maybe I'm just jaded from spending my entire adult life watching sexual abuse committed with impunity, but i dont think X will suffer any consequences. society likes to pretend it cares about sexual violence, but actually doesn't.

We are doing new eps but just at a glacial pace - this one I'm super excited about! We've got the brilliant @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social joining us to talk all things PERICLES!

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Stop it because why am I tearing up at a cartoon wolf in a supermarket ad 🥹🥹

FACULTY GREW TOO POWERFUL excuse me while I laugh myself off this cliff

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place

if you gut higher education successfully, it will take decades to recover. Subject experts, skilled pedagogues, and experienced research leaders don't pop off a factory line for next-day delivery. Once it's gone, it's going to be very hard work to get it back, even if everyone decides we want to.

The people driving the dismantling of the sector seem to believe that academic capacity is easily replaceable. Maybe that's understandable, when they're currently getting hundreds of applications from over-qualified mid-career scholars for paltry part-time and fixed term contracts. But --

I have a lot to say, including that it's despicable to drop this news 3 weeks before Christmas. I am devastated for my friends and colleagues. Butchering 20% of the university's staff poisons the working environment in ways that will linger. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Canonical Misogyny is currently 50% off, direct from the publisher Edinburgh University Press. That makes the ebook just £10 all weekend! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-canonic...

Fab thread. Truly nothing beats the moment when you're so surprised by executing something you've been working on that you lose it mid-stream and fall over/start crying or laughing/drop everything/however your body reacts 🤸🏻‍♀️ 🤸🏻‍♀️ 🤸🏻‍♀️

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Here's Keir Starmer before the general election promising Ukrainian refugees that he will stand with them "as long as it takes". Now his Government's own policy is that "the era of permanent protection [for refugees] is over" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ra9...

As the great-granddaughter of a refugee, fuck this all the way into the sun.

I have so many questions for the man biking down an unlit country road at 9:30 last night, in the pitch dark and pouring rain, wearing all black with no lights or reflectors.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

Check the thread for more 😄🎶

Never ever speak to me about "cancel culture" and "ruining men's lives" because if that's true, wtf is Andrew fucking Cuomo doing all over my feed still

Amazing to feel politically hopeful in 2025. Go Zohran!

Thank you, Izzi!! We had such a great audience last night-- thanks for coming out 🥰👑💀💐

BIRTH OF MERLIN LOBBY, ARISE!

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I am SO disappointed not to be present for this!!! A great play for spooky season 🧙🏼‍♀️ 🐕 🔥

I've seen so many people fall into the trap of ceding ground on immigration by agreeing that "illegals" shouldn't be allowed. But it's never about a legal pathway. It's about racism and white supremacy. "Culturally coherent" isn't even a dog whistle ffs -- it's loud and clear.

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

"Too high" for what? "Too high" for whom? Not everyone needs or wants to go uni, but everyone should have the opportunity to do so. Think about who gets cut out by reducing participation in HE. Spoiler: it's usually not the children of the wealthy and the powerful.

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

"Trump says immigrants are driving violent crime in Illinois, but ICE can’t find many who are. Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

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Guess what this new citizen is about to do 💚

Such a joy to work with Emer and Justine and all our contributors on this special cluster of essays for @shaxbull.bsky.social !! Big up to @louisegeddes.bsky.social for putting up with me long enough to make this happen 😅🩷🩷

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant. This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration. To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

I am always pro-partnership, pro-collaboration. But as with the OfS plans for "regional" AP targets, I can't see how this works in a marketised sector. If we're all still competing for student numbers, REF scores, TEF awards, etc., the incentives to work together simply are not there

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Taylor Swift cites classic literature like someone who buys job lots of books purely for the aesthetic. I said what I said.

I can't stop thinking about an article I read years and years ago -- I think when Alexa first came on the market from Amazon -- about how the various "smart" technologies were feminine-coded in such a way as to reinforce feminine subservience, desirability and passivity.

"Sharing a toilet" is such misleading language. Are you squatting in the same stall together?

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.