Ana María Sánchez-Arce (she/her)

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Technology is politics.

You can't embed Palantir into the army, the police and the health service without embedding its poisonous politics.

So there's no place for Palantir in our NHS.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Hard agree - completely brilliant collection.

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Google's AI Searches Love to Refer You Back to Google The company's generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, like Google Search and YouTube, over third-party publishers.

The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google.

The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google.

Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/google...

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During this week's exceptional branch meeting, members decisively passed the motion expressing No Confidence in the UEB and in Defence of the Academic Workforce. For additional details, visit ucuhallam.org/15xf

This is a well-meaning piece and not wholly wrong. But I'm sceptical that in these times the REF can be a real driver against precarity; it simply isn't financially significant enough, and its effects are generally long-term and spread out, a problem in a period when immediate solvency is everything

Sheffield Hallam University: VC announces unprecedented attack on staff terms and conditions and more job losses | UCU Sheffield Hallam University UCU Hallam Press Release – 10th March 2026

Today, the Vice Chancellor of SHU reveals a significant assault on employee terms and conditions along with further job cuts. SHU aims to achieve £26.6 million in savings for the next year, with £16 million being cut from staffing expenses. More at: ucuhallam.org/igp6

SHAC - Sheffield Hallam Against Cuts meeting next week. Defend your university from further staff cuts & changes to your uni experience.

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Beckett fellowship! 👇

2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Now that Misconduct in Public Office is actually a thing, might we at last see some justice in the form of prosecutions?

British family stranded in Middle East after Foreign Office errors Nusaybah Sattar and five relatives were kept off evacuation flight despite holding tickets and UK passports

“If we had English names, I don’t think there would have have been an issue” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏

Wait till you hear some UK unis have (Israeli) technology for student absence reporting that tracks students’ whereabouts through the app. I’d refuse to download it if I were them.

#HEsurveillance

The first copy of my monograph 'Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema' arrived and it's beautiful! I'm so proud. Thank you @uniwalespress.bsky.social

Established at our 48th Congress in 1986, World Writers’ Day honours the courage to write and the solidarity that protects it.

As writers face imprisonment, exile, censorship, and violence for speaking the truth, we stand with them and defend freedom of expression.

This is a good understanding of the situation. If the hype is to be believed (hmmm), then AI would need to show it can synthesise new knowledge, rather than just model what is. But because people believe it CAN do this already, the work of creating true new knowledge comes under threat/is devalued.

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This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

There, I’ve fixed it for you, @resprofnews.bsky.social (pls don’t quibble figures as it’s the sentiment I’m going for). Because post-92 and FE colleges also exist despite past gov’s animosity and current gov’s indifference.

This whole thread 👇

Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.

His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank

Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

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human intelligence — artists u

I think I’m going to start using this. It’s a mark, similar to copyright, designating your work as human-made. https://www.artistsu.org/human-intelligence

At the start of the year I took 4 days to concentrate deeply and solely on a new piece of writing. It was invigorating and exhausting: I slept peacefully. I am a pack-horse designed for this “academic labor”, and my life would be small and fretful without intentional and meaningful academic “flow”.

Adapt The Castle Of Otranto, you cowards

Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin's Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front Reform's Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the "inherent differences between groups" has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

Good to see journalists covering the links between University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Science and race science networks. It ought to be pretty shocking to see a university openly affiliate with pseudoscience peddlers such as Aporia