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From pilot to 100%: how the ORCID advocacy project is helping researchers increase their visibility

This post is by Research Services Adviser Jen Dunhill. Since February 2025, the Library Research Services team has been working with schools across the University to increase engagement with ORCiD.…

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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Paris Floods of January 1910, with a scene of a very wet Rue de l’Université The Seine rose more than 8m over its normal height, covering much of central Paris If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

📣 #RLUK27 CALL FOR PAPERS | The Living Library, Shaped by People | 10-12 Mar | Belfast Research libraries are living infrastructures of knowledge & progress. A library’s life is expressed via evolution - #RLUK27 will explore how this ‘life’ is shaped. Read the full #CFP at rlukconference.com

Our Research Software Engineer Harry Lloyd has blogged about his time in post, what being a Digital Research RSE at the British Library is like, and why you should apply for his role! Applications open until 19th July www.bl.uk/stories/blog... ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

Research software engineering at the British Library

Why should you apply for the job of Research Software Engineer in the Digital Research team at the British Library?

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EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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This week on Wonkhe: For Charlotte Haigh, an excellent student experience needs staff with a range of skills to work together

Should all who teach in higher education be "excellent"?

For Charlotte Haigh, an excellent student experience needs staff with a range of skills to work together

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📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

Oh this is a good one (thank you!)

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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofhull.bsky.social The brick building on the left is the Venn building, named for the eponymous mathematician and diagrammist, who came from Hull If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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Interested in getting some hands on experience with our collections? We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens. Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email gallery@leeds.ac.uk for the full role description.

📢 ONLINE EVENT 📢 Interdisciplinary and Interoperable: Exploring the Wellcome Collection with IIIF 📅 Thursday, May 7, 2026 🕐 1:00pm - 🕑 2:00pm leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope... @iiif.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social @jsendall.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social

Interdisciplinary and Interoperable: Exploring the Wellcome Collection with IIIF

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Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK

Nearly twice as many men as women standing in May elections in UK

Exclusive: women ‘massively underrepresented’ in next week’s local and devolved elections, campaigners say Women will be massively underrepresented on ballot papers across the UK next week, campaigners say, with research revealing that almost twice as many men as women are standing as candidates across the local, mayoral and devolved elections. Democracy campaigners say men of all political stripes are likely to dominate local government, with women’s views on issues from social care to bin collections sidelined by the huge gap between the numbers of male and female candidates. Continue reading...

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If I could give one piece of advice to any academic with such a resource: Talk to your librarian - preferably early in the project If anybody is well placed to advise on these issues it’s the library…

Hi folks! we'd love to hear how digital cultural heritage gets reused - either from the institutional or creative practicioner perspective, to feed into the EU funded INFINITY project, part of #EchoesEccch. Findings will shape the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Thanks!

Dr Suzanne Black@suzannerblack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Share your perspective on cultural heritage reuse and management! Do you manage or reuse cultural heritage collections in your work? Take the INFINITY survey to share your experiences and insights, and contribute to the future of the digital creative economy in Europe! ➡️ bit.ly/4t3C2EQ

The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce that its two-day conference will be held in Sheffield on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd September 2026. Registration now open 👇 www.dhi.ac.uk/congress

Digital Humanities Congress 2026

Digital Humanities Congress 2026 University of Sheffield, 2nd and 3rd September 2026 Click here to register The full programme of 47 talks will be announced shortly The University of Sheffield’s&nb…

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[uz], [uz], [uz] Featured Artist: Charlotte Dawson Dawson is interested in commonplace objects as vessels for memory. She plays with hand-made/mass-produced, exploring the stories or histories surrounding objects and how material choices alter meanings. #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social

People in England’s most deprived areas spend less than 50 years of their lives in good health, a 20-year gap compared with those in the richest areas www.ft.com/content/85de...

Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

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Happy Mothering Sunday!

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

February issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! Lots to read and catch up again incl. #MORPHSS catalogue, #UKrepo report, recent #AI guidelines, PRC model and more. mailchi.mp/f0f2902feb46...

OK so I know I carp on a bit about the British Library, but only because I think it’s important. They want a new Advisory Council Chair - surely someone here would be excellent in helping them get back to their core purpose of serving the research community? ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

Join us tomorrow for a demo of IIIF Illustration Detector! Zoom link: iiif.io/community

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Join us Feburary 11 for a demo of @danielvanstrien.bsky.social's IIIF Illustration Detector. Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community

Wonderful to see @lulgalleries.bsky.social on the BBC website with Dr. RJ Wade sharing insights into our latest exhibition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leeds University Library Galleries (@lulgalleries.bsky.social)

Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Rese...

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Happy birthday to us! 🎂 Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited! RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

🤖 @coar-repositories.bsky.social has announced the new Dealing with AI Bots website that provides a wealth of information on bots & #crawlers impacting the services and operations of open #repositories, including mitigation strategies. See: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

The Call for applications for the DISKAH Fellowship scheme 2026-2027 is now OPEN! Funding is available to broaden skills for engagement with Digital Research Infrastructure #DRI in the #ArtsandHumanities research: www.diskah.org/fellowship-2...