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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 1h

Not sure whether someone close to them should call Prevent or their local social services.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 13h

Some of these people need prison, some need sectioning.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

These people are truly appalling. I am bewildered by them.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

Ask him if his double-seat, double-seat routine would still work today. I don't imagine he's been on a train since he did it mind you.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 16h

They could not give a flying fuck for things belonging to people could they?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

The poison they put into HE is being added to by the current government, whose leaders are cut from the same cloth, and are actively trying to kill parts of HE. If the Tories ever got back into power they'd find about 5 universities left, teaching only medicine, law and business.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

For many places, if they don't change the rules sufficiently, it will be like the armies of the dead in Lord of the Rings for many places. Submissions full of long departed souls. How on earth PCE can work like that, who knows.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

It does not give a flying fuck about copyright. It's all just training data that it will take without consent, attribution or remuneration.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

This is why Comms scholars are so unfairly neglected. We were doing conference sessions involving beer tasting in IAMCR a decade ago.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 5d

The fishing industry is tiny though isn't it. The whole workforce would fit into a modest football stadium. Funny how it became so important in Brexit whilst some many times greater were ignored then, and still ignored now.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 5d

No prior attainment and claiming unearned credit? You sound like you're describing the deal between Oxford and OpenAI.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 7d

Apart from it being an issue at the absolute bottom of the public's concerns, I just don't understand why the government is just kicking HE to bits.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

They're just not going to do anything about the collapse in HE and claim it as strategy.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

Unfortunately, most of the universities are about to close.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

I'm reading this a different way to many it seems. To me that are saying that they are welcoming the ongoing collapse of HE, explicitly promising to do nothing about that, whilst pretending that they will do something about FE and apprenticeships to make up the difference.

Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

NEW on Wonkhe: Keir Starmer joins the ranks of those to abandon Tony Blair's target of having 50 per cent of young people enter higher education. David Kernohan has the receipts buff.ly/WwrhDw3

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 8d

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of September!

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

A drunken embarrassment.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

#MS2001

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9d

New post just out:

"The story behind the polls"

Today we have guest post from the brilliant @dylandifford.bsky.social breaking down which voters have moved where since the election and why.

With loads of new data analysis and lovely charts.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

The story behind the polls

Who's changed their mind since the 2024 election and why?

open.substack.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 9d

New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 10d

AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities

Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients.

None of this should be surprising, considering the terribly flawed data that these tools are based upon. Garbage in, garbage out.

AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities

Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients.

arstechnica.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long…

paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

Digital ID cards – some of the issues…

Since Keir Starmer announced the forthcoming introduction of mandatory ‘Digital ID’, the so-called ‘Brit Card’, there has been a lot of discussion and debate – some of…

paulbernal.wordpress.com

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 9d

I'm too worried about them falling when someone tried to pick them up to notice.

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