Katherine Firth

I feel like the world is only just ready to understand its full glory! ✨✨

25 years ago, @melbournedean.bsky.social and I (and others!) ran a thing called Laser Vespers in The Selwyn College Cambridge chapel (it was my job to run the strobe lights from the organ loft!)
Anyway, turns out we are still cool (ish!)

@selwyn1882.bsky.social

Just did my first look at applications for a postdoc position I advertised. I am BEGGING you- if you're applying for a postdoc, please actually say what you're interested in that my group does! Sooooo many submit an app that never says how they want to connect to what we do! 🔭🧪

Sputnik Deja Vu I gave this presentation on Monday afternoon at Yale University. The talk was co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, DOWN Magazine, the Education Studies Program, and The Politic. A huge...

I think one of the more important, lasting lessons that I've learned from Audrey Watters is to know your (ed)tech history.

In this recent talk, she asks, "[W]hat might it mean that our depictions of the future of education now are the same as depictions of the future from the 1950s?"

Person sitting on a plane, writing something on a laptop. They are wearing headphones and tucked under the headphones is a handwritten sign on bright orange paper that says: "Please do not talk to me. I have no self control and will talk to you the whole flight and I really have to finish this paper. Thank you.

Mentioned this pic to our writing retreat folks, yesterday. A good option for trying to write in shared office spaces, too! 😅(alternatively, put a post-it on your own forehead if you are - like me - your own biggest distraction) #AcWriMo #highered #academicsky #academicchatter #PhDchat

The wizard reads a book about fermentation.

AND it was a beautiful moment!! They are so lucky to have your energy for tomorrow! ✨📚

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

I have one of the jumpers she collabed with WAH WAH on and it’s one of my favourite pieces of wearable art. It always starts a conversation!

Post about your book! And if you're feeling extra generous, you can even post about your friends' books! 👇

I love Kaylene Whiskey

Australia Rejects AI Text and Data Mining Copyright Exception The Albanese Government has rejected a proposal to amend Australia’s copyright laws to allow artificial intelligence (AI) systems to freely train on copyright works, according to an official statement...

> “Australian creatives are not only world class, but they are also the lifeblood of Australian culture, and we must ensure the right legal protections are in place,” Hon Rowland MP said.

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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

I love it! We’re making history right here!

Research, as an extra, is ridiculous.
Hoping your soul gets what it needs, as well as your body and bank account. Such an impossible equation so often but fortunately our kind of researchers can re-enter when they are ready, so see you then! 💚

HIS TOR Y HIS TOR Y!

please just save your receipts or keep a diary! My PhD spent ages on rough drafts, postcards, and internal memos. Everything makes history.

Do you remember the good old Twitter days of a 🧵 100 tweets deep on something niche yet widely relevant from an expert who didn’t know it all (and gave credit where credit was due)? yeah. Buckle in for a long, deep, nuanced, historical, Wuthering Heights ride 👇👇👇

As a Humanities old-timer, I feel that skill has never been more useful

Oh this looks good!

inverted ego maybe? ‘I’m not using this theory correctly but I do speak/cite 3 dead languages so… there??’ 😂

Such a big responsibility—but so good you have done the best to do it ethically. You can’t cover everything, but you can try to be representative and it sounds like you have. And so timely and essential!

This has been going forever! Amazing that it’s nearly done ✨📚

Yep, that one! It will come, or it will be a second article. Can we lure you back to the river?

YouTube video by Mattias Krantz I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)

Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!

Flow is what led me to Averroes… I could have stopped at Aquinas, I really could! I could have stopped at the footnote in the Long Commentary! But no, I need to see the line in the Middle Commentary which is Not Online.
But thank you! Taking your academic wishes in the spirit they were given! 💚

No, I’m just usually very annoyed about other people misusing theory because they haven’t understood it, so I’m making sure I have everything in a row before I… misuse the theory. It’s my own fault!! 😂

Books, note books, coffee cups, a water bottle, a laptop, folders

Said mines

Dammit, went into the theory mines knowing exactly what I wanted to say… came out blearily and empty handed. I’ve ordered a whole load of Averroes and Bourdieu to the library as if that will help.
Anyway, happy #AcWriMo to all who celebrate!

Scroll down for a video—it’s in German but the colours are fantastic!

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