Tim Causer

Exhibit M - And a very warm welcome to philosophical methodology

Exhibit F - please accept their invitation to the management

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

At a time when UK HEIs are almost universally in crisis, with a diminishing number of jobs and overworked employees in those jobs that remain, I'm sure everyone really appreciates the rules of the REF changing every five minutes.

A ‘4* plus’ REF rating, you say?

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

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

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

'Not proven' rather than 'cleared'...

(cc. @jameschalmers.bsky.social )

Warwick hired “celebrity chef Aldo Zilli to create a “sardine and prawn” dish to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Venice”, plus more Ajay Teli trips, talks - as if future students care about a CMO! This isn’t appealing to students—it’s maladministration www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...

now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

Delighted to see a new special issue of @jich.bsky.social on petitions and petitioning in colonial/post-colonial contexts out. Edited by myself and Miranda Johnson (Otago). Includes articles on South Asia, West Africa, the Pacific, North America. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

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The western coast of Scotland is a most strange place — it is composed of rocks, Mountains, mountainous and rocky Islands intersected by lochs — you can go but a short distance anywhere from salt water in the highlands.

John Keats (letter to 26 July 1818)

It's offline now 😕

Yes!

University of Warwick's 'tone of voice guidelines', telling people that 'Using "Beyond" as an abstract noun captures the idea that "Beyond" is a conceptual space where limits are exceeded', while warning that '"Beyond" headlines should not be used by individual departments, societies, or other component parts of Warwick for day-to-day communications'

Can't quite believe they are leaving gold like this up online for us all to enjoy

brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...

I'm reminded that The Beyonder was a forgettable comics character who 'wished to destroy the multiverse out of increasing frustration'. Coincidentally, that's how all this nonsensical branding makes me feel

Front page of Warwick.ac.uk

Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.

UK university job cuts put at 20,000 after full impact ‘hidden’ Number of roles affected could be almost double previous estimates when voluntary schemes and hiring freezes factored in, say researchers

'Rebecca Harrison, a former lecturer at The Open University, said that the extent of the deterioration of job security in universities was “alarming”, adding that institutions had not been transparent about the extent of the cuts occurring in the sector.' 1/3

Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar This new volume of Bentham’s philosophical writings deals with his most fundamental ideas concerning logic, language, ethics and grammar. It includes four major essays written between 1814 and 1816, n...

Scheduled for publication in 1 December, just in time to be rammed into Christmas stockings the world over, is the next volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham - 'Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar', ed. P. schofield

uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

Professor / Associate Professor / Lecturer in Corporate and / or Financial Law

We're hiring at @laws.ucl.ac.uk: full rank search in corporate and financial law, from lecturer (assistant prof) to associate and full prof. Multiple posts. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Current Legal Problems to be published by UCL Press UCL Laws' flagship publication moves to to UCL’s open access publishing house.

UCL Laws is delighted to announce that our flagship volume, 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘴, is to be published by @uclpress.bsky.social from 2026! 📚 We're excited to collaborate with UCL's award-winning #openaccess publishing house on sharing important legal scholarship.
tinyurl.com/mt5abn3w

In-Person | Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’ The Conference is generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Last call for next week's conference on Bentham's panopticon penitentiary scheme and his semi-autobiographical account of its failure - takes place at Bentham House on 23 & 24 July. Registration closes 20 July

www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

A black and white cat sleeping on its back on a hard floor to keep cool, with its back legs in the air

It's quite warm today in London

News confirmed here. Just an awful, demoralising day for UK continuing education.

www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglear...

Happy 50th birthday SBS

James is holding a glass of wine and a purple Premier League award stands outdoors at a social gathering, with people and red umbrellas in the background.

What a finish! Congrats to @jamesamilton.bsky.social, our UCL Laws Fantasy League champion earlier this month, edging out @divijualsuspect in a final-day thriller! 🏆

Both are our UCL Laws' candidates: PhD skills meet #FPL glory! ⚽️
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ChatGPT’s Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.

“Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, according to the man in charge of ensuring free speech on campuses.” Sorry, but… why?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just came across a review of 'Bentham and the Arts' @uclpress.bsky.social from last year that describes it as an 'outstanding interdisciplinary perspective, framed in a masterpiece of philosophical reflection'. I can only agree.

journals.unibuc.ro/index.php/au...