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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 2h

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis!

Martinis told our reporter that his wife had gotten the news in the middle of the night — in California time — but decided not to wake him up quite yet.
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#Nobel2025

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

www.nature.com

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 2h

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 40m

And you can spell "Britain".

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 3h

Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 10h

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 3h

NEW on Wonkhe: Conservatives have a poor quality higher education policy bit.ly/42vwqIZ

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2h

Ha! Quite.

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Sue Keogh @smkeogh.bsky.social · 2h

Bit much to pick on English degrees when they spelled Britain wrong on their leaflets

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3h

🤗 to see @timothyaschuler.bsky.social on the work of Reimagine the Canals (+ my friend Angelyn!), who, in revitalizing the Erie Canal, "hope [to] serve as a model for how public agencies might approach aging infrastructure at vast scales, marrying... basic maintenance with... public access"

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aj boston @aj-boston.bsky.social · 16h

Are the trusted AI-educator tools in the room with us now

Email screen shot.
Subject: Trusted AI-educator tools are here
Sender: Pearson Higher Ed

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 11h

A race to the bottom now. All three (!) parties committed to shrinking the university sector. Because nationalist racism hates people being educated and thinking. Disgusting.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 11h

Breaking: Tories would slash university places by 100k.

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in apprenticeship funding.

Tomorrow, Badenoch will unveil plans to limit student numbers across all subjects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 16h

So very excited to announce that as of today the number of Videographic Books in the world has doubled! Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, etc.!!!

Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film

An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays <br><i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/">Videographic Books</a> series</...

www.fulcrum.org

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17h

‘The 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 was the first book to be banned by the papacy, more than fifty years before the creation of the Index of Prohibited Books.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Pico della Mirandola: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory

Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 17h

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 17h

It's The Matrix week in my class, one big takeaway: only 2 of 18 had seen the film before, but everyone else knew it through memes & vague references to "living in the matrix". Memification of the film's central moments kinda trivialized them, they were watching through the lens of memes.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h

Classic infrastructure problem here: identity management definitely counts as BORING INFRASTRUCTURE. When it works, you don't notice it. eve.gd/2020/04/19/n...

Notes on Susan Leigh Star’s ‘The Ethnography of Infrastructure’

As part of the COPIM project, my work packages are conducting some background reading groups. This week we are reading Susan Leigh Star, ‘The Ethnography of Infrastructure’, American Behavioral Scient...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h

Getting this sorted greatly eases our maintenance burden on the identity stack, but also allows us to integrate with university systems. Key for our repository offering: Works for Institutions.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h

Exciting dev news at @kcommons.bsky.social - I just made the first successful login loop to our WordPress stack using CILogon. That means that, *soon*, you'll be able to login to Knowledge Commons using your institutional credentials. Independent scholars can use ORCID, Google, Microsoft, and more.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h

Postal goodies #3 is @leifw.bsky.social's Language Machines

The front cover of Leith Weatherby's Language Machines book with some wire frame spheres on the front.

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Marcin Miłkowski @milekpl.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Tired of Kindle annotations living in separate files?

Built Kindle PDF Annotator to embed your highlights & notes directly back into PDFs.

Finally share annotated PDFs with colleagues and integrate with Zotero again.

Open source: https://github.com/milekpl/kindle-pdf-annotator #python #kindle

The dialog box of the Kindle PDF Annotator

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 20h

These work SO well for me. But wow do they open you up to infections...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 20h

Sulfa not a biologic, but: there are lots of other biologics they could try you on. Jak inhibitors or anti-TNF for example. Surprised they tried one then stopped - they all work differently.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 22h

Excitement #2 in the post: my new Golden Bug vinyl record. A really great producer making nice tracks!

The abstract art cover of a Golden Bug record, in red white and blue.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 22h

to be blunt: I was upset at myself that I didn't use the phrase "enormous hound"

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