Lynda Clark

This is great but the carpet gave me traumatic flashbacks to being at my Nanna's with the electric bar fire cranked to full even though it was already about 40 degrees in there.
Although at least electricity was affordable then.

The quote posts on this do not disappoint.

“Me in pain” - a line drawing with a neutral face “Me when washing up water goes up my sleeve” - a line drawing screaming and flapping hands

Oh. OH. Maybe that table should've _been_ my results? Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.

But I made it! And they said it was well-written, which is the only praise I really need 😂

In my defence, I did include an appendix table listing all topics and themes, but this should've been in the discussion and apparently my discussion and results should've been clearly delineated and I genuinely had no idea how to do that 😅

(By the skin of my teeth - turns out I do not know how to write a literature review - did not realise you're meant to list every topic present rather than identifying the central narrative - what can I say - once a narratologist...)

Passed my PGCAP! 🥳

Can't recall any other research cycle with such an incredibly narrow remit. Even when there was a data/technology obsession, the meaning of those terms (and therefore the opportunity to do interesting humanities stuff) was much broader. Struggling to see how that will be the case here...

Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face.
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Millions of gamers set to explore Fife village in new Silent Hill video game A small fishing village in the East Neuk has inspired the next release in the Silent Hill franchise.

The description of St Monan's as a place suited to existential horror made me chuckle. (I love St Monan's).
Thought the locals might be annoyed in the comments, but they're all just like "Inaccurate - in the game there are actually parking spaces available."
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a cartoon character is holding a purple umbrella with a skull on top ALT: a cartoon character is holding a purple umbrella with a skull on top

Unfortunately small presses close all the time, and their baby bird books need to find a new nest. My fledgling sun-vampire queer cannibal novella, SUNBATHERS, now needs a new home, as does my sapphic pirate novella QUEEN O'NINE TAILS.

If you know a toothy little home for either, please hit me up!

I think it was just that my phone camera struggled to cope with the overhead light, but it has come out looking quite pretty!

University of Bristol asks Humanities and Languages academic staff to voluntarily quit Certain departments are being run into a ‘managed decline’, says Bristol UCU's co-President, as a new Voluntary Severance Scheme is announced.

Power to the University of Bristol's local branch of UCU

Solidarity ✊️

"University of Bristol asks Humanities and Languages academic staff to voluntarily quit"
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Digitalhumanities, #librarylife and #NLP friends: has anyone bought a large historical dataset (books, newspapers, maps etc, images or ocr) from a publisher/digitiser to data mine? I’d like to compare notes… either on here or DM me 🙏

Guy on the train just asked his colleague to keep some secret news "on the low brow".

Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine - Daily Nous Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an e...

Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...

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The Grandchildren by Megan Taylor. The cover is a children's play park under a brooding sky.

Lovely book post arrived today from @nightjarpress.bsky.social. I look forward to digging in soon!

no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Good job I'm not a teacher in England because I'd be getting fired over this.

Yeah, is this applicable to Scotland at all, or just England and Wales?

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If the person is British this means they have the utmost disrespect. Should be read as "contemptfully" in that instance.