🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

Bristol Temple Meads forecourt. Steve Daniels at geograph.org.uk, CC-BY-SA.

Nottingham station. John Sutton at geograph.org.uk, CC-BY-SA.

A bid has been lodged for a new direct rail service between Bristol, Oxford and Nottingham. The plans by rail consultancy SLC would see eight trains a day in each direction, running via the new East-West line to Bletchley and Bedford before heading north to Leicester and Nottingham.

Like most other disciplines, accessibility takes practice, time, and patience. No one starts a new endeavor and is instantly excellent at it with nothing to learn or improve. If you expect your first attempt to be perfect, you'll burn out. You'll find excuses to not try. Get started and try.

David Kernohan on the Plenary Dtage at the UCISA Leadership Conference 2025

Next up at #UCISA25 is @davidkernohan.bsky.social from Wonkhe on - What's happening in UK higher education, and what does it mean for IT professionals?

Iain McCracken introducing @ucisa.bsky.social to newcomers at our conference. Hope everyone has a good conference #UCISA25

#JoinIn was one of the surviving kind things from Twitter, first organised over a decade ago by the lovely @sarahmillican.bsky.social Essentially, just post some details of your day and have a chat with others using the hashtag.

“Be kind, add alt text.” Our bold, central message has pink hearts in a hand-drawn style above it, and social share icons below with a reminder to “help spread the word.”

As more people join Bluesky, let’s make sure accessibility is part of the conversation.

Share to help us spread the word on World Kindness Day 🫶

The System is Broken…and it almost broke me Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash Ever since I started this blog, I knew I would write this article at some point. And I haven’t yet because it was too personal, too close to home. But now I…

Outcomes are cataclysmic.

Allow my autistic daughter to put it in her own words, which she did with eloquence:

howtobeme59.wordpress.com/2024/06/08/t...

It costs more to do the wrong thing in the wrong way

Photo of a large pond with trees and bushes on all sides. A light fog obscures the trees in the distance.

Bit late with picture of the Pond today. It was a misty morning for the Pond.
Have a good weekend all.

Large pond of water with leaves and pond weed floating in the foreground. A few ducks swimming around. Light grey sky over head.

Still morning at the pond. Absent leaves on the autumn trees are more noticeable.

Large pond of water in early morning sunshine with a clear blue sky. The low sunlight is enhancing the golden colours of the trees and bushes and in the distance there is a fine mist of the pond.

The Pond after the first properly frosty night of Autumn.

Pink haze of Northern lights low in night sky just above horizon

Northern lights putting in another appearance.

Signal boost - help a librarian doing a PhD on the social background of librarians in UK universities! My marvellous friend and colleague, the incomparable @patchedelbows.bsky.social, is looking for respondents for a questionnaire - can you help? 📚

sites.google.com/view/librari...

Large pond of water surrounded on all sides with trees and bushes that have yellowing leaves.

The Pond's cloak of trees and shrubs starting to settle into their Autumn colours.

Photo across rushes at the end of a small lake. In the distance there is a mist rising off the lake. Blue sky with a few light clouds.

A different Pond this morning. The chilly Autumn mornings displaying their misty clothes.

Large pond of water with bushes and trees all around. Group of ducks in foreground. Grey sky and fine rain.

The Pond soaking up the rain as best as it can.

Large pond with trees and bushes on all sides. Grey, overcast sky.

The Pond calm and still after the heavy rain.

Large pond with trees and bushes on all sides. Grey overcast sky.

Overcast day at the Pond

Large pond surrounded by trees and bushes with yellowing leaves. Blue sky with very fine whispy clouds.

The Pond settling into its Autumn finery for the beginning of this week. But still discarding the mist over the water as sunshine washes over it.

Large pond with trees and bushes around being lit with early autumn morning sunshine, just starting to show the leaves golden colours.

The Pond looking good on this autumn morning as head towards the weekend.

Given Bluesky's increasing success & features (and Twitter's increasingly poor leadership), we at CILIP - the library and information association - are going to be growing our activity on here, so please give @cilip.bsky.social a follow and watch this space... #FactsMatter #LibrariesChangeLives

View of large pond with trees and reeds on the banks. Ducks swimming on the pond in the distance.

Overcast start to the week at Pond. Hoping you have a good week ahead.

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

A colorful word cloud generated from 84 responses, centered around the question ‘What are the top 5 skills required by effective digital leaders?’ The most prominent words, indicating the most frequently mentioned skills, include ‘empathy,’ ‘project management,’ ‘communication,’ ‘listening,’ and ‘diplomacy.’ Other notable words of varying sizes suggest additional valued skills such as ‘adaptability,’ ‘creativity,’ ‘innovation,’ and ‘strategic thinking.’ The background is white with the text in various shades of red, blue, green, and yellow.

DLI's John Kilroy and I asked #ALTC24 delegates about the 5 essential skills for #digital leaders yesterday.
Interesting mix of human / interpersonal (not soft!) skills, functional digital skills, project skills and that essential element for successful teams - #trust
#AmplifyFE #UKFE #loveFE

A group of people sitting behind desk, smiling with a presentation screen behind them.

And that's a wrap! Thanks to our lovely #altc24 audience, to all our panellists and @julievoce.bsky.social for hosting.

Photo of train platform with sunrise over horizon

Early start as on my way up to #ALTC24 for the @ucisa-deg.bsky.social and @ucisa.bsky.social DCG presentation on Digital Education survey

Have a good day

a graph showing the number of people in the north states Alt: Animated bar chart

Join members of the UCISA Digital Education Group at
#ALTc24 for our latest game show - "8 Out of 10 Cats does Digital Education: Findings from the 2024 UCISA Digital
Education survey" hosted by our very own
@julievoce.bsky.social - Wednesday 4th at 16:30 in the Dublin room...