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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 30/01/2026

Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520... Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out. I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is fascinating (select your answer to see how the researchers responded) - and also incredibly concerning in some areas! www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Take Nature’s AI research test: find out how your ethics compare

What’s your view on using AI for peer review and for writing research papers?

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

WOW - how do these people lie straight in bed at night? IEEE is charging a 'Repository License Fee' (or should that be 'FEEE'?) "The RLF price is $1,275 for periodical articles and $400 for conference articles and is applicable only to AMs and not to VORs." bibliotheek.ehb.be:2580/repository-l...

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Great opportunity in a lovely city!

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

University of Adelaide's Visualise Your Thesis comp. is now open for registration! 🥳 VYT challenges HDRs to present their research in a 1 min, eye-catching digital display & compete for prize money 💰 & a spot in the international comp...plus get 5 CaRST points! ✅ www.adelaide.edu.au/library/libr...

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

And knowing less about the Australian ocean makes tourists more receptive to jumping into the water outside the flags at Bondi when they can't swim properly... theconversation.com/knowing-less...

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Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research

People with less AI literacy often see the technology as ‘magical’ and awe-inspiring.

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

I'm hiring! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Liaison Librarian to join a brilliant team at the University of Adelaide Library supporting our research community. Lovely people and plenty of snacks! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

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Come and celebrate our 150th year. Explore our events, our history, and the foundation we’ve built for the future.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

SHIFT: new Gates Foundation OA rules www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articl... *End the foundation’s payment of individual article publishing fees such as APCs - paving the way for more equitable publishing models *Require grantees to share preprints of their articles

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Vital research! "The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute" www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Dodgy science and unethical publishing practices aren't funny of course...but this article does kind of get more and more amusing as you read on 🤭 retractionwatch.com/2024/02/11/e...

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Just booked flights for my first trip back to the UK since I emigrated. Will be in Birmingham and London for a couple of weeks in June, would love to catch up with folk and also potentially available if anyone needs a speaker from Aussie library land for anything 😊

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

I mean...I can't say I'm totally surprised by this...but 😐https://www.askamanager.org/2024/01/men-are-hitting-on-my-scheduling-bot-because-it-has-a-womans-name.html (dunno why it won't hyperlink, sorry - still learning this app!)

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

And "Open access through disciplinary or institutional repositories showed a stronger effect than open access via publisher platforms". Great article.

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

We are advertising for a Graduate Librarian (Indigenous Identified) position. No library experience required, applications invited from candidates who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander who have completed a degree in any discipline. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... #libraryjobs

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Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

How strange starting all over again here. Hello all and hope you are keeping warm/cool. I'm keen for the end of this rainy spell in the supposedly driest state on the driest inhabited continent!

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