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Carly Ann Richardson
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Software and Digital in #GLAM ✨
#histsci and material culture studies (big love for volvelles 🤩)
MCR 🐝 she/her
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apowelllaw.bsky.social
Zia Yusuf truly is an odious and nasty individual. To show such disdain for a member of the public who has given their life to working in the NHS says everything about his character. A thoroughly repulsive member of an utterly vile party. #bbcqt
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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uoyborthwick.bsky.social
#DidYouKnow over the course of 2025 we have been building Discover, our new Digital Library platform? We'll be adding to the site over the coming months, making more of our collections available wherever you are in the world! discover.york.ac.uk #EYADigital @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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xkcd.com
Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/
Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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oldtrotter.bsky.social
Why local journalism matters. All follows from investigation by @manchestermill.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Regulators open inquiry into University of Greater Manchester amid fraud claims
University is already being investigated by police over ‘allegations of financial irregularities’ and has suspended three of its senior staff
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Day 4: Digital

The Cultural Collections & Galleries team at @universityofleeds.bsky.social Libraries launched a multi-year Digital Library Infrastructure Project to make their digital collections more accessible: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

#EYADigital

📷Uni of Leeds Libraries
A person sitting at a table and taking a photo of a small record to digitise it, using a camera fixed in place above the table.
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
carlyannrichardson.bsky.social
Lots of Manchester hotspots in the filming of Talamasca 🐝

still waiting to see my flat in the background… 👀
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨

📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?

We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!

Could this be YOU?

Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Five photographs of the Modern Records Centre: Two students walking outside the main entrance. A view down the aisle of one of our strongrooms. A student looking through a photograph album in our seminar room. Digitisation Assistant at work scanning a volume. A view of our searchroom, with an Archive Assistant handing out a document to a researcher.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.

We support archives of all types and sizes across England.

Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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Two people in a repository opening a drawer and examining a large colourful illustration.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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girlinthe.bsky.social
Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?

Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.

Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
carlyannrichardson.bsky.social
Fabulous to be at @senatehouselib.bsky.social for History Day! ✨
The #ArchivesHub team spoke to over 100 researchers and caught up with many of our contributors throughout the day today 😊

@jsronson.bsky.social
@archivesportal.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social
#HistDay25 #HistoryDay #HistoryDay2025
Two members of the Archives Hub team sitting at our stand for History Day A wide view of the room we were in for History Day Senate House Library building
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Everybody waiting for #CelebrityTraitors tonight
A black and white archive photograph of a bearded man sharpening a scythe for cutting crops
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
For #spacetober_challenge day 29 prompt orbit: #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! 🧪🐡🧮🎢🔭 #histsci We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced 🧵
My linocut portrait of Johannes Kepler on cream coloured washi paper. Kepler is in Renaissance garb printed in indigo. He holds a compass and rests his hand on his model of nested Platonic solids from Mysterium Cosmographicum, printed in gold ink. Above that in silver in are 7 musical staves with notes next to symbols for related planetary bodies: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Over his other shoulder are 3 schematic diagrams drawn in ellipses (oriented with the semi-major axes horizontal) in magenta. The top one relates to his first law and shows an ellipse cut in two horizontally, the two foci labelled F and F’ and a triangle drawn to a point P on the ellipse (FPF’). The middle ellipse (2nd law) shows the Sun at a focus, and a series of circles on the ellipse as a planet such that the sections are equal area and alternate colouring (magenta or none) like a peppermint. The bottom ellipse (3rd law) is cut in half with semi-major and semi-minor axes shown
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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tedunderwood.com
began class today with this slide
jbloodthorn.bsky.social JBloodthorn @jbloodthorn.bsky.social · Oct 20
I modified it a bit to help show.
A massively complex block castle, with dozens of small block towers on top of larger block towers, on top of towers of giant blocks. At the bottom, the left side is well supported, while on the right side only a single frail block is supporting the whole thing. The overall structure is labeled "All modern digital infrastructure". The frail support is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003". Added to the image is one block that is supporting the entire structure has been labelled with the Amazon Web Services logo.
October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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quinnypig.com
Today's a fantastic day to make no configuration changes to your production environments. If something goes wonky, you'll go mad trying to figure out if it's the AWS issue (possibly reflected through a vendor of yours who uses them) vs. your own shitty, shitty code.
October 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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jtullock.bsky.social
I cannot stress how important it is that the issue of police records is dealt with and not brushed under the carpet as it has been for decades. The fact that they aren't Public Records is an accident of history, but the impact of this lack of regulatory control is immense.
araukie.bsky.social Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · Sep 25
Why aren’t Police Records in England & Wales covered by the Public Records Act? We've been campaigning on this since 2012 - blog for more info:
www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act
#publicaccountability
of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?
Photo of a paper airplane on fire with text that reads "I am under no obligation to disclose anything and the papers belong to me. If I wanted to I could take them into the yard and have a bonfire with them" South Yorkshire Chief Constable Med Hughes. Credit for photo of on fire airplane is Aron Yigin via Unsplash
September 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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willpooley.bsky.social
hey colleagues, want to feel old? 18 year olds starting university this year are

-younger than YouTube and Twitter
-younger than the song “Bad Day”
-and never knew Pluto as a planet

(don’t worry tho, to make us all feel better about it they dress like it’s 2003)
September 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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ciliprarebooks.bsky.social
You can join the Archives Hub Community on Teams and collaborate with other researchers and archivists. It is a friendly, supportive space for everyone with opportunities to work together to crowdsource useful resources and information www.jisc.ac.uk/get-involved...
Archives hub community - Jisc
www.jisc.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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ciliprarebooks.bsky.social
The National Bibliographic Knowledgebase holds 165 million records contributed by 205 libraries from the UK & Ireland and Library Hub Discover offers a single search across the NBK. discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk
Jisc Library Hub Discover
discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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ciliprarebooks.bsky.social
Carly Richardson and Jennie-Claire Crate from @jisc.bsky.social are now joining us to talk about enhancing discoverability and access for special collections and the role of Jisc’s Archives Hub and Library Hub in metadata transformation and aggregation. #RBSCG25
September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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prossian.bsky.social
I'm happy to share this advert for a permanent part-time role in the library of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social share.google/K1v6wLMnhxQp...
Assistant Librarian - London (Central), London (Greater) job with ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 9779956
The post is a part-time role in a small team, working with the Librarian & Archivist and the Assistant Archivist.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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rhiggitt.bsky.social
Happy 350th birthday to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich! the foundation stone was laid at 3:14 pm on 10 August 1675 (OS). We know because the astronomer there, John Flamsteed, drew up a horoscope. See more here teleskopos.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a... #histSTM #histsci
A manuscript horoscope, dividing a square into astrological houses, noting the date and time in the centre.
August 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
carlyannrichardson.bsky.social
Oh no! Hotspur Press is on fire! 😢
June 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
carlyannrichardson.bsky.social
Ooo 🤩✨
stsci.edu Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · Jun 17
New image processing techniques “refreshed” older Hubble data showing a portion of the Eagle Nebula. This structure is 9.5 light-years tall and 7,000 light-years distant from Earth, and is one of many nebulas in the Milky Way.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. 🔭 🧪
A very vertical image of a tall, thin portion of a nebula that appears to stand like a tree. The top is made up of large brown and blue pale clouds and dust that look like voluminous hair. To the right of the clouds is a dark rugged shape, surrounded by a bright red light. Below the clouds is a dark stem, made of tendrils of dust, wrapping around themselves to the bottom of the image, where the tendrils widen and expand like a tornado-like dust cloud. The background has several stars of different colors and sizes, and the shade of the background changes from light blue at top to dark red at the bottom.
June 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
something I've learned by covering online archives and libraries is that many valuable, free, online resources are maintained by extremely small teams, maybe one volunteer. Asking them to deal with scrapers that behave like DDoS attacks is unrealistic www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
theamericanvandal.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM