Mair Rigby
@mairsrambles.bsky.social
Tea drinker, nature lover, big reader. Enjoys walking, cooking, music. Works in HE in Wales. Vol sector background. Interested in engagement, research, reflective practice & wellbeing. Views my own! 🏴 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/mairerigby
A favourite dinner on in the slow cooker.
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A favourite dinner on in the slow cooker.
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We're calling for better energy efficiency standards for renters on our #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We're calling for better energy efficiency standards for renters on our #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay.
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👀ICYMI: "[our findings] underscores the urgent need for libraries, archives, and information infrastructure providers to include scholarly blogs more systematically in their preservation strategies"
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
The case for preserving scholarly blogs - Impact of Social Sciences
Poor preservation threatens the scholarly blogging ecosystem. What makes scholarly blogs sustainable and how can these practices be promoted?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
👀ICYMI: "[our findings] underscores the urgent need for libraries, archives, and information infrastructure providers to include scholarly blogs more systematically in their preservation strategies"
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
@pampel.bsky.social & @catharinaochsner.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicBlogs
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Remembering Mark Lanegan today on what would have been his 61st birthday (born November 25, 1964) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/MLaneganHBD
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Remembering Mark Lanegan today on what would have been his 61st birthday (born November 25, 1964) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/MLaneganHBD
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When you get the chance to get photos of Long-tailed Tits at eye level and close range it's impossible to ignore them. This cutie a couple of days ago around Cardiff Bay #UKbirding #birdingWales #birds
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
When you get the chance to get photos of Long-tailed Tits at eye level and close range it's impossible to ignore them. This cutie a couple of days ago around Cardiff Bay #UKbirding #birdingWales #birds
Most definitely a member of the other third! 😂
Two-thirds of the UK’s population eat less than one portion of beans each week.
From blood sugar to gut bacteria, how beans can improve your health
Two-thirds of the UK’s population eat less than one portion of beans each week.
tcnv.link
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Most definitely a member of the other third! 😂
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🚀 Today we launch Thriving Welsh Communities - a manifesto shaped by people across Wales who know what their communities need to thrive.
🫶 It it sets out a clear call for Wales to put community-led action at the heart of our national future.
👉 Read more here: tinyurl.com/5ujxavmf
🫶 It it sets out a clear call for Wales to put community-led action at the heart of our national future.
👉 Read more here: tinyurl.com/5ujxavmf
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚀 Today we launch Thriving Welsh Communities - a manifesto shaped by people across Wales who know what their communities need to thrive.
🫶 It it sets out a clear call for Wales to put community-led action at the heart of our national future.
👉 Read more here: tinyurl.com/5ujxavmf
🫶 It it sets out a clear call for Wales to put community-led action at the heart of our national future.
👉 Read more here: tinyurl.com/5ujxavmf
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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Maya C. Popa, from “Dear Life”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder
January 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Maya C. Popa, from “Dear Life”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder
Got distracted for a moment and burned some pine nuts. Expensive mistake!
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Got distracted for a moment and burned some pine nuts. Expensive mistake!
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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Disabled people deserve more than survival, we demand change.
Join us as we launch our manifesto: From Barely Surviving to Truly Thriving, which sets out our key asks to political parties ahead of the 2026 Senedd election.
🗓 1 Dec | 4–6pm
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
Join us as we launch our manifesto: From Barely Surviving to Truly Thriving, which sets out our key asks to political parties ahead of the 2026 Senedd election.
🗓 1 Dec | 4–6pm
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Disabled people deserve more than survival, we demand change.
Join us as we launch our manifesto: From Barely Surviving to Truly Thriving, which sets out our key asks to political parties ahead of the 2026 Senedd election.
🗓 1 Dec | 4–6pm
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
Join us as we launch our manifesto: From Barely Surviving to Truly Thriving, which sets out our key asks to political parties ahead of the 2026 Senedd election.
🗓 1 Dec | 4–6pm
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
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#OnThisDay, 24 Nov 2015, mathematician Katherine Johnson receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on the space programme.
Her story - and that of other women programmers - was told in 'Hidden Figures'.
Her story - and that of other women programmers - was told in 'Hidden Figures'.
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#OnThisDay, 24 Nov 2015, mathematician Katherine Johnson receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on the space programme.
Her story - and that of other women programmers - was told in 'Hidden Figures'.
Her story - and that of other women programmers - was told in 'Hidden Figures'.
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A lot of people genuinely don’t realize authors are paid when libraries get ebook licenses
We do get paid so please request our books from libraries
We do get paid so please request our books from libraries
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
A lot of people genuinely don’t realize authors are paid when libraries get ebook licenses
We do get paid so please request our books from libraries
We do get paid so please request our books from libraries
Breathing anchor meditation.
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Breathing anchor meditation.
Soundtrack to the week: Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Mariee Sioux, Sandy Denny, Lissie.
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Soundtrack to the week: Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Mariee Sioux, Sandy Denny, Lissie.
Small joys from this week:
Crisp, cold sunny days
Thanksgiving Cactus flowering on time
Wore my favourite big jumper
My mum’s cat has been found and returned
Got given a free succulent at work and had to carry it around all day much to everyone’s amusement
Hot water bottles!
Crisp, cold sunny days
Thanksgiving Cactus flowering on time
Wore my favourite big jumper
My mum’s cat has been found and returned
Got given a free succulent at work and had to carry it around all day much to everyone’s amusement
Hot water bottles!
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Small joys from this week:
Crisp, cold sunny days
Thanksgiving Cactus flowering on time
Wore my favourite big jumper
My mum’s cat has been found and returned
Got given a free succulent at work and had to carry it around all day much to everyone’s amusement
Hot water bottles!
Crisp, cold sunny days
Thanksgiving Cactus flowering on time
Wore my favourite big jumper
My mum’s cat has been found and returned
Got given a free succulent at work and had to carry it around all day much to everyone’s amusement
Hot water bottles!
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Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
Went out for a blustery walk. Saw a big rainbow.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Went out for a blustery walk. Saw a big rainbow.
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One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
December 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
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“Who am I in this place?” is one of my favourite questions. I remember an employee telling me she didn’t like who she’d become “here” — “here” being the workplace (possibly her profession). “I like me here” is a goal worth reaching, no matter where “here” is.
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“Who am I in this place?” is one of my favourite questions. I remember an employee telling me she didn’t like who she’d become “here” — “here” being the workplace (possibly her profession). “I like me here” is a goal worth reaching, no matter where “here” is.
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'By the Fireside' by contemporary printmaker Ann Tout #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
'By the Fireside' by contemporary printmaker Ann Tout #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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So often the conclusion reached is something like "more leadership is required". Makes me curious. Is it really more "leadership"? I wonder if what's needed are more spaces for connection, and for valuing all the capabilities and ways of knowing we hold collectively between us?
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
So often the conclusion reached is something like "more leadership is required". Makes me curious. Is it really more "leadership"? I wonder if what's needed are more spaces for connection, and for valuing all the capabilities and ways of knowing we hold collectively between us?
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things change:
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
things change:
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.
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Last days of Autumn
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Last days of Autumn