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Joe Noteboom

@joenote.bsky.social
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Lecturer researching and teaching about education, technology and society

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Students are attending less, reading less, participating less, and often treating university as one commitment among many.'
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Students are not disengaged, they are adapting to a thinner university
For Fredrick Agboma and Andrew Doyle, the question isn't whether students are less committed, but what culture they're asked to inhabit
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast.
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My latest on AI vs two-year-olds - AI as a cultural technology extracting fictional characters from text. humanistreview.ai/issue-1/gopn...
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What Children Can Do and AI Can't
Psychologist Alison Gopnik tells three stories about intelligence — a golem, a pot of stone soup, and a digital child — to explain what AI still can't do.
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wrote this thing because i'm struggling to write things in a tidy way lizmcfall.substack.com/p/big-shed-e...
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BIG SHED ECONOMIES
insurance, private credit and the hyperscaling of risk
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Turnitin has long used its end user licence agreement to use students' work for product devt. Now it's trying to update it to use essays for AI devt too! Prime example of academic content assetization - turning student IP into a source of value codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
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AI and the amplification of academic content assetization
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/07/2026
FIFA Admits It Has No Idea Why Soccer Players Walk Out On Field With Little Kids theonion.com/fifa-admits-it-has-no-…
FIFA Admits It Has No Idea Why Soccer Players Walk Out On Field With Little Kids
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Since he will never leave public life, without being imprisoned, this can only possibly be a piece of theatre aimed at ramping up the victimhood narrative
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Stanford is the harbinger of the university-as-giant-app." Arjun Appadurai dives into Theo Baker's "How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University": lareviewofbooks.org/article/rule-wo…
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/05/2026
‘Freeports and bonded warehouses, free-trade zones and forged bills of lading, under-invoicing and over-invoicing: all these things provide opportunities to camouflage the flow of illicit money.’ John Lanchester on money laundering. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash?
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Or should VCs and the academic members of their senior teams instead be required to lead and teach 1 undergraduate module per term/semester, including all module admin and marking? Non-academic members of SMTs could all annually take a module, completing all assessments. Serious counterproposal. 3/3
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Jan McArthur @janmcarthur.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Really looking forward to this talk and the discussion to follow. You can join by Teams or in person if you are near Oxford.
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Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A new study claims charging VAT on Scottish private schools will leave the state worse off by £180m a year. That’s a big claim. But it rests on some VERY shaky assumptions 🧵
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Report highlights cost to economy of VAT on private school fees
Research for the Scottish Council of Independent Schools claimed taxpayers would lose out from the decision to impose tax on private education
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This helped me understand why I couldn't get any writing done while working in an administrative job & why I'm struggling to decide how best to use my time in my new academic job
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Reinforces my belief that HBO's Silicon Valley is the most accurate depiction of the tech industry
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
‘Here’s the uncomfortable but universal truth – the recording, posed as a safety net, was actually a trapdoor.’ thetab.com/2026/03/13/c...
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Come on Edinburgh students, it's time for us to actually start going to our lectures
I know your bed is so comfy but this was once your dream
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/03/2026
Commentary: I Am The God Of Your Children. I Am The Final Parent.
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I Am The God Of Your Children. I Am The Final Parent.
Hi, friends! Today, I’d like to talk to the grown-ups. I know it’s not easy raising children. Looking after little ones is a lot of work, and sometimes you just need a moment to breathe. So you plop y...
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
And okay, yes, concerns about "cheating", but I'm more worried about general demoralisation of students and how they understand the purpose of their lives, their agency, their capacity to think and create and engage with the world-- to do meaningful work.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/02/2026
‘America’s radicals developed a distinctive language of freedom, as far away as possible from the white man’s freedom to dominate others. These radical traditions have always been embattled, but they have not vanished.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
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Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Walking to and from South Bank last night, there was evidence of unambiguously Far Right behaviour (I saw a Hitler salute), and also a lot of extreme drunkenness. A couple in their 50s trying to walk to Waterloo, and barely managing it etc
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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
‘Much of what universities spend a great deal of time discussing - such as global strategy, impact & innovation, development & philanthropy - even research… [has] very little effect on the bottom line.’ Useful primer on HE finance by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understanding University Finances
... a very short guide
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 24/06/2025
Piazza is a course discussion platform used by many colleges and universities. Piazza requires students to provide the following information when signing up. From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
👀!! Just out - A sociology of dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and critique @zephoria.bsky.social talking to @busedoyu.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A sociology of dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and critique
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/06/2025
UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊
UCU members on Edinburgh picket lineNo More Cuts written in chalkUCU members on Edinburgh picket line
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Noteboom! All of us at EFI and @technomoralfutures.bsky.social are so proud to have supported your PhD research and very grateful to get to work with you. Congrats also to your amazing supervisors @jenr.bsky.social and @karengregory.bsky.social!
