Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026 I’m just as interested in every discipline’s pursuit of knowledge and art — practical or not — because to learn and create new things is what civilization is for. 113116
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read 663695974
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's Black History Month in the uk! Schools, businesses etc this is your reminder to book Black authors and speakers IN OTHER MONTHS not just october. 28840
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today 5587211
libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026ah only an hour left on my current audiobook but here’s my StoryGraph September wrap up #booksky 090
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 25/12/2025dark gritty santapunk world where the Great Powers of Europe both mandate celebration of Christmas and encourage their subjects to be as naughty as possible to preserve unlimited access to coal and continued industrialization. 413634
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Other men who like to talk about me just think it’s fine that their friends do these things and that the real danger is women like me who know about it and think it’s a problem All of this is a culture where women are objects, not fully enfranchised people, and rape culture is structured by that 229821
libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Reading the (excellent) Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi and it includes a few lines in Yoruba, some of which include numbers as letters. From a cursory google, these aren’t in the standard Yoruba alphabet - can anyone tell me more? #linguistics 110
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Our people are literally DYING 19517
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialBirmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.birminghamucu.org“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundanciesWe write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance… 04252
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026Once again this isn't like gay marriage. We're not asking for something new. We're asking not to lose rights we've had for decades. When Dems say they agree with enacting new restrictions on trans people, that's a betrayal. They are actively going out of their way to harm trans people. 92566333
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialDr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The question of rightful ownership should remain the more important one. But I do find it interesting that this exhibit shows the BM's continuous insistence on its own accessibility to be rather hollow. People are just far more able to engage with their history if they can see it right next door. 1132
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialDr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Can you believe this 271239161
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialKat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's Monday! I wrote a free post about the accusations against Ed Brubaker, creator of the Winter Soldier. Also PTSD, gender, bears, fridging, defrosting, and what characters who regain agency can mean to people whose agency is conditional at best. www.patreon.com/onbearfeet/p...patreon.comWhat I Didn't Say to Ed Brubaker | OnBearFeet - Kat BeaufortContent warnings: Workplace harassment, comic-book violence, oblique references to real-world sexual harassment and assault. According to Th 55327
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialvalerie @vfo.northsky.social · 07/09/2026I want to live in a place where Nazis are more nervous being out in public than trans people 24413
libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Love when a suggestion goes down well - suggested @louiestowell.bsky.social ‘s Loki series to a kid a few weeks ago and mum came back in today for the next one. Best one she borrowed that week, apparently! 1102
libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Hi #booksky, here’s my august #StoryGraph wrap-up. What was the best book you read last month? 030
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026You may think I post too often about trans people? Tough. I want them to have lives of joy and freedom and safety and love. But until all of us are free, none of us are free. Protect queer kids. Protect trans kids. Rights can taken away in an instant. That’s why I shout. 219843
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Reminder, she can write all the paragraphs she wants, but she’s not a doctor, not a psychiatrist, not a psychologist, not a scientist, has no experience with gender dysphoria or indeed queerness. She’s a billionaire with an opinion and clearly a studio pressuring her to “moderate”. Thank u, next. 042468
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialEmily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Corollary: if someone is “brilliant” but an asshole to women and junior colleagues, they are not brilliant. They are bad at their job and should be treated as such 544797
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026On the plus side, a very lovely reader who’s come to many of my events brought me a pen with “Just a dumb bitch writing some dumb shit” written on it and I couldn’t be more delighted. 11097
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialKendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people 59220347580
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialGeekOnALeash 🏳️⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 26/08/2026Well, this was inevitable. Forstater is now using her own case to argue that racism should/is protected as a philosophical belief 🤮 43816253
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialOmar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026If you falsely but strongly believe that your students' intelligence is based on race and gender you will be unable to treat or grade them fairly. This includes giving white and male students too high grades as well as giving Black and female students too low ones 419540
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Also it is important to highlight the letter leads with the fact Nathan Cofnas is committing academic fraud by instead of working on what he was hired to do, he is working on race science and his revolution. 101422185
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I am not a doctor, but: the fact around 80% of people successfully lose weight on GLP1s & around 80-95% of people do not successfully lose weight with diet & exercise looks like a pretty strong signal that people’s weight has very little to do with “self control” and a lot to do with hormone balance 1012221
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21/08/2026Trade unions representing millions of workers are standing together against the erosion of trans rights. UCU is proud to be among the unions challenging the EHRC guidance and defending trans, non-binary and gender-diverse staff and students.thetimes.comUnions pledge to resist EHRC guidance on single-sex spacesEight unions representing millions of workers have vowed to fight new rules that restrict access to facilities based on biological sex 46520
