Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier 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. 5440821250
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, 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… 1271291467
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyMara 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. 1884694
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyClare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sick 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 1267
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Writing 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... 8862277
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 02/10/2026Very 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. 2141
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time 148110911412
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow 355206504965
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyNollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Interesting paper about the potential for fraudulent participants in online research (Hoy and Dashper, 2026) - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comFraudulent participation in online qualitative leisure research: a cautionary tale from a dog walking studyOnline qualitative research methods have become increasingly prevalent in leisure studies, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, researchers face an emerging threat: organised impo... 011
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 20199702452
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It'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. 241001107
Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Interesting paper about the potential for fraudulent participants in online research (Hoy and Dashper, 2026) - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comFraudulent participation in online qualitative leisure research: a cautionary tale from a dog walking studyOnline qualitative research methods have become increasingly prevalent in leisure studies, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. However, researchers face an emerging threat: organised impo... 011
Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Guess what time of year it is…that’s right, it’s LEMSIP TIME 😩🤮🤧🍋 010
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillySimon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 01/10/2026Since 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? 23810
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillySteve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yesterday, 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. 0137
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyhonor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One 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. 7623188
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A 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 12571611376
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This 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...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs 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. 5030761083
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 155164285542
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 190112072129
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maybe 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. 011
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Italy what the fuck are you doing 57921
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillySantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future” 385135832362
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things 471431196
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i 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 10134353770
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026across UK universities, the only people who do not care about students and their experience sit in senior leadership roles 23011
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maybe a little bit of cancel culture would be good? 1439457
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026It 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." 482516714
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillygav @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' 016335
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping" 29787155
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For 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. 121069395
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026Releasing 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. 8966574
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026regret 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! 2926421
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyEd Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If 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. 613949
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Me: “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?” 1622323
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyJohn Finn @seanfionn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad Ireland only has 2 goal keepers in squad EUFA regulations require 3 410142
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyWorld Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s a 9️⃣.5️⃣ from the #WorldBollardAssociation 231909230
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE 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.theguardian.comICE 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. 10887512
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyBex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026See, 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. 372
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillydraiglerpwl.bsky.social @draiglerpwl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As 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. 48825
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great documentaries, like life, happen while the director is busy making other plans. I’ve written a little bit about Up in the FT Weekend:ft.comThe ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpieceThis vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television 610623
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026This 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. 66723
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/09/2026Mass layoffs kill people. Thousands of quiet tragedies follow every billionaire's predatory decision. Never forget. 51476391
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cannot 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* 718690
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please 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. 52529660