Apparently the baby I’m brewing is in the top 10% size bracket, which might indicate some medical things, but shout out to my partner who responded by referring to it as the “absolute unit”

Anyway, going to lie down in Madeira for a week now! Shout out to the leg that put a whole bag of kfc through security, smart

Going on parental leave from july. Yay leave!

Gotta say, the amount of people I have heard say “I used my maternity leave to do my research” is terrifying. Especially when I’m literally on full pay for less than half of my leave. Work for free? Nope

This by-election has felt like 95% AI slop online, but quietly hopeful when I walk around my neighbourhood and see a majority of green posters. That said this is the first election that's gone by when I see posters for far right parties proudly on display.

Expansive archives and expanding archiving: a scoping review about fatness in the archive This scoping review critically examines how fatness and fat people are represented – and often misrepresented – within archival collections. Although scholars are engaged with writing histories of ...

New open access article! Just published this scoping review about how body size (specifically fatness) is represented/mediated through archives.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Running an event about information/archives in diy culture on 15th November at Manchester Metropolitan University!

Call for activities/speakers live here: tinyurl.com/diylives

Payment and travel bursaries available for non-institutional speakers! See link for details.

Like amazed at the assumptions that women are the ones to give up careers for a marriage

The latest series of love is blind (UK) definitely demonstrates that the patriarchy is very much still alive and with us

..and while I'm here! I'm running another fully masked plus size clothes swap with @burnyourbones.bsky.social on Saturday 26th July!

1-5pm, Levy Old Library (Manchester)
£3-5 donation entry
Size 16/L+, all genders

Bring clothes that don't work, leave with some that do!

@ fatswapstop on Insta

Zine cover showing a pair of hairy legs in trainers and the title fat + 5k

New zine! Fat and 5k is a memoir style perzine about running, fatness, exercise and feelings.

Buy it on etsy here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Greeeeen (will never not impulsively bleach my hair)

Do you wear a size 16/L+ and live in manchester? Come join @burnyourbones.bsky.social and I at Levy Old Library for our next clothes swap!

£3-5 entry, bring what you can/take what you want.

Accessible (fully masked) space, gender neutral loos, good ventilation.

3rd may/26th July from 1-5pm

Do you wear a size 16/L+ and live in manchester? Come join @burnyourbones.bsky.social and I at Levy Old Library for our next clothes swap!

£3-5 entry, bring what you can/take what you want.

Accessible (fully masked) space, gender neutral loos, good ventilation.

3rd may/26th July from 1-5pm

Alex popped up on Yorkshire vets incrrreedddibblly briefly last night, picking up pig poop. Dating a celebrity right

The most absurd charity shop sportswear find

Glad Alex took pictures of me being the most annoying dog owner ever. Soz Apollo, I am the worst

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Censorship Reporting Form Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) is gathering data about incidents of censorship regarding Palestine in libraries and archives since October 2023. If, at your library or archive, you hav...

Are you experiencing censorship of materials or programming related to Palestine in your library or archive? Librarians and Archivists with Palestine is gathering data and telling these stories. Report here:

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Every year I am more delighted to be part of the professional journey of more queer/trans/neurodivergent library workers. May my cohort demographics never change pls

Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books at Loughborough University Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Research Associate at Loughborough in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books as part of @copim.bsky.social

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Our February newsletter is out now, detailing all the hard work happening behind the scenes from our outstanding committee

Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair Saturday 22 February 12noon-4.30pm

This Saturday come along to Brixton Library's big LGBTQ+ zine fair! We have over 20 stalls of self published queer writing art and things to read from @rachaelhouse.bsky.social
@roundtablebookscic.bsky.social
@kissakerho.bsky.social
@toniteras.bsky.social
&...
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It’s been a longggg start to the academic year, but in the last two days students nominated me in their union teaching awards across three categories! Outstanding for inclusive teaching, teacher of the year and outstanding for employability teaching. Fuzzy feels a plenty.

Open Research Conversations: Spring 2025 Our lunchtime Open Research Conversations are free, online and open to all. Each focuses on a specific aspect of open research and features talks from 2-3 speakers followed by questions and discussion...

🔊🎉Our new semester's programme of Open Research Conversations is now available, including sessions on early career researchers, open research across different epistemic cultures, indigenous data sovereignty, & more.

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@burnyourbones.bsky.social defs wellcome library! I would also look at uk and Ireland zine librarians website, they have a directory of places collecting zines

Can’t believe canva is firing me

Patience! Still too scared to watch it in case it’s awful 😂

Handsome dog

Today I also realised I’ve been an academic longer than I was an archivist, which is weird. I miss getting to know people by sorting and describing their things (but also I cannot claim to have been a good cataloguer so that is nostalgia speaking)

Come on, give me the meta analysis. My partner showed me the blurb and I immediately set my expectations at “bet that’s problematic”… but I haven’t watched it yet