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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I read in a Guardian article that Subh Milis was taught to children to discourage them from emigrating. Not sure about that but emigration is an interesting context for what issues resonated with adults that they wanted children to know. Any ideas why we all learned it? #speirghorm

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Irish friends, remember the poem Subh Milis about anticipatory grief of a child leaving home? We learned it in national school and it seemed unlikely to resonate yet we knew it was achingly sad My daughter's finally tidy room now that she has left for uni is my aching subh milis 😭 #speirghorm

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

6 years ago I wrote a book on academic wellbeing, based on my 20 prior years experience campaigning for research safety. Join me at 3pm (BST) on 06.10.26 to talk about building communities of care and academic solidarity. Please share widely and tell me what you think I should emphasise in my talk

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 02/10/2026

This is much worse than the usual sort of behaviour the media will hound a person to death for. I wonder why the same pile-on hasn't happened to Orr. Can't imagine...

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The elitism and entitlement and white supremacy - not just Orr who thinks he can get away with it, but Cambridge Heads and so-called leaders who think they can get away with turning a blind eye. It is not only cambridge but elitism is such a brain-rotting aspect of all this. I'm so sick of it

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

😭❤️ perfect poem for a mother whose daughter is just leaving home to start at uni (me).

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friends with fluctuating illnesses/ disabilities, if your movement/exercise routine is stymied by symptoms, this 👇 is really helpful ❤️

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Money can't buy you love, Zuck. (Why does this enrage me so much?)

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ohhh, sad news of a true scholar. I heard Danziger give a scintillating keynote on "the holy grail of universality" (in psychology), in the mid 2000s, feeling my thinking processes morphing and growing. No ppt, read from a written script, and i think the best keynote i've attended. 💔

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is my kind of humour. I have succumbed to temptation, I admit.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sickening at every level. Please can academics at least wake up to this now. We are puppets in far right agendas.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sliding this link in here in case anyone is like “oh man I really would love to read The Racial Contract but it’s just not accessible!” Also it’s 180-odd pages, and if you’ve not read it, it’ll upend your understanding of the world, and of philosophy, I promise abolitionjournal.org/wp-content/u...

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The tech bros ARE the wrong hands for chrissake!

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The only way they would shut down AI is if it became self-aware but started to say things like 'net zero now' and 'stop destroying orangutan habitat'. Do you know how quickly they pull the plug if AI came out as woke 😂

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So "Humanist superintelligence" is supposed to make this all more palatable - but guided by *which human interests*? As far as I remember, humans argue quite a lot over that and use force a lot too to determine which interests get prioritised www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Uncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns Microsoft

Mustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LOL. UKRI wants to be the middleman between LLMs applying for grants from each other.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is hard to comprehend how there can be no consequences or accountability, no change, no learning. "Grenfell changes everything", as politicians promised, was a vacuous cover for "let it blow over" and "back to normal!"

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I recently reviewed 2 fluently written mss with a reasonably promising central idea, ticking all the boxes, and a smattering of vague recycled concepts without a central thread, sense of driving purpose, passion or individual turns of phrase. I may have to resign from reviewing. Dystopia is here.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am going to say again that the absolute worst thing for most adults is to lose face. People will do ANYTHING to avoid that. As such, any inkling that a person was duped, not smart, etc... will usually lead them to triple down.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is spot on, and very relevant to qualitative research too. Some funny people question whether we need primary qual research when LLMs appear to behave like real people.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...

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The killing of a black man

A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees" Goodbye Dolly. I hope you and Woody are having a jam session right now. youtu.be/CEPUxpR64YE?...

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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Brilliant thread from an expert on academic freedom & race science 👇 Academic freedom is "the freedom to exercise authority in guiding your own courses & research programs so long as you are exercising your authority within the bounds of professional competence"; it also comes with responsibilities

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Don't sleep on this opportunity to join my former department. The Department of Methodology at LSE is a great place to work, and London is a great place to live.

lse.ac.uk

We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

While I was studying Psychology in Trinity College Dublin in the 1990s, the great Leon Kamin gave a stunningly brilliant scholarly visiting lecture debunking IQ and genetic inheritance. Those ideas are thoroughly debunked and not eligible for academic freedom. I am sick and sad to see them reprised

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

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How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am concerned that all this AI slop will lead us back to relying on our networks and social capital and old boys' clubs, for studentships and jobs and reviewers etc etc. Big enshittification of the whole enterprise

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have been getting similar emails written as if from prospective PhD students but full of AI. I don't know if a human reads my polite response that supervisors need to know they are connecting with an actual scholar who has genuine intellectual interests in common. Enshittification of my job 😭

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Official HE policy of the UK Labour government. While also promising local economic growth in cities where universities are major job-creators! Fantastic!

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

JUST TO NOTE IF PEOPLE PLAN ON USING COLANDERS TO SEE THE ECLIPSE YOU ARE NOT LOOKING THROUGH IT, YOU ARE USING IT TO FILTER THE LIGHT AND WATCH THE SHADOW OF THE MOON ON THE GROUND/OTHER SURFACE

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Maybe AI has an "image problem" because people consider that the enormous concentration of power in a few companies is a serious problem.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Very helpful discussion. It feels odd to use the term "patients" when so many people with long covid are not recognised as patients by their healthcare systems

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Excellent principle. Same applies to before the morning coffee.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh no. I have reached that stage of the summer where even I am realising there are only so many "lets pick this up in September", "I'll get that to you in September"s that one diary can hold. Sept is going to be a blast.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/07/2026

I’m sorry but this was posted by Kier Starmer’s actual verified account and I am DECEASED my brother in Christ I just…was his social media person just like grip it and rip it or what

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 21/07/2026

Eight canopy bridges installed in Brazil saw 15,000 wildlife crossings in 15 months—with zero roadkill recorded. Led by biologist Fernanda Abra, Project Reconecta's low-cost design is now the national standard to curb millions of road deaths across Brazilian highways. Suzana Camargo reports.

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Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

V good on media capture of AI risk discourse by the "catastrophic super-intellingence" fear-monger/ power-grabbers. The real AI risk is elite corporate capture of AI and it is already happening here and now.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...

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Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. Threats

A letter calls for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential disruptions from artificial intelligence.

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The silencing right wing co-option of "dialogue" for people schooled in Freirean or Bakhtinian dialogue is painful to see. But necessary to be aware of. Good article 👇

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ode to the sociability of the great London Underground! ❤️

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