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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 16d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 18d

Nature effortlessly promotes diversity & change. Oh, that mankind could be so clever....

#nature #community #photography #onelove #acceptance

Hydrangea leaves in different stages of autumnal change. Freckled with a welcome rain these colourful leaves show natures acceptance of individual change.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 24

Custard creams, bourbons and jammy dodgers. With fruit shortcake as an honourable 1st reserve

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 22

In London tonight? Like history (and beer / pub snacks)? I'll be speaking tonight on #medieval #queenship at 'Curious Histories', alongside papers on the River Volga in Russian history and the early years of the 999 service on UK policing. A few tickets left www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curious-hi...

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 19

Any skeeters with advice on where else I might freely share my work with the community, keen to hear.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 19

Not wanting a commercial organisation to have rights to my name, work and even likeness, worldwide, irrevocable, for whatever purpose, I'm afraid I've deleted my account without accepting their T&Cs

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 17

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Flags, is it?" Typically heartwarming South Wallian response on a #Caerphilly railway bridge to recent small pockets of nonsense www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Classic Welsh response to flags appears on bridge and people are loving it

"I've been feeling so downhearted but this is glorious"

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 7

Knew it was coming but, still, 10 seconds past 3, with my phone, 2x work phones, and then the blessed Alexa joining in with the alert, stomach almost jumped up my throat!

a cat walking through a doorway next to a fan and a laundry basket

Alt: A cat walking cautiously through a doorway next to a tower fan and laundry, then, leaping on all 4 feet into the air

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 5

And I can't quite see how it'll unpick - universities staying but FE colleges going? What about sixth form colleges who teach T levels and Level 2 apprenticeships along A levels? Apprenticeships policy and delivery going for sure.
Suspect it won't be much clearer until after the weekend.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very sad to read a topline statement that "the skills brief" will be leaving Department for Education and moving to DWP. Won't help with the equalisation of technical and academic qualifications one bit.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Sep 2

Lovely and 100% relatable post

Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · Sep 2

Introverts find joy in the simplest moments. Curling up with a good book, savoring a cup of tea, enjoying the quiet, daydreaming by the window, and peaceful walks. These little things bring peace and fulfillment. It's the beauty in the ordinary that truly matters.

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · Sep 2

#OTD 1752, Britain went to bed like usual. But when they awoke, it was ‘eleven days later’ on Thursday 14 September. Find out why...👇 @georgianlords.bsky.social

‘Time, that great discoverer of truth and falsehood’: the calendar change of 1752 and the dating of Easter - The History of Parliament

As Easter weekend - late this year - approaches, Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the House of Lords 1660-1832 section, discusses the timing of

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

Do the right thing and share your work with colleagues and students just for Academia to stitch you up. Hoping this is a water-tight account setting and not just more smoke-and-mirrors.

Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'd already had two "podcasts" created from MY work before a kind skeet in my feed pointed me to these instructions. Absolute liberty, this whole thing!

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Whoa! Thanks for the tip. For other folks wanting to do this, here are screenshots of what I just did. Start by going to you "Account Settings." Then follow the screenshots below. And yes, when given the option "Are you sure you want to proceed?," you better believe I hit that sucker!

disabling AI on Academia.edu: #1 - go to 'account settings' (flagged with red arrow).

Screenshot of instructions to disable AI on Academia.edu, #2: choose "AI Settings". Note that this was already "enabled" even though I had never opted for it. Note, too, this claim "Your uploaded works are eligible for Al-generated content." As if they're doing us a great favor!

Screenshot showing how to disable AI on Academia.edu - #3 - 'warning' that disabling AI will delete all AI products.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

So, my memories of 10 days of "observing" the country like an experiment, wondering if we'd ever before or would again get such an atmosphere of collective momentum

Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

On the train there on Saturday morning, guard announced a minute's silence over the tannoy (presume when coffin leaving Abbey??) and the then-boyfriend and I didn't dare look at each other or even glance around the carriage for fear of being lynched if we weren't looking suitably distraught.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

My funeral day experience was very different. A dear male friend's wedding, long booked, with the bride getting increasingly narked at relatives asking if she was going to cancel. I think she said something like "if anyone turns up in black, I'll not be responsible for my actions"

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'd have counted myself as a never-gave-her-a-thought person beforehand but, by Thursday, was getting sucked in to the national zeitgeist - to the extent I sent a message to Nicky Campbell's afternoon show, saying much the same as that but chucking my own 'have a good cry' request into the mix!

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

Possibly the lack of sleep over the next week, and being in my own deadline-driven bubble, but every day and the 'sad music' playlist plus listeners' emails or messages telling their Diana stories, hour after after, DJ after DJ on Radio 1, became increasingly surreal!

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'd booked a train home to Bristol for 2 days, left Reading about 8.30, and Mum picked me up from the station at 10.30 having not seen or heard news before setting off. Very odd conversation back to the house before we switched the TV on and watched, like coverage was a movie, until lunchtime.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

So I listened, whilst banging out close analysis of my transcripts of 15thC royal household account expenditure, from broken collar bone and 'talking to rescuers' through to the eventual announcement of her death as day broke and the rest of the house slept.

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

Worked from 5am to 1am, sleeping a medieval-style First Sleep (with no second!) from late July through to the morning I had to submit in order to give examiners the rockbottom minimum days to read before viva. So I was already working with through-the-night radio when news first started trickling

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 31

It was a very strange time. I'd already been awarded a postdoc grant for study in Paris starting 1 January 1998, so had booked in my PhD viva in mid-November with, now, a hard deadline to finish writing up and was pretty well only halfway through. More than one chapter not even planned out!

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Aug 31

Diana and Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend of just six weeks, as well as their driver, Henri Paul, died in a car crash on this day in 1997.

I was working as a teacher at a summer school in Kent, and the burly ex cop who told me the news was crying so hard that I couldn't understand a word he was saying.

Daily Mirror 31st August 1997

Dodi Dead
DIANA CRITICAL

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Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social · Aug 18

A lovely few hours of sea air, stroll on the prom and a lush chippy lunch with Mum and Dad