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04.03.2026 22:19 β
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Spanish PM SΓ‘nchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
04.03.2026 11:24 β
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Is it finally the year of Linux on the desktop?
04.03.2026 21:15 β
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The Reading Room at Wellcome Collection. A room with objects and artefacts in display cases, as well as bookshelves, desks and chairs. Image credit: The Reading Room, Benjamin Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.
ποΈ π Read this Open Letter! @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social & @coreenanne.bsky.social respond to the recent Wellcome report on the use of archives, manuscripts and material cultures in health research.
medhumsplatform.org/open-letter-...
04.03.2026 17:13 β
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Medieval-style drawing of a standing man (on left) holding a golden egg in his right hand, with a nesting goose on his right. No goose, no eggs is a principle bits of UK government are really struggling with. Please avoid the omelette option on AI and copyright!
The publications of these presses play vital roles in sustaining the research pipeline via e.g. learned societies (which in turn fund researchers, especially ECRs). There is a real possibility here that the preferred government option will slaughter the geese that are laying many golden eggs. 3/3
04.03.2026 20:02 β
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'It comes after the government said its preferred option for implementing changes to UK copyright law is an exception to be made for data mining which allows rights holders to reserve their rights.'
3% of respondents to govt consultation supported govt proposal; 88% did not. Listening anyone? 2/3
04.03.2026 20:02 β
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'The Publishers Association, whose members include academic publishers across the UK, released a report on 4 March making the case for the protection of content as demand for its use by AI companies grows.' 1/3
04.03.2026 20:02 β
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SHAPE Conference 2026
The British Academy's annual SHAPE conference will be held in London on 4 March 2026.
The Arts and Humanities Alliance is proud to sponsor the 2026 @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE conference. Our session is Myth busting for the public with @ritagardner.bsky.social @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @sebgordon1.bsky.social
Chair @emmacayley.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/shape-conf...
04.03.2026 06:28 β
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Weβre getting into the weeds of how we tell a better story about the value of HE and research in society with our brilliant plenary panel @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, British Academy President Susan J Smith and Professor Malcolm Press from Universities UK #SHAPEConference26
04.03.2026 16:15 β
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"As one of the four national academies, the British Academy is both a key stakeholder for the department but also a delivery partner playing an important role in the overall research and innovation landscape. I'm grateful to the Academy for your leadership and advocacy across the SHAPE disciplines."
Lord Vallance, Minister for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear, was welcomed by our President Susan J. Smith. His keynote began with strong support the Academy's role in research. #SHAPEConference26
04.03.2026 13:52 β
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Tumbling down that hill at pace....
04.03.2026 07:29 β
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No, it's more like hosepipes joining them.
04.03.2026 07:26 β
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No, Bucket 1 is biggest. But the contents in Bucket 1 are sometimes used in Buckets 2 or 3. It's bucket magic.
04.03.2026 07:21 β
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Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
'All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.'
All versions of Claude are 'the most resistant to committing fraud'.
Which LLM is your university encouraging students to use most? Asking for a friend.
04.03.2026 07:17 β
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YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation
UKRI update from Professor Sir Ian Chapman
And here is the UKRI video explaining buckets. 2/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnq...
04.03.2026 07:10 β
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Ian Chapman maps the changes to UKRIβs budget between 2026 and 2030
Changes to how UKRI will deliver its investments have prompted questions and debate. UKRIβs CEO Ian Chapman discusses the rationale and mapping the old world onto the new
'Today, in a video published on the UKRI website, and in this piece, I want to describe what this means for individual researchers and innovators and, in particular, the place for curiosity-driven research within that.' 1/2
04.03.2026 07:10 β
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Middle East crisis could halt internationalisation, experts warn
βInevitableβ that conflict will bring βseriousβ repercussions, as universities forced to reassess expansion plans amid increased insecurity
βI think universities will only rethink when the endeavour is not ludicrous for them; after all, we know that the higher education sector is in crisis, and the only reason to stop expanding to the Gulf or to halt their activities there would be profit.β (Mayssoun Sukarieh, KCL)
04.03.2026 07:06 β
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Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds
Nigel Farageβs recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in partyβs right flank, says Hope Not Hate
Hope Not Hate research finds: '54% of Reform members thought non-white British citizens born abroad should be forcibly removed or encouraged to leave, while one in five (22%) also supported it for non-white citizens whose parents were born in the UK.'
Rank racism.
04.03.2026 07:01 β
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US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the βissue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning βaway a case involving a computer scienti...
βThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the βissue of whether art generated by AI can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning βaway a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system.β
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
03.03.2026 21:26 β
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Universities pay copyright fees. Libraries pay copyright fees. Theaters pay to perform copyrighted work. Artists and authors pay licence fees to quote others in their own work, usually out of pocket.
03.03.2026 10:23 β
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βEnoch was rightβ really is the secret password to their clubβ¦.
03.03.2026 22:32 β
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Weβre delighted to feature our story discs project at the #MovedToCare exhibition!
Join us at the launch this Thursday evening to say hi and fill in a disc. Prompts range from "I migrated here" to "My grandparents migrated here" and more.
Hope to see familiar faces and make new friends! β¨
03.03.2026 22:21 β
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Rather a lot of founders fund these disciplines BA, Leverhulme etc but I think this is not the issue: who is minding the disciplines?
03.03.2026 19:31 β
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Are they really? Art History and Anthropology and Theatre Studies are disciplines. Is RC funding βbasedβ on them? In what sense?
03.03.2026 19:02 β
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Ah, the Singles Market...
03.03.2026 17:02 β
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