Neil Kazimierz Sheridan

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

419/500 💡

Snakebites and snake bite fatalities in Kerala were once among the highest in India, with 123 deaths recorded in 2019 alone.

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In this week's #EcoIndia, we discuss how Kerala cut snakebite deaths while boosting conservation.

It was 0808 local time if that helps! I saved a clip because I know nobody will believe me!

Australia approves first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Do billionaires even understand the sci-fi they’re inspired by? | The Listening Post

Videos like this should be required watching for all students (and all politicians) as basic tech ethics and media literacy.

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"Misrepresentation in international media As the movement gained global attention, many young protesters expressed dismay at how international media outlets portrayed the events. Some reports, such as Reuters, reported that Nepal's Gen Z-led protests began over the government's social media ban. Many protesters rejected this characterization, emphasizing that their fight is primarily against corruption, nepotism, and the lack of accountability in political leadership."

What the (other) international media are getting wrong:
#NotMakingYouClick
#ButThere'sNoPayWallSoYouMightAsWell

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Katie Hopkins column in 2015 headline Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants

ANALYSIS Is it time for gunboats to help stop the people smugglers? With the PM's and Labour's poll numbers tanking as the latest official figures confirm the numbers of migrants and small boat crossings are increasing at a shocking rate, is it now time for a different approach? Jon Craig Chief political correspondent @joncraig

The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions

I still don’t forgive what she did to Tuvix! 😟

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

For examples look up:

Videos by @andrewsage.bsky.social and @ourchangingclimate.bsky.social

Podcasts like
Bright Green Futures and Demand Utopia

Anthologies by @susankayequinn.bsky.social and @brightflame.bsky.social

And more like
@solarpunkstories.bsky.social and @solarpunkseed.bsky.social

I'm so sick of this. If you don't understand it, just say that.

Solarpunk is barely ~10 years old. Meaning we can still decide what it is, and isn't.

The idea is meant to shift focus from what can go (more) wrong with the world, towards a focus on what can go right, and how to get there.

I wish those protesting outside refugee hotels could meet the people inside If they spent even a few hours in the company of people like Said or Hadnan, I know their opinions would change.

"I wish those protesting outside refugee hotels could meet the people inside"

'I think of Hadnan (37), a calm and focused university lecturer who came here from Afghanistan, and is married to a teacher ...'
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This is bad

Working in total darkness, Sitaram Raul captured fruit bats leaving their roost in the ruins of a historical monument 🦇🖤

From Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 competition

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i also believe succesfully following left wing goals (everyone has their basic needs met..) would erode the cynicism people have towards futures and allowing desire for them manifest more commonly

this is the reason for this opinion btw

If worst comes to worst, you can rent a server outside UK, and make your own VPN!

#sleeppeeps:

just walked into the kitchen to find a spider apparently eating a chunk of cat food one of my cats had dropped out of their bowl.
Not sure who was most surprised.

Do you want to see them?

(pics in next post)

Meme about EU mass surveillance

I'm generally for the European Union, but sometimes #EU make it really hard to be a supporter. Seems like #chatcontrol is up for debate again. This cannot be allowed to pass if we want to keep any resemblance of individual privacy. Contact your MEP:s, information available here: fightchatcontrol.eu

Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.

How Indigenous Communities Are Powering a Cleaner Future in the Amazon Indigenous-led clean energy projects are protecting the Amazon and transforming lives across Latin America.

My most recent piece on Global Citizen: How Indigenous Communities Are Powering a Cleaner Future in the Amazon.

Indigenous communities are harnessing clean energy to defend the Amazon and their way of life.
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Hot Milk was another awful one! It looked so good from the trailer too🫣

"É uma tragédia" que "caiu que nem uma bomba". Cientistas chocados com extinção da FCT sem aviso prévio Decisão anunciada esta tarde pelo Governo apanhou de surpresa a comunidade cientifica, que questiona o futuro da ciência em Portugal

"It's a tragedy" that "fell like a bomb"

Without warning, PM Montenegro announces closure of the Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT), shocking the science ed community. Science, in Portugal, may now be at the mercy of corporate objectives.

(The Heritage Foundation is probably behind this.)

Unfortunately they may not see this as a problem at all.

Their vision is to have AI so pervasive in everything that 'learning to drive the forklift' is the only thing you need to learn.

You do not need to learn any math, or geography, or anything else, just how to prompt.

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