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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

❤️ would absolutely love to know what YOU make of it x

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Proofs of my essay on rough love 🥰

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Agree, though in my version of the story there are clear culprits! Really pleased you like the piece :)

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Really lovely review of my book by Michael Rizq ❤️

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bit of my Pleasure book, written today ✨🩷

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My essay ‘Ersatz Because’ has just come out 🥰🥂✨

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Did a podcast on the uni system substack.com/@philipwbloo...

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ah really cool. Thank you! 😍

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today’s writing: paper for a Munich conference ❤️✨

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hm, it should. I could send you it by email if you like, or you could search for it on Critical Quarterly’s website.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

bc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2djnz3y47o

bc.co.uk

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The psychic precision is important here. We're sitting through a national processing process for one man's castrated shame and anxiety, which will never end: Ossoff understands that and communicates it clearly.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just finished a remarkable article by @becimay.bsky.social on “The Last Line.” “And the hardest of all is to make them hatch”—a stellar (hatching!) last line of its own.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ah thank you so much ❤️

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Faculty will be ”given a score between zero and three by the university” - unbelievable stupidity and cruelty, solidarity with comrades at Exeter

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ok, so according to the Union’s calculations, 27% of the staff in my English department will be made redundant

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

First review of my book, Modernism’s Whims, and it’s a lovely one ❤️✨🥰

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Ian Webster @websterij.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It might just help change the senior management team's minds

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So sorry to hear!! Solidarity! 👊

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here you go!! 150 spread across the uni might seem like not much, but 20 of them will come from the English department www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Aw thx my friend! Will send in a bit …

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just vis a vis the 25%. Mea culpa. In my delirium I took the number they gave us, 15.7, to be a head count. In my defence though the number is a really obscure way of stating the cut. It’s the percentage of 85% of 150 that are coming from my department; it works out as 10 of us.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

There’s a petition … Thank you!

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Ah thank you. It’s just a conference paper. I can send you both copies if you’d like them.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Exeter has a phenomenal track record of literary studies research AND enrollment. The unbundling of the two will sabotage them both. And that is by design. The fewer research-intensive humanities departments there are, this thinking goes, the easier it will be to censor what they produce.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Ah an essay I wrote ages ago

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We have seen the contracts yet but have been told they’ll double our teaching workload

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caitlinscott.bsky.social @caitlinscott.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

solidarity from UEA where we went through this 3 years ago. the 3 campus unions did a stellar job then, ousting the VC, getting media onside and supporting alternative plans for budget management- a very long and hard fight and many still lost their jobs but it was a turnaround - good luck

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not even enough to read a poem

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