Call me old school but I still believe in the importance of the symbolic value of gratitude and taking the time to express thanks. Even if it may be considered these days, essentially, useless.

Right to Remain: Inside the online rally to prepare for the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 18 October 2025 righttoremain.org.uk/inside-the-o...

Roads 2025 - youtu.be/g2AmYPyXoUQ?...

“In truth, you only get crumbs from the fat cats when you choose to sit at their feet.” jembendell.com/2025/09/15/c...

"La circulation du SARS-CoV-2 s’est nettement intensifiée ces dernières semaines, tandis que les personnes fragiles seront invitées à tendre le bras mi-octobre. N’est-ce pas trop tard?" www.leparisien.fr/societe/sant...

That's one big screen.

I still got it in spite of embracing these prevention measures for years. (Still do). I'd still recommend everyone to do everything they can to avoid getting it, because getting it sucks. But it requires a critical mass embracing the measures. And there isn't one so. sadly, we are f___d.

Teaching prep

THIS

#DHmakes 📖

"If we can tune in to the idea of making things and sharing them without being attached to the outcome, the work is more likely to arrive in its truest form." -Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being (2023)

This one didn't seem to have gone as viral for some reason

Find a photograph of two trees

Well, that previous repost took off. I'd normally engage personally out of respect for those who take the time to engage meaningfully (thanks) but I'm afraid I can't in this instance. Those days are over for me. Back to the darkness of the mine.

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Reflected with a colleague earlier on how a shared understanding of individuals' circumstances as part of a collective remains essential in order to resist toxicity, injustice or oppression.

Coming soon... manzanamaspress.bigcartel.com/product/mech...

Also excited to have been accepted to participate in the 22nd Historical Materialism conference, in a panel with colleagues @drdomdavies.bsky.social & @mediocre.bsky.social [6-9 November 2025] www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

In the context of growing anti-immigrant sentiment, my concern has been heightened but so has my awen. Various projects are ongoing- not driven by ego or professional pressure but by the need to create something positive in times of hatred and repression.

#nowplaying www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vV...

Even on sale it's very expensive to be an immigrant with living relatives back home. *sigh*

Number of in-person participants: 40. Number of downloads at the time of typing: 86. Number of views: 6,360. Deposited online three days ago. #ComicsAndAI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

It's a good interview with Ilan at @comicsjournal.bsky.social- and I find personally interesting all the cartoonists he mentions as his favourite are also favourite of mine (or reading them was important for me). I wonder who his favourite women cartoonists are- I think I could guess but who knows.

Quoting Paul Gravett: "It seems apt that a week ago today, on the same day as our conference [ #ComicsAndAI ], Ilan Manouach was interviewed on @comicsjournal.bsky.social: www.tcj.com/comics-peopl... "

Amplifying this with a repost. All reposts help spread the word. Thanks for any help!

A student in our MSc is doing a project titled "Reimagining Reference Management Tools as Living Knowledge Management Systems". I know many of my followers here use Mendeley, Zotero, etc. Please help her with her survey? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Always grateful to the repository librarians for their essential support- at least one of them is my former student by the way. Proud. 🙏

10:35 am and I have already had to do Multi Factor, Multi Device, Multi App authentication about 300 times, again and again demostrating it's just me trying to do my job

University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - @britishacademy.bsky.social report www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

I made this file to print out for #ComicsAndAI delegates to have last Thursday. I printed out 45 copies. On Friday I deposited the file open access. It's been viewed 6,602 times and downloaded 54 times as I type this. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

“i’d Like to Think I’d be Able to Spot one”: How Journalists Navigate Predatory Journals - goo.gl/scholar/HtD9BK #ScholarAlerts

There's been some versioning since the first deposit- for the latest version, use doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...  #ComicsAndAI

We've deposited a PDF documenting the conference schedule, presentation abstracts, speaker bios, sponsor logos, and acknowledgements. Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Comics, Technology and Creativity. Book of Abstracts & Bios doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #ComicsAndAI

For our followers' kind consideration.

Even the UCU monthly membership has gone up by a higher percentage than our annual salary increase percentage

A quick LinkedIn post about @comicsandai.org yesterday- basically thanking everyone- you guys rock. www.linkedin.com/posts/ernest... #ComicsAndAI

Now speaking: Viraj Joshi: Speculation as Resistance: Mundane machine intelligence, a narrowing of futures, and plural counter narratives #ComicsAndAI

The findings are concerning, because some of these strategies are unlikely to help journalists weed out problematic research. (See @eve.gd & @ernestopriego.com's great paper on the problems of judging the "container" research is published in: www.triple-c.at/index.php/tr...)

Jane Burns: Comics & AI: The Intersection with Social Innovation Education #ComicsAndAI

Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design #ComicsAndAI

Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future! #ComicsAndAI

Dr Despoina Farmaki: The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics #ComicsAndAI

So nice to see Aaron again in the UK; amazing to have him here at #ComicsAndAI all the way from Australia

Another proud PhD supervisor moment! #ComicsAndAI

Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi on AI, comics, and creativity: or, why are we talking of ghosts in the machine again #ComicsAndAI

Dr Julian Lawrence on Fun with AI: Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research #ComicsAndAI

Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) #ComicsAndAI

We are back after the lunch break to begin the second part of the day! Now on Dr Linda Berube: “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI #ComicsAndAI

It's now @garethbrookes.bsky.social on The Autographic Witness in the Algorithm! #ComicsAndAI