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Feb 15

All the things coming to fruition this week, my insights paper doi.org/10.1629/uksg.6 and also my Information Professional interview.

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Paul Cavanagh

@peccavanagh

Feb 15

A welcome surprise in opening @CILIPinfo and seeing @PhdGeek on the cover! A brilliant former colleague and agent of positive change

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Book writing on a Saturday in a coffee shop while the wife has her knitting group nearby.

Laptop and coffee mug on a table. In the background in a sitting area with plants.

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Dr. Rebecca Burdine - (Black lives matter!)

Jun 9

ALL OF THIS.

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@rburdine1

Jun 8

This really is no joke. People act like toxic environments in research is the price we have to pay for genius to succeed. But have we considered that there might be more success in positive work environments where everyone feels properly supported? /1 nature.com/articles/d4158

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Researchers at the Crick and

@KingsCollegeLon

have made key findings about the way cancer interacts with surrounding immune cells. The findings, which could help discover new immunotherapy targets, were published in

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Uncovering cancer-immune system interactions could inform how patients respond to immunotherapy

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and King’s College London have revealed the complex interactions between cancer and the immune cells that surround a tumour, with the potential to inform...

Interesting analysis proving that bilbiometric studies using Scopus and WoS as a starting point can never give you the whole picture of #OpenAccess. Scopus and WoS use #DOAJ metadata (like

@OpenAlex_org

does), but they have their own criteria for what's included. #scholcomm

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Today is happening under a layer of shoulder pain from my frozen shoulder. Steroid injection next Wednesday which should probably help. Anyone got experience of it?

VCs: Pay me hundreds of thousands of pounds. Kneel before my visionary leadership as I drive the university forward on my will alone!! Also VCs: Boo hoo, I have no power to resolve the national industrial dispute. I'm just a powerless, little weak, local branch manager person.

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Queen's University Belfast

@QUBelfast

Jun 8

Our President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Greer's message to students affected by the marking and assessment boycott. For further information, please click here for our Student FAQs: ow.ly/VV9C50OIU22 You can also call our dedicated helpline for support on 028 9097… Show more

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Jun 9

I can tell I'm starting to properly get my feet under the table at

@TheCrick

(8 months in) because it's getting increasingly difficult to find a time to put a meeting in with me, and I'm forever having to take myself off commercial chancer mailing lists! 😂

Today is the deadline for CILIP East members to apply for the

@CILIPinfo

conference bursaries. Apply here: cilip.org.uk/members/group_

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Jun 9

The problem with front loading a lot of days in London on the week is by the time I get to Friday I'm basically like this...

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My phone now wants to use Grammarly to correct my tweets. I'm not sure I like this, the bad grammar is part of the charm, right?

all I want is to make a comic reach paleontology twitter, I love them 🩷

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alex norris

@dorrismccomics

dinosaur

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Happy pride, y'all 🖖🏳️‍🌈

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Children's Books Ireland

@KidsBooksIrel

🌈 The Pride Guide 2023 is here, and it’s back with more rainbow stories than ever 🌈 Now containing 200 titles celebrating LBGTQ+ love, joy and identity, it’s time to #ReadWithPride – this June and always. ➡️ ow.ly/Jo5J50OGFXR This guide is supported by

@Postvox

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Just checking in with myself, if I apply to be the chair of a professional body EDI-focused committee, I'm going to massively regret it, right? #PrideMonth #CanNotResistOpportunities

Jun 6

Had a super busy couple of days, so many super interesting meetings about exciting projects, working with people I really like. It's always good to be brought out of the day today and be reminded what you really love doing ❤️

Jun 5

If librarians ever had the time to read...

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cats with jobs

@CatWorkers

Jun 5

Librarian.

A ginger cat reading some books, as ginger cats do.

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Jun 5

So far my #PrideMonth2023 has consisted entirely of some company saying something vaguely supportive of LGBTQ+ folks -> massive backlash (chance to update the block list) -> company may or may not retract post. Enjoying it greatly 😫

Looking for a job in digital education? Like nice people and good snacks? Excellent there's 6 new roles here in Sheffield on a VLE implementation team that will be really interesting. 1/🧵

Doing lots of connecting and networking with head (or only) librarians in research intensive institutes/companies/museums etc. at the moment. Wondering if we might not be better in a group rather than 1:1...Anyone know if something like this exists in the UK? #librarians

Love you nerds x

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Happy pride x

Fun times with delayed & cancelled trains back to Sheffield tonight. And I'd stay over but there are strikes tomorrow! No shade on strikers tho, the corporations need to fix stuff. Really fed up with useless travel right now.

