🔗 You can find out more about the upcoming exhibition and accompanying launch here: www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

witches & healers launch — The Portico Library

Launch of our new exhibition Witches and Healers, which draws on Rosie Reed Hillman’s groundbreaking project Something That Was Ours, which explores what it means to be a witch today.

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Another article published in the Journal of Play in Adulthood, this time a book review by Dan Castro! www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/article/id/1...

Review: Michael Rosen's Book of Play!

This review critiques Michael Rosen's Michael Rosen's Book of Play!. Part self-help guide, part game suggestion, the book offers readers an insight into the former children's laureate's belief that pl...

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Some apple and ginger jam made today. Lots of ginger in this, which I love!

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

This is what the future looks like...

✨We're talking at NeuroGLAM 2026✨ on 21st August. Come and hear our co-chairs at this free online conference for #neurodivergent gallery, library, archive, and museum workers. Registration here tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @drlibraryben.bsky.social

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Congratulations to our 2026 NTF and CATE winners! advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Today, shamefully, government guidance comes into force that trans people should be segregated or forced to use facilities that don't match their lived gender. It's important for businesses and organisations to understand that this is guidance, not a requirement. So don't obey.

We’re hiring! Come and work with us to make the open access book landscape successful, sustainable and scalable. The role is part-time and fully remote.

Open Position: Head of Operations

The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.

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If anyone wants to chat informally about the role, feel free to reach out!

Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re hiring! Come and work with us to make the open access book landscape successful, sustainable and scalable. The role is part-time and fully remote.

Made some mini suet puddings for when the daughter and her boyfriend come round later in the week. But it would have been dangerous not to try one today, wouldn't it?

Our event 'Fitting In and Standing Out: Experiences of #Autistic Librarians in Ireland' is included in the the latest bibliography on #disability #Libraries and #HE.

Heather Dawson@socialscience2.bsky.social · 2w ago

View the latest free bibliography on Disability, Libraries, higher education, teaching and learning Do ask if you would like it sent as an attachment. it includes articles on neurodiversity, ai and more alissnet.com/wp-content/u... @ @nlisn.bsky.social @infolitgroup.bsky.social

Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.

A decent amount of blackberries picked this morning! Already made blackberry jam this year, so these will go in the freezer later today

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

Saltburn is packed! Struggled to find a parking space, *loads* of people here for Shanties on the Shore from 6pm

Quite a nice little mixture of things as a conference report for the Playful Learning Conference! A playful approach to the review seemed to suit the conference :) doi.org/10.5920/jpa....

Playful Learning Conference 2026 Review

A review of the Playful Learning Conference 2026, held at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. This review was created in a playful way, inviting prose, poetry, pictures, or anything else that th...

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Oat biscuits with caraway seeds cooked this morning. Yummy.

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

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Finally a toilet for people who just want a quiet place to pet their duck.

'Assessing the Experiences of #Autistic Academic Librarians in Positions of Leadership : A Case Study' ⬇️ journal.calaijol.org/index.php/ij... #Library #Librarian #LibraryWorker #Research #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Employment #Management #Workplace #HiddenDisability #Autism #Academic #HE

I made this today! Stained glass workshop in Scarborough, so picked a design, cut the glass, fitted it together with lead and solder :)

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

@m25consortium.bsky.social are looking for #Neurodiverse students who would be willing to speak about 'supporting Neurodivergent students and staff and Inclusive Design' contact them here is you are interested: www.m25lib.org.uk/contact-us/ #Library

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

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Quite a nice little mixture of things as a conference report for the Playful Learning Conference! A playful approach to the review seemed to suit the conference :) doi.org/10.5920/jpa....

Playful Learning Conference 2026 Review

A review of the Playful Learning Conference 2026, held at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. This review was created in a playful way, inviting prose, poetry, pictures, or anything else that th...

doi.org

We’ve listened carefully to your feedback on our new website, and you are absolutely right to hold us to account. During the development phase we used AI generated images as place holders, and unfortunately not all of these were replaced before the site went live.