Excellent quote… ”Every day, Computers are making people easier to use” Dave Karpf From Friday 26th September Memex 1.1, John Naughton's substack open.substack.com/pub/johnnaug... #LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social

If you haven’t already please VOTE. (This only applies to the UK which is currently in the grip of Council Elections.) (I’m not advocating that you vote for any specific party, that’s up to you, but I’m just keen on there being as large a turnout as possible.)

#LTHEchat Thanks Sally and Phil, that was fun… hope you got lots of pointers for your next book!

Magic pink underpainting of those clouds… #Art #Sunset

#inmotion The coach has left the Coach House where it sleeps and is currently bowling down the High Street to the pub… #PrintPromptMonday - OK, I know it’s Tuesday but I overslept!

working in #Galleries, #Libraries, #Archives, or #Museums Call for abstracts: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice Journal Special Collection “Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities in Participatory Science from a GLAM Perspective.” Submissions via: forms.gle/tZmaSEPixgAU... Deadline: Feb 28th

#RIP Bruce Lacey Top chap - miss him. #Artist en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_L... en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/the... www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/... www.trunkrecords.com/releases/bru... youtu.be/vNa5L8Yd31A?...

Indoors. Jug on a table. #printpromptmonday

Two naive black and white prints… #PrintPromptMonday #IntotheWild The Gate leading out, and Big Trees.

OK, #AI question… These #LLM based GenAI apps are ‘trained’ on a huge amount of #data But what data exactly? Like all of the Gutenberg Project or Google Books…? Sounds a bit WASP to me. And what about copyright? Are these things trained on data that is mainly ‘western’? Help please… #LTHEchat

Listening to this late… I'm going to have nightmares Assessment - Forget free will, the generative AI will have decided it all for you, all we need to do is press the button. (PS - did you know all our student data has been given to the machine?) #LTHEchat #AI www.linkedin.com/posts/helen-...

Jean Tinguely… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... I wonder what a collaboration between Jean Tinguely and Nick Park would have generated…?

Perhaps a bit more needed… WI-FI is a must these days and Power/Energy to run everything - which inevitably drags in Infrastructure and Contracts etc Mind you, if we could all achieve Digital Wellbeing it would help! (@lthechat.bsky.social Helen Beetham)

Looks good… www.npg.org.uk/whatson/even... #WomensArt #WomeninArt NPG #Computing

Yes… thank you all. Got me thinking. Isn’t your student’s failure in assessments not just their failure on the course but also your failure to teach them? Maximise your teaching success by making the assessment fit the student and help them to pass. #LTHEchat

Visited a small museum in Valadon’s birthplace near #Limoges some years back… en.visitlimousin.com/stay/leisure... #WomensArt

Call for Papers Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on Craftwork within the Digital Guest Editors: Christina Corfield & Whitney Trettien online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr... #WomenInArt

This weekend I came across Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970), a truly astonishing textile #artist from Norway. nkim.no/en/hannah-ry... Her work was considered so offensive in 1937 that it was #censored. #WomensArt See also: theconversation.com/reading-pica... @theconversation.com

Well… that was fun! Thanks everyone.

AI, Language Learning, and Comparative Literature. An Interview with Dr @thorstenries.bsky.social (pp. 7-13) discusses the impact of #AI on the #humanities disciplines and on #teaching e.g. the challenges of motivation, and social effects of AI on learners utexas.box.com/s/gm8yuat7t8... #LTHEchat

Sage advice… with worrying energy implications. Who knew feedback could eat up so many resource - and not just teacher time! #LTHEchat #AI

That was fun… ChatGPT on my iPad thanks everyone for letting it have it’s say, and obviously it comes with a health warning 🚫 Thanks all

We’ve just watched Episode 6 of #Patience on @channel4.bsky.social but can’t find out the full cast… Anyone know who played the bad female Superintendent who had tried to halt the enquiry? Tried @IMDb and @radiotimes.bsky.social but no luck… CGI or AI? Nah, they’re not that good yet.

