Linsey Hunter

About 76% of top-performing women encounter negative feedback compared to just 2% of men—and it’s making them want to quit “We tend to relate to women in the workplace based on how they make the people around them feel, rather than the work that they're doing.”

Around 76% of high-performing women receive negative feedback compared to only 2% of men
fortune.com/2024/08/08/m...

Even if your grant does bring buy out, your institution won't respect that in my experience.

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

Yep yep yep: not only do we not need to credulously adopt AI in our teaching, assessment and research, we also do not in fact need to take it upon ourselves to cheerlead for this crap.

Its partly about race--there is a whole thing about milk. Partly truly horrifying ignorance of history and science, and partly the growing normalization of anti-intellectual reactionary beliefs about experts and science in society.

Marking can be a personal torment because I so desperately hope each student has been able to give each piece of work a decent go (increasingly harder in these economic times). Feeding marking into GAI slop machines is against all that it means to be in education and care about student progress.

The duty to secure freedom of speech includes (as relating to academic staff) securing academic freedom. The Act defines academic freedom, in relation to academic staff at a registered higher education provider (or constituent institution), as their freedom within the law: to question and test received wisdom, and to put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions without placing themselves at risk of being adversely affected in any of the following ways: loss of their jobs or privileges at the provider; the likelihood of their securing promotion or different jobs at the provider being reduced.

I am not a lawyer, so please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell the new legislation in place to protect 'free speech' prohibits any university from censuring any professor from dedicating class time to promulgating misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism,

My only real feeling about academia now is that people should just try and find ways to do the work they want to do: the regulations will keep changing anyway.

Date Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian Collection World Culture Hollow blue faience spherical bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog with moulded features and black quills: Ancient Egyptian, probably Middle Kingdom, c.1985 - 1650 BC

Academics in August (blue faience spherical bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog 🦔) Egyptian, c.1985 - 1650 BCE. www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

Brilliant! I will look for that and pass it on! Much appreciated.

I have a fantastic student, but they have just finished their UG degree before moving on to further study. What a pity! You will get lots of fantastic entries though, I am sure.

Those on the Left who think it's just Identity Politics irrelevant to class have an incoherent model of how Fascism traps the liberal bourgeoisie into complicity, by targeting selected minorities for elimination and making that common sense. It's the essence of how austerity paved the way for Reform

Sorry to hear it. You are a brilliant historian and human being. I won’t say anymore right now because everything sounds trite in this moment.

A large ginger tabby hangs out of a cat tree basket and leans to the left, one paw casually dangling over the edge of the pod like a neighbour might casually rest their arm on a shared wall while chatting to you.

Someone say tuna?

I love having friends who are as dotty about their animals as we are!

With Norman fever about to begin thanks to the new BBC drama and anticipation of the home-coming(?) of the Bayeux Tapestry in 2026, I want to see you Bayeux Tapestry knick-knacks please. I’ll start with this curious spoon - a family heirloom. #BayeuxTapestryTat #MedievalSky

Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers Texas AI data centers water usage: As Texas faces a severe drought, the state's AI data centers consume millions of gallons of water daily for cooling, raising concerns about environmental sustainabil...

Your reminder that there is no ethical use for #AI... not even to generate pictures of how horribl AI is.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Wow! Looks great! Happy birthday and good vibes for book-inspo!

The decline of our once-great universities is nothing to celebrate The AI threat is looming, the graduate premium is fading. But the UK economy needs Higher Education

Even the Telegraph is now advocating for the UK's universities, and pleading with readers who they themselves have poisoned to give Higher Education a chance. But really it's far too late to stop much of the slide. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

A lot of what guides the populist right as seen in Hungary or the USA is a belief that the cultural trends they don't like are conspiratorially imposed by academics and journalists and entertainers. So they can impose their will on these groups and see the cultural change they want rather easily.

1. Calling Thucydides a historian is like calling Plato a novelist.

Thank you!

Thank you, lovely friend.

Ha! You are so kind!

UK universities betting on Chinese students: look at this

Ha! Glad to see the Jenga blocks are still in use. Not used to seeing it in the daytime though!

It’s me! (Well, a younger, blonder me).