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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This goes for UNISON members too. Absolutely disgusting that Brighton would derecognise the only voices for staff at this prestigious organisation.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are devastated by the loss of Professor Megan Povey, our much loved and respected comrade, friend, activist, former branch President, NEC member, negotiator, long serving committee member. She dedicated her life to social justice alongside a truly impressive science career. We remember her here:

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One day on a TPE train and I instantly remember why I moved house to get away from them.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Something something ziptying nannies at protests, something something those who work forces...

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nigel Farage saying he's done nothing wrong is like Fred West wondering why the police are digging up his garden

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025

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Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Is anyone aware of a recent academic or grey literature article on the effects of the BL cyberattack? I am writing about fragility of digital infrastructure in libraries and lack of experience in knowing what to do in data loss situations...

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/08/2026

Meta's smart glasses aren't just for perverts! They are also for the most aggressively annoying people on the internet

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fun fact my mother does/did this and we used to own more books than the average village library. Imagine floor to (high ceiling) walls stacked like this ;) She could still find books with relative ease and I now have an uncanny talent of recognising books from the paper*.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I was thinking it had been too nice and quiet on the mailing lists for a while.

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Kirsten the Goblin Keeper @librarykirsten.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There's a Research Librarian job currently being advertised at UoN - not my old job but in the same team. Happy to chat with anyone about my experience there if it would be helpful.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

PSA: You may not currently live in a wildfire zone, but you are likely one bottle, cigarette butt, or indeed disposable BBQ away from living in one without realising it. Fire is hard to predict and even harder to survive. When the fire has reached you, the alert will do very little.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.

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Stephanie Flynn @stephanieflynn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What a nightmare PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation | Tom's Hardware share.google/ExvNkuiN1bIl...

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archiv...

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm not suggesting I occasionally receive frustrating emails, but I'm currently wishing someone would strangle me till my eyeballs shot across the room.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sometimes I lament not being an influencer because then I could post things "A horse would go crazy for a strawberry shortcake matcha" and it would do the rounds.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Nothing quite as heartbreaking as realising the jousting is on a moving day.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There's a woman with a RELX t-shirt and 'Gentle woman" handbag in the matcha store and I wonder if this is what it's like meeting one's natural predator.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Whilst everyone is up for football, I'm up with arachnophobia invoked insomnia. Maybe a sign I should have been watching footie instead 🤣

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

World cup this, world cup that. I think I need some time off after the shambolic Silverstone GP ending. What was that? Can I fight the FIA in a B&Q carpark?!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/06/2026

Sigh. A call for papers on the legacy of Aaron Swartz. A most worthwhile topic. But ACM charging APCs for this special issue? Is that in keeping with AS's legacy? In any case, I will not write for it, as I cannot afford the APCs. I will choose a diamond venue instead. dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Against my will, I've been reunited with my long-term enemy: the JIF. This time around, does anyone know about _legitimate_ writing on JIF variance / impact on it? I've been suspecting it's all just reading tea leaves, BUT I'll try and do my research and not jump to conclusions!

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Nothing quite beats the feeling of finding out during your morning break that one of your breakfast staples is now an IBS trigger 😅

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

AI tool this, AI photomode that - all I want is a phone with a headphone jack!

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“What must be protected, finally, is not simply identity, but interpretive integrity: the fragile, contested, and necessary capacity for qualitative data to speak truthfully to human experience.” Fantastic recent article on qual data stewardship by Elizabeth Green ⬇️ doi.org/10.29173/iq1...

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Stewarding qualitative data: A hermeneutic and relational reframing of qualitative data governance | IASSIST Quarterly

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Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

This is why I will always bang on about open metadata, persistent identifiers, interoperability, and funding infrastructure. There is absolutely no need to rely on LLMs to tell you if an article is retracted or not if you can easily check the DOI of a paper against the Retraction Watch database.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Assuming you know what service users want is out, asking the computer to assume what service users want is in!

