On Your Radar … why the Defence Industrial Strategy matters beyond defence ... how the UK intends to link science, industry and national security capability ... @proserious.bsky.social attempts to spare you some effort with this summary analysis profserious.substack.com/p/on-your-ra...
I think synthetic agents can be used to model and refine direct data collection because it is cheaper ... most survey and qual data collection exercises are risky because they are one shot or if tested undersampled. Obviously you must present all data collection methods honestly!
I use models to refine my experiments. Does not mean I do not like real-world testing. Why would one not wish to save money and time (and ethical risk) so one can be more precise and analytic?
What are your thoughts about synthetic polling and potentially pseudo-qualitative methods by creating AI agents and exposing them to statistically curated data sets?
A very helpful comment ... I think that attitude is complemented by a system ready to accommodate greater heterogeneity in mission.
Lessons from an Innovative Organisation ... what Arizona State University can teach us about institutional innovation … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
#HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #Academic #Innovation
Errr ... try your university library account?
Reading China's 15th 5-Year Plan … (a technology strategy disguised as an economic plan) ... on science, industry, and power … A short guide to what the new plan tells us about China’s technological direction … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/reading-ch...
Is Your University Financially Sustainable? ... take this simple test ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/is-your-un...
#HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy
I do understand this and sympathise, but management accounting has to draw some boxes. The issue is control over spending has to be re-established in the context of a system that has not provided it. Particularly, unanticipated calls on other RCs. The PPAN community has been part of STFC governance
A Kerfuffle … UK research funding (and in defence of Sir Ian Chapman) ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/a-kerfuffle
Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an...
#NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity
Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an...
#NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity
City St George's v-c @profserious.bsky.social says most UK undergraduate degrees should be shortened in switch to "2+2" integrated master's programmes www.timeshighereducation.com/news/shorten... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Another Modest Proposal: 'being a suggestion for shortening the Bachelor’s degree, improving its efficiency, and rendering it somewhat more useful to students, universities and the publick'
by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/another-mo...
#HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy
A photo of a Steinway and Sons piano on the stage in the sanctuary of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
Dr Agnes Kaposi introduces Sir Andras Schiff to the stage at a benefit concert for the Wiener Holocaust Library at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
Acting co-Directors of the Wiener Holocaust Library, Dr Christine Schmidt and Dr Barbara Warnock speak on stage at the LJS.
A very special evening at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue with Sir Andras Schiff.
With enormous thanks to the LJS team, CST, Dr Agnes Kaposi, and everyone who purchased tickets. Every penny raised from ticket sales will now support our vital work.
Very pleased to contribute to this!
I wrote this today. Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking … the pressures on the conditions for reason ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/radicalisa... #CriticalThinking #InstitutionalIntegrity #Governance
Seems relevant...
Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking … the pressures on the conditions for reason ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/radicalisa... #CriticalThinking #InstitutionalIntegrity #Governance
Beyond the Cloud ... how edge computing is changing where AI happens ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/beyond-the... #AI #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech
The Soviet Census of 1937 ... a story of truth, lies, and consequences ... by @profserious.bsky.social
Prof Serious at 250! ... my ill-considered opinions ... marking publication of 250 @profserious.bsky.social articles. To 'celebrate' I select 25 that may (still) be of interest. Quite a lot about universities, tech, management, & some personal stuff. profserious.substack.com/p/prof-serio...
Technological sovereignty is discussed as if it were a problem simply of access to critical technologies. It is not. It is a resilience strategy for complex systems operating under contestation. @profserious.bsky.social sets out a UK approach. profserious.substack.com/p/technology...
For Everything to Stay the Same, Everything Must Change ... a riposte to academic nostalgia by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/for-everyt...
#HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #HELeadership #UniversityLeadership
I very much enjoyed writing this (mild) provocation for @heywoodquarterly.bsky.social
What I Learned at the Royal College of Art ... 10 lessons on art and design ... from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
#Universities #RoyalCollegeOfArt #ArtAndDesign #DesignResearch #CreativeProcess #LessonsLearned
Universities should ramp up their contributions to the UK’s defence capabilities and prepare students for work in this field to help protect the country amid attacks on democracy, argues @profserious.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/defence... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
A scan of an open page of a small paper diary
The front cover of Ruth Wiener's diary
Whilst incarcerated in Westerbork and then in Bergen-Belsen with her mother and two sisters, Ruth Wiener recorded her experiences in this diary.
Here a page shows her address in Bergen-Belsen, written in January 1943.
📸 Ruth Wiener: Westerbork diary. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
Yes ... I do look at the China quite extensively in previous blogs ... and I have analysed the new US National Security Strategy. I think that the changing posture of the US makes discussion of sovereign capabilities more important.
