Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social
Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social🐘&🐦 =
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
It is with great pride that I can now post this:
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It is with great pride that I can now post this:
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
The second Bodleian Open Scholarship Event is here:
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
August 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The second Bodleian Open Scholarship Event is here:
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
Repost to save a life: allthings.how/how-to-disab.... I cannot overstate the rage-inducing response I get when office randomly shoves copilot in my face. LET ME WRITE A WORD DOC THE WAY I HAVE FOR YEARS DANGIT!!!
May 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Repost to save a life: allthings.how/how-to-disab.... I cannot overstate the rage-inducing response I get when office randomly shoves copilot in my face. LET ME WRITE A WORD DOC THE WAY I HAVE FOR YEARS DANGIT!!!
I just added the final link to the OxFOS recordings list (in our event recording archive) so if anyone's interested in listening to any sessions they couldn't attend (or having a nose around the in-person events if you couldn't make those!) I highly recommend it: openaccess.web.ox.ac.uk/recordings
April 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I just added the final link to the OxFOS recordings list (in our event recording archive) so if anyone's interested in listening to any sessions they couldn't attend (or having a nose around the in-person events if you couldn't make those!) I highly recommend it: openaccess.web.ox.ac.uk/recordings
My colleague has summarised Leo Lo's talk on AI (regarding the report from @ARL.org : www.arl.org/resources/th...)
April 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My colleague has summarised Leo Lo's talk on AI (regarding the report from @ARL.org : www.arl.org/resources/th...)
Padlock icon? Here's a clip of what I can see - I want to help you all as well... I want to share this link! The address reverts to http (no s) even when I try to access it from a search engine or type it in WITH the s.
April 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Padlock icon? Here's a clip of what I can see - I want to help you all as well... I want to share this link! The address reverts to http (no s) even when I try to access it from a search engine or type it in WITH the s.
Listening to @drbeth.bsky.social present on PGRs.
March 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Listening to @drbeth.bsky.social present on PGRs.
I see your cow and raise you the indefatigable Horatio H Hog.
February 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I see your cow and raise you the indefatigable Horatio H Hog.
Yes. Work is very busy. Yes the news is *opens door, everything's on fire, closes door* but I have one solace in life and that's that, on occasion, a pretty book I kickstarted arrives in the post. #BrandonSanderson #StormlightArchive #Dragonsteel
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Yes. Work is very busy. Yes the news is *opens door, everything's on fire, closes door* but I have one solace in life and that's that, on occasion, a pretty book I kickstarted arrives in the post. #BrandonSanderson #StormlightArchive #Dragonsteel
#OxFOS25 is now open and bookable on our website: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos25
Check out the timetable of events both in-person and online. Look forward to seeing people!
Check out the timetable of events both in-person and online. Look forward to seeing people!
January 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#OxFOS25 is now open and bookable on our website: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos25
Check out the timetable of events both in-person and online. Look forward to seeing people!
Check out the timetable of events both in-person and online. Look forward to seeing people!
I'm back from Japan! What did I miss (and don't tell me world news - I know that and wish I didn't).
November 18, 2024 at 11:35 AM
I'm back from Japan! What did I miss (and don't tell me world news - I know that and wish I didn't).
To reiterate: I have an Ancient History and History degree. I didn't learn about this stuff as a teenager. It's a lot harder than you think to find 'babies first intro' to this stuff that's actually babies first. I always recall that one @xkcd.com cartoon: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...
![[Ponytail and Cueball, two stick figures, are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.
Cueball: And quartz, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
[Caption below the panel]
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:emlmrh6ojjbu5yv2j5mkhn6l/bafkreifbtzttq64c3jitxbzrk2utucdywujzjxcgifqlys4p5xroxvjym4@jpeg)
September 9, 2024 at 9:50 AM
To reiterate: I have an Ancient History and History degree. I didn't learn about this stuff as a teenager. It's a lot harder than you think to find 'babies first intro' to this stuff that's actually babies first. I always recall that one @xkcd.com cartoon: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...
For example. Before August I knew very little about things to populate these (DRAFT!!) slides:
Now I can confidently say that... I still know very little 😅 I had to watch a video explaining the difference between GitHub and Git and then found out there were MORE places. It's never-ending!
Now I can confidently say that... I still know very little 😅 I had to watch a video explaining the difference between GitHub and Git and then found out there were MORE places. It's never-ending!
September 9, 2024 at 9:47 AM
For example. Before August I knew very little about things to populate these (DRAFT!!) slides:
Now I can confidently say that... I still know very little 😅 I had to watch a video explaining the difference between GitHub and Git and then found out there were MORE places. It's never-ending!
Now I can confidently say that... I still know very little 😅 I had to watch a video explaining the difference between GitHub and Git and then found out there were MORE places. It's never-ending!
Suppose I'll start like I do everything else - I'm not the agitator, I'm not the speaker (there are other librarians out here who are FAR better at that than I am!) I like to trundle along with my own areas. I like design, I like making complicated things into simple(ish) diagrams. Like so:
August 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Suppose I'll start like I do everything else - I'm not the agitator, I'm not the speaker (there are other librarians out here who are FAR better at that than I am!) I like to trundle along with my own areas. I like design, I like making complicated things into simple(ish) diagrams. Like so: