The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world. Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off. Who protects the people?

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my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

#LoveLD Our co-edited book: Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education is out now - freely available from www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... - and dedicated to my wonderful partner Thomas Burns: "In loving memory of Tom Burns who teaches us to dance with hope and joyful practice even now."

#LoveLD - love the LDPPodcast - and this issue with our friend and collaborator @sandra_abegglen - on collaboration - looking back at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/collabora... & forward to the forthcoming Stories of Hope book: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Girl done good @LevellerB

This is excellent. Well and truly puts Reform and Farage in their place. Well done Durham Miners' Association. Reform of course now run Durham Council. www.durhamminers.org/statement_du...

This was a brilliant session. Proud of the scruffy by meaningful artefacts I took away from it. #ALDCON25

Felicity Flynn and Alice Stinetorf from Southampton University are facilitating a workshop at #ALDcon25 on Mitigating Writing Anxiety Through Creative Practices and Community Building. #LoveLD

Room with a(n amazing) view for #ALDCON25 Day Two.

Thank you to our host University of Greenwich for a wonderful first day in-person for #ALDcon25. ALDinHE is celebrating its 22nd conference. Thank you to all the delegates and the organising committee for making this such an enjoyable day. #LoveLD

The sun is shining on #ALDcon25 delegates listening to Mini Keynote Speakers Alicja Syska from Plymouth University and Carina Buckley from Southampton Solent University co-presenting on Writing as a form of resistance and professional autonomy. #LoveLD

Brilliant day at #ALDCON25. Enjoyed thinking, learning, and talking about embedding academic skills, the vital human-ness of writing, transitions, metaphors, data, and criticality. Managed to curate my day so that Daniel Pearce was the headline act…and what an amazing location. Beautiful.

Heading to the actual centre of time (that’s my understanding of it anyway) for #ALDCON25. Won’t really believe there’s a direct train from St Albans to Greenwich until I get there.

Fascinated by @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social livescribing (on the left) at #HertsImpactSymposium2025

Great insight on AI as empire from @karenhao.bsky.social which I wish everyone woukd listen to: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... via @theguardian.com

Bee-ing

“The journey will only properly come into being with the diary that I shall write”.

The AI slop summer book preview/supplement in the Chicago Sun-Times is about what's happened in media more than what's happening with AI. This Slate piece gets it and I have some thoughts from the perspective of someone who writes about books for a major Chicago newspaper. slate.com/technology/2...

"If ever you’re in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had" @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s the third of May.

Free #LoveLD #ALDinHE online event - LD@3 – What does "digital confidence" look like to us? with Rachel Bancroft and Bethany Witham (Nottingham Trent University) 6 May 2025 3-4pm. Book at: aldinhe.ac.uk/events/events-calendar

📢📢Book your free ticket! Online launch event for: JLDHE Special Issue Liberating Learning 12 May 3 - 4.30pm. jldhe.aldinhe.ac.uk/event-tickets/launch-event-for-special-issue-of-jldhe-on-liberating-learning Join us to talk about key themes & topics and consider next steps – individually ... #LoveLD

Cornwall is a bit special.

Empattering : the practice (mine, anyway) of recommending @patthomson.bsky.social’s blog every time I run a writing workshop. patthomson.net/2025/04/17/i... #EduSky

Took me 21 seconds to change this lightbulb… 🙄

6 pages into #MoreThanWords and @biblioracle.bsky.social is delivering brilliantly!

Wayne Holloway-Smith’s editorial for the current issue of The Poetry Review on Rachael Allen’s legendary essay for TL/TH ❤️✨ @poetrysociety.bsky.social Also a beautiful conversation between Rachael & @prototypepubs.bsky.social

Delighted to have been involved with these 4 publications over the years. Next book out in the summer. #WorldBookDay ✒️Meanwhile, publishers Curtis Sport have signed copies of The Third Degree up for grabs for just £10 today. 🛒To order please go to: www.curtis-sport.com/southend-uni...

Some thoughts on the work of Peter Elbow and how we keep seeming to re-learn what he had to teach us. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

📣New publication! Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices, by our very own @laetitiam.bsky.social and @alexanderding.bsky.social Ding. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The keep-cups and the man-bags that your grandad would have wept to see you buying. #studyday

"The vast majority of PDFs I deal with now come from academic journals, and whatever witchcraft is needed to put footnotes, formulas, and embargo details into the text wrecks the thing I care most about: copying and pasting details that I need to write articles" arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

This video tells the story of how I found out what happened to my fathers uncles and aunts who were killed in Auschwitz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iR_...

@Everyone: Give this half an hour of your time as soon as you can! Thank you @danmcquillan.bsky.social and Catarina for this absolutely vital perspective on AI.

New episode alert! We talk to @danmcquillan.bsky.social about 'Resisting AI'. This is part 1. The second will drop next week! spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/WmtKw5FhAQb

Thanks for getting back in the saddle @patthomson.bsky.social. My first (literal) highlight of 2025: “the more I saw people talking about writing ‘rules’, ‘tips’ ‘formulae’ and ‘templates’, the less I wanted to be part of any group that wrote about academic writing”. Yes! And even worse, ‘hacks’…

no, absolutely not, not even in the slightest LLMs (which is what we're talking about here, not "AI" in general) are mathematical *predictive algorithms* that guess what words *other people* would use, based on probability why would i let an amalgamation of idiot strangers write my outline for me

This article argues that #CriticalRealism (CR) should develop its own theory of #AcademicWriting because of CR’s explicit commitment to #HumanEmancipation and #StratifiedOntology [1/n] #AcWri www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

While I’m getting my blogging mojo back here’s a post from Stephen Heard on why simplistic approaches to #academicwriting will only get you so far. It’s worth checking out the whole blog. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/t...

Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!

@biblioracle.bsky.social always gets it right.