Chris Lloyd

As an external examiner for their amazing literature/creative writing programme, this is a decimation (of people’s lives and careers; of education; of student opportunity; of disciplines). Fuck austerity in all its forms.

University of Staffordshire proposes to cut nearly 70 jobs The university says the proposed reduction in staff comes are in response to financial challenges.

Job losses at Staffordshire University for third year running while the senior management claim “student experience remains paramount”

We note the precision of cutting 66.7 people to “save” education

The remaining 0.3 of a person picks up all the extra workload?

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Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Not a bad place for my first keynote in Spain! ☀️ 🌊

Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!

Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.

Thank you to all who joined. Stay tuned for more “America Now!” sessions coming up!

Season 2 of “America Now!” launches at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. We talked about the long history of Americans aboard, from Jefferson to Emily in Paris.

Co-hosted by the Eccles Institute and @officialbaas.bsky.social! Come join us for the next one.

Anonymous Texas A&M professor calls on students to be ‘agent of change’ Editor's note: The following is an open letter to the Texas A&M student body written by a tenured professor at A&M and provided to The Battalion. The pr

"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Bar chart with blue bars: Privately educated people dominate the UK's most influential roles Professions with the highest independent school attendance Armed forces* 63% Senior judges 62% Cricketers, men 59% Young power list** 54% Diplomats 53% House of Lords 52% Shadow cabinet 52% Cricketers, women 50% Columnists 50% FTSE 100 chairs 47% Political commentators 47% Permanent secretaries 47% Whole UK population 7%

UK meritocracy and social mobility update from The Guardian

09:49 1S W J.K. Rowling 22K Tweets AN Tweets Tweets & replies Media 70% Follow J.K. Rowling❤ @jk_rowling · 11h Likes If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe... x.com/i/web/status/1... 6,244 70.9K 332K X''D'Y @tzippylavi 10h Do you include Hitler in that? 247 279 J.K. Rowling 169 @jk_rowling · 10h Many who scream 'fascist' at opponents fully endorse his methods. "The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence." Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf. 122 + 444 8,421 = |||

The Holocaust denier who has spent the last four years waging social violence against trans people and set up a BILLION POUND fund to wage lawfare against innocent people is now quoting Mein Kampf. But sure, tell me I need to widen my tent for people who disagree with me.

Thank you!

BREAKING: At least 32 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 19 people in Gaza City alone, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

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Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Oh hey I’m in this collection! Thanks to Loic and Chris for being fantastic editors!

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My new book - co-edited with Loïc Bourdeau - is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30 if buying on the EUP site. Please ask your libraries to order this in, we’d really appreciate it!

NHS 111 online What was your sex at birth? Female Male This online triage depends on knowing your registered sex at birth, not your gender identity. If you are doing this for someone else, tell us their sex at birth if you know. We need to know this information so we can ask relevant clinical questions. If you feel uncomfortable giving this information, or do not see an option that represents you correctly, you can call 111 to talk to a nurse.

111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support.

There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded.

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary

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New from @edinburghup.bsky.social The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Loïc Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social, “provides a compassionate, capacious and complex analysis of the over-discussed but under-analysed concept of the millennial and its relationship to long-form fiction”

One of the most notable tools is the AI grader agent, which Grammarly says can provide feedback based on uploaded course details and “publicly available” information about the instructor. The bot can give tailored writing recommendations and estimate what grade the paper will receive in its current state, helping students make improvements prior to submission.

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For the last time: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is an aggregate, made to spit nonense information back to you. This is why it cannot be used in an academic context.

the Polari Prize First Book longlist, with Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu and Ciara Maguire crossed out as they've withdrawn

The Polari Prize Longlist with Rhian Elizabeth crossed out as she's withdrawn

New update on author withdrawals from the Polari Prize in protest of the inclusion of a proud transphobe

From the First Book longlist: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

From the main award longlist: Rhian Elizabeth

Fuck this

I have literally never used ChatGPT to do anything. Gonna start a chastity club.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

The duty to secure freedom of speech includes (as relating to academic staff) securing academic freedom. The Act defines academic freedom, in relation to academic staff at a registered higher education provider (or constituent institution), as their freedom within the law: to question and test received wisdom, and to put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions without placing themselves at risk of being adversely affected in any of the following ways: loss of their jobs or privileges at the provider; the likelihood of their securing promotion or different jobs at the provider being reduced.

I am not a lawyer, so please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell the new legislation in place to protect 'free speech' prohibits any university from censuring any professor from dedicating class time to promulgating misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism,

Listen to episode 24 of the podcast - with Tsitsi Marima & Melissa Cummings - about decolonial approaches to the Tourism, Hospitality, and Events degrees at Hertfordshire! Share with your networks and let us know what you think: open.spotify.com/episode/2jdH...

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 79 Palestinians, including 41 aid seekers, since the early hours of this morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

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