How AI Can Support Your Research Efficiency Automate routine or repetitive tasks, freeing up more time for experiments, analysis, and discovery. Creativity Spark new ideas, explore alternative approaches, or generate first drafts to move past the “blank page.” Clarity Translate complex data, technical language, or lengthy findings into clear summaries for colleagues, partners, or broader audiences. Organization Turn research notes, articles, or meeting discussions into structured summaries, action items, or literature maps. Accessibility Develop research outputs that are more inclusive and easier to share with collaborators, students, and the wider UNB community.

Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts."

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I need to copy this idea!

Huge solidarity with @ucuessex.bsky.social and @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, both out on strike today over threats to jobs and pensions.

Let’s do this #UCU #UKHE

YouTube video by Global Women's Strike All Work and No Pay

Great film and testimony of the Wages For Housework movement in the UK. From 1975 but feels like talking to a friend today.

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First ever. Shub in English. Keith Sanborn new book.

I’m a sucker for mid-20th century cover art so I’m definitely digging dust jacket of THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM EDITING by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar, 1968 expanded edition.

Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Sara Gómez's ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (1977) in our Black Debutantes collection—a celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first feature.

Yes! It’s almost in @jmbean.bsky.social hands!

The second was a special issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social that I co-edited with @tanyagoldman.bsky.social on the topic of nontheatrical film. Again, I was so proud of the truly global and diverse group of authors we put together. Give it a look!

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Such a great special issue and wonderful editors. A brilliant experience and surreal achievement getting something published a handful of months after becoming a mother!

Educational film existed in a much broader multimedia ecosystem that often included film strips — a ubiquitious mid-20th century form that has been neglected! Thus we’re very excited to learn of this exciting EU project, a collaboration between scholars in UK + Germany!
relocatingfilmstrips.eu

Just upsetting to see the same record being played over and over by senior managers that value buildings over people and education. #enough

If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.

Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment

Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt

Same.

Wow. i have been screening the Watermelon Woman for a few years and students here in the UK really love it

🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨

We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.

Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.

@ucu.org.uk

Mark Pendleton wears a pink UCU beanie, while standing on a train platform in the dawn light

Been a while since the pink beanie came out. Sheffield pickets here we come.

Our message to management is simple: No redundancies. Stop the incessant restructures. Listen to your staff. There is no University of Sheffield without us.

Nothing makes me stop paying attention quicker than hearing or reading 'I asked ChatGPT...'

Or “adapt to new ways of working”

MANILA — An important piece of Filipino history missing for almost 90 years and thought to be lost forever was just found in Belgium. “Diwata ng Karagatan” is now the oldest surviving Filipino film! 🎞️🎞️

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Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.

The US has a long history of military intervention in Latin America -- but the US campaign against Venezuela goes beyond all precedents, according to a scholar who recaps the history: buff.ly/95slpmI

Image from Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, 2024)

Image from A Time for Burning (William C. Jersey, 1966)

Image from Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)

Image from Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976)

After a very interesting conversation last night, I'm wondering about films that have organizing as their main narrative topic. Do people have recommendations?

1908 in cinema

I'm taking the opportunity of this circulating to reshare my Media+Environment essay on the history of the beef industry's depictions of ots own effects on the land:

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EMERGENCY

The Global Sumud Flotilla has been intercepted and illegally boarded by the IDF, October 1st approximately 7:30pm BST.

The UK Foreign Office have CLOSED THE PHONELINES with an automated message stating it will not act nor comment on the flotilla.

What will it be like to work or study at
LancasterUni
, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? What about the impact on communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable? Sign our petition to stop this nonsense!
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Adriana and Dolores Ehlers – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

With her sister, Adriana Ehlers (b. Sept. 28, 1894) worked in film labs, sold projection equipment, shot documentaries and more.

Morning #Lancaster colleagues! Have you been affected by the FASS move? If so, participate in our survey about it. All your insights will feed into our complaint to the HSE

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Archival Research in the Environmental Humanities Workshop Learn about archival research in the Environmental Humanities in a workshop at The National Archives.

Join me for a workshop on archival research in the Environmental Humanities at The National Archives!

We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist

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