this really sucks - someone please give fiona a job she is a legend and also a delightful person

Fiona Katauskas@fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 3w ago

So, I found out on Friday that my gig at the Guardian is coming to an end in late August. Needless to say I'm rather bummed by this development AND in need of a new job so if anyone's looking for a cartoonist HMU.

“the patronising disposition of unaccountable power” www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Burnham says Hillsborough law could shift power and dismantle Westminster’s unaccountability culture – UK politics live

It’s expected that the MP for Makerfield will give his first speech since the by-election campaign during Tuesday’s debate

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The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was in 1956. This summer is the 70th anniversary. I've been full time in AI for 50 of those 70 years. We're a long way from those early days but we have vastly further to go, despite what the hype says. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmou...

Really interesting on how far we can engineer serendipity for science - eg in how buildings are designed. ‘“Just placing people from different disciplines together is often insufficient,” Krauss said. Researchers needed a common problem, not just a common space.’ observer.co.uk/news/science...

The science of serendipity | The Observer

Chance encounters have been behind some of science’s greatest discoveries, from penicillin to gene-editing tools. Could we create more?

observer.co.uk

"Nothing about teaching and learning should be thoughtless or careless the way in which “AI” promises thoughtlessness and carelessness as-a-service." @audreywatters.bsky.social 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/r/4258b8ac?m...

At What Cost?

I’m a couple of weeks behind on sharing links, so apologies for the length of this email and for the outdatedness of some of the news therein. But I devoted much of last week, as I noted in Saturday’s...

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LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👀 ICYMI | "By analysing more than 750 major discoveries across the sciences, including all Nobel-prize discoveries, we observe a striking pattern: breakthroughs are consistently preceded by the development or first use of a new method or tool" #Innovation #SciencePolicy #AcademicSky

#cdeAM2026 will look at how doctoral schools can deepen societal engagement, while equipping doctoral candidates for a labour market beyond academia. 📍 Join us in Galway 🇮🇪 @uniofgalway.bsky.social 📅 17-19 June ➡️ Registration is open at https://bit.ly/3MVLRWh

"Educators will need to think through the psychological dimensions of how to help learners embrace systems thinking, combat misinformation, regulate their emotions, take strategic (collective) actions, and navigate hard tradeoffs." Important work - kudos Hunter Gehlbach!

Education to Improve the Planet’s Health, and Our Own

As the planet’s health declines, human health increasingly suffers. We can change this trajectory through a global Planetary Health education campaign.

psychologytoday.com

New Post: A clear and present danger: Investing in collaboration platforms to accelerate the transition to a green economy www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/04/23/a...

🚨 Despite the drastic impact climate change is having on our planet, 'moving from awareness and knowledge to taking action is not straightforward'. Education has a vital role to play. 🔗 Educating Pupils for Environmental Sustainability in Europe: https://ow.ly/7oyh50YNSEf #EarthDay

So many ways change can go awry. You need great ideas, better persuasion skills, deep knowledge of infrastructure, etc. That last one is under appreciated. I think higher education leaders who figure out how to improve infrastructure can make real change. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

How UT-Austin’s Bold Plan for Reinvention Went Belly Up

The rise and fall of one research university’s attempt to shake up undergraduate education.

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@patthomson.bsky.social on academic writing and epistemic placemaking. Great stuff. Thank you Pat. @lucilacarvalho.bsky.social @markauskaite.bsky.social

Pat Thomson@patthomson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week patter has been reading about knowledge production as place making patthomson.net/2026/04/20/p...

Looking forward to presenting at the Association of National Teaching Fellows Symposium in May in Newcastle! @ntfellows.bsky.social This event is open to all so do take a look at the website for more details. #ANTF2026 ntf-association.com/annual-sympo...

