Claire Knowles
@cgknowles.bsky.social
Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
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Happy birthday to us! 🎂
Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton
We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited!
RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton
We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited!
RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
January 27, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Happy birthday to us! 🎂
Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton
We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited!
RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton
We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited!
RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
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🤖 @coar-repositories.bsky.social has announced the new Dealing with AI Bots website that provides a wealth of information on bots & #crawlers impacting the services and operations of open #repositories, including mitigation strategies. See:
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
January 23, 2026 at 3:27 PM
🤖 @coar-repositories.bsky.social has announced the new Dealing with AI Bots website that provides a wealth of information on bots & #crawlers impacting the services and operations of open #repositories, including mitigation strategies. See:
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
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The Call for applications for the DISKAH Fellowship scheme 2026-2027 is now OPEN! Funding is available to broaden skills for engagement with Digital Research Infrastructure #DRI in the #ArtsandHumanities research: www.diskah.org/fellowship-2...
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
The Call for applications for the DISKAH Fellowship scheme 2026-2027 is now OPEN! Funding is available to broaden skills for engagement with Digital Research Infrastructure #DRI in the #ArtsandHumanities research: www.diskah.org/fellowship-2...
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Want to level up your library career this year?
We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Want to level up your library career this year?
We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
Lovely walk in the crisp snow this morning.
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Lovely walk in the crisp snow this morning.
At the University of Leeds, we are seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Lead Engineer to lead a project development team for Digital Library services, to support digital access to the Libraries’ Cultural Collections? It is a fantastic opportunity: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lead Engineer (Digital Library)
The interviews will be held on the 12 February 2026This role will be based on the university campus with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible worki...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
At the University of Leeds, we are seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Lead Engineer to lead a project development team for Digital Library services, to support digital access to the Libraries’ Cultural Collections? It is a fantastic opportunity: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Happy New Year from Cultural Collections & Galleries! 🎆
We hope you've had a well deserved rest and we can't wait to welcome you back. 💜
We hope you've had a well deserved rest and we can't wait to welcome you back. 💜
January 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Happy New Year from Cultural Collections & Galleries! 🎆
We hope you've had a well deserved rest and we can't wait to welcome you back. 💜
We hope you've had a well deserved rest and we can't wait to welcome you back. 💜
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January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough
December 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough
Christmas on University of Leeds campus
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Christmas on University of Leeds campus
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We are hiring a Digitisation Studio Manager to manage our Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service! 📸📖🏛️🖥️
£41,064 - £48,822 per annum, full-time, open-ended
Closes 5 Jan 2026
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@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Get in touch if you'd like to know more!
£41,064 - £48,822 per annum, full-time, open-ended
Closes 5 Jan 2026
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@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Get in touch if you'd like to know more!
Digitisation Studio Manager
We are looking for a Digitisation Studio Manager to join our team on a permanent basis. If you have experience of running a digitisation studio, knowledge of a range of high-end imaging equipment, sof...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We are hiring a Digitisation Studio Manager to manage our Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service! 📸📖🏛️🖥️
£41,064 - £48,822 per annum, full-time, open-ended
Closes 5 Jan 2026
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Get in touch if you'd like to know more!
£41,064 - £48,822 per annum, full-time, open-ended
Closes 5 Jan 2026
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Get in touch if you'd like to know more!
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Job Klaxon! PDRA role at @designinf.bsky.social: with the data analytics team at CoSTAR Foresight Lab. Full time, 2026–29, contributing to UK wide #costarnetwork analysis on creative industries and creative technologies. Closes 5th Jan! Please share. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Post Doctoral Research Associate (CoSTAR Foresight Lab)
Edinburgh College of Art is seeking to recruit a Post Doctoral Research Associate in CoSTAR Foresight Lab
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Job Klaxon! PDRA role at @designinf.bsky.social: with the data analytics team at CoSTAR Foresight Lab. Full time, 2026–29, contributing to UK wide #costarnetwork analysis on creative industries and creative technologies. Closes 5th Jan! Please share. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)."
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
small-language-models-trust-clark-ff2025-shared
Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Jason A. Clark @jasonclark Montana State University Fantastic Futures 2025
docs.google.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)."
