I wonder how many third-party platforms and software systems my university is paying for, and at what (enormous) cost, many of which previously worked fine on internal systems. I bet it's easily north of 100. New this year: a third party platform to manage 'course reserves' for the libraries.

1. Defund. 2. Demoralise. 3. Demolish. 4. Divestiture. 5. Deregulate. 6. Denationalise #HigherEducation #Academia

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant. The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Not being dramatic, but this probably signals the effective end of Chemistry in English Universities. An *efficient* Department loses something like £2k per Chemistry student per year; this change will roughly double that loss. Universities would be mad to keep teaching Chemistry.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant. The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

We really did take a wrong turn when we started treating #TechBarons (and their minions) as "thought leaders" who should shape policy and economy, rather than privateers who need to governed harshly!

Luke Stephens - Big Oopsie

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It bugs me that we're normalising the idea that there's something wrong with long documents, or that they're not "worth" our time. There is huge value in careful thought, in detail and nuance, in exploration, and in the experiential journey that goes alongside that.

This is a really welcome response to what’s happening with AI and mathematics. Math knowledge shouldn’t become raw material for commercial AI companies to build on, test against and profit from. We should all be supporting the Association for Human Mathematics.

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

This is why much of the #AI investment industry is akin to a Ponzi Scheme. They need to keep generating new market entries as novel investment opportunities, in order to pay dividends to 1st gen investors as the cost/income dynamic is unsustainable. #Criminology #DigitalCriminology

Mr. Completely@brokensymmetry.art · 3d ago

Consider this from a business perspective The reason the AI bubble is a bubble is the lack of compelling enterprise level utility: the kind of thing that lands the $10B+ annual contracts that only governments and mega corps can sign. Suddenly the hype is all about how effective they are...

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Violence has fallen by 80% in the UK and Europe in the last three decades. Professor Manuel Eisner discussed this subject on BBC Radio 4's 'The Great Crime Mystery'. As well as discussing the reasons for this decline, he also highlighted areas for further research. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Great Crime Mystery, 3. Listen and Learn

The risk from violence is the lowest it's probably ever been; how can we keep it that way?

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Seeing #Criminology folk off to #EuroCrim2026 evokes pangs of FOMO @kateherrity.bsky.social and I wanted to promote www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... However, given actions/position of President & Executive re: #Palestine we could not in good conscience attend, and wont again until context changes.

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the experience of harm, jus...

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At the very least this seems to breach: 1. Public Order Act (1936) - political uniforms 2. Public Order Act (2023) - obstruction. 3. Crime and Policing Act (2026) - concealment of face at a protest. Possibly also under Protection from Harrassment Act (1997) Yet the #police do what? #Criminology

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 4d ago

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

Our MSt in Applied Criminology, Penology and Management is now taking applications for 2027. This part-time course is ideal for senior professionals in criminal justice and aligned professions, with an interest in the theory and practice within their field. www.crim.cam.ac.uk/mst-applied-...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”

While reading this terrifying report I was reminded of the work of Hugo Münsterberg, who is sometimes called the first film theorist. Münsterberg coined the term "psychotechnology" to describe how media works on our minds. In his lab, he ran experiments that were broadly similar to what the Alpha

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 5d ago

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

People seem to be surprised that an #AI company has acted unethically and has tried to whitewash that reality ... Have you been paying attention?? FFS #Maths #Science #AcademicTheft #Criminology

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This is the very process of #Enshitification in action and why we are getting an exponentially increasing toxic #InfoEcology You cannot poison a communal (epsitemic) well and it not produce choleric effects! Something #Academia is not really dealing with. #AI/LLM #AISlop #HigherLearning

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 6d ago

⚠️ Good example of how AI manufactures & legitimizes BS The cycle: 1) AI hallucinates reference 2) Report placed on gov website 3) Report indexed 4) AI now thinks ref real ‘Scary’: how AI misinformation hallucinations are infiltrating www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🚨 Needed: ref vigilance!

The world is on fire and shit we left behind is crawling out from under rocks. It has left me so annoyed! So, I have decided to collate my #AcademicRules into a singular 🧵 ... 1. Never say anything in blind #PeerReview that you would not say directly to the author(s) face-to-face! #AcademicRules

For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:

Michael Barany@mbarany.com · 6d ago

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A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

For those teaching #PunishmentAndPenality in their #Criminology programmes this year. This fallacy is rife within the #CriminalJustice systems of Western states; and was transposed into the practices of Colonial territories where it still haunts contemporary practices and disciplinary ethea.

Zohran’s Mommy Dommey@loridiletto.bsky.social · 6d ago

Punishment is so ingrained in our cultural way of relating that even progressives want to believe it can accomplish behavioral change but guess what? That is its own poorly-evidenced belief, sorry!

This month’s book draw is for 'Autism, Criminal Defence and Access to Justice', Roxanna Dehaghani & Tom Smith. Thank you to Routledge. Closing date is 30 September. BSC member's can find out more here: britsoccrim.org/book-draw-2

McGuire says mostly of the research that informed his rapid assessment comes from US and therefore may not be applicable in E&W ... Like there's not a wealth of #prison research on staff, prison climates, and violence that identified these conclusions more than a decade ago! Ffs #Criminology

Russell Webster@russellwebster.com · 7d ago

What is behind the increase in prison violence? - Rapid Evidence Assessment examines causes of prison violence and their implications. www.russellwebster.com/what-is-behi...

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last wk.

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

100% #BookSky #WritingCommunity

A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.

As the head of a university music dept, we're at the sharp end of this. Gove's EBacc is to blame. Pupils no longer encouraged to take music GCSE -> drop in A Level + drop in teacher recruitment -> drop in university entrance -> fewer teachers trained -> schools not offering A Level or GCSE music 1/2

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last wk.

'The number of students taking A-level music is at a record low: under 5,000, a drop of nearly half from 15 years ago....Music GCSE entries have also fallen. It has the widest attainment gap for disadvantaged students of any subject.'

I wonder if "I wasn't listening" would be adequate defence against secondary liability in a #JointEnterprise offence where presence was seen as "giving encouragement"? @crimegirl.co.uk? @barristersecret.bsky.social? #CriminalJustice #Criminology #CriminalLaw

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The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

If the guy with the walking stick turns out to be an Emeritus Professor from an eminent #Economics department i will not be surprised... #UKPolitics

NEW: Romanian prosecutors indict social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate on trafficking minors and money laundering

The agency said on Friday that Tate and his brother coerced a victim by pretending to be in a loving relationship and then forcing her to produce pornographic material for an online webcam business.

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