And a reminder that in 2024 jewelley stolen in similar historical policies was returned to families because it was wrong www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Wow what a story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour to introduce tax on saying “ooooh big stretch” when your dog does a cute stretch

When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn’t change. He changes you.

Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson. That's it. That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.

Before numbers, Dutch city buildings were given distinctive stone tablets, or gable stones. Sometimes they said something about the resident, sometimes it was patriotic, but it could be anything. Duyn Sigt (Dune Scene), 1725, depicts bunny burrows & a hunter & his rabbiting dog. #GevelsteenSunday

I used GPT5.1 to rapidly analyze tranches of rasterized papers in the case of the Epstein papers. I was specifically looking for academics who communicated with him after 2013. Is this an unethical use case?

You can't? It will always depend on stolen work, will make you lazier and dumber and in the end all it's good for is predicting the statistically most likely answer to the questions you ask it, not the truth.

Imo the energy demand issues alone mean there can be no ethical gAI use, but the theft and reliability issues would also be reason to reach that conclusion

I mean my take is that no commercially available gen AI is ethical or safe to use. (Iterative & focused = maybe). But i’m an “extremist” - are there softer approaches? (*please* pay attention to the caveats e.g. diff between gen & iterative)

I don’t see any ethical way, at least for anything other than very limited DH-type things involving lots of data. But certainly not reading or writing

You might be interested in this new paper with colleagues empirically showing some of the really extreme representational harm embedded in gAI captioning models: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Okay, people, I've already seen enough historians using gAI. Since it will prove difficult to put the jinn back in the bottle, and some folks in our field will use it, how do we do this ethically? Can we?

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

What role did Australian police forces play in generating Aboriginal cultural artefacts for museums? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Every time I think Labour have put the last nail in the coffin, they go and find more.

Because I can't remember names, I'm hoping the person who contacted me about a history of cancer evaluation project'll see this. You emailed several months ago, when I was v busy. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to search my emails to find yours. This message is to say apologies for not responding :s!

The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in danger of being outed

The Curriculum & Assessment Review, led by @beckyfrancis.bsky.social, is out - and it has potential implications for how schools think about history in the primary curriculum. A short thread on what it might means for local history and teacher collaboration 👇

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

If you're interested in MKULTRA and the CIA's pharmaceutical experiments, only 2 months until the release of our 50th anniversary abridged edition of the Church Committee Report. wwnorton.com/books/the-ch...

Can’t wait to be in #Derby on Sunday - do come and join me. #Economica #womenwealthpower www.derbybookfestival.co.uk/events/victo...

Because I can't remember names, I'm hoping the person who contacted me about a history of cancer evaluation project'll see this. You emailed several months ago, when I was v busy. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to search my emails to find yours. This message is to say apologies for not responding :s!

Nic John Ramos, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles www.ucpress.edu/books/health...

As an inherent part of war, protection of the dead has received little attention until now. The new IRRC edition “Protection of the Dead” addresses that gap, focusing on contemporary wartime realities and humanitarian responses. 📚 Read the full edition: bit.ly/43vqz6N

The hardback edition of our book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’ is out via @manchesterup.bsky.social next week. Please encourage your institutional library to order a copy! A paperback edition will follow! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Every time I think Labour have put the last nail in the coffin, they go and find more.

So much unnecessary cruelty and devastation. Medical libraries and museums are a treasure trove of information and history. Not to mention staff getting double RIFed. Can someone please invent a time traveling machine so we can reset this timeline? Something to get us back on a humane one.

This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)

A man I love in a time travel film where he saves the future from evil Al? Hell yes. youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...

Although he has been one of the few politicians to call out racism, here's a smol reminder that Wes Streeting remains a bad 'un.

🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it? Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics. @commonswec.parliament.uk

Album artwork by the great Alex Steinweiss via www.deliciousindustries.com/blog/alex-st...

An absolutely fascinating and infuriating history of the development of "Rape kits." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#OtD 13 Nov 2002 the first strike by the UK's Fire Brigades Union – @FBUnational – in their 2002-2003 rolling campaign of action for increased pay took place stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8521...

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know." Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

if you're a #Skystorian in the UK, at assoc/full prof level who hasn't won a grant since 2020 and/or with a 'lifetime' capture (indiv. share) <£100,000 I'd love to have you as an example that this is normal. I know DMs are hard for us in the UK -I am also at drvheggie at the mail that is g dot com

International students decline by 5%, Dutch enrolments also down www.dutchnews.nl?p=259891

Reform in Kent are “a threat to public safety”, the Fire Brigades Union said. Reform haven’t signed off on fire brigade budgets, “failed to govern and lead the fire service” and haven’t even met with the fire service which is one of their responsibilities.

If you're in London and at a loose end this Saturday (15 Nov) I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Sign up link below. Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.

There are moments of magic in misty autumnal mornings. 📷: Ian Brierley

1951 First Aid in Atomic Warfare

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

COHSE Sexual harassment at Work Circa 1985

Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men

Higher Education, where consultants advocate death as a means for survival and everyone else knows they're simply murdering everything.

If Britain is 'sliding "into economic crisis over £85bn sickness bill', what can UK Arts, Humanities & Social Science research tell us about alternative pathways? Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4 @torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social