Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 29/09/2026I wish folk stopped posting CFPs as flat images with text that is not machine readable; makes everything harder. We should all know better by now... 120
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026(can't believe it's been so long since this: theconversation.com/long-lists-a... )theconversation.comLong lists are eroding the value of being a scientific authorReplacing authors on scientific papers with projects could be one way to tackle the increasing numbers of contributors. 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026Thanks for the reply. Re blog posts: not necessarily, the principle of coauthoring a piece remains- and it would have been a good way to try out the principles of the taxonomy (and how sometimes in practice it does not fully address the issues it genuinely seeks to address). 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026Love this post is multi-authored. It could have used CRediT so we know who did what. It didn't. Not clear if that was intentional... 140
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026Looking forward to Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics next Thursday 1st October in That London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per... #GraphicMedicine #ComicsStudieseventbrite.co.ukPanels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in ComicsFrancisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum & Zara Slattery explore disability and neurodiversity in comics. Chaired by Dr Ernesto Priego (City HCID). 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026This will read like historical speculative fiction in the UK, but it's reassuring to read about like-minded souls out there in other realities 152
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026“as public funding for universities falls, there is a real danger that billionaire and corporate money begins to shape academia”. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comBacklash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle UniversityRole for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity 130
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026If this is too opaque to be intelligible or actionable it is intentional and obeys to the very essence of this multifaceted phenomenon in which human experience is being hammered down and fracked into relentless automation and the blurrying of previous ethical common understandings. 110
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026There are obviously pockets of positive transofrmation here and there but the nature of the onslaught is such that a few initiatives doing well and good here and there are not enough to clear any well-founded concerns caused by the visible pervasiveness of corporate technofascism. 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026It feels like we are also going through some seismic transformations and we'll need patience and tolerance if we are to be around to begin sensing a gradual rebuilding of what has been systematically destroyed and lost. 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026I am quite concerned that we (collectively) may be going through one of the darkest periods of our living memory, even if we've been through several already and every time one's wondered if it could get any worse. 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026So sad and concerning. Happy memories of buying the papers at UEA and also consulting more at the library. 120
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026I'd have expected it to be available in a similar way to britishslavetraders.orgbritishslavetraders.orgThe Register of British Slave-TradersThe Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807. 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Is it also available via The National Archives' own platform? Or only via Ancestry dot com? 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Really disappointing this is via a for-profit service requiring registration 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers www.ancestry.com/c/colonial-e...ancestry.comEnslavement Registers for Former British Colonies - AncestryResearch on Ancestry, the enslavement registers for former British Colonies in the Caribbean, Central America & Indian Ocean. 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...theguardian.comNearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable onlineExclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad 110
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026"we can't possibly be more miserable than those poor, uneducated savages down south; we just have better and more advanced measuring instruments and enlightened cultural attitudes to suicide" 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Love how folk will rationalise this by blaming poor data collection, taboo and superstition before daring to hypothetise that higher income does not equal higher levels of structural happiness 120
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Survey takes _about 80 minutes_ to complete. Tell me you don't want the wider community to get involved without telling me you don't want the wider community to get involved... forms.gle/4zsB5U81YAtw...forms.gleFeedback Survey - DOAS Adaptation for OA BooksAre you a university, library, research institute, or another similar community based publisher or platform working with Diamond OA books? Then we need your input! The AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guid... 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026Keep on promptin'. Waiting for the sea: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...bbc.co.ukWaiting for the seaIt took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning. 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026Saint Augustine (13 November 354 - 28 August 430) reminds us love for money trumping love for study was already a thing for students back in his day 020
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026'Staff at the University of Essex are set to strike next week over cuts to 400 full-time jobs. The union, Unison, said admissions advisors, IT technicians, admin workers and other professional services staff would walk out on Monday over the proposals.'bbc.co.ukEssex University staff to strike over plans to cut 400 jobsStaff will walk out over a plan to cut 400 jobs, which the university says will protect its future 14640
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 15/09/2026Last night, for real, I dreamt the university campus had become a data center, so there's that. 030
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” (sic) www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comTrump attacks ‘sick conspiracy’ against AI as tech stocks slidePresident hits out after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back call to limit ‘reckless’ development 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026"In Britain, more than 320 newspapers closed down between 2009 and 2019" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWarning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John HarrisWhile fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026"The next solution, after we wake up, is to return to first principles. What are the ingredients for human flourishing? Once we can articulate that, it’s like a rope that can guide us back to where we should be." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWe greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid DelaneyThere are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026"Experts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities" www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1969...peoplemanagement.co.ukHalf of employees too busy to deliver meaningful work, survey findsExperts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026Behind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data Centers pulitzercenter.org/blog/behind-... via @pulitzercenter.orgpulitzercenter.orgBehind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data CentersPara leer esto en español, haga clic aquí. Image The exterior of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in El Burgo, Spain. From the story "Deciphering AI Water Consumption: How Amazon Hides How Mu... 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026And I mean, look at that image. It looks AI-generated to me. Is it? We don't know, because UKRI doesn't tell us. Whose idealised version of a research team is that? 021
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026Wish we could finally admit that “speeding things up” and “maintaining robust processes” are fundamentally at odds, particularly when the intention is to achieve both through automation. 022
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026"Modernises" = "We will achieve this through both automation and staff expertise" 110
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026What can possibly go wrong www.ukri.org/news/ukri-mo...ukri.orgUKRI modernises grant assessment for the age of AIUKRI is updating its grant assessment approach to speed up grant decisions, respond to generative AI and ensure we continue backing the best talent and ideas. 210
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026hahahahaha www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK economy sees surprise growth in July helped by AI boomThe economy expanded by 0.4%, official figures show, whereas analysts had predicted no growth. 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026"The current literature provides a fairly consistent picture, suggesting that drone noise is substantially more annoying than road traffic or aircraft noise due to special acoustic characteristics, in particularly pure tones and high-frequency broadband noise." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govDrone Noise Emission Characteristics and Noise Effects on Humans—A Systematic ReviewThe number of operations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly referred to as “drones”, has strongly increased in the past and is likely to further grow in the future. Therefore, drones are beco... 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026Something deeply disturbing in the normalisation of using drones to commemorate 9/11. Essentially a military surveillance technology. Yeah, pretty (?). 110
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As the hype cycle around recent declarations around the eschatonic potential of AI escalate, I want to bring people's attn: to this doc by one of the so-called "fathers" of AI, John McCarthy: www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/slides/d... That first sentence sums up almost everything abt these narratives.www-formal.stanford.edudartmouth-slidartmouth-sli 022
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026On the morning of September 11, 2001 I was meant to catch a plane from Mexico City to Washington, DC to attend ICAF/SPX 2001 (the International Comics and Animation Festival and the Small Press Expo), to be held September 14–16. It was not meant to be, obviously. 🖤 021
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026"Nothing is true; everything is permitted", or, rather, "Everything is permitted, therefore nothing is true". 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026The downfall of democracy and the thorough corruption of everthing once held dearly post-enlightenment: the logical consequence (the achievement of a main objective?) of the systematic promotion and celebration of ignorance and fraud as modus operandi in every aspect of human activity this century. 120
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026Hahaha beggars belief www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speechPresident makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026"Overall reading scores saw particularly steep declines in the past three years, including in skills that matter most in the AI age [...]The instances of “hasty reading” - in which students read quickly but inaccurately - nearly doubled to 9% between 2018 and 2025." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...oecd.orgPISA 2025 Results (Volume I)The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel... 000