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Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leicester

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 1h
I feel it's a bit like The Queue, in which people I'd considered quite sensible really lost their fucking minds. "But he actually said maybe Brexit was bad, and might do some things after the next election, it's a glorious revolution!"
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 12h
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Btvs
Alt: Vampire Willow
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 13h
Quick check this morning... Yep, parts of the commentariat have still lost their minds. It's all a bit... You know when a celebrity posts a picture of a shoe or something and they get 50,000 likes. I mean, that's exactly what modern Pol Comm is I suppose. That's the goal.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Catching up on the speech. But, 'overly focused on the university route' are we? Well fuck you too, Mr working class hero. Also, you can't claim you want another industrial revolution and AI in every town. It's like they wilfully misunderstand this stuff. The better ideas... well, let's see.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Credulous commentariat on display this evening if you ask me. All the while HE is left to collapse in deference to (completely imaginary) hero voters, I might reserve judgement.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FFS.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fairford reminds me of the nail bomber in '99. The initial reporting was all at sea at first. No-one had any idea who did it, and there was a load of speculation- Serbs, Jihadis, neo-nazis. What was interesting is how it revealed how dominant narratives usually frame incidents in reporting.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He is such a disgrace.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Genuinely starting to find this kind of thing blackly funny now. Gargantu-brains discovering that using the theft machine has stolen their work has a sense of schadenfreude about it.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MacDuff: Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped. Macbeth: Fuck!
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m doing a talk at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture on October 14 at 5.30pm. It’s open to the public and tickets are free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...
eventbrite.co.uk
The News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about it
Journalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm reminded of that line in 'Throw Momma From the Train': "What did say?! Don't kill my wife, wink, wink?!"
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I mean, this is giving "we saw you across the room and found your vibe fascinating" energy.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Neither Dark nor Derry Girls are even on that stupid list and they are better than everything on it. Breaking Bad is great but it is a fever dream by Hal from Malcolm in the Middle which was better (if not eligible for this list).
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Never mind whether genAI has human characteristics, do any of the genAI boosters have them? Things built entirely on theft from actual humans doesn't seem to cause them any pain after all.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Racist filth
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can't work out if the execs who decided to cancel Strange New Worlds, and not go ahead with Year One, either hadn't seen 'Tomorrow's Enterprise', or maybe they had and thought the world couldn't cope with this much serving?
Spock and Chapel from "Tomorrow's Enterprise" (Strange New Worlds, season 4, episode 10).
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/09/2026
I don't care about whether "fraud" is the correct word, but this AI abuse shit is blatant academic misconduct, universities should come down hard on faculty who do this, and no principled scholar should cite these people. medium.com/techx-offici...
medium.com
Meet a Professor Who Wrote 200+ Papers This Year — Using AI
200 Papers, 14 Books and a Growing Debate Over AI in Research
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So, it turns out Vroomfondel and Majikthise might actually turn out to be mathematicians.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me reading your posts
Father Ted clip, caption: And now, we move on to "liars".
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Loving the one member of the commentariat opining that they don't get the appeal of another member of the commentariat.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great, so we're the Chelsea of education.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh no, this is why Tommo's not in jail. The Home Secretary agrees with him. BBC News - Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder if Tommo is actually a low rent Whitey Bulger? Or maybe it's just undercover and he's gone rogue (like Stephen Graham in Line of Duty)? There's got to be a reason he's not banged up already.
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Glenn @frackpong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When your dog hears you open a packet of biscuits.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MP Recall 🏛️ I named 29/649 current MPs in five minutes. 🟥 10/403 LAB 🟦 7/118 CON 🟧 2/71 LD 🩵 6/8 REF 🟢 1/5 GRN 🟪 2/2 YP 🟫 1/1 RB Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/
toys.jamesomalley.co.uk
MP Recall — How many MPs can you remember?
Name as many current UK MPs as you can in five minutes.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
cries in 400 jobs threatened at my one (1) small (tiny!) university as part of sector-wide crisis
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 21/09/2026
The evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work.
Comparison of OECD countries’ differences from the UK in 2024 for 18–24‑year‑old participation in education or work
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At #meccsa2026 I saw a great presentation on Burnham and the Manchester media. A trend was for an essentially non-party political approach, and I wonder if he's going for that as PM in not touching fascist thugs on our streets with a bargepole. Yet another ideology-free technocrat manager.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Have you seen The Bedford Incident? Imagine a computer doing that for you!"
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaires should be turned into soylent green.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Indeed it is. I cannot understand why this doesn't bother more people. For communication (text, audio, video, images etc ), genAI is entirely content taken without consent, credit or compensation and sold back to the credulous.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.
independent.co.uk
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Middle England today
Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Nothing I was frightened of as a child (nuclear war, serial killers, Thatcher) is as frightening as this documentary trailer.
Scariest thing ever
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Am I alone in thinking Delo and Harborne should be in prison? They've got rich from something that doesn't exist, and are brazenly trying to subvert democracy for the benefit of fascists.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Love the bit where offers have gone up but uptake has gone down. More dark energy effects in the accelerating gap between HE leaders and everyone else in HE.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I see the new James Bond movie has its crypto billionaire crook villain in place already.
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So we're on best invasion of Britain then? 3rd place for me are the Vikings- they are just cool. 2nd are the neglected Jutes (I'm from Kent, so Hengist and Horsa rule). Romans tops, obviously- best archaeology. (Saxons worst- coming over here with their mostly wooden stuff, so rubbish archaeology.)
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nothing like people who read autocues for a living thinking they actually have something of their own to say. A kind of precursor to those who think that using LLMs make them a writer/artist etc.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A relatively tired trope of a plot I suppose (and why is Kirk constantly on a ship that isn't his for no good reason), but I did think this was another almost conventional Trek, and therefore good, episode of Strange New Worlds. (Gimmicks are fine, just not every episode.)
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'd like to be able to offer a sober comment about this but there's so much nonsense, it's impossible. The gap between VCs and academics is so vast it must be influenced by dark energy or something. HE is not about instrumental training. It just isn't. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/all-und...
timeshighereducation.com
All undergraduates should get work-based learning, v-cs say
Bold plan to support graduate employment would require placements for 1.4 million students annually
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A really good piece, asking important questions about, for instance, the tension between intrinsic value vs labour market value of education. Instrumental measures aimed at promoting the latter (e.g., work-related learning) jar against the former and, actually also against engagement.
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Kirsty Finn @kirsty-finn-mcr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really good piece. We wrote something similar ish about institutional belonging work in HE. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The contemporary contradictions of belonging in higher education: successful transitions in times of crisis
Educational transitions have way-markers and objective milestones as students enter, move through and exit institutional spaces within a normative timeframe. Increasingly, however, scholarship has ...
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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I see someone who imagines themselves in one of those disaster movies where they are the clever person warning of doom who no-one listens to. I bet he's thought about who will play him too.
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