I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.

When journalists frame sports boycotts as a simple yes/no question, they fail their democratic role. My comment on the boycott debate and the media’s responsibility is now available in English via @playthegame-org.bsky.social 👉 www.playthegame.org/news/sports-...

Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.

Why not train people how to use critical thinking so that they can critically evaluate the AI slop that is produced or the dis/misinformation on social media?

Members of the administration at the University of Sheffield are threatening to lock out members of @sheffielducu.bsky.social who do not reschedule teaching lost to recent strike action. It's an incredibly damaging choice and a horrible precedent to set if it moves through.

“How could you not be upset? I mean, no matter where you land on the political spectrum, I would hope that human decency would consider the human toll of these situations." - former Seahawk Doug Baldwin Jr. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

No ethical use cases for the thing known as "gen AI" (prompt-based words, images, video, sound). Even if you started with an ethical, environmentally sound version, it's still the wrong tool for being a human being: 2/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Seeing new @thesilkrailroad.bsky.social material on my Bandcamp music feed is well worth celebrating, and with the added incentive of name your price thesilkrailroad.bandcamp.com/album/acid-f...

leftlion.co.uk/features/202... #Notts

"In my experience, academic work that acknowledges racism, inequality, oppression & climate injustice is in no way easier than any other form of learning. It is oftentimes harder, more complex, as it is fighting against the grain, and THAT is exactly why we need to bring care to our teaching."

Sport is an important activity to help refugees feel human. It creates a sense of normality in an abnormal situation, helps mental & physical health, & creates social connections. Destroying sport facilities is another way of dehumanising refugees www.theguardian.com/football/202...

3/3 How we speak out matters. Individual & collective action is needed if we are to bring about sustainable change. We’ve published a number of blogs on this topic. Here’s one for starters. #HowWeSpeakOut thegreenrunners.com/creating-a-n...

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

Police forces consistently use the Olympics their own private cash machine. LAPD is already asking for additional $100 million & we’re 2.5 full years away from the Games. Gives lie to LA28 organizers’ claims that it will deliver a *completely privately funded Olympics* laist.com/news/lapd-wa...

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...

www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n... NP article in which Cllr Smith describes right wing racist Robert Jenrick as his role model, whereas fellow acolyte Cllr Adams is sad as he really liked ‘I didn’t see another white face’ Rob

Hands down the best thing to land in my in-box this week

Gianni Infantino: “We will help rebuild all football facilities in Gaza and Palestine. We will bring football back in every corner of the country.” Israel, meanwhile, is planning to demolish a pitch used by Palestinian children in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

The utmost respect, awe & admiration for Robin’s fiercely principled stand which is entirely representative of the caring compassionate person he is. In a just society, nothing he has said would be controversial or even necessary, simply basic human decency. All love to him for trying to make it so

I’ve been writing an annual column for 20 years on the year in sports and politics. Here’s this year’s edition. Short version: 2025 was the fucking worst. But maybe 2026 sees a turnaround that’s already being glimpsed in unlikely places www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This week on Wonkhe: To support student wellbeing we need to support the staff who do that work. Ishwinder Kaur and Sarah Rayment make the case for coaching for everyone

Nottingham folk, the Local Studies exhibition at the Central Library is well worth a gander. A celebration of the local football scene, refreshingly, it is much more than the usual pandering to the F-word.

Don’t hold back, swearing can boost performance by lowering inhibitions, study finds

‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

My latest, co-written w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social: "FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd 'Peace Prize'." FIFA President Gianni Infantino, toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed the confected "FIFA Peace Prize" to the increasingly violent US president @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Key figure in recent Morecambe takeover "[suspected] of belonging to terrorist organisations in India." Blimey. www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

Corruption at Fifa used to be the shameless, amateurish activity of men who liked cigars, brandy and five-star hotels. Under Infantino it has been turbocharged with the grotesque aim of making Fifa's president a global statesman. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

NEW on Wonkhe: AI has the potential to change educator practice, but it needs the right support to be in place. Debbie McVitty and Rachel Maxwell invite you to contribute to a new Wonkhe-Kortext project on educating the AI generation buff.ly/S6h2B7Z

I’m struggling to recall precisely how I came across @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social but my Bandcamp collection is sonically richer as a result. Well worth having a rummage - I’m confident you’ll uncover a gem

Incredible project. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

Reposting this. I'm just so disgusted by what used to be sports media. More interested in betting lines than player suicides. That's not a hot-take opinion. We have the data here. It's a fact. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A fuzzy-edged, jangly indie-pop soaked nostalgia trip seeing @thepainsofbeing.bsky.social weave their way through their seminal self-titled album at Metronome last night. It brought back fond memories of being in the basement of Sumo in Leicester with Martin Naylor in May 2011

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books

Had to do a double take. Really wasn’t expecting to see an image of yours truly in a trailer for the new Sky documentary, King of Lies

Who are The Green Runners? Thanks to Sports England for featuring our Nottingham local meet up crew in this short film. Our members share their individual pledges aligned to our four pillars and explain what it means to run green. #HowWeSpeakOut #Running #ClimateChange vimeo.com/1111780606/9...

22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal: Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US." journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Please support and sign the petition that there is a link for within the Musician Union's article. ✊️ musiciansunion.org.uk/news/univers...

New blog post from @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social and @rosegann.bsky.social Introducing the DARSHE: moving beyond the debate about ‘contested definitions’ of scholarship? ntf-association.com/introducing-...

'But much to the detriment of learning... we have seen education redefined as something else -- as a product, not a process. As certification, not transformation. The liminality has been shattered; instead of ritual, society has demanded “outcomes” and “optimization.”'

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia have used their wealth and influence to tilt the football world in their favour, but now, for the first time, they have tilted the playing field too. Story on how opaque rule changes that paved Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s path to 2026 World Cup www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...

What better way to celebrate Halloween than an all-new digital-only single? "Hey Zombie" was recorded late last year with Phil Booth and Robin Newman. It’s pay what you like on bandcamp right now. heycolossus.bandcamp.com/album/hey-zo... “Go check it out!” Jack Torrance. Happy Halloween!

Migration makes for political deflection and migrants an easy scapegoat, but most "concerns" around immigration are flat out false and driven by hostile rhetoric. Reality is, on a day to day basis, people are more worried about how they'll get through to the next payday. news.sky.com/story/manufa...

To celebrate BHM, NTU's Department of Sport Science is shining a light on the lesser-known stories of Black athletes whose lives and legacies have made a meaningful impact. We asked students and staff for their nominations, which are collated in a micro-blog: nominatetocelebrate.tumblr.com

An evening in the company of the supremely talented Dan Wilson AKA Withered Hand is always something to be cherished. Performing a mixture of old and newer material in his usual warm, self-deprecating, and charming manner, Dan’s 1.5 hour set at JT Soar flew by. A triumph

Excellent in conversation panel earlier as part of the Festival of Resistance at Nottingham Contemporary. The speakers explored what alternative forms activism can take to support established modes of protest and resistance.

I managed to make the briefest of appearances in The Economist www.economist.com/britain/2025...