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Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

My university made the FT, not in a good way. The squeeze in overseas students is definitely an issue. But the corporatization of UK university management has been disastrous.

The 83-page papal circular titled “Magnificent Humanity” calls for government regulation of AI companies and protection and retraining of workers who may be impacted.

When people are in chronic pain and their quality of life is depleted, they're not just going to accept it. They'll keep looking for answers. And if they don't get them from qualified doctors, they'll look somewhere else.

[Short thread] I said this in a reply to Marie but feel like it's worth saying properly: in my experience as an endometriosis haver, the perimenopause grifting is filling a gap created by the outrageous lack of research into women's health.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

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

How I wish the new breed of Reform-supporting English nationalists, with their dreams of unbroken blood & soil ancestry, would read Daniel Defoe’s 18th century definition of the True Born Englishman: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44081/...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The King's Fund responds to the King's Speech and the introduction of the NHS Modernisation Bill | The King's Fund www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

This is MASSIVE 🔥 🇪🇸 Spain, under Pedro Sánchez, has called on Israel to end its expansion of settlements or face strict action 🔥 🇮🇹 Italy Declared the same 🇫🇷 France Declared the same 🇬🇧 UK Declared the same 🇩🇪 Now Germany is declaring the same These countries got their spine thanks to Spain’s leader

Cuts at Uni of Nottingham are all based on decreasing teaching staff to an acceptable minimum ratio. This ignores postgraduate teaching, supervision of PhD students! I imagine Office for Students will be writing a strongly worded letter..!?! #ucuStrikes @uonucu.bsky.social

I fear we are closer to the day when AI-generated “knowledge” makes it to school textbooks.

And with more and more AI content of questionable quality produced, AI bots are increasingly being trained on inaccurate and misleading sources. So with time, we are all getting dumber and dumber.

Signed.

We've seen shocking numbers of people facing deepening hunger and hardship. Food banks facing rising need & falling donations. With more price rises looming, it's vital government steps up to protect people on low incomes. Food banks cannot be left to pick up the pieces.

wellll this is good

Somehow I missed this, but a worker *died* at the spacex facility in Texas. It's classified as an "accident" but there's no coincidence- spacex has 6x the worker injury rate compared to other aerospace companies. Until we regulate them, oligarchs will always prioritize power and profit over people.

“Supporting you during change” - alt text “on yer bike!” (my semiotic interpretation of staff news) @uonucu #UCUstrikes

Here's the Hepi report. 2/2

Hepi AI report finds 'that all the policies appear to have be developed “in isolation”, with...no sector body coordinating efforts.' Hardly surprising given a system that has marketised HE and encouraged ceaseless institutional competition. Not clear what sector body is fit for this purpose. 1/2

Story time. Got a paper rejected. No big deal. It happens. Except one reviewer explicitly stated they were unfamiliar with our methods and asked a GenAI to explain it. They then used this to trash the paper, oh, and the journal forbids AI use in reviews. Livid is mild to describe my feelings.

🧪 #AcademicSky 🇬🇧 30% staff cut in Chemistry at Nottingham. Two years ago, the Department received the RSC Prize in Excellence for Higher Education. Resources and talent going to waste. UKG doing nothing to preserve strategic know-how for the country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/notting...

This show needs to be shut down right now - it shouldn't be able to survive this. And more broadly, I hope it signals the beginning of the end of shows where people are thrown together in the hope that they'll shag each other and then have dramas. It's a shit, exploitative model that needs to die

I think this is where the term Long COVID confuses people, because it’s typically defined as not really getting better after the acute illness, rather than cases such as those you mention where people have seemingly recovered well, but then months or years later suffer an health problem

It’s a good point - if any trans policymakers or spokespeople come in from other countries, are they going to be expected to use the wrong toilets at Heathrow airport? What’s the diplomatic etiquette in that context? bsky.app/profile/mele...

This bit is honestly wild… have they thought advancing LGBT rights by…. Legislating for them in their country, and not overseeing the biggest rollback in rights since Thatcher?!

An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.

Does anyone know where they stand on the HE crisis?

Corporations built a world where your toaster is designed to die. The EU is fighting back with a Right to Repair. 35 million tonnes of repairable things are thrown away every year, producing 8% of EU emissions. Repair cafés are pushing back — grief turned into action. Join in!

Then you can kiss liberal democracy and pluralism goodbye. This is a hugely important question. The very concept of truth is under assault, and the attacks against institutions like the civil service, universities, public service broadcasting, judges&lawyers are all expressions of this trend.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Historian Prof. Avi Shlaim exposes the UK as an active partner in the Zionist genocide in Gaza. He confirms Britain provided over 700 intelligence flights and military bases to supply the horrific war effort against Palestinians.

Great news - my private members' bill to introduce Nature's Rights into UK law is being introduced to the House of Lords on June 1, with Second Reading set for July 3 nataliebennett.org/2026/05/18/m...

«Rejectionism» thus is framed as an unwillingness to engage with the technology. But nothing could be further from the truth. Left-wing critique of AI, which takes many forms, is based on an empirical assessment of the impact and implications of the dominant model of AI development 2/

The director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard 👇

He's opening the journal review request. He clicked decline. Make him have to enter a password to be able to decline. Tell him the password is incorrect. Make him click "Forgot password" and enter a new one. When he enters a new password tell him "Error: you cannot use previous password".

How Tommy Robinson Disguises White Supremacism In the Coded Language of Anti-Islam Politics Robinson repeatedly uses “native” for white, “invader” for non-white and “African” and “Somali” for black across 140 posts examined by Byline Times

I've only recently become more aware of Siddi communities - descendants of Africans, many but not all enslaved - in India. Fascinating survey of how race, caste and religion interweave to shape their identity and history here: www.focusongeography.org/publications...

Ivermectin is being advertised on CNN’s website right now. The pop-up is from a company called All Family Pharmacy, which hawks drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. It has become a staple on the right, teaming up with folks like Riley Gaines and Donald Trump Jr.

Many of the problems in academia emerging in my lifetime have a single root cause: the identification of research with publication which is then taken as virtually the sole measure of individual performance and contribution.

Concerning. No border closure recommended by WHO to avoid unscreened illegal crossings. apple.news/ATN4mahv8T86...

Two visual puns I hadn’t been aware of until yesterday. The vertical elements of the City of London School for Girls resemble pencils, and those for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama represent tuning forks.

"The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR, the vaunted US program that has saved the lives of 26 million people living with HIV. The State Dept now says that as of 30 September, CDC support for PEPFAR will end in most countries." www.science.org/content/arti...

I can never forgive this UK government for getting on the anti-immigration bandwagon. We are real people with real lives directly impacted by this hostile environment. How can I not feel passionate about rejecting such pandering?

The situation at the University of Edinburgh is so grim right now. To deduct 100% salary for a marking boycott … is a likely illegal move from management.