Kate Simpson

SBS STATEMENT ON FILIA CONFERENCE  - Southall Black Sisters At a time when Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has entered its second year, the FiLiA conference in Brighton highlighted deep schisms within a feminist movement committed to end violence against wo...

I stand in solidarity with @sbsisters.bsky.social. 'A feminism that refuses to name these forces [of racism, colonialism, religious supremacy and patriarchy], or only challenges them when politically convenient, is not intersectional; it is complicit.'

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'Applications for the 2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships exceeded 17,000 — an increase of nearly 65% compared with 2024....and the success rate...is expected to drop below 10%, down from nearly 17% last year.'

Also true of most other funders and a real problem. 2/2

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

'Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining — some to single percentage points — [with]a surge in applications....Data gathered by Nature show that researchers, especially those at the start of their academic journeys, are facing increasingly fierce competition'. 1/2

YouTube video by FlorisBooks Lari Don tells the story of How to Escape a Waterhorse, from Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

I love telling trad tales out loud! So @florisbooks.bsky.social created a video of me telling the first tale in our Celtic Folk And Fairy Tales collection. Here’s our 12 min 'How To Escape a Waterhorse' with magical artwork by @elisecillustration.com #storytelling
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A candid and transparent postmortem of two technical incidents we've had on Knowledge Commons recently, brightened up at the end with a summary of the good work we're doing in moving development forward.

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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers’ revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world’s first all-in-one, AI-powered ser

"Tasks that once took months of manual work — from curating datasets and checking compliance to creating metadata and publishable outputs — are now completed in minutes by the AI Data Steward"

Another case of commercial publishers looking to replace library labour with their junk AI.

Das Buch-Cover von »Troubling Archives« auf lachsfarbenem Hintergrund.

How to challenge colonial legacies: Namibian and South African artists use archives to develop alternative memory practices.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7760-7/

@snf-fns.ch 
#MemoryCulture #Colonialism #Namibia #SouthAfrica

#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.

🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/

🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement

As I've said before, no software should be released without asking "what's the worst thing that someone can do with this technology?" and it's totally believable that never occurred to anyone at OpenAI.

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3

Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh | Sirens, Mermaids and Divers Sirens, Mermaids and Divers: Exploring murdhúchann in Medieval Literature and Gaelic Dialects

Sirens, Mermaids & Divers
7 Oct @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free

Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh explores murdhúchann in medieval literature & Gaelic dialects
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How Ruby Went Off the Rails What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

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#SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 is coming this February! 🎉 We’re calling on everyone with a passion for Gaelic to get involved. Whether you’re fluent or just starting your journey, this is your chance to celebrate our culture and language. Start planning now! #Gàidhlig #CleachdiNoCailli #WorldGaelicWeek

Valeria Vitale welcoming the 2025 cohort of Digital Culture and Communication MA at Sheffield. Looking forward to a year exploring how digital technologies are transforming human experience. #DHI #DigitalHumanitiesInstitute #MA @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social #UoS @dhishef.bsky.social

Well, I guess I’m spending part of my day deleting my Academia account and migrating stuff to hcommons 😮‍💨

The TEF is nowhere near being sufficiently valid, reliable, respected or statistically robust to be used to manage HE provision in this manner.

And government also really needs to stop pretending that the TEF has anything to do with teaching excellence.

A river ‘died' overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that poisoned a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs o...

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"One IDF soldier even boasted online about how 'fun' it is to kill Palestinian children ... Yet another IDF soldier proudly claimed: 'I just went to Gaza, and there were two little girls playing football. So, what did I do? I took my weapon and shot them in the head.'"

reminder that there are entire professions of people working constantly on these issues, and also we need funding

"How can you do this to children?"

The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.

Who is this advertising for?

Poster of the 4th talk in the Gender and Tech Online Talk Series: Technocapitalism and Environmental Justice. IT features a dark green and orange abstract pattern, with the information about the event in white: Speakers: Paz Peña, Mozilla Foundation Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Moderated by Jess Reia September 29th, 11am EDT. This series is co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia. In the bottom of the poster we have two sponsor logos: UVA Digital Technology for Democracy Lab and UVA School of Data Science

Interested in environmental justice & how gender inequalities are embedded in technology infrastructure? Join us for the 4th Gender & Tech webinar, Sept. 29 11am EDT, with Paz Peña Ochoa & @tamigraph.bsky.social.
Free & open. Registration: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Co-org w/ @yasmincurzi.com

Employees take AI usage into their own hands Most workers are using tools not provided by their employers, and few see any type of internal oversight.

Employees take #AI usage into their own hands

"Most workers are using tools not provided by their employers, and few see any type of internal oversight."

I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but public records should never be hidden unless you agree to give up your identifying information.

This is restrictive to the scientific community and anyone else who likes patents.

Ursula von der Leyen calls for suspension of EU free trade with Israel Commission president cites illegal West Bank settlement plans, Gaza and attempts to ‘undermine two-state solution’

Finally. I hope Starmer and Carney listen and act!

@mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

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Gaza aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg reports second drone attack in 24 hours Global Sumud Flotilla says no passengers or crew harmed by alleged incendiary device dropped on boat in Tunisian port

For God’s sake. Israel is attacking a humanitarian aid ship. STOP ISRAEL’S MURDER OF CIVILIANS NOW!

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Overview of the ROTO Lecture Series in the winter semester 2025/2026. The talks will be: - "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" by Celso Neto (University of Exeter) - "Understanding plant holobionts through complexity science" by César Marín (Universidad Santo Tomás) - "What is Dialectical Biology?" by Chris Shambaugh (University of Oregon) - "Learning from Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems" by Charbel El-Hani (Federal University of Bahia) - "21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology" by Rebecca Sear (Brunel University London) - "The Organism and the System: Boundary Crossings in 20th Century Science" by Libby O’Neil (Mississippi State University)

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next month, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
We look forward to seeing you there 🤗
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio