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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 1d

I think Derrida should have left cats out of it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 2d

I hate it. I think I’ll have to leave. It’s so utterly soulless & however many times you turn off notifications, somehow they still send emails you can’t care about.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 3d

🤖 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.

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.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 4d

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 4d

This sounds such a fabulous project!

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 5d

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work"

on.ft.com/43eYeRZ

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work.

It's not just AI. And education still matters

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

on.ft.com

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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 5d

What’s so depressing about these kinds of proclamations is the lack of fact accuracy. At my uni, graduate outcomes for English students are far better than those doing economics, for example.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 6d

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University
#arts #sociology #anthropology
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenoc...

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · Mar 10

for the Monday crowd: my first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work, is now up on the Columbia UP site, with a gorgeous cover and gorgeous (and too-generous) blurbs. Out this August and pre-orderable from May! @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...

Stitch, Unstitch | Columbia University Press

The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vi... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 6d

Try to take up service roles you enjoy or that will challenge you in new ways, which helps it be less onerous — be strategic about how it will contribute to your career. Carve out time for writing where you do nothing but research on that day. You don’t need to reply to most emails right away.

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 6d

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

www.cambridge.org

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 6d

Part 1: Badenoch calls for curb on rip-off degrees such as English.

Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 14d

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

universityenglish.ac.uk

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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 7d

This is a disaster for Newham, where I live, & a disgrace under Labour.

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 7d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 7d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23d

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · Sep 12

Cover art is in! Wastelands and Wonderlands coming in April. Massive thanks to the creative team at SUNY for another brilliant cover! This has some amazing contribs and I can't wait for you to read their work!

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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 25d

Jesus.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 26d

Some Good News, everybody!

"Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.

futurism.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26d

All UK HE news talks of contraction. Bronze TEF providers will be defunded. Research funding is to be more "targeted". Total continuation of the Conservatives' vision for HE, under Labour.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 14

love a typology

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Sep 13

That three major British newspapers jumped on the poorly sourced (ATF to Steven Crowder to WSJ) line about the bullets having ‘trans’ symbols (actually a, wait for it, Helldivers 2 code) is such a tell on what they really care about. They really need to apologise (they won’t)

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · Sep 12

I disagree profoundly with the view that all research in universities should be externally funded. I'm also curious about why such a view needs to be expounded in the most provocative and insulting terms, rather than presented e.g. as dry financial pragmatism -what is the point of the obnoxiousness?

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T)
University of Glasgow

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM506/l...

Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T) at University of Glasgow

Apply now for the Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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