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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Happy distribution! This week we're paying over £12million to over 30,000 writers 🙌🍂 We hope this autumn payment can make a bit of difference to our members - are you saving or spending yours?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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Tracey McKee @traceymckee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Attending the NHS Scotland Event today, with a poster in the online showcase all about how health librarians can support evidence based practice within Primary Care Occupational Therapy - check it out ➡️ api.ltb.io/show/ACSYC #medlibs #occupationaltherapy

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 14/09/2026

On World Hearing Voices Day we share the video made with the young people of the Voice Collective on the negative stereotypes associated with hearing voices youtu.be/iwg1RrY7jrc @fionamalpass.bsky.social @mind.org.uk #philosophyforeveryone #epistemicinjustice #philsky

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The Wolf, the Snake, and the Butterfly

YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

[handing a picture of a very healthy person to my doctor] so I was thinking something like this

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Two RNLI volunteers were pictured in Portsmouth this weekend while responding during the Patriot Platform protest. The far right responded by identifying them and branding them “traitors”. This is what the far right’s “peaceful” activism looks like.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A call out to the network - I really like to talk to someone who has worked in prison libraries & has experience of providing LGBTQ+ books in that sector. Is this you? Or do you know someone who I could talk to?

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Alan Wylie @alanwy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Does anybody know if any UK library services are storing Naloxone (Narcan) and training library staff to administer it? Any info appreciated.

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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The footage from this event is hard to watch and absolutely terrifying. Retreating glaciers and melting mountain permafrost expose unstable rock surfaces and increase the danger of landslides, rockfalls, and flash floods. bsky.app/profile/osin...

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think I maybe undersold how gross the “prank” played on this employee was. Imagine you come into work, try to help customers, and later realize they've racked up 500,000+ views on social media by harassing you and your coworkers.

In August, Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at their job at Target when they noticed two customers and asked if they needed any help. The men requested a price check on an item — but even after Hinkle told them the item was $20, the customers asked for the price again and again.

“After a while, I realized that I’m basically being pranked, and I noticed the glasses,” Hinkle says, referring to the frames with a blinking light. They were the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and the customers were filming. Hinkle eventually called a store manager over, but the pranksters antagonized her, too — asking the price repeatedly, deliberately misgendering Hinkle as “ma’am” and the female manager as “sir.” At one point, Hinkle attempted to stop the recording by saying “Meta, stop recording” out loud, hoping to trigger a voice control setting. The customers pretended to be confused by the accusation that they were recording Hinkle.

The confrontation made Hinkle queasy. “I felt like this pit in my stomach just started to build up,” Hinkle recalls. “After this whole exchange happened, the rest of the shift, I was just quiet and didn’t even talk to anyone because I was just so shaken up by it.” Another customer called the police, Hinkle says, and the two men were escorted out of the store. Target declined to comment.

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Tracey McKee @traceymckee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A systematic review published in 2024 citing Moher 2015 for PRISMA and stating "review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA". A gift for journal club.

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Right to Jail, Right Away

Alt: Right to Jail, Right Away

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Animorphs (1/3)

Page 1, 3 panels. Panel 1: group of friends in a public party setting. A guy asks one of the girls, “you’ve really never heard of Animorphs?” The girl laughs, “never!” Panel 2: later, the girl is now alone and unlocking the door to her apartment. Panel 3: as she enters the apartment, she morphs into a wildebeest. She thinks to herself, “no one can know.”

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 12/08/2026

AI assistants provide an answer to your health query in seconds. But are these reliable and trustworthy? In her latest blog, Cochrane CEO Karla Soares-Weiser explains why evidence synthesis continues to play a vital role in healthcare decision-making. Read more: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

"In health, the consequences of inaccuracies can be serious. Not only do systematic reviews still have a place in helping people navigate an increasingly complex information landscape, the trust that people have in this evidence is crucial." Karla Soares-Weiser, Chief Executive Officer, Cochrane

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Tracey McKee @traceymckee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Found out today this won 4th prize ! Free book (of course) heading my way thanks to @facetpublishing.bsky.social @ciliphlg.bsky.social 🎉

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What are the rules of a library? 📜 Acclaimed artist Peter Liversidge spent eight months researching our collections, speaking to staff, and studying library rules from around the world to create 'The Rules of the Library' – a large-scale artwork now on display in our General Reading Room.

Close up photograph of 'The Rules of the Library' by Peter Liversidge.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/07/2026

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

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Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For those in UK, hourlong BBC investigation into Leto now available. in US/elsewhere, 15 min version of the film on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XW5... The hope is that the full documentary will be available internationally some time soon, will post if that happens. I worked with this film's team +

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Hollywood’s darkest open secret

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

PwC (like, among others, KPMG before it) found to be producing 'thought leadership' advice promoting agentic AI use that is larded with AI hallucinations. Worth bearing in mind if they are, for example, one of your university's consultants.

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PwC published ‘thought leadership’ reports marred by AI hallucinations

Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New CILIP website is a mess of AI slop images. Check out the images of senior professionals and try and imagine the prompt that generated them. All backed by walls of fake books that look like the ones sold by the yard to furnish pubs www.cilip.org.uk/learn-develo...

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Chartered Fellowship - FCLIP

A mark of highest distinction and visionary leadership. You’ve shaped the profession. Now, join its most prestigious ranks. Fellowship (FCLIP) is the highest level of professional registration awarde...

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Tracey McKee @traceymckee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Poster at #ICML2026 - all about supporting mental health practitioners to get into research.

Conference poster on a research skills development initiative

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for passionate, skilled people to help us preserve and share Scotland's cultural heritage. #Jobs #LibraryJobs #HeritageCareers #ScottishCulture #EdinburghJobs

Image of the National Library of Scotland's George IV Bridge building with text reading: 'We're hiring'.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The govt is consulting on future of public service broadcasting in a digital age - including how to secure prominence & visibility online of high quality information www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Watch this space: a new strategic direction for UK media - green paper and public consultation

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In front of fans and kids taking photos, a Dallas police officer starts shoving staff members of the Egyptian national team here for the World Cup. At one point, he even reaches for his handcuffs. The video is already being shared internationally by news outlets.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Part of a Glasgow hospital was placed into lockdown after receiving a patient with suspected Ebola virus 🚨

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Glasgow hospital partially locked down as it deals with suspected Ebola case

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