Grant Young
@grantyoung.bsky.social
Librarian and archivist, with interests in open research, digital heritage, and critical librarianship... views are my own. UCU. From NZ now in East Anglia UK. https://www.linkedin.com/in/younggrant
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📣UEA UCU members have voted for 9 days of strike action to commence this week from Thurs 1st May.
📣This is in response to management's plans to continue progressing compulsory redundancies.
📣There is still time for the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
📣This is in response to management's plans to continue progressing compulsory redundancies.
📣There is still time for the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
April 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
📣UEA UCU members have voted for 9 days of strike action to commence this week from Thurs 1st May.
📣This is in response to management's plans to continue progressing compulsory redundancies.
📣There is still time for the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
📣This is in response to management's plans to continue progressing compulsory redundancies.
📣There is still time for the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
Excellent initiative
We were very excited to launch our new #OpenAccess series last week, #DigitalCulturalHeritage! This series is a forum for exploring the past, present and future of digital cultural heritage, both #digitised and #born-digital.
More information about the series: uolpress.co.uk/2025/04/call...
More information about the series: uolpress.co.uk/2025/04/call...
Call for proposals: Digital Cultural Heritage book series - University of London Press
New Open Access series announcement Today, at the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference at Senate House, we announced details of a new book series, Digital Cultural Heritage. This s...
uolpress.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Excellent initiative
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"There is a crisis in Higher Education in this country, and this crisis writ large in an institution in my own area - the University of East Anglia."
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"There is a crisis in Higher Education in this country, and this crisis writ large in an institution in my own area - the University of East Anglia."
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
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📣"We believe you can't grow whilst also cutting staff." - Nadine Zubair, UEA UCU co-chair, speaking to ITV at our very successful day of action.
📣It's now time for university management to start meaningful negotiations to help avoid job losses. #SaveUEA #UKHE @ucu.org.uk
📣It's now time for university management to start meaningful negotiations to help avoid job losses. #SaveUEA #UKHE @ucu.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
📣"We believe you can't grow whilst also cutting staff." - Nadine Zubair, UEA UCU co-chair, speaking to ITV at our very successful day of action.
📣It's now time for university management to start meaningful negotiations to help avoid job losses. #SaveUEA #UKHE @ucu.org.uk
📣It's now time for university management to start meaningful negotiations to help avoid job losses. #SaveUEA #UKHE @ucu.org.uk
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Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
The order says that "divisive narratives" must be purged from the US museums and research centres.
www.bbc.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
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UEA UCU members, have you submitted your ballot yet?
This is a ballot about the future of UEA. It is about empowering staff and protecting the livelihoods our members.
✅Vote YES to Strike Action
✅Vote YES to Action Short of a Strike.
The ballot will be open until Feb 4th. #SaveUEA
This is a ballot about the future of UEA. It is about empowering staff and protecting the livelihoods our members.
✅Vote YES to Strike Action
✅Vote YES to Action Short of a Strike.
The ballot will be open until Feb 4th. #SaveUEA
January 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
UEA UCU members, have you submitted your ballot yet?
This is a ballot about the future of UEA. It is about empowering staff and protecting the livelihoods our members.
✅Vote YES to Strike Action
✅Vote YES to Action Short of a Strike.
The ballot will be open until Feb 4th. #SaveUEA
This is a ballot about the future of UEA. It is about empowering staff and protecting the livelihoods our members.
✅Vote YES to Strike Action
✅Vote YES to Action Short of a Strike.
The ballot will be open until Feb 4th. #SaveUEA
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🔁Repost this thread to help share the highlights from this week's Staff Assembly, where the UEA community used its voice LOUD & CLEAR to tell management to change course in its handling of the current crisis. #SaveUEA #UKHE @ucu.org.uk [1/10]
December 6, 2024 at 11:53 AM
🔁Repost this thread to help share the highlights from this week's Staff Assembly, where the UEA community used its voice LOUD & CLEAR to tell management to change course in its handling of the current crisis. #SaveUEA #UKHE @ucu.org.uk [1/10]
I've been a bit too quiet here of late. Am waking up again
December 5, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I've been a bit too quiet here of late. Am waking up again
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Roll up, roll up, get your (realistic) 2024 predictions about AI here. Me for The Bunker:
overcast.fm/+ymrvRmBVY
overcast.fm/+ymrvRmBVY
How AI will change the world forever in 2024 – for better or worse. With Dr. Kate Devlin and Kyle ...
