@cgknowles.bsky.social
Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
Wishing you a wonderful wedding day
25.02.2026 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Job description British Library Advisory Council- Chair The British Library is entering a bold new era. As one of the world's leading national libraries, we hold over 170 million items and support millions of people across the UK and beyond with research, learning, and inspiration. This is a pivotal moment to join us as we begin an ambitious new chapter, expanding access, strengthening engagement, and shaping our future as a modern national library for the digital age.
OK so I know I carp on a bit about the British Library, but only because I think it’s important. They want a new Advisory Council Chair - surely someone here would be excellent in helping them get back to their core purpose of serving the research community?
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Join us tomorrow for a demo of IIIF Illustration Detector!
Zoom link: iiif.io/community
It was lovely to see you.
09.02.2026 17:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wonderful to see @lulgalleries.bsky.social on the BBC website with Dr. RJ Wade sharing insights into our latest exhibition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
08.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two people looking at illuminated medieval books displayed in a lit glass museum case.
Happy birthday to us! 🎂
Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton
We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited!
RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
🤖 @coar-repositories.bsky.social has announced the new Dealing with AI Bots website that provides a wealth of information on bots & #crawlers impacting the services and operations of open #repositories, including mitigation strategies. See:
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
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The Call for applications for the DISKAH Fellowship scheme 2026-2027 is now OPEN! Funding is available to broaden skills for engagement with Digital Research Infrastructure #DRI in the #ArtsandHumanities research: www.diskah.org/fellowship-2...
19.01.2026 11:09 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A woman with long brown hair pulls a red book from a bookshelf.
Want to level up your library career this year?
We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
Field covered in snow with footprints and trees in the background.
Lovely walk in the crisp snow this morning.
10.01.2026 13:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At the University of Leeds, we are seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Lead Engineer to lead a project development team for Digital Library services, to support digital access to the Libraries’ Cultural Collections? It is a fantastic opportunity: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
09.01.2026 08:44 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
A photograph of the University of Leeds campus from a birds eye view. The buildings in frame include the Parkinson building, Brotherton Library and West Chemistry block. The sun sets in the horizon in a beautiful array of dark blues, pinks and oranges. Paper cut out stars have been scrapbooked onto the photo around the title "Happy New Year from Cultural Collections & Galleries".
Happy New Year from Cultural Collections & Galleries! 🎆
We hope you've had a well deserved rest and we can't wait to welcome you back. 💜
Title: New year's resolution A man sits at a table with a coffee writing in a notebook: “This year i will devote myself completely to reading serious, improving literature, forsaking easy pleasures and tirelessly seeking out truth and profundity in the work of the greatest writers.” He looks at it Says: Hmm... then “Scratch Scratch Scratch scratch” scribbles out words until the text reads: “This year I will read for Fun”
Happy New Year, everyone!
This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.
The 4 stages of eating cheese Eating cheese Still eating cheese Ate too much cheese Bit more cheese
Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough
25.12.2025 16:37 — 👍 272 🔁 77 💬 6 📌 9
Christmas tree outside the Great Hall
Christmas tree in Parkinson Court
Christmas on University of Leeds campus
18.12.2025 07:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are hiring a Digitisation Studio Manager to manage our Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service! 📸📖🏛️🖥️
£41,064 - £48,822 per annum, full-time, open-ended
Closes 5 Jan 2026
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Get in touch if you'd like to know more!
Job Klaxon! PDRA role at @designinf.bsky.social: with the data analytics team at CoSTAR Foresight Lab. Full time, 2026–29, contributing to UK wide #costarnetwork analysis on creative industries and creative technologies. Closes 5th Jan! Please share. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
11.12.2025 15:39 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)."
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
A white woman with a dark bob on stage with a slide 'Five ideas for Fantastic Digital Futures'
Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
So excited to hear from Rachel Coldicutt as our opening keynote
#FantasticFutures2025
“Careful Consequence Check” mentioned in the #FF2025 opening keynote by
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025
04.12.2025 10:41 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Abstracts for the long papers on now www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... and the short papers www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... - find out more about brilliant work on maps, assessing archival records, computer vision and language models, and AI for art collections #FF2025
04.12.2025 11:52 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Great to be at Fantastic Futures Conference #FF2025 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. I am looking forward to the packed programme.
03.12.2025 09:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Regretting leaving my woolly hat at home this morning.
19.11.2025 18:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to see SPARKLE/PRVoices and the new Enact service mentioned here. Thanks to AHRC for funding this crucial work to support practice researchers. @jennye.bsky.social, @scottmclaughlin.bsky.social
15.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's the final week to submit to the #RLUK26 #CFP - closes this Friday!
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
We are looking for a chair of our new Department of AI and Society. The vision is to create a future where AI systems are built by society, for society. Please share widely. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
31.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
University Cultural Collections and Generative AI: Critical Approaches in a Library Context doi.org/10.48785/100...
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🔵 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the #RLUK26 call for papers - Stewardship in challenging times
The virtual #RLUK26 Conference will explore how libraries can navigate complex intersections of academic freedom, censorship & contested spaces+collections
ℹ️ Read the full #CFP @ bit.ly/RLUKconf
In case you missed it! Catch the recording of @rluk.ac.uk's latest Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries seminar here: www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-dema... 📹
Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social
