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Penny Fielding

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Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hello blueskiers--another emigree here from the foaming hellhole that Twitter became. Hoping to find a happier forum for random chats about books, music, theatre and to share cocktail recipes.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 3d

It’s oddly frozen in a restored version of its historical self. Breathtakingly beautiful but without the fractured temporal story of eg York Minster.

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 3d

Notre Dame has spruced up pretty well

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 21d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice

The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central.
Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality

Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window.

Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform.

Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24d

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.

We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 25d

I'm surprised the camero didn't explode with all the brain power in that photo! Congrats, Cleo--a wonderful result.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 27d

Luckily the service has been so bad lately that dozens of lives have been spared.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James for this wonderful volume and for inviting me to write about spies.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · Sep 4

The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time

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ALT: a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 22

At Port of Leith Distillery with the bro.

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the National Gallery is terrific if your in Edinburgh before November

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 16

Back from Orfeo ed Eurydice at the Festival. A superb updating of 18th c music and dance. And despite all the war on such things, it sold out a 3,000 seat theatre.

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 13

Apparently in the 1930s academics could pay for their summer holidays by writing reviews and articles, or at least a book on English lyric poetry.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 10

The Great God Pan, although it’s kind of terrible. The White People is even worse but would go well with Rosetti.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 10

Acquired a copy of Upton Sinclair’s spy novel World’s End and it had this inscription. “Head high and don’t give up hope for a better world”. But who was Karl and what was he doing in Glasgow in 1943?

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 9

Long lunch after a Queens Hall concert. @jennyrichards.bsky.social

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 2

Whiskey sours anyone?

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ohon!

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 27

We only knew it as sheep counting, but I don't think it was actually used much by then.

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 27

We were taught yan tyan tethera at my primary school in Cumbria

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 24

Had a preview of the library's acquisition of this fabulous collection of Walter Scott character portraits. The artist much preferred illustrating feisty heroines, and although he does feel he has to include the most famous hero, Ivanhoe is a complete fop.

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 21

me and my book project

Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 18

You are all invited for pommes boulangère ! And there will be dots of butter to assist with the browning. And stock that I made myself.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 18

Look at these pommes boulangère that I made.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Jul 18

This thread nails everything that has gone wrong with universities.

Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · Jul 18

Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press:
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc

But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.

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