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A very interesting read. Thank you.
23.11.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not at all! Grateful for the interesting commentary.
23.11.2025 13:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I agree, of course, this has to be a collective process, secured through 'leadership' in the true sense. I do think that aligning to the national interest and responding to democratic direction is an important part of all of our jobs.
23.11.2025 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many thanks for this thoughtful commentary. I should be clear that I too disagree with some parts of the White Paper ... but this does not obviate the need to respond. I -very- much agree that subject, scholarly & professional societies have a key role to play in subject provision.
23.11.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
'What We Need To Do Now' ... an agenda for universities in the new post-16 system ... set out by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
23.11.2025 09:06 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
I encourage you to look at this jameswphillips.substack.com/p/scitech-ne... I am not sure I agree with it ... but I think it is an important and worthwhile contribution to the debate on 'institutes' @anemergenti.bsky.social
20.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'Something Must be Done' ... a political pathology (and its consequences) ... considered by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/something-...
16.11.2025 09:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Bridge ... on paste and paint ... and on grief, anger, renewal and memory @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-bridge
09.11.2025 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Bridge ... on paste and paint ... and on grief, anger, renewal and memory @profserious profserious.substack.com/p/the-bridge
09.11.2025 09:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really excellent White Paper on AI and the Future of Pedagogy, Authored by:
Tom Chatfield www.sagepub.com/docs/default...
Today is National Engineering Day. You can try these 'Tools for Thought' profserious.substack.com/p/10-enginee...
05.11.2025 08:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Adaptation ... personal and professional ... and the path to change - @profserious.bsky.social reflects profserious.substack.com/p/on-adaptat...
02.11.2025 08:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please Stop It ... @profserious.bsky.social is beset by Microsoft Word forms ... profserious.substack.com/p/please-sto...
26.10.2025 08:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
How Should We View China? @profserious.bsky.social discusses power, values and interests ... profserious.substack.com/p/how-should...
20.10.2025 12:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Should We View China? @profserious.bsky.social discusses power, values and interests ... profserious.substack.com/p/how-should...
19.10.2025 08:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I do wonder about the sanity of some of the privacy absolutists.
12.10.2025 18:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Who am I? @profserious.bsky.social makes the case for a UK digital ID (and sets out the key issues) profserious.substack.com/p/who-am-i
12.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Post docs who bring their own funding
09.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 105 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1This was a truly extraordinary day. I am so grateful to all the fellows of @selwyn1882.bsky.social for electing me and to Bishop Sarah for conducting the installation. We all offer her our warmest congratulations on her appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury.
05.10.2025 10:01 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Photo of Irving Finkel of the British Museum, holding a clay tablet with cuneiform writing from ancient Mesopotamia.
I appreciate your attention to removing "residual traces of insincerity."
I am excited about being selected for the AI working group. In advance of its inaugural meeting, I attach my updated bio pic for circulation to the other members.
Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
05.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 119 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 14👀 Exciting - and important - #datavis #accessibility research role! #London based + full details 👇
17.09.2025 12:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New Fellow: Professor Rajkumar Roy FREng is a pioneer in through-life engineering services (TES) and cost modelling. He previously led the UK’s national TES Centre, championing engineering for social and economic value impact. @lborouniversity.bsky.social raeng.org.uk/about-us/fel... #RAEngFellows
01.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
it is Friday evening @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/friday-eve...
28.09.2025 08:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And a highly skilled software engineer!
26.09.2025 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many congratulations @ollieatnowhere.bsky.social well deserved recognition
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Headshot of 74 newly elected Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, with the Academy's logo.
We’re pleased to announce the 74 leading figures from the world of engineering and technology elected to our Fellowship at yesterday’s AGM. Meet them all now: https://raeng.org.uk/news/royal-academy-of-engineering-welcomes-74-new-fellows/
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Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems at the University of Cambridge, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
@ceciliamascolo.bsky.social has been elected as a Fellow of the @raeng.org.uk! Prof of Mobile Systems here, she's a pioneer in devising frameworks to collect and analyse sensing data from devices like phones and earbuds, and use it to understand behaviour & health. shorturl.at/GnuZq
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New Fellow: Professor Panagiota Angeli FREng is a leader in multiphase flows for sustainable processing. She co-directs two @ukri.org programme grants and led @uclengineering.bsky.social to an Athena Swan Gold Award, supporting equality across engineering.
raeng.org.uk/about-us/fel...
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the 'social license' for universities (and the case for a 'national' perspective) set out by @profserious.bsky.social
profserious.substack.com/p/on-our-soc...
