Edd Bagenal

#sketch #drawing of #MarchmontStreet looking South in #Bloomsbury #London
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#AntelexicResearch #DurationalObservation #SocialDrawing #urbansketch #urbansketchers #draughtmanship #DrawingResearch #DrawingPractice

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire Southern Water has applied for a drought order that would allow it to draw larger quantities of water than usual from an internationally prized chalk stream and rare salmon habitat. The environment secretary, Steve Reed, has been urged to intervene and stop the water company from “significantly and potentially permanently damaging the river and the ecology within”. Continue reading...

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream

Should a #Bluesky post be called a skeet as shorthand?
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#skeet

Off the chain. Love it

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

This week @danmcquillan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/286_...

(Re)learning critical reading in the age of GenAI Rather than pretending students can – or even should – avoid GenAI to become critical readers, we need to develop their critical reading skills so they can successfully interrogate AI-produced materia...

Rather than pretending students can – or even should – avoid #GenAI to become critical readers, we need to develop their critical reading skills so they can successfully interrogate AI-produced materials. Read more from Brendan Carey at @exeter.ac.uk: timeshighereducation.com/campus/relea...

#Sketch #Drawing in #GordonSquare under the pollard lime collonade, looking South. Graphite on paper
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#AntelexicResearch #Grapholiteracy #AcademicDrawing #Draughtsmanship #DrawingPractice #London #Bloomsbury #UrbanSketch #UrbanSketching #UrbanSketchers #TheBigDraw

Finally, an admission that marketised competition does not work as a model for HE or its institutions

What an innovative concept... "Instead of competing as if they are corporations, universities should collaborate!!" Give me strength... academics & their research succeed *only* when they collaborate. We have been doing it since the universities came into being... it is how new knowledge is made.

Environment Agency insider alleges ‘cover-up’ over sewage sludge on farmland Regulator and government accused of colluding with water industry to dump potentially toxic waste without oversight

The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The road (straight) to hell is crocheted with good intentions

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

So, worse performing hospitals get defunded? Thats insane. Thats like saying the sicker you are, the less treatment you'll get. Neolibs just cannot differentiate between performance and prerequisite

#Sketch #Drawing outside #TheNorfolkArms pub, looking North East on #SandwichStreet graphite on paper
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#AcademicDrawing #Draughtsmanship #DrawingPractice #London #Bloomsbury #UrbanSketch #UrbanSketching #Grapholiteracy #UrbanSketchers #TheBigDraw

Ottoline Leyser: ‘We are destroying the diversity in our university system’ As she ends her five years as chief executive of UKRI, the plant scientist warns that forcing all institutions and researchers to pursue a single definition of research excellence is impoverishing the...

As Ottoline Leyser ends her five years as chief executive of UKRI, she warns that forcing all institutions and researchers to pursue a single definition of research excellence is impoverishing the research base on which the government’s ambitions depend. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports

Thinking about the crossovers between the cultural origins and aesthetics of #adhocism vs #rasquachification

@bernardkeenan.bsky.social on trend

Saw this beautiful little #RoseChafer beetle properly tucking in to some rose chow in the sun this weekend

#CetoniaAurata #ChafersGonnaChafe #entomology #beetles #Insects #bugs

Spotted this little #WhiteDeathSpider - #GoldenrodCrabSpider / #FlowerCrabSpider hiding in the rose bushes this week in Oxshott..
It ambushes #pollinator #insects when they land on #flowers

#MisumenaVatia #Arachnid #Aranaea #Umbellifer #AchilleaMillefolium #entomology

Free #Lidar #maps of the UK ... www.archiuk.com/archi/lidarf...

#Sketch #Drawing of #TheHorseHospital looking South on #HerbrandStreet graphite on paper
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#AcademicDrawing #Draughtsmanship #DrawingPractice #London #Bloomsbury #UrbanSketch #UrbanSketching #UrbanSketchers #TheBigDraw

'Suggestions and specimens for letterpress printers which advocated clean, thoughtful typography and the creative use of color'

Late 1800s. Many more here www.sheaff-ephemera.com/list/artisti...

Excellent analysis- “We are being seduced by technological solutions for the wrong problems... Should we really want this? Why doesn’t the municipality build an algorithm that searches for people who do not apply for social assistance but are entitled to it?" (Instead of the reverse)

A photograph of Bernard Keenan smiling to camera in front of a window through which you can see the British Telecom Tower in the distance. To the right of this photo is an image of the cover of Bernard Keenan’s book, ‘Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Network’, which features a web of white lines crossing over each other against a black background.

🔎 What do we know about state surveillance?
🔎 Can we expect a legal right to privacy in communication?
🔎 How can we communicate securely online?
Read an interview with UCL Laws' @bernardkeenan.bsky.social in which he discusses his new book, Interception.
tinyurl.com/3afz3mcm

Objects from the future Objects from the Future is a tool for encouraging creative thinking about the future, adapted from imagination card game, The Thing from the Future.

speculative designs generated from prompts futureobjects.xyz

This is such an important story.

drawing by hand is back

Facts. Writing and movement in general.

Situated cognition (def.) - "The act of manipulating a tool or of drawing a bow across a string forces us to feel and do simultaneously, and the more skilled we become at the act, the less we have to think about what we are doing."

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

“Decel” is a new one, I’m happy to be a neo-Luddite

No-confidence vote in University of Lincoln bosses is passed - BBC News Academics at the University of Lincoln call for compulsory redundancies to be ruled out.

There are reasons that most UK universities are in trouble which have nothing to do with them. The managers have a hard job. However, some are in over their heads, putting out corporate statements about a "clear vision and plan" which no one has seen