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 · 2d 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 · 5d 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.

Also, submarines implies the existence of dommarines

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

Tweaking and expanding book content this afternoon in the sun.

(1/3) The odd history of the Library Association / CILIP / CLIPCLOP and websites goes back to the early 1990s and their (initial) resistance to the World Wide Web - it being an "uncontrollable" media librarians were "best kept away from". Getting the Library Association to write for Ariadne was ...

A couple of hours writing, working on stuff, by the sea. Early tea of fish and chips. Not a bad afternoon.

Menopause is a natural stage of life, but it remains under-researched and often stigmatised. Our Menopause resource list brings together books, podcasts and other resources to support learning, understanding and open conversations... 👇 https://ow.ly/5iXT50YzBui #Menopause

Trying not to get wound up by this use of GenAI on CILIP's website... (Were I overthinking it, I'd think it says: are librarians principled enough to take a stance against GenAI? No. But are they competent enough to use it well? Also no. Ah, but can they proof-read websites? Still no.)

Huddersfield Exposed@huddersfield.exposed · 2w ago

Just waiting 'til you check out the binding on this book 🤯

I left @cilip.bsky.social years ago because of one too many times their actions weren't aligned with my professional ethics and beliefs or even their own stated ones. Looking at the AI slop they've filled their new website with, looks like that hasn't changed as much as I'd have hoped, what a shame

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...

Latest @nlisn.bsky.social newsletter is out - see what we've been doing and what is coming up! nlisn.org/2026/07/23/j...

July 2026 Newsletter / Update

Playdoh at the NLISN conference! Hi all! We’ve had a busy few weeks at NLISN, especially with our conference, welcome to our July newsletter :) We had our first ever conference last week in L…

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