Depending on how well this is archived, this is the closest I know of in terms of having lists of what was/is out there that could be used to underpin a tracker.
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Begging folks with open ended academic jobs not to forget there’s a whole underclass of permanently casualised academics who’ve been facing redundancy as standard for years. 12+ in my case.
I get it’s awful facing redundancy ofc! Just…this isn’t unprecedented for us. It’s the norm.
This conference we are supporting in Birmingham in June has an amazing mix of 40 panels - a veritable Choose your Own Adventure through modern British studies. It’s also the inaugural event of the Association of Modern British Studies! Great stuff here
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Since 2021, photographer Mahtab Hussain has travelled across the US documenting everyday Muslim lives.
View the full photo essay⬇️
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Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.
Why '70 Up' director Asif Kapadia calls series 'my favourite documentary of all time'
#Documentary #70Up #AsifKapadia #FilmLovers
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I firmly remember the first round of general World Wide Web adoption and it wasn't anywhere near as insistent as the AI push is.
Settling beef and telling us about quantum tunnelling.
‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’
Absolutely. I’m just intrigued about a possible technical term to describe this act. Thanks.
That is brilliant. Thank you.
Specifically something to describe the grammatical modification, not just the use of the word.
Precisely. I suspect it is because the function uses an algorithm relying on probability rather than sounds. Or something along those lines. I suspect something like Dragon would not make the same mistake.
In a sign of the times, Apple’s voice recognition only ever recognises ‘migrants’ as ‘immigrants’.
I haven’t accidentally shared anything including the expletives that follow, but, alongside co-pilot, work devices are feeling ever more dysfunctional.
Any help would be really appreciated, whether examples from other languages or resolving the mystery of the technical term that I feel must exist but which is proving elusive. Thank you to anyone able to shed light or share curiosities.
Hivemind, is there a word to describe when a foreign word is used in another language and modified according to grammatical rules of the new language? For example, in Urdu the plural of something like samosa would be samoseh, but it’s usually rendered samosas in English even by Urdu speakers.
Quote of the day: "De-extinction will never be purely, or even primarily, the revival of lost species, but the bioengineering of new life forms that we choose to name after lost ways of being" Historian of science Sadiah Qureshi argues that efforts to 'de-extinct' species, using frozen biological material or living relatives, risks "reducing species to little more than genetic information, rather than appreciating them as living ways of being alive". (Aeon | 19 min read)
Oh my word. I made Quote of the Day in Nature a couple of weeks back and had no idea. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Taken from this piece on de-extinction in Aeon: aeon.co/essays/de-ex...
Back to my break.
Quote of the day: "De-extinction will never be purely, or even primarily, the revival of lost species, but the bioengineering of new life forms that we choose to name after lost ways of being" Historian of science Sadiah Qureshi argues that efforts to 'de-extinct' species, using frozen biological material or living relatives, risks "reducing species to little more than genetic information, rather than appreciating them as living ways of being alive". (Aeon | 19 min read)
Oh my word. I made Quote of the Day in Nature a couple of weeks back and had no idea. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Taken from this piece on de-extinction in Aeon: aeon.co/essays/de-ex...
Back to my break.
Will be away from here for some time.
Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.
My 11 poetry workshop videos to help children write poems have had 400,000 views. Each one has its own title with a sub-heading of 'What is poetry for kids, Michael Rosen's Poetry Workshop'. They're free to use anytime. You can find them all here.
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Not all heroes wear capes.
Oh my. Thank you so much, especially given your own fabulous stuff!
Best of luck! Looking forward to reading it.
Had junk email with a subject heading promising to get rid of diabetes in two days. The claim is self-evidently false. It is evil to prey on people like this.
Mubarak. I wish you every success with the book.
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Not all heroes wear capes.
A new @frankpasquale.bsky.social paper always goes to the top of the reading stack!