"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

This is what tech oligarchs stole from us

THE NIGHTS ARE FAIR DRAWIN OOT

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

The project management tool I use to organise my work has recently added AI summaries of emails, which I can't turn off. Today I added an email which contained a URL to my to do list. The LLM wrote a summary and provided a link to example.com/path/to/file instead of the actual URL.

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Proposal: now that AGU has shrunk to 20k attendees, we can move it to Vienna and rebrand it as the AGUropean Autumn Meeting

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Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Spey! Alas! I am very sorry to say That your stone pier and iron girders have been taken away On the 3rd last Sabbath day of 2025, Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

I've been teaching intro python this semester and it feels like this is the first year I've taught where gen AI has been so prevalent. It's been very depressing seeing students outsourcing their thinking and learning to a chatbot.

IWGB: "Rockstar’s latest statement is littered with falsehoods and disinformation - they have given multiple, conflicting reasons to explain why the workers were fired, as if attempting to reverse engineer a rationale for the dismissals. Once again, they have chosen to mischaracterise... 1/3

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I glanced at this and thought it was a union campaign opposing job cuts. "human centric" AI "innovation" = removing human contact and community

My brain this morning when I asked it to do some thinking

“Party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach till the break of dawn… Sorry, I mean yes it will be a difficult game”

But I was told my bill had to go up to pay for infrastructure improvements?!

Today the ballot closes. Thank you to everyone who voted and spoke to a colleague. In six weeks we’ve: • Sent 100,000+ texts • Delivered 650,000 emails • Reached 12,000 branch inboxes • Held weekly livestreams Every vote strengthened our fight. We are the university.

Is this good?

This was published in Scientific Reports, which is supposed to be a legitimate journal with high standards 🤷‍♂️

The fact that the SNP didn't call a snap indyref after the match yesterday is a disgrace.

Scotland’s First Minister addresses the nation

maybe if he takes more consultant advice to move to the right on immigration he can turn those numbers around

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This sums up so much of what is wrong with this government. 1) you don't need "AI" to do this (I'd wager that there are some consultants making money from this grift) 2) staff in schools are massively overworked, the way to improve attendance is to invest in more staff, not set arbitrary targets

#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires. They’re for everyone.

🚨Watch Dr Grace Brown explaining the ROSCO rip-off. 🤑Private rolling stock companies extracted at least £410 million in profits in 2023, and at least £360 million a year for the last decade. The new Rail Bill means the ROSCO gravy train keeps rolling, extracting huge profits from passengers.

This. Always this.

I really want to print this and put it on my office door

People have been writing polite letters to management about academic working conditions since the 7th c BC. Perhaps it's time for a more collective approach?

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

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Excited to share that the final chapter of my PhD has been published in Science Advances. We show that large post-earthquake debris flows in Wenchuan are more frequent than expected due to the large volumes of sediment stored in channels. 🏔️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #landslides

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better. Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

East London is Anti-Fascist.

Whenever you see reports of the financial potential and/or inevitable transformative impact of AI, it's worth reminding yourself of the McKinsey report from just three years ago that predicted that the metaverse would generate $5,000,000,000,000 of value by 2030.

Posting my UCU ballot reminded me of posting one back in 2022. It's nice to see the postbox has had a glow up. #WeAreTheUniversity

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I'm glad we are basing the entire global economy around the machine that is wrong 45% of the time.

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Well folks, as many predicted, the government is not going to ride in on a white horse and save the sector. Coincidentally, the national UCU ballot opens today. If you had hoped that someone else will save us, it's time to accept that we have to come together and save the sector via union action.

guy who reports every teams meeting invite as a phishing attempt