Chris Thomson

Collective Intelligence Design Playbook (beta) Tools, tactics and methods to harness the power of people, data and technology to solve global challenges

This looks really useful. @nestauk.bsky.social's Collective Intelligence Design Playbook - ideas and resources to help with exploring and solving complex problems collaboratively www.nesta.org.uk/toolkit/coll...

Direct link to the playbook media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Ne...

​AI slop, begone! The viral musical virtuosos bringing brains and brilliance back to social media Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of bold artists are making genuinely strange music go mainstream – but are they at the mercy of the algorithm?

I saw Maddie Ashman supporting Sungazer a few months back and she was awesome. Well worth checking out. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

How Kant can make sense of misinformation - LSE Impact How Kantian notions of appearances can inform misinformation interventions that address the root causes of why people believe fake news.

💥New | How Kant can make sense of misinformation

✍️ Uyiosa Omoregie & Kirsti Ryall

#Misinformation #Expertise #Kant

However, by the end of today’s LinkedIn puzzles…

Take that, 99% of CEOs!

I think they come out more easily of you pour salt and red wine on them.

TIL about Gaussian Splats and now those are the only words I can hear in my head.

Reciprocal saw, please.

Digital Practice Round Up - January 26 - Inspiring learning This is our monthly roundup of what the Jisc Digital Practice team have been doing and discovering over the last few weeks.

Grab a coffee or three. It's a bumper edition of the Digital Practice Round Up this month! The stuff we've been doing and discovering over the last few weeks. inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/02/d...

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

The @jisc.bsky.social Connect More call for submissions has been extended until the 18th Feb! We'd love to hear from you if you're working in FE or HE. The theme of the event is "be empowered to transform education through practitioner-led, ethical digital innovation." www.jisc.ac.uk/forms/submit...

It’s ok, escalator. I got you.

AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds Britain is losing more jobs than it creates owing to artificial intelligence, Morgan Stanley research suggests

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

I'm also curious how bad actors might game GEO to artificially boost their content and what that means for disinformation awareness. It's a very new field without a lot of transparency so lots of uncertainty and unknowns.

I recognise it's quite a problematic area especially when it comes to chat bot results that don't include citations, and the impacts of a massive tail off in people linking back to original content.

For example, how a researcher could increase public engagement or ensuring that their material is seen as "authoritative" by tools like ChatGPT, or how someone writing guidance for colleagues fine tunes it to appear in an internal chat bot.

I'm mostly interested in the non-technical side of this: how content authors can adapt their writing to optimise for generative AI tools, and the alignment and tensions with trad SEO.

GEO Fundamentals GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) fundamentals

I'm trying to get my head around generative engine optimisation (GEO) as it has implications for eductaion providers. I have no guidance or opinion yet, just collating some useful resources using Raindrop if it's hand for others raindrop.io/chrisbthomso...

The companionship market The safety risks behind the UK’s AI companion boom

Our new guest blog post draws on a UK market analysis of 110 AI companion platforms.

It finds risks and failures associated with addictive features, age verification and the regulatory scope of the Online Safety Act.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/the-com...

I don't believe you. ;)

a man speaking into a microphone with the words what are we waiting for Alt: a man speaking into a microphone with the words what are we waiting for

What are you waiting for?! Deadline for @jisc.bsky.social Connect More session proposals is at the end of NEXT WEEK! Come and shape the programme by getting involved.

www.jisc.ac.uk/forms/submit...

Banning children from using devices won't stop kids going online.

It creates secrecy, it will stop kids from talking to trusted adults when they come across dangerous content.

It also takes the responsibility from companies like X cleaning up their act on misinformation, abusive/dangerous content.

I desperately want this to be true.

Mercator projection - Wikipedia

Does Trump think Greenland is actually as big as the Mercator globe projection makes it look? Is that why he wants it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercato...

Chatbots and Student Wellbeing: An Emerging Challenge for FE and HE - Inspiring learning Scott investigates an emerging challenge for FE and HE across the UK in light of recent findings from the Mental Health UK charity. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future concept in mental...

Chatbots and Student Wellbeing: An Emerging Challenge for FE and HE [BLOG]: inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/01/c... #Wellbeing #DigitalWellbeing #HE #FE #Chatbots #AI #EdTech #EduSky #AmplifyFE #UKFE

That's fascinating! A useful example of the tensions between data and the intuitive response.

Not so much a board, more of a ... what's the word? I want to say axis?

This is great. Not familiar with System 1 & 2 thinking but it reminded me a bit of Jerome Bruner's paradigmatic and narrative thinking modes. Data and intuition are 2 sides of the same coin, not opposite banks of a river of indecision.