Sue Lacey Bryant

Countering harmful health #misinformation in the media, online & on social media is a major challenge. Good to see the new Health Information Integrity Network by LSHTM
- open to academic experts, communications professionals, policy leads at relevant organisations.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/heal...

100% agree

This pops up just as I'm writing an editorial about how training people in AI should really be mostly training people about misinformation.

Lesson learned? Always be careful what you wish for?

Primary libraries pledge includes converted cloakrooms and corridors Treasury has committed to ensuring that every primary school has a library by 2029, but these facilities could include former ‘storage spaces’, Tes can reveal

In light of the Govt’s pledge to provide a library for every primary, Caroline Roche, Chair of CILIP School Libraries Group argues there’s a danger of a “missed opportunity” if the focus is more on physical space than staffing.
https://ow.ly/s24c50Yq4Ku

Almost three in 10 of the world’s top universities are now led by a woman, a new record, according to data collected by Times Higher Education #internationalwomensday #highered https://ow.ly/qlaX50Yo43h

Returning from an exhilarating programme at #CILIPFest run by @cilip.bsky.social Midlands, hosted by the Library of Birmingham & Birmingham & Midlands Institute.

Our speakers and Panel kicked off cross-sectoral dialogue that ran through the day. Thanks so much for your thoughtful contributions.

Public libraries set to benefit from cash boost to support National Year of Reading The government has announced up to £150,000 cash boost for public libraries to support the National Year of Reading

Great news - Govt has just announced new public library strategy is coming later this year - we've been campaigning on this for years at #CILIP! Also £150k funding boost for 72 areas of deprivation during National Year of Reading. www.gov.uk/government/n... #NYR2026

Would you like to come and work in my team? Feel free to get in touch to chat about the role.

Why every scientist needs a librarian Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.

... hired a librarian for his research group to help organize citations and support literature searches. The collaboration was hugely helpful. So helpful, in fact, that his colleagues started asking to ‘borrow’ the information specialist for their own projects.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

👇👇"academic scientists don’t always take full advantage of these temples of knowledge, which have morphed from places full of quiet, dusty stacks to dynamic research centres with the latest technologies."
great article in @nature.com
@cilip.bsky.social. #Librarians

Somerset Libraries: Health and Wellbeing YouTube video by Somerset Libraries UK

Super video. How @somersetcouncil.bsky.social Libraries support health & wellbeing - health checks, loanable blood pressure monitors, reliable books & resources. Geat example of public librar7 activity across the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDL...
@cilip.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social

Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’ Party withdraws all Lancashire libraries from City of Sanctuary UK programme that supports new arrivals to UK

Free people read freely - unless you live in a council where political interference puts a stop to it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A date for the diary: I'm joining @cilip.bsky.social MIdlands in person on March 5th. I'll be chairing a Panel, inviting people to highlight 1 key opportunity they are tackling - and how? Also also asking participants to consider how they can help? Where are the opportunities for collective action?

Looking forward to speaking on the Knowledge Management and Information Systems Design Masters programme @ihpmeuoft.bsky.social later this month. I'll be focusing on the need to take a strategic approach to mobilising knowledge for healthare staff & students.
@manmetuni.bsky.social #KM #KMb #KfH

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

Public investments that expand access to enriching environments, like libraries and early education programs designed to spark a lifelong love of learning, may help reduce the incidence of dementia.”
@cilip.bsky.social #Dementia #Libraries
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The Bad Spoon YouTube video by Chris Hallbeck

If you know, you know. Couldn't resist sharing this as an homage to my son's favourite spoon (And by association, my favourite fork). It's good someone understands about Bad spoons, and forks.
Tx to @chrishallbeck.bsky.social & my daughter-I-L in for sharing.
youtube.com/shorts/1sv9a...

UK Poverty 2026: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK This report sets out the nature of poverty in the UK, and evaluates changes under the last Conservative-led Government. It also sets out the scale of action necessary for the current Government to del...

Seeing the UK variously calculated as sitting somewhere between in the top 5 and top 25 richest of the 195 countries in the world, this report from @jrf-uk.bsky.social makes me feel ashamed.

1 in 5 living in #poverty: 14.2m, including 4.5m children.
#FoodBanks

www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...

Actioning actionable knowledge: What do we mean by knowledge mobilisation? - PubMed Managing and applying evidence from research and learning from experience to better effect are part of the solution to the challenges faced by healthcare systems. Health library and information professionals often struggle to convey what is meant by 'knowledge mobilisation'. This editorial examines …

'Actioning actionable knowledge: What do we mean by #KnowledgeMobilisation?' Applying evidence from research & experience is critical to meeting the challenges healthcare systems face. What information functions are needed? #KMb #KM @cilip.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41058129/

Today we launched the @nihr.bsky.social #Knowledge #Mobilisation for #Research #Inclusion #Incubator, bringing together researchers, community members & organisations, and health and care professionals in Birmingham to build a national network and develop capacity in #KMb.

AI Preparedness Guidelines for Archivists — Archives & Records Association

New #AI preparedness guidelines for archivists from ARA.
Q: Can AI "speed up description, identify sensitive content, provide new forms of access"? A: Yes, once "collections are made “AI-ready”. "Automation is a not a magic solution."
#Archives #Archivists www.archives.org.uk/ai-preparedn...

What I find so weird about the data centre panic is the assumption that technology won’t change again to make these needs obsolete or at least different. It’s like Victorian transport planners trying to work out where all the horses will be stabled in the year 2026.

PAT SUET-BIK HUI & THE THREE PERFECTIONS This free exhibition showcases the work of US-based Hong Kong artist Pat Suet-Bik Hui alongside other artists who celebrate the tradition of the 'three perfections', poetry, calligraphy and painting.

Came across this lovely exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social. Brings together work by Pat Suet Bik Hui & other others re. 3 perfections - poetry, calligraphy and abstract painting.
Wonderful colours, brings to life verse on love, loss, time. See it if you can.
www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/p...

After a snowy month, Punxsutawney Phil predicts more winter ahead Punxsutawney Phil’s Groundhog Day prediction of more winter follows an exceptionally snowy month across the eastern U.S.

Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his wintertime burrow to predict that more of the same lies ahead.

This year, his legendary prediction would follow an exceptionally cold and snowy month across the eastern U.S.

Congratulations! Our 2025 #CILIP President leading by example. 🙌

Pleased to hear my Revalidation as a Fellow of @cilip.bsky.social has been approved. Why revalidate? By undertaking Professional Registration we show commitment to advancing our knowledge, developing our skills, staying in touch with current professional developments
www.cilip.org.uk/page/revalid...

Calling library, information and KM leaders. This is an amazing, once in a career opportunity to spotlight the amazing work of our knowledge and library teams and learn from international colleagues.
This is your moment to work with @cilip.bsky.social to get the show on the road #WLIC2027

Went to my local library this morning to do a bit of research for my current book project and my goodness such a life-affirming space! There was an adult being taught to read on the next table, children enjoying story time, countless people taking out books. So grateful for our libraries ❤️

Why Bruegel’s Icarus has made such a splash with poets The painter’s enigmatic scene has inspired poems by Auden and many others, writes Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, and it continues to resonate today

Bruegel’s depiction of the fall of Icarus has inspired many poets and continues to resonate today, writes Robert Douglas-Fairhurst