It can't hallucinate. It can't lie. It can't apologize. It is a machine that works the way that it was designed to work BY PEOPLE.

Thrilled to have my paper with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social and Giuliana Giuliani in @wonkhe.bsky.social

Please reshare! I'd love to hear from potential candidates with research interests in disability studies and the arts... @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social

PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game. On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad? WRONG!

No matter how tough you say times are, there’s always enough money in the banana stand to pay an external consultant to scope ‘academic efficiency opportunities’ www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.

Just to say, I am a supervisor here: UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student... If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out: www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI: naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...

New Job Posts Like: Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic. Read the collection with #FreeAccess: www.tandfonline.com/...#BlackHistoryMonth,#FreeAccess:@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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@britsoci.bsky.social Please share this Lectureship in Sociology opportunity, to join @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Comment from our Principal Analyst @rebeccaflorisson.bsky.social on the latest CPI inflation release from the ONS ⬇️ “Cost of living pressures are persisting for workers and their families across the UK as inflation is at its joint highest level since January 2024 at 3.8%. (1/6)

What does the Post-16 White Paper mean for social mobility? @danihpayne.bsky.social and I have put together our initial assessment of yesterday's announcements ⬇️

If you're interested in critical research on criminal justice then I cannot recommend this free event on Oct 7 - launch of a new critical textbook on criminal justice system in Scotland by three amazing academics - highly enough. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-launch...

Matthew 25:35-40 (revised version): “For I was hungry, and you cut off funding to feed me, and then decided not to even study how many people are hungry you greedy, miserable bastards.”

Advice for the age

Similar thing from the music world: Dmitri Shostakovich attended a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Oh I am going to have read this, as someone who constantly wonders A: How anyone else doing the job that I do makes a living, and B: Also, actually, how do I make a living?

Absolutely thrilled that my paper with Giuliana Giuliani, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social & @markrt.bsky.social is now out in @culturaltrends.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Using the Labour Force Survey we show that people creatives are at least twice as likely to have two jobs

Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.

Her face! Before she had worked out what to do/say, he'd said his bit and was back to work mode. Legend.

Congratulations to Prof Nasar Meer, whose research into how devolution has shaped - and been shaped by - our response to racial inequality shines a light on both the gaps and the possibilities in current policy.

Anyone making their way to Edinburgh (or already nearby!), I *think* that there are still tickets available - come here me, @markrt.bsky.social and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social chat about whether Culture is still bad for you www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

We have a shiny new poster designed by our own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for our one day symposium in September, registration link coming soon too!

They want to go back to a time when college was only for wealthy White men. Because that will make the rest of the population easier to manipulate with misinformation and easier to force into unpaid care roles (women) or underpaid manual labor jobs that remain as more jobs get AI-ed (men).

Love this. Also, not wishing to start a Ding-Dong Discourse but we called this Knock-Down Ginger

Edinburgh! 19 August! 15:30! Spiegeltent! Book! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... (per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)

The moment your rules for Lifelong Learning exclude *Birkbeck*, you know your rules are silly.

Checked out the @edbookfest.bsky.social? Don't miss Vince Cable (Eclipsing the West), @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social (Culture is bad for you) and @aldersonday.bsky.social (Presence). 9-24th August at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social: www.edbookfest.co.uk

An incredible line for an article opener:

‘tech visionaries’ imaginations go limp when it comes to transforming our social reality’ lol word choice calculated for maximum psychic damage

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great opportunity to work at the intersection of policymaking, arts and higher education - closing 4 June www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/project-...

I know that the US has seen worse life expectancy trends than other high income countries in recent years, but I hadn't realised things were so bad across all ages - particularly people of working age. US 20-59 year olds are dying at several times the rate of their peers, and it's getting worse.

The workers united will never be defeated! Our strike action finishes at Sheffield after membership of our UCU branch @sheffielducu.bsky.social accept offer from management for no compulsory redundancies as a result of organisational restructures this year (and no pay deductions to be taken!)

The debate on healthcare, like pensions, runs into an incredible brick wall over the statement: "I've paid taxes all my life". To which the honest response is: yes, you have. But those taxes were at a rate far too low to provide the level of service British pensioners now expect.

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Seeking PhD student to work on '“Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism'. AHRC-funded @sgsah.bsky.social & supervised by Paul Gooding, @melissaterras.bsky.social , @semames.bsky.social and me. Please share! melissaterras.org/2025/05/06/s...

There is much work still to do: @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social's new version of ‘Culture Is Bad For You’ lays bare persistent inequalities in the arts, particularly through social class but also at its intersection with gender and ethnicity

Fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in doing a PhD related to art festivals with the wonderful Sotiria Grek and @profellenstu.bsky.social

#lesbianvisibilityweek? In that case I’m going with #LwiththeTvisibilityweek. Now as always.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

@drdaveobrien.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social @orianbrook.bsky.social The next cover of Culture is Bad For You just dropped…

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

An insightful event at the Edinburgh Futures Institute on equalities in the creative industries, to celebrate the launch of the 2nd edition of “culture is bad for you”. @orianbrook.bsky.social and colleagues giving us an insight into how things haven’t really improved since covid