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Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas

How are we in a situation where we’re banning social media for under 16s with one hand, and pushing this kind of technology on them with the other?

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People don't go to the gym because those freeweights can only be lifted by human arms.
Asking AI to do your thinking for you will make you stupid.

The Tune ship in its steel rig, suspended from a rail, about to enter the new building of the Museum of the Viking Age. Photo: Museum of the Viking Age, University of Oslo

Interior shot of the steel rig containing the Tune ship Photo: Museum of the Viking Age, University of Oslo

The Tune ship in its steel rig, suspended from a rail, slowly making its way towards the new museum building. Photo: Museum of the Viking Age, University of Oslo

Following the earlier Oseberg and Gokstad ship relocations, the Tune ship, snug in its steel rig, has started its journey into the new Museum of the Viking Age (@uio.no) today. Over the course of three days, it will travel a total of 130 metres at a top speed of c. 24 cm per minute.

Oh wow thanks, I had missed the new(?) interpretation of the ogham! Should one just cite the Ogham 3D website or is there something else I have missed?

Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face.
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There's loads of (non invasive) archaeological investigation needed in Clonard, Co. Meath. If any archaeologist, esp. a student/ECR, is interested, please come talk to me about my @researchireland.ie history of medieval Clonard project & maybe apply for the grant below! @aidanosullivan.bsky.social?

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

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Looking forward to reading the article!

Vacancies - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Available Oslo PhD positions – heritage conservation, archaeological & paleoenvironmental geochemistry, & on the POLYCHROME project (concerning historical sources on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries) #jobfairy
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Advertisement sign outside a hospital emergency room in the UK. KNOW YOUR PARASITES Ticks: External parasites Remove with tweezers Worms: Internal parasites Remove with medication Billionaires: Economic parasites Remove with wealth tax *Immediate intervention is crucial for your health and the health of our communities*

Know Your Parasites

A lovely job opportunity for an ECR, a temporary lecturing position but it has built in research time too. Come work with us in Maynooth for a year! #medievalsky You can email/message me if you've any questions & I can point you in the right direction.

Seeing how shite the elites are at writing emails you start to see why they think gen ai is magic and the bees knees

University is where you go to learn from researchers. That’s what being a student at a university is

Might we tactfully point out that to obsess negatively with trans people when the richest and most powerful men in the world are trying to reverse centuries of humane progress and equality to acquire impunity for rape and murder shows a weird sense of priorities?

Looking forward to this conference on all things Celtic in Helsinki. See CfP - deadline end of February

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

As ever, incredibly inspiring words from Rachel 👏🥹❤️

Great article on "Haraldr Maddaðarson and Scoto-Orcadian Politics before 1222" combining source analysis with the wider context

Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky

The Burning of Bishop Adam: perspectives of a murder on the Norse-Scottish border | The Innes Review In 1222, Adam, bishop of Caithness, was murdered by a group of Caithness landholders. Although it appears in a fourteenth century manuscript, the Old Norse text Brenna Adams Byskups (The Burning of Bi...

Thanks to you too @tcfairfax.bsky.social as well of course for the initial idea and laying the groundwork with your Innes Review article on Bishop Adam www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Thank you, appreciate it!

Norske historiedager 2026 - Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie Velkommen til Oslo! Tema for konferansen er Kritiske stemmer | Critical Voices.

Det er fortsatt litt tid for å sende inn fremlegg til Norske historiedager i mai i Oslo.
Fristen er 25. januar 2026.
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Norwegian Historians Convention 2026 - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Still a little time left to submit an abstract for the Norwegian Historians Convention to be held in May in Oslo
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Deadline 25th (NB old date is on this webpage - the extension/correct date is in the Norwegian version)

Such a shock. He was fundamentally decent and particularly considerate towards students and early career researchers

In memoriam: Prof Stephen Baxter (1969-2026) It is with deep sadness that the Master and Fellows of St Peter’s College share news of the death of Professor Stephen Baxter.

Terrible news of the death of Stephen Baxter, superb historian and kind colleague. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

Great to see medieval Ireland as an area of interest here

This is quite a post

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the entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday