Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

Counter-opinion: it’s a f***ing tragedy that corporate greed has broken the medium which facilitated Tahrir Square etc and is now doing its best to break the rest of the Internet.

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share

To be clear: this is yet another reason why many of these laws are so problematic. If people want to run fediverse instances of any size, the fact that costly age verification requirements could put them in legal jeopardy, is very bad. Regulators make laws as if every website is Facebook.

So my academic friends who run quant surveys… did we know that qualtrics included a section about using data to train genAI in their privacy statement? Are u including this in ur IRB? Cuz ppl I’m asking say they didn’t know and this is not my neck of the woods (I am a qual researcher lol)

Very pleased to have this out in the wild now, @jillymackay.bsky.social, Hronska and I looked at how HE staff understand the terms blended, hybrid, and hyflex learning and whilst there is relative consensus regarding blended and hyflex (when known), the use of hybrid is a bit of a mess #AcademicSky

What the absolute fuck

A related issue: Make your higher ed system reliant on international students and the extortionate fees you charge them (how very colonial, Ireland) Now your entire strategy, despite any window dressing, must be to maximize your university "ranking" to supposedly attract said students...

If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

New Note Making System Part 01: Keep track of reading A journaling system for managing significant amounts of reading.

Overheard at the Mod: "Don't touch that! It's art, it's thousands of pounds that mummy and daddy can't pay" "How is it art? It's just a lump of metal!"

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Gotta be honest, I feel much less safe now. A very poor show www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A large study in Sweden found levels of autism *symptoms* were constant over time, even as autism *diagnoses* increased (implying broadening diagnostic criteria rather than real underlying increase) www.bmj.com/content/350/...

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

New paper from Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed on student experiences of decolonised psychology curricula. They present data on how students view decolonisation efforts & present three key changes you can make to your teaching. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AcademicSky

Elon Musk remains a Fellow of the Royal Society. Not taking action is in itself a political act. And a bad one. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Its Monday, Again. 🥱

Do you teach in HE? Whether you use lots of humour or none at all, I want to hear from you in my final PhD study!! #EducationalResearch #HigherEd #Research #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #PhDSky #devpsy #devpsyc #socialpsyc @bpsdevsection.bsky.social Link staffordshire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Meta likely used my book and many of my papers to train its AI. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Why the push for GenAI might well lead to teachers doing *more* work (rather than less work) ... we need to remain mindful of Ruth Schwartz Cohen's work on household technologies and women's domestic labour. I think there might be parallels?! criticaledtech.com/2025/03/20/m...

Is everyone huffing paint? Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.

A6. Turnitin! Because reliance on it has meant we could kick down the road being really critical of our assessment design. And because of AI 'detectors'? #LTHEchat

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

In the hay day of essay mills I went through a period of having YouTube advertise a service that would write my course for me. I found it very funny that I could pay someone to write my materials that students would then pay someone to answer. With generative AI we've achieved this #HigherEd

These are the people that would have abandoned Poland to Hitler.

Games around study skills might be a good place to start, because every student and tutor can use them, and they can be held and maintained centrally. #LTHEchat

My cat and baby 2 have started to become aware of each others existence. It's only taken 4 months. Both are astounded by the other. I hate to point out to Athena that she's already been through this and it shouldn't be such a surprise 🙄

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The amount these institutions are trying to save by making staff redundant is of the same order as the amount they hand over every year to academic publishers for journal subscriptions. Just saying.

Please help Holly with her PhD research - we are looking for people with experience of having an eating disorder or clinicians who support those with eating disorders.

I realised just how much of a lecture capture nerd I am when I saw this and squealed in delight "ooo they've updated the 2017 report!". But nerd aside this is excellent work from @julievoce.bsky.social and @jimcturner.bsky.social shows extent of change in under a decade. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired. Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way. Unions are good.

Today is my first day looking after both my offspring alone for an extended period. Going to meet up with a fellow academic mum to try and increase my odds of survival

A5 Get active discussion going online and face to face about what questions really might mean. I’ve had to re-focus many of my questions following this #lthechat

Interesting stuff. I'm ten years away from parenting a teenage girl but hopefully things get better for them in that time!

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

New paper alert! Looking at providing #veterinary CPD in India, specific challenges and needs. #VetSky #EduSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

the gall it takes to complain that your stolen dataset has been stolen, good lord www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

Someone handed this to my grandpa in an Inwood bar, c. 1946

It’s been nearly 5 years since the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. As we get close to the anniversary, C&EN is looking for stories of how the pandemic has affected your education or career. If you have a story, we’d love to hear from you! forms.office.com/r/QML2sDtSiL #chemsky🧪

Oooh had my first accusation of writing with AI in my papers. Thanks Reviewer 3 😑

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.