Sjoukje Schots
@sjoukjeschots.bsky.social
Special interest in business, law, technology, education, engineering, languages, KM, IM and librarianship.
A Court Open to All! 🏛️Take part in the guided tour of the Human Rights Building in Strasbourg on 4 September at 2.30 p.m. 📝 Registration is mandatory and is now open: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/vvbpJw2vwL 🔎 Discover the visitors’ circuit. ℹ️ More info: www.echr.coe.int/e/b7d6c9dd-b...
The Facet Publishing summer sale starts today! Use discount code SUMMER40 on our website for 40% off all books over the next two weeks! Order now: https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/ #librarian #informationscience #summersale
Not everything you see online is true. 🌐⚠️ The OU Library’s new Being digital pathway, Spotting and Stopping False Information, helps you understand how false and misleading information spreads and how to spot it in different forms👉 https://ow.ly/zT9Z50Z75Yb #WorldWideWebDay
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The new era of AI-powered search, which could 'change the web economy'
Since Wednesday, Google has started displaying artificial intelligence-generated responses, known as AI Overviews, for certain queries, rather than the traditional list of links. Website publishers an...
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"This is a pathbreaking philosophical treatment of the ethics of negotiation." — Michael Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University and Honorary Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics A Fair Bargain will be free to read and download from Sept 2026: https://bit.ly/4wdTdFg
The latest OWID Brief newsletter is out on Substack! It delivers all our recent work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data, right to your inbox twice a month.
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Literary escapes: your favourite trips inspired by books
From Dervla Murphy’s Northern Ireland to Elena Ferrante’s Naples, readers share the stories that inspired them to travel• Tell us about a trip to Europe’s lakes and mountains – the best tip wins a £20...
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German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules
A German court ruled on Friday that AI music firm Suno has violated copyrights and has to provide information on illicit revenue, part of a wider legal battle by artists and publishers against tech...
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During August and the first week of September the Library will open at 9.00am and close at 5.30pm. Also the Library will be closed from Monday 17 August to Monday 31 August inclusive. This calendar gives the opening hours of all four Inn Libraries over the summer vacation.
Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing confirmed on Wednesday it was among the beneficiaries of a landmark $1.5 billion settlement that resolves claims artificial intelligence company Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its AI models without purchasing the content.
UK's Bloomsbury among beneficiaries of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright lawsuit settlement
Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing confirmed on Wednesday it was among the beneficiaries of a landmark $1.5 billion settlement that resolves claims artificial intelligence company Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its AI models without purchasing the content.
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🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.
Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...
Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...
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2026 Sir Henry Brooke Lecture Video A video of the 2026 Sir Henry Brooke Lecture, ‘The 21st Century Judge: privileges, pitfalls, and potential’, given by Lady Wise on 9 July 2026 is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/ksJjzT5QCYA #law #bailii #judiciary #SirHenryBrookeLecture
The 21st Century Judge - Lady Wise - 2026 Sir Henry Brooke Lecture
YouTube video by BAILII: British & Irish Legal Information Inst
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📣 #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
Join us at Library and Learning Services at Buckinghamshire New University . We have two roles 1. User Engagement and Experience Librarian - Closing date 19 July - lnkd.in/ecqwDsd5 2. Senior Study Skills Advisor (Coaching and Engagement) - Closing date 18 July - lnkd.in/eEVw7aZg #LibraryJobs
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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 www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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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The Department for Education has confirmed that universities will receive £50.9 million less in teaching grants next academic year. Bridget Phillipson, the education minister has defended the reduction in light of tuition fee rises. https://ow.ly/6UWJ50ZkLlf
🗣️"In the arts, humanities, and social sciences, approaches to research are diverse, but often no less open than in their STEM counterparts" #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
A broader vision of open research is needed to include the arts, humanities and social sciences - LSE Impact
Discussing the findings of a new report on open practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences, Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore and Stephen Pinfield argue to support open research in…
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And that's a wrap! Thank you for everyone who attended our Summer Conference! We hope you had a lovely time, learned a lot and made friends with other professionals! #bla26
Huge congratulations to the wonderful Fred Milton – Teeside University, for winning Leslie Baldwin award for his presentation: "Would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling librarians: Unmasking AI ghost and phantom references"! #bla26
A huge thank you to our wonderful #BLA26 conference organiser, Dan. And to the University of Brighton for hosting @blalib.org.
Nearly there for #bla26. Some members enjoying a tour of the library. We had our AGM, confirmed new Committee Member and last keynote by Cara Clarke and Algirdas Kraunaitis on “The Other Side” – Working as a lecturer and a librarian in a private provider of higher education. Safe travels.
The final #bla26 keynote is Cara Clarke and Algirdas Kraunaitis (our wonderful BlA Marketing officer), QA Higher Education on From “The Other Side” – Working as a lecturer and a librarian in a private provider of higher education.
Another stimulating day at #BLA26. Members enjoying a little time to explore Brighton. Before some of us are going up in i360 for pre-dinner drinks (others staying on ground floor). Followed by gala dinner sponsored by our Gold sponsor EBSCO.