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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 5h

It would do for me (and I know I would want to try it)

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 5h

UCL was the same. No music department but the SU paid for a conductor for the various music societies. Nottingham is a disaster, however.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 6h

Isn’t it just that it’s central London and they’re very wealthy…

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 13h

NDA required!

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#CfA: The MPIWG is offering First Research Article #Fellowships for 📑 doctoral students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions, to publish their first English article on 📚 history of science, technology, and medicine, or #STS 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2027 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3

Green and white text on a dark green background which features botanical or anatomical drawings. The text reads: "Become a fellow. First Research Article Fellowship Program. Deadline: January 15, 2027".

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22h

I refuse to believe that the most egregious case yet of academic AI-slop involves a guy whose last name is "No slop" spelled backwards. Simply cannot be true.

washingtonpost.com

Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 16h

Yes but the point is these companies are still going to be a huge share of national GDP

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, I suspect most countries are actually a bit like this. Sweden was Volvo and Abba for a while, wasn’t it? And Lego must be a sizeable proportion of Denmark’s GDP.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 17h

Well they won’t champion higher ed, either

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17h

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

timeshighereducation.com

Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had forgotten that Jeffrey Archer was running to be mayor when things went, un, wrong

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Am I missing something here? Private providers aren't the universities. I've never been clear if they're doing deals with the universities. Otherwise, the government needs to be talking to the providers.

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“If the work is essential enough for an organisation to rely on, then it is essential enough to be included in contracts, workload models, promotion systems and remuneration.”

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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The cost of rent has a major distorting effect on High Education. Rents at the rates are probably one of the things that means students are working lots of hour in paid employment, and unable very often to focus on the degree. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com

‘I didn’t know what to do’: collapse of providers of high-end digs leaves students in shock

Cost of living crisis and drop in international students hits market for purpose-built accommodation

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...

inquirer.com

For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch

A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is right. It’s almost impossible not to and lots of people are wilfully misunderstanding this point. I don’t remember to write ‘-ai’ most of the time in searches, and frankly it’s too tiring to remember.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This must exist: a history of the French nuclear tests in Algeria?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our heating still gasn't turned on...

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I see that they can’t even hang it up properly

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 04/10/2026

Voters: Hello Green Party, we'd like a liberal party which supports Net Zero, sustainable farming, and human centred development. Green Party: Right, got you. So that's anti-semitism, Tankies and cranks. Sorted. Voters: Sigh.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think saying ‘everything is political’ is really all that useful anymore (if it ever was). The persuaded are persuaded, and the unpersuaded aren’t. It doesn’t do any analytical lifting.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As far as I can tell most people posting on this and other forums (cough*student room*cough) have never had anything to do with the places they purport to know all about. They’re a pretty interesting exercise in disinformation.

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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do not like the new REF rule that attributes your work to the institution you were employed by when you wrote it. Especially since most writing is now done in non-work time. Even more than that I hate that journals are making us affiliate to unis that we have long since left …

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just never stopped buying them (and never signed up to a streaming service)

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel about 300 years old ...

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tenure track position for a social/cultural anthropologist here in Leuven, apply before 1 December: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, so tempted to post this to the primary school Whatsapp group and then leave immediately

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honestly not sure who it’s meant to appeal to

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rather difficult not to feel a bit gloomy about the state of the country atm, so I wasn’t going to make much of a thing of this anniversary this year. And then I saw this and started to cry. Because a free and united Germany in a free and united Europe was worth it. And is worth fighting for now.

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