patchedelbows.bsky.social
Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at UCL.
PhD student researching social class in the academic library workforce.
Co-organiser of Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) and member of Fair Library Jobs.
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ohhhhh what excellent news! your mascot is ready and waiting …
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Yeeeeeeeaaaaah! Baloo! 😻
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Me and @michelleab.bsky.social are incredibly proud of the quality and variety of sessions from our speakers.
Tickets are £15 for 3 days of sessions, bursaries (by lottery) are available for marginalised and underrepresented groups.
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And whilst I think the lack of positive male role models is worth addressing - I think it's equally important to address to abundance of *bad* male role models. I've met a fair number of men my age who we're invested in men who told them they would simply *be* all these great things -
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Oh I saw it...
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Alas so. It's remarkable (but not unsurprising in this case) to see the level of self-delusion needed to maintain the "I've been cancelled" narrative vs. the "you're just too unprofessional, chaotic and frankly embarrassing for us to be associated with you" reality
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Such embarrassing Main Character Energy.
I'm not sure anyone had even heard of them until they went completely off the deep end.
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Seconded on Japanese and Korean brands. I like Bioré, about £10-15 from Superdrug and it's boss. Not cheap but it's factor 50 and a lot cheaper than the other brands I've used.
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My main theorist is Bourdieue, Bordiue, Bordiue
Effs sake, Bourdieu. It's been two years and I just hammer random vowels and hope for the best 😞
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Infromation.
And I've been increasingly signing off my emails as:
Cheers,
Darreb
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🙏 We have a Wise Woman in our midst!
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Ball, C. and Ribchester, C. (2025) “‘It feels like you’ve joined the university club’: the transformative potential of Fellowship recognition for professional services staff”, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (33). doi: 10.47408/jldhe.vi33.1232.
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🔥
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Let me offer its natural accompaniment:
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You'll read about misting it regularly to increase humidity but I don't find it works cos the humidity clears super quickly from a spray bottle.
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Browning on the edges is usually lack of humidity (probably from having central heating on lately).
Helps if you stand it in a dish of expanded clay pellets with water. Can't fix the already browning leaves but helps prevent new ones.
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Shuuuuuush 🤫
Keep it on the DL long enough and you get to learn the secret society's handshake 🤝