Tanya Williamson

📣 BSHS Small Grants – deadline 31 March

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Hand drawn illustration with the words open scholarship co-creation experiment surrounded by faces and icons which symbolise thought, conversation, collaboration and ideas.

A little drawing to represent a co-creation experiment I've been planning with partners from the @knowledgeen.bsky.social Equity Network. Press release coming soon... Exciting! #openscholarship

Happy International Women's Day to every woman. I'm wishing peace for you. 💐💜✊🏽🕊️

My thread went all out of whack... bsky.app/profile/tany...

I love this approach if sharing research questions openly. It should be the norm!

We need to divert our resources to sustaining the infrastructure that makes it possible for the community to establish new norms. We need to encourage and reward the behaviour or practices that meet the standards we intentionally set in policy. #r2rconf

What are we trying to sustain? We can't sustain the current system, the waste, the bloat, the profit margins of private companies and meet our goals for a healthy #scholcomms future. #r2rconf

I found it interesting to hear 'sustainability' discussed several times. What I didn't have the courage to raise me hand and ask is 'what will we stop doing in order to make what we need to do sustainable?'. #r2rconf

I notice words. The words that I noticed at #r2rconf were trust, coordination (rather than alignment), communities (but sometimes meaning customers, stakeholders, users), incentives and change. 'Going beyond' and 'balancing power' seemed to be a running theme.

I wish I'd realised sooner that there was #r2rconf chatter happening over on BlueSky... I'd forgotten the old habit of the conference side chat that was common on Twitter. I was missing it. It's been a rich experience, and a unique conference as far as I know.

Exactly this. An important, refreshingly clear and unequivocal message that this conference needed to hear. Thank you @nikeshgo.bsky.social

Diversifying the information workforce - The Library Earlier this year an inspirational team of library and archives professionals held an event for people from Black, Asian, mixed and minoritised ethnic backgrounds at the University of Salford. ‘Curiou...

Back in March 2025, we hosted the 'Curious about a career in libraries and archives? event. Here's a little blog post about it: blogs.salford.ac.uk/library/2025...

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Front cover of Field Mycology journal Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025): - March 2025. Cover i.sge small white cup like fungi growing on moss

The latest issue of Field Mycology is out now, thanks to the efforts of @clareblencowe.bsky.social and her team. It's open access, so anyone can read it #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

So lovely to see you @masudk.com! Thank you for coming to Salford for the @knowledgeen.bsky.social launch and for always being so supportive!

Neurodiversity and libraries In recent years, society has focused more on neurodiversity – for example, you hear it mentioned in popular media and movies, as more diverse characters are represented in mainstream media. New resear...

📣Just out this month: A post outlining resources and strategies for creating more inclusive experiences for #neurodivergent staff and customers in #Libraries

www.webjunction.org/news/webjunc...

#Library #EDI
#Neurodiversity
#Employment
#Workplace

I don't know how contracts work in the USA. How can government workers be fired without notice by email without breach of contract? How can you demand researchers do not worry on government funded research without breach of contract?

Statement: Removal of access to and modification of data by authorities in the USA CILIP invites members and the wider information profession community to share examples of how content, reports, datasets, evidence, and tools are being removed by US authorities

CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals.
Read more👇
www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

Curious about a career in libraries and archives? Are you black, asian, or of a mixed or minoritised ethnic heritage? Do you live or work in Greater Manchester?

Curious about a career in #libraries or #archives? From a #globalmajority ethnicity or #mixedheritage background? LIve or work in #GreaterManchester? Have a look here: bit.ly/curious-about

The First Organisational Chart The First Org Chart In 1855, Brigadier General Daniel McCallum, later to become a Civil War officer renowned for “strict precision and stern discipline” as well as for his innovative engineering, crea...

This org chart is a thing of beauty psychsafety.com/the-first-or...

Curious about a career in libraries and archives? event poster. Wednesday 19th March, 9.30-2pm, University of Salford. Visit https://bit.ly/curious-about to book.

Delighted that registrations are now open for this welcoming, grassroots event for people who are curious about a career in #libraries or #archives. Weds 19th March 2025, in person, University of Salford. Visit 👉 bit.ly/curious-about

All the things we like: creating opportunities for knowledge to flourish, collaborating with like-minded partners, investing in what we believe matters. Congratulations to the first 2 authors to be contracted 👏🏽

Information is Beautiful Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

I met a woman in Night and Day in Manchester last year who told me about ikigai and a great many other interesting things. I love this improvement on the diagram by @infobeautiful.bsky.social. informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

a woman in a blue sweater says who cares on a netflix poster Alt: a woman in a blue sweater says who cares in a slightly exasperated way?

I'm preoccupied by a desire to share with the world some 'Day in my life' type posts about my real life juggle at work. The plates I'm trying to spin, cats I'm trying to herd, values and ways of working I'm trying to live. But then I wonder...

I'm Nick Sheppard! And so is my wife.

Fair!

What's all this then? Having walked away from X a while back, hung out on LinkedIn a bit but posted little, now I'm here. Will I find find my work-related social home again?