTube video by Paul… The Other One

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is one of two biodiversity posters I made on the Taiari River Catchment, commissioned by Taieri Wai. These are going out to local schools, farmers, and landowners for free so they can learn about the wildlife around them! #biodiversity #sciart #nzart #herps #birdart #reptile #botany #maps

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The web and mobile apps of major conversational AI engines transmit prompts, titles and conversation permalinks to advertising data firms, alongside device IDs, hashed email and other persistent identifiers. Comprehensive analysis, like always from this team: jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i...

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a (very small!) role on TV3’s election special tomorrow (Wednesday) talking about climate change and infrastructure It’s a live show from 7pm looking at the big future challenges facing our country - at the end a panel of political leaders respond to the issues #nzpol #FuturesThinking

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Jenny Nicholls @jenster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#nzpol winner of the nz leader’s debate is the girl in red who is not having it.

Glam but very cranky audience member during questions on healthcare crisis. Is she a nurse?

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 04/10/2026

Ironically, folks keep banning Banned Book Club, the true story of my wife Kim Hyun Sook reading banned books under a dictator. Why? Hard to say. I asked every time, and every book banner says "oh, I haven't read it." #BannedBooksWeek

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Banned Book Club: Color Edition

A Junior Library Guild Selection "Highly recommended for readers passionate about activism." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review "Sure to inspire today's youthful generation of tenacious change...

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Sarah @notsailingalone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would like Luxon to say why we can’t compare fishery officers to librarians when talking about pay equity #nzpol

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Ben Taels @bentaels.taels.net · 06/10/2026

It's ridiculous that the other leaders aren't up there. It shouldn't just be wall to wall Chris. #nzpol

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Booksky Amazon is keeping the lion’s share of the cover price for THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT, which means our amazing authors get paid less and we get paid less (and have to wait 2 months for it), which is why we’re asking folks to buy direct! queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want to learn the ABC, D & E, of Survey and Questionnaire design, check out this neat little course that our colleague Peter King has put together in collaboration with the White Rose DTP and @srmleeds.bsky.social: wrdtp.ac.uk/methods-reso...

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Survey & Questionnaire Design: The ABCDE Framework

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was an unexpected adventure. I won a major award tonight at the National Quilting Symposium in Aotearoa New Zealand. "Melancholy of Mourning" won the Award of Excellence. So here's a picture, and currently it's on show at the Threads of our Time exhibtion in Otautahi, Christchurch.

A textile art work of multi colours with small pieces of fabric contrasting and adding light and texture. #quilt #art #textile #reuse #recycle

Detail of the textile art work featuring assorted orange fabrics with turquoise, green and yellow accents. The stitching is horizontal waves.

Detail of the artwork focussing on the the purples and pink colours, with small contrast pieces of orange, green and blue. The stitching is in vertical waves.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#WikiLovesScarfieFlats And we have our first entry! Disfellowship on York Place! Don't forget to include the address of the flat in your photo, and add your email to your Wikimedia account so we can contact you!

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Laura J. Smart @ljsmart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Eval rubric #AI enhanced #library #metadata, ground truth "cataloger judgement", theoretical framework, steps to determine benchmarks+hard data.Transcribed fields within 10% of benchmark, subjective fields 28-36%, 0 time savings for librarians from Alma/eBook Central hdl.handle.net/20.500.14721...

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Modeling evaluation of AI enhanced metadata

Metadata librarians at the University of Western Ontario reviewed AI enhanced bibliographic records from ProQuest Ebook Central to formalize “cataloger judgment,” explore how standard quality assessme...

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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because of gender and ethnic pay gaps in Aotearoa, Pacific women are now working for free until the end of the year. This election year, we need to vote for pay equity. It’s the only way to make sure that all working people are respected, valued, and paid what they’re owed. #nzpol

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Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Latest newspaper additions to Papers Past have just dropped paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/about/past-r...

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Bird and Beach @birdandbeach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They're here! If you love a good tourist tea towel, have we got a treat for you: Ryan has selected his favourite beaches from across the motu to showcase in our newest release of tea towels. We have one each in stock, so get in quick if you don't want to wait! birdandbeach.co.nz/product/acro...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/09/2026

Fact. Also its Æ.

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Good Bitches Baking @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes the smallest acts of kindness create the biggest ripple effects. When North Auckland celebrated its 10th birthday, HB Bronwyn Leak reflected on what keeps her volunteering. "Small acts of kindness create really big momentum." Read Bronwyn's story here: gbb.org.nz/our-stories/...

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An advance copy of this turned up the other day and it looks great. Due out from @bwbnz.bsky.social in November.

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🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you or people you know aren't sure who to vote for in the upcoming NZ election, this handy resource has been created by some awesome people I know. www.onthefence.co.nz

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On the Fence 2026

On The Fence helps Kiwis get started on their political journey. Answer a series of questions on the issues that matter most to you, and we'll show you which political parties share your values.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@universityofotago.bsky.social @otagobiochemist.bsky.social @zoologyotago.bsky.social @otagoreligion.bsky.social It's a beautiful day to go and take a photo of a student flat so you can enter the Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats photo competition tomorrow! w.wiki/UYBq for more info and to register

Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats Want your flat to be immortalised? Get it into Wikimedia Commons and be in to win, 1–23 October 2026

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 29/09/2026

🤘 KICK IT 🤘 The Bird of the Year is the Black Robin/Karure, coming in like a tiny wrecking ball to smash the competition. Thread Project premium screenprinted tees in unisex and fitted sizes S-5XL. Pre-order this tee NOW: pepperraccoon.com #birds #boty #kikorangi

A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

A flatlay of green t-shirts, featuring a detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

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Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 27/09/2026

I don’t want an ACT person representing my kids education after seeing the slop they call lunch. #nzpol This smells like the Taxpayers Union in sheep’s clothing. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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The new education group that wants to represent parents' voices

A new advocacy group has launched with the aim of giving parents a more organised voice in New Zealand's ongoing debates around education. The Parents' Alliance says it wants to be evidence-based and ...

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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been a librarian for 33 years this month. Part of my role is scanning the horizon for what’s coming our way, in every sense. i’ve been waiting for book challenges to become organised and more politicised. People, let me present likely instigators. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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The new education group that wants to represent parents' voices

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 26/09/2026

My hope was that the new edition of Banned Book Club would help find new readers to counter the people working hard to ban it. But I was pleasantly surprised by the heartwarming thing that's happening... folks picking up the new one so their old copy can be donated to reach readers in need.

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Jo Simons (she/her) @josimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The kōwhai in our garden is finally blooming! It makes me so cheerful every year. #Aotearoa #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Spring

A cluster of bright yellow bell shaped kōwhai flowers on the end of a tree branch in a suburban garden

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lunchboxes guys, lunchboxes

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