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when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake

Citation is power. Citation is epistemology. Citation is the creation of legitimacy and the gifting of authority.

Some things should not be given currency in our disciplines.

Again, don't try this at home.

Cardiff redevelopment of Howells site with 11-storey tower - BBC News New plans show a red-brick 11-storey tower could form part of Howells site revamp.

No thank you www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is so important

Funnily enough was thinking just that today, and so deleted it from my phone.

Great to see

Each one of those 98/99% of failed applications represents dozens or hundreds of hours of work for the actual applicant; a vast stack of emails about budgeting, cost-centres, reviews, approvals, HR, Finance Office, Research Support...

Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

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

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20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.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/...

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

Gosh those legs are pale

What if they want to live and work in Wales?

Don't think you'd notice a extra body among 75...

The Jeremy Bentham pub on University Street, with green walls, benches, and a drawing of Bentham on a sign by the door

Thought lost when it closed in 2017, the Jeremy Bentham pub on University Street has risen from the ashes

Remember, whenever you hear that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a deadly crash, what they mean is that the car involved wasn’t technically speeding. At least “not by much.” It presumes that the speed limit wasn’t too high to begin with.

When it comes to death from collisions, SPEED IS ALWAYS a factor.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Oh dear. Tiny violin.

Vote of no confidence in Swansea University vice chancellor over job cuts UCU members at Swansea University pass a vote of no confidence in its vice chancellor due to job cuts.

'The vote was triggered by the announcement of £30m-worth of cuts at the university this academic year, £25m of which will come from staff costs.'

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

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.

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Wowser

Shelving rocks on a sunny beach

Love my local beach. The light today... #tinyjoys

All that money thrown at Meta AI and they come up with a shitty Alexa... that doesn't have a clue.

The fail is bad enough... but the cognitive dissonance is worse

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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.

More work, not less

When I embarked on my PhD in 1990 my supervisor told me the job market was dire and not to expect to get a permanent job. He was right. Guess I'm still an ECR.

View of London from airplane

London looking good tonight