Dr Beth

I'm just so exhausted by Labour's pathetic unwillingness to understand the university sector and how it is tied into every other industry in the country.

They seem determined to destroy the UK.

Aye

Sheffield's Archaeology department also comes to mind.

Difficult & stressful week, but Saturday morning with my gym bros makes everything feel a bit better.

Plus my shoulder let me get into a low bar backsquat. Weak as anything, but that's seriously improved mobility.

#Recovery #FrozenShoulder #SaturdayMorningSport

This is so important! If you're trying to get a message out, you've got to think about whether your audience actually understands what you're on about.

Everything boils down to communication in the end.

It's been an exhausting week, but I just can't shutoff. So I'm doing some research instead.

Closing soon, our representation statistics survey. If you are ND and work in libraries archives and information then please fill this in, thankyou.

One of the best reasons to make all your data open is that it can't be stolen

#OpenScience

Next Friday is the final of my LIS research seminars this term.

I loved hearing about this research earlier in the year so I invited Gillian Siddall to join us to talk about "Using visual research methods to explore the student experience - photovoice for research."

cassyni.com/events/4mjDV...

Oh, this is this week without a doubt.

Today is Trans+ Day of Remembrance.

In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky

While games are often a nice idea, they shouldn't be used for topics as complicated and nuances as improving research culture. There's no one right answer.

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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Yep, always hated discovery layers. We deliberately don't have one.

Researcher version: Librarian Contribution to Systematic Reviews Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

I'm conducting research for my prof doc at the Uni of Salford. I'm interested to hear from UK-based healthcare staff who've authored #systematicreviews with or without collaborating with librarians and info professionals. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/re...
#medsky #research #Health

Graphic promoting the Caroline Herschel Medal 2026.

Time is running out to get nominations in for the 2026 Caroline Herschel Medal.🏅

This year the award will celebrate an outstanding woman astronomer based in Germany. 👩🔭

Know someone who deserves to be recognised? Together with the @germanastrosoc.bsky.social we'd love to hear from you.

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Thank you ❤️

I know, but I've already made it to London today. Will take it easy though. There's nothing for me to do about it other than being sad...

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ICYMI, we were live with Helen Rimmer
and Dr Beth in honour of World Kindness Day last Thursday. Watch our live and learn more about how kindness can shape workplaces 👇
https://www.linkedin.com/events/kindnessinpractice-culture-cour7392248905238786048/

Today can really do one. Disastrous morning and now some awful family news. It'd be really nice if I didnt have so much to do today.

On the train just north of Luton and there's actually snow on the ground! Improving what so far has been a substandard morning.

Barely anything up near me. Not much to miss.

Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT "We apologise to our customers and the Internet in general" the web infrastructure company said.

Far more importantly, it took down most of our library services and a whole bunch of publisher pages! share.google/zy3Ve127AZMl...

#uksnow S10 1/10 nothing laying, but it's pretty coming down from the sky!

Happy Binni Day!

Sure prometheus gave to humanity, great, now we can burn stuff. He was also then sentenced to have his liver eaten every day for the rest of time by an eagle.

Not sure AI is worth it guys...

University Arms!

I just showed up at a pub on a UK university campus at 9.30pm and they told us they'd called time and stopped serving. What is wrong with the world?!

Keep thinking since everyone's so keen getting genAI to do things, maybe it's getting better and then it isn't.

Been trying to work out what I'm not doing right on my Factorio game this morning and I thought I'd ask ChatGPT since I'm not having any luck with help/forums. It just lies over and over!

Absolutely, researchers choose where to publish. A different world is within their grasp.