I wrote a bit about this last year with regards to archaeology. animalarchaeology.com/2025/08/05/w...

I've hit 100 responses to my survey on personal tutoring - half way there! If you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, I'd love to hear your thoughts - it shouldn't take more than ten minutes. Do share if you can.

Join the Wildlife Health team at the Royal Veterinary College as a Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation/Ecology. We're looking for a new colleague to join our group with interests in wildlife, conservation, ecology, one health and related fields. Deadline: 29th May jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Universities fuel local economies, so it's not just students and redundant staff at risk, it's restaurants & bars, cultural institutions, cleaners, builders, plumbers, fitness instructors, massage therapists, landlords, we are all part of an ecosystem.

also I feel so sad that many students do not even know what plagiarism is in their final years in the degree I teach on 🫠 my course manual... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

"A Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson said the government was committed to creating a secure future for universities so they can deliver for students, taxpayers and the economy." I will believe this when I see it 🙄

Prepare your students to build a better future than the one these tech companies are trying to shove down our throats. ❤️

Are you new or recent faculty, and are you attending CES/HBES. Some thoughts: gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/a...

Juliett Roman Dishonest Paternosterer she/her broad nose caretaker of the world's sturdiest ginger plant loves food

A little summary of some events. Version 1.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Our *Monster paper* is finally out. Begun instead of data collection during covid for Melis's PhD, expanded during Jenni's PhD, & finally now published. Some papers are worth the wait onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

A world were we have all wrapped ourselves in a digital surveillance and sousveillance prison that instruments and influences our every behavior for the ends of the masters is the one where we will finally be free to pursue our best lives, I’m sure

If you live in or visit Scotland, don't forget to report your squirrel sightings! They want to know about both red and grey squirrel sightings. See what you can see! scottishsquirrels.org.uk/squirrel-sig...

I spend YEARS brainstorming and MONTHS outlining and that IS the work. Zero tolerance for this shit.

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.

My employer now spams our work devices with occasional banner reminders of various events & deadlines (some important, some not). One can snooze the banners for a maximum of 3 hours at a time, a max of 4x/day. I guess declining spam from my employer will have to become part of my morning routine. 😫

massive research bias toward "Global North" livestock (cattle, sheep, horses) compared to neglected species (buffalo, camels, donkeys, mules). 6,047 cattle welfare articles vs. just 235 for buffalo, despite buffalo being globally important for hot climates & climate change doi.org/10.7717/peer...

The spectacular Hunterston Brooch from Scotland, c. AD 700. A huge statement piece of jewellery measuring 12.2 cm diameter! 🤩 Stunningly crafted from gilded silver, gold, and amber. Found at Hunterston in Ayrshire. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

oh wow 😭

🚨 New article klaxon 🚨 Gaby Mahrholz, @emilynordmann.bsky.social and I have our article "Practice What You Preach: Designing Student Assignments That Advance Open and Reproducible Science" published in AMPPS. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

Grateful 4 this review in @financialtimes.com "One of the central messages of #Prophecy, Oxford philosopher Véliz’s ingenious, scathing and often profound assault on our contemporary obsession with predictive algorithms: “To be resilient, prepare, don’t predict.”" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

'Technology firms see the university as a gigantic data farm; they are not invested in our students or the learning process, only in harvesting the attention of an entire generation of users, who will be addicted to their product for the rest of their adult lives.' #GenAI #resistAI #spéirgorm

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

1/ Excited to share our new paper in the Journal of Environmental Psychology examining how trust in science and different forms of worry relate to pro-environmental behavior and support for climate mitigation policies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Attention anthropology and anatomy colleagues! My student, Emma, and I are conducting a survey on the ethics of human skeletal remains in higher education. We would greatly appreciate your participation—thank you! #anthropology #anatomy #ethics bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

For all that America has squandered the incalculable treasure of being the global destination for higher education, the UK and Europe seem remarkably incapable of taking advantage of a historic opportunity to dominate global education and innovation.

People put up with industry in their communities because it creates jobs and confers prestige and identity. Data centers offer none of that. They don't create many or good jobs and they mark your community as a loser of the AI revolution, a dumping ground for ChatGPT's externalities.

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

Of course everyone rightly raising “but what’s the point?”. But it is massively overwhelming editors & funders to the point that they can’t cope with the volume. It is disrupting scholarship, review & fairness (& Palantir’s Karp meant what he said about disruption)

I have been meaning to read this book about academic writing for aaaages but never found the time! And already on page 1 am enjoying myself

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

Les Measurables 😂

I am doing a very bad job of being (a) on sabbatical and (b) on annual leave (also (c) taking a bank holiday). Despite building boundaries over the years, I'm finding it tough to enforce them now, when I should be doubly protected.

RIP to OpenAI's Study Mode. "It was always a ruse, a PR exercise masquerading as pedagogical safeguard, but something bigger is happening at OpenAI. Their focus now is on enterprises, startups, and venture firms—but no mention of students, who still comprise the majority of ChatGPT users."

Sheffield’s archaeology department was second to none, world leading and internationally significant. All the things that universities purport to value. It was also full of good colleagues (which universities seem to value less, but is no less significant.) I’m sorry it is no more.

For decades it’s been well understood that learning by doing is essential. If you are not doing the thing—writing the essay, solving the math problem, reading the book—you aren’t learning. Public education should not be all about learning to use a company’s products.

In defense of #Anthropology:

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

New paper by Gabriele Chierchia, Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer Marwa El Zein, Benedetto de Martino Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 Cultural evolution paper alert

An example of one big chunk of time they're taking from us. There are others.

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24