Ah, Laura Williams from University of Huddersfield is speaking my language! Talking about the importance of physical print collections for Art & Design students #ALN2026 💜

Looking forward to #ALN26 in Manchester today! Plenty of interesting sessions to choose from on the theme of Reimagining Openness in Academic Libraries. #Open #Libraries

I'm presenting at @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social conference 2026 with @nickshepp.bsky.social about the @knowledgeen.bsky.social #KnowledgeEquity & #OpenScholarship Week #CoCreation experiment. Bookings are open: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a...

In the lead up to #KEOS2026, small groups of open practitioners co-created their responses to the question 'How can we bridge the opens?'. These are now available to read on the @knowledgeen.bsky.social website: knowledgeequitynetwork.org/knowledge-re....

Following the #KEOS2026 Week, I'll be dipping into Richard F. Heller's book Distributing Knowledge: openness, equity and Higher Education transformation. Wondering whether there will be anything at my scale to apply www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Distributing Knowledge: Openness, Equity, and Higher Education Transformation

Inequity is deeply embedded in higher education: in who can access learning, whose knowledge is created and valued, who gets published, and who ultimately benefits from universities’ work. Distributin...

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What a fabulous start to #KEOS2026 from Paula Corti and Vanessa Proud man at @sparc-eu.bsky.social ! Building bridges to connect the open, using and sustaining the opens... Energising.

It's all happening! I will be speaking at the @knowledgeen.bsky.social symposium at University of Salford with @dombroadhurst.bsky.social. We'll be sharing our experiences of working with KEN partners on two projects with our Salford academic colleagues to encourage them to do the same.

Not long now until Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week! Partners from @knowledgeen.bsky.social institutions have put together a unique programme focused on the question 'How can we bridge the Opens? knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/...

Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week 2026 Programme - Knowledge Equity Network

Tue 19 – Thu 21 May 2026 The Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026 (KE & OS Week) Programme brings together a diverse coalition of partners from North Africa, Europe and South Africa, includ...

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Closing date to apply to participate in this global co-creation on #OpenScholarship is today Wednesday 8th April 2026. #OpenAccess #OpenEducation #OpenPedagogy #OpenScience #OpenSource #OpenResearch #OpenInfrastructure

Knowledge Equity Network@knowledgeen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🌍 Want to contribute to shaping a more equitable future for open knowledge? We’re inviting participants to join a global co‑creation experiment during Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week. Collaborate across regions, share perspectives and address the question: 'How do we bridge the Opens?'

100% accurate guide to the types of Open Access #academicsky 📚

Interested in taking part in a global co-creation with other #OpenScholarship champions and practitioners? 🌍 Applications are coming through now to be matched, discuss and create. Join them! 🌟 Closing date 8 April 26. #OpenAccess #OpenEducation #OpenResearch #OpenSource #OpenPedagogy #OpenScience

Knowledge Equity Network@knowledgeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌍 Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week | 19-21 May 2026 We’re asking: How can we bridge the Opens? Join partners from North Africa, Europe & South Africa, and colleagues globally. Want to collaborate in our global co‑creation experiment? 👉 Info here: knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/...

🌍 Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week | 19-21 May 2026 We’re asking: How can we bridge the Opens? Join partners from North Africa, Europe & South Africa, and colleagues globally. Want to collaborate in our global co‑creation experiment? 👉 Info here: knowledgeequitynetwork.org/casestudies/...

Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026 - save the dates and join our co-creation experiment - Knowledge Equity Network

Partners from North Africa, Europe and South Africa Launch the Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026

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📣 BSHS Small Grants – deadline 31 March Looking for a little support for archival visits, research trips, or research assistance? BSHS offers small grants (£50–£500) to help move research projects forward. Especially aimed at early-career researchers. Find out more: bshs.org.uk/grants/#rese...

A little drawing to represent a co-creation experiment I've been planning with partners from the @knowledgeen.bsky.social Equity Network. Press release coming soon... Exciting! #openscholarship

Happy International Women's Day to every woman. I'm wishing peace for you. 💐💜✊🏽🕊️

I love this approach if sharing research questions openly. It should be the norm!