AI took the world by storm in 2023 – and has the potential to fundamentally change it in 2024. But will it be for better or worse? That all depends on who utilises it. Dr. Kate Devlin is joined in T...
overcast.fm
January 3, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Roll up, roll up, get your (realistic) 2024 predictions about AI here. Me for The Bunker:
overcast.fm/+ymrvRmBVY
overcast.fm/+ymrvRmBVY
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Anyone else excited for the launch of #MappingTheHumanities tomorrow?! This new online map will allow users to find and connect with #arts and #humanities research activity more easily.
Register to attend the online launch event here:
www.sas.ac.uk/events/mappi...
Register to attend the online launch event here:
www.sas.ac.uk/events/mappi...
Mapping the Arts & Humanities: The Launch
www.sas.ac.uk
November 28, 2023 at 1:48 PM
Anyone else excited for the launch of #MappingTheHumanities tomorrow?! This new online map will allow users to find and connect with #arts and #humanities research activity more easily.
Register to attend the online launch event here:
www.sas.ac.uk/events/mappi...
Register to attend the online launch event here:
www.sas.ac.uk/events/mappi...
This is well worth 5 minutes - Stephen Fry reading Nick Cave's very eloquent letter about (and against) ChatGPT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJc...
Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity
In August of this year, as part of his Red Hand Files correspondence project, legendary musician Nick Cave was asked questions about creativity and ChatGPT b...
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November 22, 2023 at 5:23 PM
This is well worth 5 minutes - Stephen Fry reading Nick Cave's very eloquent letter about (and against) ChatGPT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJc...
Does anyone else keep reading bsky as banksy!
November 19, 2023 at 8:14 AM
Does anyone else keep reading bsky as banksy!
Love this idea www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...
Camp it up.
A high rise campsite by Willem De Haan. 12 tents, minimal land use. Click image to go to Willem’s Instagram.
www.presentandcorrect.com
November 19, 2023 at 7:56 AM
Love this idea www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...
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Did you know you could uſe thoſe 18th-century s's that look like f's in your posts?
They're called long s and they were uſed in Engliſh printing up until about 1800.
#bsky's font ſupports them ſo you can post like it is 1750!
🗃️ #c18th
They're called long s and they were uſed in Engliſh printing up until about 1800.
#bsky's font ſupports them ſo you can post like it is 1750!
🗃️ #c18th
October 24, 2023 at 12:42 PM
Did you know you could uſe thoſe 18th-century s's that look like f's in your posts?
They're called long s and they were uſed in Engliſh printing up until about 1800.
#bsky's font ſupports them ſo you can post like it is 1750!
🗃️ #c18th
They're called long s and they were uſed in Engliſh printing up until about 1800.
#bsky's font ſupports them ſo you can post like it is 1750!
🗃️ #c18th
I do miss the classic NZ villa
30 Summer Street
Tiny white perfection of the city villa.
📷 2022, Auckland, New Zealand
art.kolindin.com/30-summer-st...
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@bskyphotos.bsky.social @stillframes.bsky.social #Fujifilm #photography
Tiny white perfection of the city villa.
📷 2022, Auckland, New Zealand
art.kolindin.com/30-summer-st...
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@bskyphotos.bsky.social @stillframes.bsky.social #Fujifilm #photography
November 18, 2023 at 7:51 PM
I do miss the classic NZ villa
For those who haven't discovered it, I'd highly recommend www.openculture.com (sign up for email newsletter). Frequently sends me down fascinating rabbit holes.
November 18, 2023 at 11:08 AM
For those who haven't discovered it, I'd highly recommend www.openculture.com (sign up for email newsletter). Frequently sends me down fascinating rabbit holes.