Martin O'Neill on the nonsense of XG stats very much channeling me in every staff meeting where University Rankings are mentioned. #radio4Today.

My take (from Friday) on the digital ID proposals. I don't think it's relevant to say, "but other countries have ID cards, why can't we?" The critical questions here are implementation-based and it seems like they are up for grabs www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Catering costs on an FEC-ed project grant?

MPs have launched a fan-led review of live music - with an online survey, which you will find via: committees.parliament.uk/committee/37...

Very good this. Should be of interest to the 'culture and foundational economy' folk.

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'An 1812 letter from the Luddites described their mission as fighting against “all Machinery hurtful to Commonality.” That remains a strong standard by which to judge technological gains.' Always quite proud to live a brisk stroll away from Arnold where the Luddites kicked off.

hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

It's all we talk about this summer but what we gonna do about it. Here's our attempt at a start 👇

I'll believe my research is '4-star plus' when it comes with free wifi and continental breakfast

We have an opening for a one-year Sociology Lectureship in Glasgow focused on teaching the sociology of class. Please share it with anyone interested. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Preparing my notes for an interview on history of identity cards, back in the news because of proposals such as Labour Together’s Britcard (left). There’s a long history (see WW2 poster, right) Here’s a thread on recent (1980s-2010s) UK ID card history, showing how Tony Blair became keen on them

Generative AI models are a collective work of art built on the free labour of millions of creators. Rather than raising digital walls & enforcing stricter copyright, we must treat creative knowledge as a public good. New piece with @faustogernone.bsky.social in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

As part of the Museum of Climate Stories project @jlarkin65.bsky.social is working with artist Caitlin Kiely and Coventry Biennial, using collage to re-imagine @coventrycathedral.bsky.social at workshops this weekend. Sign up 👇 www.coventrybiennial.com/events/recon...

Vale Ozzy Osbourne. 🤘

Me, from a couple of years ago

This looks like a fantastic 2 year RA job on the history of paper money in Britain C18th-C19th for those completing/or with an MA or PhD.

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

Patrick Grant! Tune in for the whimsical village fete chat, stay for the critique of extractive capitalism.

Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh for a project on “Instability After Adverse Parental Life-Course Events and Educational Inequality.” Open to applicants with the right to work in the UK, deadline Aug 4. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/r...

If you're looking for media and creative industries content to keep you going over the summer, head over to Media Whatever, our podcast series feat. Chris Bilton, @carolinabandinelli.bsky.social and a series of guests from our research seminars 👇 open.spotify.com/show/6gMv78F...

Enjoyed this. Especially liked the observation that, while universities are imagined to be full of trans/cultural marxist/feminists etc., it's the behavioural economics & techno-solutionist folks who really get to order the best sandwiches.

CfP! With so much discussion about the current and future state of creative eduction, there’s a perfectly timed call for papers for researchers working on these issues

Pleased to see this piece out at last - open access. 'Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop' was collectively authored with @awtsn.bsky.social Watson, Suzanne Grasso and Cora Zon and features a downloadable version of the 'zine we made together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

With the customary pinch of salt that often needs to be sprinkled on these stories, outsourcing BBC tech capabilities to "tech giants" feels like a really, really, really bad idea www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Attention @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social students, alumni, staff and former staff! As part of our Museum of Climate Stories project, @jlarkin65.bsky.social is collecting stories about encounters with the plants and animals with whom we share our campus 👇 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

“I’m just saying we’d collect more nectar if we weren’t in meetings all day” From the new Private Eye, out now.

'A UK academic has criticised the suspected use of chatbots in peer review after he was given lengthy instructions on improving his statistical analysis – despite not including any statistics in his rejected paper.' 1/2

Very interesting discussion here. It is noticeable that, as REF ramps up, the space of possibilities for change seems to be closing down. Is it caution, or is everyone too tired and busy to think of how to do things differently?

Non-academics: if you see an interesting academic paper on here and you can’t access it due to a paywall just email the author and (depending on the state of their inbox 😜) they will generally be thrilled you are interested in their work and send you a copy.

CfP! We Want More: Music / Sociology! Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...

AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards support world-class doctoral training #AHRC #AcademicSky

We're delighted to be part of @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social's partnership with @universityofleeds.bsky.social and other partners, directing @ukri.org PhD funding to the challenges of the creative industries. Details in the 🧵 #screenindustries #PhDtraining

Really delighted to be working with @leedsunimedia.bsky.social and @joannegh.bsky.social on this initiative . If you're a UK-based researcher interested in a @ukri.org funded PhD on diversity and sustainability, watch this space! 👇 #ScreenIndustries #CreativeBridges #PhDTraining

To be fair to AI, I can't do my job either.

Many thanks to @tellynelly.bsky.social for delivering our CMPS Annual Lecture. Really important research on the differences between the duty and ethics of care in Reality TV.

Thanks to Cecilia Ghidotti and @vivaharehills.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion of the politics of quitting. Watch it back on CDI-TV 👇 www.youtube.com/live/GS8V7PT...

Tomorrow, we'll be welcoming @tellynelly.bsky.social to give the CMPS Annual Lecture, discussing the @recaretv.bsky.social project and duties of care in reality TV. You're welcome to join us 4.30pm, FAB0.08 👇 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

This week on Wonkhe: Richard Wallis and Crista van Raalte call out the unhelpful mythology that has grown around higher education and the screen industries

This new blog by @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Ruoxi Wang, highlights the relationship between subjects studied before university and graduates who go on to work in arts, culture and heritage (ACH) jobs. Read more: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...

What's your summer reading? #highered #edchat #books

Our Centre Director Pietari Kääpä has co-edited a new special edition of the Film Education Journal on 'Film Education and the Environment'. With Hunter Vaughan and Mette Hjort. Out Now! 👇 journals.uclpress.co.uk/fej/article/...

And nothing says 'overhaul' like a picture of a grain silo being demolished. I mean, this is fine.

As the summer tourism season gets underway, we spotlight this think piece by @aliceborchi.bsky.social‬ & Carlo Alberto Petruzzi, highlighting recent events in Florence, a city caught between the pressures of mass tourism and preserving its cultural identity. www.culturalvalue.org.uk/the-curious-...

Why not knock off early on Monday and tune-in to CDI-TV featuring Cecilia Ghidotti and @vivaharehills.bsky.social on quitting in the creative industries 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS8V...

👀 Funded collaborative PhD: Document Detectives: A Crowdsourced Approach for Reuniting Strayed Documents at the UK National Archives www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...

I once stood behind Steve Davis as he bought a chicken baguette.