Is constructivism an epistemology or an ontology?

Rage Against the Machine Learning

Blind Melon Musk

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

This looks amazing

Queen

Interrupting cow: no one’s taken me seriously since I featured in that knock-knock joke Therapist: and how does that make you f... Interrupting cow: not great doc, not fucking great

Today! In a little more than 6 hours! @mmitchell.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social cc @hertie-ai.bsky.social #AIEthics www.hertie-school.org/en/digitalgo...

Wishing the peerless Neville Southall a wonderful 67th birthday. Here's an Everton item with him, shortly after Paul Gerrard arrived at the club as a rival for first team selection.

❓Why do #socialsciences matter in the age of AI? 📽️Watch experts @carlbfrey.bsky.social @helenmargetts.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk Robert Trager @oxmartinschool.bsky.social & Keegan McBride as they explore social sciences' critical role in preparing us for the future www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/ai-and-society

Those specs look daft.

🔥The Malvern House strike is on!🔥 🪧 Come join us at the picket line! 🗓️ 29.09 & 30.09 🕗 8 o'clock sharp 📍200 Pentonville Rd, N1 9JP More info: shorturl.at/cCILU Donate: shorturl.at/EAI3S

I support the Malvern House teachers! With a 100% vote in favour of strike action, the Malvern House teachers are ready to do what it takes to achieve justice - and I’ve got their back! Malvern House: It’s time to negotiate @teflunion.bsky.social

RIP Ricky Hatton, that's no age that

The organisations of the labour movement and the left have to organize the biggest anti-racist demonstration London has ever seen, simple as that.

🫶Thank you!🫶 As we prepare to announce #strike dates for the Malvern House teachers, we want to thank everyone who helped get us over the £1000 mark! #solidarity Not donated yet? ➡️ actionnetwork.org/fu...

(1/7) HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥 Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Double rainbow

The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.

Some no-mark I've never heard of in America dies and it's front page rolling news on the BBC for days. What was all that about?

this is ridiculous

I support the Malvern House teachers! With a 100% vote in favour of strike action, the Malvern House teachers are ready to do what it takes to achieve justice - and I’ve got their back! Malvern House: It’s time to negotiate @teflunion.bsky.social

5. the nonsense refrain that somehow everybody — every one of our students — is cheating now and we need to police them more and more. (Section 3.5 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 7/n

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

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.

This piece of shit country. Unfortunately, I don't know of any actually good country to move to.

OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Join your union... and support @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social going on strike to fight the ridiculous scale of cuts at our university: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

There are four main arguments for AI in education: 1. Efficiency, saving teachers time 2. Equity, making education inclusive 3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning 4. It's inevitable Is it true? Nope. Micro 🧵

Crail chip shop must not have entered this year. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5319...

I am BEYOND excited to tell you that our new interview on #AI in #education is up - and it's with @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social Enjoy, and do share widely! Also featuring @darrenmacey.bsky.social being suitably quiet 🤐 youtu.be/HlB6pOnPm5s

Do you work in #education? This post is for you. It centres #Gaza at the heart of everything we do and say in education. Living with Wounds in Education www.repair-ed.uk/reparative-p... Read it. Share it. Act on it #GazaMatters

Don’t know who made this but thank you

The TEFL Worker's Union statement on IATEFL teflworkersunion.org/iatefls-sham...

Iliman Ndiaye scored the final Everton goal at Goodison and has now got their first at the Hill Dickinson, meeting a Jack Grealish cross from the left #EVEBHA #EVEBRI 1-0

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Teachers at Malvern House London are voting on strike action in a major escalation of their campaign for better pay, conditions and union recognition. The teachers are all members of the TEFL Workers’ Union (part of the IWW).  Read the full story here: iww.org.uk/news/malvern...

I hate football

Love this quote from a recent interview with Wayne Rooney.

Good luck to teachers at Malvern House with their strike teflworkersunion.org/malvern-hous...

TOMORROW Linguistics Careercast: AI Con August 16 | 10a–12:30p PT Join host Laurel Sutton with guests for a deep dive into The AI Con by Emily Bender & Alex Hanna. We’ll cut through Big Tech’s GenAI hype & unpack what linguists really need to know. thecon.ai Register: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

If anyone has any doubt about using this gross technology made by the worst people, then read this article about Meta's rules around AI interaction with children. Your Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp data is being used to train these chatbots. www.reuters.com/investigates...

This reminds me of this excellent new article that shows how ChatGPT actually increase language anxiety and linguistic insecurity for Chinese international students for found themselves relying on it more and more in ways that took away their voice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📝 Hybrid feedback = better EFL writing. 💡 AI + teacher = confidence, clarity, grammar gains. 🔗 Study link: www.castledown.com/journals/tlt... #EFL #AIinEducation #WritingSkills #TLTLJournal

Just a fun fact from a tech trainer: every single edtech app is unusable in the corporate world. Because they have real governance and scrutiny and the legal and compliance teams reject the data sharing and IP risk. Just putting it out there: none of your classroom tech is deemed safe for adults

Bullying boss? School not respecting your contract? Not getting paid properly? Not on our watch! Our pamphlet on dealing with workplace problems for #ELT workers is now available online. It's [email protected] for copies to share with your workmates. teflworkersunion.org...

I’m sorry I didn’t come around to the genocide sooner. What is happening in Gaza is unconscionable. These are war crimes unequivocally