Bruce_Research
@bruceresearch.bsky.social
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Former chemist, then an educational publisher. Now a social informatics researcher. Interested in in trying to make the world work a little less awfully.
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Finally getting round to joining BlueSky.

Twitter is x.com/bruce_research

Blog is bruceryan.info
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Thank you to @edinreporter.bsky.social for featuring us in their October edition!

Our team are at McDonald Road Library (upstairs) from 4pm to 5pm today to assist any potential applicants before the October 22nd deadline. No appointment nessecery! theedinburghreporter.co.uk
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Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division.

None of our problems are because of too much kindness.
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Take your information science MSc at Edinburgh Napier: www.napier.ac.uk/courses/msc-.... Course leader is bsky.app/profile/fran...

The course has fab lecturers and emphases on supporting students and making positive differences to society.

More about Napier at blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Edinburgh Napier University - Bluesky Directory
Some ENU accounts and friendly faces to help get you started on Bluesky!
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WORLD PEACE DAY 🕊️✊🦋

There is nothing more destructive, more irrational, more useless than war.

And that is true for every war: The wars we fight against ourselves, in our families, among allies, against neighbours, against nations, against nature. 🧵
#photography #resist #peacenotwar #worldpeaceday
Blue sky with clouds shaped like flying birds.
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Celebrating 20 years of the Information Literacy Weblog
6,425 posts, 5.2 million page views ... the Information Literacy Weblog has been publishing c. 300 posts a year for 20 years. Looking at the first post, we said "Hi, This is a temporary blog created whilst The Information Literacy Blog (at http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/ since April 2003) is being found a new home. ... We hope to have a new home as soon as we can!" Well, it hasn't been so temporary! The old blog (2003-2005) ceased because it was run under LaTeX was on an old server, and the person who was supporting it moved jobs. Some pages from have been archived in the Internet Archive (e.g. this home page from June 2004, which has a report from a workshop in Yeppoon, Australia and reports from the LIDA conference in Dubrovnik, e.g. this one. I was busy in those days! BTW the internet archive links can be slow to respond, so patience is needed). Initially Stuart Boon provided some posts, and latterly Pam McKinney has joined me in liveblogging conferences, but otherwise the posts are devised and written by me (Sheila Webber). The tagline of the old blog 2004 was Sharing relevant items and information relating to information literacy worldwide, which became the slightly snappier We bring you news and reports about information literacy around the world to start with on this blog. In due course (i.e. I can't remember when) I changed this to Curating information literacy stories from around the world since 2005. You may have noticed that I have now added a further tagline "Stories identified, chosen and written by humans!" since nowadays it seems worth pointing out that there is human agency both in deciding what to blog and in writing the posts.  It seems unlikely that I will still be blogging in 20 years time, but I intend to keep going for now!
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I hear that a key part of information literacy (distinguishing between 'X is definitely true' and 'X may be true' is baked into Turkish: www.youtube.com/shorts/XCRsi.... It's called evidentiality (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evident...) My Q: what if the speaker's evidence is incorrect? Over to linguists!
The Coolest Turkish Expression!
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leithchooses.bsky.social
Woohoo - it’s time! LeithChooses is now accepting project funding applications. For details of how to apply, please visit www.leithchooses.net
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Participatory Budgeting for the Leith Neighbourhood Network
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work to help students facing mis- and disinformation issues. Here's a blog-post about the work (www.cilips.org.uk/tackling-mis...). Watch this space and bruceryan.info for when the report is published.
Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians
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...and of course Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals (CILIP, ‪@cilip.bsky.social, https://www.cilip.org.uk‬) and CILIP Scotland (‪@cilipscotland.bsky.social‬, https://www.cilips.org.uk). I'm just finishing a report for CILIP Scotland on school librarians' ...
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In the UK there is the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (@milalliance.BlueSky.social) and in Scotland the Scottish Media and Information Community of Practice (milcop.org. disclosure: I’m MILCOP’s secretary). We’ll keep on scrapping on.
Home - Scottish Media and Information Literacy CoP
Informed Today, Leading Tomorrow Discover Who We Are The Media and Information Literacy Community of Practice is a collective of people and organisations working together to highlight the importance o...
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Come to Edinburgh - and weep as the potholes annihilate your bahookie!
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Blogged: Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians: www.cilips.org.uk/tackling-mis...

In this post about my presentation to the
@cilipscotland.bsky.social annual conference, I begin to ponder the Mentimeter responses to my presentation questions.
Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians
www.cilips.org.uk
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At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, in session on More than a Podcast: Discovering Community Connections in Libraries
Iain Robertson and Dave Young, South Lanarkshire Libraries. it may interactive, so will pause bskying now
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At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, RM notes the importantance of being a teacher to having influence. There needs to be constant 'noisy and annoying' advocacy.
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So RM set out to build staff capacity, even in face of cuts, and team-building in face of cliques.

RM also doing advocacy
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At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, RM notes how underfunded Scotland's libraries are compared to, say, Oz, Norway. (I think 'FFS can there be some good news please') - there had been no senior librarian in CnES for 2 years before RM arrived! There was much dysfunction to tackle.
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At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, RM notes her sabbatical in Spain, and how she developed her love of Scotland as a backpacker. (I'm thinking of www.amazon.co.uk/Stornoway-Wa...) RM notes all the fun of trying to come to the UK permanently, and how ALIA, ASLA, QSLA may or may not have helped.
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