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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 19h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 7h

I am somewhat concerned this doll is going to follow me home and murder me in my sleep… 😳

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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 2d

Great article by @niamhtumelty.bsky.social &
@heroicendeavour.bsky.social (soon to be @copim.bsky.social) on why #OERs should be central to the public mission of universities 👇

LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 9d

In this new article from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Managing Director of LSE Press, and @heroicendeavour.bsky.social discuss open educational resources in the context of higher education.

Read the full post:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openaccess #highereducation

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 2d

#FinishedReading: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Goodreads

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 3d

Watching a movie where the main character has his elderly dog put to sleep, and - oh. Too soon. Way too soon. Had to stop the movie I was crying too hard. I miss my Bandit kitty.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so sorry. I lost one of my furbabies last week, so I know what you’re going through. All the love and hugs.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 4d

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress

The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t, it’s called aphantasia. And I guess it’s impossible to describe - I just absorb the words and the meaning and the plot without visualising anything? But then I’ve never known any different!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

But of course. Ideology always trumps evidence! 🙄

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

You Are Not the Main Character.

Also, Sleep On It. Whatever It Is, Sleep On It.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

Tell me you don’t understand how Wikipedia works without telling me you don’t understand how Wikipedia works.

Ted Cruz Targets Wikipedia Over ‘Ideological Bias’

In a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Cruz accused the beloved online resource of being too liberal.

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Sarah Brundrett @tomesandtech.bsky.social · 4d

#aibeyond2025 - @heroicendeavour.bsky.social speaks to "Reclaiming agency in the new world of AI" and whether we as individuals are a passenger or a pilot in this space.
Discussion of AI Determinism and whether the encouraged adoption of a new tool fits our library requirements.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 6d

#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders
Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Joe Deville at a podium, in front of a slide with a banner reading 'No open access without open infrastructure'

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 5d

Settling in for my last day today. It's a strange feeling. The last time I moved jobs I had the Christmas break in-between finishing one and starting the other, which rather softened the transition. Tomorrow I will wake up and be (temporarily) a lady of leisure!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 6d

No, that’s swapping the beginnings of words - like par cark instead of car park. I do that too! This is like saying ‘amalliant’ because your brain trips up over whether to use ‘brilliant’ or ‘amazing’.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 6d

Is there a term for accidentally smushing two words together when speaking? Like your brain can’t decide which of two synonyms to use so it combines them on the fly? A portmanteau, but accidental, unintentional.

I do this all the time, and I don’t know if it’s an ADHD thing or just a ‘me’ thing?

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 6d

Well, I've just delivered my last teaching session to students - for who knows how long? I have no doubt there'll be public speaking and conference presentations in my future, but that'll be the end to my info lit and research teaching for a while! 📚

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 6d

LAST CALL: Beyond Certainty-What does 'Discovery' mean in an open & artificially intelligent world? #AIBeyond2025
Wed 8 Oct - www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
Keynote @mcintold.bsky.social
Videos from @aj-boston.bsky.social, @heroicendeavour.bsky.social @aarontay.bsky.social + live discussions!

Beyond Certainty

www.deakin.edu.au

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Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social · 9d

"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by @lsepress.bsky.social MD @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.

LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 9d

In this new article from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Managing Director of LSE Press, and @heroicendeavour.bsky.social discuss open educational resources in the context of higher education.

Read the full post:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openaccess #highereducation

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 9d

Yep, that’s the one! I was at Abbotsholme.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 9d

I think I was taught by the same Martin Allison!

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