I had several conversations about this at

@NASIG

this year - particularly about how you can't just see the USA as homogenous regarding LGBTQ+ safety, which state you're hosting in makes a hell of a difference.

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Dr. Lane Carasik

@LaneNuclear

As a LGBTQIA+/queer individual, I truly feel abandoned by my professional community in terms of fight against hosting meetings in unwelcoming and openly hostile places. I'm exhausted by the demand for me to send at-risk individuals into openly hostile environments.

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Turnitin's AI detector: higher-than-expected false positives

Excellent turn out to a great talk from

@damianpattinson

@eLife

. Lots of questions from the audience.

When #Turnitin’s #AI writing–detection tool was first released, the company said it had a < 1% false positive rate. Now, Turnitin says the false positive rate is #higher. But the company has not disclosed the new false positive rate.

@insidehighered

insidehighered.com

Yay! Also, don't forget the commercial companies trying to make a buck too! (but I'm also going to try and be less cynical this pride month)

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Benjamin Cohen

@benjamincohen

Happy month of politicians saying platitudes about LGBTQ+ rights that they’ll be willing to contradict in a heartbeat in order to fuel the culture wars

We've got

from

coming to the

to talk about their new publishing model. 1.45 Seminar rm 5. It's the first real event I've been a part of at

@CrickOpen

so I'm hoping there's an audience!

I wasted almost half a day of research yesterday because I trusted ChatGPT's answer too much. I asked ChatGPT how to do X using the programming language Y (it is not a secret, but details are irrelevant). The answer looked quite credible and there were references to human experts… Show more

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Sat on train actually putting down some words for the book - particularly inspired by some of the EDI collections talks I've been to at

@UKSG

and

@NASIG

over the last couple of months.

May 30

Here is sneaky cat bc it's unfair to post about a cat and not show a phto

A ginger, black and white cat lying on the edge of a flower bed.

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Excellent moment in a meeting earlier when I saw movement in the corner of my eye and it was the cat. When I say 'the cat' I don't mean my cat, I mean the sneaky neighbourhood cat that is super keen to come into our house at all times.

Thanks USS, not only did you tank my pension but now you've lost my personal data which apparently includes "title, initial(s), and name, your date of birth, your National Insurance number, your USS member number and your retirement date". Really providing value to customers.

May 29

The name sake of the dodgy highstreet wetherspoons in the town I grew up in. Fond memories.

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John Constable

@JohnConstableRA

May 29

Good Day! The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838 by JMW Turner RA 1839 Oil on Canvas (@NationalGallery) The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar.

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May 29

And I am back in the UK. The Heathrow security staff commented that I was really calm when selected for a pat down. Lack of sleep and a fatalistic attitude, I think! #TravelDisasters

Herbert Howells - O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

May 28

Today I'm listening to the music that my Granny loved. Here's

@ShefChambChoir

(who I have on and off been a member of) singing Howells - who my Granny once saw walk distractedly into a pond.

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Sheffield Chamber Choirdirected by Robert WebbOrganist: Jem StephensonTour to Peterborough Cathedral, Summer 2012

May 28

Everyone think positive thoughts about my flight, please. Today is the day I get to go home! #CancelledFlights

I don't even like cricket, but this is a glorious thread!

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enbyinjail

@enbyinjail

This is an extremely fucking smug and self-satisfied thread. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you find it as much fun as I had this afternoon. This is how it went down. I’m on holiday, with Andrew and Julie and the kids, plus Andrew’s parents. They’re all here for the week, sadly…

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Distracting myself at the Natural History Museum. Love a Woodchuck, it's like a little portly dude, but the Badgers over here are just scary and wrong.

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Photo of a stuffed Woodchuck standing on its hind legs.

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Just heard that my amazing grandmother passed away. She was 100, had an amazing life and was very ready to go. But I am stuck 3600 miles away and feel rather lost in the world right now.