Why do sensible interventions so often fail? Why do small changes sometimes have enormous consequences? Why do organisations keep recreating the same problems? Systems dynamics and control offers some answers. profserious.substack.com/p/10-1-lesso...

Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...

Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...

'Emergencies Are Digital' … and why we need a national digital emergency capability @profserious.bsky.social considers digital preparedness as a core component of national resilience profserious.substack.com/p/emergencie...

Poems at Bedtime ... Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. A recollection of childhood, and reading to G. @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/poems-at-b...

"What do you want to be when you grow up, little Johnny?" "A stalwart!" #MissionAccomplished www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...

Quantum Uncertainty … the physics may be clear but the future … not so much. The aim is not to cast doubt on the merits of quantum computing but to place it in context ... here is the @profserious.bsky.social assessment profserious.substack.com/p/quantum-un... #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Tech

On Choosing an Academic Career … what it takes, what it offers, and what it demands profserious.substack.com/p/on-choosin... by @profserious.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Universities

The 'Mythos Moment' ... a guide to its consequences for security practice and policy ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-mythos... #AI #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech #Security #Cyber

Song of the Watchman ... when the duty falls to me ... here near my home profserious.substack.com/p/song-of-wa... ... by @profserious

This reminds me of the Microsoft house with a memory leak in the doorbell...

The Bureaucratic Escalator … and how it operates ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-bureau... #HigherEducation #Universities

open.spotify.com/album/2YY0t0... brilliant work by Sam and MOIO

Mindfulness for Professors ... a contemplation ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/mindfulnes... #HigherEducation #Universities

On Your Radar … why the Defence Industrial Strategy matters beyond defence ... how the UK intends to link science, industry and national security capability ... @proserious.bsky.social attempts to spare you some effort with this summary analysis profserious.substack.com/p/on-your-ra...

Lessons from an Innovative Organisation ... what Arizona State University can teach us about institutional innovation … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/lessons-fr... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #Academic #Innovation

Reading China's 15th 5-Year Plan … (a technology strategy disguised as an economic plan) ... on science, industry, and power … A short guide to what the new plan tells us about China’s technological direction … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/reading-ch...

Is Your University Financially Sustainable? ... take this simple test ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/is-your-un... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy

A Kerfuffle … UK research funding (and in defence of Sir Ian Chapman) ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/a-kerfuffle

Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an... #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity

Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an... #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity

a really exciting and important job as Director of ResearchPlus www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU125/d...

City St George's v-c @profserious.bsky.social says most UK undergraduate degrees should be shortened in switch to "2+2" integrated master's programmes www.timeshighereducation.com/news/shorten... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Another Modest Proposal: 'being a suggestion for shortening the Bachelor’s degree, improving its efficiency, and rendering it somewhat more useful to students, universities and the publick' by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/another-mo... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy

A very special evening at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue with Sir Andras Schiff. With enormous thanks to the LJS team, CST, Dr Agnes Kaposi, and everyone who purchased tickets. Every penny raised from ticket sales will now support our vital work.

Very pleased to contribute to this!

Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking … the pressures on the conditions for reason ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/radicalisa... #CriticalThinking #InstitutionalIntegrity #Governance

Beyond the Cloud ... how edge computing is changing where AI happens ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/beyond-the... #AI #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech

The Soviet Census of 1937 ... a story of truth, lies, and consequences ... by @profserious.bsky.social

Prof Serious at 250! ... my ill-considered opinions ... marking publication of 250 @profserious.bsky.social articles. To 'celebrate' I select 25 that may (still) be of interest. Quite a lot about universities, tech, management, & some personal stuff. profserious.substack.com/p/prof-serio...

Technological sovereignty is discussed as if it were a problem simply of access to critical technologies. It is not. It is a resilience strategy for complex systems operating under contestation. @profserious.bsky.social sets out a UK approach. profserious.substack.com/p/technology...

For Everything to Stay the Same, Everything Must Change ... a riposte to academic nostalgia by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/for-everyt... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #HELeadership #UniversityLeadership

I very much enjoyed writing this (mild) provocation for @heywoodquarterly.bsky.social

What I Learned at the Royal College of Art ... 10 lessons on art and design ... from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/what-i-lea... #Universities #RoyalCollegeOfArt #ArtAndDesign #DesignResearch #CreativeProcess #LessonsLearned

Universities should ramp up their contributions to the UK’s defence capabilities and prepare students for work in this field to help protect the country amid attacks on democracy, argues @profserious.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/defence... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Whilst incarcerated in Westerbork and then in Bergen-Belsen with her mother and two sisters, Ruth Wiener recorded her experiences in this diary. Here a page shows her address in Bergen-Belsen, written in January 1943. 📸 Ruth Wiener: Westerbork diary. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections

A Call to Arms by @profserious.bsky.social ... metaphorically and literally. profserious.substack.com/p/a-call-to-.... On universities research, science, technology and the defence of democracy.

My New Year Wishes for Universities from @profserious.bsky.social ... a modest list of hopes and aspirations for 2026 (and beyond) profserious.substack.com/p/my-new-yea... #Academic #HigherEducation #Universities

What is System Leadership ... and why does it matter? @profserious.bsky.social sets out the basics for public service, education, health, defence and national security. profserious.substack.com/p/what-is-sy...

A Simple Guide to National Security Strategy … for scientists and technologists (by @profserious.bsky.social) profserious.substack.com/p/a-simple-g... #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity #AI

4 Ways Disruption Can Fool You … and how this is experienced in universities ... profserious.substack.com/p/4-ways-dis... by the (often fooled) @profserious.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Universities #HELeadership #Disruption #Strategy #UniversityGovernance

The Next Big Thing? @profserious.bsky.social reflects ... on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (what they are, why they are important ... and why you should care) profserious.substack.com/p/the-next-b... #TechPolicy #DataProtection #EthicalTech #DigitalSecurity #Innovation

The Next Big Thing? @profserious.bsky.social reflects ... on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (what they are, why they are important ... and why you should care) profserious.substack.com/p/the-next-b...

'Dad's Army' ... @profserious.bsky.social enlists profserious.substack.com/p/dads-army ... on national security, public service (and love).

'Dad's Army' ... @profserious.bsky.social enlists profserious.substack.com/p/dads-army ... on national security, public service (and love).

Read this important piece by @anemergenti.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jameswph...

'What We Need To Do Now' ... an agenda for universities in the new post-16 system ... set out by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

I encourage you to look at this jameswphillips.substack.com/p/scitech-ne... I am not sure I agree with it ... but I think it is an important and worthwhile contribution to the debate on 'institutes' @anemergenti.bsky.social

'Something Must be Done' ... a political pathology (and its consequences) ... considered by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/something-...

The Bridge ... on paste and paint ... and on grief, anger, renewal and memory @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-bridge