iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that as an academic smackdown: “not sure that the defense of that PhD would be succesful”.

Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am going to clean the inside of the car. This is going to be a major undertaking as it has not been done since 2022. Do not judge me.

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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 23/09/2026

Are these the same UK Higher Education providers who have all uncritically subscribed to LLM platforms like ChatGPT Edu? Who continually recontract with the same proprietary software providers like Ex Libris Group for library systems?

The report findings reveal that on a scale of one to five, where one demonstrates institutions are at a reactive stage of digital maturity and five an integrated stage, the aggregated sector score was 2.84. This indicates that, on average, UK higher education providers have moved beyond reactive investment in digital infrastructure and are embedding more strategic approaches and proactive practices.

The results also show:

Reliable, safe and secure digital infrastructure is the highest-rated aspect of the assessment
Digital capability, including AI capability, has the lowest maturity ratings
Funding or investment is the most frequently cited single barrier to further progress, followed by staff capacity and time

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am drinking red wine tonight. This means it is officially autumn, for those of you who set your clocks by my drinking habits.

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 09/09/2026

#openaccess colors are BROKEN. Gold, Bronze, Green, Diamond, Hybrid... They are journal-centric, mix access and business models of journals, etc. We formed a working group to recommend how OpenAlex could implement a new classification system. Here's our report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Recommendations for Revising the Open Access Classification System in OpenAlex

The open access (OA) color classification system used by Unpaywall (i.e., Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, and closed) was introduced in 2018 and has since become widely used across the ecosystem, includi...

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Important to note, play dough has gluten in it. Not a problem for 99.9% of coeliacs, but if you’re the idiot kind who can’t keep their fingers out of their mouth then bad things can and do happen. I will not be taking questions on how I know this to be the case.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tried to write metadata in an email, managed to spell it meatdate. Also mistyped my own name. How’s your day going?

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is the OpenFest week! We have started our annual open research conference with a panel around Citizen Science. If you still want to join us online for the rest of the sessions throughout the week, please register here: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s a great day, with great company, watching the greatest sport. More days like this, please!

Me and a female friend, I have my arm round her shoulder. Edgbaston cricket ground is behind us.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In a moment of utter patheticness I couldn’t open my bottle of pop and had to ask a nice man at the train station if he would help me. Embarrassing does not come close to describing how I feel right now.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cheltenham is a bit far to drive to and from in a day. And the M42 needs to take a long hard look at itself and think about how it can do better.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

“we have chosen to cut services for heavy users because, bitch, you had it worse before the plague that very briefly brought people together & improved access to many things for everyone—so don’t complain, it could be worse” is absolute fucking bullshit.

A pandemic response lasting six years
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed libraries and disrupted access to scholarship, JSTOR increased the free reading limit from six articles every 30 days to 100, helping people continue their research. We kept the higher limit in place long after widespread library closures ended.
During that time, we learned more about how people use the program. Approximately 98% of active free-reading users access 10 or fewer articles in a 30-day period. Setting the limit at 10 preserves the current experience for the great majority of readers while remaining above the program's pre-pandemic limit. Readers who are already in the middle of a 30-day reading period on September 1 will retain the 100-article limit until that period ends. The new limit will begin with their next 30-day period.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today I have been talking about the REF and I didn’t have flashbacks or a twitchy eye even once. I am healing….

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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hey, professor here. Also librarian. Read all the smut you want. That shit counts. Read graphic novels, read children's books, read long-form articles, listen to audiobooks; it all counts. We do not care. Just don't read fascist propaganda. or JKR. #ValorForEveryone!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’ll be there, like all the cool kids. Hard to believe our little baby press is turning 10. And yes, even though I’m not officially WR libraries any more I still class myself as a family member. Like an aunt who you only see once a year and gets drunk at the party but is loved by all. Probably.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026

Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And it’s great that libraries own these outright, so the provider couldn’t suddenly just remove access if it was in their greedy monetary interests to do so…

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Cobra meeting PM: well what can we do about these fires? Official: we're already implementing all our plans. PM: but I need to say I've done something. I know, maybe we could randomly scare the shit out of the entire country? Official: I guess...

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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's Father Larry Duff I feel sorry for #alert

Father Larry Duff building a house of cards

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I had my headphones on when that bastard alert went off. Interrupting my cricket commentary to deafen me. I am most unhappy about that.

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’s such a shit time to be a librarian because you spend so much time talking about stuff like censorship and equity and critical information literacy and then you go to meetings about untested AI tools with a multinational monopoly vendor whose headquarters is built on stolen Palestinian land

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am normally an anyone but Yorkshire cricket fan, but this is just exceptional and I am desperate to see them break the highest score record. Phenomenal batting!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I tagged him. He knows what he did. Things have now gone very frosty between me and @scholtom.bsky.social

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Today I am working through a list of dois and muttering about metadata and VoRs and issue dates vs first online dates and versioning. This I know how to do!

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’m so relieved on behalf of the concept of football

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It’s going to go to pens, isn’t it? And the dirty bastards will win. This game has that kind of depressing result written all over it.

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 19/07/2026

Le but pas validé là c'est le clou dans le cercueil de la crédibilité de la FIFA quand l'Argentine joue.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Messi tells shop staff when he sees an old lady stealing bread #spaarg

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 19/07/2026

A RED CARD FOR ARGENTINA? IN THIS ECONOMY?

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ooooooooh! This ref has clearly not had the memo about how they’re meant to favour Argentina!

static.klipy.com

Chris Pratt's Shocked Reaction

ALT: Chris Pratt's Shocked Reaction

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Right, looks like we might be in this for the long haul so I’m cracking open the wine to help get me through this.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Speaking for the nation, is our Wayne!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Stop focussing on the children and show me the damned muppets!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Shouty man needs to shut up and let the football start please thank you

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have just turned the footy on and I do not understand why Robbie Williams is there in a sparkly adidas trackie. Am I tripping?

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Right, time for a disco nap before the Switzerland game. I can do this...

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

NB cyber attack was October 2023 if you were wondering if you should be protecting important digital infrastructure at all

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

HOP SUISSE! That was stressful as hell! How am I meant to go to sleep now with all the adrenaline still coursing through my veins?

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

At the end of last year I left my job and decided to spend some time travelling. 6 months later I’ve been to 13 countries across 4 continents but now this mini retirement has come to an end, and from Monday I’ll be working for @overton.io. But to celebrate my adventures, a pic from every country

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today I went to an archaeological site in Kosovo and met a chap who had studied at Sheffield Uni. We had a delightful chat about our feelings over the dept of archaeology being closed and now he is my new best friend

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"...intelligent enough to not need a trained librarian." EXCUSE YOU? www.librarlabs.com/en/home

Librar

AI for librarians
Librar makes it easier to set up and manage a school library even before you find a librarian.

Organize your book collection
Many organizations struggle to hire trained librarians, so the library is often empty or run by teachers. Librar ILS is powerful for professionals, simple enough for anyone and intelligent enough to not need a trained librarian.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Sunrise over Tikal. Also known as Yavin 5 where the rebel alliance plotted their attack on the Death Star.

The sun coming over the horizon in an orange sky. The view is from above the rainforest canopy

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