Lesa
@lesalionheart.bsky.social
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🎉 Thrilled that the first ever issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research has published today, #DiamondOA of course!
This will be such a great venue to share good #OpenResearch practice.
Plus I had my first experience of editing a journal article!
👉https://doi.org/10.36399/f74t5k88
This will be such a great venue to share good #OpenResearch practice.
Plus I had my first experience of editing a journal article!
👉https://doi.org/10.36399/f74t5k88
Vol. 1 (2025)
| Scottish Journal of Open Research
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🎉 Thrilled that the first ever issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research has published today, #DiamondOA of course!
This will be such a great venue to share good #OpenResearch practice.
Plus I had my first experience of editing a journal article!
👉https://doi.org/10.36399/f74t5k88
This will be such a great venue to share good #OpenResearch practice.
Plus I had my first experience of editing a journal article!
👉https://doi.org/10.36399/f74t5k88
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25 October, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
25 October, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵
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April 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Still spaces left for FAST in the UK : half day seminar on faceted subject terminology (23rd September, Glasgow). Register via Eventbrite
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FAST in the UK
A half day seminar on FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) 23rd Sept 2025 in central Glasgow
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August 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Still spaces left for FAST in the UK : half day seminar on faceted subject terminology (23rd September, Glasgow). Register via Eventbrite
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fast-in-th...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fast-in-th...
Gaza: airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation.
They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians.
It is a distraction and screensmoke.
Philippe Lazzarini
UNRWA Commissioner-General
They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians.
It is a distraction and screensmoke.
Philippe Lazzarini
UNRWA Commissioner-General
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses”: a colleague in #Gaza told me this morning.
Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.
—Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.
—Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
July 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Gaza: airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation.
They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians.
It is a distraction and screensmoke.
Philippe Lazzarini
UNRWA Commissioner-General
They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians.
It is a distraction and screensmoke.
Philippe Lazzarini
UNRWA Commissioner-General
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In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Call for Support: – About BHL
about.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
30 hours to go to fund this Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
Simone Seales: Dearest - Final Album Production
'Dearest' is a poetry/music album which explores the warmth, nostalgia, and tension that comes with queer first love.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
30 hours to go to fund this Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
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Several people approached me with very nice comments about my presentation including one person who said thank you for mentioning the genocide of Palestinians on stage at the conference. Software /is/ political and we can't ignore the embeddedness in systems of apartheid and colonialism. 🇵🇸 #EORC25
June 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Several people approached me with very nice comments about my presentation including one person who said thank you for mentioning the genocide of Palestinians on stage at the conference. Software /is/ political and we can't ignore the embeddedness in systems of apartheid and colonialism. 🇵🇸 #EORC25
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#EORC25 paper "Small Changes: Taking Back Control of Research Through Open Software" by @simonxix.com available at opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/
#opensource
#opensource
small changes: taking back control of research through open software
This is the text of a paper I delivered at Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 on 2025-06-04 led by the conference question "What's stopping you?". It has been edited from the original to incorpor...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#EORC25 paper "Small Changes: Taking Back Control of Research Through Open Software" by @simonxix.com available at opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/
#opensource
#opensource
Small changes cumulatively can make a big difference. @simonxix.com recommends divesting from one piece of proprietary software and replacing with a more ethical open source version. #EORC25
June 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Small changes cumulatively can make a big difference. @simonxix.com recommends divesting from one piece of proprietary software and replacing with a more ethical open source version. #EORC25
Preorders of this very limited print run in colour closes June 2nd. Black and white and print on demand after this date.
Love or live(d) in Edinburgh? Been here as a tourist? Love words? Love bridges? Has the North Bridge renovation sent you up tae high dough? This anthology with a wee bit o awthing + a slice of Edinburgh life & imagination is for you 😁 jedapearl.com/north-bridge...
