Emrah Karakilic

Opinion | A.I. Is Not a 21st-Century Enlightenment

#AI #Enlightenment
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...

250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️

I came here mostly to get inspired by you.

How are you so .. ? What a person to follow?! Thank you for your posts and elegance

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Lancaster University - following the same rule book (and opaque internal logics) as other UK unis - is seeking to impose mass redundancies. The impact on staff, students, staff's families, and the region, would be immense.

To protest against this, please please share/sign: chng.it/CyRHLRgrmb

They are always in our heart 😔

Lancaster University defends plans to cut 400 jobs as staff call for alternatives A Lancaster University boss has defended plans for possibly over 400 job losses but university staff have disputed the arguments and, instead, called for alternatives, such as top management pay cuts.

A crisis of leadership’s making and staff pay the price.

Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. @LancasterUCU

www.lep.co.uk/education/la...

Cover of Unemployed Negativity on a bookshelf

Spotted in the wild.

Seyahat literatürüne 3 bin sayfa kazandıran Murat Belge'yle önce İstanbul'u, sonra dünyayı gezdik.

Gidelim Serv-i Revanım web sitemizde tüm podcast platformlarında!

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One human being is able to determine the global oil price with a single, 10-word utterance without referring to a single term of economics. Let’s see.

Which is not totally absurd. From keynes’ beauty contest to the whole french “economics of convention”. André Orléan, in particular. No?

How Dundee University went from boom to bust The former principal Iain Gillespie had claimed that the university was on an upward trajectory, but a scathing report showed this was not the case

An independent report finds serious leadership failings at the top. Now over 600 staff face the axe. @ducuuo.bsky.social

£35 million black hole at Dundee University.

Senior mismanagement created this crisis.
Staff shouldn’t be paying the price.

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

@hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social i do know you do not do such things. But, I would love to hear an episode on “what Marx would say about gen AI”.

It is barely about romanticised “hierarchical and over-confident”leadership. It is more about catastrophic failure of leadership

The report stated: "The failure of the university's financial governance system was self-inflicted and experienced multiple times and at multiple levels.
"This led to a failure in identifying the worsening situation and not responding early enough."

There were numerous points where "a reasonable person" could have reached a judgement that the university's financial position was worse than presented, it said.

Do not simplify things! The report found that almost £40m of ringfenced money had been spent elsewhere and there had been "a lack of real action" to address an £8m "hole" due to a fall in international student recruitment.

Brilliant

How does it feel to be made redundant?
How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process?

This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour.

Out next week.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Cok iyi geldi bu. Tesekkurler

Book cover of Policing Higher Education by Eve Darian Smith

Policing Higher Education - New book by Eve Darian-Smith (Open Access)

'If academic freedom is attacked on a global scale,
who will be left to train future generations to think critically
and ask hard questions that challenge antidemocratic regimes
at home and abroad?'

muse.jhu.edu/book/126855

Applies to journal articles and the very monographs as well. No?

Bizi bu incelik bitirdi

Knowing-without-reaction in the face of climate change: Minor-art as a model for political subjectivization - Emrah A Karakilic, 2025 Despite broad public awareness of climate change as a critical issue, we paradoxically observe public inertia as a social pattern, particularly in the wealthy-i...

Hi. I wrote this :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Cardiff staff vote to strike as axe hangs over 400 academic jobs Welsh university faces mounting criticism over job cuts and course closures

Union members have voted to walk out over Cardiff University’s plans to axe 400 academic roles and close several programmes

#AcademicSky #EduSky

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.

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