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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very much looking forward to the creativity of English football fans once the Premier League resumes and we all get to play cheating Man City!

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow. JFC this is grim. Next time our university admin puts pressure on us to apply for grants my response will be: why would I spend all that time and effort when a person isn’t even going to look at it? I’m sure their response will be: use AI to write the application…

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s a hard agree from me. I am genuinely astonished at the number of otherwise sensible commentators who still discuss his latest wild actions as if they’re within the parameters of the normal policy making process.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh good lord: we have, for the first time, over 1,000 students enrolled in 1st and 2nd year IR at St Andrews. That’s an insane number. That means that 1 in every 10 students at the University is in 1st or 2nd year International Relations. Utter madness.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So the new F1 track has delivered a supremely boring race. 😴

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says Yeah, sure Sam; you’re delaying your IPO over “safety concerns” and not because your f-ing awful finances will prevent you getting the valuation you want… What a piece of work this guy is.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is exactly what i think the “ai will end humanity” talk coming from silicon valley execs is all about. selling cybersecurity measures to protect you from what they might unleash

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I will die on this hill: if you’re in the middle seat on a plane, you get the two armrests.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve finally seen them! Iceland 🇮🇸

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... I didn’t see a Mercator map until I was 16 and in an American School in France. And I remember laughing and asking why we were using such an inaccurate map. My classmates didn’t get the issue…

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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1. No, it’s not. 2. Why is this a news story?

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Which a huge difference from the last few seasons in how Chelsea are playing. It’s so good to see us playing positive, attacking football, after years of always looking for a backwards pass, being late to every second ball, and looking generally lost. They’re playing with intent and creativity.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So ICE is reprehensible and of course needs to be abolished immediately. But in this one case…

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Or, and I’m just spitballing here, you could use that $10 million to invest in staff and improving working conditions…

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The sheer number of white men in jobs for which they aren’t qualified… But, of course, that’s not a problem. I wonder why…

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Noted friends of academic freedom, the US administration…

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

''Dolly wanted to make sure kids knew how to read and understand the world around them. This is what she spent her money on instead of buying twitter, buying an election, villainizing trans people, investing in Palantir, making sure we slid into fascism.''

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

UK media always asks the wrong questions. Instead of hounding high achieving people of colour , perhaps they'd consider asking why white people who fail spectacularly in government so easily walk into high paying media & consultancy work once they’ve exhausted that particular racket .

UK media always asking the wrong questions. Instead of hounding high achieving people of colour , perhaps they should consider asking why white people who failed spectacularly in government so easily walk into high paying media & consultancy work once they’ve exhausted that particular racket .

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A promising start up front and in midfield by Chelsea here. But I still cannot fathom why Robert Sanchez is still our goalkeeper. I don’t think he can either.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Since he came back to BlueSky after the AI writing schtick he hasn’t got the engagement needed for the next series of substack posts on how awful the academy is and how he’s the only enlightened one left. Don’t fall for engaging with his nonsense.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

THIS 👇 If you only read one more thing about the Jason Arday horror, make sure it’s this 👇

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Indeed! Shame my department don’t seem to agree. For some unknown reason we have an X account…

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And by this point do we really think it’s because people lack the ‘skills’ to spot issues, or is it because these tools are for cutting corners - that’s what they’re for! And you’re more likely to use them if you prioritise speed over quality.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the... I will be sharing this with my students in a few weeks as part of a document explaining my position on use of GenAI in assignments: not permitted for anything at all. Using LLMs to (help you) write exposes you to a higher risk of committing plagiarism.

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Problem with this piece is it seems to stretch the notion of ‘public figure’ to ‘anyone some members of the public have heard of’, and I don’t think that’s the standard journalists should take. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir

Amid the grief and rage at a tragic loss, it’s right to differentiate between those who fought a culture war and others who just sought the truth, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 18/08/2026

Oh, we‘re just learning that the LLMs developed by misogynists, & trained on biased data, so tech-bros could have a computer slave/secretary/wife/mother/sexbot are biased against women, especially middle-aged ones are we? Well there‘s a surprise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Are AI recruitment tools affecting mid-life women's careers?

Are AI recruitment tools disadvantaging women who are seeking to return to the workplace?

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Indeed. And, further, you have to be a special kind of scumbag to think that this is the lesson one should take from the tragedy of Jason Arday…

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jesus fucking Christ. Hounded to death by ‘journalists’ looking for the next poster child for the culture wars. If you genuinely think a plagiarism row should have been national news for weeks (!) then stop and ask yourself two questions: 1. If Arday was white, would you have cared? And

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Political Parties should be funded by the taxpayer at a set amount. They should not be allowed to receive donations from anyone, anything, or anywhere else, in money or in kind. MPs should not be allowed to earn or ‘earn’ any other income while serving and should be audited annually.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So Farage will be back in Parliament in September and the investigation into his failure to declare the £5m he received from a crypto billionaire based in Thailand will continue. Farage will use his planned speech today to demand that the investigation be stopped completely because just over 22,000

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The multimillionaire ex-CEO of Serco (2014-2023) - the company the Home Office has handed billions to run sub-standard and dangerous asylum accommodation - is now the Lead Non-Executive Director at... the Home Office. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Rupert Soames OBE

Rupert Soames joined the Home Office as a non-executive director in June 2026. He is a highly experienced UK public company chief executive officer (CEO), having served 11 years as CEO of Aggreko, fol...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Relatedly, any organization that claims to be taking a "human-centered" approach, but is only asking "How do we use [whatever tech] responsibly?" and not "Should we use [tech] at all" is in fact centering the tech, and not the people. >>

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I started August - all those days ago! - thinking I’d have time to finish a draft of a paper and submit for review. And then I checked my email today. No. Now it seems is the time for teaching prep to start.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Small suggestion for improving society: get rid of the changing screen ‘menus’ in coffee shops and go back to fixed menu boards.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

ChatGPT: it talks to your kids so you don’t have to!

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

These ‘glasses’ should quite simply be banned. End of.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

Victoria Moore: It may already be too late for Bordeaux's wine.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Do we reckon the software in this shitty Williams F1 car is vibe coded using Claude?

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Oh no! Chinese tech companies may have unfairly used US tech firms models to train their own. Karma, as they say, is a bitch!

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you are applying to do a PhD I would like to offer the following free advice: Do not send vague and generic mass emails to all the staff in a department in search of a supervisor. It doesn’t reflect well on you. It says you can’t be bothered to spend any time reading profiles or work.

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’m not with British Gas, but I do wonder how easy it is to find a phone number to call on their website versus how easy it is to find a chatbot on their website… www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed

CEO Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger margins

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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Even if you put no value in learning and see no benefit to society from a well educated population, universities are massive employers and economic assets. They are often one of the largest employers in their town/city, providing a wide range of jobs: teaching, research, IT, catering,

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