My hometown of Halifax still has the 11+. Locals have to compete with kids from *miles* out of town, whose parents would otherwise send them to private school in Leeds, Bradford or elsewhere. They've all had tonnes of tutoring, too, as that's much cheaper than the fees potentially avoided.
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
"Every now and again, someone is nice enough to invite me to go and look at a half-finished construction scheme, so I can marvel at the cleverness of a modern engineering project..."
A day out on HS2.
As someone who teaches college aged Americans about US History, I can say that the history of anti-Catholicism is something very few have learned anything about, and it always comes as quite a surprise. Most students, even religious ones, barely know the difference between Catholics and Protestants.
Choosing whether—and whom—to marry is a bit like choosing between a bowl of cereal or a chocolate doughnut for breakfast. How? 💍❓🍩
Join us with Prof. Ruth Chang at the BIAP Distinguished Lectures to explore these questions and more! 🤔💭
✨ Sneak peek on TED: t.ly/ylR6E
🗓️Schedule and info: t.ly/r8_jI
New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.
Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
I'm 40 years old, I'm making the best chips and roast potatoes I've ever made, and I feel like I'm only going to get better.
Practicing meditation is a way of steeling yourself against the strongest commercial forces in the world today that want you to slavishly respond to stimuli and notifications
In the future the ability to control your attention will be a superpower
I used waking up as my introduction to meditation
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson presents findings from new research on students' use of AI – and argues the sector is punishing precisely the disposition it should be cultivating buff.ly/Pf6O5Zn
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
I've never felt more like singing the blues, when Everton win and Liverpool lose, oh Everton you've got me singing the blues.
I do love roasted vegetables and I was quite pleased with how these turned out
Cycled to Altrincham this morning. I remember getting off the train here to go to the ice rink. A simpler time
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Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...
If you're an early career researcher (postdoc or advanced postgrad) based in/around London, you might be interested in this workshop on April 20-21!
philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
As a grad student I compiled a complete bibliography on my niche topic. It took a lot of time but it was a valued resource.
Nowadays an LLM can find articles on the topic & identify the most influential. It's impressive, saves time, but it makes up about 10%.
Eg All of the below are false.
Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least
Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.
(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)
📚 Weekend Reads — Philosophy & Ideas (Edition 83)
✍️ Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester.
10/ Thanks a lot for reading. The full article is here: parables.substack.com/p/the-two-de...
May be of interest to @sundersays.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @emmaburnell.bsky.social @christabelcoops.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social
It's so great to get out on the bike now the weather has improved, for a gentle ride as I get back to it. no nice pics of the countryside sadly.
If true this is an amazing breakthrough in an area that has been very difficult. And will have vulture capitalism that profits from both over-indulgence and addiction very worried.
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
I read the warnings about kids, and phone-free childhood, and want to write a paper on the need for phone-free parenting.
Parenting while you have your smartphone to hand, which is basically what everyone is doing, must be studied.
Indeed. It's also bleakly funny seeing people go 'this is harmful for teenagers' (a sentiment with a fairly limited evidence base) who have obviously cooked their brains online to the point that they cannot grasp the really simple 'we should probably ban the problematic parts of this for everyone'.
I really like @catherinedevries.bsky.social on academic writing. Here she suggests writing one sentence that begins: “I am writing this because…” Keep going until you reach something that feels slightly risky to admit. That’s usually the real one.
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
I really enjoyed this interview with Mihingarangi Forbes. In 20 minutes we managed to touch on numerous issues relating to how AI is changing society, issues I've been grappling daily in conversations with colleagues here in New Zealand.
