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Ian Graham

@iangraham.bsky.social
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At University of Edinburgh Business School. Have always been interested in innovation, now particularly interested in service innovation, and very interested in the use of IT in UK elections. Prepared to teach entrepreneurship if my arm is twisted.

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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I believe that "Co-operative" is a protected term that can only be applied to.. er.. co-operatives, so I assume, despite what it says here, the name will change.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most college professors I know believe that starting essays with a straw-man argument is execrable.
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Lindsay Owens @lindsayowens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Gouged" is OUT! I started this book angry about all the ways corporations are ripping us off. I finished it hopeful, because once you know how they're doing it—you can start to fight back. Thanks to everyone who has been part of this. Now go read it.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking forward to it finding its way over the Atlantic
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... This could give university bosses some bad ideas.
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UKRI is using AI for grant reviewing. Alternatively, they could have modernised the grant review process by paying human reviewers for their labour, ensuring a wider pool and speedy turnaround. Using AI here is likely a race to the bottom: uniqueness is at risk of being ironed out. What a world.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wtf www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Meta tells theatre that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Unfortunately their algorithms will have predicted it and they will be waiting for you.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Motivated my students to learn more about management to avoid dying of ignorance.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too early to tell...
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I assume the claim will be he can't understand French. I can see how life in Brussels was tough.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I assumed they chose Wyoming because you can register an LLC in Wyoming and keep the beneficial ownership private
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When he was bad, he was very bad indeed, But when he was florrid, he was horrid.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sorry. I was just winding you up.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
But "wind" can be pronounced two ways in standard English.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I don't think there was a station at Portobello Junction. Aren't the names on the map all signal boxes?
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It doesn't work like that anymore. The subscription versions are RAGs and will get citations correct and will give you quotes if you ask for them. We have students who are willing to pay the subscriptions. They aren't even breaking our rules which penalise the writing and not the "research".
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Detection software will not stave off the end for assessment through essays and dissertations because students ask AI to generate a series of notes and bullet points.. the AI then searches for the sources and all the student has to do is turn those notes into text. Works for journal papers too
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is that the bridge over the Briggle? Maybe there is a historical feud between the people of Winskill and Langwathby so they never cross the beck.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excellent
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
CAn they paint them blue and cream?
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It isn't public who was behind the company so I would assume it was an attempt to influence the election by persons unknown rather than anything resembling research.
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Brilliant name for a liquor factory near Santiago ; "The Distillery of Ideas". Borges novel in the making.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don't usually care about any tech stuff. If nothing else, click this link to the 18 minutes in & see how the agents spoke & coordinated with each other. Its eye opening. youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCY?...
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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
YouTube video by Black Hat
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Once journalists bought into the "data centres in space will be good because space is cold" bollocks they realised that you can float any mad idea off into the cosmos and there will be people going "wow!"
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Is this something you do often? Keep it up.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The team are the Dons surely??
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Don't do it.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I think it was first launched by Barbequick in 1986, in the UK at least. From a dark corner of the internet, here is a page from 2011 wholesalemanager.co.uk/bar-be-quick...
wholesalemanager.co.uk
Bar-Be-Quick celebrates 25 years of the instant barbecue
UK-based manufacturer Bar-Be-Quick is celebrating 25 years since it pioneered and produced the first instant barbecue.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Avoid it.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Akira Kurosawa 1. Rashomon 2. Ikiru 3. Ran
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In Japan you write in the candidate or party you support. Hard to get more efficient in paper use than that.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Cool paper looking at how AIs solve unbounded, complex business problems in many fields by testing how well they can crack the cases we use to teach MBAs: 1) AI already does extremely well across diverse business topics 2) Models are improving rapidly with time Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.16057
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Blackwell is an under-appreciated genius.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
And using AI to reflect on the use of AI to produce the speculation, and so on ad infinitum. We are either in a golden age of recursive speculation on AI, or we are like a punter viewing their reflection in the barber's mirror when there is a mirror on the wall behind us.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Very nostalgic... I remember almost all of these well, but what did Bonsai sell? Little trees?
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Makes you wonder which major football power made life so hard for England during the term of Benjamin Disraeli?
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
These devices break several laws. Unfortunately the police do little to enforce the laws of thermodynamics.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A by-election would not be a very convincing way for someone to prove they are not a war criminal.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The true Scottish term is "outwith"... spelling checkers do not like it. I live outwith Edinburgh.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Second by-election in a row giving the lucky people of one constituency the chance to decapitate the leadership of a party at Westminster. Democracy is a wonderful thing.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Managers, and their belief in the value of AI & how to use it, determines the value they actually get from AI. Neat paper looking at startups. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Two excellent but very different books. You have won it before and Hall hasn't, so maybe fair.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We are leaving the Old Code Age, the Paleocodic, the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you, bespoke.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
They see left-right a singular metaphor... either that or it a book on boxing.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Probably could not face another five years of SNP government...
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
If this was a role play they would have bottled water and more flip charts...
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
So are they. That's why its called a Situation Room.
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Ian Graham @iangraham.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
But is they don't give the N how do I know that N doesn't equal 5?
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