put a fried egg on my croque monsieur to make it a croque madame and now jk rowling is outside my house yelling

To all VCs being summoned today to Downing Street. Yesterday students’ blood ran on Amsterdam’s streets after Uni of Amsterdam authorised extreme police violence.

Can at least some of you show a spine, reframe Sunak’s agenda, + stand up for our obligation to combat genocide?

We send our solidarity to the many thousands of university students and staff across the world who are taking a stand against their institutions' complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

Full statement 👇

Reflections on Election Day 🧵

In January, when #TeessideResistance was more of a set of moments than a movement

Before #BinBen was born, and #TrashTurner was an adjective rather than a verb

We were busy looking at the Ridgwell Report on #Teesworks and drawing conclusions...

Of all demographics, lesbians and bi women are the most supportive of trans people: 84% have a positive view of the trans community.

#LesbianVisibilityDay won’t be hijacked by those trying to divide the LGBT+ community.

Our rights aren’t a zero-sum game. yougov.co.uk/society/articl…

Feels like a very strange time to be celebrating getting a journal article published. But a Joint author article about reference management is now in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. We’ve pushed so hard to get this finished so I’m really proud doi.org/10.1016/j.acal…

Minor update.
I absolutely cannot spell Podiatry. I've written Podiarty like 3 times in this document. Which sounds like some foot-obsessed villain in a weird Sherlock Holmes spin-off
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Oh hey, lookit! Two webinars about unionizing! You know, using collective power to get higher wages and stuff?

Me and Nadia Shammas 🇵🇸 @ GDC just released This Is Normal, an edugame that teaches you about Self-Managed Abortion. It’s 10 minutes - please check it out and learn how abortion works, and how it is normal, safe and common healthcare! Play it on itch! slothysunday.itch.io/this-is-normal

Darren Flynn 🌻🇺🇦🌈 Ramona Naicker Rosie Hare Jennie-Claire Crate LILAC Conference We've written a follow-up blog post for our #lilac24 LILAC Conference panel to address more of the themes, comments and questions that we couldn't cover on the day.
‘Information literacy: social class perspectives’: preater.com/2024/04/19/inf…
#Critlib #CritInfoLit

We have written a follow-up blog post to our #LILAC24 panel! So grateful for everyone who attended and contributed to our Padlet - thanks again, you lovely bunch. Darren Flynn 🌻🇺🇦🌈 Andrew Preater Jennie-Claire Crate Ramona Naicker preater.com/2024/04/19/inf…

Imagine writing this.
Imagine publishing it.
Imagine being the woman in question, reading it.

It's so fresh and clean! Probably silly, but 7 or so years ago I felt out of this world anxious and doubtful about my future. But I ended up doing stuff! (Geez. My face is huge below. Photo credit is always: Ryan Cain. Updated needed.)
uwm.edu/informationstu…

Great session today Dr Jess Pilgrim-Brown, really interesting findings 👏👏👏
I'm looking forward to looking up your work.
Thanks Centre for Global Higher Education for hosting.

Next week I'll be talking about my doctoral research Centre for Global Higher Education webinar tuesday at 2pm. The presentation is entitled 'Working Class professional service and administrative staff in UK Higher education: Reflections on reward, recognition and responsibility. #research #education

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Following UKSG2024 I'm developing a guidance document for evaluating (gen) AI tools and softwares you may wish to procure for your library.

I would love people's input as this would massively benefit development of the guidance!

Come along to our free online event to learn all about being a union rep in a library! 📚 CILIP
More details and how to register here: cilip.org.uk/events/EventDe…

Telegraph journalist Sophia Money-Coutts, of the Coutts dynasty, says young people have it too good.

Paul Nowak isn't having it.

'Hands up if your mates closed Sure Start centres because they hated the idea that kids from poor backgrounds might get a fairer start in life and be lifted out of poverty'

Congratulations to 2024-2025 President-Elect Raymond Pun and all our newly elected leaders. Thank you to all the great candidates who stood for election this year and all the members who voted.
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