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Librarian, Queer. 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 DM me to join UK Librarians Discord channel! 👋

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A baroness telling us all that protesting genocide is the real crime btw. Interesting way to ensure your name is only remembered for one terrible thing.
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Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The #BLA26 conference hashtag, and many others related to librarians and related professions and topics, are listed here. Mostly since hashtags started working properly on BlueSky in 2024, though some going back to the previous year.
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Library conferences on BlueSky
A list of library and information science conferences, with links to their hashtags on the social media platform BlueSky.
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Business Librarians Association @blalib.org · 10/04/2026
❗ BLA Year in Review: call for submissions! ❗ BLA members, tell us how the past year went! You can do this by filling out this form: bla1.glasscubes.com/form/0e89109... Or you can send a Word file to marketing@blalib.org. The deadline to send your submission is Monday 15th June.
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Business Librarians Association @blalib.org · 08/06/2026
🎉 Countdown to BLA Summer Conference - 23 days to go! 🎉 👉 Submit your Year In Review! You can fill out our new form: bla1.glasscubes.com/form/0e89109... Or you can send a Word file to marketing@blalib.org. The deadline to send your submission is Monday 15th June. #bla26 #libraries #conferences
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
CALC really set a new standard on how to start a conference. If your conference does not start with a live stream of Pandas or Puppies - what are you doing? #calc26
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We’re proud to support the National Year of Reading — putting libraries at the heart of a national celebration with #LibrariesChangeLives through literacy and reading. Download our editable resources to publicise your events. ow.ly/8cgs50YVzsv
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“A masterful blend of economics, science and moral urgency that shows that climate action is not a cost but the greatest engine of prosperity of our times.” — Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History, University of Oxford Available now via #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs
A stack of three copies of The Growth Story of the 21st Century.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 21/04/2026
Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚
National Library Workers Day sign
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Is it just me or are there quite a few trad wife themed horror books come out in the last year or so? I swear, I found at least three.
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Not my housemate using the last of our shared rubbish bags we use for kitchen rubbish to throw away her room rubbish, and getting upset the next day that there are no rubbish bags left for kitchen. Pray for more rubbish bags magically appear later 🙏
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Business Librarians Association @blalib.org · 20/03/2026
❗ Members Spotlight - an opportunity to self-promote and share your personal experience being a business librarian! We published two instalments and are looking for more BLA members to feature. ❗ If you are interested, feel free to message us here, on Linkdln or email marketing@blalib.org .
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
95.9% of anecdotally gathered evidence shows that whenever you are stuck walking behind a person and struggle to walk around them is because they are staring at their phone.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/03/2026
AI is increasing the intensity of work rather than reducing it, according to one of the biggest studies of AI’s effects on work habits to date.
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AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.
The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Listening to a panel about finding joy in reading/writing/publishing and an audience member decides to complain about the word Diversity. Points to panel members for non engaging with this comment beyond polite acknowledgment. So tired.
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Impression at #LBF26 no.2: @englishpen.bsky.social has done (and is doing) an excellet set of pannel talks. Enjoyed every one of them so far! Also, the only place I noticed where librarians are mentioned, which is very appreciated.
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Impression at #LBF26 : audience and pannel members are becoming more comfortable asking uncomfortable questions, challanging assumptions. About time!
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Don’t Steal This Book, AI protest at London Book Fair
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Don’t Steal This Book: AI protest at London Book Fair
Empty book highlights AI theft
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
What I read in February. "Nova Scotia" and "Memories of Ice" stood out. #2026Reads #FebruaryReads
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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
**NEW POST** LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap. This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT. leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...
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Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I have returned 3 books to the library and taken out 6 more. This is the correct way. And there are nerds in here playing Dungeons and Dragons. It may just be the most perfect place on earth. #libraries
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
For those interested in following #CopimConference we recommend following the wonderful @emmabooth.bsky.social for her excellent threads ⭐
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
maybe the humanities are needed bc without them the rich say things like "people are like horses"
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dan has been incredibly proactive: organising the #bla26 conference, and doing two presentations at the #blawe26 event, one quite extensive one on library marketing. Impressive work. BLA is in good hands!
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A recurring theme when talking about student usage of AI is uncertainty of their own knowledge. Keyword/database searching is still a challange. Tendency to accept AI answers as true. #blawe26
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Absolutely fascinating presentation on activities one can do in an AI-centric session. I am definitelly taking some ideas to my library sessions. #blawe26
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Content, for sure.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/02/2026
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, BLONDIE (1930) 📰 👒 Blondie debuted as a carefree flapper in Chic Young’s comic strip. Her early adventures focused on attempts to win the blessing of Dagwood's snooty, rich family. Read the 1930 Blondie dailies ➡️ archive.org/details/blon... 🧵1/2 #PublicDomainDay
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
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NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"I have to multitask to mske this worth my time" - a perfect explanation why I read at the gym.
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Business Librarians Association @blalib.org · 28/01/2026
BLA committee was delighted to visit University of Birmingham campus last week! Book your place here: bla1.glasscubes.com/form/91aa313... All bookings close on 30th March 2026. Here are some images taken during the tour. Photo credits: @sjoukjeschots.bsky.social #bla26 #conferences
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Business Librarians Association @blalib.org · 15/01/2026
❗ Call for Members Papers! ❗ Send your proposals by filling out this form: bla1.glasscubes.com/form/9f47c71... Deadline: 20th February. #conference #bla26 #librarianship
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My dear colleague Jacob has a new book out! Very excited to read this as soon as my pre-order arrives (in UK). Also, just look at this cover!
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Emily Zerrenner @ezerrenner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I wrote a bit about the books I read in 2025, which included The AI Con by Bender & Hanna (obviously) and Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin. acrlog.org/2026/01/09/a...
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A year of reading: 6 books from 2025 - ACRLog
Is it too late for a round-up post of the books I read this past year? I don’t really think so (or care, actually); I’d love to talk about a few of the 56 books I read this year. This has been my high...
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Incredibly honoured to present a talk with the amazing Cara Clarke! The lineup for this year looks really interesting!
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Time to record my book reading stuff for end of the year for no one in particular. #books #booksoftheyear
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I've met Dan in the last two conferences - one of the most proactive people I know!
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 12/12/2025
Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones
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The Best Graphic Novels of 2025
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential' www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
British Library workers withdraw their labour again! Mon 8th to Sun 14th! Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate! Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated! Please support the strike! Cancel / postpone! Visit the picket (in Midland Road)! If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 02/12/2025
Is there a book or a poem that helped you explore what neurodiversity means? The Weston Library’s Space for Reading is changing themes - next up: Neurodiversity. 📚 Submit your (anonymous) suggestions here: forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
Four people engaged in a discussion around a table filled with books. The text above the screen reads 'Is there a book or a peom that helped you explore what neurodiversity means?'
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/12/2025
This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What do we know about University of Essex's Southend campus closure?
The university says it will be moving students from its Southend campus to Colchester.
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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
Infographic officially generated by AI and full of weird spellings as follows: AI-EMPOWERED LIBERAIAN: A Guide to FUTURE SKILLS & TOOLS

