I don’t think education is ready for the student backlash to using gen ai indiscriminately. And how dare teachers be marking work with gen ai when students can’t write it with gen ai. That’s before we discuss feeding student work into a theft machine. Burn it down

Join us as three experts discuss "How can we tell if #FOI laws are working in practice?" Here's where to book your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/putting-tr... #RightToKnowDay

The anti-trans side constantly used this exact and talking point about a 4000% increase in trans youth. Similarly, there was a change in diagnostic criteria along with increased access to care. It's the same exact playbook.

"Mistakes are a feature and not a bug of authoritarian surveillance. If ICE occasionally makes mistakes by arresting Americans and deporting innocents, then everyone has to fear it. This is by design." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/digi...

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I'll be in Liverpool on Monday (at the Labour Party Conference), on this panel and then free for the afternoon. Give me a shout if you're around and fancy a coffee! luma.com/1g14n8q8

📣 I'm excited to announce a new venture: Kinship Works! Supporting the energy at the edges - and building a human alternative to our struggling bureaucratic settlement. More details here, along with teasers on some wonderful work we'll be doing this Autumn: medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Nature does not do binaries. Anyone who tells you biology is simple is wrong phys.org/news/2025-09...

We @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk are hiring a postdoc to work on AI and geopolitics www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

🚀 AI is reshaping our industries but how do we make sure it works for workers? Join us Fri 26 Sept, 12.30–13.30 with Adam Cantwell Corn & @prospectunion.bsky.social 📍 Zoom 👩‍💻👨‍💻Free for Tech, IT & Telecoms workers 👉 Register: prospect-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #AI #TechWorkers #FutureOfWork

Know anyone in Bristol that wants to see The Wedding Present on the 3rd October? I've just put up 4 tickets at a discount as we can't go now. Shares appreciated 🙏 secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E0061664...

We've been overwhelmed by the number (and quality!) of people expressing interest in these roles, so going to close to the window at Thursday lunchtime. Watch this space for more on the new inititiative. Should be able to say more early next week.

21yo got some excellent shots of the dog today.

Alongside the ‪@leverhulme.ac.uk, we invite postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Application deadline is 5 November. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

Fascinating job opportunity at ARIA. Leading public engagement for the climate innovation programme aria.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

Please apply for / pass on this vacancy with @tuc.org.uk! You'll be working with the brilliant @adamc-c.bsky.social and with us @connectedbydata.org to ensure workers' voices are an effective countervailing force that shape the adoption of AI. tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Come and work with our brilliant team! We're looking for a Business Development Manager for SocietyWorks.

🚨 6PM, WED 24 September 🚨 Join us at the MoJ or online * Dr Moira Nicolson & Holly Marquez "Failing Forward: Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation" * ​Ben Sauer "Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling" luma.com/sm09nslz Please share! Thanks 🙏

@timbernerslee.bsky.social obviously forgot to wear his t-shirt again

This is fascinating. It would be fascinating to hear about some examples of this being used in non-digital projects. mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/11/h...

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Georgia Gould to DfE and Jim McMahon out of govt. Worrying news for the place-based public services agenda

The proposed EHRC guidance is now with the government. It'll need to be extremely careful about what it does next. The dangers are legal, political and administrative. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood." This is very, very good.

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Please apply for / pass on this vacancy with @tuc.org.uk! You'll be working with the brilliant @adamc-c.bsky.social and with us @connectedbydata.org to ensure workers' voices are an effective countervailing force that shape the adoption of AI. tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Other care is self care

"Utilities don’t want to run the risk of building too many power plants or transmission lines. If the AI hype is overblown or the tech industry doesn’t ultimately need as much electricity as projected, other customers would get stuck with the infrastructure costs."

www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana... "Whether in the workplace or at the highest levels of regulation, workers’ voices, expertise and concerns should be a golden thread running through the UK’s approach to AI and innovation." cc @workersobservatory.org

A new report from TransActual demonstrates not only the emotional toll, but the degree to which trans people are having to reshape and limit their lives to avoid the new dangers posed to us in the UK. Read the report at: tinyurl.com/community-li... #Trans #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

bUt OnE AI qUEry DoEsn'T uSe MuCh EnErgY share.google/sjQCtlt4ahtU...

Union flags have gone up in our quiet London suburb, attached to lampposts. It's such a dog whistle. I wish these flags signified the values that make me proud to be British: multiculturalism, tolerance, mutual respect. Instead they feel like a threat of incipient Trump-lite authoritarianism.

Minutes from the Data Standards Authority Peer Review Group meeting of 24 June 2025, published today, include a presentation of survey-based research on public attitudes towards the National Data Library www.gov.uk/government/p... (UK) #govtech #datasharing not- #opendata

Prevention focused and person-centric early intervention. Government should back VCFSE organisations like this.

A week today! Join me and a stellar cast @instituteforgovernment.org.uk to reflect on the the 25th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act - and what the future of FoI should look like Sign up now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/foi-ac...

This article highlights the importance of human involvement in what seem like mundane tasks (her examples are writing birthday cards or break-up texts). Human involvement isn't needed for accuracy, but because we want to be seen, listened to, cared for. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a tough read, but an important one for those of us who *aren't* exposed to the bathroom police on a daily basis.

Nice t-shirt @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social !

Anyone know how to get hold of a list of "contact us" email addresses for local authorities? @democracyclub.org.uk @mysociety.org

We're recruiting a Policy Officer to join our team. You’ll be working alongside our Policy Lead, Director of Policy and Director for Healthcare to advocate for trans people’s needs in a range of policy areas. For more info go to transactual.org.uk/jobs #hiring #vacancy #LookingForWork #Queerjobs

Plus we should be suspicious of what “no longer needed care” means, too. When I was referred for nhs physio I had a letter sent over Xmas period that arrived late and gave me just days to contact a (hard to reach) number to confirm I wanted to stay on list. How many are removed wrongly?

Replacing public data infrastructure with privately collected data (which has artificial scarcity to extract more profits) is a form of enclosure www.wired.com/story/privat...

✨ If you’re in Edinburgh and want something (i) bookish and (ii) queer… I’m at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this THURS 14 AUG with human rights lawyer Keio Yoshida, chaired by Caro Clarke. #LGBTQ #Edinburgh #books #festival #fringe #gay #queer #trans #research #nonfiction #edbookfest

I used to have a nemesis, but now they're a friend, and someone who used to be a friend is my nemesis. Perhaps I'm not doing it right. (But is it friendship or having a nemesis that I'm doing wrong???)

This is a mild long shot - I need an internal Oxford examiner who does things that would be at least in conversation with civic technology/govtech as a fieldsite. Without snitch tagging, does anyone have a suggestion from personal experience rather than googling (which I have done)?

Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...

Don't forget to sign up for this free lunchtime panel on #FOI and how it can help bring transparency to the AI-based decisions being made by governments. It's going to be a really good one.

AI services for $1 you say? Time to dust this off... Written during the pandemic (you can guess which company was in my mind) but still applicable. www.jenitennison.com/2020/05/19/p...

🚨 FOI REVEAL DSIT ministers & officials met repeatedly with anti-rights group Sex Matters while designing Britain’s new digital ID. Meanwhile, trans advocacy groups haven’t had the same access. tacc.org.uk/2025/08/12/m...

“Delete your old emails to save water” isn’t bad because it’s individualising the climate crisis, it’s bad because it’s complete nonsense from top to bottom. It’s like saying “eat less lettuce to save water”, you can see the thought process but it’s that of a child who knows two facts