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The only thing worse than clearing your house, is cleaning your house when you're full of hay fever and breathing through your nose is a lost luxury from better, more prosperous times.

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In light of some of the talks at #uksg26 on open infrastructure, OA and similar - the following may be of interest ;) (And if you're talking new products are UKSG, maybe keep this in the back of your mind!)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/03/2026

one of my longstanding star wars opinions is that george lucas should be allowed to name all new characters forever we must not shackle the mind that brought us darth icky and elan sleazebaggano

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

1/ This feels like a watershed moment to me. @rluk.ac.uk's Collections Strategy Network has posted new guidance on the criteria Research Libraries should use when making their investment decisions on #OpenAccess monographs, inc. recommending @openbookcollective.bsky.social as one model to consider

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UKSG @uksg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We have a splendid list of candidates standing for election as a Trustee this year - thank you to all of them! If you are a voter, please look out for the email! Candidate details here: dub.sh/sjRhVcz

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Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is your LAST CHANCE to book #UKSG2026. I ♥️ this description from @bethanylogan.bsky.social -- "proper learning, proper connections, proper value", "the whole glorious menagerie that is scholarly comms" **BOOK THIS WEEK** or you will miss it! www.uksg.org/events/confe... @uksg.bsky.social

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Manchester Green Party 🟩 @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

✅ Hope HAS WON! 💪 Only the GREENS can take on Farage 🇬🇧 Politics has changed forever 🪠 Hannah the Plumber is now Hannah Spencer the MP for Gorton and Denton! 🐝 The FIRST NORTHERN GREEN MP 🥀 Labour have been replaced 🚫 Reform's rise has been halted. Hate has been defeated.

Manchester Green Party graphic on a green background with hannah spencer. it’s a green win! the gorton and denton residents chose hope, not hate. here’s to change. thank you very much to all of our volunteers that helped elect hannah, our 5th Green MP and 1st in the north!

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Simon Bains @simonjbains.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Ensure your content budget strategy makes ‘open’ a commitment, and is signed off at the highest level. Another great point from Pete Barr. There’s important ‘soft politics’ here. Do we have the diplomacy and leadership skills to be sure we can make this approach succeed? #CopimConference

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UKSG @uksg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The latest from #UKSGInsights Peter Barr (@tweeterbarr.bsky.social) re: @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social "The collections concept at the University of Sheffield: a varied approach to the role of research library collections" dub.sh/bKwiJWt

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 12/02/2026

I'm upgrading a bunch of OJS and OMP instances now I'm working as part of @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social and SCURL Open Hosting. Upgrading these applications is fiddly as heck so I've written scripts to make my life easier and maybe anyone else who regularly works on OJS/OMP.

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GitHub - UoEMainLibrary/pkp_scripts: various scripts for performing functions against PKP OJS or OMP instances

various scripts for performing functions against PKP OJS or OMP instances - UoEMainLibrary/pkp_scripts

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Just casually ruminating how a certain VC backed this man like his life depended on it till @tristanoscars.bsky.social and I went on telly to suggest he cease that. Not that I think there'll be a real consequence (for this, or his other alleged wrongdoings), but it's a start...

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 19/02/2026

Congratulations to the Journal of Cultural Analytics 🎉 Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities is now its publisher. JCA has migrated to @janewayolh.bsky.social and joined the @ojcollective.bsky.social launch collection! Details: cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/02...

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Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17/02/2026

"Python's PyPI registry bandwidth needs for shipping copies of its 700,000+ packages (amounting to 747PB annually at a sustained rate of 189 Gbps) are underwritten by Fastly, for instance. Otherwise, the project would have to pony up about $1.8 million a month." www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/o...

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Open source registries underfunded as security costs rise

fosdem 2026: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

CONTINUING www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o... joining the rejectors are London South Bank University and Sheffield Hallam University (apologies that all these stories are paywalled - the university websites have press releases)

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Number of universities dropping Elsevier deal hits double figures - Research Professional News

London South Bank University rejects Jisc-negotiated agreement with publishing giant

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