Máitiú
@maitiudebhailis.bsky.social
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I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now
Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Marine Le Pen inéligible : le Conseil d’Etat confirme la démission d’office de son mandat de conseillère départementale
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Marine Le Pen inéligible : le Conseil d’Etat confirme la démission d’office de son mandat de conseillère départementale
www.liberation.fr
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Marine Le Pen inéligible : le Conseil d’Etat confirme la démission d’office de son mandat de conseillère départementale
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Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
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We all know the difficulty the HE sector is in. But let’s work together to come up with solutions. The nuclear option damages our students & the reputation of our institutions. @ucflangs.bsky.social & @artsandhums.bsky.social
are supporting colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
are supporting colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We all know the difficulty the HE sector is in. But let’s work together to come up with solutions. The nuclear option damages our students & the reputation of our institutions. @ucflangs.bsky.social & @artsandhums.bsky.social
are supporting colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
are supporting colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference.'
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why
The repository is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
'The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference.'
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'Those arguing for more post-publication peer review acknowledge that the consequences of a greater volume of non-peer-reviewed papers appearing online—and therefore available immediately to large language models such as ChatGPT as well as to non-academic readers—would need to be managed.' Quite.
Post-publication peer review: remedy or risk for publishing?
Scholars split on merits of post hoc reviewing as answer to increasingly “unsustainable” system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Scholars split on merits of post hoc reviewing as answer to increasingly “unsustainable” system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Post-publication peer review: remedy or risk for publishing? - Research Professional News
Scholars split on merits of post hoc reviewing as answer to increasingly “unsustainable” system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
'Those arguing for more post-publication peer review acknowledge that the consequences of a greater volume of non-peer-reviewed papers appearing online—and therefore available immediately to large language models such as ChatGPT as well as to non-academic readers—would need to be managed.' Quite.
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Plant Biology and Agriculture courses too.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Plant Biology and Agriculture courses too.
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An Irishman went for a job interview on a building site. The foreman asked him "Do you know the difference between a joist and a girder?"
The Irishman replied, "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."
The Irishman replied, "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
An Irishman went for a job interview on a building site. The foreman asked him "Do you know the difference between a joist and a girder?"
The Irishman replied, "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."
The Irishman replied, "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."
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www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
If you are EU timezone and are interested in a book club that discusses ai in education, I hope you will join us for the Book Club in December. We will be looking at the themes in Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social link to sign up below!
If you are EU timezone and are interested in a book club that discusses ai in education, I hope you will join us for the Book Club in December. We will be looking at the themes in Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social link to sign up below!
Events — Civics of Technology
Learn more, RSVP, or submit a proposal for the 1st annual virtual conference to take place from 11am-3pm EST on both August 4th and 5th, 2022.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
If you are EU timezone and are interested in a book club that discusses ai in education, I hope you will join us for the Book Club in December. We will be looking at the themes in Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social link to sign up below!
If you are EU timezone and are interested in a book club that discusses ai in education, I hope you will join us for the Book Club in December. We will be looking at the themes in Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social link to sign up below!
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This meeting could have been a scream into the void
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This meeting could have been a scream into the void
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This is a very good article about the real trend of people who use chatGPT for literally everything, and outsource their whole life to it including dating, texts, work emails, hobbies etc etc, and tries to understand why....
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is a very good article about the real trend of people who use chatGPT for literally everything, and outsource their whole life to it including dating, texts, work emails, hobbies etc etc, and tries to understand why....
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
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Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...
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Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym
EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different ti...
www.alfiekohn.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
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Some significant %age of quantitative work is just rediscovering stuff that humanists (or indeed ordinary people) already know (b/c we read literature, understand history, do ethnography, etc.), but which doesn't count as "real" knowledge b/c not quantified or experimentally "proven." Sigh.
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Some significant %age of quantitative work is just rediscovering stuff that humanists (or indeed ordinary people) already know (b/c we read literature, understand history, do ethnography, etc.), but which doesn't count as "real" knowledge b/c not quantified or experimentally "proven." Sigh.
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'Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media1, finds a preprint posted on arXiv on 15 October.' 1/2
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
'Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media1, finds a preprint posted on arXiv on 15 October.' 1/2
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
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'the argument about our need for graduate skills...is fairly settled among those who know the data: but the individual benefits, given the stagnation more generally in entry salaries for young people and the rise of what we used to call the minimum wage, feel less secure.'
Yes, there is a graduate earnings premium (even if you account for prior qualifications)
But this is old data and needs updating
wonkhe.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
'the argument about our need for graduate skills...is fairly settled among those who know the data: but the individual benefits, given the stagnation more generally in entry salaries for young people and the rise of what we used to call the minimum wage, feel less secure.'
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Trump’s indefensible pardon of a crypto billionaire..by John Cassidy.
Trump relies on illiteracy, passivity and fear to protect his, and his family's blatant looting of both private and public realms from challenge and condemnation..
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Trump relies on illiteracy, passivity and fear to protect his, and his family's blatant looting of both private and public realms from challenge and condemnation..
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
The Lessons of an Indefensible Pardon for a Crypto Billionaire
Donald Trump’s grant of clemency to the founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, shows how the checks on Presidential power are failing.
www.newyorker.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trump’s indefensible pardon of a crypto billionaire..by John Cassidy.
Trump relies on illiteracy, passivity and fear to protect his, and his family's blatant looting of both private and public realms from challenge and condemnation..
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Trump relies on illiteracy, passivity and fear to protect his, and his family's blatant looting of both private and public realms from challenge and condemnation..
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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But lo! What is this? The wife of the Russian agent who bribed Nathan Gill visiting the Guardian offices during the same period?!?
Why, yes it is. Read all about it in this week’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Why, yes it is. Read all about it in this week’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
'Nigel Farage is Not My Friend...He's Just a Very Handsome Man'
The wife of a Russian spy gets in touch...
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
But lo! What is this? The wife of the Russian agent who bribed Nathan Gill visiting the Guardian offices during the same period?!?
Why, yes it is. Read all about it in this week’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Why, yes it is. Read all about it in this week’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache.
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache.
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
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I sometimes stop and remember that all of this is because we had one Black president, and then two women ran, and this mystical convergence opened the Hellmouth.
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I sometimes stop and remember that all of this is because we had one Black president, and then two women ran, and this mystical convergence opened the Hellmouth.