Every U.K. job ad is like “we seek a dynamic, world-leading expert to care for priceless, load-bearing activities. Salary: £28,000 p.a.”
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Every U.K. job ad is like “we seek a dynamic, world-leading expert to care for priceless, load-bearing activities. Salary: £28,000 p.a.”
Increasingly hard to argue that fossil fuels are anything but a millstone round a nations neck
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
How much of this is loss of passion, and how much is: lack of funding, closing departments + changing university priorities, institutions investing in AI instead of human expertise + skill, etc. etc.? Anyway welcome to my life where I scream TAXONOMY IS SO INTERESTING every single day.
Branch manager branching out
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Author Phil Harris on his retirement with a view of the Round Reading Room of 1857. Photo: BL Corporate Archive, PH 034/342
We’re delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973 by P. R.
Harris is now digitised and freely available to all interested in the history of the Museum and librarianship.
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vvx
Very convincing call to cancel your ChatGTP subscription if you have one. There are very good reasons, it's painless as there are alternatives, and it may form part of an effective boycott!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every time the sun comes out, I sit in it and smile and then I think of this @morganj0nes.bsky.social tweet. It's a big leaf day.
Iwao Takamoto was one of the Disney greats. Films like Sleeping Beauty owe a lot to his meticulous lines.
The studio was a kind of home for him -- it was a big change. Just before, he'd been in the camps. We explore the story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/takamoto-a...
Nice blog post on Caspar Commelin’s 'Praeludia Botanica' (1703) and Maria Sibylla Merian’s 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium' (1705), by Verity Burton, a BA Art History student doing a placement at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social #histstm
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
In addition to being inclusive, writing the alt text for images is fun tbh.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
Ooof
For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!
I spent 5 hours yesterday grading an advisee's senior thesis draft on governmental failures during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s-90s and I am yet again begging people to listen to historians, learn from history, and I don't know, maybe do better?
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
neil young recording the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man in 1995.
Released 30 years ago today — Neil Young's classic Dead Man OST. I'd take 10 more albums like this from Neil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkG7...
Yup, LLMs are so woefully bad at history, so I'm never trusting them with anything else... but I keep meeting smart people who "ask ChatGPT" for so many things, and it's driving me to despair
For a century, the United States dominated & influenced conservation around the world--for better and for worse. That era is over.
@biographic.bsky.social has a special issue on the next era of conservation--what it looks like, who's funding it, & what it means for people, species, & ecosystems 🌱
Important not to overlook this
📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
OTD in 1970, the first Women's Liberation Conference was held in Oxford. A watershed in the British feminist movement, attendees discussed equal pay, 24-hour childcare and free contraception.
In this piece from the archive, Chandan Fraser shares her memories of the event.
Fuck me. I’d love to see the Track Changes on that document, and if there were any.
This is turning into an absolute all-timer Friday.
