TheThinkery
@thethinkery.bsky.social
Librarian, Queer. 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
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I've met Dan in the last two conferences - one of the most proactive people I know!
🎉 Members spotlight - Daniel (Dan) Oppido 🎉
Meet BLA members via our members spotlight series! Big thank you to Dan, who volunteer to be the first person for the feature.
www.linkedin.com/posts/busine...
Meet BLA members via our members spotlight series! Big thank you to Dan, who volunteer to be the first person for the feature.
www.linkedin.com/posts/busine...
Members spotlight - Daniel (Dan) Oppido | Business Librarians Association
🎉 Members spotlight - Daniel (Dan) Oppido 🎉
Meet BLA members via our members spotlight series! Big thank you to Dan, who volunteer to be the first person for the feature.
www.linkedin.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I've met Dan in the last two conferences - one of the most proactive people I know!
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones
The Best Graphic Novels of 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones
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'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential'
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential'
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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British Library workers withdraw their labour again!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
British Library workers withdraw their labour again!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
Mon 8th to Sun 14th!
Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate!
Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated!
Please support the strike!
Cancel / postpone!
Visit the picket (in Midland Road)!
If you are a Reader please join for a chat!
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Is there a book or a poem that helped you explore what neurodiversity means?
The Weston Library’s Space for Reading is changing themes - next up: Neurodiversity.
📚 Submit your (anonymous) suggestions here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
The Weston Library’s Space for Reading is changing themes - next up: Neurodiversity.
📚 Submit your (anonymous) suggestions here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Is there a book or a poem that helped you explore what neurodiversity means?
The Weston Library’s Space for Reading is changing themes - next up: Neurodiversity.
📚 Submit your (anonymous) suggestions here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
The Weston Library’s Space for Reading is changing themes - next up: Neurodiversity.
📚 Submit your (anonymous) suggestions here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY
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This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What do we know about University of Essex's Southend campus closure?
The university says it will be moving students from its Southend campus to Colchester.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
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🎉 BLA summer conference announcement! 🎉
Save the date: Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026.
Place: University of Brighton.
This years theme will be "Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution".
Bookings will be open soon!
Save the date: Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026.
Place: University of Brighton.
This years theme will be "Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution".
Bookings will be open soon!
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🎉 BLA summer conference announcement! 🎉
Save the date: Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026.
Place: University of Brighton.
This years theme will be "Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution".
Bookings will be open soon!
Save the date: Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026.
Place: University of Brighton.
This years theme will be "Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution".
Bookings will be open soon!
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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"People who learned about a topic through an LLM versus web search felt that they learned less, invested less effort in subsequently writing their advice, and ultimately wrote advice that was shorter, less factual and more generic."
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
gizmodo.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"People who learned about a topic through an LLM versus web search felt that they learned less, invested less effort in subsequently writing their advice, and ultimately wrote advice that was shorter, less factual and more generic."
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
Last night I ran my first bookclub meeting. Innitiating discussion is not as easy as it sounds; I found it difficult to not fall on Lecturing Mode or Impose My Views. Still, it was fun and people shared some interesting observations that did not occur to me. Would love to do this again!
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Last night I ran my first bookclub meeting. Innitiating discussion is not as easy as it sounds; I found it difficult to not fall on Lecturing Mode or Impose My Views. Still, it was fun and people shared some interesting observations that did not occur to me. Would love to do this again!
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📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly
@sas-news.bsky.social
@sas-news.bsky.social
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
uolpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly
@sas-news.bsky.social
@sas-news.bsky.social
People, who should really know better, keep asking me about this new album and latest music release of that, and what do I think of this new song. Look, I've been listening to Jan Dismas Zelenka for the last two years. Unless it's fascinating baroque counterpoint I don't have much to say.
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
People, who should really know better, keep asking me about this new album and latest music release of that, and what do I think of this new song. Look, I've been listening to Jan Dismas Zelenka for the last two years. Unless it's fascinating baroque counterpoint I don't have much to say.
I promise you, you don't need to add a song to your instagram post. I promise you it makes no difference. Like, no one cares and please stop.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I promise you, you don't need to add a song to your instagram post. I promise you it makes no difference. Like, no one cares and please stop.
Googling for How To Not Be Poor in case it is possible to convince my browser I will never buy the things I keep seeing ads for.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Googling for How To Not Be Poor in case it is possible to convince my browser I will never buy the things I keep seeing ads for.
Staring at goodreads choice awards and I haven't heard of most of these books.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Staring at goodreads choice awards and I haven't heard of most of these books.
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Can't stop thinking about this quote, from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social.
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Can't stop thinking about this quote, from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social.
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
(Read the full article here: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...)
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🚨 Public money is being siphoned out the care system in profits, with millions going to private equity and tax haven firms
@theguardian.com's @journo-jess.bsky.social has the story of our investigation into extraction from our care system ⤵️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@theguardian.com's @journo-jess.bsky.social has the story of our investigation into extraction from our care system ⤵️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🚨 Public money is being siphoned out the care system in profits, with millions going to private equity and tax haven firms
@theguardian.com's @journo-jess.bsky.social has the story of our investigation into extraction from our care system ⤵️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@theguardian.com's @journo-jess.bsky.social has the story of our investigation into extraction from our care system ⤵️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Sometimes I think my job is to harass my line manager and I also think that's wonderful.
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sometimes I think my job is to harass my line manager and I also think that's wonderful.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Is Substack basically OnlyFans but for opinions
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Is Substack basically OnlyFans but for opinions