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Carol
@beilinglaoshi.bsky.social
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Higher Education, GenAI in education, English for Academic Purposes, gardening/environment and personal stuff. Based in Wolverhampton, England. Same handle on Twitter and Mastodon
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theobserveruk.bsky.social
Letters from prison: the protesters locked up for trying to change the world

For months, activists have been writing from jail cells about their anger and fear that in Britain the right to peaceful protest and civil disobedience is being stolen away.

https://bit.ly/3X1lv6y
Letters from prison: the protesters locked up for trying to change the world | The Observer
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November 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Nobody at Edinburgh U really wants to go on strike again but the threat of mass jobs cuts means we're withdrawing our labour this week to try protecting our colleagues. If I see one more vaguely worded threat about "savings" via automation I may combust. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Myrtle Pizzey, a contemporary artist and printmaker from Somerset, UK #WomensArt
Print featuring with images looking down on a basket full of different shaped and sized gourds in yellows greens and orange colours
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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parismarx.com
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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biblioracle.bsky.social
Very open to advice on this issue. I'm not going to intervene with teachers on some student's behalf, but I would like to encourage these students to respectfully and productively self-advocate.
biblioracle.bsky.social John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 5d
Because of my book and all I've published online about teaching writing I'm now hearing from some students who say that teachers are "making" them use AI on their writing assignments but they don't want to. What are the ethics? Don't want to undermine teachers, but how do I support student choice?
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
beilinglaoshi.bsky.social
Wasn't expecting to find a Welsh poppy flowering amid the fallen leaves on a grey November day, but it is Remembrance Sunday. 'Lest we forget." @rspb.bsky.social
Solitary Welsh poppy (yellow) blooming among the fallen leaves in Carol's garden
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Moonrise' by Frances Seward, UK born contemporary abstract photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt
Photograph of moon rising over still green water with white gold reflections
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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beardedwalker.bsky.social
Sunrise south of Bamburgh b beach in Northumberland looking towards Seahouses

#landscapephotography
#sunrise
#UK
beach view of sunrise with deep orange sky and the sun just appearing on the horizon dog walk south of Bamburgh beach
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
beilinglaoshi.bsky.social
Well worth watching: Panorama - Trump and the Tech Titans - BBC iPlayer share.google/FvCWbma2PLfj...
Panorama - Trump and the Tech Titans
Silicon Valley’s original disruptors didn’t just change technology - they rewired politics. Panorama investigates the 'PayPal Mafia' and their influence on Donald Trump’s rise to the White House.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
We hear a lot about AI in education in the US on here, so can I just tell you about how it's working out in the schools sector in England? It's interesting! It's about data consultants, private education outfits and think tanks. Slow thread...
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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newsthump.com
NEWS! Boy who spent Halloween being rewarded for threatening behaviour now has 'taste for it'
Boy who spent Halloween being rewarded for threatening behaviour now has ‘taste for it’
A young boy from Egham is keen to go out again this evening to see how much money and candy he can get simply by threatening people.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
beilinglaoshi.bsky.social
This is a cool tool for searching the English Indices of Deprivation, but it's depressing to see how deprived my postcode is and how much it has deteriorated since 2019 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
How deprived is your area? Look up your postcode as new data for England released
New data ranks every area of England against a set of metrics for deprivation. Find out where yours figures in the statistics
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
beilinglaoshi.bsky.social
Blown away by Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles on BBC. Absolutely beautiful! share.google/cHOyia6ybw0w...
BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles
Hamza Yassin reveals amazing wildlife hidden around the UK.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)
Photo of women in witch costumes,black cloaks and pointed hats on paddle boards
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird book in the spotlight.
‘The Princess and the Pea’ 1967

Artist: Eric Winter
The Princess lies uncomfortably atop a huge pile of colourful mattresses as the Queen observes her reaction
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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aarontay.bsky.social
ResearchRabbit big updates www.youtube.com/watch?v=St4C... - first impression much better interface , a lot of the new features are similar to LitMaps (there is a partnership). Sadly some features are now under paywall (advanced search) unlike researchrabbit in the past. (1)
Welcome to the new ResearchRabbit
YouTube video by ResearchRabbit
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October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
beilinglaoshi.bsky.social
Honestly, what is the point of men with leaf blowers. They pollute the environment with noise and fumes. They spend hours coaxing leaves into piles which the wind then blows all over the streets again. I've never seen a woman with a leaf blower - maybe we have more sense!
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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drrachelclarke.com
Heartbroken to read today’s National Audit Office report describing the postcode lottery of care faced by palliative care patients.

Two thirds of hospices are in debt.

Hospices are being forced to cut their staff & beds.

300 beds closed in 2024 alone. 🧵

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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jimscottphoto.bsky.social
Holy Island, Northumberland.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Amazon is laying off 30,000 workers, after CEO Andrew Jassy laid the groundwork by talking up the productivity gains from AI over the summer, saying they'd need fewer employees.

Amazon's own workers, meanwhile, say that's BS. AI hasn't been "transformational"—AMZ just needs the $$ for data centers.
Amazon to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs, reports say | CNN Business
Amazon is laying off as many as 30,000 corporate employees beginning tomorrow, reports say.
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
beilinglaoshi.bsky.social
‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?
In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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olivia.science
Third, the peculiar idea that somehow we don't need to read, write, or perform literature reviews anymore; popping up like a satanic mushroom in almost all so-called OK uses of LLMs.

Companies writing our papers via their chatbots is not scientific at all. See section 5: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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table 1 extract from Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 5 Ghostwriter in the Machine A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that essentially function as lossy2 content-addressable memory: when input is given, the output generated by the model is text that stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics, In addition, who is held accountable if nobody with intent authored the text? Because while the original data fed into the system is certainly written with goals, messages, and audiences in mind jumbling this into ad-libbed word salad removes authorial intent (Bender et al., 2021). So do the companies who own the chatbot own the text or do the original authors? These questions denote legal battles, which are being currently fought in the public eye and which affect all of us in all roles, not just as academics (Creamer, 2025; Knibbs, 2024; Reuters, 2025). Either way, even if the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents, but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes (ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company who owns the bot (see Table 2). Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!
October 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM