Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards

In case you missed it, British Library E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) update from Sept 3: https://www.bl.uk/collection/ethos

EThOS is the national database of UK doctoral theses.

I think it’s a kofta kebab!

They changed it later, badly, because they left an extra "with" in, that no longer made sense.

Great explanation for how a really obviously dodgy statistic was probably created. @the-independent.com really should know better than to publish this, but the newspapers are all pursuing click-bait.

Unusually comprehensive listing entry for this.
"A world class cinema - without doubt the most lavishly decorated interior of any cinema in Britain and among the most lavish in Europe." historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Congratulations!!!!!! 🥳

Because there are parents out there who will make complaints if their children aren't constantly being sent home with homework. And unfortunately they're the noisiest parents

It basically is unnecessary. Last time I looked at the literature it showed that homework doesn't have any benefits. I'd much rather they just said "find a good book and read"

(still don't work in archaeology)

As someone who did a BA in the late 90s, MSc in the early 2000s, & whose 1st job was in commercial archaeology, this was hard reading. I was lucky with my 1st job & felt supported, but pay was awful & when I needed to move back to London, I couldn't stay in the profession. Still did a PhD though...!

Several cards on a wooden surface, where the following are printed on each: 'using images', 'copyright and GenAI', 'including materials in dissertations', 'publishing contracts', 'social media and copyright', 'protecting your copyright', 'permissions', 'Creative Commons'.

Autumn is officially in the air, and so is copyright 🍂©️

Whatever way you are using text and images this term, UCL copyright team has a session to support you 💻

Take a look at the programme and register for a session 👉 buff.ly/o1y0g15

(Image AI-generated from Microsoft Copilot)

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Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

Events Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Higher education finances and funding in England This briefing covers how higher education is funded, concerns about providers' financial stability, alternative funding models, and international comparisons.

House of Commons briefing: “the simplest way of improving the financial position of the UK’s higher education providers would be to raise the tuition fee cap for undergraduate students <ugh no thanks> and/or increase the amount of funding provided through teaching and research grants”. <- YES!

I was just looking through all the replies to see if anyone had mentioned him! Love his writing

We want the media and politicians to recognise there's a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

UCL to lead UK’s brain-inspired computing push with new innovation centre The UK’s first Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) dedicated to neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing hardware will be led at UCL with £12.8 million funding from the Engineering and Physical Scien...

The UK’s first Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) dedicated to neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing hardware will be led at UCL with £12.8 million funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) @ukri.org @uclengineering.bsky.social

Very allegedly seeing as the had their own version of haggis themselves (in fact the earliest reference ever to haggis 'hagese' is in a Lancashire cook book from 1430 called the Liber Cure.) Scotland was just smart enough to keep making theirs! (It's delicious and I heartily recommend! 😋)

A new trial monitoring plan (TMP) template for clinical trials: output from a Delphi process - Trials Background Monitoring is a crucial part of trial conduct and ensures that participants’ data is fairly represented, and future healthcare information is enhanced. This project aims to improve trial mo...

Very proud of Shiva Taheri who passed her PhD viva today! Congratulations Dr Taheri! Her thesis was on "Uplifting the standard of monitoring in clinical trials – developing evidence and tools" Here's one of her papers: doi.org/10.1186/s130... #AcademicSky #ClinicalTrials 🧪

Looking forward to a day of listening in to the launch of The Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) Network+ casdar.ac.uk Sorry not to be able to be there today casdarnetwork.bsky.social #AcademicSky

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Quite! (Wow... Couldn't she have softened the blow though?!)

Worth creating an account just to support.......

If you haven't already deleted your academia/.edu account now is the time! And see the thread below for how to get to the settings without accepting the change in ToS #AcademicSky

All the scenarios smack of desperation to come up with a use case for AI in marking. They couldn't even leave the speech to text scenario at that, as an LLM summarises & 'decides' on the most important items for the student to work on. Let teachers teach: that's the point of feedback! #AcademicSky

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(I'm in my late 40s.....)

I've experienced the same. It's really upsetting. Also a really odd experience to have a friend try to justify why you are wrong and they are right by them then saying that you're naive and "don't know how terrible people can be"..... Suddenly they were acting like I was a child.