Elinor
@l1brarystudies.bsky.social
Heritage Sector Enthusiast, Library Assistant, obsessed with my dog
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This year has been noticeably un-wintered - hedge plants growing all December as if it's March
January 2, 2026 at 10:21 AM
This year has been noticeably un-wintered - hedge plants growing all December as if it's March
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📢 This is a call to anyone able (safeguarding is paramount).
We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
1/🧵
We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
1/🧵
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
📢 This is a call to anyone able (safeguarding is paramount).
We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
1/🧵
We now need your help!
We need everyone to:
• Email your MP using our template
• Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur
1/🧵
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Digital inclusion isn’t a nice-to-have - it’s a basic need. More and more of life happens online.
People need a device, data, skills and support when it’s needed.
This is the Minimum Digital Living Standard. We work with the @NDI_Network to help people get online and thrive.
People need a device, data, skills and support when it’s needed.
This is the Minimum Digital Living Standard. We work with the @NDI_Network to help people get online and thrive.
January 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Digital inclusion isn’t a nice-to-have - it’s a basic need. More and more of life happens online.
People need a device, data, skills and support when it’s needed.
This is the Minimum Digital Living Standard. We work with the @NDI_Network to help people get online and thrive.
People need a device, data, skills and support when it’s needed.
This is the Minimum Digital Living Standard. We work with the @NDI_Network to help people get online and thrive.
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It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 AM
It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
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“Working-class people are being pushed out of culture. It’s becoming a middle-class profession, because you can’t be a breadwinner and work at the library.”
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/you-should...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/you-should...
“You Should Be Honoured to Work Here”: British Library Staff are Striking for Pay, Conditions, and Respect
A battle over pay has become a fight over who Britain's cultural institutions are really for.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Working-class people are being pushed out of culture. It’s becoming a middle-class profession, because you can’t be a breadwinner and work at the library.”
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/you-should...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/you-should...
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Kier Starmer shocked at homophobic attack to family as if politicians had nothing to do with rising anti-queer sentiment
via @wearequeeraf.com
www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
via @wearequeeraf.com
www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: Kier Starmer shocked at homophobic attack to family as if politicians had nothing to do with rising anti-queer sentiment
What it would take to reduce the 48,000 people wait list for transgender healthcare in the UK?
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Kier Starmer shocked at homophobic attack to family as if politicians had nothing to do with rising anti-queer sentiment
via @wearequeeraf.com
www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
via @wearequeeraf.com
www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
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Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🧪🏺🦣
Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
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The air smells of damp earth and fallen leaves, and the world turning to russet and gold... we just love autumn. 🍂
What have you noticed out in nature this weekend?
📷 James Gregory
What have you noticed out in nature this weekend?
📷 James Gregory
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The air smells of damp earth and fallen leaves, and the world turning to russet and gold... we just love autumn. 🍂
What have you noticed out in nature this weekend?
📷 James Gregory
What have you noticed out in nature this weekend?
📷 James Gregory
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"It's called desperation"! 🔥🔥
@novaramedia.com's Steven Methven tearing into the Labour Right trying to claim Mamdani while purging his British counterparts
@novaramedia.com's Steven Methven tearing into the Labour Right trying to claim Mamdani while purging his British counterparts
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"It's called desperation"! 🔥🔥
@novaramedia.com's Steven Methven tearing into the Labour Right trying to claim Mamdani while purging his British counterparts
@novaramedia.com's Steven Methven tearing into the Labour Right trying to claim Mamdani while purging his British counterparts
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The BBC *chooses* not to use the language Trans women use for themselves
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
It is utterly insane to claim that BBC News has a “pro-trans bias”, when they are currently publishing articles in which they describe trans women as “a biological male who identifies as a woman”. That isn’t them quoting anyone, that is them choosing to use the language of gender critical bigots.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The BBC *chooses* not to use the language Trans women use for themselves
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
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Landmark news: it's been recommended that reformed, inclusive Religious Education be added to the National Curriculum in England – with a full expert review of its content to follow. humanists.uk/2025/11/05/s...
Success! RE to be added to the National Curriculum
Reformed subject expected to be fully inclusive of humanism.
humanists.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Landmark news: it's been recommended that reformed, inclusive Religious Education be added to the National Curriculum in England – with a full expert review of its content to follow. humanists.uk/2025/11/05/s...
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Remember when the book banners said it was "only" school libraries? That kids could get the book at the public library or buy it?
We knew they were fucking liars and moving the goal post again and again.
Not the first bookstore that caved to their bigotry and it won't be the last.
America.
We knew they were fucking liars and moving the goal post again and again.
Not the first bookstore that caved to their bigotry and it won't be the last.
