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Delegated my memory to the internet long ago. Kindness is cool. Scotland's Library and Information Professional of the Year 2023. All views my own. She/her. Greatest achievement: using up an entire lip balm without losing it.
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Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks *and* the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

I don't want to alarm you all, but someone has put the entire Mr Blobby VHS is up on the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/mr-b...

blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghleg...

what if I'm just a machine dreaming that I'm vegetative electron microscopy

Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

Saving you a click: they aren't trained to hunt fossil fuel company CEOs

What a lovely thing available for Alzheimer's patients at the Royal Botanic Gardens! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love how the Lothian electric buses 'sing' when they're at a stop. It's so cheerful! I assume it's something to do with the braking system or power, but that 'hrum hrum hrum' noise cycle is very musical!

Watch out, a snake!

These librarian spies understood how to find value in information.

Gave some your visitors advice for reading Scots in historic legal materials "Go full, stereotypical 'hoots mon' Scots and read it out loud." It does really help, I promise!

CILIP, why you wanna traumatise me when I'm just doing some professional reading 😭

The Scottish Parliament is asking for votes on which three new quotations from the Scots Makers should go on its poetry wall in celebration of the Parliament's 20th birthday. Via @edinburghminute.bsky.social www.parliament.scot/get-involved...

Bedtime reading.

This would have been an excellent addition to our annual report. *yes, I know I'm late, I've been busy, ok*

Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.

Bo'ness Library took return of a book yesterday, more than half a century after it was borrowed. Staff are sure it's because the #LoveLibraries campaign jogged some memories! 😄 #boness

Did she steal them because they're sooooooooooooo soft and fluffy? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals. Read more👇 www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

If you haven't already seen it, please enjoy the press conference pose of this drug-busting capybara!! It's like a coiled spring, ready for action....😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist. When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question." @courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...

*Launches petition to create some new art for the courts here....*

Dear god, what is Mum researching now...

I thought I'd signed already. Checked. Hadn't. Have now. Follow my example...

Y'all know that Tunnocks doesn't just do tea cakes and caramel wafers, right? They have a bakery shop in Uddingston filled with cakes and pies too...

Librarian Goal: have your boss make a medal for you. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

Join us tonight in person and online for the book launch of Professor Chloe Kennedy's book: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Happy Wednesday! If you're an information professional (library, KM, archives etc) in Edinburgh or the surrounds, why not come along on Wednesday 5th March to this event? scotcourts.libcal.com/calendar/Pub...

Jokes aside, this piece is written by an ECR on the project to study these snakes, and the article definitely doesn't go where you think it will. Quite a nice morning read, actually.

A question for the ages.

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

We are delighted to be launching the 2025-26 round of the RLUK/ The National Archives Professional Fellowship Scheme which is open to colleagues from RLUK member institutions and TNA. To find more about the scheme and how to apply, please visit: www.rluk.ac.uk/professional... @rluk.bsky.social

New workplace risk just dropped. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder if the number of feral hogs is 30-50... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Well there's some lovely news for a Friday! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘How about a reboot? Stay with me here. What if… he’s not really dead?’

Bought a light pad to show off some of our glass slides better and found that someone made a boo-boo in the past. These slide 9's can't BOTH be "the Great Hall" since one is of the outside of the building rather than the inside. Someone wasn't paying attention when labelling 100+ years ago 😂