It'd be remiss of me not to wish the US navy a very happy birthday, of course - and unlike virtually everybody else I'm going to include a picture of a genuine American warship to do so...

The grocery industry would be much more profitable if only it didn’t have to pay farmers for supplies

Don‘t threaten us with a good time.

It’s been fantastic to work with so many brilliant colleagues on this - brilliant chapters on everything from innovation to propaganda and covering great geographical range. We also hope the book speaks to qs of mil thought & organisation beyond history- check it out!

We are thrilled with the collection & are incredibly grateful to our contributors for their fantastic chapters, including @sdanisimova.bsky.social @vandawilcox.bsky.social @lmhalewood.bsky.social @yanikdag.bsky.social & more! Check out the contents & praise 👇 kansaspress.ku.edu/978070064056....

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here. www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/... And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong. #AIisnotresearch

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.

The Economist tends to be very well-briefed when it comes to matters of British security. This is the second article I have seen in as many days warning about Russia‘s hybrid warfare against the West. I would take this seriously.

How seapower shaped the Hundred Years War | Jonathan Sumption engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-s...

I fully agree; as far as I am concerned, using AI for 'idea generation' is cheating, pure and simple.

I can't stop replaying this...

Lmaooooooo

That is brilliant - as are many of the comments...

It’s a good day to delete your account on academia dot edu

No idea where my colleague’s lunch is going or at what speed

"Hobbyist" is a truly breathtaking choice of phrase. It encapsulates a profound sense of contempt for the labour of academics in the UK, who already have to navigate an underfunded system dominated by precarity and overwork. "Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" springs to mind

I'm delighted that I'll be speaking at KCL at 1715 on Thursday 2 October about sea power thought in the Cold War. There is much from what our predecessors worked out that has relevance today. Do join in person or on-line: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sea-p...

With the phrase “unfunded hobbyist research” the new Universities UK President continues a much longer history of contempt that UUK has shown towards the labour of all those who work in universities

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

A really important thread that all academics should read.

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

You have my word Russia wont invade: Moldova Ok but not Georgia Ok but not Ukraine Ok just Crimea Ok just that & part of Donetsk Ok just that & all of Donetsk Ok just that & Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia Ok all of Ukraine But Zelensky has my word he'll be safe in Moscow...

The four UK higher education funding bodies confirm the pause in the criteria setting and publication of final guidance for REF 2029 for a short period, as announced by the UK Science Minister Lord Vallance today at the Universities UK conference. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Culture famously eats strategy for breakfast* but there has been little written about Royal Navy culture recently, and some of it is wrong. This is my attempt, kindly published by RUSI. (* though Drucker probably didn't say it) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It also needs to be emphasised that though the UK is far from the Russian land border, we - along with Norway and Iceland - are directly in the way of the Russian Northern Fleet's main access to the Atlantic. By sea we are effectively a frontline nation and vulnerable to attack.

Why people hate Russia?

‘The choice has been made, and so now the Navy – and the citizenry it protects – must hope that yet more cuts in the present lead to a better future force before that future turns violent,’ writes @blagdendavid.bsky.social, @exeter.ac.uk #BigAsk #BritainsWorld

We see them as Geneva Suggestions.

OTD in 1989 USSR admitted the secret clause of the Ribbentrop/Molotov pact. The pact remains one of very few treaties we have actually honored.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Join Dr David Morgan-Owen, British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, for Britain, Conflict & the Sea – a two-day conference at the National Maritime Museum (12–13 Sept), exploring how the practice, imagery, and idea of maritime conflict have shaped British history. Find out more below ⬇️

How will the collision between Chinese vessels near #ScarboroughShoal affect tensions with the Philippines? “This was highly unprofessional and dangerous,” says Prof Alessio Patalano, adding the manoeuvre showed “no seamanship-like behaviour to speak of.” Read more: bit.ly/46Tx8mi

You saw a colleague use ChatGPT for a book draft and your first thought was that the technology was here to stay and not that your colleague is a fraud??

It is a great place to work...

My obituary of my late colleague Brian Bond in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

If the marketing team is struggling to understand what universities do and are for, they can read this by a former Warwick professor, HoD, research centre founder/director and PVC. 3/3

imagine a tobacco company urged governments to embed smoking a 'core component' of a healthy lifestyle

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

He said it better than me.

Important things to consider before we outsource the research and writing process to machine proxies

Such an exceptionally stupid opening - rhetorical slight of hand with all the subtly of an enraged elephant and the sort of obviously inane blather that ought to instantly disqualify one from having a valued opinion. 'wars are murky' [picks two very un-murky conflicts as examples]

Conference at the National Maritime Museum, London, 12 September 2025, 'Britain, Conflict, and the Sea'. It explores the ways in which ideas and practices of maritime war have shaped modern Britain.

A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80

Unbelievably sad news about Diogo Jota and his brother today, so I’m going to post a happier memory. Diogo will go down in history as the first #LFC goal scorer, against Ipswich last year, of what is likely to be the epic Slot era. #YNWA m.youtube.com/watch?v=R3jm...

NEW: Liverpool FC release statement following death of Diogo Jota #lfc