It’s apologising season. The audience for BBC output in the US is just over 40 million, not 77 million as I said. That’s the figure for the Americas as a whole. But the BBC is indeed the second most trusted news source in the US.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Delighted to see that the #CurriculumReview is recommending RE is made a core subject. My @ChurchTimes article on that here www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Looking for a great leadership reading list? Here is one from #ChangeNinja www.change-ninja.com/winners-2025

Autumn in Newtonmore

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

In this week's Analysis, @evepoole.bsky.social examines attempts to bring ‘personality’ to #AI

Also in the paper this week: • @evepoole.bsky.social investigates attempts to bring a "personality" to #AI 💻 • #PrisonsWeek - Cressie Gethin reflects on the UK’s penal system ⚖️ • Jonathan Evens sees #SpiritualBritten and #Darkness at The Red House Aldeburgh

Which GPT would you invite to your birthday party? www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

📖 review: @evepoole.bsky.social considers beguiling advice from the noted philanthropist John Studzinski #philanthropy #giving

Source: The Guardian search.app/AsaLY

'If we are to build compassionate, cohesive societies, we need to understand religious education as something active, lifelong, evolving and to be taken seriously.' - pleased to be publishing this Theos report in Nov, on where people learn about other religions/worldviews beyond the classroom.

[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

I know that energy usage from AI prompts comes up in classroom discussion all the time. I hope this section in my latest post helps people provide a more grounded answer to the question, rather than just speculating or citing out-of-date information. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/mass-intel...

August used to be the silly season for news. A reminder of what journalists risk to bring us news and makes sure the dark deeds of others are brought into the light.

I think everyone interested in AI should read the model cards for the frontier models, especially the safety sections, which give you a sense of known risks: Gemini Deep Think: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med... Claude 4: www-cdn.anthropic.com/07b2a3f9902e... o3: cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875...

This sort of consultation paper is basically Christmas to the ecclesiastical nerd that I am cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/site...

God & Game Theory www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

@stefanstern.bsky.social‬ Op-Ed: Why Brand Desirability Is Key To Longevity | @financialtimes.com‬ (SubReq) www.ft.com/content/f285...

#WishYouWereHere #HerefordCathedral has launched a new Escape Room story which recreates medieval Hereford and centres on a group of pilgrims and a lost ring intended as an offering for the shrine of St Thomas Cantilupe.

🚨Confessions of a ‘Quiet Revival’ Sceptic. Why the numbers don’t add up. | New on The Church Mouse Blog 🚨 www.churchmousepublishing.co.uk/2025/05/conf...

A researcher calculates that, without increased production, AI will consume up to 82 terrawatt-hours of electricity this year—around the same as the annual electricity consumption of Switzerland.

In 1984, Francis Crick described a biological conundrum: Memories last years, while most molecules degrade in days or weeks. “How then is memory stored in the brain so that its trace is relatively immune to molecular turnover?” he wrote in Nature. www.quantamagazine.org/the-molecula...

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

On Harvard and my habit of trying to get bricks through scanners... www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

AI and Us: Keeping the humanity in artificial intelligence. @evepoole.bsky.social dgilesphd.substack.com/p/ai-and-us-...

Me talking to Paul Hargreaves about leadership, swearing, and AI - for those of you who like podcasts shows.acast.com/4th-bottom-l...

Sharing my fist post to find other #writers! I’m delighted to announce a new book, Pathways to Belonging, co-edited with Erin Weber-Johnson & Glen Bell w/ a foreword from Willie James Jennings. #Belonging is the air we breathe, we need it to survive. Pre-order: wipfandstock.com/979838520332...

Good morning all! And some great news to kick off the day! After much effort from a coalition of patient groups including @nationalvoices.bsky.social @healthwatchengland.bsky.social and @patientsassoc.bsky.social NHS letters are due to get special status! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Delighted to have contributed a chapter on leading in an age of co-intelligence to this book on AI - free to download here www.hult.edu/research/

I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...

Why RE should be on the national curriculum www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Happy 10th Birthday to my book Capitalism's Toxic Assumptions! 4 minute summary here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNnL...

Rowan Williams asks the key (lethal) question: "Who specifically wants this?" And by "this" I think he means.... [gestures at the things] www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exclusive: Gen Z much less likely to say they are atheist than their parents or grandparents And much more likely to identify as 'spiritual' But not necessarily more likely to follow a religion Middle-aged Gen Xers are most irreligious, study finds ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Charities watchdog has taken very unusual step of publicly warning the Church of England to get its house in order on abuse scandals Charity Commission met with Archbishop of York and has written to General Synod www.gov.uk/government/p...

I am grateful to Don Cupitt and the non realists for inspiring my Gruffalo Defence: just because you invent something, it doesn't mean it doesn't also exist...

On the need for extravagant contrition www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

does English have a word capturing "unsurprised" yet "disappointed"? anybody else got a word you can loan us? I'm thinking it's gonna come in handy.

Classics resources! antigonejournal.com/helps/

Great essay by Kingsnorth - his 2024 Erasmus Lecture www.firstthings.com/article/2025...

Valuable advice from Viz...

What a photograph.

Join the Theos team! We are looking for a part-time Research Assistant for our upcoming project on motherhood. Find the full job description here: www.theosthinktank.co.uk/about/work-w...

"What will it mean to be human in that future? And what role will be left for religion to play? 'Playing God' is the best treatment I have read on this matter" 💬 Samuel McKee gives a glowing review of 'Playing God' by @nickebs.bsky.social and Dr Hannah Waite. journal.iscast.org/book-reviews...

If you run an indie or community web service of some kind and are worried about the incoming Online Safety compliance duties, we’ve put together a @carefultrouble.bsky.social mailing list and been in touch with Ofcom to see if they’ll do some engagement buttondown.com/indie-and-co...

Love that a funder has set up a 'boring fund' to fund the boring stuff such as maintaining existing technology that no one ever funds but is essential for impact. (Even better - just fund core costs) wildlabs.net/funding-oppo... (HT Tom Steinberg who I don't think is here yet)

Looking forward to this with @evepoole.bsky.social next year. Do come along.