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😶 stuart reeves 😶
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ACADEMIC PERSON

@UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL +
@HorizonDER

❑ RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)
our #CSCW2025 paper on human-robot collaboration argued against this idea

medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Senior management at Lancaster University insist cuts of 1 in 4 jobs are “difficult but necessary”

This means “we messed up the finances & you’ll be paying for it”

www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...
Lancaster University industrial action begins Monday with 1 in 4 jobs set to be axed
Staff at Lancaster University will begin industrial action on Monday November 10 over management’s threat to axe one in four staff, the University and College Union (UCU) announced.
www.lancasterguardian.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
university leaders are simply executing stated government plans for HE (regional subject 'rationalisation', slimmed down sector overall)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ACM TOCHI is creating a Distinguished Reviewer Board, we hope that you will apply to help us improve the papers we curate. You will get training in reviewing, experience with high-quality papers, and a bit of recognition. Apply at forms.gle/BWUbgHBddiro.... Please RT or DM to interested folks.
Applications for ACM TOCHI Distinguished Reviewer Board
This form is for nominating yourself to the Distinguished Reviewer Board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI, https://tochi.acm.org/). The work of distinguished reviewers helps en...
forms.gle
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?

Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.

Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.

Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.

More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...

#EMCA
CA for Beginners January 2026 - emcawiki
emcawiki.net
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Now that em-dashes have been ruined by their overpresence in AI slop, we might as well switch to something better⸻namely Unicode U+2E3B, the 3-em dash⸺or at the very least U+2E3A, the 2-em.
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Talking about whatever the fuck this is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Jf...
WTF Is Going On?
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher

#chi2026
While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...
When LLMs Write Our Papers
Four writing issues I notice as a reviewer — and how to fix them
dbuschek.medium.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I wrote about the stupid white paper.

In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
Somewhere in the Department for Education, a phone is ringing
On October 20th at a bit after 5pm, the UK government introduced its Education and Skills white paper to Parliament, to absolutely no…
hitchcockian.medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
your daily reminder that there are exactly two universities in the UK
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
👋 ULRIKEN

#CSCW2025
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
entering a terrifying subterranean session #cscw2025
October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I seem have various new followers 👋 (#cscw ????)

apologies in advance given I mainly spend my time moaning about the many ongoing disasters of UK higher education
October 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
short blog post (with exciting video!) on our #CSCW2025 paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?)

#EMCA #CSCW

(paper with Hannah Pelikan & @marinanc.bsky.social)

medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...
Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration
It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. It’s…
medium.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Who can say if dice are sentient
October 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
when the bubble bursts I'm wondering what will happen to research fields and researchers who have pivoted everything they do to "AI"

I'm thinking particularly about the lack of conceptual depth in tech driven research (cough CHI cough)
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
October 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Curbing ‘unfunded’ research ‘could chase away academics’.

Researchers wary of signals from senior figures that universities “can’t afford” research without external funding.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Curbing ‘unfunded’ research ‘could chase away academics’ - Research Professional News
Researchers wary of signals from senior figures that universities “can’t afford” research without external funding
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
turns out relational databases are actually very damaging for your health and turn you into whatever this is
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Peter Kyle going through his own personal "Silicon Valley" phase

apparently students must aspire to be individualist entrepreneurs not collegiate teamworkers
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
September 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
learning how to be a border guard
September 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
claiming "it's the WiFi" in front of a tech audience
LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI
September 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
if Malcolm Press really did make this offensive and ignorant statement about "unfunded hobbyist research" then he's not fit to represent universities in the UK
September 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM