Great story of the constant maintenance work required to keep the Clyde navigable #histSTM

The more you know...

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

🛡️ How can AI be adopted safely in defence and beyond? New research from the Turing highlights AI assurance as key to trust, security and UK growth – potentially adding £18.8bn by 2035: bit.ly/49V7c9H #AiAssurance #ResponsibleAi #UKinnovation

EADH 2026 theme is: 🌉Linking Europe: DH Without Borders We invite proposals regarding: 📌Data, Methods, Modelling 📌AI, Ethics, Governance 📌Infrastructure, Sustainability, Open Science 📌Cultural Heritage, Multilingualism, Diversity 📌Communities and Futures of DH eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp #EADH2026

Three Palestine Action activists end UK hunger strike https://aje.news/pwpm4z

Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike

The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

The politics of university job losses partly rely on an outdated understanding of who goes to university and where universities are importantly. The economic and social lives of industrial towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales often heavily rely on universities.

Applications for our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships close on 5th January 2026, so don't delay! ⏳ We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections. Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese... #UofGLibraryFellows

"The [IDF] identified the driver as an Israeli reserve soldier... Although there has been a documented rise in killings by Israeli settlers since October 2023, not a single one of those cases has resulted in an indictment, and only about [25%] have resulted in investigations by Israeli authorities."

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.

"The U.K. has immense blood on its hands, sowing the colonial seeds to what is now a fullblown genocide in Gaza ... Now they are leaving young people to die in prison without trial in a hunger strike. These are brave people who stood up and took action for humanity — doing the government's job."

"[T]hese [AI] systems do not actually analyze or understand course content, instead generating answers that sound right based on patterns in their training data. ... [U]sing AI this way could lead to courses being flagged over isolated words and further shift control of teaching away from faculty."

'both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Department for Education, which have powers to prosecute, told the BBC they had no recorded offences reaching a first hearing in a magistrate's court under the Skills and Post-16 Education Act.' 1/2

'One in three students in halls of residence – 33% – are lonely or isolated at university often, with another 37% feeling that way occasionally, according to a poll by Opinium commissioned by the student accommodation provider PfP Students.'

🚨BREAKING🚨 REF 2029: Research culture metric overhauled (and weighting reduced). Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated. All the headlines as the three-month pause ends. Free to read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

"[Hormone therapy (HT)] was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality ... extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up. These study findings provide clinical evidence supporting the mental health benefits of timely access to HT."

Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

RIP Mani, a big part of why the Stone Roses stood out in 1989 is that the basslines had a bit of gumption

One of the best baselines ever. So simple but huge. RIP Mani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2q...

Want to know more about AI from leading researchers? Check out this new series of films and podcasts from the University's Centre for Machine Intelligence on the Sheffield Player. Hear about one of the most important technologies of our time. 🤖

ICYMI: On November 24th, we are hosting a launch report around the social and economic significance of ferry provision for island communities The event includes presentations, followed by discussion and an opportunity for questions. Register here: tinyurl.com/3svt8mfb

Yesss! The Keywords for Black Louisiana just won the Digital Project Award at the ASA. Proud to have contributed to this amazing team. Some of the best DH students I've trained up in there. Congrats too for @mellymeldubs.bsky.social & @miriamposner.com. Read all about it in the poster. 🥳🥳🥳

Gemini 3 model card leaked the URL is taken down now, was here: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.

Policymakers and the media need rigorous research by independently minded scholars to make sense of Chinese politics and society. INCCS will tackle the big and difficult questions about "China's rise".

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society @sheffielduni.bsky.social explains the value and importance of centering public voices in AI research at the RAI all hands meeting in Manchester. Critical and vital research in AI #RAIAHM #RAI2025

The brilliant @annarezk.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social presenting on stakeholder research as part of the RAI funded Participatory Auditing Harm Workbenches and Methodologies project at the #RAIAHM in Manchester. Innovative and significant work #PHAWM #RAI2025 #AIAuditing

The International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS) has launched, bringing together researchers from around the world to share critical, policy-relevant work on China’s politics, society and global impact. Discover more about the network here: 🔗 sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Zoe Barliff of @uofgartshums.bsky.social brilliantly presenting at RAI UK All Hands meeting, on the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies RAI funded project #UofGInfoStudies #PHAWM #RAIAHM #RAI2025

A collection of the experiences of twelve women academics, highlighting the challenges but also the privileges of an academic career. @snf-fns.ch  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7750-8/ #Science #Woman #Switzerland #GenderStudies

Not to mention the effects of 2 local universities making staff redundant, closing taught programmes and reducing their research and civic engagement capacities (in response to government policies).

"A film called 'The Strike,' about a hunger strike in a California prison, was intense. The documentary followed the prisoners who placed themselves in a do-or-die situation to protest solitary confinement, a situation they found worse than starvation. ... The film won the festival."

2025 #GenAI Code Security Report The study found that in 45% of tasks, AI models "introduce a known #security flaw" into the code they generate. www.veracode.com/wp-...

"Up to 90[%] of Gaza's water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure is destroyed ... Together with widespread malnutrition and an immunocompromised population, this has created a fertile storm for cases of [Guillain-Barré syndrome] to spiral out of control."

'From next year, universities will be required to cover the employer’s share of a new supplementary health and welfare insurance scheme, known as the PSC, and make increased contributions to a special pension fund for employees, the CAS.' 1/2

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?