Stuart Grieve
@sgrieve.bsky.social
Geomorphologist, trade union member, tired.
This sums up so much of what is wrong with this government.
1) you don't need "AI" to do this (I'd wager that there are some consultants making money from this grift)
2) staff in schools are massively overworked, the way to improve attendance is to invest in more staff, not set arbitrary targets
1) you don't need "AI" to do this (I'd wager that there are some consultants making money from this grift)
2) staff in schools are massively overworked, the way to improve attendance is to invest in more staff, not set arbitrary targets
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
Every school in England is to be issued with an AI-generated target for minimum pupil attendance, the government has announced, as part of its continuing efforts to tackle absence in the country’s classrooms.
Headteachers will be given the targets this month in an effort to boost attendance rates, which remain stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This sums up so much of what is wrong with this government.
1) you don't need "AI" to do this (I'd wager that there are some consultants making money from this grift)
2) staff in schools are massively overworked, the way to improve attendance is to invest in more staff, not set arbitrary targets
1) you don't need "AI" to do this (I'd wager that there are some consultants making money from this grift)
2) staff in schools are massively overworked, the way to improve attendance is to invest in more staff, not set arbitrary targets
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March 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
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🚨Watch Dr Grace Brown explaining the ROSCO rip-off.
🤑Private rolling stock companies extracted at least £410 million in profits in 2023, and at least £360 million a year for the last decade.
The new Rail Bill means the ROSCO gravy train keeps rolling, extracting huge profits from passengers.
🤑Private rolling stock companies extracted at least £410 million in profits in 2023, and at least £360 million a year for the last decade.
The new Rail Bill means the ROSCO gravy train keeps rolling, extracting huge profits from passengers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🚨Watch Dr Grace Brown explaining the ROSCO rip-off.
🤑Private rolling stock companies extracted at least £410 million in profits in 2023, and at least £360 million a year for the last decade.
The new Rail Bill means the ROSCO gravy train keeps rolling, extracting huge profits from passengers.
🤑Private rolling stock companies extracted at least £410 million in profits in 2023, and at least £360 million a year for the last decade.
The new Rail Bill means the ROSCO gravy train keeps rolling, extracting huge profits from passengers.
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This. Always this.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This. Always this.
I really want to print this and put it on my office door
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I really want to print this and put it on my office door
People have been writing polite letters to management about academic working conditions since the 7th c BC.
Perhaps it's time for a more collective approach?
Perhaps it's time for a more collective approach?
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
People have been writing polite letters to management about academic working conditions since the 7th c BC.
Perhaps it's time for a more collective approach?
Perhaps it's time for a more collective approach?
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I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
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BSG Postgrad Form invites you to its November webinar initiative "Geomorph Talks: Methods, Models & More".
Join us on 28 Nov from 12 pm (UK Time) to learn about terrestrial laser scanners from Dr aflatley.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia). Register by 23 Nov. Link is provided below 👇
Join us on 28 Nov from 12 pm (UK Time) to learn about terrestrial laser scanners from Dr aflatley.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia). Register by 23 Nov. Link is provided below 👇
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
BSG Postgrad Form invites you to its November webinar initiative "Geomorph Talks: Methods, Models & More".
Join us on 28 Nov from 12 pm (UK Time) to learn about terrestrial laser scanners from Dr aflatley.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia). Register by 23 Nov. Link is provided below 👇
Join us on 28 Nov from 12 pm (UK Time) to learn about terrestrial laser scanners from Dr aflatley.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia). Register by 23 Nov. Link is provided below 👇
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Excited to share that the final chapter of my PhD has been published in Science Advances. We show that large post-earthquake debris flows in Wenchuan are more frequent than expected due to the large volumes of sediment stored in channels. 🏔️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #landslides
The hazard of large debris flows
Large debris flows entrain sediment from extreme events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to form an escalating hazard.
www.science.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Excited to share that the final chapter of my PhD has been published in Science Advances. We show that large post-earthquake debris flows in Wenchuan are more frequent than expected due to the large volumes of sediment stored in channels. 🏔️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #landslides
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The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
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East London is Anti-Fascist.
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
East London is Anti-Fascist.
