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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 20h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 17h

This is Leo, my colleague for today. He doesn't send pointless emails, but he does sometimes snore during meetings. We give him special dispensation for that, as he's cute.

Small off-white fluffy dog sleeps on a blue and green checked blanket with a red owl cushion and brown/green spot cushion in the background, all on a beige sofa

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Michael Redmond @irishbeefcakes.bsky.social · 20h

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21h

#jobfairy - don' t sleep on this, Dublin City Uni seeking a medievalist (Irish and/or European history) but deadline only two weeks away! #skystorians

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 1d

These mood jewellery pronoun pins are probably the coolest things I've ever made but I need to sell about 180 more of them to break even.

Anyone want a magical colour-change pronoun pin? canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 12d

Q: What do you get if you cross a mood ring with a pronoun pin?

A: My latest design at canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

Please share!

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 21h

Oh I'm not worried about Badenoch. I wish I were! It's a nice distraction from our likely descent into fascism tbh

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 21h

Of course low achievement rates don't mean we shouldn't invest in apprenticeships, but it does highlight that using graduate outcomes as a stick with which to beat your chosen enemy is not a great basis for education policy.

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 21h

So Kemi Badenoch wants to cut humanities degrees to focus on apprenticeships. Media were recently celebrating a record high achievement rate for apprenticeships overall of 60%, a rate which would embarrass any Humanities degree.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 22h

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23h

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn't realised lots of trusts were no longer prescribing gluten-free food for coeliac kids.

My son is coeliac and his food is so much more expensive. We don't get on prescription because we can afford it but for a family in poverty that's a massive issue.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

NHS suggests coeliac children use food banks as doctors blast ‘cruel’ cuts

Clinicians warn of ‘shocking levels of ignorance’ over ‘cruel and risky’ decision to cut gluten-free prescriptions

www.independent.co.uk

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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure that there will be great focus on this attempt to claim that a Finance Director and then MD of a massive gas fire and cooker manufacturer was actually a CORGI registered fitter who would pop out at weekends for a few quid in cash to fit your fire.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 2d

Saumur is lovely - we went to the Loire last year and cycled up and down the cycle path for ten days, I was in heaven

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Same, little tree. Same.

A fenced-off sapling with a sign on it saying "I am stressed but I will be happier once Autumn comes".

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“The elevation, the climatic changes and accessibility [of the] paths have to be planned. When you [use] a program [like ChatGPT], which combines pictures and names to create a fantasy, then you can find yourself at an altitude of 4,000m without oxygen and [phone] signal."

The perils of letting AI plan your next trip

An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist.

www.bbc.com

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4d

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Freelance Work

Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

joanneedge.co.uk

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 5d

Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly this!!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 5d

If a university thinks it’s the ‘best’ it should take people with low or no prior attainment and prove it. Otherwise it’s just cherry-picking and claiming unearned credit.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 6d

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE

Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that struck me about this was the parent who got an LLM to talk to their kid because they felt it had infinite patience, which they lacked. But one of the benefits of children interacting with *humans* is learning that people run out of energy or patience, and have thoughts of their own.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 5d

I can tell you right now that the far right will still be protesting outside the Britannia Hotel in Leeds tonight. They don’t care who feels unsafe

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