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Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 16d

I cannot stress how important it is that the issue of police records is dealt with and not brushed under the carpet as it has been for decades. The fact that they aren't Public Records is an accident of history, but the impact of this lack of regulatory control is immense.

Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · 16d

Why aren’t Police Records in England & Wales covered by the Public Records Act? We've been campaigning on this since 2012 - blog for more info:
www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act
#publicaccountability
of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?

Photo of a paper airplane on fire with text that reads "I am under no obligation to disclose anything and the papers belong to me. If I wanted to I could take them into the yard and have a bonfire with them" South Yorkshire Chief Constable Med Hughes.

Credit for photo of on fire airplane is Aron Yigin via Unsplash

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 19d

hey colleagues, want to feel old? 18 year olds starting university this year are

-younger than YouTube and Twitter
-younger than the song “Bad Day”
-and never knew Pluto as a planet

(don’t worry tho, to make us all feel better about it they dress like it’s 2003)

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CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

You can join the Archives Hub Community on Teams and collaborate with other researchers and archivists. It is a friendly, supportive space for everyone with opportunities to work together to crowdsource useful resources and information www.jisc.ac.uk/get-involved...

Archives hub community - Jisc

www.jisc.ac.uk

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CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

The National Bibliographic Knowledgebase holds 165 million records contributed by 205 libraries from the UK & Ireland and Library Hub Discover offers a single search across the NBK. discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk

Jisc Library Hub Discover

discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk

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CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

Carly Richardson and Jennie-Claire Crate from @jisc.bsky.social are now joining us to talk about enhancing discoverability and access for special collections and the role of Jisc’s Archives Hub and Library Hub in metadata transformation and aggregation. #RBSCG25

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Sian Prosser @prossian.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm happy to share this advert for a permanent part-time role in the library of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social share.google/K1v6wLMnhxQp...

Assistant Librarian - London (Central), London (Greater) job with ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 9779956

The post is a part-time role in a small team, working with the Librarian & Archivist and the Assistant Archivist.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Aug 10

Happy 350th birthday to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich! the foundation stone was laid at 3:14 pm on 10 August 1675 (OS). We know because the astronomer there, John Flamsteed, drew up a horoscope. See more here teleskopos.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a... #histSTM #histsci

A manuscript horoscope, dividing a square into astrological houses, noting the date and time in the centre.

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Carly Ann Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 23

Oh no! Hotspur Press is on fire! 😢

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Carly Ann Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · Jun 17

New image processing techniques “refreshed” older Hubble data showing a portion of the Eagle Nebula. This structure is 9.5 light-years tall and 7,000 light-years distant from Earth, and is one of many nebulas in the Milky Way.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. 🔭 🧪

A very vertical image of a tall, thin portion of a nebula that appears to stand like a tree. The top is made up of large brown and blue pale clouds and dust that look like voluminous hair. To the right of the clouds is a dark rugged shape, surrounded by a bright red light. Below the clouds is a dark stem, made of tendrils of dust, wrapping around themselves to the bottom of the image, where the tendrils widen and expand like a tornado-like dust cloud. The background has several stars of different colors and sizes, and the shade of the background changes from light blue at top to dark red at the bottom.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · Jun 17

something I've learned by covering online archives and libraries is that many valuable, free, online resources are maintained by extremely small teams, maybe one volunteer. Asking them to deal with scrapers that behave like DDoS attacks is unrealistic www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums

"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

www.404media.co

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

theamericanvandal.substack.com

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · Jun 17

Wikimedia Commons highlights a freely licensed, community-curated image every day. These images document the world, one file at a time.

Explore the archive or contribute your own: it is all part of building a shared visual record. Explore more featured images ➡️ w.wiki/7dzN

A pair of hands holds pencils and appears to simultaneously draw the word "Escher" in a stylized, calligraphic font on a white sheet of paper, set against a patterned background of pink and purple Escher-inspired motifs. Text says: Picture of the day. Mind-bending artist M. C. Escher was born on this date in 1898. This community-contributed tribute to Escher's Drawing Hands is today's Picture of the Day on Wikimedia Commons.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Jun 16

The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Jun 13

Interesting manicules in the margins

BnF Français 12584; Roman de Renart; 14th century; France; f.61r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · Jun 12

Love a mattress-based street art installation.

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · Jun 12

Mattress conversation

A grubby mattress in an alleyway asks “how are you doing? How do you feel today?”

Another grubby mattress in an alleyway replies “I’m not better. Just used to it”

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Carly Ann Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 11

Looking forward to this session, happening now! #RLUKDSF

Title presentation slide for “Knowledge Stewardship” session

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Jun 10

ChatGPT we will forgive you for taking all the content from our website for a one-time donation of 48 billion English pounds

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Jun 10

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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Carly Ann Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · Jun 10

Welcome to the archives.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jun 6

AI crawlers generate so much traffic that some web sites are struggling to stay online. What can be done?

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers

If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operator...

www.eff.org

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Carly Ann Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 9

If anyone is interested in finding out a bit more about #ArchivesHub - please register below for the session on Wednesday! 😊

Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · Jun 9

The next @jisc.bsky.social Digital Research Community meet up is all about Archives Hub

Join @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social & team to find out how to search across descriptions of archives, held at over 400 institutions across the UK

📆 11 June (11am)
🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · Jun 9

The next @jisc.bsky.social Digital Research Community meet up is all about Archives Hub

Join @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social & team to find out how to search across descriptions of archives, held at over 400 institutions across the UK

📆 11 June (11am)
🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣Job opportunity in Warwickshire📣
The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) is seeking an Archivist (Cataloguer) to play a key part in the collections information, development and management of the BMIHT Archive.
Closing date 29 June 2025.
For more details 👇

Exciting opportunity with the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust

The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT ) is seeking an Archivist (Cataloguer) to play a key part in the collections information, development and management of the BMIHT Archive, ensuring tha...

www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · May 29

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This splendid image, released on 23 May 2024 as part of Euclid's Early Release Observations (ERO), shows Messier 78 (the central and brightest region), a nursery of star formation 1,300 ly away in the constellation of Orion.

Enjoy!

➡️ www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #ESA

The image shows a “filamentary orange veil” covering a bright star-forming region, with a dark background dotted with stars and galaxies of various sizes, from small bright points to star-like shapes. The foreground veil extends from the upper left to the lower right, with an appearance reminiscent of a seahorse. Bright stars illuminate the seahorse’s “eye” and “chest” regions with purple light, while in the “tail” there are three bright spots arranged like a traffic light.

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Carly Ann Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social · May 29

Fab meeting - happy to have been able to join virtually!

Archives Portal Europe @archivesportal.bsky.social · May 16

Our CMmeeting has come to a close, lots of great archival energy and exciting ideas that we will develop in the months to come! Thanks to our amazing hosts Hrvatski Drzavni Arhiv and to everyone who came online / in person @tresoar.bsky.social Riksarkivet; Archives Hub @jisc.bsky.social

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