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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 31/05/2026

Claude code (left) vs Google Gemini - how to show risk on a scale of 1 to 100.

On the left is a scale in red and white that show high risk. The second diagram to the right is just s a slot black line.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 31/05/2026

Claude's code (left) vs Gemini Antigravity on formatting a graph....

The left is a highly readable plot graph, the second has every data point in a straight linr at bottom.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Lord give me the confidence of the most disastrous chancellor in the modern era.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 30/09/2025

Looking forward to speaking at #alt25 - This is absolutely more human than machine.

This is a sign for my keynote - is entitled "Being a leader, not an algorithm: human skills for an AI-Shaped Future" and I am giving it on the 23rd October in Glasgow.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 25/07/2025

"MISTER DO YOU DRIVE THE TRAIN?"

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 19/03/2025

I know women get this a lot on social media but slightly bemused as a 49 year old man to get unrequested DMs on LinkedIn advising me to shave off my beard... 😂 "ugly", "makes you less handsome".

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 18/03/2025

Hopefully I can think of something sensible to say... #secretlifeofstudents

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 17/03/2025

We end up with lots of ones for places we have been - Mousehole, whitby... current stack on lower middle shelf...

White shelves in an home office - the walls are bright orange.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 17/03/2025

If you are at WONKHE Secret Life of students tomorrow - come and say hello as I'm easy to spot.

A pair of cherry red brogues in the sun. they are pointing toward eight o'clock and are on a wooden floor.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 12/03/2025

I have been slimming down both literally and in terms of possessions - after many bags to the charity shop, I am still finding clothes I have no memory of buying.

A man in a bright yellow safari coat, he is white, middle aged and is clearly using a phone to take a picture in a mirror.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 23/02/2025

Not a laptop replacement but the s10+ tab feels like a good "out at a conference/event" day device. Pen is great as well. Good old Samsung economies make the price decent.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 21/02/2025

Not a dig at colleagues at Cardiff but good example of existing gaps in sector - what they seem as extreme is below the SSR I ever had to manage...

extract from Times Higher that says "In the most extreme case, Cardiff will assign one academic to 24 students in its school of Global humanities, sparking outrage from staff members who say that workloads and students experience will be impacted."

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 09/02/2025

I keep running into Patsy Palmer in various places and she is absolutely lovely.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 08/02/2025

You are all doing a great job! Trying not to eat my own body weight in the green room!

A middle aged balding man in a purple shirt and blue jacket points at the camera. Behind him a woman with blond hair in a smart blue dress smiles. They are both sitting down.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 03/02/2025

The academic in the family has a new book on #JimHenson, and his work on fairytales coming out—lots of interesting new analyses based on the Henson family archives and interviews with collaborators.

This is a flyer for a new book, "The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson" written by Dr Andrea Wright. It will be published in July 2025 and has an ISBN of 9781526166111

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 29/01/2025

In my semi-regular bags I like - timbuk2 Deluxe is a light and decent bag for an work overnight or if you push it two nights. Good laptop storage and pockets.

A black laptop backpack sitting on a blue seat.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 28/01/2025

I believe it is different with Web search off? #deepseek

I have asked deepseek to explain the Tiananmen Square protests to me - it replies that it is "beyond it's current scope".

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 21/01/2025

Office 2.0 finally coming together - at least I have a desk!

A man in a blue top - he is looking at the camera - behind him are shelves and orange walls - it all looks new.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 16/01/2025

Due to office refub I am working off Kitchen table - how do people do this for years like I see online? I know the social and economic reasons why but Three days in and my wrists and back are killing me...

We are looking at a black laptop on a kitchen table. Behind it is an ultra wide monitor.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 19/12/2024

Look at this garage - just think about the numbers presented here.

A Google ai search result about what percentage of the population does not have a passport. It claims that 15% of population is 300,000 people and also that 84% is 1.6 million.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 11/12/2024

My last public event of the year is in York - looking forward to this.

A slide that says "Developed business aware academics".

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 02/12/2024

Excellent morning with leaders from the Irish Technological Universities and now at a honorary doctorate award ceremony for Mary Robinson here at Atlantic Technological University.

A view down a well lit bright hall - people in academic robes are mingling.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 01/12/2024

What a terrible product name or great depending on what sort of person you are..

An advert for cosmetic work for men called Brotox

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 01/12/2024

It's December so I'll allow it.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Yesterday was very busy - BBP in day to talk to their business school and then @timeshighered.bsky.social awards. Listen to Lord Bragg talk with such clear love for Higher Education and knowledge was amazing.

An award dinner's. Looking directly at stage and Melvyn Bragg.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 28/11/2024

Miles Jupp is very funny and he has clearly done his research about both Higher Education and @timeshighered.bsky.social and what it does.

A man on a screen - he is wearing a dinner jacket and has a beard.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 28/11/2024

Way back when I had a blog, I used to do kit reviews for people in Higher Education. If like me you are constantly doing two or three day trips. The AER Travel Pack is fantastic. Plenty of interior space, good "office" space. This is the small which is plenty for me.

A black backpack with a pink coffee mug stuck in a side pocket. It is sat on a blue train seat.

The front of the black backpack now had its front open and it is bright orange. There is a banana and chocolate bar in this space.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 28/11/2024

Off to London for a couple of things with members and then hopefully I will see some of you at the @timeshighered.bsky.social Awards in Birmingham.

A picture taking out of a train window just outside of Burscough, West Lancs. You can see that the ground is frosty beyond the train tracks. The sun is orange and just climbing over the horizon at what would be 10 o'clock.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 17/11/2024

Well whatever else happens next week I have a working and upgraded network.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 15/11/2024

Dr Wright is away so right weekend for network upgrade...

Two brown cardboard boxes. One says "U7 Pro Max" and the box on top says "cloud Gateway max".

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 14/11/2024

Shall we do a UK specific version? Meh just mail them an extra plug.

The picture is of a what is know as a POE injector. It is a small grey box that provides power to network equipment. In the package is a EU standard plug. Next to it is a completely seperate UK standard plug.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 12/11/2024

I am of course now stuck at Wigan... This is not a serious country.

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Charles Knight @charlesknight.co.uk · 12/11/2024

Off to British Council Deep Dialogues in Manchester this morning. Then doing a keynote for SDF. Currently on platform remembeing why I am 100% remote.