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As brilliant as ever after all these years, @wishboneash_com at @APAWhatsOn Lemon Tree this evening in Aberdeen 🎸🎸
ALT Wishbone Ash on stage at the Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
I’m delighted with how this looks! @aberdeenunilib is now proudly displaying an @ADHDFoundation Umbrella Project 2024 display, and celebrating #neurodiversity @aberdeenuni
adhdfoundation.org.uk/events…
ALT Umbrellas in assorted images hanging from the first floor ceiling around the atrium in The Sir Duncan Rice Library. View looking up.
ALT Umbrellas in assorted images hanging from the first floor ceiling around the atrium in The Sir Duncan Rice Library. View looking down.
Tremendous to see this! Huge congratulations to all involved.
📢 We are incredibly excited to announce our first ever book titles, publishing #OpenAccess from October! 📢
This marks a significant step in our journey to make high-quality academic research freely accessible to everyone 🔓 📚
For full details visit: sup.ac.uk/news/sup-announces…
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Earlier this year our graduating students donated their used books for new students to take home for FREE. Check your reading lists on MyAberdeen and head to one of the locations on 16 September to pick up a book.
Find out more > abdn.io/...
I'm delighted to announce that @aberdeenuni will host a @CILIPinfo #CILIPMembersFest24 event in @aberdeenunilib on 17 October in partnership with @CILIPScotland @CILIPSNorthEast
Head to the event page to register!
cilips.org.uk/events/aberdee…
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May I propose this a rule of discourse: the making of solemn parallels between minor, annoying measures, health or otherwise, by well-meaning democratic governments AND the liquidation of the entire Jewish people in Europe by the Nazis aka the Holocaust displays crass insensitivity, bad taste, preposterous self-pity and mountainous, moronic ignorance.
In a time when real history is constantly being distorted and misused, it cheapens it and justifies others to do so.
Please stop doing it
"We will soon have a world where all science is free to read online, while humanities scholarship lingers in little read and extremely expensive books. This cannot but be terrible for the visibility of our disciplines."
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Here’s an eternal truth. You are on the wrong side of history if you find yourself on the side that burns a library.
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Our thoughts are with @Liverpoollib. Spellow Hub Library, opened last year as the 'library of the future' to support local people get education and routes into work was set on fire amid scenes of violent disorder in north Liverpool. liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liv…
It’s been lovely today to see members of my ‘green library group’ literally introducing greenery into the library. After a fair amount of planning and with the expertise of @aberdeenuni Cruickshank Botanic Gardens, we’re experimenting with hydroponic plants in @aberdeenunilib 🪴
ALT Mark from the Gardens and Libraty colleagues potting the plants.
ALT The team with one of the plants in The Sir Duncan Rice Library.
ALT Another of our new plants in position in the Library.
ALT The hydroponic water gauge installed in one of the pots.
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Great to hear the new Secretary of State for Education issue an emphatic ‘international students are welcome’ message at the Embassy Education Conference. Multicultural campuses enrich our universities and communities which is why we remain #OpenToAll abdn.io/PE
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I think this is one of the most important projects @UniversitiesUK has undertaken in the time I have been involved in its work. Having critical friends involved in shaping it has been crucial. universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/…
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Love this: @bphillipsonMP speech “Be in no doubt: international students are welcome in the UK. This new government values their contribution – to our universities, to our communities, to our country.” gov.uk/government/speeches/b…
I've seen this piece promoted several times this week, and it's always great to see the academic voice speaking up strongly about the costs and wrong-headedness involved in academic publishing [1/12]
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Which is why we're _still_ discussing it, people are _still_ outraged or perplexed when they find out how it works, some baby steps are achieved, but the commercial publishers _still_ keep raking in the money. [11/12]