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hurban-ermit.bsky.social
Open Access officer in Edinburgh🔓; casual nerd🎲📚🛸; archer 🏹; pursuing library chartership in fits and starts. Knows where his towel _is_, but forgot to bring it with him.
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submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'm always interested in alternative approaches to cataloguing, and the progress made in decolonising post-imperial libraries fascinates me: magazine.1000libraries.com/this-library...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Successfully did my first ever "story time" as a librarian who's only worked in academic libraries. It was just a one-off for an event. Apparently years of explaining databases to sleep-deprived undergrads is excellent training for holding the attention of a group of 7 year olds!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Huh, I'd been looking for a colour palette for the back bedroom ...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

"Reading #ethnographies is a very important part of learning about #anthropology ... but there’s very uneven access to those books." Find out why @robotforaday.bsky.social chose to publish his book #OpenAccess and remove barriers to teaching and learning in this new blog post: 👉 bit.ly/3ZlKK52

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I have three types of TTRPG character: 1. Geriatric, cantankerous chaotic neutral, sh!t-stirrer 2. Naive, garrulous, good. All cards laid face up on the table, to the despair of the schemers in my party. Origin of the phrase "Don't let the Tremere talk" 3. Chaotic good with impulse control issues.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

So I understand that Stuart Semple is going to bring a case to the courts because Anish Kapoor went to see Thunderbolts*

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Also, great question to Starmer from a Mirror journalist: Just how much will UK anti-hate legislation be watered down to accommodate the U.S administration?

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Did anyone else notice Starmer and Mandelson adopting Agent Orange's syntax? It almost sounded like their 'speeches' had been written by him.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Today I fell off the wagon, and bought a comic* But in doing so, discovered that the second Sandman: Mystery Theatre compendium has a release date at last @alasdairstuart.com forbiddenplanet.com/457888-sandm... * having abandoned single issues when Amazon crippled Comixology.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

That's a terrifyingly familiar silhouette.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I'm aware of the theory that the rise of anti-social media on public transport is due to people forgetting how to considerately share space post lockdown, but I wonder if it's more to do with manufacturers removing headphone sockets from phones and buds being easily lost/prohibitively expensive

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

I shouldn't have to pay for porridge because a single oat isn't really worth anything.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Big news for #OpenScience! openRxiv has launched as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, ensuring preprints remain researcher-led, open, rapidly shared, and sustainable. Read more: openrxiv.org/introducing-... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #ECRChat #PhDSky #MedSky

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

So we're not tweeting or tooting... Bleating?

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Biorxiv.org is throwing up a 'webserver is down' error when I try to get at it thrown a work PC (even when I hot-spot through my phone's 5G). Using my phone's browser, either DuckDuckGo or Chrome, access is fine *even when connected to the office wi-fi/eduroam. Weird #BioRxiv

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Good grief! It's a good thing APCs aren't charged per author. Some of the papers, I'm cataloguing have more 'authors' than paragraphs.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely sky tonight, but all the clouds are in just the wrong places to pick out any of the planets,except Venus. Also, I suddenly have a urge to play #MassEffect fir* the umpteenth time, can't imagine why. Also can't understand why autocorrect has somehow developed an accent. Regional update?

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