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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 8d

Literally nobody who wants to follow a "vocational" route is prevented from doing so in the UK today by the existence of universities. Entire networks of colleges exist to provide such routes. Many universities themselves have a wide range of "vocational" provision.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d

Might be wise to do a wee bit of reading up on the actual history of technology.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 8d

AI can be ‘primary driver of prosperity’, says Dsit minister.

Labour 2025: Kanishka Narayan calls achieving UK “transformation” through tech “the central political question”.

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AI can be ‘primary driver of prosperity’, says Dsit minister - Research Professional News

Labour 2025: Kanishka Narayan calls achieving UK “transformation” through tech “the central political question”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 8d

There is no arrogance quite like an MD treating your expertise as a hobby.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds

Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 15d

Also it’s not a great leap to criminalising women who now take Tylenol whilst pregnant (in a similar way to which women who have miscarriages can now be prosecuted) and also continuing the dehumanising of people with autism in a way that ends very badly.

Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 16d

Firstly Tylenol etc should sue him into oblivion.

But the thing that people should also remember when it comes to stuff like this & RFK Jr’s conspiracy bullshit: fascists want people to die. Of course they’re murderous to their enemies. But they also have no issue with their supporters dying.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16d

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · 15d

Utterly absurd that the US has gone from >125,000,000 prescriptions in a single year for opiates alone, to "maybe women shouldn't be allowed painkillers" in 18 months.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15d

Setting aside the bad science, the message here is that pregnant women should suffer--and risk harming their fetus with untreated fever--to reduce their chance of having a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Which makes clear his disdain for women *and* people with ASD.

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Trump makes unproven claims linking autism to Tylenol use by pregnant women

Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.

www.bbc.com

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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 19d

Think betting on GenAI is a brilliant PR move?
Take a gander at the lovely ratio on that post and think again

Delightful that they're getting roasted like this for supporting the assault on actual science & expertise by pushing GenAI-slop

Ratio of the post below: 3 likes... versus 36 replies and I wouldn't bet on the 26 quotes being complentary either. Savage stuff

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 23d

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · 27d

The team at the Centre of Paediatric Blast Injury Studies at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social do amazing work that's more urgently needed than ever, and it's great to see them recognised today

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Duke of Sussex visits Blast Injury Centre | Save the Children UK

From Gaza to Ukraine, Sudan to DRC, more explosive weapons are being dropped on spaces where children play and go to school than ever before, with catastrophic consequences. In Gaza, our teams are see...

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · Sep 1

Trying his best to smile for a picture on Ginger Cat Appreciation Day 🐈🐈

A rotund ginger cat, sitting in a green velvet chair, baring his fangs

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Aug 30

The reactions by historians to *that* Nature paper are because we are routinely consistently told by both laypeople and too many STEM colleagues that our methods are irrelevant, nonexistent or inferior, and our fields pointless.
Our institutions agree.
Miss me with defending STEM in this moment.

UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · Aug 29

Reactions by historians here indicate that barriers for interdiscplinary work are robust, even may reflect hostile attitudes. Although they seem more rooted in different styles of thinking and communicating, rather than ideological differences.

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · Aug 30

Based on one small 93 year old dataset, that was known to be iffy & unreliable in 1932, and done by someone with no training & no other sources.

But "it's science, not speculation" and in Nature, so automatically more reliable & prestigious than actual historians.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oh for...

The 'inter-' in interdisciplinary should be a hint to try and actually work *with* another discipline, instead of ignoring it -Historians exist and they can do useful things!
Starting with pointing that you shouldn't use ChatGPT unless you're into public humiliation

Olivier Ritz @olivier-ritz.bsky.social · Aug 29

« ChatGPT, please, turn this book written in 1932 into data. »

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 26

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Aug 26

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.

Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's not every day you see a Viking longboat cruising through central London

The Saga Farmann will be at St Kat's and open to visitors for the next couple of weeks

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19

Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congratulations!

Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just opened the @royalhistsoc.org newsletter & invite to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Sept seminar "How I Wrote This"

Now petitioning for all Friday meeting invites to come with a playlist, cocktail & frappé recipes

A gif showing two cartoon glasses toasting

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 5

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Appendix on an AI policy is actually quite bad. Having an AI deliver a summary before reading has major implications in terms of the experience of student learning. What we want students to do and how they do it is the question. The experience of reading is not the same as reading a summary.

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · Aug 4

DID SCURVY & CONSUMPTION MAKE BOY KILL CATS

Absurd reporting from the BBC. That "may" is doing so much work...

Given he *hasn't* been diagnosed with either, you could replace adhd & autism in that sentence with literally any other condition

If he had either, his lawyers would have used it

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · Jul 28

I simply do not understand why AI is being used to create massive door-high women with weird knees when a whole bunch of us out here already exist 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social · Jul 28

Struggling to navigate work's HR system to buy some new glasses

Turns out they'll chip in *£25* (1/3 cost of lenses), on the condition that glasses are "solely" for computer use. They may not be used for other work-related tasks such as "Reading" or "Looking at colleagues"

LOOKING AT COLLEAGUES

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jul 23

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/histori...

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