Amazing story in today’s Times After more than 85 years, lost lists of Kindertransport evacuees have been found, allowing them and their descendant to track their history Many never knew they were part of the Kindertransport beta.epaper.thetimes.co.uk/app/THETIM/e... #history #holocaust #hmd80

How's this #monochrome image #OnlineArtExchange… A faded black and white furniture catalogue circa 1900 from Heal and Son for Chairs and Table fixed to one of the Tables in the lovely Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City. www.broadway-gallery.com Go see it… @artukdotorg.bsky.social

A thought post #LTHEchat… Is a student's response to an assignment a form of #feedback on your #teaching? So that would mean your feedback on their #assignment would be feedback on their feedback… Does this change the dynamic?

To @lthechat.bsky.social @profsallybrown.bsky.social @kaysambell.bsky.social #LTHEchat The first Golden LTHEchat award of 2025! Fabulous night, give yourselves and everyone 10/10, A++ or whatever. You don't need feedback to know you done good!

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

A depressing article about a new style of #terrorism - seemingly random acts of terrible violence driven by nothing… Depressing because one feels instinctively that nothing will be done to fix it… thecritic.co.uk/the-nihilism...

Merry Christmas

Spent the evening watching #Yesterday… fabulous film that reminded me of how exciting the #Beatles were back in the day when I first heard them cranked up loud on a low-fi record player playing their first #LPs that I’d got for Christmas… I’d almost forgotten. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterd...

Erasmus+ empowers students through opportunities to study, work, and grow across Europe. Join us in bringing this programme back to the UK. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/this_is_eras...

#RIP Don Van Vliet Jan 15 1941 – Dec 17 2010 American visual artist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Music #Artist

This sentiment as the final sentence sums it all up for me… “It would be better for universities to stop thinking of students as numbers and more as real people,” #AI #Assessment

I am a excited because on the 8th of January @kaysambell.bsky.social &I will be doing the 1st ever #LTHEchat on BlueSky talking about feedback.If you’ve never been on 1 before in the other place,we post a blog in advance & from 8-9 pm uk time we post 6questions for a worldwide community to answer

Bizarre sensation this morning listening to Bob and Roberta Smith presenting Make Your Own Damn Music on radio #Resonance 104FM Felt like an actual part of the artwork, not just a listener Felt manipulated like the oil paint on one of his canvasses Normally a reader or a viewer but not a material

A friend of mine just reminded me how important it is for us to use alt text. We discuss plenty of other urbanism modifications like curb cuts, bike lanes and access ramps pretty often IMO, alttext should be mentioned in the same breath. It means a lot to many folks on the platform

To everyone who uses alt text, thank you. I can see. But my eyes are terrible. Without glasses, I can see things clearly if they're 5cm from my eyes. Even with new glasses, I can only see so much. Many websites have fonts too small for me. But also, it helps me get all the cultural references :-)

"The portrait of Francis Williams is the only painting ever made of Halley’s comet in 1759, on its momentous first predicted return." What a fabulous story! A long read for a long weekend: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #histsci #Astronomy

Lots of sawing and building work on a remixed episode of Bob and Roberta’s Make Your Own Damn Music on radio ResonanceFM104 to accompany my morning porridge making as he explores the urgency of facilitating every child’s Right to Art which involves breaking down a lot of walls. www.resonancefm.com

This’ll be good. Online European Dance Development Network event on 29th November led by my longtime collaborator Monica Gillette www.ednetwork.eu/activities/d...

I’d love to see what my town would look like without all the paraphernalia of cars…

Arggg… Listening to fabulous radio program on #Resonance 104FM playing classical music and talking to classical musicians Elgar, 3 Counties Festival, opera, trumpets 🎺🎺, Debussy But it's from the Archive… don't know who what or when 🙁 www.resonancefm.com

I say this with love: use alt text, and READ alt text even if you aren’t visually-impaired. It saves me and other herpers from having to say our pets’ species a zillion times and provides context during slow load times! Alt text makes this place better for everyone, and part of Bsky culture!

I saw some posts (?) about what should be left at the Sunken Place. Can we add the trend of posting pics w/o Alt Text? I'm especially looking at Educators. If you do it here, you do it in the classroom. Stop. #Accessibility #Teachers

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An oil pastel drawing done in New Quay, Wales some time ago.

A6 #LTHEchat Don’t know it possible to change in today’s difficult environment… Best to just keep on keeping on for the student’s

A5 #LTHEchat By example from the top… By recognition… By reward… By breaking down the snobbery that exists on both sides…

A4 #LTHEchat Well… actually going out and meeting them, sitting with them at lunch, saying Hi to them - not in MEETINGS but in real life Would be a start… just talking