I am 100% in favour of renationalising passenger rail services, but PLEASE can we stop the stupid cycle of building good things, dismantling them, then rebuilding them again??

AI and algorithms have driven me off the internet. Miss you, but can’t stand the robots anymore.

Rare permanent position alert! UVic Anthropology is looking for a Senior Lab Instructor (MA/PhD) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. We need someone passionate about experiential learning & adept at multimodal methods (sound, visual, maps) uvic.mua.hrdepartment.com/hr/ats/Posti... #anthro #academicjobs

Some private equity firm is going do the most evil possible thing with this data and that was always how this was going to end.

The promise of AI in education is it will save educators time. That's rubbish. It's sapping all our time already in working groups, committees, workshops, and marking anxiety. It's the most time-sapping, exhausting and frankly boring thing I've ever encountered in HE - and it's in my research area.

Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.

I wish NPR would run fewer science stories like "how our brains work, part 43" or "the nature of time itself" and more on, say, climate change and ecosystems, fire, or extreme floods. And slip in a mention of how many fired fed employees or grant $ pulled focused on "exactly what we're discussing."

"Would you kill Hitler as a baby?" No, you sadist; I would do everything I could to make sure he avoided his father's wrath and got into art school

It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.

I’m embarrassed that it has come to this but after 5 1/2 months of unemployment and underemployment I am struggling to pay my bills that will come due in April. If you are able and so inclined, I’d really appreciate any support you can send my way. ko-fi.com/rebekkap

People say academia doesn't need print books or journals any more - but the printed material may be all that survives the next 50 years, let alone the next 500.

i don’t mind if a human being pirates my book in order to read it. i do mind if mark zuckerberg pirates my book to make meta AI more profitable

In case you wanted to know some of my thoughts on how student loans would be affected by all this nonsense...here you go! Gift link. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

We were meme'ing over on other platforms at @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and it's too good not to share here! #archaeology Happy big C's day to those who celebrate!

Fun fact! My retired mother is exploring an ADHD diagnosis after both my brother and I started getting treated as adults. As she says, why struggle with something that you don't have to, just because you're not working?

From losing 2-6 IQ points per infection to activating autoimmune conditions to long-term organ damage, none of this is good. It’s time to #CleanTheAir in all indoor workplaces, daycares, schools, etc. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

At the post dept meeting trip to the pub this afternoon, my colleagues and I had a fascinating discussion about handwriting (one of us broke her dominant wrist recently...) The question: Is it easier for you to write normal script in your non-dominant hand, or mirror script in your dominant hand?

Interested in #Edinburgh women's history? A statue is being proposed to the memory of Elsie Inglis on the High St. This lacks artistic merit, excludes female artists, misrepresents Dr Inglis' legacy & disregards the context of the site. We need your help so pls read this 🧵 👇

No but seriously

Please help a foreigner out: what does a “smart” or “smart casual” dress code mean? #lifeInTheUK

More #buyastrangerabook magic! @fussycoder.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20! Any book! Not just what's on my website. ANY BOOK (as long as I can get it). So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch. UK only

As an American I fully support this suggestion.

Reminder Kids, Neurodiversity is not just ADHD. We have a ton of ND cousins under the umbrella as well.

Please help a foreigner out: what does a “smart” or “smart casual” dress code mean? #lifeInTheUK

USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

My wife was shocked when she learned that we don't get paid to write papers or paid royalties when those papers get published. (If you're an academic in the UK, register with @alcs.co.uk and you can get payment for certain uses of your publications.)

I’m performing in a play! A new writing work in progress about two estranged siblings locked in an escape room together. Script in hand performances tomorrow and Friday. Get your tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/play-on-a-...

Every conversation I have about AI at my institution makes me absolutely despair. Today a librarian - A LIBRARIAN - argued that AI is a great way to get up to speed on a new subject

I’m embarrassed that it has come to this but after 5 1/2 months of unemployment and underemployment I am struggling to pay my bills that will come due in April. If you are able and so inclined, I’d really appreciate any support you can send my way. ko-fi.com/rebekkap

A guy falls off a 40 story building. As he passes by the 20th floor, a friend sticks his head out the window and goes "good news, so far you're all right"

Just thinking about my home country for some reason

If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back. The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.

this is all to say, I see people say “When will university presidents see that they have to join together in opposition to these attacks on higher education?” The answer is never. They wobt ever. Any personal or collective decision making should be premised on that fact

Oh no! Is Tasty Noodle gone??? :( #edinburgh

"The UK is neither a high wage nor high welfare country: the consequence of weak wage growth and cuts in welfare spending have meant that by comparison to other countries the two main sources of living standards in the UK is limited." niesr.ac.uk/publications...

A few weeks ago I commented on how good the buses in Edinburgh were and now every single bus is late and the entire network is a hellscape and I’m so sorry

I sewed a pocket into some trousers today! Wonkey seams but the pocket works!

Vs gristly? 😆

Grizzly vs grisly

The old binary: masc. / fem. The new binary: marsh / fen “No, it doesn’t stand for ‘Boy Or Girl’—it’s just bog.”

3 situations where Republicans said “do X or else” and the entity gave in just to have the “or else” happen anyway: - Columbia with speech/ICE (defunded) - DC with the BLM mural (defunded) - Congressional Dems with the whole budget (defunded & they’re still shutting down the gov)

The worst Long Covid qualifies for an #ME/CFS diagnosis. Most people with ME/CFS can't work, and both the average and median quality of life of ME/CFS patients are lower than any other studied disease. See study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26147503/ This is no joke. You don't want this.

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers? Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

yeah this was my life in 2022-23 and it was really effective in shutting people down and gaining support. If you are even a little funny you can already run rings around any ai chud

I had dreams for this evening. Aspirations. Instead I’m just scrolling.

If your senator said no to fascism today, call them and tell them that you expect them to move for the removal of Schumer as minority leader immediately.

Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment. The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay

Sometimes I mention to people that I’m (still) unemployed (yep!) and they ask if I’ve registered for a temp agency. Like… I would love??? To do that???? But how? Where? Put me behind a desk for the love of GLOB