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Layla Bloom

@laylabloom.bsky.social

Head of Public Programme & Cultural Engagement, University of Leeds Libraries

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‘You have the experience of a sick person but it’s not yours’: Leeds art installation explores being a carer Work by Sarah Roberts addresses the impact of being a young carer on childhood and the strange feeling of being ‘sick-adjacent’

And the inimitable Sarah Roberts, describing her process as a 'trojan horse' bringing care into her work for audiences, as in her exhibition 'Sick' @lulgalleries earlier this year: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

27.11.2025 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Aïcha Mehrez - British Art Network

Aïcha Mehrez ruminating on the ancestors as part of her practice britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/m... and Tim Steer on his work bringing art and colour - care!- to hospitals hospital-rooms.com/about-us/

27.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Contact – Alison McIntyre

Alice Clayden of @pyramid-arts.bsky.social on the importance of creating a space for artistic agency for learning disabled arists, and Alison McIntyre describing social prescribing of #artdoctors www.alisonmcintyre.co.uk

27.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love the discussion around creating space for art to happen, for creativity to gestate properly- time to think is so invaluable!👌 😍

27.11.2025 18:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Notions of Care- a response to Turner Prize 2025" roundtable today @lulgalleries.bsky.social starting off with a focus on joy and hope! #BD2025

27.11.2025 17:54 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Leeds Uni lecture theatre block voted best city building Leeds' Roger Stevens Building was chosen from a shortlist of 10, all built between 1965 and 2025.

BBC News - Leeds Uni lecture theatre block voted best city building - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.11.2025 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge congratulations to all our finalists - all top of their art game! We're so excited to see what you do next. 😍

14.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to Alice Boot, winner of the FUAM Graduate Art Prize 2025! #FUAM2025

14.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations team #LISF! Looking forward to working together on these important issues!🤩

29.09.2025 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We're thrilled that @jsendall.bsky.social is stepping into the role of Acting University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection @UniversityLeeds 🎉

His passion for inclusive leadership makes him the perfect fit to carry the Libraries forward. Exciting times ahead!

#Libraries #HigherEd

06.08.2025 11:04 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 5    📌 3
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Hannah Slater's 3D-printed sustainable lighting taken from natural forms presented by curator Laura Claveria

07.08.2025 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Technological wizardry with AI and 3D printing in models by Alexandra Rosenthal, but rehumanised with lighting and personal touches

07.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Theatrical set style miniatures with figures taken from family photos by Esme Mclean

07.08.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fibre sculpture and drawings inspired by seaside detritus by Alice Boot

07.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exhibition preview talks by 3 of our wonderful #FUAM2025 finalists at the exhibition launch @lulgalleries.bsky.social tonight!

07.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
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And we also enjoyed the interactive sculpture!🤩

19.07.2025 08:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you @hmileeds.bsky.social team for the activity baskets!

19.07.2025 08:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"A comb with lots of wet white hair"

19.07.2025 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Definitely a gun!"

19.07.2025 08:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Burnt eggs"

19.07.2025 08:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"A big hair carrot" - "with hair for roots!"

19.07.2025 08:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoyed the recent launch of 'Fragment and Form' @hmileeds.bsky.social with two young guides, who shared their impressions of art by Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays and Dominique White.

19.07.2025 08:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 6    📌 0
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So happy to be celebrating @universityofleeds.bsky.social award of #universityofsanctuary status today - go team!🥳 Moving words from @cara1933.bsky.social and Sanctuary scholars, #LASSN, @retasleeds.bsky.social and @grabill.bsky.social

07.07.2025 15:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pact for the Future - United Nations Summit of the Future | United Nations

Today’s keynote is from Thanos Giannakopoulos taking about the roles of libraries in supporting Actions 29-33 relating to Science, Technology, Innovation & Digital Cooperation from the UN Pact for the Future www.un.org/en/summit-of... with examples inspired by the UN Hammarskjöld Library #LIBER2025

03.07.2025 10:11 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity | United Nations

Lastly, introducing us (well, me at least) to the UN 5 principles for information integrity www.un.org/en/informati... and the potential role for libraries, researchers and institutions, including in influencing the development of AI #LIBER2025

03.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanos Giannakopoulos bringing a global perspective to the role libraries and universities can play to advance open science and @un.org SDGs #LIBER2025

03.07.2025 10:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great collaboration between libraries in Sweden around AI processing of old card catalogues- sharing and learning together! ❤️ #LIBER2025

03.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What a beautiful library at @tudelftlibrary.bsky.social! Fascinating prototype AI fortune teller project to re-engage students with the collection wall space. #LIBER2025

03.07.2025 07:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Last Friday, we hosted the Knowledge Futures Symposium 📚

We heard from inspirational speakers who examined how knowledge is created, shared and exploited today, and were challenged to think and discuss our role in creating a more equitable and open knowledge future.

#LKFS2025 #Library #LibSky

01.07.2025 11:39 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

The celebrations aren't over - we have a bonus porcupine!

This woodcut of a Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine can be found in the book 'Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, published in 1635.

📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio

#WorldPorcupineDay #PorcupineDay #RareBooks

02.07.2025 08:51 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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