Horrified by the proposed closure of Modern Languages @uniofnottingham.bsky.social This would end language higher education in the East Midlands & decimate the uni’s research profile. Shortsighted and reckless. #University_of_Little_England #SaveNottinghamLanguages #WeAreUoN

Much needed and hopefully will lead to very exciting projects! Tight deadline, unfortunately.

Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike. On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible. Support our action to save jobs and save the University! #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity

The problem, once again, is that "AI" is whatever the fuck the author wants it to be, and is essentially, "the computer does cool stuff!" The first example in this article is basically a supercharged database, which is not generative AI. So it confuses the reader right from the start/ 1/3

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

When I was growing up, a lot of right wing ppl mostly spoke about fiscal restraint, lower taxes, free trade, and - through partisan lenses - they supported things like the Charlottetown Accord. Ya, 'social conservatives' also existed. But the right today, by 1990s standards, are all lunatic fringe.

Hell, from the 1980s all the way through the Harper years, support for relatively *high* immigration enjoyed a bipartisan, cross-ideological consensus in Canada. Only now, with this fucked up right-wing populist bullshit happening, have we started turning against it.

, LMS, magna cum laude

Lots of universities are starting to resemble football clubs that have no academy - some other unnamed institution will do all the professional training, won’t they? The only difference is, in football managers are sacked for failing, not the team.

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

GIFT LINK - My Toronto Star op-ed on the federal budget, and the failure to account for provincial action on post-secondary education. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response. It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

, LMS, magna cum laude

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

My favorite comment on the FT story

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Terrible news. Universities are being decimated.

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

my englisch is too german become

fully 50% of the most recent People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive (TM) were humanities majors (and the others didn't go to college). Which points to an ongoing crisis in higher education: why are STEM programs taking our tax dollars yet failing to give our young men critical Sexiness skills?!

Can't stop thinking about the fact that the government is literally slashing public service jobs while bringing in AI for use in the public service. They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees. Pretty gross!

To this day, Doug Ford has gotten away scot-free with both encouraging the scam strip-mall colleges that led to this mess, the destruction of the legitimate international student system, and his dismantling of Ontario's post-secondary institutions writ-large. HOLD THE FUCKING PREMIERS TO ACCOUNT!

As a Canadian researcher/academic, it's beyond discouraging that the federal gov't is rolling out the welcome mat for foreign assistant professors, doctoral students and postdocs, while *cutting* domestic research funding and doing nothing to support those of us who are already here, doing the work.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

For anyone who thinks this government actually cares about universities & colleges, consider the following statement from the budget. "New international student arrivals have also declined by approximately 60 per cent compared to 2024. This is a start, but we recognise there is more work to do."

We're cutting $s to low-income 18 year-olds to access education, but we still have half a billion a year to make student loans interest-free for early-career 20-somethings "to help with the rent" AS DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS.

For sale in the Red Delicious Light District

You aren't gonna believe how Bush found out about Cheney

Jesus fucking Christ... www.thestar.com/business/opi...

"Ím" (Behold) Beowulf, 1994 Szegő György 🇭🇺

New awareness campaign

Of course this won't happen but imagine what an absolute blessing it would be for any city if the million biggest assholes in it left.

Just stop.

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts! www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

And now Nicky "Bones' Rizzano gonna pay youse a visit

Hey girl are you a spondee because you look double stressed

Imagine if Canada was investing in research and universities, instead of burning everything down.

Calgary Calross

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

🧵The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has put forward a motion to release ALL data in relation to federal research funding applications. This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."

Lest anyone think this is just the Conservatives, the Bloc are also determined to show that money is "unfairly" going to people who aren't white.