Dr Hannah Murray

IKR!

Twelve judges resign from literary awards after fellowship sinking Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek has told a parliamentary hearing he would intervene in other awards “if it’s deemed necessary” after the black&write! saga.

All the Queensland literary award judges resigned after the state government ordered the First Nations winner have their prize revoked over Palestine social media

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...

This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era.

AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

“Educators now spend a significant amount of their time detecting AI-generated work and seeking ways to assess whether students are developing essential skills.”

Yes. Everywhere.

My OH is a palaeontologist so I can ask him if you don’t get any volunteers on here!

Almost as if these arrests are political?

there is simply no possible case for continued support for Israel and there has not been for quite some time

a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law

The Polari prize First Book longlist with crosses over authors Jason Okundaye Sacha Coward Sanah Ahsan Amy Twigg Mae Diansangu Ciara Maguire To indicate their withdrawal

The Polari prize Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola Robert Hamberger Rhian Elizabeth To indicate their withdrawal

There's been yet ANOTHER withdrawal from the Polari Prize.

From the First Book longlist:
Jason Okundaye
Sacha Coward
Sanah Ahsan
Amy Twigg
Mae Diansangu
Ciara Maguire

From the main award longlist:
Olumide Popoola
Robert Hamberger
Rhian Elizabeth

From the judging panel:
Nicola Dinan
Bob Hughes

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

Trans women to be banned from single-sex spaces under EHRC guidance The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been criticised by trans rights campaigners for its response to the Supreme Court’s ruling

"This proposed guidance goes far beyond what the For Women Scotland judgment requires.

It amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives"

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The Warwick rebrand is truly the gift that never stops giving.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

a woman is sitting on a couch and says shut it down Alt: Tina Fey in 30 Rock. A white woman with shoulder length brown hair and glasses, wearing a dark blazer. is sitting on a couch. She makes a circling motion with her finger in the air and says “shut it down”

Apparently there are people using GenAI to write feedback on their PhD student’s work 🫠🫠🫠

a woman is sitting on a couch and says shut it down Alt: Tina Fey in 30 Rock. A white woman with shoulder length brown hair and glasses, wearing a dark blazer. is sitting on a couch. She makes a circling motion with her finger in the air and says “shut it down”

Apparently there are people using GenAI to write feedback on their PhD student’s work 🫠🫠🫠

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Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

4*++ by 2036 🥴

If you don’t want to do your job you can resign

research and writing are JOYS

This may shock everyone*, but I actually want my students to be able to read and summarise a piece of writing themselves.

* the AHA executive

There seems to be this belief that if you let students use these tools they will produce deeper and broader work (get through more reading, have more time for thinking) and … I have a bridge to sell these people.

This may shock everyone*, but I actually want my students to be able to read and summarise a piece of writing themselves.

* the AHA executive

Thanks, I hate it in about 12 different ways.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Teaching German Romanticism this week and they’re all professors before they turn 25 ffs

it's "cool" that every conservative pundit in the UK basically seems to want to turn the country into Norsefire

let’s have a crisis of femininity, as a treat

A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

Week 1 done! A bunch of tutorials on how we define Romanticism, and ended with a sunny Open Day! But now my voice is gone for Week 2… 😮‍💨