Have you engaged with projects such as @zooniverse.bsky.social? One of my PG students is doing a user-centred study on how and why people engage on virtual/online/digital citizen science projects. Can you spare some time to help them? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #pleasebekind

@transcribe-bentham.bsky.social thank you for sharing! 🙏

I have not seen the film, and I am of course 'late' to the debacle, but hey, what an arrogant way to review a film - perfect practical example of why 'the general public' dislikes scholars and the educated elite www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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I'm not at #DH2026 but I wish I could be everywhere at once and be there too. Grateful for folks posting updates and keeping the spark alive...

@drkerithomas.bsky.social thank you for sharing! 🙏

Have you engaged with projects such as @zooniverse.bsky.social? One of my PG students is doing a user-centred study on how and why people engage on virtual/online/digital citizen science projects. Can you spare some time to help them? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #pleasebekind

Thanks @eve.gd @kcommons.bsky.social! #GraphicMedicine cc @wilkinsp.bsky.social

Knowledge Commons@kcommons.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our next #KCWorks Spotlight, selected by Martin Paul Eve, highlights the use of comics in care for dementia patients. Check it out! works.hcommons.org/records/4b3q... #openaccess #openscience #dementiacare

Moderation processes from my two modules completed successfully with no issues and I cannot tell you how relieved I am. I think once the assessment boards approve marks I am going to need sleep for a week - or drink a whole bottle of Dom Pérignon or something. Then, obviously, sleep.

I wish students could see some of the peer review comments our own work does get- perhaps it would help them see how kind and generous we are with them in comparison.

David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died

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¡Sí se pudo!

I think I have finally finished marking for the time being; about 40 days of solid marking and moderating... so making a pause to kind of celebrate that and also say ¡Vamos Méxicooooooooooooooo!

Front page news today.

"...nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions." -Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

Ernesto Priego@ernestopriego.com · 2mo ago

“I figured out a long time ago that, whatever I think I know, I don’t know anything. Once I realized that, I really started learning. That’s a great strength: I know that I don’t know” - Marjane Satrapi, 2006 www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

“I figured out a long time ago that, whatever I think I know, I don’t know anything. Once I realized that, I really started learning. That’s a great strength: I know that I don’t know” - Marjane Satrapi, 2006 www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

An Interview with Marjane Satrapi - Believer Magazine

Toward the end of Persepolis II, the second installment of Marjane Satrapi’s ongoing project of autobiographical graphic novels, the author/narrator spends seven months designing a huge theme park bas...

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*sigh*

Sad news: Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56 www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

The French-Iranian artist and film director 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.

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"Scholarly communications systems (scholcomms) fulfill many of Star’s conditions for the definition of “infrastructure.” Certainly, most academics do not inquire about their functionality and expect the system “just to work.” " - @eve.gd dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...

It's a lost battle. Earlier this week one of the BBC Instagram accounts had literally suggested Mexico was in the "U.S."

Nicola Miller@nicmiller.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mexico is not in South America!!!

This one didn't go viral either.

Ernesto Priego@ernestopriego.com · 2mo ago

ICYMI. Weirdly (gladly) unpaywalled. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont...

Yep. Even worse when they tell us "it will take 10 minutes each" hahahahahaha

Hannah Berry@streakofpith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“We anticipate this job taking 2 hours” is neurotypical bullshit. We’re looking at 7 hours and counting in ADHD hobgoblin time.

And this chapter by @eve.gd on Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures deserves your attention- enligthening read! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...

Queer as comics opens on the 5th of June- curated by the Man at the Crossroads, Paul Gravett himself! qbcentre.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Queer as comics | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

We are the UK’s first and only charity for illustration - art that communicates stories and ideas - founded by illustrator Quentin Blake.

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"Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun conducting the same test on ourselves" www.newscientist.com/article/2528...

How human error became a weapon against large language models

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun conducting the same test on ourselves, writes Max Moser

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‘White people’ Don’t vote for those preaching division. The two tier is us and billionaires. Inequality is the issue here!

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Left: Nigel Farage using the murder of Henry Nowak to sew division in society, "rights of white people matter less than ethnic minorities" Right: Henry Nowak's father, "We do not want his death used to create further division hated or tension"

ICYMI. Weirdly (gladly) unpaywalled. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont...

‘I don’t think I’ll ever be able to be in the same room as former colleagues’

The results of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey vividly illustrate the deep human impact of the redundancy crisis on those who have lost their jobs. But respondents are torn ab...

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That time of the year in which I argue that one of Musk's greatest achievements was to make academics and intellectuals willingly self-exile from Twitter/X so they'd never find a similar online community again in terms of vibrancy & engagement (and yes, annoyance and toxicity on occasion too).

"Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... [15 April 2026]

ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage

Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

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I was looking at this book re comics & AI. But the announcement _really_ reads like AI! "Drawn to Extinction isn't just a book about comics. It's about people, craft, and the quiet, relentless labour that turns blank pages into worlds you carry with you for life." comicvault.cc/p/drawn26?co...

Comic Vault — Collect Smarter

The essential tool for comic collectors. Track every book, creator, character, signature and convention in one living archive.

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Can we all agree that the structure "This isn't this. It's that" is as GenAI text as it gets and therefore even if written without GenAI it should be avoided? "This isn't ChatGPT. It's human writing" will no longer do it.