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😶 stuart reeves 😶

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ACADEMIC PERSON @UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL + @HorizonDER ❑ RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 13h
We gear up for major strike action, with picket lines on Thursday while council deliberates on c.600 job losses, 48 course closures, 1:22 staff-student ratios, all for a 9% surplus. @uonucu.bsky.social put forward a comprehensive alternative financial plan to save jobs, education & research.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
one reason I dislike researchers using the concept "human-in-the-loop" is that it is actually impossible (and analytically foolhardy) to disentangle people, their interlocking lifeworlds, and the vast set of technical and other fabrics that compose them (h/t to @wendynorris.bsky.social)
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
might be a good time to, you know, perhaps actually pay attention to the last 100 odd years of philosophy of language, and the praxeological turn in linguistics? h/t @drkatedevlin.bsky.social
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our massive strike action for the fall begins on Wednesday, but we will be facing some intense financial hardship to do so. Please consider supporting our members by donating to our solidarity fund. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £10000 to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
so-called "AI" company leaders have been busy grooming politicians to treat their technologies as having "agency" as a method of absolving themselves of any responsibility, whether it's to steal data, lack cyber security competence, or accelerate climate destruction www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
bbc.co.uk
Australia launches urgent review after OpenAI program hacks government health portal
Experts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
someone make it stop
Professional fool from Microsoft talking to media leads to headline "Uncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns Microsoft"
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the Moore's Law of funding is "AI use is inevitable"
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this move to structure gov - dividing universities between DfE and BIST (was DSIT) - was incredibly stupid, indicative of muddled thinking and deep cluelessness about how research and teaching intertwine* * at least, that is how UKHE has been set up historically, rightly or wrongly
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I find the affectation of stating that one is a "troublemaker" incredibly annoying I'm guessing some of this comes from the popularisation of (certain flavours of) the concept of "trouble" from various theorists (e.g., Butler) hey, look at me, what a troublemaker I am
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've found where all the GPUs have gone
static.klipy.com
Raiders Lost: Floating Bag in Warehouse
Alt: Scene from raiders of the lost ark, where the ark of the covenant is boxed up and stored in a giant warehouse with loads of other boxes
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
hardly surprising from the sector body (UUK) that callously stood against university staff during the USS pensions crisis (in which, surprise surprise, staff were *right about the whole time*)
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
went to a museum today and they had used genAI to vomit out some narrative videos and my reaction was one of abjection - I could not look at the screen, I felt embarrassed and queasy JUST HIRE AN ACTOR
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
maybe it is time to retire(?) the term "human-in-the-loop" it is often used as an apology, or an excuse, or a fix for technology - now hijacked by bad actors too it is underpinned by a conceptual poverty that imports, unannounced, some kind of cybernetics-lite way of thinking
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
unfortunately this is happening all over the sector because of university management culture that thrives on copying the de rigueur rather than listening to staff, HE consultants are siphoning off huge amounts of cash from university budgets to construct plans to sack staff
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I posted some waffle on "The discomforts of embodiment in research on human-machine interaction" on my Mataroa blog #EMCA stuartreeves.mataroa.blog/blog/embodim...
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The discomforts of embodiment in research on human-machine interaction — notes on research
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
moving my blog (such as it is) to Mataroa stuartreeves.mataroa.blog/blog/posting...
stuartreeves.mataroa.blog
Posting now on Mataroa — notes on research
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
UK universities slowly being strangled to death by going on decade+ of terrible mismanagement and no one is doing anything about it or seems to care - the current settlement is not fit for purpose and cannot continue (it will tho! until the very last wheeze)
