Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5hThere’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too. 10540140
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You can educate a man about consent all you want; you can't force him to care about it katemanne.substack.com/p/they-didnt...katemanne.substack.comThey Didn’t Want ConsentOn the fallacy of educating men not to rape 29128
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 19hFarewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history 341765317
Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 21hTop tip regarding The Pitt: make sure you’re not eating your dinner when you sit down to watch it 🤢 I spend about half of every episode covering my eyes 🫣😬 #graphic #ThePitt 010
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyAnil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...anildash.comWe are going to kill “unalive” - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 12619201
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyGT @granitetide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm convinced this attack on university degrees is actually motivated by the british disease of being resentful that someone, somewhere, might be enjoying their life somewhat and they simply must be destroyed 24411
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along. 5489171
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Will a government minister be making a statement and visiting? Of course not - not MANLY jobs in STEEL or CHEMICALS or CARS 416148
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026NEW: The principal of the University of Edinburgh has announced his departure 🚨 It comes amid five weeks of strikes at the institute after hundreds of staff members have been made redundant and 90 courses scrapped thenational.scotScottish university principal announces departure amid five weeks of strikes 0126
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyMick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Andrew Pierce did the thing 214132
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyKaren James @kejames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My god, that’s almost one per day during the academic year. 56144
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyMicah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026there is simply no replacement for “having personal attention from an actual teacher who cares” 531929
Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I hope this young woman has a strong support network around her 💔 010
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyUnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 04/10/2026My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society. 726880
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillySue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The only way we're ever going to 'solve' Ofsted is to stop it being a competition. Have two categories: all fine/needs support. If you buy into the idea that the competition is what makes people work harder you'll never get away from the problem. This includes posts about 'doing well' in Ofsteds. 58214
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This, presumably, helps explain why so few universities right now want to call getting AI to do your assignment as cheating.ft.comStudents turn to lawyers to fight AI misconduct accusationsLegal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology 7216
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 04/10/2026He thinks it represents thoughts of people (as of a real focus group) extended to current topics, not merely linguistically plausible text. And he's making national policy decisions without awareness of his delusions. Media should report it as bureaucratic misconduct and question fitness to serve. 1255
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. 5846831396
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… 1351359485
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. 1886097
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... 8886288
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. 2151
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 148110901412
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow 358208255019
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 202100172460
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. 7624187
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 12671771374
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. 5030921087
Reposted by Nollaig McEvillyRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164865560
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... 195112872155
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” 385135882365
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 471432196
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 10134793780
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