Bruce_Research
bruceresearch.bsky.social
Bruce_Research
@bruceresearch.bsky.social
Former chemist, then an educational publisher. Now a social informatics researcher. Interested in in trying to make the world work a little less awfully.
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Finally getting round to joining BlueSky.

Twitter is x.com/bruce_research

Blog is bruceryan.info
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Wonder how many of his constituents are losing their HE jobs just now? Seems to be missing from his narrative.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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As reported recently in the North Edinburgh News, there's now only 10 days to submit your project application!

Our last support session is this Wed (15th), 5.30pm at Leith Community Centre! Talk to our volunteer team if you want help with your application! nen.press/leithchooses...
LeithChooses: Applications Open!
WELLBEING IN LEITH GETS LEITHCHOOSES 2026 FUNDING BOOST LeithChooses is delighted to announce that applications are now open for funding bids for community projects across the wider Leith area!  Or…
nen.press
October 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Bridging Skills for Working Lives: Exploring Career-Ready Skills Through Bridge

- Mon 13 Oct, 3:30–6
- Clyde Bridge Centre, 4 Nasmyth Rd, Glasgow G52 4PR
- FREE, including pizza, snacks, travel bursaries

Register festivalofsocialscience.com/events/bridg...

A bit more detail bit.ly/3VTg8py
Bridging Skills for Working Lives: Exploring Career-Ready Skills Through the Card Game of Bridge
A call from a former Napier colleague, Marina Milosheva Calling all students, parents and teachers! Did you know that playing card games can help you with your career? Join us on Monday 13th Octobe…
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October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Thank you to @edinreporter.bsky.social for featuring us in their October edition!

Our team are at McDonald Road Library (upstairs) from 4pm to 5pm today to assist any potential applicants before the October 22nd deadline. No appointment nessecery! theedinburghreporter.co.uk
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October 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division.

None of our problems are because of too much kindness.
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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@pammckinney.bsky.social and I are liveblogging from the European Conference on Information Literacy, being held in Bamberg, Germany, this week. So far we have blogged 12 talks! You can find the posts at information-literacy.blogspot.com/search/label...
Information Literacy Weblog
Curating information literacy stories from around the world since 2005 - - - Stories identified, chosen and written by humans!
information-literacy.blogspot.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Take your information science MSc at Edinburgh Napier: www.napier.ac.uk/courses/msc-.... Course leader is bsky.app/profile/fran...

The course has fab lecturers and emphases on supporting students and making positive differences to society.

More about Napier at blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Edinburgh Napier University - Bluesky Directory
Some ENU accounts and friendly faces to help get you started on Bluesky!
blueskydirectory.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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WORLD PEACE DAY 🕊️✊🦋

There is nothing more destructive, more irrational, more useless than war.

And that is true for every war: The wars we fight against ourselves, in our families, among allies, against neighbours, against nations, against nature. 🧵
#photography #resist #peacenotwar #worldpeaceday
September 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Blowing my own trumpet, with thanks to @milalliance.bsky.social. Original work is at www.cilips.org.uk/misinfo-scho...
September 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
'Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians' project report is now published on CILIPS' website (www.cilips.org.uk/misinfo-scho...). Thanks to CILIPS (funding), participants, Napier colleagues (review of draft report).

My blog-post is at bruceryan.info/2025/09/15/t...
‘Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians’ project report published
I’m very happy that the project report on ‘Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians’ is now published on the CILIPS website. It feels like it&#821…
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September 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Blogged: 'Deadlines approach for next iConference, hosted by Edinburgh Napier University Spring 2026' hazelhall.org/2025/09/10/d... **NB papers & posters submissions due next Monday 15 September** cc
@francesryanphd.bsky.social @edinburghnapier.bsky.social
Deadlines approach for next iConference, hosted by Edinburgh Napier University Spring 2026
There is still time to submit contributions to the next iSchools iConference. However, if you are working on a research paper (full or short), or a poster, next week’s Monday deadline is fast…
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September 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Celebrating 20 years of the Information Literacy Weblog
6,425 posts, 5.2 million page views ... the Information Literacy Weblog has been publishing c. 300 posts a year for 20 years. Looking at the first post, we said "Hi, This is a temporary blog created whilst The Information Literacy Blog (at http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/ since April 2003) is being found a new home. ... We hope to have a new home as soon as we can!" Well, it hasn't been so temporary! The old blog (2003-2005) ceased because it was run under LaTeX was on an old server, and the person who was supporting it moved jobs. Some pages from have been archived in the Internet Archive (e.g. this home page from June 2004, which has a report from a workshop in Yeppoon, Australia and reports from the LIDA conference in Dubrovnik, e.g. this one. I was busy in those days! BTW the internet archive links can be slow to respond, so patience is needed). Initially Stuart Boon provided some posts, and latterly Pam McKinney has joined me in liveblogging conferences, but otherwise the posts are devised and written by me (Sheila Webber). The tagline of the old blog 2004 was Sharing relevant items and information relating to information literacy worldwide, which became the slightly snappier We bring you news and reports about information literacy around the world to start with on this blog. In due course (i.e. I can't remember when) I changed this to Curating information literacy stories from around the world since 2005. You may have noticed that I have now added a further tagline "Stories identified, chosen and written by humans!" since nowadays it seems worth pointing out that there is human agency both in deciding what to blog and in writing the posts.  It seems unlikely that I will still be blogging in 20 years time, but I intend to keep going for now!
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September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I hear that a key part of information literacy (distinguishing between 'X is definitely true' and 'X may be true' is baked into Turkish: www.youtube.com/shorts/XCRsi.... It's called evidentiality (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evident...) My Q: what if the speaker's evidence is incorrect? Over to linguists!
The Coolest Turkish Expression!
YouTube video by human1011
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September 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Woohoo - it’s time! LeithChooses is now accepting project funding applications. For details of how to apply, please visit www.leithchooses.net
LeithChooses
Participatory Budgeting for the Leith Neighbourhood Network
www.leithchooses.net
August 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Blogged: Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians: www.cilips.org.uk/tackling-mis...

In this post about my presentation to the
@cilipscotland.bsky.social annual conference, I begin to ponder the Mentimeter responses to my presentation questions.
Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians
www.cilips.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, in session on More than a Podcast: Discovering Community Connections in Libraries
Iain Robertson and Dave Young, South Lanarkshire Libraries. it may interactive, so will pause bskying now
June 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, RM notes the importantance of being a teacher to having influence. There needs to be constant 'noisy and annoying' advocacy.
June 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, RM notes how underfunded Scotland's libraries are compared to, say, Oz, Norway. (I think 'FFS can there be some good news please') - there had been no senior librarian in CnES for 2 years before RM arrived! There was much dysfunction to tackle.
June 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, RM notes her sabbatical in Spain, and how she developed her love of Scotland as a backpacker. (I'm thinking of www.amazon.co.uk/Stornoway-Wa...) RM notes all the fun of trying to come to the UK permanently, and how ALIA, ASLA, QSLA may or may not have helped.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
At @cilipscotland.bsky.social conf, RM notes how she moved back to China - when going there, it's easier to take a leg of lamb in your suitcase than English books, she says.

She notes how you can't simply come in and change things. Relationship-establishing question in CNeS is 'who's your boss?'
June 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM