Chong-Ming Lim
@chongminglim.bsky.social
Philosopher at the University of Sheffield.
Thinking about political resistance, public commemorations, disability, cats, dogs, naps, etc.
www.cmlim.info
Thinking about political resistance, public commemorations, disability, cats, dogs, naps, etc.
www.cmlim.info
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Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
The University of Manchester has been celebrating 200 years of achievement in research-driven learning, development and innovation: this has included investing in our prestigious Bicentenary PhD Studentships and Fellowships. The scheme represents a major University investment of £28 million to recruit and fund more than 200 early-career researchers between 2025/26 and 2026/27.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Long form law?
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Long form law?
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
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Good morning, kind reminder that when you endorse supposedly "immigration-friendly" narratives such as "we need immigrants to pick our vegetables/clean our shit/sweep our streets" (incl. the most recent Monbiot's piece) you're contributing to the creation of England's internal labour colony
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Good morning, kind reminder that when you endorse supposedly "immigration-friendly" narratives such as "we need immigrants to pick our vegetables/clean our shit/sweep our streets" (incl. the most recent Monbiot's piece) you're contributing to the creation of England's internal labour colony
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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Erasing the actual ironworkers is also very symbolic of how people think about this technology, which will allegedly "take all the jobs", even though it can't weld girders or indeed build anything.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Erasing the actual ironworkers is also very symbolic of how people think about this technology, which will allegedly "take all the jobs", even though it can't weld girders or indeed build anything.
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How are soldiers who volunteer for foreign causes commemorated in the countries they served?
@ninajanz.bsky.social on foreign fighters and the struggle over memory.
@ninajanz.bsky.social on foreign fighters and the struggle over memory.
The Unclaimed Dead
From the Spanish Civil War to the invasion of Ukraine, Nina Janz writes about foreign fighters and the struggle over memory.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
How are soldiers who volunteer for foreign causes commemorated in the countries they served?
@ninajanz.bsky.social on foreign fighters and the struggle over memory.
@ninajanz.bsky.social on foreign fighters and the struggle over memory.
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An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics.
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics.
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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OpenAI is ten years old today! My take on how its transition from idealistic charity to profit-seeking corporation shows how capitalism squeezes morals out of business theconversation.com/why-openai-i...
Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism
Money and morality are a challenging corporate combination.
theconversation.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
OpenAI is ten years old today! My take on how its transition from idealistic charity to profit-seeking corporation shows how capitalism squeezes morals out of business theconversation.com/why-openai-i...
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I have news. Wonderful news.
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
Clayton Littlejohn, Disinformation is for Degrading the Value of Information, not Confirming Falsehoods - PhilPapers
According to a recent account of disinformation, disinformation is content that “generates ignorance” (Simion 2024a; 2024b). The view improves upon previous accounts that focused upon the potential fo...
philpapers.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I have news. Wonderful news.
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
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On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’
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The idea that the effects of phones and social media on children is so dramatically different than on adults so as to justify interfering with children's freedom to use them but not with adults... I just can't get on board with this. It's the urge to control masquerading as science.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The idea that the effects of phones and social media on children is so dramatically different than on adults so as to justify interfering with children's freedom to use them but not with adults... I just can't get on board with this. It's the urge to control masquerading as science.
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This is grim: ‘Professor Deborah Prentice revealed that counterparts at Russell Group universities had been "meeting with key people from Reform" and that "we've had people" doing the same, according to leaked comments made last week.’ VCs are already trying to please the far-right.
Then they came for the universities - Farage takes his lead from Trump. It’s all so utterly depressing isn’t it?
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is grim: ‘Professor Deborah Prentice revealed that counterparts at Russell Group universities had been "meeting with key people from Reform" and that "we've had people" doing the same, according to leaked comments made last week.’ VCs are already trying to please the far-right.
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
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This Millikan line goes (as they say) hard.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This Millikan line goes (as they say) hard.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
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Very grateful to Tatiana for her openness to share her life in this way, with strangers.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Very grateful to Tatiana for her openness to share her life in this way, with strangers.
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post