IFLA@ifla.org · 7mo ago

We do produce research, but we definitely don't have all the answers. So we are sharing them with the global field, in case answers already exist, or there are students, researchers or others interested in working with us to find answers! bit.ly/4tT3oim

I wish I'd realised sooner that there was #r2rconf chatter happening over on BlueSky... I'd forgotten the old habit of the conference side chat that was common on Twitter. I was missing it. It's been a rich experience, and a unique conference as far as I know.

Back in March 2025, we hosted the 'Curious about a career in libraries and archives? event. Here's a little blog post about it: blogs.salford.ac.uk/library/2025...

Diversifying the information workforce - The Library

Earlier this year an inspirational team of library and archives professionals held an event for people from Black, Asian, mixed and minoritised ethnic backgrounds at the University of Salford. ‘Curiou...

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📣 We’re hiring a Collections Engagement Officer! Join us to create inclusive, creative ways to connect communities with our archive & library collections. 🗓️ Deadline: 23/06/25 ⏰ 28 hrs/week | 💸 £31.6–36.1k pro rata 🔗 bit.ly/3ZB5sxN #JobAlert #Archives #SocialJustice #LibraryJobs #Manchester

The latest issue of Field Mycology is out now, thanks to the efforts of @clareblencowe.bsky.social and her team. It's open access, so anyone can read it #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

📣Just out this month: A post outlining resources and strategies for creating more inclusive experiences for #neurodivergent staff and customers in #Libraries www.webjunction.org/news/webjunc... #Library #EDI #Neurodiversity #Employment #Workplace

Neurodiversity and libraries

In recent years, society has focused more on neurodiversity – for example, you hear it mentioned in popular media and movies, as more diverse characters are represented in mainstream media. New resear...

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I don't know how contracts work in the USA. How can government workers be fired without notice by email without breach of contract? How can you demand researchers do not worry on government funded research without breach of contract?

CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals. Read more👇 www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

Statement: Removal of access to and modification of data by authorities in the USA

CILIP invites members and the wider information profession community to share examples of how content, reports, datasets, evidence, and tools are being removed by US authorities

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Curious about a career in #libraries or #archives? From a #globalmajority ethnicity or #mixedheritage background? LIve or work in #GreaterManchester? Have a look here: bit.ly/curious-about

This org chart is a thing of beauty psychsafety.com/the-first-or...

The First Organisational Chart

The First Org Chart In 1855, Brigadier General Daniel McCallum, later to become a Civil War officer renowned for “strict precision and stern discipline” as well as for his innovative engineering, crea...

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Delighted that registrations are now open for this welcoming, grassroots event for people who are curious about a career in #libraries or #archives. Weds 19th March 2025, in person, University of Salford. Visit 👉 bit.ly/curious-about

All the things we like: creating opportunities for knowledge to flourish, collaborating with like-minded partners, investing in what we believe matters. Congratulations to the first 2 authors to be contracted 👏🏽

Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are delighted to announce the first two contracted books in the Trailblazers initiative: 'A Degree of Modernism' by Simon James Hadfield, and 'Female Offending and the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire' by @craigstafford.bsky.social. Find out more via the LUP blog: bit.ly/Trailblazers-...

I met a woman in Night and Day in Manchester last year who told me about ikigai and a great many other interesting things. I love this improvement on the diagram by @infobeautiful.bsky.social. informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

Information is Beautiful

Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

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I'm preoccupied by a desire to share with the world some 'Day in my life' type posts about my real life juggle at work. The plates I'm trying to spin, cats I'm trying to herd, values and ways of working I'm trying to live. But then I wonder...

a woman in a blue sweater says who cares on a netflix poster

Alt: a woman in a blue sweater says who cares in a slightly exasperated way?

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What's all this then? Having walked away from X a while back, hung out on LinkedIn a bit but posted little, now I'm here. Will I find find my work-related social home again?