Warren Pearce

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Howard University AI Panel

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Good idea! Surely some opportunity for fieldwork...

C&E claimed that Hawkeye redistributed epistemological privilege, also happening with CricViz models but challenging players/coaches rather than umpires. But it's also interesting to consider how these models/data are being put to work in public

Agreed, although it’s wider than Wisden types and the wider internet nostalgia boom.

CricViz now have an “expected leave” model which is being used to criticise England’s batting, based on how many time similar balls are played or left in previous games.

Also some very funny replies

steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"

Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

A UCU placard that reads “too burnt out to think of a slogan” in front of a tower block and another placard reading “trade unionists for trans rights”

Good rally today with @sheffielducu.bsky.social and Sheffield Hallam

Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.

Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Sign the Petition SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

crazy

IG em_clarkson

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.

Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.

blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

A large stage with two large screens showing the words "I'm back by popular demand" in large red capital letters on a light blue background. Pusha T and Malice from Clipse are standing in front, with a large crowd in the foreground.

A large stage with two large screens showing a young black woman wearing a cap sleeved red and white top, with her right arm held out in front of her. Pusha T and Malice from Clipse are standing in front, with a large crowd in the foreground. Pusha T is holding a microphone to his mouth.

Monday night's elite-level Clipse gig in Manchester. Almost all the new album and a back cat of certified bangers.

That's it for today, come back tomorrow when our topic is 'famous geographers'.

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

Just putting this here as another IPXX example. A useful blueprint or epistemic envy? bsky.app/profile/adam...

Arial image of roundabout, a small l, grassy park area, and a roadside hotel. Credit: Shutterstock

Today I did something I should have done months ago. I went to an 'asylum seeker hotel protest' to speak to all involved. Protestors, live stream vlogger, police, counter-protestors. My main take away is that anyone wishing to understand this movement should do the same. Chat. Listen. Reflections🧵

New exhibition: Striking Women - South Asians Workers' struggles in the UK labour market Striking Women: South Asians Workers' struggles in the UK labour market, led by Professor Sundari Anitha, with Professor Ruth Pearson, is a fascinating new exhibition in this year’s Festival of Social...

Striking women!
In or passing through Sheffield before 4 Nov?

Get yourself to the _Winter Gardens_ to check out the wonderful comic and archives from Prof Anitha Sundari's work with Prof Ruth Pearson on the 1976 Grunwick Strike and 2005 Gate Gourmet dispute. sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making.

In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

Early train->Skegness (with some keen sunseekers ☀️ ) en route to York for the White Rose DTP Welcome Event

Reconnecting with our fantastic students, hearing their hopes & fears for the coming year and unveiling our Digital Tech, Communication & AI training programme wrdtp.ac.uk/training/tra... 🤓

Glad to hear it.

Being online has taught me (the hard way) that electronic media’s affordance of instant response is never useful, often exacerbating existing problems or creating entirely new ones.

"We focus on Israel during 2023, a period marked by intense political polarization...We find that exposure to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity, compared to smaller, less consistent associations with outgroup toxicity."

3 days in Milan in summer and I was like “where do I sign”

AI has a cargo cult problem Spending vast sums and inflating an investment bubble is no guarantee of unleashing technological magic

Gillian Tett: is AI a cargo cult? www.ft.com/content/f202...

Presentation slide defining platformed nostalgia as a social media platform branding strategy that commercialises historical social media nostalgia in an attempt to (re)gain legitimacy and social acceptance in a landscape marked by controversy, crisis, and distrust.

At #aoir2025 I’m presenting on what I term “platformed nostalgia”, which I explore via an analysis of Automattic-era Tumblr’s efforts to commercialise historical social media nostalgia in its marketing (particularly in response to the X-odus). I’m in the Memes panel at 9am tomorrow. Sneak peak 👀

Making Kin with the Machines Essay Competition Winner

jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-ar...

Trailer for Synthetic Sincerity which I wrote , directed by Marc Isaacs which will have its world Premiere in competition at IDFA in November

Great evening of knowledge, wordplay and truths from Chuck D at Leeds International Festival.

“They treating the masses like them asses” 🫡

#LIFI25

Twice as many full stops in the top post than the whole of his last book.

Entrance of Graz train station with Graz Hauptbahnhof written in capital letters on a light coloured stone building against clear blue sky

On way home from superb Cultural Climate Models meeting in Graz with @davidhiggins.bsky.social @caroschwegler.bsky.social et al. Looking forward to seeing in print the new approach to modelling from this truly interdisciplinary international collab

gewi.uni-graz.at/en/unsere-fo...