Ben Harris-Roxas

Come out the Epstein files looking *better*, only to self-immolate. What a time to be alive.

I learn new things on this website every day.

War is never the answer. It seems it needs to be said. Again. Our hearts are bleeding and we are alarmed about developments

Housing, Aukus, welcoming bombings, The Voice to Parliament, inflation, education policy, the list goes on.

Might be easier to ask ways he has met, let alone exceeded, expectations.

Surely David Icke’s legacy as national spokesperson for the Green Party UK in the 1980s

I make all these mistakes too. I chose to call them stylistic differences!

Have you considered being born healthier and richer?

Near enough m8

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.

The Atlantic, so take it with a mountain of rock salt, but interesting to ponder:

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films

I’m looking forward to degrees in vertical microdrama.

Interesting points - I’d be interested in your expanding on it. Do you mean that I’m assuming AI should be part of care?

New preprint: We got 400 postgrad students to use AI in an assessment and critically reflect on it, rather than banning it. Here’s what happened.

Might be useful as you head into the new teaching year, especially the design principles.

Preprint, so feedback welcome. Written with Anthony Sunjaya, Rachael Ong, Kirsty Nash, and Katrina Blazek.

New preprint: We got 400 postgrad students to use AI in an assessment and critically reflect on it, rather than banning it. Here’s what happened.

Might be useful as you head into the new teaching year, especially the design principles.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

How far back in time can you understand English? A story where each paragraph travels back in time.

Unless you’ve studied middle English I doubt you (like me) will make it back further than 1200.

Hubbl extremely niche

A person in a suit is speaking with the caption: That's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? it’s the character Bernard Wooley from the TV show Yes Minister.

tl;dr: I have a digital twin, you have a digital avatar, he is a deepfake.

Article on “Can synthetic avatars replace lecturers?“

Mavis Beacon that code

I saw the headline and said “nope, not worrying about that”

Like most of your risible takes this one is based on a profound truth. Our eclectic fox-like racism has led to the two overlapping hedgehog-like ideas that now animate the rest of the racist world: boat-stopping is humanitarianism, and offshore detention is a disincentive. We really are the worst.

I bet they have.

Ben Harris-Roxas

The job-ready graduate scheme has been amongst the worst educational policies in recent history, and that’s a competitive and crowded policy field. It’s cratered enrolments in creative, cultural, and artistic fields at a time when... https://benhr.xyz/2026/02/09/the-jobready-graduate-scheme-has.html

Panel 1: Some social scientists (five stick figure portraits of scientists) Economist Archaeologist Geographer Psychologist Anthropologist Panel 2: Some antisocial scientists (five stick figures scuttling out of the panel) Introverted Astronomer Solitary Mathematician Reclusive Biologist Misanthropic Chemist Withdrawn Physicist

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Empirical evidence on the value of US EPA regulations, too bad it's now powerless

Empirical evidence on the value of US EPA regulations, too bad it's now powerless: https://benhr.xyz/2026/02/04/empirical-evidence-on-the-value.html

Vote 1 Neither

Just got my first seven-screen weekly update message from one of my kid’s P&F year contact. Buried amongst the pages of text was one thing I actually needed to know. I look forward to the barrage of confused WhatsApp messages.

(Wading through this garbage is the only legitimate use case for AI)

VicHealth Is a Health Promotion Exemplar: Evidence Demands Bolstering Investment (Not Eroding It) Click on the article title to read more.

“an outcry … calling on the Victorian Government to reverse its decision and save VicHealth but to even go further, and bolster the level of investment it currently receives”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Blob was so far ahead of its time while being totally of its time. What a legend.

It was a real lightbulb moment for me. Time management has nothing to do with it, as usual it’s those bloody feelings.

I was reading up a bit on procrastination (while procrastinating). There was a description of it as an avoidance response to anticipated cognitive-emotional overload. I think this is how I experience the entire writing process!

I wonder if that asymptote you experience is a bit the same?