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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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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 3h
This is good:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h
There’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.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can educate a man about consent all you want; you can't force him to care about it katemanne.substack.com/p/they-didnt...
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They Didn’t Want Consent
On the fallacy of educating men not to rape
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 19h
Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history
Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dressSide mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary GrantThe open back of the red roses dress
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 21h
Top 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
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026
Our 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...
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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'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
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Monica 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.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Will a government minister be making a statement and visiting? Of course not - not MANLY jobs in STEEL or CHEMICALS or CARS
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beyond belief
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sorry what
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@murrman5

[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived ona deserted island for a year] it was crazy

[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: 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
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Scottish university principal announces departure amid five weeks of strikes
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Mick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Andrew Pierce did the thing
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My god, that’s almost one per day during the academic year.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
there is simply no replacement for “having personal attention from an actual teacher who cares”
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope this young woman has a strong support network around her 💔
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
My 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.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 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.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This, presumably, helps explain why so few universities right now want to call getting AI to do your assignment as cheating.
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Students turn to lawyers to fight AI misconduct accusations
Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 04/10/2026
He 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.
Narayan has used AI-generated synthetic focus groups provided by a private company, particularly while he was a backbench MP, to test public opinion on AI and other issues. The model is trained on data from real-life focus groups.

“They have a chatbot interface, and you can just say, ‘I want to try and do a speech about this; here is a broad-brush draft of my speech. What do you think, can you do some message testing with your synthetic focus group?’

"You might not get as much real-time understanding because there's a lag between when they did the real focus group, but segmentation and views don't change that much, so on broad-brush questions like how should I think about AI, doing static focus groups with that is very useful.
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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
I despair 😩
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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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