Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Yesterday I FINALLY finished writing my second book. I've been chipping away at it for nearly 3 years.
Today, I don't know what to do with myself.
Don't get me wrong - I have loads to do. But I don't know what to do with myself.
Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.
Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library
#histmed
Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
Reformers: They took the winter fuel away. All our pensioners are good to freeze to death!
Labour u-turns on winter fuel payments.
Reformers: They can't do that! How are they going to pay for it? Tax more or magic money tree?
Reformers are simply contrarians. They aren't serious people.
I'm not sure how well AI can provide independent thought on a longer assessment, which is always my benchmark for a higher grade.
That all said, I think there should be time spent teaching students how to use AI well, similar to how we used to teach how to use search engines well.
So not really impactful when they are used. Well, they shouldn't be. Ever.
What Arts and Humanities assessment involves online multiple choice/short answer questions that can result in a "high first" mark? I've never heard of any. That's not how the discipline is generally assessed.
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
It has a "Barbie visits a monastery" vibe.
I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Just sit back, and hope that they bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads.
Funnily enough, I bought 3 bags of popcorn just yesterday.
I urge all researchers interested in #emotion - or using facial expressions as emotive stimuli - to read this response paper 👇
by @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @eblissmoreau.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social @katiehoemann.bsky.social & others
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
#neuroskyence #affectsci
It's no worse than the "real" ones.
It reminds me of here in the UK when Brexiters started to realize it was a bad idea, and blamed it on people just not believing in Brexit enough.
Freedom Ship by Marcus Rediker
I Have Avenged America by Julia Gaffield
The Painter’s Fire by Zara Anishanslin
Lineage by Karin Wulf
New or forthcoming trade and academic releases by talented early modern/18th-century historians that I look forward to reading this summer.👇 Spread the word! @juliagaffield.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social
I'm at the point now where I think all Deep Fakes should simply be illegal and heavily monitored. Especially if they're political.
And I think political parties caught using bots, DF, or any of that should be threatened with jail terms.
As there are still people confidently talking about "minimal brains" and who think Inside Out is a scientific paper, we sadly have a long way to go.
I ordered a new tremolo ark for my guitar.
I do not think this is a tremolo arm.
It's the same mistake the Tories made for the last 15+ years. You can't out-xenophibe Farrage, so there's no point in trying.
The argument for gender/sex segregation of any kind in football is spurious.
It depends on the exam. If the only part that's monitored is the writing out part, then it could work. It might also help people learn how to use AI for research effectively during prep.
PS. I too hate exams.
I can't think of another business model where the people who produce the raw product for a $billion business are asked to provide that product for free, or worse, pay for the privilege of providing it.
It has to change.
My password suddenly not working 'cus reasons would do it for me.
It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
Our book has now appeared, a bit ahead of schedule. Its in Open Access, meaning the chapters are all free to download either as epub or pdf from this link. I’ll put a thread together on what the individual chapters are about.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
I've been watching them practice overhead for the last week or so.
