'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

To make the proof 😂😂😂

To Mary, love, Mary.

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Don't threaten us with a good time.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Wow, that looks seriously bubblicious. The velocity of AI $ is now in a league of its own. Nvidia and OpenAI tangle web of deals are “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Me every single budget day: STOP GIVING MILLIONS TO GREYHOUND RACING

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... * yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

It is 120 euro for a shirt with a name on the back - people are buying the knock off ones for 40 quid in droves.

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Obituary: Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists go.nature.com/48aWjRU

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

First of 3 classes on Conan Doyle this week. 🥰

I is for... Ichthyosaur! This extinct marine reptile lived during the Jurassic, and this specimen measures nearly 6 meters long! It was found in Lyme Regis, Dorset and within it's fossilized skeleton you can see ammonite shells.

She hath risen.

Absolutely love this.

Jim Gavin quits Irish presidential race. Irish media tomorrow: "CATHERINE CONNOLLY ONCE BORROWED A LIBRARY BOOK ABOUT TROTSKY!!"

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️

@jconnollybooks.bsky.social taking the recommendation!

200 years ago today, 4 October 1825: visiting Lyme Regis, geologist Roderick Murchison notes in his journal: 'Accompanied by Mary Anning rode to Dowlands and dismounted there' where they examined the Greensand rocks of the Undercliff, the landslipped coastal cliffs west of the town.

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Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Did something new for Crime Fiction seminar this morning, got a bestselling crime novelist in to take the class! Students were delighted. Thank you so much @jconnollybooks.bsky.social for a great class and for your generosity and time. @ucc.ie

Contemplates robbing a bank...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

quote of the week just dropped

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

THE KING OF BRAZIL

You'll fall in love, I know you will, our number six is THE KING OF BRAZIL!!!!!

Never. It is laughable. Absolutely laughable.

The way that penalty incident was dealt with was absolutely re-refereeing by the way. The ref has seen the incident live but they’ve asked him to watch it again 20 times and make a new decision.

Absolutely bent. A foul on Gyokeres, doesn't matter if Pope touches it. Utterly corrupt. #Arsenal

“Landmark study” where openai comes to understand what we’ve been telling them about their own software for three years. (I’m sure many have been saying it for longer.)

Full books. 😂😂😂

YEP!

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

Friday morning murder board.

Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.

They've lost the 9yos

I'm absolutely delighted. Siobhán said it UP THE MNÁ!!!!!! #traitorsirl

YEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!! #traitorsirl

This

Omg I can't take it...COME ON GIRLS. #traitorsirl

In the Age of Political Gaslighting, this is a sobering reminder.