Orbán’s 16-year run of stripping university autonomy is over. Magyar’s win could unlock €6.3B in frozen EU research funds, but reversing laws is just the start. Rebuilding the lost social capital and international trust will likely take years of actual work.

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I think what makes it very unfortunate is this: LLM-AI is simultaneously: 1. Generating far more bugs and technical vulnerabilities due to rush to use them without thinking about long-term costs (not new problem but supercharged) 2. Immensely effective at *finding* bugs

'In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.' 'Once students got their offers, they were passed on to the visa team, and finally delivered to universities as a fully wrapped, fee-paying package.'

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines. And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

#FossilFriday: Mary Anning's hand-drawn copy of a plate of ichthyosaur and other teeth copied from WD Conybeare's 1822 paper, Additional Notices on Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus. #MaryAnning

“AI doesn’t write good code” Skill issue, literally. Claude is a language machine that outputs code as a byproduct, like we are. Just like us, it needs training and tools to teach it what good code looks like. One-shot working code should be treated like a rough draft, and ruthlessly edited.

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Voices of Dead Languages: Jan Bičovský on bringing #ancient #languages back to life english.radio.cz/voices-dead-... #langsky

'The surging number of redundancies in UK higher education could undermine entire research fields as networks of collaborators disappear, according to an academic whose project fell through when a colleague’s job at another institution was put at risk.' 1/2

Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...

Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2

My first reaction to this story was "doesn't Grammarly have any lawyers?" and then I saw the statement from the CEO that the lawsuit is "without merit" (LOL) and realized that maybe their legal strategy is to ask an LLM to (badly) impersonate a real lawyer without that lawyer's consent.

Sad news, love Simmons immersive and present characters and a huge soft spot for The Terror. Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

Really enjoyed the first episode of new podcast 'Living Culture, Making Heritage.' It made me think about what open access really means (or doesn't mean!) in terms of information. Kudos to @kilmun.bsky.social @ecocritickate.bsky.social @scopeland.bsky.social www.diggitmagazine.com/colonial-leg...

"Universities are not peripheral to Scotland's economy, rather they are anchor institutions that can generate £28.30 billion in annual economic impact, support 34,000 jobs through research funding, and create employment multiplier effects..." digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBrie...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

'Roughly a third of the group’s members posted deficits last year. The University of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294. And there were 185 at the cash-strapped Cardiff University.'

'Universities showing a consistent rise in redundancies year-on-year included Cambridge, Exeter, Leeds, Newcastle, the Open University, Southampton, Sussex and Queen’s University Belfast.' 3/3

'Research Professional News made FOI requests to all 24 members of the Russell Group and 10 members of the ResearchPlus mission group of universities.' 24 institutions responded: their redundancies increased from just over 2,200 in the 2023 calendar year to nearly 4,400 in 2025. 1/3

Can ChatGPT generate me a file with all the references from a bibliography I have in word? I tried this out because I'd heard from multiple sources that it could, and I teach and use software for managing references, and this would be a really useful thing to be able to do. #medlibs (thread)

'In a further sign of the impact of the financial crisis gripping the sector, new data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show that 244,755 academic staff were working in the UK in 2024-25.' Previous year number was 246,930. Professors & senior academics increased; others fell. 1/3

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

Free people read freely - unless you live in a council where political interference puts a stop to it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

'The overall satisfaction level is the highest since 2011: 83 per cent or respondents score their experience with a 4 or 5 (on a five point Likert scale, corresponding to “definitely agree” or “mostly agree”). This continues an upward trend since the end of the pandemic restrictions'.

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This is all down to universities being excluded from the furlough scheme, which meant they were effectively forced to carry on rather than giving students the option of pausing for a year or going online. Entirely on the government imo

'Chinese research organizations can no longer take part in most of the research grants funded by Horizon Europe...The EU says it is concerned about sharing sensitive technologies with China that could jeopardize the region’s security.'

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

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