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Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

The introduction is not chapter 1. Chapter 1 follows the introduction. This is a dissertation hill I am prepared to die on.

Come and work us at the University of Leicester! 5 year Teaching Fellow in International Relations. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO007/t...

Sign please folks c.org/pcXwsDxRM4

I am also not stepping aside for Andy Burnham.

Arguably likelier than Labour electing a woman any time soon.

Sending solidarity to academics at the University of Nottingham today. What a shit show UK higher education is.

Then: We're going to Ibiza. Now: We are not allowed to dock in Ibiza.

Then: "Vengabus is coming" Now: "Hantavirus ship approaches"

I endorse this out-of-context panel from today's Nancy comic

gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai

One-year teaching replacement post in History at Nottingham. #Skystorians

I replaced an old broken birdbath in my garden with a new one and the birds are refusing to use it. We are at a standoff.

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

People keep asking Alan Moore questions about comics he's disowned when they could spend more time asking him questions about things he actually gives a shit about—and get answers as glorious as this.

Rayner’s caught by the combination of misogyny and classism here, I think. Theresa May can have a big glass of white wine at the cricket but if Rayner did someone would take is as evidence she was getting above herself. Gin and tonic is worse (and Tory coded). Don’t drink? Humourless, judgey jag.

I've accidentally ended up in a relationship with someone who watches a lot of snooker. I have many questions. Let's start with WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?

That's the west coast mainline for you

I paid £5.05 for a coffee yesterday. In Leicester. Not a fancy coffee either. Sigh.

The Taliban: so evil we had to invade their country (killing lots of civilians for the greater good, etc) but also not so evil that people fleeing them can't be sent back.

Do you want to know the time? Or do you want to know what time it was at this time yesterday? Because today I will tell you both.

One of the things that made George Michael unusual as a popstar was his activism. Whether it was speaking out about apartheid, AIDS, or the Iraq War. My new book, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: the Meaning of George Michael is published soon. sathnam.com #GeorgeMichael #Wham #TTMSSL #Iraq

International Women’s Day website owners urged to stop ‘exploiting’ day

Is everything ok at Leicestershire Live?

For 20 years, BAE Systems has run STEM roadshows for over a million children, while selling fighter jets and weapons linked to tens of thousands of civilian deaths. Michal Grant explores why schools need to reconsider giving the company a platform to influence young people. #STEM4peace

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Every UK university should be objecting to this shameful decision. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think China is probably only spying via Labour MPs for entertainment purposes.

📌 ICYMI — Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

Sorry for the slow reply, I was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.

Hey Higher Ed peeps.. put this one on your “ To Read list”. Great collection from the front lines of the polycrisis and lessons of solidarity to fight back! #wearetheuniversity Gratitude to the authors and editors, @lisa DiBartolomeo and @thetattooedprof.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

National call for evidence on maternity and neonatal care in England consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/your-experie...

We've just updated our briefing for parents facing exactly this! The resource is for parents, students and teachers concerned with military and arms industry activities in their school 👉 www.forceswatch.net/resources/fo...

If you are concerned about how the armed forces engage with schools and colleges, you are not alone. ForcesWatch has free resources for parents, students and teachers who are concerned about military and arms industry activities in their school or college.

“The arc of history is not self-bending, but mittened hands with simple tools are working on the moral side.” Beautiful piece by @dessadarling.bsky.social on resistance and community.

My son is on the best school trip today. A visit to a Chinese supermarket followed by an all you can eat Chinese buffet. Genuinely jealous.

Today my 13 and 11 year old children were subject to an hour long recruitment event by the British Army during their school assembly today. I'm using the fantastic resources at @forceswatch.bsky.social to draft my complaint.

remain surprised. the killing of human beings and the devaluation of human life (in killer and killed human) should remain a shock

I had to call security yesterday on the way out of uni. Poor security guard was stuck deciphering the ramblings of a tired perimenopausal women. ‘He was trying to break the metal things the cars drive though!’ ‘The…barriers?’ 'Then he got one of those plastic things you put in the road.’ ‘A … cone?’

Abolish ICE reading list care of Verso. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

HEllo, I'M a bLacKBoaRd ANnOUnceMenT THaT HeLeN sPENT 15MinS FoRMAtTIng.

Education is finding out what you love; learning how to use your leisure time; understanding what's possible. It's about living in a diverse society; knowing the world; visualizing the future; understanding others. Simply building a workforce can already be outsourced to AI. Being a teacher can't.

We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday. As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children. #FamiliesBelongTogether

Working in Higher Education in the UK is utterly heartbreaking.

I too am disappointed not to have won the nobel peace prize.

This is echoing what many have been advocating for decades. Focusing on interventions around admissions is pointless if wider inequalities remain and efforts aren't made from the start of school to support pupils. Poverty makes a huge difference here, but other barriers also remain firmly in place

A woman next to me at the GP surgery is very upset that there is a leaflet with a diagram showing how to do a vaginal swab. She brought one over to me, pointed at the diagram and said, 'There is too much of it around! Too much!'