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026As a radicalization pipeline, transphobia is as good as incel anger. All those nice, middle-class people talking themselves into the most hideous fascism because people were mean online about their bigotry. What a sociological disaster the internet has been for those people. 26010
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialCatherine Finch @cathyfinch1234.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Are you a disabled library information worker or librarian? Want your story to inspire and encourage other deaf, blind, disabled, neurodivergent people into the LIS profession? Then I'd love to interview you for our @cilip.bsky.social 's Disability Network websitecilip.org.uk 267
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We found that only 2% of AI-generated stories about animals featured female characters. They talked to my colleague Michelle Martin and Kate Sellers from Seattle Public Library to contextualize these findings. “If you don’t see [yourself] in what you read, you get the idea that you don’t count.” 3126
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A comment I got on a chapter that was sourced primarily from academic journals published in South Africa and Kenya was “use more academic sources”. These were peer reviewed journals in academic repositories from those countries but the reviewer felt they were not “academic” (European) enough. 1103
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialDr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The entire country is literally on fire. We have had 2000 extra deaths this summer, so far, there are no mitigation strategies in place to deal with this, our PM wants to drill more in the North Sea, and - oh my god a black man has the temerity to get a job at Cambridge!!!? 142346
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.social👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD. 201926514
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialDipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Maybe it was never immigration destroying Britain. Maybe it is the collective xenophobia that our media and politicians keep stoking for their own gain. /End 081
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialRamin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like: 94142953817
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialRamin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 08/07/2026My dog after eating my philosophy book. 515930
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I do hope that they put checks in place on lavatories so actors who turned down the offer on principle don’t have to share toilets with actors who did the new Harry Potter series. 217935
libraryella.bsky.social @libraryella.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Fascinating that they’re still there two weeks later… and many of the online learning modules from the old site are missing/inaccessible 100
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialLaura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This is what's so weird about this moral panic in the UK: we do generally have proper doors on public toilets! In the US they often have huge gaps at the top and bottom and around the hinges. I have rarely seen these in the UK, it's mostly very difficult to impossible to see inside a cubicle here! 1101
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 06/08/2026The EHRC Code of Practice comes into force this week. This is an attack on trans+ people. It is guidance, not law. It does not remove rights or make harassment legal. UCU stands in solidarity with the trans+ community. Join the lobby for trans equality, 9 September with Trans+ Solidarity Alliance 311757
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Aside from its obvious transphobia, this is easily the most misogynistic thing the EHRC has ever done. Women have to look a certain way or some whacko will demand to see your genitals. Congratulations. What a victory for feminism. 113737
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialWeird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It's time again! Cis allies: if you can, please consider being chaff for us. Toilet hobbycops think like 10% of people are trans, and to overturn our segregation we need respectable cis people causing trouble on our behalf. Please wear a trans flag pin. Get in good trouble, as John Lewis put it. 12539257
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Nice line from Jessicaoutofthecloset on instagram: “Moral panics end, queer community doesn’t.” Survive. Fight and survive. 09015
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant 252082455
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The firestorm of age-verification laws have done almost nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn online. What they have done is give the state a powerful tool to harass speech they don't like by declaring it pornographic or "harmful to minors." 4789322
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Conclusions: 1105
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Onyinye Iwu talks about the importance of the visual in engaging boys. (HELLO THIS IS MY SONG FOR ALL CHILDREN LET US SING IT TOGETHER GIVE THEM PICTURES GIVE THEM COMICS SORRY ONYINYE AS YOU WERE) Also paging @markbradley.bsky.social for it is his song too re kids and the visual. 2124
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In primary, reading is everyone's business, in secondary, it's more specialised eg librarian, english teacher. But NEEDS to be everyone's business, RFP as part of entire secondary school culture. 171
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026"Frank Young said that Parentkind’s research had found that a third of parents had avoided reading to their children because they worried about their own reading ability, and that parents “know, almost instinctively, it is important, but their own abilities are preventing them.”" 1133
Reposted by @libraryella.bsky.socialLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This really struck me: "Several children said they did not need to read with an adult as they could read independently, suggesting that they saw shared reading as something only for children who could not yet read." Not to be a ponce (yes, be one) but reminds me of King Lear, oh reason not the need 1182
![We know that [boys] are visual and love social media, scrolling, all of that stuff [ … ] One of them was so engaged that he printed his own book and was sharing across the school, and it was like “Miss, have you seen this year 8 boy’s book?”. They are all so excited because it is about them and it has the drawings, little stick men. They love it [ … ] It is important to push them on to all the picture books and graphic novels, speaking to the publishers about that, but also the teachers and librarians to focus on getting more of that for the boys](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ol3wpf5oousttzpv4s3dead3/bafkreidshmxnmvbqezdoq7dctg3aslrjlhygobsus3omkc4taci75vjlku)
