AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

And a happy birthday to @rivalconsoles.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/6dtXF2...

Oh look, it’s @deathandculture.bsky.social on the telly!

New Futurama season delivers

Today I learned that saying that 'culture has positive effects' is a banality whereas saying that 'culture reproduces inequalities' is cutting-edge scientific knowledge. The things you learn... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Autumn vibes

🚨New publication alert (for those who speak French), a book on music tastes of French people 🚨 Les goûts musicaux des français par Hervé Glevarec et Raphaël A. Nowak

I’m really looking forward to speaking at this event at LSE alongside Lois Shearing and chaired by Rachel O’Neill. All welcome! Link to register is below. @lsemedia.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a book titled “Music Tastes of French People: Preferences, Use Values, and Competence” with ‘Le Bord de l’Eau’. #France #French #Music

Out of the office update

Why would anyone need to watch Black Mirror since we are already living in it? 'French streamer dies live online after months of apparent mistreatment' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🚨 new publication alert 🚨 New book chapter, co-authored with Jo Haynes, 'when is a music audience?', published in Mike Dines, Shara Rambarran, and Gareth Dylan Smith's edited collection Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies.

Getting there

Mehdi Hasan Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAE4...

Universities urged to hasten ‘quiet retreat’ from X after Grok outcry. Fresh analysis shows increasing numbers of UK universities going silent on Elon Musk’s platform. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Remembering 1985 - The Year of Live Aid, EastEnders, Madonna, Whitney, Back to the Future, The Sinclair C5, and much more! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers archive.md/UJIGh#select...

Today in AI world... 'He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him' archive.md/QbPXz#select...

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My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social

Look what arrived today! Super pleased to see this in print. I think it's a really timely and important collection and I'm so proud of my fellow editors @simoned.bsky.social and @benlitherland.bsky.social as well as our amazing contributors for all of the work they put into it.

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Toilet segregation: an issue for everyone The UK’s EHRC has advised that toilet access should be restricted by sex, but in practice this means problems, and not just for trans people By Jennie Kermode @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

It's also the same reason as to why more men voted for Donald Trump. Men are more likely to like fascism.

🚨🔥🚨 Europe just had their warmest March on record.

'but he hasn't even been potter of the week yet!' is the kind of things I now say. #middleclassmuch?

« Une corruption d’une intensité jamais atteinte » : la charge des parties civiles au procès Sarkozy-Kadhafi www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Spotted in Amsterdam

UK universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system. www.historyworkshop....

Manifestations devant les concessionnaires et les bornes de chargement, voitures endommagées, campagnes de désinvestissement : la résistance économique contre Elon Musk se structure. Avec un certain succès. Par Alexis Buisson

🔴UK Taxpayers’ Cash Is Funding an Arms Firm Whose Biggest Shareholder Is Now Bankrolling Nigel Farage’s Reform UK The UK Government’s big increase in defence spending will likely hugely benefit Reform UK’s biggest donor bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.

University of Auckland students criticise introduction of artificial intelligence tutors in business and economics course www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/universit...

There are days when I wish this had been true.

It's not uncommon for Ministers to jettison successful ARC grants before they commence if they seem too woke, but to suspend an active grant 3/4 years in is unheard of. Racist, reactionary response to Murdoch smears #academicfreedom @arc-tracker.bsky.social www.afr.com/policy/healt...

“US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.” Strong and welcome stance from @Nature www.nature.com/artic... 1/2

Yes. The answer is yes.

'Sources have told the Guardian that ministers have accepted the need to protect British creative industries from the plans, which would otherwise have made their work available for access by AI companies unless they deliberately opted out.'

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."

Michael Burawoy Never Wavered jacobin.com/2025/02/mich...