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Whenever you see reports of the financial potential and/or inevitable transformative impact of AI, it's worth reminding yourself of the McKinsey report from just three years ago that predicted that the metaverse would generate $5,000,000,000,000 of value by 2030.
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Whenever you see reports of the financial potential and/or inevitable transformative impact of AI, it's worth reminding yourself of the McKinsey report from just three years ago that predicted that the metaverse would generate $5,000,000,000,000 of value by 2030.
Posting my UCU ballot reminded me of posting one back in 2022. It's nice to see the postbox has had a glow up.
#WeAreTheUniversity
#WeAreTheUniversity
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Posting my UCU ballot reminded me of posting one back in 2022. It's nice to see the postbox has had a glow up.
#WeAreTheUniversity
#WeAreTheUniversity
I'm glad we are basing the entire global economy around the machine that is wrong 45% of the time.
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I'm glad we are basing the entire global economy around the machine that is wrong 45% of the time.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Want to do a PhD thinking about headwater catchments in the Grampian Mountains?
Of course you do!
Info here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/top...
Of course you do!
Info here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/top...
Topographic analysis of headwater ephemeral channels in postglacial landscapes reveals landscape evolution and dynamics | TREES DLA
Catastrophic flooding and debris flow events in postglacial mountain environments illustrate how sediment mobilisation, transport and deposition can become the dominant drivers of fluvial hazards. The...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Want to do a PhD thinking about headwater catchments in the Grampian Mountains?
Of course you do!
Info here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/top...
Of course you do!
Info here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/top...
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📣 @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop PhD Training 2025: Expressions of Interest Open!
Join other new geomorphology PhDs from European HE institutions for training & networking at Windsor, UK (1–4 Dec 2025).
£175 for BSG members (incl. meals & stay).
👉 www.geomorphology.org.uk/windsor-work...
Join other new geomorphology PhDs from European HE institutions for training & networking at Windsor, UK (1–4 Dec 2025).
£175 for BSG members (incl. meals & stay).
👉 www.geomorphology.org.uk/windsor-work...
October 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
📣 @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop PhD Training 2025: Expressions of Interest Open!
Join other new geomorphology PhDs from European HE institutions for training & networking at Windsor, UK (1–4 Dec 2025).
£175 for BSG members (incl. meals & stay).
👉 www.geomorphology.org.uk/windsor-work...
Join other new geomorphology PhDs from European HE institutions for training & networking at Windsor, UK (1–4 Dec 2025).
£175 for BSG members (incl. meals & stay).
👉 www.geomorphology.org.uk/windsor-work...
Well folks, as many predicted, the government is not going to ride in on a white horse and save the sector.
Coincidentally, the national UCU ballot opens today. If you had hoped that someone else will save us, it's time to accept that we have to come together and save the sector via union action.
Coincidentally, the national UCU ballot opens today. If you had hoped that someone else will save us, it's time to accept that we have to come together and save the sector via union action.
Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper due today - as well as new 'V levels', it is expected to include plans for student number controls on courses deemed to be poor quality www.timeshighereducation.com/news/governm... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
Government to back student limits for ‘low-quality’ universities
Higher education institutions could be penalised if they offer courses deemed subpar as universities await Labour’s reform plans
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Well folks, as many predicted, the government is not going to ride in on a white horse and save the sector.
Coincidentally, the national UCU ballot opens today. If you had hoped that someone else will save us, it's time to accept that we have to come together and save the sector via union action.
Coincidentally, the national UCU ballot opens today. If you had hoped that someone else will save us, it's time to accept that we have to come together and save the sector via union action.
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guy who reports every teams meeting invite as a phishing attempt
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
guy who reports every teams meeting invite as a phishing attempt
Remember folks, that's Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society.
And based on recent actions of the Royal Society, I can only assume that their official position is that they endorse this behaviour.
And based on recent actions of the Royal Society, I can only assume that their official position is that they endorse this behaviour.
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel
Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counter terrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year.
The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel Tunnel on 28 July 2024, a court heard. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Remember folks, that's Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society.
And based on recent actions of the Royal Society, I can only assume that their official position is that they endorse this behaviour.
And based on recent actions of the Royal Society, I can only assume that their official position is that they endorse this behaviour.
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Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.
October 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.