KCL AI policy defines AI as "any technology or system that can reason and/or adapt, sometimes on its own" which is kind of like saying that airplanes can fly 'on their own' because the pilots are not physically pushing the vehicle forward flintstones-style.

This ESEA History Month, let's all do a fun little thing where we're honest and realistic about who events / scholarship / communities are actually for! I know calling something ESEA looks nice on funding applications but some of you are absolutely kidding yourselves

When people talk about the 'sentience' of AI, it just sounds to me like they're admitting that they think of other people as controllable entities that they can feed an input in order to gain a predictable output. Real pickup artist mentality, very gross!

Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research. www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res... @kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social

📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📢 We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work. www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...

Queer Pages is back for Pride month!! In this episode we discuss the joys of reading work by independent publishers, through the novella Andrion. We're getting back on the podcasting horse, so subscribe to hear about new episodes! @knighterrantpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6iDL...

Had a great time presenting at the UCU LGBT+ research conference last Friday, catching up with colleagues I hadn't seen in-person for a long time, and meeting new scholars doing LGBT+ related research 🌈 📚

absolutely wiiiild how often pro-genAI positions within pedagogy are framed as just being 'realistic'. It speaks to such a lack of imagination, trust, and accountability, when it seems a foregone conclusion that students WILL use genAI and there is no way we can put up even the slightest boundary.

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

📣 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📣 How do we deconstruct military identity in the UK psyche? 💭🪖 This is the question that Dr Antonia Dawes interrogates in her research. Listen to the latest episode of the 'It's Just Research' podcast. ➡️ bit.ly/4jPoHLT

The worry that now cis male police officers are going to use the new regulations to strip search cis women (and then claim he thought she was trans) overlooks the fact that strip searching is and has ALWAYS been a way of legalising and legitimising sexual violence.

Young people won't let youth work disappear! Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

But, one thing: almost everyone I know is trans, I only know two people with GRCs. It's a barbaric, bureaucratic system with no room for anything that makes life worth living. Once again, we are forced to defend the absolute worst version of what anyone would want. Another world is fucking possible.

having read it, my fellow cis readers, i can tell you that it is 400 pages of "maybe" and "if/then" statements that rely on inference from the maybes. when it does cite data, it's old studies or ones with tiny sample sizes. it uses terms of art in a colloquial sense to obscure meaning. it's trash.

Come join us next week!! 🌈

Also it’s extremely non-inevitable if: - it doesn’t work - it pollutes its own dataset - action is taken against illegal data theft - the VC money runs out and it turns out to be prohibitively expensive to use without subsidy - we don’t use it for stuff it can’t do - it’s too environmentally costly

Yeah, I've been experimenting with fusion cuisine lately (put chilli crisp on a baked potato)

We condemn the reported harassment of KCL staff. We will continue to defend academic freedom and the right to peaceful activism without intimidation. Solidarity 👇

Pls fund me to create a training course where I go round with a buzzer making a loud noise whenever USAmerican scholars fail to declare where their research takes place. The US is not the global baseline, actually! Research done in the US is just as culturally specific as research anywhere else!

In the latest episode of It's Just Research, @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social and I talk to Dr Sophie Perry about her research on environmental education. We also discuss what life is like just after the PhD, and the fallacies of grind culture in Higher Education 🎙️ shows.acast.com/its-just-res...

Since October, I have been part of this year's cohort of Barbican Young Film Programmers. Alongside learning more about curation in general, together we have produced the Chronic Youth Festival, taking place on 26/27 April. Tickets are now online! 🎥 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

our first Interdisciplinary Open Research Lunch was today! @pippasterk.bsky.social and I wanted to make a space to talk about approaches to open research across disciplines at King's, made possible with the generous support of the Improving Research Community Builder Award @orbenamy.bsky.social