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I'm very happy to share that I've officially completed my PhD in Sociology on datafication & higher education at the University of Edinburgh! I passed my viva late last year and have been working on some corrections over the last few months alongside my day job @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social .
A smiling man with a beard wearing a tweed jacket
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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 04/06/2025
No real negatives since our delivery van went electric other than people occasionally shouting Judas at us.
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Lots of great details in @semaforben.bsky.social's latest; extremely helpful for mapping out who is influencing whom on the right. Have been thinking for a while that private groupchats are at least as crazymaking as public social media, and much harder to study.
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The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 28/04/2025
I've always wondered where the 1% come to their consensus, couldn't just be X, makes sense they opt for Bounded Social Media Spaces like Whatsapp or Signal as they claim they have to go private in "a soft authoritarian age of social media shaming and censorship" www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Really interesting.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Absolute power can be a terrible weakness. On Trump, and how to mobilize against him www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-p...
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Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
The relative vulnerabilities of tyrants and crowds
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB. (If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
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Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"Data Kindness" is a concept that @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I developed during our book tour for The Secret Life of Data. We've never written about it. Til now. time.com/7273469/data...
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How to Be Kind in a World That's Always Monitoring You
If we want to live in a more ethical data-driven world, we’re going to have to manage it ourselves.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
a great deal of the problems with the UK debate are that people try to import American policy analyses as if they were strange tasting candy, then sell it from opaquely financed central London locations, also like candy.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The group chat is one of those omnipresent media forms that don't get five percent of the attention of a TikTok or Twitter
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I’m not spending another 15 years of my life on this. It suffices to say: 1. How do you ask “right questions” with “zero education”? 2. Who would want that? 3. Are you afraid enough in your white collar job to finally accept that AI is pure labor busting?
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🧵 PLEA-RANT In the midst of all this I'm still going to be puffing 🎥 @sapphiregoss.bsky.social and I made for @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social and @jcultecon.bsky.social that releases on Feb 20 YouTube & in person. I want to explain why it still matters efi.ed.ac.uk/event/opens-...
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Opens and Closes: the future of Edinburgh’s histories Premiere - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A film by Sapphire Goss, produced, written and narrated by Liz McFall. The screening will be followed by a discussion with special guests.
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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt. I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝 #students #highered #Serbia
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Inside the student blockades in Serbia
Over the past two months, students in Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. The protests hav...
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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Today I sketch the threat posed to democracy in the UK by the emerging mix of technology and oligarchy in the US
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When oligarchy meets technology
Trump’s first days promise a rupture in American politics that also threatens democracy in the UK
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Sorrowful Tale of the Dread Pirate Roberts. Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and the squalid bargain between Trump and the Silicon Valley right www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-sorrow...
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The Sorrowful Tale of the Dread Pirate Roberts
Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and the squalid bargain between Trump and the Silicon Valley right
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 16/01/2025
Duolingo reports a 216% increase for users learning Mandarin Chinese in the U.S. following a transition from TikTok to Xiaohongshu, also known as “RedNote.”
App icon for Duolingo.App icon for Xiaohongshu, AKA RedNote.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
All I can think about is
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Alt: Shoppers at Dan Flashes
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I saw a post about Warren Zevon’s cyberpunk album this morning and it is awesome: ‘There's a prayer each night that I always pray / Let the data guide me through every day…’ youtu.be/k7hZivXj8E0?...
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Networking (Remastered)
YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It was great talking to @neilselwyn.bsky.social about my recent paper exploring university students' experiences of platformisation. Have a listen below, and if that piques your interest you can find the full paper (open access) here: doi.org/10.1080/1743...
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The student as user: mapping student experiences of platformisation in higher education
This article builds on emerging accounts of the ‘student as user’ to explore platformisation in higher education from the perspectives of students. While existing scholarship on platformisation and...
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Revisiting Les Back's take on the PhD viva (goldsmithspress.pubpub.org/pub/7bq2w058...) and the closing paragraph made me chuckle...
Photo of text reading "In the midst of the scaremongering that surrounds the viva vocé it is important to realize that the weight of bureaucracy is for once on the student’s side: it’s much more time-consuming for examiners in terms of paperwork to fail or refer a thesis than it is to pass it. Difficult examiners can be chastened by the realization that their brilliant critical dissection might mean more time will be taken up reading the revised thesis and so keep them away longer from their own work."
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
This is a very good read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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David Runciman · Short Cuts: Just ask Tony
Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he has...
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
www.programmablemutter.com/p/after-soft... After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?
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After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?
Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich?
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
Just out! New paper on #EdTech with Janja Komljenovic & Sam Sellars: "Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change" #datafication #HigherEducation #data #assetization #universities link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change - Higher Education
Universities are striving to become data-driven organisations, benefitting from data collection, analysis, and various data products, such as business intelligence, learning analytics, personalised re...
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