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Nollaig McEvilly

@drmcevil.bsky.social
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Editor of European Physical Education Review. Lecturer in sociology of sport & exercise. Book & film lover. AI hater. Never knowingly undercaffeinated. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“But it doesn’t use as much water as people think it does!” But it still means more data centers raising electricity prices, lowering water pressure, disrupting ecosystems, constant noise in poor neighborhoods. It still stole from thousands of artists. It’s still being developed by the worst people.
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sick to the back teeth of people in academia passing papers, reports, emails etc. through an LLM, ostensibly to improve readability or whatever but actually just transforming human writing into repulsive, staccato, marketing-speak that has a veneer of validty but little-to-no actual fucking meaning
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 02/10/2026
Very positive discussion with my third years about LLMs today. We talked environmental costs, authoritarianism, patriarchy, tech-bros, etc. They don’t seem to like LLM much more than I do, which makes it all the more depressing that it’s my generation forcing it into their lives.
I am an AI Hater
Here’s my promise to you, I will never use AI:
to write emails to you.
craft the presentations I deliver to you
to summarise information I provide to you.
to help design the courses I deliver to you.
to provide feedback or grade you.
Aside from destroying the planet, enriching really bad people, and having been developed using stolen property, LLMs will harm you as a researcher. 
Using a LLM for your writing and research *will* make you worse at research, less knowledgable, and worse at critical thinking. There is now a growing body of scientific research demonstrating these claims.
You are permitted by the University to use AI, but my strong advice is that you shouldn’t - for both ethical and practical reasons.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025
I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interesting paper about the potential for fraudulent participants in online research (Hoy and Dashper, 2026) - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fraudulent participation in online qualitative leisure research: a cautionary tale from a dog walking study
Online qualitative research methods have become increasingly prevalent in leisure studies, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, researchers face an emerging threat: organised impo...
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interesting paper about the potential for fraudulent participants in online research (Hoy and Dashper, 2026) - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Fraudulent participation in online qualitative leisure research: a cautionary tale from a dog walking study
Online qualitative research methods have become increasingly prevalent in leisure studies, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, researchers face an emerging threat: organised impo...
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guess what time of year it is…that’s right, it’s LEMSIP TIME 😩🤮🤧🍋
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 01/10/2026
Since I'm on strike, I haven't checked my work emails but I've heard about this email that HR have sent asking us to be nice to senior management. Tell me, is it nice of them to make staff redundant? Is it nice of them to cut Scottish literature and Gaelic courses? Are these nice behaviours?
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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday, the Secretary to the University of Edinburgh emailed all staff (many on strike) about UoE's Dignity and Respect policy: "offensive and personal attacks are never acceptable". Meanwhile, a student received this response from THE PRINCIPAL to their email supporting the strike.
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe I’m being too simplistic, but one way to judge a company is by counting up how many of Oswald Mosley’s descendants work there. More than 0? Evil.
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol no, shut up Tom
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Italy what the fuck are you doing
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026
Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
across UK universities, the only people who do not care about students and their experience sit in senior leadership roles
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe a little bit of cancel culture would be good?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'i once got the president of the united states to congratulate us on the arrest of some doggers we found in a lane in gloucestershire'
bob mortimer reading a prompt card on would i lie to you?
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026
Releasing the five people arrested by the airbase on bail after 24 hours is so weird, would be fantastic if it turns out they were just up to no good on an unrelated minor jape and accidentally created an international security story.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026
regret going to read this but am now infuriated by this particular paragraph - sure, doing these things also helped me, a non-medicated person with ADHD, but do you know what else fucking helped? me also being a columnist, a job with a huge amount of personal freedom, unlike nearly all other jobs!
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
that sounds fine
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Ed Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’re wondering why Science would publish this, it’s because they hired a writer who’s also a flunky for the AI industry. If you’re wondering why Science would let a flunky for the AI industry cover AI… that’s a great question.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me: “Oh, Evri is delivering my parcel. Maybe this time it will be different.” Evri (sending photo of my part-ripped package outside a fish shed four villages away): “Yes, we have changed. Do not fear. The time for worry is over. May we also say how much we like your new front door?”
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John Finn @seanfionn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad Ireland only has 2 goal keepers in squad EUFA regulations require 3
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a 9️⃣.5️⃣ from the #WorldBollardAssociation
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
See, the way to inoculate yourself is to never believe you are worthy of these honors and to treat any even mildly laudatory email with deep suspicion.
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ffs
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draiglerpwl.bsky.social @draiglerpwl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As one of the fourteen, I think that Jonathan Freedland has pretty much summed up everything I believe about ...Up. A thoughtful and perceptive piece. Thank you.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great documentaries, like life, happen while the director is busy making other plans. I’ve written a little bit about Up in the FT Weekend:
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The ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpiece
This vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026
This nonsense has become a fucking cult. Collective AI psychosis intertwined with shameless grift. Two of the authors operate out of AI thinktanks opaquely funded by philanthropic donations (i.e. tech-bros), they used chatbots to help write it, & the paper hasn‘t been peer reviewed. Garbage.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/09/2026
Mass layoffs kill people. Thousands of quiet tragedies follow every billionaire's predatory decision. Never forget.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Better Call Saul should be WAY higher
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