This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …

This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

When we work with our data we have to decide who and what gets to be in the story. A number goes in the table or it doesn’t. A quote earns half a page, a passing mention, or nothing at all. T…

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

ALT: a man with a beard is looking at a woman with the words maybe we could be better together

Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…

The workshop I'm running in Edinburgh in a couple weeks with Anuja Cabraal (PhD) and Daniel Turner is all about using human senses to enact #qualitative analysis. If you're interested in how the works...

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Central Edinburgh | Thursday, 13 November • 10:00 AM

Join Anuja Cabraal, Daniel Turner and Christina Silver for two days exploring creative, tactile and reflexive ways of working with qualitative materials. This workshop encourages you to go beyond rea

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

I’ve been a relatively slow-adopter of the genAI movement in academia. For a while now I’ve been under the (misguided?) perception that if I used genAI in any way to conduct my research, I would so…

In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term ​in troublingly narrow ways.

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Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.

More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…

Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.

These last weeks of December have a peculiar quality about them. We're caught in a strange liminal space—that in-between time where one year is winding down and another hasn't quite begun. Our phones ...