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Kiron Ward

@kironward.bsky.social

lecturer in modern & contemporary literature at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social author of _Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction_ co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social w/ @kdclewin.bsky.social LNER superuser

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Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d ago

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

UCU Edinburgh@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful. Review process As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it. Feedback on your application Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Running ”competitions”, whether it’s for doctoral funding or culture programmes or transport funding… is a way of shifting burdens away from the people who have the money to those who need it, and is thus entirely emblematic of our age…

Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 3w ago

To give another example: the Marie Curie Doctoral Networks. There is really nothing that matches this scheme (certainly not in the UK really) and the application effort is VAST. It’s widely expected people apply 2-3 times before they get funded. What a collosal waste of people’s time.

Anna Girling@annagirling.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is utterly horrendous for everyone working and studying at University of Brighton, & the community more widely. It also feels like Brighton is the canary in the mine – their unjustifiable 2023 cuts have since been emulated across the sector. Will this removal of workers' rights come for us all?

Daniel C. Blight@danielcblight.bsky.social · 4w ago

***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:

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings@c21literature.bsky.social · last mo.

🗣️ New article! Konstantin Helm & Mark Schmitt on Social Mobility in Naomi Booth’s Exit Management and Natasha Brown’s Assembly doi.org/10.16995/c21...

‘It’s Not My Life’: Social Mobility and the Melancholia of Class in Naomi Booth’s <em>Exit Management</em> and Natasha Brown’s <em>Assembly</em>

This article analyses narratives of upward social mobility in two recent English novels, Exit Management (2020) by Naomi Booth and Assembly (2021) by Natasha Brown. It identifies various trajectories ...

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Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · last mo.

This is brutal and spot on "Two things can be true at the same time. That the university is under attack and that the university is complicit with the very terms of engagement that place it under attack should not be seen as a contradiction"

Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · last mo.

"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · last mo.

From journal editing experience, LLMs appear to be *undoing* the good research of non-English speaking scholars. You can see signs of a solid study in a manuscript that chat or claude et al - used for "editing only" - have otherwise *wrecked*. I keep suggesting they try again without AI "editing."

Simon Davies@simonfd.bsky.social · last mo.

People will complain about the deadening effect 'AI' has on writing, then a few sentences later say that it has potential to help non-English speakers publish their work in English. It can't be both. Yes, it will put their work into English, but it will be bland, plagiarised slop English.

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings@c21literature.bsky.social · last mo.

🗣️ New article! Marco Caracciolo, 'Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know' #CliFi c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Layers of Time: Ethics, Metaphor, and Climate Change in Ian McEwan’s <em>What We Can Know</em>

Climate change is often framed as an intractable or ‘wicked’ problem, with the temporal scope of the crisis being one of the key challenges. This article explores how climate fiction can deploy nonlin...

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The attempt by transphobes to proclaim their position as 'biological reality' was always a grim mirror of the "race realist" position. The Idea that social relations are sharply overdetermined by biology acts as a blank cheque for discrimination and persecution. TERFs are showing their true colours.

Maya Forstater encouraging academics to sign an open letter against the suspension of eugenicist Nathan Cofnas by the University of Ghent.
Rachel Pope@prehistorian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We need two Arday inquiries: 1) Into racist (and misogynistic) bullying by UK press and social media accounts (see also Diane Abbott); and 2) into the duty of care that HE has for its minority staff - a duty of care that in my repeated experience is reserved primarily for white male sex offenders.

Tes magazine@tesmagazine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The death of Jason Arday shows us that all leaders in education need to speak out against racism – saying nothing in the face of prejudice is not a neutral position, writes Sufian Sadiq

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

Ä14 Jason Arday found dead 2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His . 6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11 r— mm-WI 3 A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday 1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book We are all Jason Arday now S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up.. 2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more . 7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising, Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography 8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_ Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow 6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre ÄIO Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she 4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after cornplaint about essay SOOre. Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his academic career. Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
Sinan Kose@thesinankose.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jason Arday being found dead is a horrendous way for the story to end. Elements of the press and wider media are who were relentless in their pursuit won’t stop for a moment to consider how brutal that attention was.