Simon Perkins
@mediaschool.bsky.social
Media lecturer at Bournemouth University in the UK.
Academic twin account to personal account: @simonperkins.bsky.social
Academic twin account to personal account: @simonperkins.bsky.social
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At a time when the US is going to haemorrhage talent we are still obsessing over numbers. This govt is repeatedly displaying signs that it hasn't woken up to the new reality. We should be treating this moment as an opportunity to become the No1 destination for overseas students and scientists.
April 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
At a time when the US is going to haemorrhage talent we are still obsessing over numbers. This govt is repeatedly displaying signs that it hasn't woken up to the new reality. We should be treating this moment as an opportunity to become the No1 destination for overseas students and scientists.
Reposted by Simon Perkins
This to me is the saddest customer. As if universities weren’t in enough trouble, last year Albany purchased $200 million of fool’s gold… this is gonna be a painful story to revisit in ten years.
www.albany.edu/news-center/...
www.albany.edu/news-center/...
Albany AI: Transforming the Academic Landscape
With the goal of becoming the first university-based computer to reach a quintillion computations per second, Albany AI will empower university and industry researchers to harness massive data sets to...
www.albany.edu
April 2, 2024 at 1:56 PM
This to me is the saddest customer. As if universities weren’t in enough trouble, last year Albany purchased $200 million of fool’s gold… this is gonna be a painful story to revisit in ten years.
www.albany.edu/news-center/...
www.albany.edu/news-center/...
"'These cuts show once again ministers’ disdain for creative education. The creative industries deliver over £115bn in value to the UK and create jobs at three times the UK average." www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut
Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2024 at 8:04 AM
"'These cuts show once again ministers’ disdain for creative education. The creative industries deliver over £115bn in value to the UK and create jobs at three times the UK average." www.theguardian.com/education/20...
"The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November. ... [Mark Kaye] shared it on Facebook, where [he] has more than one million followers"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 5, 2024 at 9:39 AM
"The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November. ... [Mark Kaye] shared it on Facebook, where [he] has more than one million followers"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...