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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 1h

Oh I know. I don't use ChatGPT etc at all out of principle though. Not even for stuff like this 😫

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 3h

I did some research the other day. There's receipts for GC affiliation.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 3h

Mary-Ann Stephenson has taken up her post at EHRC 👀

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 3h

Interestingly this article from 4 days ago says that some guidance has been linked (I can't read the Times) and that since legal cases are expected to conclude soon. Maybe this is that fall out and we're only seeing the beginning.

What has happened since the UK supreme court’s gender ruling?

Official guidance has yet to be published after landmark judgment seven months ago

www.theguardian.com

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 3h

If you get wind of any coordinated push back, let me know. I'm signing the usual petitions etc but not seen any larger scale campaigns. Will happily direct some energy somewhere

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 3h

I've just seen that. That's odd, right? This is coordinated in some way.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4h

Or worse. Some of these trips are over nighters.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4h

This. I get the anger at GG and the calls to boycott. But fight up, not down. Fight the bigots who have forced this issue, the public figures and politicians that enable and encourage it.

I'm really uneasy at the idea of using children as political pawns and won't stoop down to the TERFs level.

Courtney 🎄 Love Actually 🎄 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 4h

there's a reason why the Guides and WI are having to make these statements and it's because they've been so very inclusive before. it sucks (and im not excusing either, just saying its understandable) but it's definitely targeted.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 4h

How would you feel if you were invited to give a guest lecture/seminar at another university, but when in the room found that most of your audience was on Teams?

Courtney 🎄 Love Actually 🎄 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 4h

there's a reason why the Guides and WI are having to make these statements and it's because they've been so very inclusive before. it sucks (and im not excusing either, just saying its understandable) but it's definitely targeted.

IAVCEI Commission on Volcanic Sediments @comvolcseds.bsky.social · 4h

REGISTER FOR OUR UPCOMING WEBINAR - festive edition! 🌋🎄

CVS members Prof. Dr. Leandro D’Elia and Dr. Manuel López will be giving a talk titled: "The Miocene volcaniclastic record of North Patagonia: tracing high- to low-magmatic arc states from source to sink"

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4h

Seems there has been some co-ordination.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April

Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 5h

"Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning... Critical pedagogy is out; productivity hacks are in."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

www.currentaffairs.org

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 6h

Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!

We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.

Aerial view of the Cerne Abbas giant - a landscape feature showing the white chalk outline of a naked man with a club raised in one hand. There is text over lay which reads 'It's a big one!'

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

www.currentaffairs.org

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. I absolutely agree with both of those points.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 19h

Dear Father Christmas...

Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 23h

We are delighted to share the UK cover for the new book from award-winning author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, coming in May next year. @chanda.blacksky.app

Pre-order yours now! buythebook.online/edge-of-spac...

A hardback packshot of the Edge of Space Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 19h

That's how I read it too

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 19h

It's so sad. And from reading the announcement, sounds like a change they really didn't want to make. ☹️

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 20h

Girl guiding is a lovely, creative, supportive space for girls. To feel welcomed. Empowered. Where they can be their whole selves. For some, it's a safe space. For others it's a free space.

Today, that space has been taken away from some of the girls who need that space the most. 🏳️‍⚧️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding

Girls’ adventure charity says it made decision after seeking legal advice in wake of supreme court ruling on gender Trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding, the organisation has announced, saying it has made the decision after seeking legal advice in the wake of the supreme court ruling on gender earlier this year. Girlguiding on Tuesday said: “Trans girls and young women, and others not recorded female at birth, will no longer be able to join Girlguiding as new young members”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 22h

Next Monday @riceuniversity.bsky.social we have a panel discussion on the geopolitics of critical minerals for the energy transition. Geology does not distribute natural resources fairly. This leads to a complex web of trade and geopolitical tensions.

events.rice.edu/event/415347...

Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 23h

We are delighted to share the UK cover for the new book from award-winning author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, coming in May next year. @chanda.blacksky.app

Pre-order yours now! buythebook.online/edge-of-spac...

Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 23h

Excited to be participating as a keynote in this conference "What Makes a Geoscience Model Useful?" next year at The Geological Society of London ⚒️ #philsci

www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/what-...

The Geological Society
What Makes a Geoscience Model
Useful?
Home > •••
> What Makes a Geoscience Model Useful?
21 - 22 September 2026
09:00 - 18:00
Overview
Speakers

The meeting aims to use oral, poster and keynote presentations combined with discussion and debate sessions to progress answers to the following questions:
• What makes a geoscience model useful?
• How should conceptual, analogue and numerical models be used and integrated in geoscience?
• How much do conceptual models inform, influence or limit data collection and interpretation?
• Do digital outcrop models have significant untapped potential, for example to improve existing conceptual models?
• What does it mean for a model to be predictive?
• How do you find the simplest model or models able to answer the question being asked?
• Are simple process models as useful as complex process models?
• Do we need metrics for model complexity?
• What new process models remain to be developed?
geolsoc.org.uk

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23h

🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉

The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂

Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!

buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky

The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie cover on a neon rainbow background. This cover is black background with a central image that is half Black and white circular pattern and half neon rainbow circle. Beneath the cover it says UK: 7 May 2026.

pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading.
From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community.
There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation.
Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us.
We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 1d

All that serves to do is put off genuinely good people (because who would want to do it if they thought all their colleagues immediately thought that that made them bad people). And perpetuates the idea that only terrible people must want to do it.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a bit tired of this kind of rhetoric. Some people want to do it because they genuinely want to serve their community, do well for their colleagues, try some new initiatives that they think might help. But we demonise them with this narrative that if they want to do it they're terrible people.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is arguing the opposite! Digital formats come and go. Hard copies persist. Don't throw them out! And print your digital-only ones.

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 1d

Oh congratulations!

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