Maria O'Hara
@meaoh.bsky.social
Accidental academic, librarian, history nerd and movie fan
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July 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Anyone working in HE in the UK should be interested in this piece from Caroline. Whether you produce research or consume it, how to access it is likely to change.
“The current ease of access to pre-packaged information bundles may have inadvertently led to a decline in the proficiency of certain research skills among academics. A shift towards open access alternatives means that information will once again become more decentralised and dispersed…” 📚
As cuts mount, those used to one-click searching are in for a shock
If ‘big deal’ subscriptions become unaffordable, librarians will need to help students and academics conduct effective searches, says Caroline Ball
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Anyone working in HE in the UK should be interested in this piece from Caroline. Whether you produce research or consume it, how to access it is likely to change.
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Flicking through papers in the new huge Special Issue on 'Liberating Learning' in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education. It's making me so happy.
There are papers on compassionate assessment, joy of learning, fun in teaching. It is beautiful
journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...
There are papers on compassionate assessment, joy of learning, fun in teaching. It is beautiful
journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
journal.aldinhe.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Flicking through papers in the new huge Special Issue on 'Liberating Learning' in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education. It's making me so happy.
There are papers on compassionate assessment, joy of learning, fun in teaching. It is beautiful
journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...
There are papers on compassionate assessment, joy of learning, fun in teaching. It is beautiful
journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...
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Pope Francis Left In Hot Popemobile
February 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Pope Francis Left In Hot Popemobile
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
So for all the talk of The Sisterhood on #TheTraitorsUK most of the murdered victims are women and was curious if that was more than usual (yep 85.7%) but how does that compare? UK average is 72% compared to Australian 46% and US 52%
January 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So for all the talk of The Sisterhood on #TheTraitorsUK most of the murdered victims are women and was curious if that was more than usual (yep 85.7%) but how does that compare? UK average is 72% compared to Australian 46% and US 52%
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
January 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
@helenlohara.bsky.social I just went to Gladiator II with @vlparkinson.bsky.social and she was surprised that they cast an unknown actor in the lead role . 🤣
January 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
@helenlohara.bsky.social I just went to Gladiator II with @vlparkinson.bsky.social and she was surprised that they cast an unknown actor in the lead role . 🤣
What we have learned from role playing different group dynamics in a cooperative jungle adventure game is that toxic masculinity works better than back stabbing bitchiness
January 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What we have learned from role playing different group dynamics in a cooperative jungle adventure game is that toxic masculinity works better than back stabbing bitchiness
The Dogman film is released next month and adults of my acquaintance are beginning to discuss the bizarre premise where a police dog's head is sewn onto a policeman's body after an explosion
January 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Dogman film is released next month and adults of my acquaintance are beginning to discuss the bizarre premise where a police dog's head is sewn onto a policeman's body after an explosion
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Why hello there! Fancy seeing you here as I casually sit here cuddling my new book, with art by @boglio.bsky.social.
January 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Why hello there! Fancy seeing you here as I casually sit here cuddling my new book, with art by @boglio.bsky.social.
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Just seen that my water company is being allowed to raise bills by 47% over the next 5 years. FORTY SEVEN PERCENT. Well done to all the shareholders who are getting more of my money, I guess.
Ofwat needs to be renamed, they're in no way a regulator.
Ofwat needs to be renamed, they're in no way a regulator.
December 19, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Just seen that my water company is being allowed to raise bills by 47% over the next 5 years. FORTY SEVEN PERCENT. Well done to all the shareholders who are getting more of my money, I guess.
Ofwat needs to be renamed, they're in no way a regulator.
Ofwat needs to be renamed, they're in no way a regulator.
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Hello! We’re back on our Empire Podcast bullshit, and I’m taking questions from here this week. Make it so!
January 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hello! We’re back on our Empire Podcast bullshit, and I’m taking questions from here this week. Make it so!
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I'm just a librarian, standing in front of a database vendor, BEGGING them to understand how and why people use their products...
December 13, 2024 at 9:28 AM
I'm just a librarian, standing in front of a database vendor, BEGGING them to understand how and why people use their products...
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Tell me which sector you work in, without telling me which sector you work in. The Christmas Card edition.
December 17, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Tell me which sector you work in, without telling me which sector you work in. The Christmas Card edition.
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Ooft, this FT climate graphic of the week
"First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows"
www.ft.com/content/6...
"First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows"
www.ft.com/content/6...
December 9, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Ooft, this FT climate graphic of the week
"First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows"
www.ft.com/content/6...
"First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows"
www.ft.com/content/6...
"You're almost more stressed out about the practicalities of it than you are about the actual subject" - what does it say if some students are more concerned with academic writing than learning about the subject they came to uni to study? #F2L24
April 5, 2024 at 9:24 AM
"You're almost more stressed out about the practicalities of it than you are about the actual subject" - what does it say if some students are more concerned with academic writing than learning about the subject they came to uni to study? #F2L24
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KCL’s Freedom to Learn conference kicking off with a panel on rethinking assessment at UCL with Dr Cathy Elliott and Leah Wowra, Connie Gillies and Monica de Quinto Schneider - lovely to hear from recent graduates how they reclaimed their love of learning through decentring grades #F2L24
April 5, 2024 at 9:17 AM
KCL’s Freedom to Learn conference kicking off with a panel on rethinking assessment at UCL with Dr Cathy Elliott and Leah Wowra, Connie Gillies and Monica de Quinto Schneider - lovely to hear from recent graduates how they reclaimed their love of learning through decentring grades #F2L24
I'm not saying my friends are a bit crazy but my oldest friend just rented her niece a 12ft high Halloween themed bouncy castle.
Her niece is less than a month old.
Her niece is less than a month old.
October 20, 2023 at 12:10 PM
I'm not saying my friends are a bit crazy but my oldest friend just rented her niece a 12ft high Halloween themed bouncy castle.
Her niece is less than a month old.
Her niece is less than a month old.
Just realised that unless I'm fired or something my student loan will be paid off one year before the government would write it off. I'm incredibly fortunate to be in that position. I'm also still really annoyed that none of it will be written off.
October 4, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Just realised that unless I'm fired or something my student loan will be paid off one year before the government would write it off. I'm incredibly fortunate to be in that position. I'm also still really annoyed that none of it will be written off.
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oh so you love books? name every book
October 4, 2023 at 6:34 AM
oh so you love books? name every book
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Tired: excited by Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Wired: fascinated by the Killers Of The Flower Moon budget.
Inspired: obsessed with the Killers Of The Flower Moon credit order.
Wired: fascinated by the Killers Of The Flower Moon budget.
Inspired: obsessed with the Killers Of The Flower Moon credit order.
October 2, 2023 at 9:19 PM
Tired: excited by Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Wired: fascinated by the Killers Of The Flower Moon budget.
Inspired: obsessed with the Killers Of The Flower Moon credit order.
Wired: fascinated by the Killers Of The Flower Moon budget.
Inspired: obsessed with the Killers Of The Flower Moon credit order.
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Reading this and wailing "oh god" out loud to an empty room. They went through the forest to avoid police. Border enforcement kills. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/w...
They Ran for a Better Life, Straight Into a Wildfire
Greek authorities assumed the victims were asylum seekers because no one was looking for missing people locally. And for more than a month, their identities, and the circumstances of their deaths, rem...
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Reading this and wailing "oh god" out loud to an empty room. They went through the forest to avoid police. Border enforcement kills. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/w...
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Afternoon off, well spent. I love Kew. Always a place of contemplation for me.
October 2, 2023 at 4:17 PM
Afternoon off, well spent. I love Kew. Always a place of contemplation for me.