North Bridge: Where We Travelled - Jeda Pearl
Multi-genre anthology of fiction, poetry, memoir, a script & a game inspired by the North Bridge from 22 Edinburgh writers.
jedapearl.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Preorders of this very limited print run in colour closes June 2nd. Black and white and print on demand after this date.
My first SFF writing is one of the pieces in this anthology. This limited first print run is in colour. Afterwards it will be print on demand and black and white images only. Ebook also available. payhip.com/b/BxUCD
May 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
My first SFF writing is one of the pieces in this anthology. This limited first print run is in colour. Afterwards it will be print on demand and black and white images only. Ebook also available. payhip.com/b/BxUCD
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With a foreword by Sunnah Khan who’s been working with Haia on the bigger body of work.
100% of proceeds will go directly to her and her family, so please support a fine poet & beautiful spirit at the start of her literary journey
Out 28 April / PREORDER:
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
100% of proceeds will go directly to her and her family, so please support a fine poet & beautiful spirit at the start of her literary journey
Out 28 April / PREORDER:
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed — Out-Spoken
Haia Mohammed’s poems feel to me like the most important work being written in the world today. They are staggeringly impactful in their honesty, strength and beauty. The people of Gaza, as Haia says,...
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April 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
With a foreword by Sunnah Khan who’s been working with Haia on the bigger body of work.
100% of proceeds will go directly to her and her family, so please support a fine poet & beautiful spirit at the start of her literary journey
Out 28 April / PREORDER:
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
100% of proceeds will go directly to her and her family, so please support a fine poet & beautiful spirit at the start of her literary journey
Out 28 April / PREORDER:
outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
This Saturday I am joining a solidarity walk to raise money for families in Gaza.
The walk follows the outline of Gaza, transposed onto the city of Edinburgh, its suburbs and the towns, villages and countryside of Midlothian.
You can donate at the following link: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
The walk follows the outline of Gaza, transposed onto the city of Edinburgh, its suburbs and the towns, villages and countryside of Midlothian.
You can donate at the following link: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
April 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This Saturday I am joining a solidarity walk to raise money for families in Gaza.
The walk follows the outline of Gaza, transposed onto the city of Edinburgh, its suburbs and the towns, villages and countryside of Midlothian.
You can donate at the following link: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
The walk follows the outline of Gaza, transposed onto the city of Edinburgh, its suburbs and the towns, villages and countryside of Midlothian.
You can donate at the following link: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches.
If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.
If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.
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April 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches.
If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.
If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.
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Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
Extended my holiday and went to see the Everlyn Nicodemus exhibition currently on at Modern One in Edinburgh @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Outstanding. On until Monday the 26th of May.
April 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Extended my holiday and went to see the Everlyn Nicodemus exhibition currently on at Modern One in Edinburgh @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Outstanding. On until Monday the 26th of May.
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🤖 Insert protest poem about Meta and AI. Begin with swear word. Smile. Follow with pithy turn of phrase. Add the truth. Meta is evil. Zuck stole books. Now reference nature: moon or water or soul or art. Show heart and humanity. Last line of protest poem is passionate. Make it loud. Save file. Share
April 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🤖 Insert protest poem about Meta and AI. Begin with swear word. Smile. Follow with pithy turn of phrase. Add the truth. Meta is evil. Zuck stole books. Now reference nature: moon or water or soul or art. Show heart and humanity. Last line of protest poem is passionate. Make it loud. Save file. Share
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Arriving back in Edinburgh, after climbing another hill on exit from the train station.
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Arriving back in Edinburgh, after climbing another hill on exit from the train station.
Halfway up the hill to the train station, I was regretting those extra notebooks but not this wee llama from @technologyfromsage.bsky.social who has a new home in Scotland. Thank you @uksg.bsky.social #UKSG2025
April 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Halfway up the hill to the train station, I was regretting those extra notebooks but not this wee llama from @technologyfromsage.bsky.social who has a new home in Scotland. Thank you @uksg.bsky.social #UKSG2025