Bryony Ramsden
@drbryonyramsden.bsky.social
Librarian interested in lots of things: UX, inclusive feminism (trans women are women), making stuff (yarn, paper and pens and paints etc.). @librarygirlknit on the old musky place. She/her.
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Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
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It's #TransDayOfRemembrance so here's my usual England & Wales hate crime stats summary:
11/12 313
12/13 364
13/14 559
14/15 607
15/16 858
16/17 1248
17/181703
18/19 2329
19/20 [2630]
20/21 2799
21/22 4355
22/23 4889
23/24 4778
24/25 4120
#TDoR
Source: www.gov.uk/government/s...
11/12 313
12/13 364
13/14 559
14/15 607
15/16 858
16/17 1248
17/181703
18/19 2329
19/20 [2630]
20/21 2799
21/22 4355
22/23 4889
23/24 4778
24/25 4120
#TDoR
Source: www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's #TransDayOfRemembrance so here's my usual England & Wales hate crime stats summary:
11/12 313
12/13 364
13/14 559
14/15 607
15/16 858
16/17 1248
17/181703
18/19 2329
19/20 [2630]
20/21 2799
21/22 4355
22/23 4889
23/24 4778
24/25 4120
#TDoR
Source: www.gov.uk/government/s...
11/12 313
12/13 364
13/14 559
14/15 607
15/16 858
16/17 1248
17/181703
18/19 2329
19/20 [2630]
20/21 2799
21/22 4355
22/23 4889
23/24 4778
24/25 4120
#TDoR
Source: www.gov.uk/government/s...
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User Experience in Libraries 2026: we have just launched our theme - Pathways and Possibilities - and our Call for Papers for our next conference in York in June 2026. If you are interested in applying to present then visit our website for all the details: uxlib.org/2025/11/13/c... #userexperience
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
User Experience in Libraries 2026: we have just launched our theme - Pathways and Possibilities - and our Call for Papers for our next conference in York in June 2026. If you are interested in applying to present then visit our website for all the details: uxlib.org/2025/11/13/c... #userexperience
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Zohran Mamdani proves you can win against incumbents and racists with a powerful message of redistribution and equality for all regardless of race. Moreover that you can stand up to the Israel lobby and win, even in America. This is a turning point.
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Zohran Mamdani proves you can win against incumbents and racists with a powerful message of redistribution and equality for all regardless of race. Moreover that you can stand up to the Israel lobby and win, even in America. This is a turning point.
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Social media can be a cesspool, but it can also bring the most wonderful people in to your life. Katy was just lovely, so kind when I had my babies, so supportive of my campaigning, always ready to lift others no matter how down she was.
It is with a broken heart that I have to share the devastating news that my amazing wife Katy has lost her battle with cancer and passed away.
If she touched your life in some small way, please consider donating to Dog’s Trust, using the link below.
www.justgiving.com/page/katy-wrathall
If she touched your life in some small way, please consider donating to Dog’s Trust, using the link below.
www.justgiving.com/page/katy-wrathall
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Social media can be a cesspool, but it can also bring the most wonderful people in to your life. Katy was just lovely, so kind when I had my babies, so supportive of my campaigning, always ready to lift others no matter how down she was.
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This is Her Royal Highness. She is the sweetest lady with the cutest little grinchy face! She was found as a pregnant stray, and when her own kitten didn't make it she very lovingly raised some orphaned kittens as her own. Adoptable in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is Her Royal Highness. She is the sweetest lady with the cutest little grinchy face! She was found as a pregnant stray, and when her own kitten didn't make it she very lovingly raised some orphaned kittens as her own. Adoptable in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
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29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
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While this is illuminating a change in political trends, it’s still a long way to go before we know what these shifts mean and whether they are sustainable. But in any case, if you’re Labour and you’re not considering what’s wrong, something is very amiss.
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
POLITICO Poll of Polls — British polls, trends and election news for the United Kingdom and Scotland
All polls, trends and election news for the the United Kingdom, Scotland and London — Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Brexit Party, SNP, Greens, Scottish independence referendum and Scotland elect…
www.politico.eu
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
While this is illuminating a change in political trends, it’s still a long way to go before we know what these shifts mean and whether they are sustainable. But in any case, if you’re Labour and you’re not considering what’s wrong, something is very amiss.
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
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FYI for Google Drive users.
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
FYI for Google Drive users.
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I've got (for those in the UK) a few signed paperbacks of this with a lovely free postcard of the map my dad illustrated for it. £9.99 RRP plus p&p. Drop me an email at [email protected] and a reply here if you'd like one.
Hills, folklore, psychedelic music, social history, magic, rivers, ghosts.
Hills, folklore, psychedelic music, social history, magic, rivers, ghosts.
