Just had an unexpected royalty payment from Sage, from books published about ten years ago. I'm guessing this is from licensing my books to #GenAI 'training' without asking permission? Is this normal? What do authors make of this?

For anyone interest in leadership in all its forms, this webinar is happening later today. Our guest speaker is Jaqui Lindridge, Chief Paramedic Officer at South East Coast Ambulance Service. Please feel free to attend / share the flyer!

Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

Vacuous, generic and scattershot advice for incoming 1st years on the use of AI at university. Especially liking 'Chin recommends giving it class notes and asking it to generate practice exam questions.' Surely we can't be the only programme that supplies students with past & practice exams?

Thinking of using #ChatGPT for 'help' with assessments? Think again. #university #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Interested in #leadership, especially in public sector / health / emergency services? Please join us at the 'Journal of Paramedic Practice' leadership webinar on 23 September, 6-7pm BST. It's a friendly, interactive environment for the exchange of ideas and experience - all welcome!

"I'm defecting to the Soviet Union."

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

📍 Bradford UCU are on strike again today against vicious cuts that would axe 300+ jobs and close key courses. ✊ Send solidarity - give them a visit, a like, or a share today to show your support.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Clearly much is amiss in UK universities. But this article is mean spirited and inaccurate on many points.

U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...

FTSE 100 CEOs netted £550m in pay packets, 11% hike. Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs. Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity. Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.

The federal government’s $1B dollar demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate UCLA and its critical mission. #StandUpForUC to defend America’s greatest public university system and support this life-saving work. ucal.us/standupforuc

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

"The figures simply don’t add up." Tuition fees are rising, staff are underpaid, and universities are in crisis but politicians still won’t face the truth. Thanks to Zoe Williams for highlighting the crisis in The Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please help us save the discipline of sociology at Macquarie University www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

www.bbc.com/news/article... I'm struggling to see how this makes politicians more credible and accessible.

AI 2027 is a monumentally stupid crock of shit. Cod sci-fi projections. Warnings: footage in this video is AI-generated.

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

Lifeboat crew members who are called out to migrants crossing the Channel in small boats have told the BBC they make no apologies for saving lives at sea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Job in the Sociology Department here at Durham. Opportunity to work on a really important project looking at the history of a classic study in British sociology and how it ignored/obscured issues of race and gender. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

So, fellow history professor kids, what kind of writing assignments are we thinking about that are AI-resistant? Beyond some in-class reading responses and close primary source readings, what things have been moderately successful for an in-person class? 🗃️

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

👑 What is 'good leadership'? Join @leomc76.bsky.social with author and journalist @soniapurnell.bsky.social, discussing the complexities of leadership as told through her book 'Kingmaker', and the colourful life of trailblazer Pamela Churchill Harriman: www.youtube.com/watc... #YorkFestivalOfIdeas

www.bbc.com/news/article... Interesting article. I would add that history provides many reasons to be very wary of 'kill ratios', 'body counts' and similar metrics of war.

youtube.com/watch?v=bZ70... It was a great privilege to talk to @soniapurnell.bsky.social about her new book #Kingmaker. Watch the video of the event @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social here!

Hearts of Darkness - a doc on the making of Apocalypse Now - is back in cinemas this week. I spoke with its director, along with a couple of cast and crew from the original film, to dig into a troubled production that produced a landmark despite the chaos. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Students in England graduate with average £53,000 debt. Total debt £266bn, up to 7.3% interest. Most European nations don't charge university tuition fees, England does. What was public debt, is now personal debt. People penalised for education, can't start family, business. Abolish uni fees.

Share your real-world COD Zombies maps here.

yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda... Greatly looking forward to this event on Sunday 8th June @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social. If you are in York that day, please come along to hear @soniapurnell.bsky.social discuss her wonderful new book 'Kingmaker'. All welcome, but booking is required.

It was a real pleasure to work on this, alongside co-editors @edgranter.bsky.social, ‪@odulbozkurt.bsky.social, Rachael Finn, Carolyn Hunter, @ninakivinen.bsky.social, @draykay.bsky.social and Brian Wierman. Also a great experience working with @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

A landmark study involving 117 interviews with key officers across 44 police forces has examined how the police process young people and vulnerable adults involved in drug distribution in cross-border and local drug markets. Read more: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 0ut now: an essay with Michael Corman and Peter Phillips on what we call the 'translucent curriculum' in paramedic education. Any comments and views are very welcome!

#EveryStoryMatters – including yours. The UK Covid 19 inquiry is asking for public submissions. UCU members lived the reality of the pandemic: unsafe campuses, impossible workloads, health risks, and loss. Just one week left! Make sure your experience is counted. everystorymatters.co.uk

Will be a great event! @uoysbs.bsky.social

Interested in #leadership and #history? Join us at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social where @soniapurnell.bsky.social will discuss her recent book 'Kingmaker': a pathbreaking new history of Pamela Churchill Harriman's extraordinary life and career. Sunday 8 June at University of York - all welcome!

UCU has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson over the OfS’s damaging £585,000 fine against the University of Sussex. This sets a dangerous precedent for free speech, inclusion, and university funding. Our universities are not culture war battlegrounds. www.ucu.org.uk/media/15036/...

Join us for the next JoPP leadership webinar! Our guest speaker is @jojoresearch.bsky.social who will draw on her recent PhD findings @uoysbs.bsky.social on ambulance workers during the COVID pandemic. All welcome - NHS, ambulance and beyond. May 14th 6pm UK time.

UK folk: Have you heard of the Mass Observation Archive? Remember the film Nella Last’s Diary? They’re creating an archive of ordinary people. 12 May every year is Mass Obs’ Diary Day. Write down what you do that day & upload it to their website #OnePlaceWednesday massobs.org.uk/the-archive/...

Universities across the UK are closing courses, cutting options, and reducing maintenance support. International student visa changes are making it worse. Rising costs, shrinking enrolments and short-sighted immigration policies are creating a perfect storm. We must #ProtectEducationNow

👑 Why do 'superstars' often find it challenging to reproduce their success in a new environment? A new study by Daniel Muzio, Claudia Gabbioneta and John Mawdsley, published in @hbr.org, explores this very question and reveals some answers: hbr.org/2025/03/rese... #YorkResearch

📢 A new book by Dr Robin Burrow exploring the organisational world we live in, is out now! It covers 'The big four' - public, private, informal and criminal organisations - and how they work from an alternative and global perspective. Find out more: global.oup.com/ukhe/... #YorkResearch

Featuring contributions on loads of cool topics. Edited by @leomc76.bsky.social, @odulbozkurt.bsky.social, Rachael Finn, me, Carolyn Hunter, @ninakivinen.bsky.social, @draykay.bsky.social and Brian Wierman. Just published @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

“This is what solidarity looks like.” ✊ After months of organising, strikes and student support @cardiffucu.bsky.social has forced university management to back down. ✅ No compulsory redundancies in 2025 Department closures still on the table, the fight continues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leo McCann has published an excellent review of the latest edition of the Wren and Bedeian Management History textbook - questioning nicely what it leaves out while fairly praising that which it deals with. #mgthis #bizhis #mbh doi.org/10.1080/1475...

Our members out in force today! 👊