Cognitive effects of AI [over]use: * Never-skilling - Failure to learn * Deskilling - Degradation of competency * Mis-skilling - Acquisition of poor reasoning (false AI info) * Automation bias - Over-reliance on AI * False proficiency - Absence of competency revealed when Al is unavailable.

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Will medical trainees who rely on AI fail to develop foundational independent clinical reasoning? A Perspective in Nature Medicine outlines a precautionary framework to preserve foundational competence while supporting safe and effective AI integration in medical training. #medsky #Academicsky 🧪

Day 9 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. Camaraderie on the picketlines continues to blossom. Our canine friends are also there in support:

Scenes from the Picket Line: Day 3 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, following hundreds of job losses and thousands more to come. Here are our wonderful workers, staying strong: (1) Craft-making on the picket line ...

Its Law School ...

Overwhelming response today from the protests and picket lines at the University of Edinburgh, on Day 1 of the UCU workers' strike. This includes at the university's Medical School ...

A new arrival, just in time for the second anniversary of Jameson's passing. Built around the old opposition between Heideggerian and Marxist (critical) theories, these seminars could have much to say about areas where this opposition still runs beneath the surface---not least in ecological thought.

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

Trump today: "There’s very little happening right now in Gaza." At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the past 48 hours, along with a pregnant woman who succumbed to her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces three days ago. His disregard for human life is despicable.

‘One of the main differences between today’s far right and the fascism of the mid-20th century is the absence of a uniformed paramilitary street wing. The anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth at the weekend mark an attempt to create one.’ Daniel Trilling: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Daniel Trilling | Masks Off

One of the main differences between today’s far right and the fascism of the mid-20th century is the absence of a...

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Lecturer in British Romantic Literature University of Glasgow Full time permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...

Lecturer in British Romantic Literature at University of Glasgow

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ASLE 2027 Call for Proposals is out! June 22-24 at the University of Maryland, College Park. Deadline for submissions January 8, 2027. Read the CFP: www.asle.org/conference/b... #EnvHum #AcademicSky #ecocriticism

“I’m afraid there is a chance this child may become an academic.”

CfP: Society of Dix-neuviémistes Annual Conference, 'Craft and Industry / Artisanat et industrie', University of Dundee, 14-16th April 2027 Abstracts (in French or English) due 1st December 2026 Full CfP on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6536

We have a cover! ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

Coming soon: the game-changing, years-in-the-making new biography of M.R. James written my most excellent colleague, Darryl Jones! @profdarryljones.bsky.social @irishgothichorror.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate their petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot

The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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It was through this joint statement that I learned the authors of the hit piece "concede that their conclusions are 'not yet supported by the kind of quantitative evidence that would be expected in a peer-reviewed study'"

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 5mo ago

WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters have issued a *joint* statement on the "State of Scholarship in the Humanities" report commissioned by our university leadership. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....

Albanese's latest report on the systematic, ubiquitous, soul crushing, permanent torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities, soldiers & settlers is one that we can only turn our eyes away from at the price of losing what is left of our souls. END THE GENOCIDE. NOW! www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN expert warns torture has become ‘state doctrine’ in Israel, making prisons instruments of genocide and torture

GENEVA – Israel’s systematic torture of Palestinians, long shielded by decades of impunity and political cover, has become a defining instrument of ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian territo...

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Anyone in Edinburgh, please consider joining the pickets on 30 March and 1 April and showing solidarity with colleagues at the Edinburgh UCU, once again forced to take strike action against devastating cuts from an utterly hostile administration. www.instagram.com/p/DWQlhwxDBx...

UCU Edinburgh on Instagram: "UCU Edinburgh have called for targeted strike action next week. ALL-MEMBER strike on Monday 30 March & Wednesday 1 April with mass pickets and mass rally on Wednesday at ...

205 likes, 0 comments - edinburghucu on March 24, 2026: "UCU Edinburgh have called for targeted strike action next week. ALL-MEMBER strike on Monday 30 March & Wednesday 1 April with mass pickets and...

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It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Zack Polanski on how Keir Starmer could have changed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling to protect trans rights (EXCLUSIVE)

Zack Polanski revealed how Keir Starmer could have acted to protect trans rights after April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling.

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Was Habermas “one of the greatest” philosophers, as this obituary asserts? I very much doubt it. In any case, his reputation will be tarnished by his (unmentioned) complaisance in the Gaza genocide.

Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed. “Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon. Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon

It’s truly incredible that with the Americans and Israelis making up claims of potential Iranian WMDs, there is virtually no mention anywhere in most of the mainstream coverage so far that the *only* Middle Eastern state with undeclared nuclear weapon is Israel.

@alexcallinicos.bsky.social for @socialistworker.bsky.social on #andrew #Mandelson and the #LabourPartyRight socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Alex Callinicos: Andrew, Mandelson and the Labour right sink together - Socialist Worker

It's not a few rotten apples, it's the whole system

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Today, February 21, 2026, is the 178th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and is celebrated around the world as #RedBooksDay. Read a red book today!