Siobhan Haimé

Can't believe that in the space of a season I've gone from not caring about F1 to "I can't believe Verstappen needs to rely on a Ferrari driver to have a chance at the championship".

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Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!

I'm looking for participants for my master's study about transmasc/trans men fans of manga and anime! Please fill out my 10-minute survey:
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It's burned into my brain because we had to rewind to see "where did they get "Manchester"?"
Henceforth known was "suprise Manchester".

I've considered starting a spreadsheet to track it, just to see which _are_ correct. I can probably go back through my recent watchlist and sent a DM?

That being said: we thought we'd finally see what Yuri on Ice was all about (I know, I know) and the intro has different captions every time.

Email from British library Planned strike action to affect services next week We have been notified of planned strike action in St Pancras from Monday 8 to Friday 12 December. During this period, we expect significant disruption to our Reading Room services and may need to close all our Reading Rooms. We will let you know more as soon as we can and you can also stay up to date with this page on our website.

Good. Keep it up @pcsunion.bsky.social!

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

Happy to take one - but I can pay for postage and the book :)

I have been prepared to eventually get hit by grey hairs, but ginger??! How am I ending up with /ginger/ hair all of a sudden?

See also: suddenly lactose intolerance for a year or so, "one slice of pizza will end me" era, occasionally periods of "no coffee for me" and whatever it is in beer that provides the "50% chance of a bad time" experience.

IBS is such a silly condition sometimes, because what do you mean I can't eat food anymore I've eaten without a problem for years, instead I'll be in absurd levels of pain when I do. This will continue for an unknown length of time.

Counterpoint: my recent favourite piece of media was made 100x better by the brilliant translation and localisation, and probably why I watched beyond the first episode (and bought physical copies). Considering finding out who translated it so I can email their employers my thanks.

I'm not surprised, as it's the culmination of the undervaluing (and disrespect, even) of translation as a skill. The amount of shitty translations I've seen recently is starting to really anger me and it puts me off using services.

Reposting this for more leads - please, ANY contacts in the licensing dept for the Science Museum?? I've waited months for email replies, and calling the numbers I've been given just gets hold music, answerphones and occassionally weird calls where they cut out or it's just white noise.
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I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Toby gesturing to a slide above and to the left, including the logos of Open Book Collective, PKP, DOAB/OAPEN and Thoth Open Metadata. Standing next to Zoe, at the front of an auditorium

#CollaborationNotCompetition! Toby Steiner and Zoe Wake Hyde (@radishpress.bsky.social) here at #Munin2025 talking about the ongoing collaborations between @thoth-metadata.bsky.social and @pkp.sfu.ca / #OpenMonographPress, showcasing the potential of open data workflows

(But then I've also experienced The Barrel™ where I really wish I could have refused a vast number of metrics/indices, but alas.)

Ultimately, the promotion/hiring/prestige system needs to change in tandem (or at least eventually) for the entire thing to become sustainable.

Personally, I heavily agree. I think the difficulty is both in balancing the need for funding and that for some these metrics are directly tied to employment/promotion. I have had to ask myself if I have the backbone to say no in the face of someone's employability and the answer was no, admittedly.

Absolutely. I've been considering writing about it as we're doing nothing but (re)shackling ourselves with different chains as long as we don't reject these metrics. As long as we rely on infrastructure (in the broadest sense) that only exists to exploit labour and extract value, we're borked.

There's something ironic about a country so preoccupied with Remembrance courting Nazi policies so openly.

(And sources, if anyone else went looking: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... / www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... / www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... )

The pain I feel reading this as a bs metric (JIF especially) hater, forced to accept and embrace that nefarious metric.

I believe this is a first for the @resprofnews.bsky.social opinion section.

I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister

Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.

Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social).

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

L'enfer c'est les autres.

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.

But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.