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Gav Maclean
@gavmaclean.bsky.social
Small time sociologist.
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No, it doesn't. We already have celebrity children's literature.
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Liverpool are some team at the minute.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So much for Ed Miliband "getting it" on climate
North Sea plan permits new drilling on existing fields and no big shifts to clean energy
‘Tiebacks’ will permit small amount of new fossil fuel extraction, but campaigners want bolder strategy
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I dunno man, since we've had decades of STEM worship at the expense of social science, arts and humanities in public policy we've seen a dramatic upsurge in far right misinformation, climate denial and anti-vax sentiment all while universities go bust and loads of feedback mechanisms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's 2050 and carbon emissions have put the planet well above the 2.0 degree celsius target.

The Treasury have confirmed that the fuel duty cut has been extended to 2051.
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Welfare policy after 45 years (Grauniad's own wording)
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
it's OK lads, the isa threshold is still unobtainable to me
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
me in my last lecture on the course: 'oh, I'm not going into the god is dead stuff again'
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
New instrumental rationality example just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
lol
I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you

If you are a software developer the opposite is true
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Jonathan Hinder, Labour MP and Oxford University graduate saying "I don’t think we should have anywhere near as many universities and university places" just a few months ago.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Watched Film Club because I like soppy TV and I like much of the cast. It did make me think about how the ability to carry out conversations based solely on film references is dying a death. It is definitely a programme pre-2000 DOBs.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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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
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The power of Ian Wright
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
What I love about Man Utd is they've committed to 3 more years of this.
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%

Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%

yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Yours for a bit shy of one million of your finest English pounds: one crack den.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I seem to have missed what 'Black Friday' refers to now.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
dear reader, it wasn't Taylorism.
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
lecture recordings show I owe royalties to Stewart Lee.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM