It was a pleasure to review this wonderful collection for the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for drawing such an interesting group of scholars together! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712

This just isn’t true. Not only is refusing to teach a significant disruption, it also has a financial cost. When @newcastleucu.bsky.social took action this year, the university paid out £2.4m in compensation to students.

Some impressions from the first day of our Young Scholars’ »Time & Justice« Conference: After a long day with maaany interesting talks, we invited the participants on a harbor cruise with a very knowledgeable guide speaking about “Energy Politics” in Hamburg's harbor which was pretty awesome! 🤓🚢

And with a great keynote by @dschlosberg.bsky.social on »Climate Turbulence, Justice, and Democratic Experimentation« and inspiring comments by @kuebra.bsky.social, @ecojustice.bsky.social, @winterchristine.bsky.social & @chrhentschel.bsky.social we finish off day #2 of our annual conference 🕚 + ⚖️ 😌

A big thank you to everybody involved! The last of three thought provoking conference days starts with our panel on “Non-Human Temporalities of Justice” and presentations by Luca Scheunpflug and Domenica Landin. “Conflicting and Coordinating Multiple Temporalities” is up next! bit.ly/time_justice

What is the legacy of the Biden Administration’s “once in a lifetime” investment in environmental justice? Join us for a conversation with Professor Kyle Whyte as he shares insights from his work with the Biden Administration, Tribal Nations and #EJ organisations. www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...

This is really starting off well! Here are some impressions of the first day of our Young Scholars' Conference with talks by Michelle Bastian, Felix Fink, Pia Geisemann and Anna Fünfgeld. We are looking forward to all the upcoming presentations! bit.ly/time_justice ⏱️⏲️🕰️ @mhbastian.bsky.social

I do want to thank however at university of edinburgh wrote the guidance for promotion boards on how to assess an interdisciplinary people. Very sensible advice about some of these issues

So many Australian colleagues put through a year of worries and uncertainty. All because Nous Consultancy only thrives on a scarcity narrative? Bit if a reminder that those cuts can never be justified in pedagogical or academic term, whatever the spin.

#Tram #Granton-#Bioquarter 🙋 Spokes draft response [as of 6 Oct] --> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/10/tram... @edi.bike @thecockburn.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @cobaltmale.bsky.social @transform.scot @sw20.info

Last week on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson explores how UCL’s oversubscription crisis has left hundreds of international students in limbo - raising fresh questions about whether UK universities are operating within consumer law

Will the parasitic wasps eat native flat-headed wood boring beetles? If they do go after native buprestids, how will the wasps be “turned off?” “Nozzle heads” (economic entomologists) know a 1000 ways to kill a bug but not much about how to identify them, their ecology & biology, natural history

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

Friends and colleagues, I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

I’m honoured to be the recipient of the BBVA Foundation’s 7th Biophilia Award in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences www.biophilia-fbbva.es/en/noticias/... @seisydney.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @usyd-humanities.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social

'Graeme Atherton, head of the Ruskin Institute for Social Equity (Rise) at the University of West London, said the policy “is giving with one hand and taking with another” and will “exacerbate” the problems being faced by humanities and arts departments and disadvantaged students.'

#academicsky highedEd

It's not clear from this article whether the student needed to retake a class which would push back his graduation, or could not graduate at all. It would be most usual for a resit to be required particularly given the circumstances. This is important because it shows the..

So excited to read this! @thelrm.bsky.social

“The Riyadh Comedy Festival” should be a Comic Strips Presents… episode about a group of edgy comedians staying at the same luxury hotel for the festival, all trying to out ‘edge’ each other and terrified of appearing woke, while also panicking as members of their group start disappearing.

UPDATE Who Owns Scotland Sep 2025. I have now documented a total of 4800 landholdings covering 76.4% of rural Scotland. To find out who owns Scotland, please subscribe. Subscriptions start at £12 for personal use. The project is financed solely by subscription income. whoownsscotland.org.uk

we made a "get involved" page for @uio-oceh.bsky.social, for anyone who wants to collaborate or just come and hang out. www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...

Delighted the reviews are good. Congratulations @alexwinter.com, and to Mr. Reeves! deadline.com/2025/09/wait...

This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

I would suggest that if Morgan had spent that secret £750,000 on a camper van, it would’ve been massively less damaging to democracy itself and we might not now be on the precipice of fascism, because our political system is a sick and insulting joke and an idiotic conspiracy against the public

I cannot adequately explain how incredibly bad it looks, that the police *literally raided the First Minister’s house live on national television and put a crime scene tent over her front door*, while everyone knew this idiotic bullshit was going on and actively worked to ensure its success.

Needed some real keanu after seeing the other one on my timeline.

University of Edinburgh keeps getting absolutely abysmal results in this every staff survey.

Weekend reading about this easy to grow, wildlife attracting power flower www.wildway.info/p/succisa-pr...

Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead: #academicsky

Yes. So much of this would be clear academic misconduct or negligence if only people hadn't been led to believe investor money is a foolproof loophole for laws, norms, and accountability.

Sit down for breakfast but because I have Truth alerts on my phone--professional hazard on the fascism beat--I learn five minutes after the fact that Trump is sending troops to Portland with authorization for "full force." Not a drill, friends.

I'm a historian of conservatism and I teach the ones who made substantive, evidence-based points. It's not my fault that no one living has done that; it's theirs!

#Zaporizhzhia #nuclear crisis new phase. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant now dependent on emergency diesel generators for essential safety systems - last line of defense, used only in extreme circumstances. drive.google.com/file/d/1yLgD...

I don't believe the tech companies can actually make real inroads into education (or similarly medicine, etc) without people on the inside extending them (and telling others to extend them) the benefit of the doubt. /fin

Our UoE LLM has a six step agreement process as well as text under the search bar that states that results could be misleading, wrong, and completely made up.

Again with this messaging that your discomfort or disagreement with LLMs is actually fear. This reminds me of the message paddled in an abusive workplace I was in once. Everyone who saw the abuse and left was also seen by those who remained as fearful of hard work.

I get the sense that academics use it to have uninterrupted research time too. www.newsweek.com/americans-ar...

Just 2 weeks left to submit for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900 Deadline: October 10, 2025, 11:59 PM GMT <10K words, blinded, unpublished; prize is open to grad students & scholars w/in 5 years of PhD www.duchateletprize.org #HPS

'Analytic philosophers often suppose that a training in logic makes people better able to think in other domains – a plausible-sounding idea for which there nevertheless appears to be no evidence' Nice remark from @schuringa.bsky.social 'A social history of analytic philosophy'

At the average university, that's SEVERAL HUNDRED STUDENTS, every year. No wonder some swine keep insisting it's a legitimate perk of the job.

Meanwhile today, absolutely appalling figures on sexual harassment in UK Higher Education, including the nauseating finding that fully ONE PERCENT of all students have been in an "intimate relationship" with a staff member involved in their assessment, IN THE LAST YEAR ALONE.

Traffic lights in Copenhagen are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way. “It’s so important to have the freedom on a bike to just ride along at a good speed… You can feel the city wants you – and supports you – going on a bike.”

4) Generalised digital IDs have downsides and some upsides. Dematerialising the compulsory ID of most non-citizens in the UK had very little upside and made people vulnerable. That one would have been the policy to actually complain about

See also the one on our street where multiple houses have had cars running into front brick walls since I've lived here. Along where we walk our kid to school.

Versions of this could and should be at Craiglockhart, Juniper Green, Nethercurrie, Colinton, St Marks, Longstone or Oxgangs Primaries and at Firhill, WHEC or Currie secondaries.

This picture from the newspaper article looks like an 'artists impression' of what things could like that no-one ever believes, except it's real and it really does look like that.

Be right back, buying popcorn futures "the Board and executives may have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty, care and good faith by placing improper political or affiliate considerations above the best interests of the Company and its stockholders,” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA