Dr Robert T. Foley
@robertfoley.bsky.social
Reader in Defence Studies, King's College London, at the Joint Services Command & Staff College. Sometime writer on warfare and strategic thought, particularly Germany in the First World War. Occasional runner of longish distances. Views my own.
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener (@scrivenerapp.bsky.social) does not use AI in any way.
I've been a happy user of Scrivener for 15+ years. And boy, am I happy about that! Thank you, Scrivener!
tinyurl.com/2mh99w3y
I've been a happy user of Scrivener for 15+ years. And boy, am I happy about that! Thank you, Scrivener!
tinyurl.com/2mh99w3y
Does Scrivener use AI? / General / Knowledge Base - Literature and Latte Support
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November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener (@scrivenerapp.bsky.social) does not use AI in any way.
I've been a happy user of Scrivener for 15+ years. And boy, am I happy about that! Thank you, Scrivener!
tinyurl.com/2mh99w3y
I've been a happy user of Scrivener for 15+ years. And boy, am I happy about that! Thank you, Scrivener!
tinyurl.com/2mh99w3y
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I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
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Tim Cook CM
1971 – 2025
A great loss to the military history community worldwide. Thoughts and aroha with his family in Canada. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
1971 – 2025
A great loss to the military history community worldwide. Thoughts and aroha with his family in Canada. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Tim Cook, chief historian at the Canadian War Museum dies
The historian was the author of over 19 books focusing on Canada’s military history.
www.thestar.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Tim Cook CM
1971 – 2025
A great loss to the military history community worldwide. Thoughts and aroha with his family in Canada. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
1971 – 2025
A great loss to the military history community worldwide. Thoughts and aroha with his family in Canada. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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This is the way.
London plan to improve air quality in schools by installing indoor air filters
“Children & adults can be triggered [& INFECTED] by particles in air such as dust mites, mould, pollen, animal dander, pollutants & VIRUSES” airqualitynews.com/headlines/ai...
“Children & adults can be triggered [& INFECTED] by particles in air such as dust mites, mould, pollen, animal dander, pollutants & VIRUSES” airqualitynews.com/headlines/ai...
Air filters to be rolled out to 200 London schools
The Mayor of London has launched a £2.7 million programme to improve air quality in schools by installing indoor air filters across the capital. At least 200 schools will receive High Efficiency Part...
airqualitynews.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is the way.
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"Students, and increasingly all of us, risk becoming editors of what has already been said, where the future is built only from recycled fragments of yesterday’s data."
theconversation.com/how-generati...
theconversation.com/how-generati...
How generative AI could change how we think and speak
Over-reliance on chatbots could be eroding our language and critical thinking skills.
theconversation.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"Students, and increasingly all of us, risk becoming editors of what has already been said, where the future is built only from recycled fragments of yesterday’s data."
theconversation.com/how-generati...
theconversation.com/how-generati...
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“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
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
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
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This anon piece is as good as people are saying, but I'll summarise here for those of you interested in Higher Education but with no time:
*Universities are not in the public sector
*Govts are a minority funder, and matter less and less. (1/4)
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
*Universities are not in the public sector
*Govts are a minority funder, and matter less and less. (1/4)
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
Understanding University Finances
... a very short guide
profserious.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This anon piece is as good as people are saying, but I'll summarise here for those of you interested in Higher Education but with no time:
*Universities are not in the public sector
*Govts are a minority funder, and matter less and less. (1/4)
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
*Universities are not in the public sector
*Govts are a minority funder, and matter less and less. (1/4)
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…’ (Couldn’t resist! 😉)
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…’ (Couldn’t resist! 😉)
Another reminder that Covid has not disappeared and continues to cause significant harm.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children
Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health
www.thegauntlet.news
June 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Another reminder that Covid has not disappeared and continues to cause significant harm.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
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Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The practice of modern protests…
New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.
June 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The practice of modern protests…
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This is disgusting.
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is disgusting.
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
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🚨🚨JOB CLAXON🚨🚨
Come work with us at UNSW Canberra. Full time continuing position
Lecturer - International and Political Studies - specialising in politics, political philosophy, international relations, security studies, or a related discipline.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Come work with us at UNSW Canberra. Full time continuing position
Lecturer - International and Political Studies - specialising in politics, political philosophy, international relations, security studies, or a related discipline.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Lecturer - International and Political Studies
Continuing academic position based in Canberra—the epicentre of Australia’s political and strategic decision-making— Join a growing school with strong ties to national security and policy-making commu...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
June 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
🚨🚨JOB CLAXON🚨🚨
Come work with us at UNSW Canberra. Full time continuing position
Lecturer - International and Political Studies - specialising in politics, political philosophy, international relations, security studies, or a related discipline.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Come work with us at UNSW Canberra. Full time continuing position
Lecturer - International and Political Studies - specialising in politics, political philosophy, international relations, security studies, or a related discipline.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
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Happy b’day, “Speaking in Tongues” — the Talking Heads LP released today in 1983.
We were “one of the first groups that tried NOT to be about a fantasy that was bigger than life,” said Jerry Harrison, “but tried to be about being strong within a life that was ultimately real.”
“Slippery People” 🙏🏼
We were “one of the first groups that tried NOT to be about a fantasy that was bigger than life,” said Jerry Harrison, “but tried to be about being strong within a life that was ultimately real.”
“Slippery People” 🙏🏼
May 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Happy b’day, “Speaking in Tongues” — the Talking Heads LP released today in 1983.
We were “one of the first groups that tried NOT to be about a fantasy that was bigger than life,” said Jerry Harrison, “but tried to be about being strong within a life that was ultimately real.”
“Slippery People” 🙏🏼
We were “one of the first groups that tried NOT to be about a fantasy that was bigger than life,” said Jerry Harrison, “but tried to be about being strong within a life that was ultimately real.”
“Slippery People” 🙏🏼
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The German term for forcing institutions to become in sync with the demands of an authoritarian movement is "Gleichschaltung"
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The German term for forcing institutions to become in sync with the demands of an authoritarian movement is "Gleichschaltung"
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I hadn’t seen this playful erasure before, by Heinrich Heine. ‘The German censors…….idiots’
May 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I hadn’t seen this playful erasure before, by Heinrich Heine. ‘The German censors…….idiots’
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
A particularly apposite memorial for today’s world…
One of the more subtle memorials - empty bookcases in the ground in remembrance of the Nazi book burnings at Bebelplatz (Berlin-Mitte) on 10 May 1933.
May 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A particularly apposite memorial for today’s world…
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One of the more subtle memorials - empty bookcases in the ground in remembrance of the Nazi book burnings at Bebelplatz (Berlin-Mitte) on 10 May 1933.
May 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
One of the more subtle memorials - empty bookcases in the ground in remembrance of the Nazi book burnings at Bebelplatz (Berlin-Mitte) on 10 May 1933.
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5 May 1949: Europe said never again.
The Council of Europe was born – to defend human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
Watch the video & hear Ernest Bevin’s powerful opening words.
Happy Birthday, Council of Europe. Let’s keep moving forward.
The Council of Europe was born – to defend human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
Watch the video & hear Ernest Bevin’s powerful opening words.
Happy Birthday, Council of Europe. Let’s keep moving forward.
May 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
5 May 1949: Europe said never again.
The Council of Europe was born – to defend human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
Watch the video & hear Ernest Bevin’s powerful opening words.
Happy Birthday, Council of Europe. Let’s keep moving forward.
The Council of Europe was born – to defend human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
Watch the video & hear Ernest Bevin’s powerful opening words.
Happy Birthday, Council of Europe. Let’s keep moving forward.