PERSONAL NEWS! 🗞️ I’m thrilled to be able to share the cover of my soon-to-be-published book… #HARDtruth Thanks to @HeadlinePress1 for supporting a project that seems more important now than ever. Courageous journalism keeps democracy alive

Another draft chapter for Empire of the Eye finished @reaktionbooks.bsky.social! Two more chapters to go. It might actually happen.

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Lucky shot. Clicked the button just as he was taking off.

Falch iawn i weld pob un o Aelodau Seneddol Plaid yn ymuno - cadwch ati Great to see all four Plaid MPs join the motion to disapprove the EHRC Code of Practice

Very strange. They must have confused @doctorow.pluralistic.net with someone else, since they don't usually interview sane, well-informed people on the Today programme.

There are SNP, Greens, Lib Dems and Labour on this, where are your four MPs @plaidcymru.bsky.social? @lsrplaid.bsky.social @benlake.bsky.social @anndaviesplaid.bsky.social @llinosmedi.bsky.social

I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu

I must be super evolved then because I understand very well that Google is trying to build an agentic wall around the entire internet with the ultimate goal of users paying to access it and data owners paying to contribute to it.

I’m evolved enough to understand it’s shit and we don’t want it because it’s shit

Excellent thread. Makes really clear that the focus on the notion of trans people as a *threat* is the real social contagion.

It’s impossible to take this stuff seriously. And increasingly difficult to take the institutions that give it a platform (Oxford) and the media that uncritically report it seriously either

Neges Heddwch Ieuenctid Cymru #Heddwch2026

Oh, great. Turnitin seems to be down ....

"You said you plan to vote Plaid Cymru at the Scottish Parliament elections" ?

Yesterday, @mirierubin.bsky.social gave a fabulous talk at @aberuni.bsky.social as part of a @royalhistsoc.org event. Amazingly, she delivered the first five minutes in flawless Cymraeg.

Isn't it nice to see that there will still be a Duke of Wellington in the Lords!

OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June

21st century spermatorrhea. We really are the new Victorians!

Technology has always been the spinal cord of government - and education. That’s not the problem. The problem, as this piece points out, is who owns and controls it.

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My copy has arrived. Spanish readers, get yours!

Aaaaand here we go again. To summarise: AI fed a bunch of similar looking images concludes they’re similar. Fed a bunch of dissimilar images and concludes they’re not.

"It is a technology that isn't without controversy and is already used in things like unlocking your phone, passport control, and some police investigations - via photographs and footage." Yes, let's carry on with destroying the Humanities, then. No need for critical thinking or expertise here.

OK, just let me get this straight: wearing a T shirt is an attack; intrusive surveillance isn’t.

Academics when people get preachy about alcohol at work events...

Here’s a link to the first Spanish translation of John Jacob Astor’s *A Journey in other Worlds* (1894). Not great literature but a fascinating insight into the nineteenth century origins of techbro culture. There’s even a prologue by me that says so! Sorry it’s the Bad Place.

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity. An Essay by @coreenanne.bsky.social & Alex Aylward

OUP just sent me a nice little survey on AI use. I've told them what I think - I think you should too! survey.alchemer.eu/s3/91036107/...

Tonight the You’re Dead To Me tour rolls into Cardiff!! (I’m actually already here, but it’s not as glamorous to say I walk in)

Very much looking forward to being in the audience for this tonight!

Pasg Hapus bawb. And no, I have no idea either.

This is indeed a pretty good book. Highly recommended.

This seems a good day to remember how it all began: www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/how...

This seems a good day to remember how it all began: www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/how...

My main memory of the Apollo launchings, long, long, ago, is interminable shots of men in white shirts looking at screens. Similar amounts of tedium to what I’m watching now!

And it was great fun to make! So Ahoy-hoy to all of you from me as well.

And it was great fun to make! So Ahoy-hoy to all of you from me as well.

The first Castell Aberystwyth, dark against the evening sky.

Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader, eds. Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett – @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Absolutely.

This must be one of the weirdest and most forced false analogies I’ve seen for a while. Doctorow can’t really think this can he? And to the guy in the replies: no, technology is never neutral.

Of all the things that worry me about the Iran war ….

For *expert* read *advocate*:

A funny clip from our recent 150th episode of YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about the invention of the Telephone — with Professor @irmorus.bsky.social and comedian Catherine Bohart Catherine is now joining us in Cardiff for the YDTM Live Tour on April 9th. Get your tickets at www.YoureDeadToMeLive.com

AHOY-HOY!! Here’s a clip from our 150th episode of You’re Dead To Me podcast about the 150th anniversary of the Telephone ☎️ This is me, comedian Catherine Bohart, and historian of science Professor @irmorus.bsky.social YOU’RE DEAD TO ME is going on tour very soon! London next week - get tickets!

If there are Brazilians in my following, this is for you. The Emperor of Brazil does briefly feature!

How the telephone helped form the Victorian future.

And today is the day. It's the 150th anniversary of the first phone call. And this is me discussing how Victorians used the telephone to reimagine the future:

Iwan Rhys Morus is, as you'd expect, informative and highly readable on the subject of Bell's demo and the wider story of invention: bsky.app/profile/irmo...