Thesis successfully examined 😀

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

I've had a wonderful time at #IAHR2025 in Poland this last week. Such a great conference, but we're all very, very tired & i'm pleased to be home now with my boys!

It's official! We have confirmed a date for the book launch! Wednesday 5th November 2.30pm at OCHS, Oxford. Who's coming? 😃🙋‍♀️ @ruthwestoby.bsky.social @jimmallinson.bsky.social @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social @[email protected] @philipdeslippe.bsky.social @aledjllthomas.bsky.social

I am thrilled that there are now over 1,000 subscribers on my substack page! I write each week, releasing anything from big pieces of research, yoga nidras, to updates & announcements on my upcoming events. So, a huge thank you from me! 🙏 Subscribe here: theowildcroft.substack.com/subscribe

Craig DiLouie: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the children of red peak Guillermo del Toro: ah! you mean DiLouie: no DiLouie: no i don't mean DiLouie: people keep making that mistake but i don't mean

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Registration is now open for our online conference: basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b... Registration is free - we hope to see you there.

now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities

We did a thing! and when I say 'we', I mean a lot of good people helped write a book on the academic study of Yoga that is accessible and useful to non specialist scholars and practitioners alike. I'm really proud of this one!

New redundancies in Higher Education at: *Anglia Ruskin *Birmingham City *Bristol *De Montfort *Derby *Goldsmiths (yet again) *Greenwich *Hertfordshire *Lancaster *Leicester Every single day in HE is like this. Nothing will be done.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... Now this is my kind of drama

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A lovely, responsible book on Trans lives, co-written by one of my colleagues, is at the centre of this hate campaign in Kent. It was nowhere near the children's section. Apparently the book simply existing is somehow a 'safeguarding' risk for children. What on earth.

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

Joining instructions for our next yoga nidra lab on 3rd July, 8-9pm UK time can be found below the line for paid subscribers 👇 open.substack.com/pub/theowild... Everyone welcome! (even if you haven't been before)

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

maybe doctors could save money by treating fewer patients | maybe firefighters could save money by choosing the fires they put out more judiciously | maybe the bbc should save money by limiting broadcasts to 4 hours per day. in fact why don’t we all do the most cost-effective thing & simply give up

Happy solstice, loves. It's George's first time at Uffington for dawn. He was very confused by the sitting down and waiting bit, but very much enjoyed the walk

The summer solstice is just a made-up holiday to sell more henges.

My understanding is that the core mechanics of a LLM means it can never be taught to be right. That's just not what an LLM does or will ever be able to do. It can only be more convincing while it is wrong, which is why they're fundamentally useless

What you definitely want in the mountains is a nav app which isn’t actually deriving its advice from the real world. 🤦‍♂️

Latest news in an unfolding self-inflicted disaster, not just for UK universities but for the UK itself. One of our genuinely world-class sectors is being trashed, with all that means for UK economy, soft power, scientific & cultural life. 'World-class' isn't, for once, blimpish hyperbole ... 1/2

I would like to thank @marthasadie.bsky.social for sharing the single best article anyone has ever written about AI. tl;dr ELVIS can recognise donkeys from behind www.countypress.co.uk/news/2524403...

american watching british panel shows: it’s just funnier. and more human. they know how to laugh at themselves brit watching british panel shows: he’s a terf. everyone here went to cambridge, he’s married to the producer. he should be in jail for tax evasion. the wrong guy on 8 out of 10 cats died

Something isn't right when children need food banks in such a wealthy country like ours. Re-post if you agree

Hi @technogym.bsky.social. Quick question - when you made inputting your weight an unskippable part of registering for your app, did you know that you were making all your exercise centres inaccessible for anyone with a history of eating disorders? /1

Post marking mood is: sleepy hound still in his pyjamas

Our little town had its 2nd ever pride march today. It was inclusive, gentle, fun and just a tiny bit naff. A couple of Reform councillors turned up to moan about the council budget being spent, but we had the mayor on our side, leading the parade, so boo to them. /1

BREAKING NEWS: More otters in hats.

The rainy-rainy rain comes down In sleepy town

All my sci fi friends can have a little Midnight Society as a treat

Wenda, Chantelle and I made our now-annual seaweed foraging trip today. The weather was lovely, the harvest bountiful, but the swell was a little on the scary side...

Sooo, my teeny tiny, rather conservative rural English town knows it's pride month. How about yours?

I make this!

I finally watched Conclave. I like that Ralph Fiennes has the same energy as Kermit the Frog trying to keep The Muppet Show from going off the rails.

Joining instructions for our third yoga nidra lab on 1st May, 8-9pm UK time can be found here for paid subscribers 👉 open.substack.com/pub/theowild...

"Only a united front—led in the first place by the national liberation movements and the working people—can decisively counter, theoretically, ideologically and practically, the increasingly fascistic and genocidal posture of the present ruling clique" - Angela Davis, 1971

the average ChatGPT user is a man who would rather evaporate an entire lake than use excel

Last year I released a three part series of guided explorations that took you on an evolutionary journey. This episode is now a gift for paid subscribers and you can get it here: theowildcroft.substack.com/p/listen-how...

Roughly a year ago, I did a post on my substack page with some results of some informal research I did into yoga teacher working patterns. I've now released this on my website, and you can have a read here: theowildcroft.com/2025/05/rese...

Please sign and share widely - Liverpool Hope is one of *the* centres for cultural Disability Studies research. This threat is a threat to the field itself and to its important commitment to challenging societal prejudices and advocating for social justice through cultural analysis.

EBU: We don't like you using the word "Kant." Can you please tone it down? Malta: sure ok. #Eurovision

🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4

And we're back with the BBC for the grand finale. Here we go! #eurovision George is paying rapt attention as you can see

Not sure I can handle the double excitement of it being both Duck Race Day in Calne and the #Eurovision final.

"This government wants everyone to think we're a burden. But we're not a burden. Were the fucking resistance." Lee from Crips Against Cuts in Newcastle.

🧵 I’m organising workshops where autistic people can help plan research. I’m looking for a few autistic people to take part, either in a text (typed) discussion, or on a Teams video call. I’ll ask what you think about different ideas for research on the general theme of ‘autistic & thriving’. 1/5

For no good reason, we are watching the second semi final via the Swedish coverage #eurovision

"Non political, strictly neutral, doesn't matter if you're good or brutal" is WAY TOO ON THE FUCKING NOSE THERE. #Eurovision