Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

My mission statement: We are not here to empower, harness, unleash or delight people with digital public services. We are here to Stop Pissing People Off. No extra clicks. No unnecessary repetition. Their time matters. This is gods work.

So true, and even with security, the damage of competitiveness and scarcity is quite hard to recover and extract oneself from - a grinding way of working and understanding work gets so engrained and reinforced.

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

Omg I cooked this vegan recipe by Meera Sodha today, served it with stirfried veg and rice noodles - am the queen of cuisine now, it was sooo good! 😋😋😋 Honey, Soy, and Ginger Braised Tofu | The Splendid Table share.google/LOCDk3zWufm0...

I really can't tell you how much better it feels to choose your lane and to go hard there. Focus on one or two things and get some traction there. Keep inviting people to join in. Most will not and some will. Keep going.

As you know, I'm very keen on encouraging us all to embrace the messy when we're doing our research (noting, also, the harms that follow when research is not messy by design). If you're an ECR, PGR or Indie Researcher also keen on this topic, this event is for you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is what its like to have a courageous VC at the helm! Very inspiring, Sasha Roseneil, thank you!

I would buy Dunboy Castle and open an Activity / Non-Activity Centre with kayaks, climbing walls, organic gardening, forestry, woodwork, for children mainly, and restful holidays for chronically ill and disabled people and tired activists, and morale-boosting writing workshops. And excellent food.

First swifts of the year spotted in North London! There are so many positives to lying on your back idly looking at the sky! 💙

Devoured most of this on the grass in the sun yesterday. It is wonderful. (The book and the luxury of reading on the grass). Cooking is thinking and relating, and using a recipe is creative knowledge reproduction. H/t to @hpsvanessa.bsky.social 🙏 🍅🧄😋

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I reviewed for the journal Science, Technology and Human Values and they communicate with personal emails from actual editors! There was an actual person on the other end of the line! I am an instant fan. This is the only way I want to work. Can we do more of this?

PLRC has revolutionised patient-led research and generated ground-breaking long cocid research, in just 6 years. It is just an amazing, inspiring organisation.

Just sent my school bestie 3 books I enjoyed for her birthday. Sharing books is such a pleasure. Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis Confessions by Catherine Airey The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

‘We’re attached to this land like a tree is rooted in soil’: unexpectedly timely exhibition speaks up for the people of south Lebanon

Jfc I don’t know how else to make it clear that AI is an existential threat to academic knowledge production

Who has book recs? I've got a looong journey coming up and need recs for funny novels, ideally by women and ideally on the longer side (I read quickly, always cry on planes, enjoy romance as a plot device, and recently enjoyed Audition by Katie Kitamura, which is - admittedly - low on LOLs but vg)

The tiny local museum in my home village asked me to do a talk for 40 people, and the stagefright is 🤯🤯!!! Lecture on research methods to 250 x high fee paying international students? No problem. 💅 Lecture to 40 chilled local history enthusiasts on home turf 🥶😱 Help!

Just a few paragraphs in, and this is already excellent: "I tried to get out of the conversation as quickly as I could, not least because he seemed frustrated that I didn’t see things exactly as he did — a new behavior and likely a symptom of LLM overuse."

This should be a bigger story.  Scientists are more concerned than ever that a critical current will collapse soon and wreak havoc on North America and Europe.

What keeps coming up again and again is the risk of AI is really the flattening and erasure of plural forms of knowledge and capability with one way of doing things. To appropriate the Zapatista slogan, we need a world where many worlds not only fit but thrive and flourish

💥New | Before AI agents act for us, we need to know how AI searches for us ✍️ @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social Giulia Tucci & Aanila Kishwar #AIsearch #AgenticAI #Expertise

Once you account for the fact that grammar school intake is self-selected for (a type of) academic success, their results are unimpressive as well. Which means their function is even more obviously akin to a minor public school, allowing people to educate their kids alongside the “right sort”.

I fantasise about the day I can do un-grading for the benefit of student learning

Last week was an absolute nightmare for Lebanon, with more 300 people killed on Wednesday. More than 2000 people have been killed since March 2nd alone... If you like hip hop/music and are looking for ways to support the displaced and dispossessed in Lebanon, checkout this thread. Spread the word.

Friends, in case you feel called to do a bit of mutual aid this weekend - you can contribute to this fundraiser. ❤️

HIGHLY recommend this to anyone wanting to expand their critical understanding of epistemic injustice. I attended a preview lecture by Zara and learned so much, got great reading recs, sparkly patter, and a new framework! 10/10 would recommend ❤️

So much of my career I have been arguing for the value of *thinking*, using and cultivating our expertise rather than outsourcing responsibility to e.g. systematic reviews or checklists for qualitative research or an "evidence base". Yes LLMs are another way of surrendering thinking.

Blackthorn (sloe) flowers in the chiltern hills on a sunny Easter Monday. Love the way they turn spiky branches into something fluffy-looking

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This is so, so well-articulated.

A state has comprehensively failed when it is unable to stop such ongoing fascist frenzy. There is no way for it to find a way out of/back from this from within itself

Calling for “viewpoint diversity” on university campuses implies that all viewpoints are equally valid; that the content of viewpoints is irrelevant. But there are reasons why some disciplines may be politically skewed

👀 this looks amazing!

As a way to spread the word about the various Lebanese mutual aids that support all those affected by the ongoing Israeli war and occupation of Lebanon, I thought I'd share a bunch of contemporary Levantine musicians who are popular among my Beirut peeps, a thread 🧵

Great piece by @pollymackenzie.bsky.social on what resilience looks like. This is what I've been thinking of lately as relational infrastructure. When crisis mode becomes the norm and transactional infrastructures are threatened, these kind of capabilities are foundational

Many students don't even know what higher education can do *for them*. They think it's just about the degree--a part of a checklist where who they are as thinkers and people doesn't matter. AI exacerbates this problem. Students deserve better. #higherEd /fin

In the world’s worst conflict zones, gifted young women study in hiding, swerving militias, earthquakes, power cuts, internet outages and the threat of starvation. Ironically, they want to study in the UK...so they can develop skills to help strengthen the fragile infrastructure back home'.

“Research is formalised curiosity. It’s poking and prying with purpose.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

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When we accepted the premise that humanities and arts degrees are just a vessel for teaching generic transferable skills, we lost a battle that means we now can’t fight against AI. Because if students don’t actually have to learn anything why shouldn’t they use the plagiarism machine. Who cares.

Israel is preparing to deploy the “Gaza model” in Lebanon in plain sight — mass ethnic cleansing, annihilation of entire cities and villages, long-term occupation, and perhaps eventually Israeli settlements and annexation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I would never have "got" pre-charging if I didn't need to do it. I called it "pre-rest", but pre-charging is much better. I know it sounds bizarre but it is a metaphor that works very well. So please believe us when we say we need to do it!

"May those who interact with our work feel so seen and cared for that they leave feeling loved". What a beautiful wish for academic work.

Op-ed out today in @thesicktimes.org from PLRC co-lead @leticiasaurus.bsky.social and @jencurtinmd.bsky.social on the #LongCovid Treatment Guide! “Too often, people with Long COVID hear… not much can be done for them at this point. We… believe it is a fallacy that hinders access to care”

Doctors, please listen to patients and emerging science! We need to discuss, weigh risks and benefits and try treatment courses you might not be familiar with because long Covid is under-researched and lacks guidelines. Existing flowcharts are not enough.

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!