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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Regulating What We Do Not Understand: rules founded on speculative harms can entrench assumptions, protect incumbents and obstruct the experimentation needed to understand risk. @profserious.bsky.social considers ... profserious.substack.com/p/regulating...

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Regulating What We Do Not Understand

...watching closely and acting quickly

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Regulating What We Do Not Understand: rules founded on speculative harms can entrench assumptions, protect incumbents and obstruct the experimentation needed to understand risk. @profserious.bsky.social considers ... profserious.substack.com/p/regulating...

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Regulating What We Do Not Understand

...watching closely and acting quickly

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...

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Becoming Computer Science

... how a discipline grew up

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...

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Becoming Computer Science

... how a discipline grew up

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...

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How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You

... if you are short of something to worry about

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...

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How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You

... if you are short of something to worry about

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am not good at letting go. Perhaps the trick is to care about things, whilst accepting that neither they nor our relative success in pursuing them can be made permanent. @profserious.bsky.social contemplates ... profserious.substack.com/p/this-too-s...

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This Too Shall Pass

... letting go without giving up

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Leaders of public and third-sector organisations face not only their own organisational politics, but disputes about ideology, authority, and power. This is not comfortable territory for many leaders. @profserious.bsky.social considers … profserious.substack.com/p/leadership...

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Leadership and Big-P Politics

… the limits of management

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And yet still ... the fur is gone from the carpet ...

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Surprise. Clarity.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

OK fair enough. Though it is of course 'what -I- learned'! And I am Prof Serious. Do I think that world-class research is rather like 'elite sports' requiring total commitment ... honestly yes.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

To be clear, it was not advice! It was a wry observation. I have however written on this theme ... profserious.substack.com/p/life-life-...

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Life-Life Balance ...

measured out with coffee spoons

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

10 lessons from my time at Imperial College: on science and engineering, hard work, criticism, laughter … and software … @profserious.bsky.social … profserious.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

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What I Learned at Imperial College

… on becoming, more or less, a computer scientist

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Building the AI-enabled enterprise is not primarily a technology problem ... it is a strategy, architecture and organisational design problem. Here is the @profserious.bsky.social Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...

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A Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI

10 steps towards building the AI-enabled enterprise ...

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Summer Break for @profserious.bsky.social Your usual articles will resume next week. Just to keep you amused, here are 5 (somewhat unusual) books from my recent reading that you might enjoy on the beach ... kick back, relax profserious.substack.com/p/profseriou...

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@profserious Summer Break

... kick back, relax

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...

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A Serious Strategy

... choosing to compete in AI

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...

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A Serious Strategy

... choosing to compete in AI

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On Technical Education ... hard hat and graduation cap. Technical education merits greater recognition. But it is not the opposite of academic education. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/on-technic...

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On Technical Education

... hard hat and graduation cap

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yes, agreed.

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The fact is that we had a significant expansion of provision, it is better to consolidate than operate in many places at sub-scale which is poor for students and for research. And no ... decent REF scores for small units in a different financial context is not evidence. True for many subjects.

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think the argument here is an economic one. You need scale to operate. It does work similarly in other disciplines but generally A&H is more fragmented and fragile, hence vulnerable. You also need scale to get disciplinary range and operate s suitably sized PG programme.

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yes. Interestingly I think that it is one of the areas where the gap between the education offerings and the research frontier is largest. This is one of the ways maths has adapted.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Looking at cost is incomplete you need to look at overall contribution (margin) and capacity to recover research time. Again my aim here is to look at how we can sustain the Arts & Humanities.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I do think that there is a critical size because of the practicalities of education - which funds this! Research metrics obviously tell you nothing about sustainability.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

To be fair, I have argued that other areas (indeed the entire academic enterprise) need to innovate too! I am simply concerned with A&H because it is where the pressures are most immediate.

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...

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Whither the Arts and Humanities?

... arguments and adaptations

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Very interesting observation!

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...

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Whither the Arts and Humanities?

... arguments and adaptations

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I gave it up ages ago. Simplenote does the job for me.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So, farewell then DSIT ... from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/so-farewel...

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So, Farewell Then

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Des'ree Life

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I don't want to see a ghost, its the sight I fear most, I would rather eat a piece of toast, and watch the evening news

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...

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Toxic Tech Ecosystems

... when nobody can afford to change

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...

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Toxic Tech Ecosystems

... when nobody can afford to change

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Whose cat is this? Does anybody know a good plumber? There is a fox in my garden! Your Guide to the Neighbourhood WhatsApp Group profserious.substack.com/p/your-guide... It is too hot for @profserious.bsky.social to be entirely serious.

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Your Guide to the Neighbourhood WhatsApp Group

... ‘there is a fox in my garden'

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

University governance is not (just) about oversight ... it is about preserving academic purpose whilst guiding institutions through profound change. @profserious.bsky.social 'On University Governance … beyond assurance' profserious.substack.com/p/on-univers...

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On University Governance

… beyond assurance

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

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Poems at Bedtime

Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Why do sensible interventions so often fail? Why do small changes sometimes have enormous consequences? Why do organisations keep recreating the same problems? Systems dynamics and control offers some answers. profserious.substack.com/p/10-1-lesso...

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10 (+1) Lessons from Systems Dynamics & Control

... trust me, important!

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yes ... I think that the difference was more of emphasis than substance.

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

BTW Barry would have been talking about spiral not waterfall

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I too knew Watts and Barry (and at the time worked extensively in this area) and I think that the original poster is greatly misrepresenting their work (albeit to make an interesting point but different point).

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

See Table 1 but note London bias. I have seen more recent data but cannot immediately find it.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just thought data of interest. No agenda. I think graduate salary is a very poor basis for league table (but possibly for MBAs?). Graduate-level jobs (the most used metric) quite good but needs refining. I like the tables showing entry against outcome. Shows some places (incl our own) do very well.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...

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Reinventing the Mid-Career Academic

… on curiosity, risk and what comes next

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...

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Reinventing the Mid-Career Academic

… on curiosity, risk and what comes next

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

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prof serious is 11-years old ...

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

'Emergencies Are Digital' … and why we need a national digital emergency capability @profserious.bsky.social considers digital preparedness as a core component of national resilience profserious.substack.com/p/emergencie...

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Emergencies Are Digital

… and why we need a national digital emergency capability