iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s funny how if you are a member of the demographic that holds power you are just a part of that demographic whereas if you are a member of a minority you represent that minority.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

No one, not a single person of note, is arguing that universities should not enforce rules against plagiarism. What we are pointing out is that it is insane and disproportionate for the attention of an entire country to move to one plagiarist until he kills himself.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

liberalcurrents.com

Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

“Political discourse that was once conducted in print — with its remarkable capacity for sustaining logical thought and extended argument — now takes place in the moronic inferno of social media.” Something for all of us on social media to ponder www.thetimes.com/article/9ab5...

thetimes.com

The death of reading puts the world in a perilous place

Books and newspapers are increasingly giving way to social media content as the habit of reading fades. This isn’t just dumbing down, it’s a threat to democracy

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Something so surreal about seeing AI detection software advertised by the same companies who are forcibly incorporating AI into all of their products

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My most old man yells at clouds opinion is that I miss when being put on hold was just listening to hold music and not an announcement telling you that you matter to them/can go online to do this thing you elected to do by phone every ten to twenty seconds

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

to be clear in my own life this is mostly coming up in terms of like. how close to dinner can I have a snack, or how many seminars can I say yes to next term

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

open! access! is! a! con!

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

interesting side effect of seeing the odyssey is that for all Nolan excised it from his adaptation, I can't stop thinking about hubris and hamartia

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every day we get closer to a new schism

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Tbh it feels v much like the method I was initially taught French (which I bounced off of v hard and had to relearn a decade later)

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

…no? I am. Immediately concerned

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Idk it’s interesting to see which writers are favoured by the AI models, so telling to me that they all seemed to have trained on Hobbes - simply says so much about the men who trained them and what their values are

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mmm I am always down to blame Hegel (and tbh maybe also Foucault) for things

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Genuinely across both academic and popular publishing I think one of the biggest problems for the ongoing comprehension and literacy crises is that societally we have undervalued the role and importance of editors

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Good!! It’s def a matter of both taste and school, but there is a constant war between the academics who want to be clearly understood by their audience and the academics who think a sign of good academia is needing to read their articles with a dictionary on hand (guess where I fall)

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Curiosity overall. Idk I don’t have solutions for any of this, but it does worry me to see people less willing and less able to search out answers to their own questions without AI, and I think almost all aspects of this problem just exacerbate the other problems at hand here

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Outside of specialist fields is a huge flaw in academia! I think it also goes hand in hand with AI usage, because if increasingly curiosity is being satiated with AI summaries because actually learning about it is too inaccessible/difficult, it just increases cognitive offloading and a decrease in

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I mean unsurprisingly I have v strong views on all of this - I definitely think that “academic” coming to mean sort of abstract or inaccessible is a huge problem, because agreed that people should be more curious to learn things, and trying to make subject matter increasingly difficult to comprehend

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Beyond that, national funding for the humanities is being cut on drastic levels, which mostly just leads to a vicious circle

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

1000% we’re already having issues with universities cutting humanities departments across the country, or forcing them to combine with social sciences (moving both departments to one smaller funding pool and less academics total), that would def increase if unis were understood to be arts only

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oh for sure medicine is famously all textbooks the whole way down, but depending on the science, a lot of them are first principles and then practical applications - don’t get me wrong, there’s some degree of lot review but it’s infinitely more lab based than writing based

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I mean I think there’s a lot of stem stuff that doesn’t involve those things that should be at universities (computer science is the obvious first choice, but tbh true of a lot of sciences)

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So much of it seems to come down to like. Not wanting to read a book or write an essay? Which is fine! But then also have you considered picking a degree topic that doesn’t involve reading books and also writing essays

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

somewhere between funny and maddening the way AI assistant pop ups actively make it harder to get work done - i do not want to ask it anything! i want to be able to see my own screen!

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thread! 🗃️

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

it's the final IHR early careers hpt talk of the academic year tomorrow, and we've managed to finagle an air-conditioned room for it, so would highly rec coming along to hear @beccapalmer99.bsky.social talk about corruption & self interest in the american revolution www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

history.ac.uk

Words will lose their meaning”: Corruption, self-interest, and the politics of truth in the American Revolution

History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminars

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If I am no one has told me, fwiw

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Lmaaao yes my bad, but for sure I’m early 30s at this point 😅 sorry to be a living memento mori x

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

😔😔😔 thermomix place was also induction and I am already so happy to be back on gas

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Dw I will still be doing everything from scratch just, you know, longhand

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Alas I have just moved out of a place with a thermomix, and I fear the new place, while lovely and back on gas, does not have the counter space

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Disaster, it was in fact delicious

Ona bed of jasmine rice, fried golden pieces of tofu, soy charred bok choi, and shiniest mushrooms fried with caramelised red onions

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Decided to try making tofu from scratch and v torn on how I want this to go. Dinner being good would be nice but I’m not sure I can bear to add tofu to the list of things that I feel like I shouldn’t buy bc I can do it better at home

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Academic conference so good you have to make a cheese and kimchi toastie the second you get home

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

the problem with spending too much time in academia is that you ultimately think tolkein was right and all fantasy authors need to start from first principles to figure out exactly how and why their fantasy societies and cultures would have developed that way

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Truly excellent keynote from the ever luminous @shiruuu.bsky.social (I am like 90% sure she never logs on and therefore won’t see this hagiography but it was a truly excellent keynote)

Shiru Lim talks in front of a powerpoint in which is highlighted “some conclusions, maybe: empire before imperialism”

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

You love to see a powerpoint that makes the speaker say “I’m glad we’ve had lunch so I’m not doing this to you on an empty stomach” @history-thought.bsky.social

Gonzalo Lope Prieto talks in front of an ominous flowchart of theorists that Carl Schmitt was referencing

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

arguably.uk

The quiet collapse of British universities

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

as is tradition, I'm at the annual London History of Political Thought Graduate Conference today and tomorrow - an impressive turnout and range of engaged speakers so far on an otherwise miserable day

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you happen to be in Pamplona, Spain, and you don’t want to spend your afternoon in the sunlight, swing by the museum instead

Panel title: THE LOGICS AND
DYNAMICS OF
VIOLENCE AND
RESISTANCE IN
THE COLONIAL
EXPERIENCE
CHAIR: RAFAEL ESCOBEDO

PANELLISTS:
CIARA ROSE AMAN GARCHA / TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE / Mutiny and Murder: The
Ghadar Movement, Migration and Diasporic Anticolonialism

TAMAM MOHSEN / UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA.
SWITZERLAND / Genocide in Gaza: Empire Violence, Coloniality, and Indigenous Resistance Reframing Palestine as a Site of Global Decolonial Struggle

CALYX PALMER / KINGS COLLEGE LONDON / "The Empire of Liberty"; Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian Independence, and the Problem of Empire

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dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Talking this afternoon on the “empire of liberty” and Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ problems with empire and state-building

A white booklet, with a striking black and blue design of a classical statue. It reads: international conference. Empires: experience, memory, and idea. Museo universidad de Navarre, Oct 1-3 2025

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