Lee Savage
@leesavage.bsky.social
Reader in Comparative Politics at King's College London. Hand of A'dal https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
To be clear: there are no reliable AI detectors. Some are better than others, none are good. The evidence from all of them will fall apart as soon as a student engages a legal professional to help them in any misconduct hearing
Jason Hazeley@jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 3d agoMy daughter’s university scrutinizes each essay for evidence of AI. The goal is to get a 0% score. This AI-hunting is done by… AI. A recent essay scored 17%. She questioned what the AI thought was AI, since she hadn’t used it. The answer: the uni-issued cover page showing student ID, faculty etc. 🤦🏻♂️
Barry Keoghan: Well, There Goes That Dream
ALT: Barry Keoghan: Well, There Goes That Dream
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David Ornstein@david-ornstein.bsky.social · 12h ago🚨 Newcastle United to sanction sale of Bruno Guimaraes to Arsenal for £75m. #AFC started lower, #NUFC wanted higher but compromise in process of being sealed to grant 28yo Brazil int’l midfielder desired move. Lyon entitled to 20% of profit @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
Incredible lawyering here. Eden Hazard was signed as a billionaire's fancy, not to help Chelsea win trophies. That KC must have pissed himself laughing at how he got away with that one stefanborson.substack.com/p/chelsea-on...
Automatic for the People, Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
What's this Gru level shit from the world's richest man? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon
Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday
theguardian.com
I always wanted Die Hard and Ghostbusters to take place in the same universe. John McClane being traumatised by his marshmallow man experience as a New York beat cop explains some of his subsequent behaviour
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d agoName 2 film franchises that need a crossover film.
Shit morning. The first manager to actually win something for Newcastle in my lifetime. He looked totally spent last season though, out of energy and ideas
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽@noscoredraws.com · 6d agoAh mate
You know what, Emily Wilson would love Spartacus: Blood and Sand (and the follow-ups) *This is not a joke, it's really good
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.’ @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social reviews Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
We set fire to public services so that voters could have an extra Big Mac meal every week
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · last wk.Each of the Hunt tax cuts made a median voter c. £40 a month better off. In exchange, nothing works.
I repost this in the context that Jodrell Bank could be shut down for the sake of £2.8m per year. Is throwing tens of millions at publishers for APCs a priority use of limited research funds?
Caroline Ball@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · last wk.Overall data for the UK, by institutional spend. Eye-opening!
I'm fairly sure that FIFA relies on its not-for-profit status for a lot of its governance activities. This is going to be an almighty mess www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Fifa accused of ‘selling the soul of football’ over $20bn World Cup commercial rights sale plan
Fifa has announced plans to sell a share of its commercial operations to private investors, a deal that would include the media and sponsorship rights of the World Cup
theguardian.com
If he's serious about this, he'd focus as much on creating non-university routes into the service sector instead of drawing this vocational/academic line that is rooted in a view of the economy that is 50 years out of date
Chris Dillow@chrisdillow.bsky.social · last wk.If this had been policy in the 70s (as it partly was), towns would have produced lots of mining engineers & metallurgists just before pits & steelworks closed. As the yanks say, you should skate to where the puck's going, not to where it is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Inevitable. Jenrick was on BBC this morning playing all the hits: saved all their lives, nest egg, death tax. Anything to make it sound like pensioners are being robbed. I can't see a viable solution other than social insurance
David Oliver@mancunianmedic.bsky.social · last wk.Already, the Daily Mail front page is screaming about "Death Tax" for social care, just like it did last time Labour wanted to modernise funding and provision They are trying to kill the policy before it has even been announced Adult social care is not just about inheritance £
We're cutting an internationally important part of British scientific infrastructure for the sake of £2.8m a year. That's essentially loose change. We are not a serious country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
No, no, no, this can't be right. We know that expanding manufacturing is the key to future economic growth in the UK. That's why we're setting fire to universities
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.China needs a new growth model ft.trib.al/4FRGzHj | opinion
Two jobs! Two! Get on it
Daniel Devine@danjdevine.bsky.social · last wk.Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...
Are Chelsea entered into some veterans league this year?
David Ornstein@david-ornstein.bsky.social · last wk.🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea working to sign Jordan Henderson from Brentford. #CFC top contender among multiple PL clubs eyeing England midfielder as #BrentfordFC ready to grant free transfer. Amicable situation + healthy relations between 36yo/club @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
The UK continues its managed decline. Extraordinarily poor leadership from government to UKRI
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · last wk.Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In a previous era, the social care issue would probably have demanded a public debate to resolve. It's full of trade-offs and misunderstanding and I think that in the modern media environment, those problems would be compounded by misinformation
Burning down entire universities, and the local economies that they support, because a handful of people have been criticised for their political views is utter madness. The proposal of a spoilt, privileged class that is used to having every single thing go their way
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last wk.Heffer showing his ignorance about universities again. For many towns and cities, ‘let them fail’ means one of the biggest local employers disappearing.
Saka on the right and Vini Jr on the left? I'd hand the title to them now. Though seeing how Arsenal are doing business this summer, they'll probably start the bidding at £50m
David Ornstein@david-ornstein.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨 EXCL: Arsenal exploring move to sign Vinicius Junior from Real Madrid. #AFC interest early stage + clubs not yet in talks but idea approved at all levels. Much rests on contract process as no breakthrough yet & #RMFC do not want free exit @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/746...
I think the biggest problem with Rings of Power is that the writers are obsessed with answering questions no one asked because they aren't interesting. A key plot reveal last series was how Mount Doom was formed. Now it's "what would a Balrog say if it could talk?
Lee Savage@leesavage.bsky.social · 2w agoWow, they're doing "Hitler loved animals" with the beast of shadow and flame
The infighting in PiS has been an admittedly entertaining subplot of Polish politics for the last few weeks, but today's news has really blown the issue up into a major news story. After years of Kaczynski dominating the party through a selection of loyalist candidates, change is happening.
Shrinkflation. The Wivenhoe Run was seven pubs and a curry in my day
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis@essexsummerschool.bsky.social · 2w ago