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Prof Sarah Dillon @profsarahdillon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

www.lse.ac.uk/events/narra... Heading to LSE on 17th February for a discussion on narratives in policymaking to mark the publication of the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review

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Narratives in policymaking | A discussion

6.30pm Tues 17 Feb | Paul Dolan, Sarah Dillon, Adam Brzezinski, Dame Sharon White | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

#EnglishCreates: Futures kicks off with the first in a series of brilliantly insightful blogs by Professor Ralph Pite on the subject of English Studies and 'environments' These will prove how important English studies are in the current polycrisis: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

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#EnglishCreates Blog: ENGLISH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game. On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad? WRONG!

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Prof Sarah Dillon @profsarahdillon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

CFP: Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays Series open for submissions: www.routledge.com/Contemporary.... Volumes out or forthcoming with Routledge on Benjamin Markovits, Jackie Kay, Ali Smith, Bernardine Evaristo, Naomi Alderman. If you have an idea for a conference and volume, reach out!

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Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press

Routledge & CRC Press Series: Originally published with Gylphi from 2011-2022, the Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays series has pioneered a unique approach to the academic study of livin

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

My latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is based on the recent meeting at the Royal Society celebrating 50 years of the Turing Test, at which several folks suggested it was time to retire it. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

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Was the Turing Test always meaningless?

A meeting to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s famous paper drew a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Where do the world famous LLM sceptic @garymarcus.bsky.social & his bud Laurence Fishburne (AKA Morpheus) like to hang out? The Royal Society of course! 🧪🤖 Here's my write up from @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?

Chatbots now ace the mathematician's famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.

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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Tomorrow 17 Nov we are welcoming Prof Sarah Dillon of the Cambridge English Faculty for a talk ""Pryce's Buoy": Alan Turing's Short Story and Homosexual Literature." All welcome to join us in person in ARB S1 at 12:30 or online at the link in the poster!

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