Dear students, this is why you don't use AI as a research tool.

The NAI has rolled out an update to the #1926census - great to see them working their way through submitted corrections. www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Nearly half of our universities are forecasting deficits. Institutions across the country are closing departments and issuing redundancy notices. The government don’t yet consider this a crisis. How many more jobs must be lost before ministers act?

"The Univ. of Hertfordshire has decided to close all eight Humanities undergraduate programmes in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Philosophy.... PLEASE sign this petition to support staff and students in Humanities" www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

YO PLEASE WATCH THIS IM FUCKING SCREAMING

Many thanks @vahs.bsky.social for invite to speak at its @ihr.bsky.social seminar series. If you missed it & are interested in hearing about our @ukri.org #AHRC #womensgrassrootsactivism project you can watch the recording 👇, complete with me jumping up to answer the door (daughter forgot 🔑 again!).

Tune in today Monday 18 May at 3pm to @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social, where Siobhan Doyle, Curator of Contemporary Irish History, will discuss the history & scandals of the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Or Siobhan’s article @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

If you didn't do the research? If you just threw citations into your works cited/bibliography to fill it out? Sure, you might be able to fool everyone for a little while. But it only takes the revelation of a single citation that doesn't say what you claim it says to invalidate everything you wrote.

Somehow cartoonists see things happening well in advance. Perhaps all their ideas are stolen by villains.

I just can't get past "What do you mean I have to check AAALLLLLLLL my citations?" Like, dude, what? My PhD advisor would have hung me by my toenails on the quad if I didn't know what one of my citations was for.

Art class should never stop being a thing. Like if right after our lunch breaks we all got to go down to the basement, throw on a smock and make collages out of old magazines while somebody's slightly witchy aunt tells us how great we're doing, I feel like we'd all be in a better place

I feel that, if only right-wingers were as threatened by the civilization-ending climate crisis as they are by questions over who’s a girl and who’s a boy, we could really get a lot done.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

We're hearing more about how women shaped tech and then were written out of the story. Women in Technical Communication: From typewriters to touchscreens brings those voices back. Read the book and help them stay visible. #TechCommHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech a.co/d/00Ph3Aov

Silk Road cafe to shut down for 6 months. Owner 'furious' as busy café at Dublin Castle ordered to shut down for EU presidency share.google/UKLgYgFyq1w4...

In Beaumont, a branch of woodturners invites others in to learn the craft. Woodturners share what they know, says Cathal Ryan, chair of the East Central Chapter of the Irish Woodturner’s Guild. It’s why the guild exists.

This is what the Government should be focused on, not on maximising the number of 32 sq metre studio apartments that can be squeezed out of every site for the benefit of largely foreign investor funds …

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Hi all. Scammers have recently contacted academics, authors and agents, impersonating me & other Bloomsbury editors. If you receive an email from me from anything other than [email protected] pls disregard. Feels curiously invasive and not great. More info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/c...

The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

Yes, this is an AI-generated share image but please understand that it's here because it's stupid in a way that illustrates the whole theme of today's post. www.todayintabs.com/p/it-s-lamer...

I just pissed myself... this is the movie he is mad that people are calling slop... I demand you watch with the sound on... it is so much worse than you think it is going to be...

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

“You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat”

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

I have chronic pain issues that make it hard to write or do anything at all, and I have disabilities that compound on those issues too, and I write all the goddamn time without using AI because I'm not also a fucking loser.

Holy shit. I was in Canvas and then all of a sudden, this showed up!

It might be time to read the Culture novels again.

The planned regeneration of Dublin city’s Oliver Bond flats has been scrapped after the Department of Housing withdrew funding for the project jrnl.ie/7032316

#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky

"Isn't that lovely? It's my favorite program-fifteen minutes of silence-and after that there's a half hour of quiet and then an interlude of lull. Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.”

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

As someone who’s had shingles twice: this is just fucking evil www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Absolutely spot on thread about the Met Gala, the costume industry, fundraising, spectacle and the perennial question of ‘is it art?

Are you passionate about SF, fantasy, and pop culture? Our Managing Editor is looking for original essay pitches: author appreciations, scholarly analysis of all aspects of pop culture, critical and personal essays, think pieces, literary analysis and deep dives into film, television, and fiction

I mean, is anyone surprised at anything they do these days? Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

The Design History Society has a bursary fund to assist student and precariously-employed members whose papers have been accepted for presentation at our annual conference. Deadline: 1st June 2026. Find out more about eligibility and apply here: buff.ly/x2HIDKt

This. The work IS the learning. Imagine thinking you can pay less attention to something and learn more.

It was only a matter of time before Ireland got our own Barn the Spoon (although this guy doesn’t perform making spoons in his shop window, at least)

Are you a speaker of Irish English? If so, would you share your thoughts on “only” with me for academic research? umfragen.tu-dortmund.de/index.php/42... Thank you very much!!!!🙏🙏🙏