Laertes is one of those characters I never really appreciated until we started working on ATWH.

Such a joy to work with Emer and Justine and all our contributors on this special cluster of essays for @shaxbull.bsky.social !!

Big up to @louisegeddes.bsky.social for putting up with me long enough to make this happen 😅🩷🩷

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

So great! Did you know Bluesky has a setting that will prompt you to add alt text to images before you post? I find it really helpful to have the reminder

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.

To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

What this will mean in practice is that big guns get to control the narrative and the flow of funding, as ever. Status quo except with even less to go around, fewer scraps for the rest of the sector to squabble over

I am always pro-partnership, pro-collaboration. But as with the OfS plans for "regional" AP targets, I can't see how this works in a marketised sector.

If we're all still competing for student numbers, REF scores, TEF awards, etc., the incentives to work together simply are not there

This has been a frustration for so long. I don't need a million pounds for one giant project. I need £5-10k at regular intervals for archive trips, workshops, and engagement/outreach.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Taylor Swift cites classic literature like someone who buys job lots of books purely for the aesthetic.

I said what I said.

I can't stop thinking about an article I read years and years ago -- I think when Alexa first came on the market from Amazon -- about how the various "smart" technologies were feminine-coded in such a way as to reinforce feminine subservience, desirability and passivity.

"Sharing a toilet" is such misleading language. Are you squatting in the same stall together?

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

"The GenAI sector’s foremost feat of marketing, then, has been the term *intelligence* itself . . . A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

i've seen so many articles on this today, and not a single one so far has pointed out that where "not taking any benefits payments" is concerned, you have no access to public funds on a visa. this has been the case for years. but nobody, from the BBC down, will challenge this or anything else

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I find it weird that people are painting Mamdani as an extreme outsider.

The US govt. has taken ownership positions in major US companies like Intel (and soon TikTok).

Mamdani wants to open a city-run grocery store to sell cheap groceries.

And you're telling me the second is a radical socialist.

"London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we're delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here," [a spokesperson] said.

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

All those centuries of prestige, and then this 🤦🏻‍♀️

Cat's out of the bag! I'm thrilled to be directing Richard II for Wivenhoe Open Air Shakespeare next year

#earlymodern

wivenhoeshakespeare.org?p=1338

Honestly, it doesn't hurt me.

But rhetoric like this, and what it incites, will hurt so many - and that's where I'm angry and upset

Really, and truly: may the world be better to them than they are to it.

I swear my oath of allegiance to become a British citizen very soon, and I'll be fundraising for a local refugee service to mark the occasion - watch this space x

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