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Academic Librarian. Former bookshop manager and pub manager(long story). Loves history, politics, camping, cricket, and people being kind to each other. Personal account, views my own. He/him

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Great summary of Clarivate's plans for access to books in academic libraries www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

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It's that time of year! Many of you will be planning your dissertations. Our new display is designed to help with this process. Alongside step-by-step dissertation guides, find out about: - Research methods - Literature reviews - Systematic reviews - Critical thinking - Academic writing

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Our new (to us) home from home, ready for adventures starting in a couple of weeks! We originally hired this very van last summer for a tour of cricket matches staying near grounds across England!

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Happy St Brigid's Day, the day people traditionally spout more ahistorical nonsense about Irish "goddesses" and "pre-Christian customs" than on any other day of the year. Resist the BS! Here's a really good piece by Tiago Veloso Silva as a little antidote: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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70% of Irish twenty-five year olds now live with their parents. I wrote about why that's obviously a very bad thing. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

Policy Commons' Top 20 Most-Viewed reports of 2024! #16 . . . . Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation: Best practices and policies to reduce consumer harms from @Brookings.edu @BrookingsInst ➡️ coilink.org/20.500.1259...

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English speakers that accept the pronunciation of names like Anaïs and Thibault because they know that despite using a similar alphabet they're French language names but can't grasp the same logic for Irish language names like Siobhán or Eoghan or Caoilfhionn are the worst type of willful eejits.

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Australia and South Africa players leave the field at the end of the third day of the 2nd Test at Port Elizabeth in February 2014. Morne de Klerk's picture was a runner-up in the 2014 MCC Wisden Photograph of the Year

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Your new world champion, Luke Littler.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

So much for taking it easy food wise post-Christmas

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Working nights is tough Most night workers are in health and social care, transport or warehouses, not hospitality. Nearly half report that night shifts negatively impact their sleep, and roughly 30 per cent cite worse physical and mental health. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

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Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, born #otd in 1775. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.' 👀

submitted 95 days ago • 9 comments

Prince Andrew A wrong ‘un. That’s the post

submitted 98 days ago • 164 comments

I wrote this on a strange week of trying to explain the Irish election to English people. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 105 days ago • 5 comments

How are you this morning?

submitted 110 days ago • 39 comments

I don’t want to force anybody into anything, but it’s a great time for Jason Segel to release a full length puppet-led vampire musical.

submitted 111 days ago • 209 comments

Greg(g) Wallace's video feels like he's deliberately leaning into everything that's been said, knowing that there is a ready market for that sort of guff on several rolling "news" channels. A show reel for GB News I fear