Professor Andy Inch delivering the 2026 Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture last night under the auspices of the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social. Andy asked where the radicalism has gone in urban planning today, and revealed the history of radical alternative thought and practice in planning over the last century

I'm facilitating a session April 15, 8pm Cairo time, 2pm ET, 6pm GMT) on Co-creating Guidelines for Ethical AI Use by Faculty and Students (some of my students will be there, and I encourage you to join and invite your students as well) @equityunbound.bsky.social aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New blog post! 🚨 'Re-thinking the work-ready agenda: teaching for effective communication on the job' by Pat Strauss and Judy Hunter #HigherEducation #WorkReadiness #Communication teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/r...

Re-thinking the work-ready agenda: teaching for effective communication on the job

“Work-ready graduates” has become a defining expectation of higher education. Governments emphasise it, policy frameworks measure it, and universities are expected to deliver it. But what if employ…

teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com

Thanks JD. My @smh @theage cartoon.

I think my 90th essay at my newsletter is one of my best there. A meditation on cooperative power versus violence, with detours on Iran/Vance/Orban/Swalwell, and a zen ending, literally.

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

What is power? It is at its most essential the ability to influence an outcome on any or all scales, to protect one's own at a minimum and to influence, even control others at a maximum. Violence is c...

meditationsinanemergency.com

My friend Guy Claxton has this book coming out on 26 May. It's a book that challenges "the assumption that mind and body are separate, revealing the interconnectedness of the ‘bodymind’ and drawing on research in embodied cognition to rethink intelligence, learning and teaching."

BODIES OF LEARNING

bodiesoflearning.org

🚨 Snow Medical Research Foundation invests $24 million in new research fellows across three institutions Congrats to A/Prof Sudarshini Ramanathan from Neuroimmunology research team at BMC - secured a Fellowship, which provides $8 million over eight years. -> www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

Snow Medical invests $24 million in new research fellows across three institutions

Associate Professor Sudarshini Ramanathan from the University of Sydney, who researches autoimmune neurology, has won an $8 million Snow Fellowhip, funded by the Snow Medical Research Foundation (Snow...

sydney.edu.au

New open access paper on epistemic spaces & workplace innovation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Making work flow: The constitutive role of knowledge domains in co-design processes

Professional practices periodically have to be adjusted. Professionals are therefore increasingly involved in co-design activities where they need to …

sciencedirect.com

"Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities, wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs, and undermining the sector's principles of public good." - www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... thx @onslies.bsky.social for the link!

As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b

Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.

abc.net.au

New Post: WEEKEND READING: ‘Things must change so everything can stay the same’: the paradox of university transformation www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/03/29/w...

My paper on learning nanoscale phenomena just passed 1,000+ accesses 🎉(2.5 months since publication) Agent-based models + embodied reasoning — and yes, not an AI paper 🙂 #LearningSciences #ScienceEducation

“Universities are not just buying access to content, but are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures” @openlibhums.org www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

openlibhums.org

“The Moses Williams’s are nice, even though he is a Professor of Education”

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 5mo ago

‘There are moments when he comes as near as he ever came to being unbuttoned, with several pieces of extended self-examination that scholars will continue to pick over in their search for keys to this deeply defended writer.’ Stefan Collini on T.S. Eliot’s letters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The urgency of women’s justice in education cannot be overstated. Sakinah Alhadad challenges our institutions to be courageous enough to give women the time, recognition and structural support to shape the future. https://loom.ly/cSVhQME

Time, temporal burden and the futures of teachers: Why education must act now

How to find time between teaching, mentoring, research, care responsibilities and the relational labour that sustains academic communities.

blog.aare.edu.au

New publication. Open access. Early & mid career researchers navigating participation in #interdisciplinary research. doi.org/10.1080/0307...

Early- and mid-career researchers’ agency in pursuing interdisciplinary careers: institutional support and hindrances

Interdisciplinarity has been identified as central to improving research impact and addressing complex problems, locally and globally. An interdisciplinary career is not, however, a simple proposit...

doi.org

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New life goal of just wanting to outsell Tony Abbott's history of Australia. Seems doable.