Andrew Walsh
@playbrarian.uk
Run workshops on Neurodiversity, play(fullness), creative teaching and more. National Teaching Fellow. Journal of Play in Adulthood Editor.
Neurodivergent. https://playbrarian.uk
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Andrew Walsh
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Being Playful in the Workplace
An online, asynchronous, course on being more playful in the workplace. Materials will be released once a week with a final sharing session.
playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Be more playful at work! I've just opened bookings for an online, asynchronous (with optional timetabled sharing session at the end), "Being more playful in the workplace" course spread over 7 weeks. As cheap as possible, including some "pay what you can tickets". #Play playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
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NLISN are collecting case studies that showcase stories from the network.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
NLISN are collecting case studies that showcase stories from the network.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
Gonna start packaging up Lego and posting it out this week for the online Intro to Lego workshop on 21st! I think I've one attendee outside the UK this time, so that'll go today or tomorrow just to be extra safe, rest can follow later in the week... legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk
Basic Introduction to using Lego in Adult Teaching / Support November '25
A basic intro to using Lego Serious Play type approaches in teaching and in learning support. Includes a pack of Lego to use in the training
LegoTeaching.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Gonna start packaging up Lego and posting it out this week for the online Intro to Lego workshop on 21st! I think I've one attendee outside the UK this time, so that'll go today or tomorrow just to be extra safe, rest can follow later in the week... legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk
Made a tool roll out of leather today, that was a fun workshop!
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Made a tool roll out of leather today, that was a fun workshop!
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
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Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
I don't know why, but I fancied writing a haiku and letterpress printing it! Might do another tomorrow? Ideas welcome!
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I don't know why, but I fancied writing a haiku and letterpress printing it! Might do another tomorrow? Ideas welcome!
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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🎉Tomorrow:
The NLISN-NeuroGLAM Cooperative Coffee Catchup
Friday, November 7th, 8 AM - 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time
Join us for a joint coffee catch up with our Canadian friends NeuroGLAM!
More information: nlisn.org/upcoming-eve...
Registration link:
tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Friday, November 7th, 8 AM - 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time
Join us for a joint coffee catch up with our Canadian friends NeuroGLAM!
More information: nlisn.org/upcoming-eve...
Registration link:
tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Upcoming Events
The NLISN-NeuroGLAM Cooperative Coffee Catchup Friday, November 7th, 8 AM – 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time Reach out to other neurodivergent librarians and knowledge workers across the po…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🎉Tomorrow:
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There’s still time to plan & submit a presentation proposal for #LILAC26. If you’re looking for inspiration, take a look at presentations from previous conferences: buff.ly/s4C8eln Our call for presentations closes in one week - Thursday 13 November (16:00 GMT) #infolit #digilit
LILAC
LILAC is an annual conference covering all aspects of information literacy and is a firm favourite in the calendar of information professionals. The conference is brimming with new ideas, innovative…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There’s still time to plan & submit a presentation proposal for #LILAC26. If you’re looking for inspiration, take a look at presentations from previous conferences: buff.ly/s4C8eln Our call for presentations closes in one week - Thursday 13 November (16:00 GMT) #infolit #digilit
Hopefully everything went out ok yesterday, including to the people who signed up just after the initial email! Trusting Eventbrite's email system to work properly here...
Lined up the first week of content (video and PDF) to go out for "Being Playful in the workplace" first thing next Monday morning!
You can still register anytime up until the end of November if you want to come along (still some "pay what you can afford" tickets too!) playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
You can still register anytime up until the end of November if you want to come along (still some "pay what you can afford" tickets too!) playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Being Playful in the Workplace
An online, asynchronous, course on being more playful in the workplace. Materials will be released once a week with a final sharing session.
playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Hopefully everything went out ok yesterday, including to the people who signed up just after the initial email! Trusting Eventbrite's email system to work properly here...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.
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I'm putting together a list of coaches to recommend to librarians and library managers. If you have worked with a coach and would recommend them, please share. DMs open or shoot me an email bobbi.newman AT gmail.com
#publlibs #medlibs #skybrarians 📚
#publlibs #medlibs #skybrarians 📚
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm putting together a list of coaches to recommend to librarians and library managers. If you have worked with a coach and would recommend them, please share. DMs open or shoot me an email bobbi.newman AT gmail.com
#publlibs #medlibs #skybrarians 📚
#publlibs #medlibs #skybrarians 📚
Lined up the first week of content (video and PDF) to go out for "Being Playful in the workplace" first thing next Monday morning!
You can still register anytime up until the end of November if you want to come along (still some "pay what you can afford" tickets too!) playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
You can still register anytime up until the end of November if you want to come along (still some "pay what you can afford" tickets too!) playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Being Playful in the Workplace
An online, asynchronous, course on being more playful in the workplace. Materials will be released once a week with a final sharing session.
playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Lined up the first week of content (video and PDF) to go out for "Being Playful in the workplace" first thing next Monday morning!
You can still register anytime up until the end of November if you want to come along (still some "pay what you can afford" tickets too!) playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
You can still register anytime up until the end of November if you want to come along (still some "pay what you can afford" tickets too!) playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
The black dot in the distance is my dog sulking because I threw a ball for another dog rather than him...
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The black dot in the distance is my dog sulking because I threw a ball for another dog rather than him...
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As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!
Be more playful at work! I've just opened bookings for an online, asynchronous (with optional timetabled sharing session at the end), "Being more playful in the workplace" course spread over 7 weeks. As cheap as possible, including some "pay what you can tickets". #Play playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Being Playful in the Workplace
An online, asynchronous, course on being more playful in the workplace. Materials will be released once a week with a final sharing session.
playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!
First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!
Be more playful at work! I've just opened bookings for an online, asynchronous (with optional timetabled sharing session at the end), "Being more playful in the workplace" course spread over 7 weeks. As cheap as possible, including some "pay what you can tickets". #Play playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
Being Playful in the Workplace
An online, asynchronous, course on being more playful in the workplace. Materials will be released once a week with a final sharing session.
playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!
Reposted by Andrew Walsh
Making up packs of Lego to post out for the upcoming (online) Lego workshop. Still time to book on if you haven't already (but limited spaces!) legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Making up packs of Lego to post out for the upcoming (online) Lego workshop. Still time to book on if you haven't already (but limited spaces!) legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk
So if you're neurodivergent and work in a library or information role (not just librarians) in any sector, please fill it in soon, the more the merrier!
We will be closing our representation statistics survey at some point in the next month, and we have already heard from more than 1000 neurodivergent librarians! #librarians #neurodiversity
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October 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
So if you're neurodivergent and work in a library or information role (not just librarians) in any sector, please fill it in soon, the more the merrier!
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Huge thankyou to CILIP Disability Network for awarding NLISN this Accessibility Award, which has now safely arrived in the post! We won as an organisation so although Jo and Andy are named, this award is for all of us. The committee, the network and all our allies. #cilip #libraries #accessibility
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Huge thankyou to CILIP Disability Network for awarding NLISN this Accessibility Award, which has now safely arrived in the post! We won as an organisation so although Jo and Andy are named, this award is for all of us. The committee, the network and all our allies. #cilip #libraries #accessibility
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Playposium 2026 – British Summer Festival
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Playposium 2026 – British Summer Festival
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes