‘One of the strongest cases for harm is that time on these platforms is time away from nourishing interactions with other people.’ Great graph from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com showing that social media has become less social on.ft.com/4gP83eW

Approx 1,000 people trapped on the slopes of Mt Everest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is an excellent piece for those who want to understand what's happening with the US university system.

Because what primary school pupils today really need is lessons in intolerance. Preferably with lots of historical examples. Stay in your lane historians! Don't let History touch Ethics, Literature or other topics. And never, ever fire a child's empathy of imagination. 2/2

Historians accused (by History Reclaimed) of encouraging the teaching of tolerance. "Remarkably, the academics who have designed this resource are perfectly honest in the very long explanatory document they provide. It’s not really about history at all but about ‘tolerance’." 1/2

I am really unsure about this. What we call things does matter and open access has different modalities that work differently in different cases. If we don't correct misconceptions, with new terminology, then people will never learn.

It was Gilbert Simondon’s birthday recently. He published three major works in his lifetime, each rewired what ontology could mean. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958) refused to treat machines as metaphors or tools, but as entities evolving through processes of concretisation.

I'm losing my lovely but inaccessible office at Birkbeck. We're moving to shared offices... With a capacity for 4 but an assignment of 6 staff. @paulaclemente.bsky.social is kindly helping me pack up all my books as I can't reach the office right now and can't pack books with my paralysed arm.

English is the dominant language of science. Does this help us share knowledge? Or does it further exclude the already excluded? This webinar looks back at the colonial past of science communication and how we can better embrace multilingual science: buff.ly/5f2uPQi

So we have freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protest as long as we don’t really try to exercise those rights in public?

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

This is great. Cory D nails the business model in all its dismal detail. He had consistently been excellent doing a job, that let's be honest, professors in business schools should have done.

I've been pushing myself on my recovery - up at regular hours, back to work, etc - but this morning, I finally hit the wall. Absolutely shattered. Just can't get going.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social

I am really unsure about this. What we call things does matter and open access has different modalities that work differently in different cases. If we don't correct misconceptions, with new terminology, then people will never learn.

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

seven-year-old: “who’s voice is that” me: “Bob Dylan” 7yo: “is that yr friend” me: “no a singer” 7yo: “not a very good singer”

Pangolin, Newt, Gerbil and custom ports eve.gd/2025/10/04/p...

Is Katharine Birbalsingh the only teacher in the uk available for media comment because...I seem to hear from no one else in the media.

An experimental, very limited first numbered printing of Mechanical Comics can be purchased by human beings of exquisite and curious taste while stock lasts manzanamaspress.bigcartel.com/product/mech...

Wikipedia. Not unproblematic, but still perhaps the greatest thing to come out of internet utopianism and optimism about collective behaviour. And they want to destroy it.

That "used to" is doing some heavy lifting, sadly.

Can report that the hospital-provided "protein puddings" for kidney failure patients are disgusting.

Vaccinated. ✅ Protected. ✅

Another reason why PR is urgent. Unless we implement it, every election is going to be a round of Russian roulette with our ECHR membership, and it will only be a matter of time until we lose those protections.

Yes YES Bertha Mason is out

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article

New Issue Out Now! Explore the Journal of Embodied Research (JER) 8.1, featuring new work in #videographic scholarship and embodied research. Includes 4 #videoarticles and 1 #videoessay jer.openlibhums.org/issue/1724/i...

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head – COAR https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/publish-review-curate-turning-scholarly-publishing-on-its-head/

Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a journal article by Todd A. Comer analyzing The Lord of the Rings' Frodo as a disabled hero.🧝 🏹 In the work, Comer argues how the movies present a more ethical way of living "that recognizes dependence on others and the world." works.hcommons.org/records/t023...

Switching to KCWorks means more than just a new platform — it means ✅ protected data, ✅ lower costs, and ✅ amplified research. 🚀 #KCWorks

Here's our monitoring graph for this site. Red bars indicate where the server was unable to handle all requests within our timeout setting.

One of our hosted sites is under constant attack from scraper bots. We've implemented the open source tech Anubis and now the site is much more stable. pubs.lib.uiowa.edu

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

A chicken is a noble beast, The cow is much forlorner; Standing in the pouring rain, With a leg at every corner. William McGonagall (1830–1902)

“A threat model for accessibility on the web” alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t... A deep, well-researched & cited piece detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions. #a11y

And there I was thinking identifiers were simple/easy 😂😉 overreacted.io/where-its-at...

Job posting: Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian at Dartmouth College. searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/83154

In the last 3 years, I have become disabled. But one of the things I feel ashamed of is that until it happened to me, I was not as aware of disability issues as I could have been. I hope that this month offers the opportunity for us all to reflect further on how we build inclusive structures.

Just bought Golden Bug, Piscolabis II (Anniversary Edition) on vinyl. A really nice item! goldenbug.bandcamp.com/album/piscol...

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg: #psychskysci #neuroscience doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Farage couldn’t win control of the House of Commons under a proportional representation system, but he could under First-Past-the-Post. What more needs to be said?

"Keep on reading the big and badly written book, they said. It'll be fun finishing it, they said. It is totally worth the time, they said..."

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.