Rowan
@scatterbones.bsky.social
29. he/they 🏳️⚧️
librarian 🐀 occasional poet ✨
newsletter & writing: linktr.ee/scatterbones
greater manchester/newcastle 🖤🤍
librarian 🐀 occasional poet ✨
newsletter & writing: linktr.ee/scatterbones
greater manchester/newcastle 🖤🤍
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PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
listen, it’s either performative reading in a cafe or hinge, the options are limited
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
listen, it’s either performative reading in a cafe or hinge, the options are limited
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@nlisn.bsky.social is collecting case studies, to showcase stories from our network and show others like us that they are not alone.
Share your story with us, big or small, about what you’ve learned, the support you’ve found, or how the network has made a difference.
nlisn.org/case-studies/
Share your story with us, big or small, about what you’ve learned, the support you’ve found, or how the network has made a difference.
nlisn.org/case-studies/
Case Studies
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 demo…
nlisn.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@nlisn.bsky.social is collecting case studies, to showcase stories from our network and show others like us that they are not alone.
Share your story with us, big or small, about what you’ve learned, the support you’ve found, or how the network has made a difference.
nlisn.org/case-studies/
Share your story with us, big or small, about what you’ve learned, the support you’ve found, or how the network has made a difference.
nlisn.org/case-studies/
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honestly even if you're reading performatively (???) keep doing it lol, buy books, take pictures of yourself reading books, let the reading make your brain better
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
honestly even if you're reading performatively (???) keep doing it lol, buy books, take pictures of yourself reading books, let the reading make your brain better
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Libra: Big changes are in store for you at work this week! (A slightly faster printer.)
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Libra: Big changes are in store for you at work this week! (A slightly faster printer.)
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THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
printing this photo to put on my fridge
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
printing this photo to put on my fridge
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New online talk
Sat 15 Nov, 8pm
FEARLESS GIRLS, BRAVE WOMEN - THE FOLK TALES THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Book now for £5 at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fearless-g...
Janet Dowling digs deep into their origins and finds that some of our well known stories about women are not quite what they seem
Sat 15 Nov, 8pm
FEARLESS GIRLS, BRAVE WOMEN - THE FOLK TALES THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Book now for £5 at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fearless-g...
Janet Dowling digs deep into their origins and finds that some of our well known stories about women are not quite what they seem
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
New online talk
Sat 15 Nov, 8pm
FEARLESS GIRLS, BRAVE WOMEN - THE FOLK TALES THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Book now for £5 at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fearless-g...
Janet Dowling digs deep into their origins and finds that some of our well known stories about women are not quite what they seem
Sat 15 Nov, 8pm
FEARLESS GIRLS, BRAVE WOMEN - THE FOLK TALES THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Book now for £5 at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fearless-g...
Janet Dowling digs deep into their origins and finds that some of our well known stories about women are not quite what they seem
our green away kit is so deeply cursed. i’m choosing to believe that’s why we’re terrible
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
our green away kit is so deeply cursed. i’m choosing to believe that’s why we’re terrible
having a wild saturday night (thinking about my dnd characters)
November 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
having a wild saturday night (thinking about my dnd characters)
my name is ozymandias now. yeah no the king of kings is part of it. look on my deed poll, ye mighty, and sign here
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
my name is ozymandias now. yeah no the king of kings is part of it. look on my deed poll, ye mighty, and sign here
reached my reading goal for the year today so now i’m going to reread frankenstein, as a treat
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
reached my reading goal for the year today so now i’m going to reread frankenstein, as a treat
my favourite thing to do is respond to outraged “people are scamming [public body] to get free stuff!!” comments with “everything should be free anyway so i don’t care”. it really bothers people, for some reason
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
my favourite thing to do is respond to outraged “people are scamming [public body] to get free stuff!!” comments with “everything should be free anyway so i don’t care”. it really bothers people, for some reason
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Happy Halloween!
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy Halloween!
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.
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The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt
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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 8:38 AM
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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Solidarity with striking BL workers!! A backbone of our national research & knowledge infrastructure and they deserve better!
Nice big loud PCS picket line at the BL this morning. Info on the strike here: www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
Support the British Library strikers
More than 300 PCS members at the British Library in London are striking over their poverty wages for two weeks from Monday (27) to Sunday, 9 November and need your support in person and online.
www.pcs.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Solidarity with striking BL workers!! A backbone of our national research & knowledge infrastructure and they deserve better!
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Researchers from the University of Nottingham are looking to speak with autistic transgender/gender diverse adults about their experience of healthcare.
Find out more: cdss.nottingham.ac.uk/redcap/surve... or email charity.brotherton1@nottingham.ac.uk
#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransResearch
Find out more: cdss.nottingham.ac.uk/redcap/surve... or email charity.brotherton1@nottingham.ac.uk
#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransResearch
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Researchers from the University of Nottingham are looking to speak with autistic transgender/gender diverse adults about their experience of healthcare.
Find out more: cdss.nottingham.ac.uk/redcap/surve... or email charity.brotherton1@nottingham.ac.uk
#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransResearch
Find out more: cdss.nottingham.ac.uk/redcap/surve... or email charity.brotherton1@nottingham.ac.uk
#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransResearch
thinking about her this morning youtu.be/jGPx4ancGhg?...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain-Live In Manchester, England 1964
YouTube video by Mike Bizimis
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
thinking about her this morning youtu.be/jGPx4ancGhg?...
i’ve been read to filth 🦙
Every man under the age of 30 sitting in a barber's chair right now.
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
i’ve been read to filth 🦙
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Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
Screening Questionnaire: Beyond Information Literacy
Study: Beyond Traditional Information Literacy: Educator Perspectives on Digital Memetic Content
IRB Protocol Number: Teachers College IRB 25-496
Thank you for your interest in participating in this...
forms.gle
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
went out charity shopping for a black leather jacket and came home with green corduroy trousers, such is the way of the universe
October 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
went out charity shopping for a black leather jacket and came home with green corduroy trousers, such is the way of the universe
i have mixed thoughts on GdT’s frankenstein but it probably has my favourite representation of the creature in film
October 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
i have mixed thoughts on GdT’s frankenstein but it probably has my favourite representation of the creature in film
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British Industries: Steel, 1924 (London, Midland and Scottish Railway poster artwork), by Richard Jack, 1866-1952 (National Railway Museum).
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
British Industries: Steel, 1924 (London, Midland and Scottish Railway poster artwork), by Richard Jack, 1866-1952 (National Railway Museum).