The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...

*Finally* able to talk about the Star Trek @sciencemuseum.org.uk team-up we are organising for the 60th anniversary! Special events, world first film season, exclusive merch, props and costumes from the Paramount archives, and more! www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/star-trek-60

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 To celebrate, we’re holding additional free Women in Science tours throughout the day, and special spotlight talks on the life and work of Marie Curie in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rBbeeo

Join us today at our Future of Food Lates and treat yourself to tasteful experiences, including a screening of Soylent Green, Silent Disco, special exhibition-themed comedy and sample tastes of futuristic food. Book your free admission tickets: https://bit.ly/3Zz9F4S

“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.” Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

Where is the Dark Academia novel in which Dark Academics spend 80% of their time writing grant applications to the Dark Funding Council and most of the rest being harrassed by Dark ResearchFish (RIP)?

Cat's officially out of the bag #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️

We are delighted to announce the details of our Semester two York Medieval Lecture: The Darker Side of the Middle Ages Speaker: Professor Kathy Lavezzo (The University of Iowa) 📅 Tuesday 17 February 🕛 Lecture 6:30-8:00pm 📍 SLB/118, Spring Lane building 🌐 www.york.ac.uk/medieval-stu...

It’s that time again!

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Mendacious drivel trying to make readers think that a physical museum gallery has been replaced by a completely unrelated trail through the existing galleries. You can access the trail 'Refracted Histories: Exploring LGBTQ+ Stories in Times of Conflict' here: www.iwm.org.uk/events/refra...

He ys ridinge a horse He ys emerald and svelte He will get reallye weirde If you lie about beltes The Green Knighte Ys Cominge To Toun

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

We’re inviting children across the UK to join us for an online lesson hosted live by Tim Peake at the @sciencemuseum.org.uk at 11.03, the moment Tim launched into space a decade ago. Great to see Tim and my colleague Libby on @BBC Breakfast! x.com/sciencemuseu...

'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Its founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

I have set up a bsky for MATER! Please feel free to follow. :) 🗃️

It’s OBJECTIVELY HILARIOUS that Wes Streeting said we have to look at potential over diagnosis of Autism and ADHD through a ‘strictly clinical lens’ as though there aren’t already a million hoops to jump through to even get put forward for a clinical diagnosis on the NHS.

Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture: artsandculture.google.com/project/nati... Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!

If you have the means I highly recommend the cause of supporting a fellow scholar

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Recently, Blake Gutt and I had the great fortune to sit down with @eocieslik.bsky.social & record a converation for the Whiplash pod with @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social on medieval trans & genderqueer saints--and why they matter today, more than ever #MedievalSky 🗃️

Microsoft Excel also does not understand jokes Genuinely, it is such a serious problem that academics and media outlets are presenting text processing software as if it could ever "understand" anything. All this does is misinform the public and do supply free PR for tech companies

Many people have noted that the Primary / Social / Forums / Updates tabs are missing when you do this 👀. You can recreate these manually using the "Multiple Inbox" setup in settings. Basically, tell your inbox to include emails tagged "inbox" and exclude the social / forums / updates.

I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers. Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties. Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor. A healthcare crisis in the making.

All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

The core aim of the Terf movement - a tiny number of newspaper columnists who melted the brains of middle aged reactionaries - was always to encourage maximum public hostility against transgender people, and give them the impunity to act upon it.

Firstly, this article actually has the "artwork" at an angle that helps make sense of what it's supposed to be, secondly it names the artist, and thirdly the 'you'll never guess why it's being taken down' bait absolutely deserves to be bait. You won't. Read it. Weep.

Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.

There is no downside

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...

Just buried in a paragraph and not highlight with a visual or anything: total global energy emissions WOULD BE 7% HIGHER if we had chosen to sit around and do nothing about this shit OUR ACTIONS MAY BE INSUFFICIENT BUT THEY ARE NOT FRUITLESS THERE ARE 2600000000000000 GRAMS OF FRUIT EVERY YEAR

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both

... and Leicester... Languages, History... It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

"Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?" I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.

Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun? Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

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