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
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Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
So excited to hear from Rachel Coldicutt as our opening keynote
#FantasticFutures2025
Check out the full programme at
www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
So excited to hear from Rachel Coldicutt as our opening keynote
#FantasticFutures2025
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
So excited to hear from Rachel Coldicutt as our opening keynote
#FantasticFutures2025
Check out the full programme at
www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
So excited to hear from Rachel Coldicutt as our opening keynote
#FantasticFutures2025
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“Careful Consequence Check” mentioned in the #FF2025 opening keynote by
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Introducing the Careful Consequence Check — Careful Industries
A step-by-step guide to using the Careful Consequence Check canvas.
www.careful.industries
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“Careful Consequence Check” mentioned in the #FF2025 opening keynote by
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025
Comment ça marche
comparia.beta.gouv.fr
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025
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Abstracts for the long papers on now www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... and the short papers www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... - find out more about brilliant work on maps, assessing archival records, computer vision and language models, and AI for art collections #FF2025
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Abstracts for the long papers on now www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... and the short papers www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... - find out more about brilliant work on maps, assessing archival records, computer vision and language models, and AI for art collections #FF2025
Great to be at Fantastic Futures Conference #FF2025 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. I am looking forward to the packed programme.
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Great to be at Fantastic Futures Conference #FF2025 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. I am looking forward to the packed programme.
Regretting leaving my woolly hat at home this morning.
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Regretting leaving my woolly hat at home this morning.
Great to see SPARKLE/PRVoices and the new Enact service mentioned here. Thanks to AHRC for funding this crucial work to support practice researchers. @jennye.bsky.social, @scottmclaughlin.bsky.social
NEW on Wonkhe: After twenty-five years of progress creative practice research no longer needs to justify itself, writes Roy Hanney – but it still lacks the infrastructure to thrive. buff.ly/L10Fmfp
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Great to see SPARKLE/PRVoices and the new Enact service mentioned here. Thanks to AHRC for funding this crucial work to support practice researchers. @jennye.bsky.social, @scottmclaughlin.bsky.social
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It's the final week to submit to the #RLUK26 #CFP - closes this Friday!
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It's the final week to submit to the #RLUK26 #CFP - closes this Friday!
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
#RLUK26 will explore dynamic, inclusive & strategic approaches needed to manage myriad challenges libraries face re: academic freedom & contested spaces + collections.
Our virtual conference is open to all.
ℹ️ bit.ly/RLUKconf
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We are looking for a chair of our new Department of AI and Society. The vision is to create a future where AI systems are built by society, for society. Please share widely. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
Professor, Department Chair of AI and Society
The Department of AI and Society at the University at Buffalo, invites applications from outstanding scholars with excellent leadership abilities for the position of Department Chair. The Department o...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We are looking for a chair of our new Department of AI and Society. The vision is to create a future where AI systems are built by society, for society. Please share widely. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
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University Cultural Collections and Generative AI: Critical Approaches in a Library Context doi.org/10.48785/100...
@dcch-leeds.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social
@dcch-leeds.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social
University Cultural Collections and Generative AI: Critical Approaches in a Library Context - White Rose Research Online
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
University Cultural Collections and Generative AI: Critical Approaches in a Library Context doi.org/10.48785/100...
@dcch-leeds.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social
@dcch-leeds.bsky.social @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @cgknowles.bsky.social
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🔵 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the #RLUK26 call for papers - Stewardship in challenging times
The virtual #RLUK26 Conference will explore how libraries can navigate complex intersections of academic freedom, censorship & contested spaces+collections
ℹ️ Read the full #CFP @ bit.ly/RLUKconf
The virtual #RLUK26 Conference will explore how libraries can navigate complex intersections of academic freedom, censorship & contested spaces+collections
ℹ️ Read the full #CFP @ bit.ly/RLUKconf
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🔵 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the #RLUK26 call for papers - Stewardship in challenging times
The virtual #RLUK26 Conference will explore how libraries can navigate complex intersections of academic freedom, censorship & contested spaces+collections
ℹ️ Read the full #CFP @ bit.ly/RLUKconf
The virtual #RLUK26 Conference will explore how libraries can navigate complex intersections of academic freedom, censorship & contested spaces+collections
ℹ️ Read the full #CFP @ bit.ly/RLUKconf
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In case you missed it! Catch the recording of @rluk.ac.uk's latest Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries seminar here: www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-dema... 📹
Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries
Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries is an RLUK programme of events that aims to foster conversation around decolonisation and inclusive practice in collecting, describing, presenting, and engag...
https://www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-demand/#EDI2📹
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In case you missed it! Catch the recording of @rluk.ac.uk's latest Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries seminar here: www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-dema... 📹
Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social