CORE SKILLS

INFO LITERACY 2.0

PROMPT ENGINEERING

HALLUCINATION VERIFICATION

Crafting effective queries

New Boulean Logic

New Boulean Logic

Fixing bad Al answers

You: Human-in-the-loop

ALGORTHMIC BIAS

TOOL FLUENCY

Perpxlexy (Cited Ansiwers) (Lit Raviews)

Elicit (Lit Reviews)

Consesus (Science)

Spotting stereyptes Critical evaligane Workshops

YOU are the *Al-Literate Information Professional

Teach Patrons to Think Critically

ETHICS & LAW

PRACTICAL WINS


COPYRIGHT & IP

CATALOGING

Clean Metddata Transcribe Archives (Transkribus)

MARKETING

DATA PRIVACY

Al content not cophiyated

Social Media Captions

ACCESBILITY

No sensitive data in public Al Protecting user info

Video Transcripts Speech-to-Text

Be the Trust Agent

~Gatekeeper~
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Business Librarians Association @blalib.org · 26/11/2025
🎉 BLA summer conference announcement! 🎉 Save the date: Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026. Place: University of Brighton. This years theme will be "Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution". Bookings will be open soon!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/11/2025
evergreen
Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"People who learned about a topic through an LLM versus web search felt that they learned less, invested less effort in subsequently writing their advice, and ultimately wrote advice that was shorter, less factual and more generic." gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
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Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/11/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
“‘Do you think there’s something a bit… odd about Littlebottom?’

‘Seems like a perfectly ordinary female to me,’ said Angua. 

‘Female? He told you he was female?’

‘She,’ Angua corrected. ‘This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.’”
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Last night I ran my first bookclub meeting. Innitiating discussion is not as easy as it sounds; I found it difficult to not fall on Lecturing Mode or Impose My Views. Still, it was fun and people shared some interesting observations that did not occur to me. Would love to do this again!
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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social
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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
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TheThinkery @thethinkery.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
People, who should really know better, keep asking me about this new album and latest music release of that, and what do I think of this new song. Look, I've been listening to Jan Dismas Zelenka for the last two years. Unless it's fascinating baroque counterpoint I don't have much to say.
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