Podcast ads have become full Inception. I just heard an ad for a podcast inside the podcast I was already listening to
Podcast ads have become full Inception. I just heard an ad for a podcast inside the podcast I was already listening to
Weโve got an exciting new opportunity in the University of Sydney Library for someone with strengths in service design and stakeholder engagementโand we welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds, incl libraries, UX, higher ed, & research support
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
I canโt believe I would ever say this, but wow, LinkedIn feels like such a safe space
I AM SO EXCITED!!!
We finished watching Season 3 of Industry, and oh boy, it is so good. Itโs completely unhinged and beautifully crafted TV
Pip Adam has a comedy writing workshop on YouTube ๐๐๐
CONDENSED *shudder*
I want to see a bubble storm too!
The most alarming thing about this storyโโLast July, the journal retracted 81 papers from another special issue, using the same notice as the recent retractionsโ
Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
โ๏ธ Popeye
๐ต๏ธ The Maltese Falcon
๐ The Sound and the Fury
๐ฎ๐น A Farewell to Arms
๐ ๏ธ A Room of One's Own
๐ Hallelujah
๐บ Bolero
and many more!
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This American Life have done the most incredible reporting about Gaza. Itโs mostly phone calls to people on the ground. Their willingness to amplify the voices of ordinary people in Gaza shouldnโt be remarkable, but it is
I can never forget this remarkable paragraph from Paul Morleyโs book about Tony Wilson. A disarmingly frank Peter Saville observation that arguably deserves โlast wordโ status.
I am late to watching this episode but wanted to jump in to endorse. Heartening to hear the shout out that David Anderson and Mark Scott got for their protection of independent journalism at the ABC
This is devastating news for NZ researchers, universities, and society at large. How will NZers understand their past, present and future? I worry that it is ushering in a cultural dark age
Hello friends, I am hiring! I have a great role for a Research Services Librarian based in a new team delivering research impact advisory services. I am looking for someone with a passion for helping researchers and supporting scholarly publishing
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Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading Orlando by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, holding The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading A Room Of Ones Own by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading The Bell Jar.
Did you know The Bell Jar, The Handmaid's Tale, The Feminine Mystique, and more all appeared on Sesame Street in the 90s?
The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...
We are delighted to host the 2025 #IIIF conference at @universityofleeds.bsky.social - call for proposals is now open. Join us in June for a wonderful conference and a rich experience of Leeds.
Evan Ratliffโs podcast โShell Gameโ is exquisite storytelling. Absolutely loved it. Loved it, as in having tears of laughter and tears of deep sadness. So good.
Text reads, "The State of the Humanities: Reflecting on the World Humanities Report and Humanities in the United States." Includes icons of a chart, an open book on a screen, and a globe with a magnifying glass.
What is the current state of the #humanities in the US?
On the Ithaka S+R blog, Eugene Tobin introduces an essay co-authored with James Shulman for the World Humanities Report series. Explore insights on the academic and public humanities: sr.ithaka.org/blog/reflect...
Highly recommend reading Chris Hilliard's The Littlehampton Libels for a historian's alternative take!
Really fantastic copyright and AI talks on the final day of #CHSconf2024. Copyright is a tool not an objective, and itโs clear to me at least to reform copyright laws to be more specific about the objectives of copyright (research/education)
โThere are such big challenges and it is such a disrupted marketplaceโ โ Gaynor Redvers-Mutton
Read and publish has been successful at making more research available open access, but it hasnโt enabled full OA. There are conflicting thoughts about what will help us achieve more OA #CHSconf2024
I am in Charleston as a first-timer conference attendee for the #charlestonconference. Iโll be jamming all things library collections and research, feel free to mute me if not of interest :-)
Agreed! Just because we offer a service that we think it is important, doesn't mean it is important to our users
An absolutely โrings trueโ read for those of us involved in book publishing www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buy...
A brand new OA toolkit for research from our friends in Aotearoa? Pulling up a chair and settling in with a cuppa oaaustralasia.org/open-access-... #OpenAccess #OA #Libraries
โThis is the โjagged frontierโ of generative AI performance. Sometimes the AI is better than you, and sometimes you are better than the AI. Good luck guessing which is which.โ on.ft.com/4bH3SyO
All talk of "AI" in education has to be understood as the various products of at least 5 different ways of thinking: [short thread]
Interesting reporting on a practice of HiCi researchers switching their primary affiliation to Saudi universities in apparent gamification of rankings t.co/hGwMRjQnHt