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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 12h

Seasonal socks:

Pair of black socks with cat faces on them. They have white fur on them from an actual cat. The faces are at the end of the feet, meaning a person can wear them without immediately revealing what a mad cat person they are.

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 14h

The existential dread of this time of year.

Dark-edged black and white photograph of a blurry moon above leafless trees.

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 3d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 4d

I so want to read it, may just need to struggle on!

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, it’s Bloomsbury 2007 edition, really tiny writing!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt

Circular stained glass artwork featuring two mice facing each other holding acorn cups while resting against tree roots under a cresent moon, all against a golden background

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 6d

Does anyone have Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend in an edition that doesn’t have ridiculously small text, and if so, what edition do you have?

I can’t take 555 pages of this

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 7d

I hope you’re able to get help soon. In the meantime it could make you feel safer to put suicide prevention hotline numbers in your phone just in case. Sending best wishes and solidarity ✊

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 10d

For sure… It’s about HAVING a creative vision, the fact of having one as much as what it is that’s made… versus catering to an imaginary (and dull/conservative) consumer…

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 10d

Would like to see a radical feminist version that used craft to deconstruct the notions of womanhood and also creative self expression that M&S discourse permits!!! (I’m being unkind, I do buy tights and things there)

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 10d

Agree! Saw part of one episode, wasn’t impressed. A nice pea green velvet fabric was considered way too outré and everything had to be in shades of beige and tan.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11d

Suzie MacKenzie, contemporary printmaker who lives and works in the northern highlands of Scotland #WomensArt

Print featuring bare trees with crows flying above against a pinky blue morning sky

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 13d

Feeling more strongly than ever that puppetry is the future of representation. It’s the Arts & Crafts movement of the AI age.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 16d

Ouija boards are now available to all staff and students, as part of the University's expanding ouija offer

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18d

'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

Print in blue and white of a stylised garden with trees, plants, birds, tools and plant pots as well as winding text which says 'In my garden I can feel life and it is beautiful"

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 20d

🥳🥳🥳 Many congrats, Emma!

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Emily Farran @ekfarran.bsky.social · 22d

Time for our annual update of "Open Research across disciplines".
pdf: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/
K Reproducibility Network (UKRN) webpages: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/

Resources to add, please use (by 30/09/25): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@camillakgilmore.bsky.social @priyasilverstein.com

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 23d

Celebrating the first corduroy dress / big scarf day of the season 🍁🍂

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 23d

EEDI in Open Research 🎧

You can now re-watch some of the #openfest25 sessions via our library webpages:
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

LibGuides: Open Research: Open Fest

libguides.shu.ac.uk

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 24d

Agree, really enjoyed this

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · 29d

I’ve got it & am happy to lend if you like? (raced through it as soon as it arrived!) Could leave it at the desk at the IC for you if you’re ever in that vicinity (drop me an email if so).

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · Sep 8

Every librarian’s weapon of choice

Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Sep 8

Look no more, we now stock rubber stamp/knuckle dusters.

www.presentandcorrect.com/products/xl-...

A large rubber stamps comprising 6 green rows of numbers on individual dials. The stamp has a handle which is also green and has finger spaces for grip

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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · Sep 8

I have a sweet spot for online #archives, this digitised collection of 226 #LGBT badges is worth a little look if you've 5 mins to spare. From the archive at @lselibrary.bsky.social

digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

#Library
#LGBTQ
#Lesbian
#Gay
#Bisexual
#Trans
#Queer
#GLAM

photo showing a yellowed aged pin badge with the words 'avenge oscar wilde' in purple retro font on it.

photo a black pin badge with a pink triangle. The text on the badge reads 'we are everywhere'

photo of a pink badge with the text 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle'

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Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social · Sep 7

We’re adding tannins as well as yeast, then a bit of sugar in each bottle when bottling to make it fizzy. Also going to add blackberry juice to some of it (these are all my neighbours’ ways of doing it based in their experience, can’t take credit!)

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