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the vision of the future is virtually identical to Apple's Knowledge Navigator (1987) while simultaneously being ignorant of Weiser's decentring of computing (albeit not quite "decomputing" ofc) if you want further proof that vision has entirely dried up post-smartphone look no further
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
carlsonlab.bio
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Meta: "please, we're too important simply to be ignored" given that the "agentic AI" gambit failed, and that the more desperate "singularity" and "AGI is here" silliness hasn't moved the dial, they're all going for "we're dangerous" again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm
Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
why aren't they just "asking the AI"?
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
if you are doing human* centred research on/with technology (e.g. HCI), funding frequently becomes entangled with big tech in one way or another - this interview is a nice reminder of what we're up against (*person, social, more-than-human, etc.)
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
long thread on how HCI, HRI, etc. (and "AI" ofc) use ideas of "embodiment" and "embodied X" in ways that often end up constructing the very barriers they were supposedly breaking by referring to "embodiment" and "embodied X" analytically, embodiment is conceptually highly suspect
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
without commenting on the value or otherwise of the research in question, it seems obvious to me this is largely a mechanism for offering continuity funding for various existing parts of the UK AI research base
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
this is also known as a horoscope I also refer everyone back to Garfinkel's documentary method of interpretation (thread worth reading btw)
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
it is strange seeing some of the more-than-human design people essentially doing the work of technology companies in arguing for commensurability with stuff like plants or snails or whatever
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
genuinely, does *anyone* besides the conference chairs actually pay attention to a conference "theme"? never seen it done, except perhaps for snide references to their general irrelevance * my experiences are, as ever, research community specific - YMMV!
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 22/07/2026
i started my PhD in robotics in 2003. 23 years later, the main real-world use of humanoid robotics research continues to be "extremely expensive ways to generate viral video clips"
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tante @tante.cc · 21/07/2026
"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
our paper "Handling troubles with discretion: Transforming informings into announcements in a control room behind a mixed-reality performance" (w/Christian Greiffenhagen) is finally online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
People often encounter troubles, which in co-present situations may involvethe assistance of others. We investigate how a control room uses a particulardivision of labor to notice and handle troubles within a mixed-reality liveperformance: Monitors (tasked with noticing troubles of performers outsidethe control room) only inform directors about troubles; directors then mayannounce those troubles to performers (how to resolve them). We present twokey findings: First, although informings typically contain trouble-formulations,these are often absent from the announcement, which allows directors tofocus on the progressivity of the performance rather than topicalize theresponsibility of trouble or the recurrence of the trouble. Second, directorsavoid attributing responsibility for the trouble either by adopting agent-lessformulations or by aggregating agency. Together, these practices allow direc-tors to handle troubles “with discretion.” Data are in English.People often encounter troubles as part of what they are doing. When people are talking to one another, theorganization of handling troubles of speaking, hearing, and understanding is known as “repair” (Schegloff etal., 1977, p. 361). When people are engaged in other practical courses of action, the organization of handlingtroubles may be referred to as “recruitment” (Kendrick & Drew, 2016) or “assistance” (Kendrick, 2021). Inmany cases, handling troubles may be heard as doing other actions, such as complaining, blaming, oraccusing (Jefferson, 1987, p. 88). To minimize this, others may design their handling in such a way as to keepthese possibilities “off the conversational surface . . . to correct with discretion” (Jefferson, 1987, p. 100). It isthis phenomenon we explore in this article.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Over on linkedin, I heard from Jeanna Matthews, co-chairing an ACM taskforce on Responsible AI use (saving commentary on that framing for later…) that this decision does *not* come from ACM leadership & that community input really matters. Make your voice heard here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Screencap of LinkedIn comment from Jeanna Matthews:

As someone who holds and has held leadership positions within ACM for many years, I would like to everyone to know that ACM Council has not even had a chance to vote on this question.  

I was deeply saddened to see this presented as "ACM Believes" this.  Many people within ACM do not agree and no one should be saying "ACM Believes" without even a Council discussion or vote.

Now is only the time for is a vigorous and open discussion about this question AND the community deserved better than a discussion that leads off in such a one-sided way. 

All the good that ACM has to offer the world comes directly from the authors and volunteers and ACM members. Those are the people who should be consulted about whether the benefits outweigh the risks before ACM believes anything.

Even if you, like me, are upset by this one-sided framing, I still ask you to leave your comments on the form in addition to sharing them here and in other forums.   A final decision has not been made and your comments  can make a real difference in the final decision.  

Please comment yourself and encourage other community members to do the same.Screencap of LinkedIn comment from Jeanna Matthews:

Thank you Emily M. Bender. I appreciate you sharing the link and encouraging people to respond. Virginia Dignum and I have been chairing a taskforce on Responsible AI use within ACM. We were as surprised by this article as anyone.  Every community member who registers their opinion on the form will contribute substantially to the outcome of this question.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
just also to say the latest ACM "request for comment" is clearly generated by an LLM "Now is the Time to Give LLMS Access to the ACM Digital Library - Why ACM Believes the benefits outweigh the risks in opening up the ACM Digital Library to large language models"
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
responding to this request for input with a copy of Emily's thread given the way the @acm.org has been integrating GenAI slop into the digital library (AI "summaries" and "podcasts" - yuk) it seems clear to me they have trouble working from a basis of scholars' actual needs
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was an event yesterday, about "AI" in academic life how easy the university as an institution comes to adopt AI companies' (false) narratives, imbibing notions like "agentic AI", or sentiments like "it's improving all the time" and "we'll get left behind" without any further analysis
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I do strongly deprecate the disaster at Exeter Uni, and oppose its ludicrous ham-fisted cuts, but I'm afraid the furore about it is just so on the nose about Britain's class system it cannot be ignored. Oh no, not a university I think of as good and important! www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...
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How to kill a university's reputation
After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education?
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
an idea driving this is that if we collect more data about people then we will "understand" more about them because computers can process the data and that is the same as "understanding"
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
apropo this thread, a reminder of Eisenmann et al. (2024) on Garfinkel's early research on ELIZA and LYRIC, and the importance of studies that respecify phenomena that are now simply taken for granted in the AI discourse link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Garfinkel’s experiments with human–computer interaction document the reliance of the machine on the human commitment to sense-making. His breaching scripts, if we can call them that, were designed to make trouble that reveals how the situation is produced in and as the interaction between the typing user and the machine, including the totality of its interface, programming, and physical components. It also shows how human users remain committed to making sense of interactional sequences in the face of trouble, and in doing so, demonstrates how AI systems constitutively rely upon users’ sense-making work for their effective operation. Accordingly, Garfinkel’s early studies reveal the cooperative practices standing at the core of media and technology (Schüttpelz 2023), allowing for the re-specification of things, such as “ELIZA effect”, “confirmation bias”, and “cognitive dissonance”, in terms of the constitutive social practices of their human users—the methods through which these phenomena are ordinarily produced and made recognizable (cf. Rawls and Turowetz 2021; Turowetz and Rawls 2021).
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oh, now suddenly people notice! Absurd, pathetic. It's been going on for years. Wait until the Big Names suddenly piling in see what happens next - and where it happens. Serious failure of journalism on almost every front of the university crisis. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts
Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
another conference I wish I had been able to go to #ecscw2026
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
thought about posting on the latest UK universities disasters but how do you keep up with it?
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
extremely on-brand for universities to be going steam ahead *now* on GenAI-infested edutech, just at the very moment of the shift to token-based billing because these services are financially unviable and OpenAI et al need more suckers universities are full of willing marks (aka senior management)
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
feel like I'm missing out on #icca2026 (yes, I am)
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
fingers in ears
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
another procurement "success story" www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting... www.infosys.com/services/ora... www.infosys.com/newsroom/pre...
screengrab from Infosys website with menu item showing "success stories" of which the linked-to article in the post is one
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
there's absolutely no connection between these stories about PA(rasite) Consulting and the current UoN Future Nottingham 2 plans; the coincident mention of all items is purely happenstance and nothing should be read into this www.paconsulting.com/client-story... schoolsweek.co.uk/gagged-pa-co...
schoolsweek.co.uk
How we were stopped from revealing SEND consultants’ pay
Transparency campaigners cry foul as threat of injunction prevents public interest reporting
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
you can be certain that "one of the largest transformation projects of any university in the country" will be exactly how the university executives sell themselves to their next employer when they look to jump from the burning ship archive.is/yJyQF
archive.is
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
turns out a University Pro-Vice Chancellor in Australia has slim-to-zero basic understanding of the technologies they are simultaneously cautioning students against using, while also then using themselves to generate a supercilious essay I am absolutely shocked by this revelation
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
when it comes to procuring digital systems, university managements frequently act as willing marks for the tech confidence trickster... just because this one has "AI" on the label is merely coincidental tbh
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