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I've got (for those in the UK) a few signed paperbacks of this with a lovely free postcard of the map my dad illustrated for it. £9.99 RRP plus p&p. Drop me an email at [email protected] and a reply here if you'd like one.
Hills, folklore, psychedelic music, social history, magic, rivers, ghosts.
Hills, folklore, psychedelic music, social history, magic, rivers, ghosts.
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Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.
“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”
How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves
AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.
www.governing.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.
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As an incurable surfer of RightMove, one of my little obsessions is photographs of houses where a pet has wandered into the shot to get in on the action. This tousled behemoth of a cat is a notable favourite.
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
As an incurable surfer of RightMove, one of my little obsessions is photographs of houses where a pet has wandered into the shot to get in on the action. This tousled behemoth of a cat is a notable favourite.
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I've got about ten of these left (all with free bookmarks and postcards) in case anyone would like to grab one...
I have just a small pile of first edition hardbacks here which I can sell signed to anyone (in the UK) who emails me at [email protected] in time.
All of you will also receive one of these handmade bookmarks made by my mum, Jo.
Review (for info): thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/e...
All of you will also receive one of these handmade bookmarks made by my mum, Jo.
Review (for info): thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/e...
October 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I've got about ten of these left (all with free bookmarks and postcards) in case anyone would like to grab one...
Thanks to @stephaniewalter.bsky.social for this wonderful joy making link in her newsletter (go sign up folks, it's excellent, and full of very interesting useful reads, including UX stuff stephaniewalter.design/subscribe-to... ):
www.figma.com/community/fi...
www.figma.com/community/fi...
September 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Thanks to @stephaniewalter.bsky.social for this wonderful joy making link in her newsletter (go sign up folks, it's excellent, and full of very interesting useful reads, including UX stuff stephaniewalter.design/subscribe-to... ):
www.figma.com/community/fi...
www.figma.com/community/fi...
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Long-time followers might remember the podcast that @tyra-mancy.bsky.social and I did for 106 episodes (plus live shows and bonuses) about Mumsnet's Am I Being Unreasonable forum. Well, now all the episodes have been transcribed for improved accessibility and you can search the transcripts here.
You Are Being Unreasonable
A podcast about people being unreasonable on the internet. Specifically on Mumsnet.com's AIBU forum.
Our theme song is 'I Feel Fantastic' by Jonathan Coulton from the album 'Our Bodies, Ourselves, Ou...
podscripts.co
September 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Long-time followers might remember the podcast that @tyra-mancy.bsky.social and I did for 106 episodes (plus live shows and bonuses) about Mumsnet's Am I Being Unreasonable forum. Well, now all the episodes have been transcribed for improved accessibility and you can search the transcripts here.
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The painting of Union Jack or Irish flags on paving in Northern Ireland is done as a form of intimidation & ‘ownership’. Recently, British Loyalist paramilitaries have painted Union flags outside homes of ethnic minorities to intimidate them & scare them to leave. Starmer is playing with fire
Asked about people vandalising roundabouts with painted St Georges and Union Jack flags, Keir Starmer replies that "I always sit in front of a union jack and I've been doing it for years"
“I’m very encouraging of flags”
“I’m very encouraging of flags”
September 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The painting of Union Jack or Irish flags on paving in Northern Ireland is done as a form of intimidation & ‘ownership’. Recently, British Loyalist paramilitaries have painted Union flags outside homes of ethnic minorities to intimidate them & scare them to leave. Starmer is playing with fire
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Another case of "feature hallucination". This time, it's Gemini.
I was looking for a card sorting tool, that lets users add their own card (in case we missed some content, this is to test specific enterprise content), so, I launched a Google search.
I was looking for a card sorting tool, that lets users add their own card (in case we missed some content, this is to test specific enterprise content), so, I launched a Google search.
September 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Another case of "feature hallucination". This time, it's Gemini.
I was looking for a card sorting tool, that lets users add their own card (in case we missed some content, this is to test specific enterprise content), so, I launched a Google search.
I was looking for a card sorting tool, that lets users add their own card (in case we missed some content, this is to test specific enterprise content), so, I launched a Google search.
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The Journal of Information Literacy has announced a new special issue on information literacy and censorship- please consider submitting your work! Given political tensions, we will be permitting pseudonymous submissions. Please contact me or @bookelf.bsky.social with questions- DMs open!
August 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Journal of Information Literacy has announced a new special issue on information literacy and censorship- please consider submitting your work! Given political tensions, we will be permitting pseudonymous submissions. Please contact me or @bookelf.bsky.social with questions- DMs open!
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EXCITING THINGS ARE AFOOT (Check your LIS-LINK).
August 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
EXCITING THINGS ARE AFOOT (Check your LIS-LINK).
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Have been watching this on a loop and crying with laughter for about 5 minutes straight now 🤣🤣
August 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Have been watching this on a loop and crying with laughter for about 5 minutes straight now 🤣🤣