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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 15h

But also caving in to political pressure in the UK, like the breathless parrotting of the "growth" agenda by university managers.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 16h

I guess that you are working in the US, rather than the UK?

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, both of those, and a distrust of humanities as too intellectual, and a denigration of the arts as ladylike "accomplishments", which goes back to the 19th century, if not earlier.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 19h

Simply put, across the US and UK, university administrators, their management consultants and their funders no longer consider the arts and humanities worthy of being studied, taught and transmitted. Their vision of human society is anti-humanist. No wonder the kids are at the barricades.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 16h

The lack of interest from prospective students goes back to the hollowing-out of humanities subjects at schools.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 16h

I thought the very points of grassroots media is not to have standards?

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you like early Renaissance landscapes, then check out Altdorfer.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I now know who you are, but it's not terribly interesting to me. But good for you. Bye.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You must feel very insecure if you are throwing your wife's qualifications at me. But this is getting rather tedious, don't you think?

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's very interesting how many mrn feel triggered by women who even hint at their professional credentials on social media.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not going to respond to your presumptions about my "privilege". But since when is using "Dr" on Bluesky out of context?

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrong. I get myself to call "Dr" because *others* have a high opinion of me.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hate people who say "ok boomer", especially if they are the wrong side of middle aged themselves.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ich glaube nicht, dass das Problem ein zu wenig an Forschung ist. Das Problem ist, dass die Fakten ignoriert werden.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nochmal von vorne: Der Staat geht offenbar davon aus, dass Kinder ihre Eltern pflegen und damit die Pflegekassen entlasten, deswegen der Rabatt für Eltern. Aber ich finde, das darf man nicht so voraussetzen.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mir ging es um die erwachsenen Kinder alter Eltern, aber schon recht.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know a fair few Cambridge academics, but not in Divinity.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why would Cambridge theologians be afraid of Thiel, Reform or MAGA?

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kinder haben auch ein Recht auf freie Persönlichkeitsentfaltung und dürfen nicht zur Pflege zwangsverpflichtet werden.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And pretty much everybody in the arts and humanities would agree. But already in the adjacent social sciences writing-by-numbers had been a thing way before 2022.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are many academic disciplines, especially in STEM, where writing has a low standingin the research process and where researchers are quite happy to outsource the chore of writing up and editing to a LLM. But of course that needs to be disclosed.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is quite a lively debate about LLM use by scholars who are not native speakers of English: is AI levelling the playing field, or is it imposing bland, corporate American English worldwide, thus undermining language diversity in research even more?

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ich muss das loswerden, weil es mich seit gestern Abend wütend macht. Gestern wurde beschlossen, dass das Deutschlandticket zum dritten Mal teurer wird. Parallel startet heute der Tankrabatt. Zwei Nachrichten, wenige Stunden auseinander, und sie erzählen alles über diese Regierung. 🧵

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sadly, I think many people are already only listening to what conforms with their taste, rather than discovering new and exitingly different music. "Personal" AU music slop is just the logical extension.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Strikes start today at Nottingham. “These are not cash-strapped universities.” Dr Jo Grady on R4 this morning. 700 jobs. 48 courses. All to drive a surplus. Show your support. ✊

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe AI is really trying to give us hints where research could or should have been done? 😉

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In typical fashion, this is about outwars compliance rather than spirituality. Something St Paul explicitly criticises.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you have students like that, you don't need enemies.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She is uding intimidation and cruelty - and she enjoys herself in the most undignified way. Quite disgusting.

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What is conservative about a hussy in lingerie?

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My only quibble is that this didn't happen while Guardiola was still manager!

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you actually edit a Grokipedia page?

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Probably the missus has to do it, or else.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Munich putsch wasn't a great success either.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I blame the English poor laws, which ruled that parishes would only look after their home-grown poor, and only if they absolutely had to. The concept of charity basically disappeared from the vocabulary after the English Reformation.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty

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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026

A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Which is why teaching in person is superior to online teaching.

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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happens elsewhere as well. VC's award one year, sacked the next.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I did say Shabana Mahmood would be on the side of the thugs. Burnham keeping her in post was an utter disgrace. Labour supporters should be brave enough to say so. So should Labour MPs.

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