Today's example of why my university sucks- this is one reason why my university sucks!

That looks suspiciously like the San Sirrel

Sister Ray Davies at Billy Bootleggers

Adam Morrow from Sister Ray Davies

Gig buddy Paul, Adam from Sister Ray Davies and yours truly

A real privilege to witness @sisterraydavies.bsky.social on the opening night of their UK tour. Holy Island is one of my most listened to albums from last year - great to hear these songs live @soniccathedral.bsky.social

New article in Discourse journal (by Marita Ljungqvist, Anders Sonesson and Neil Selwyn) Article title: Fixing teachers’ problems? exploring teachers’ repair and maintenance work around generative AI technologies Abstract: The promise that AI tools will relieve teachers of tedious tasks and liberate time for more ‘valuable’ work with students has become a dominant narrative. However, the implementation of automated technologies raises questions around how human labour is implicated and situated in these processes. From the perspective of maintenance and repair studies we approach the often-hidden labour that teachers undertake when engaging with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies. Drawing on interviews with Swedish teachers we expose the tools’ inherent limitations in teaching contexts, and highlight the pedagogical, social, and moral dimensions of educational practice. We argue that these essentially inexplicable and ungeneralizable aspects of teaching – grounded in teachers’ situated awareness, professional experience, and tacit knowledge – cannot be codified or reduced to training data. Our results demonstrate the need for a radical rethinking of the forms of AI that education could benefit from – and those it should resist

"Exploring Teachers’ Repair & Maintenance Work Around GenAI Technologies" ... new open access article from our Swedish research on the considerable behind-the-scenes repair work that teachers end up having to do when using GenAI tools to 'assist' them!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Magisterial four-part report on the scale and structure of illegal sports gambling. From its sheer scale (70%+ of all sports betting in the EU) to the degree to which everyone in sport cooperates and gets their cut, it's a extraordinary picture of lawlessness.

Photograph of new EP and postcard

The new EP is looking and sounding great

Holy Island Baby, by Sister Ray Davies 5 track album

Happy release day to @sisterraydavies.bsky.social @soniccathedral.bsky.social Really looking forward to seeing you tonight sisterraydavies.bandcamp.com/album/holy-i...

Absolutely fantastic news and fully deserved. A wonderful initiative which must have brought real comfort to many families through their sadness 👏👏👏 Welcome back to Bluesky too. You’ve been missed 🖤

All support for this vital project deeply appreciated. This will really help Palestinians gain autonomy and community.

Image text relates to an event, The Tangled Roots of Creative Research and Social Justice

Want to know more about using creative methods to forward social justice aims within and beyond sociology? Book now for ‘The Tangled Roots of Creative Research and Social Justice’, A BSA Postgraduate Forum free event, 3 June, University of Bristol tinyurl.com/3wtz5the

Don't forget 📣
#Notts County Foundation
We'll be at the upcoming #Notts
home game vs Barnet at Meadow Lane Stadium ⚽

We're asking fans to bring any children's books they would like to donate to the wider-community 📚

Simply bring them to our drop-off points located across the ground📌

This is a brilliant initiative which deserves sharing widely. @ncfcfoundation.bsky.social are on Bluesky but seemingly are utilising its potential in reaching to Notts followers

1. AI Is a Research Field
2. AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
3. AI Is a Parlor Trick
4. AI Is an Ideology
5. AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
6. AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
7. AI Is a Way to Centralize Power

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We are at the very stupid stage of the AI bubble where investors and boards are demanding every company on earth announce an AI strategy immediately and without the slightest bit of thought.

This year's Milan-Cortina Winter Games promised to be the “most sustainable ever”. 🤔

In a new documentary, Matt Rendell reveals just how misleading that claim was - from backing Italy’s largest oil company to felling ancient trees for the event.

Full documentary 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHEo...

Allo Darlin' Live at Schubas Tavern 2014-11-02 : Allo Darlin' : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Allo Darlin'Schubas TavernChicago, ILNovember 2nd, 2014Recording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Mastering: .WAV > iZotope RX7 [fades,...

Brightened up a usually dreary commute. Such a joyous band live archive.org/details/ajc0...

An epitome of fourth tier football this season

USA 2026 will be the most expensive, least welcoming World Cup ever for travelling fans. And that's before we even begin to reckon with how TV viewers will respond to 50% more teams and 60%+ more games - and the drop in quality that will bring. Fifa is really testing its golden goose to destruction.

The Hidden Labor of Ethiopian Runners

Long-time friend of the pod @hborenstein.bsky.social joins to discuss the social and political economic dynamics that shape Ethiopian running and practicing the anthropology of sport.

open.spotify.com/episode/0gkT...

Infantino’s FIFA: Ten years of power, politics, and so-called ethics Gianni Infantino promised reform, transparency, accountability, and a “new FIFA.” Ten years on, Infantino’s FIFA is instead defined by political proximity, weakened scrutiny, and an increasing alignme...

Infantino promised a ‘new FIFA’ built on reform and transparency. A decade later, we instead see weakened scrutiny and an increasing alignment with state power at the highest levels.

Here is my assessment of Infantino’s presidency👇

www.playthegame.org/news/infanti...

Photograph of Greet’s cassette album, I Know How to Die

You cannot beat a bit of harmonium driven dark folk

#Cassunday

greet.bandcamp.com/album/i-know...

Screenshot of a so-called fan comment on the NCFC Facebook page

I utterly despair at the idiocy (and xenophobia) of some members of Notts’ fan base

I thought MP’s ‘I’m not a sport psychologist’ comment post-match was interesting. Does anyone know if Director of Performance, Dr David Rhodes is still at the club? I’ve perused the staff directory and cannot see his name listed

And... Morecambe are down. An extraordinary roll call of rubes, scammers, cowards, arse-coverers and incompetents have conspired to relegate this fine club three times in four years.

Whether it can even survive in its current state must now be in doubt.

Another slow handclap for self-regulation.

This is why ai should not be used in schools

Anything you give it- your lesson plan, data, student work- can and will be reused and you have no control over that. This really bothers me for marking work as students will lose out when their unique ideas get propagated to millions of other students.

Photograph taken of Newton Building, NTU city campus - venue for NTU-RAISE SIG Symposium

Obligatory photograph of conference sign outside a university building. Looking forward to today’s hybrid NTU-RAISE symposium on sustaining student-staff partnerships, balancing power and recognition. @raise-network.bsky.social

Research by @staceypope.bsky.social et al. conceptualizes men’s football clubs as an “extremely gendered” organisational form. Tracing women’s leadership trajectories over 3 decades, they show how clubs maintain masculine dominance by women having peripheral roles.

Article: doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Photograph of the phenomenal new Jilk cassette

Happy to confirm the new @jilk.bsky.social album looks as phenomenal as it sounds bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/tetsuo...