America.
This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Remember when the book banners said it was "only" school libraries? That kids could get the book at the public library or buy it?
We knew they were fucking liars and moving the goal post again and again.
Not the first bookstore that caved to their bigotry and it won't be the last.
America.
We knew they were fucking liars and moving the goal post again and again.
Not the first bookstore that caved to their bigotry and it won't be the last.
America.
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Thanks to @thetimes.com for joining us, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @profsamwass.bsky.social to explore the neuroscience of early shared reading.
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
How bedtime stories synchronise your child’s brain with yours
When parents read to young children their neural patterns begins to align, an experience no screen can match
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thanks to @thetimes.com for joining us, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social & @profsamwass.bsky.social to explore the neuroscience of early shared reading.
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
This is why it’s key we #GetBritainReading & why our #ReadingRights report explores how to make that happen 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
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Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
www.history.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
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As a once (& future?) library worker and current @ucu.org.uk member, I stand with striking BL staff. Library, and especially special collections, workers are often told they should accept low wages because they get “a dream job:” but any job needs to put food on the table & pay rent.
The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
As a once (& future?) library worker and current @ucu.org.uk member, I stand with striking BL staff. Library, and especially special collections, workers are often told they should accept low wages because they get “a dream job:” but any job needs to put food on the table & pay rent.
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THE LIBRARIANS named to Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Prize Longlist: “The Audience Choice Prize is often a key harbinger for future documentary awards, including the Best Documentary Oscar.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
Cinema Eye Honors 2025 Unveils First Round of Honorees and Nominees for Year’s Best Documentary Films and Series
Including the films on Audience Choice Prize Longlist, the year’s Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in Broadcast categories, and annual Shorts List.
www.indiewire.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
THE LIBRARIANS named to Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Prize Longlist: “The Audience Choice Prize is often a key harbinger for future documentary awards, including the Best Documentary Oscar.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
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No words. I mean, really, no words. If Texas keeps this up, that’s where we’ll be.
“iT’s nOt a BoOk BaN bEcaUse YoU cAn GeT iT fRoM thE pUbLiC LiBraRy!”
So what is it called when you can no longer get from in the public library? 🤔
victoriaadvocate.com/2025/10/23/1...
So what is it called when you can no longer get from in the public library? 🤔
victoriaadvocate.com/2025/10/23/1...
Request Sparks Book Removals at Victoria Public Library - The Victoria Advocate
The Victoria Public Library removed a large number of books from a list provided by the VPBC following the organization’s request.
victoriaadvocate.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
No words. I mean, really, no words. If Texas keeps this up, that’s where we’ll be.
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Logical rebuttals don't work on book banners, so I'll try using their own language against them.
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Logical rebuttals don't work on book banners, so I'll try using their own language against them.
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An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
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Did you see our Social Reading Spaces project in @thetimes.com yesterday? Conducted with @harpercollins.bsky.social and @farshorebooks.bsky.social the study evidences the value of social book clubs in reaching disengaged readers. Find out more: sla.org.uk/social-readi... #BookSky #EduSkyUK #RFP
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Did you see our Social Reading Spaces project in @thetimes.com yesterday? Conducted with @harpercollins.bsky.social and @farshorebooks.bsky.social the study evidences the value of social book clubs in reaching disengaged readers. Find out more: sla.org.uk/social-readi... #BookSky #EduSkyUK #RFP
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I'm watching this, and it's interesting but a few years old. Can't imagine how I missed it before. Start from no 1 if you want to know where we all came from and how we got here
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Incredible Human Journey - 4. Australia
Dr Alice Roberts discovers how humans left Africa to colonise the world. Here, she looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I'm watching this, and it's interesting but a few years old. Can't imagine how I missed it before. Start from no 1 if you want to know where we all came from and how we got here
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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We're delighted to announce that THE LIBRARIANS is a @criticschoice.bsky.social nominee for "Best Political Documentary"!
It’s an honor to be nominated alongside so many other important films, especially in the current political climate. Thank you, Critics Choice Association!
It’s an honor to be nominated alongside so many other important films, especially in the current political climate. Thank you, Critics Choice Association!
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We're delighted to announce that THE LIBRARIANS is a @criticschoice.bsky.social nominee for "Best Political Documentary"!
It’s an honor to be nominated alongside so many other important films, especially in the current political climate. Thank you, Critics Choice Association!
It’s an honor to be nominated alongside so many other important films, especially in the current political climate. Thank you, Critics Choice Association!
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The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.
This must be a wake up call.
We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.
Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.
This must be a wake up call.
We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.
Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.
This must be a wake up call.
We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.
Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.
This must be a wake up call.
We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.
Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.