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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glasgow Subway has some of the nicest staff anywhere. Shoutout to the lady at Cessnock who saved me from myself this morning!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm probably a dinosaur, but I wish students were allowed more time just to be students: to study, to read, to think, to talk to each other, to have big ideas - maybe even to have fun now & then. I'm not convinced turning unis into training centres is going to fix bigger problems in the jobs market

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Difficult day. Am watching Criminal Minds, a show which makes way more sense when you assume the profilers are all psychics.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There is not one part of life in the UK not touched by the legacies of the slave trade. Both my parents benefitted from the Dick Bequest as they studied to be teachers in NE Scotland, and thought of it as a 'nice' thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D...

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just learned about a new mammal! How often does that happen in your late 40s? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desman

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Desman - Wikipedia

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When my cat keeps her claws sheathed as she jumps down from my bare knee, her soft paws feel like love.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I slow blinked at my cat. She gazed at me in judgement then looked away, with the distinct air of a lady rejecting an importune advance.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Stars & Stripes was operated as an independent newspaper from 1861 until it encountered Pete Hegseth...

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If anyone can help me more directly find a home for this poor little cat do get in touch! She is currently in my bathroom and I'm calling shelters, but so far not getting anywhere much.

A small tabby and white cat, curled up and asleep on a doorstep

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nanopticon

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's kind of weird that in the writing about Arday's accuser he was generally referred to as 'academic' or 'staff member' and no one seemed to mention he was, specifically, a post-doc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sometimes my cat will pounce on me with her claws carefully kept in, and it has the exact tactile sensation of friendship.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Post-panic attack cat snuggles. My knee is her chin rest.

Vaguely grumpy black and white cat resting her head on a woman's knee.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

UK food retail industry leadership went from: "nobody could possibly track and mitigate all allergens in a restaurant it's too complex" to: "allergies? here is a complete list of all allergens and our mitigation strategy" in WEEKS after the first boss got jailed for manslaughter.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 17/07/2026

If I were a nominally progressive political party and my policies on LGBT rights were being condemned by *establishment Christian organisations* as cruel, inhumane and regressive, I would probably ask myself what the hell I was doing @andyburnham.bsky.social

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Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

expending so much energy being angry at people simply existing outside their wee bubble. Nigel please sit down, have a nice mug of Horlicks, and watch some Columbo. you'll feel much better 💜

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'"A lot of people, like teachers or readers, don't really care if AI was used in the writing process, but do care if the human is the one behind the heart of it,” Russell said. “A teacher wants to know if their student understood the lesson,' As a teacher I could never separate medium and message.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Terrifyingly naive article about Gen AI and financial regulation.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'An air of exchanging Oxford wisdom while few academics outside Oxbridge can count their jobs as safe. An air of fiddling while Exeter burns.' 2/2

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Labour really demonstrating how they are the cruelest, most anti-asylum, government in decades. That isn't to say Conservatives weren't hideous, but Labour are significantly worse on every measure. This is a policy rooted purely in cruelty over anything else. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Refugees will be told to repay £10,000 under new asylum rules

Ministers will be given powers to recover costs from adults who have received asylum support under new laws.

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abby (sports) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

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Vamos al Noah Noah @sophicthunder.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I have two engineering degrees, and can confirm - absolutely surrounded by people who are convinced that 1) STEM is the most difficult 2) Your silly expertise would be so easy They would not understand the difference between watching a movie and reading the synopsis on Wikipedia.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My little cat is snoring musically in her electric bed. "Hmmm....hmmm....hmmmm"

Black and white cat curled up in round plush bed. Snores not pictured.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Shamefully, the bits of my stats course I really enjoy are the computer-marked exams where I didn't study enough and have to wing it.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

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Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Charmed to see 'mycles' - in our dialect at home (Doric) 'mickel' meant a small amount and 'muckel' a large amount, as in 'mony a mickel maks a muckel' - a lot of a small quantity makes up a big quantity. I wonder if either word is related to 'mycles'

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Possessed by a terror that I had put Robbins, L in the reference list out of a misunderstanding of Lord Robbins. Thankfully, it turns out his name was Lionel.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Regrettably, my cat can tell the difference between a lovely pure wool rug my mother gave me, and a sisal scratching mat. She prefers the wool, thank you.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's 30C in my office just now. The heating is on. I can't turn it off. So much for productivity.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If Gen-AI could actually do what they say it can do in terms of academic writing, I would hang up my keyboard beside the tools of the wheelwright and the tinsmith. But Gen AI produces such terrible text. My poor students, being persuaded that this is better than what they can write by themselves.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My poor cat. I am allergic, she is nervous. Which means that the most enjoyable pets, when she is rubbing her head ecstatically against my face, are inevitably disrupted by terrifying coughing.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Listening to a book about Ewan Forbes at the moment. He saved my mother's friend's life when she was a very sick little girl - amongst his many accomplishments, he was a very good doctor and thoroughly well-liked amongst the local community.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The best thing about teaching is when you see students take the ideas you gave them and go further with them, take them to different places and new heights. HE might be in a bit of a state in the UK, but the students are still amazing.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

And not to put a fine point on this L.Louise Lucas, this is an FBI that refused to investigate—at all—the death of Renee Good, even though we all saw a federal employee walk up and shoot her in the head, and call her a “fucking bitch.”

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Switched to Firefox this morning. Not loving the change. But also didn't love the old browser so..,

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

HE in 2030 will be a complicated way of buying a certificate by acting as part of an inefficient meat-based connector between two LLMs.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

With all the financial chaos, course closures and jobs uncertainty in UK universities, giving degree-awarding powers to this AI-first startup college is a bad sign for the sector www.timeshighereducation.com/news/virtual...

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Degree-awarding powers for new provider with AI-taught courses

London School of Innovation set to launch in June after being given stamp of approval by regulator

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Cat would rather sharpen her claws on lovely pure wool vintage rug than specially bought sisal mat, and can I blame her?

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Kudos to Humanities and Social Sciences Communications for retracting the paper based on egregiously flawed "national IQ" data, and doing it so quickly: paper published in January, retracted in April. Let's hope Springer now retracts all the other NIQ papers in its journals

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Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This morning I have 12 essays to mark and a cat who is angry I will not nap in the sunshine with her. I, too, am angry.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

These are American weapons, manufactured, paid for, and shipped by the US government to the Israeli military in order to commit heinous war crimes and carry out genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

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