Urgh. The ick is definitely descriptive of the feeling for this!

Great article and "the ick" 100% describes my increasing feeling towards AI writing. As soon as I suspect something is AI generated text, I usually just stop reading it now.

www.lexacademic.com/blog/ai-and-...

I have been there foxes. Oh I have been there.

Calling on all my library friends to share and/or apply as appropriate! We have 4 posts in our new academic skills team open to recruitment here at BCU:
jobs.bcu.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Amazing news! Congrats @jsendall.bsky.social !

Oh wow this is now a very different event to when I used to go as a postgraduate!

I assumed this was about the US at first, but no, this is in the UK. We *cannot* go down this route.

Ta I'll take a look again prob tmr and see what happens!

And yeah I have a lot of books on my goodreads 😉

Not seeing the import option anywhere on my profile page. Also my export is in excess of 1k - will I break it?!

Hah and I forgot that bsky doesn't do gifs, so that gambolling panda now is just a most confusing image.

It is both a gambol and to gambol! A versatile word.

A forward roll, obviously!

You may wish to consult this splendid tome for further learning 😉

Top marks for alley and roundabout!

Ended my day with a beer in the garden. Glorious weather!

Oh my, these are excellent! I particularly like "ice shoggles". Come to Birmingham and we can teach you such fine (but nor weather related) vocabulary as gambol, the cut, gulley, and island. Want to take a guess at any of them?? 🤔

Better than last time I came up, that was quite mizzly!

Up early and heading towards Leeds. Looking forward to a day with excellent colleagues @masudk.com and @jsendall.bsky.social 😁

And i cant help but feel an implicit assertion here that no one in a PSD role could possibly be an intellectual

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Fancy!

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
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This

Ngl I kinda love how bad it is

We ride at dawn!! (Also reported)

When I talk to friends outside of HE and use terms like Vice Chancellor etc apparently all they can think of is the Unseen University

100% this, it is baffling to me.

You do look a little like you've spotted something quite concerning on the floor 😅

You would certainly hope so! It's been the mantra for years with "conventional" searching and with ref man software after all.