Jo Fitzpatrick

A sunset behind tall wheat

Me holding a ritual sickle many years ago

May the things that you sacrificed at the altar of your ambition be worth it. May you reap a harvest so massive it puts your previous ones to shame. May you enjoy the heat of the double dog sun so much it keeps you warm through the descent. #lammas

Lughnasadh / Lammas: Celtic Harvest Deities, Folk Rituals, and Seasonal Witchcraft — Golden Web Mystery School The grain is turning, the winds are shifting, and the Wheel begins to tilt toward harvest. My latest blog explores the roots of Lammas and Lughnasadh, Celtic Deities, folk magic, and the sacred cycles...

The first harvest is here. Lammas and Lughnasadh carry the old magic of ripening grain, sacrifice, and gratitude. I wrote about the Deities, the history, and the folk traditions that still echo through the land.
Read the full piece here: goldenwebmysteryschool.com/witchcraft-m...
#WitchSky #Lammas

ICYMI we are recruiting for several Subject Librarians to join Goldsmiths to lead relationship management with our academic schools.

Also, we are recruiting a third Subject Librarian! This is a permanent contract, 0.5 FTE role: jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/subj...

All closing 10 August.

A vintage compass with a metallic casing, resting on a wooden surface near a window. The compass face shows cardinal directions with an ornate central design. In the background, a wooden window frame and frosted glass obscure the view outside.

Did you know that we have created 'shelves' for some of our #CopimCompass 'books'?

You can now check out all the success stories - libraries, publishers and presses - in one place! 🧭

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And the same with all the books about @openingthefuture.bsky.social

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Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76 The singer, who later became famous on reality TV show The Osbournes, dies less than three weeks after retirement concert

Nooooo www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books? As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...

"How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?"

Read the article on the Katina Magazine by Lucy Barnes, Iva Melinscak Zlodi, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and Niels Stern: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

@alittleroad.bsky.social

@nielsstern.bsky.social

Prank idea: Give every person access to all the information in the world without teaching them to discern what's true.

Librarians, unpranking the world

Difference on Trial - ION Neurodiversity by Prof. Charlotte Valeur, Founder and CEO of ION

The use of autism, ADHD, and other forms of neurominority types in legal proceedings, by both defence and prosecution, has become increasingly significant in recent years.
ioneurodiversity.org/difference-o... @nlisn.bsky.social

Grey: Mourning for people who have died due to ableist violence, abuse, suicide, and illness
Red Stripe: Physical disabilities
Gold Stripe: Neurodiversity
Blue Stripe: Emotional and psychiatric disabilities
Green Stripe: Sensory disabilities
White Stripe: Undiagnosed and invisible disabilities

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The disability flag and what it means #disabilitypride

I know many disabled people have a difficult relationship with the word 'pride', because they'd much prefer to not be this way, but I find thinking of it as 'unashamed' rather than 'glad' helps.

Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

JOB OPPORTUNITY! 📢

Join @openbookcollective.bsky.social as Community Engagement Lead

More info online ▶️

The contents page of CILIP ILIG Focus on International Library & Information Work - Volume 56, Number 1 (2025). The Open Access logo can be seen in the foreground, along with an image of the Earth from space in the background.

The late Ian Stringer on a mobile cycle library at an event in Hanover. Books on mobile shelves can be seen in the foreground, along with book buses in the background. A Star Wars Stormtrooper and someone in a Darth Vader costume can also be seen behind Ian.

The latest issue of CILIP ILIG Focus is now available! 🙌

This includes a tribute to Ian Stringer, our fondly remembered colleague and expert on all things mobile libraries.

You can download this for free here: bit.ly/44XjFr3

Thanks to Focus Editor @jofitz.bsky.social & all who contributed to this

09. Open Accessibility | Compass This book contains a knowledge base, guidance and planning models that will support small diamond op...

Let's take a deep dive into the new #OpenAccessibility Book on #CopimCompass 🧭

There are 6 chapters on principles, law, standards & strategy

🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...

#OpenAccess #Accessibility #Publishing

A comprehensive evaluation of life sciences data resources reveals significant accessibility barriers - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A comprehensive evaluation of life sciences data resources reveals significant accessibility barriers

Overall, more than half of the life sciences websites—74.8% data portals and 69.1% journal websites—contain “severe” accessibility issues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@ me about our accessibility advice for diamond OA books please!

Check out my area of Copim Compass, containing all the knowledge and advice you need to achieve accessibility at small diamond OA presses. I would absolutely love your feedback on the content.

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I thought I had it one time when I left my wheelie bin out for more than 24 hours after the bin man came, I didn't realise it wasn't the done thing and my fussy neighbours were aggrieved, but what's happening to Gregg really puts things in perspective.

Gregg Wallace faces backlash over autism defence The TV presenter was criticised after he appeared to link claims of misconduct to his autism diagnosis.

Gregg Wallace has actually got a special type of Autism called Caughtism, like Neil Gaiman has. Poor fellas. It's a condition that forces you to break the law and there's nothing you can do about it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's ya mistake

badge reading "ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2025 - Finalist"

We are truly honoured to have received a finalist nomination for the 2025 @alpsp.bsky.social Award for Innovation in Publishing 2025! #MetadataMatters #openinfrastructure #OAbooks

Hannah and Toby just gave their presentation to the ALPSP panel, and we'll know more in about 2 months' time ...

From Misunderstood to Mission-Critical: The Potential of Neurominority Talent “We should not fit our life to the demands of social conformity; we can’t find a model to live by from others, we can only find that within ourselves.” “We do not think of the neurodiversity movement as one that seeks to integrate neurominority people into all the existing ways of living in the world as a human being.” “There is a certain way of being human that is our way. We want to be free to live our life in our way, and not in imitation of other’s life.”

I also really like these quotes in the squares: ioneurodiversity.org/from-misunde...

A new poem for the profession Poet Rishi Dastidar has created a new poem to celebrate the profession, exclsuively for CILIP

I really like this
www.cilip.org.uk/news/news.as...

The OLH Open Access Award 2025: call for applications The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2025, a fund dedicated …

Don’t miss your chance to apply for the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025! Funding of up to £500 is available to support events, projects, or activities related to #OpenAccess or with an #OA component.

⏰ Apply by 30/06!
🔗 Full details: www.openlibhums.org/...

Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP voluntee...

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

It's Morgan on a moon 🥰🌜

#ALN25 Janice Fernandez "Information Literacy through engagement, empowerment, value and impact": Performing arts and creative students can be difficult to engage in information literacy. Learners can be empowered with control and agency.

Research output is not fully open access unless it's accessible #ALN25

Paywalls as a form of economic censorship #ALN25

Currently challenging times for UK HE. How to deal with it? Focused high impact action. Put together some academic skills modules online for people who can't get to university. Originally for the pandemic, but 6000 users a year are still engaging with them. #ALN25