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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone want to talk to us about Green OA? (The best OA? A fight to the death between all the colours of OA?)

Megan All Hallows' Eve 🦇 @meganeve.bsky.social · 19h

📣OA event idea for December! ALN are looking for speakers and presentations focusing on Green OA (such as promoting, challenges, journals vs books and discoverability) Please let me know if you are interested or would like further information.💚

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 13h

remember when we were queuing up round the block to vote for Nick?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷‍♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'“We need a more long-term strategic partnership,” he said, noting that this could mean fewer but larger grants being awarded across the research landscape.' 2/3

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Did you miss the LIS Research seminar on "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"?

If so, never fear, the recording is now out! I'd really recommend giving it a listen.

doi.org/10.52843/cas...

#Library #openaccess #LISResearch #Librarian

A banner image for a seminar entitled "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties - epistemic injustice in academic publishing" The seminar is by Nataliia Kaliuzhna and Zeynep Aydin. In the background is a faded out image of academic library bookshelves.

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 5d

Kiddo is in bed yelling "I'm going to marry my own butt cheeks" and roaring with laughter, if anyone is wondering how much I want to go downstairs and watch a documentary about Taylor Swift and have a glass of wine

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 5d

The recording was just sent round at the end of the day today so I haven't had a chance to look but I was pleased to see the topic :-)

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 5d

Missed @drbeth.bsky.social and @woodsiegirl.bsky.social talking to our library staff about LGBTQIA+ disinformation, as these things always seem to happen on a Wednesday, but looking forward to catching up with the recording

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 6d

the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is

Book cover: the pursuit of laughter, essays, articles, reviews and diary of the most controversial Mitford sister. And it’s DIANA MOSLEY. Complete with a generic picture of a 1930s society belle’s face in pearls.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday J had their hands over their ears going "Edmund is making a BAD CHOICE" - which, I guess is CS Lewis's message to be fair

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 7d

Reading the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at 7yo's bedtime and forgot how scary it is. Don't know how we're going to cope with Aslan's death at the stone table

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 8d

Come along to this free webinar tomorrow evening! I will be one of the speakers, talking about FWS and its practical implications.

Free Webinar - For Women Scotland Decision: What Unions, Lawyers and Employers Need to Know | Garden Court Chambers share.google/4wIImm9a3T6M...

Free Webinar - For Women Scotland Decision: What Unions, Lawyers and Employers Need to Know | Garden Court Chambers

Join us for a practical briefing on the post-For Women Scotland landscape — what it means for equality law, unions, and employers. The Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland has redefined how ...

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 11d

For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰🐇:
Love the facial expression on this blue bunny, it just keeps getting funnier the longer you stare back at it😂
China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1654-1722), porcelain w/ blue glaze, Newfields collection: collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/23070/

blue porcelain rabbit figure on white background, front view - bunny is looking at us head on with a smirking expression on its face

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody

State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 12d

Here is the project website & papers (going on my to-read list!) and thanks to @drbeth.bsky.social for organising projects.tib.eu/idaho/en/

Home - IDAHO

projects.tib.eu

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 12d

Everything making publishing (and OA publishing in particular) harder for these researchers, from rejection due to lack of an affiliation, no APC funds or TAs, no access to APC waiver, lack of expert advice on how to use repositories

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 12d

Great presentation from @nataliiak.bsky.social and Zeynep Aydin from the IDAHO project on "identification of hurdles to open access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"

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Emilia [Scout] Bell @emiliacarabell.bsky.social · Mar 19

A new article from my PhD research in JLSC: 'Open knowledge through soft power, diplomacy, and the library: A theoretical analysis and critique.' doi.org/10.31274/jls...

#ScholComms #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #OpenKnowledgeDiplomacy

Open knowledge through soft power, diplomacy, and the library: A theoretical analysis and critique

This paper explores global justifications for open knowledge in higher education and research. Drawing on library and information, scholarly communications, and international relations scholarship, it...

www.iastatedigitalpress.com

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12d

Brilliant thread from @keyne-unable.bsky.social on why the introduction of digital ID (and the encoding of 'birth sex' in a single government record) has long been an objective of anti-trans campaigners in the UK 👇

Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Digital ID is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons: technical, political, economic. Especially with the involvement of far right tech oligarchs and it being explicitly sold as a way of surveilling people so as to imprison or deport immigrants.

But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 12d

So depressing to see "unfunded hobbyist research" brought up as a real thing that needs to be "dealt with" by university senior management

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 13d

Just realised it is 20 years since my freshers week! 20 YEARS!

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 13d

Discounted drinks at Corp, Dominoes vouchers and the revolutionary communist party all out in force

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 13d

Glad to see the students back! A small group of them just got on the tram dressed as knights

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 14d

Picked this from the local library and then checked the author and she is a terf! Why would you write a feminst dystopia about the rise of a christian fascist government where queer people are (v quickly) sent to concentration camps & then dedicate your time to being transphobic on social media?

Cover of the paperback Vox by Christina Dalcher

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 14d

Come work with us!

Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 14d

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

Open Research Manager

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk

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