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Just found out that if you Google search the title of Beverley Nolan and I’s book, Leading Safe and Simple Yoga Nidras, Google will give you an AI summary of what it thinks is in the book…which doesn’t come out until August.
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
I've had a wonderful time at #IAHR2025 in Poland this last week. Such a great conference, but we're all very, very tired & i'm pleased to be home now with my boys!
It's official! We have confirmed a date for the book launch! Wednesday 5th November 2.30pm at OCHS, Oxford. Who's coming? 😃🙋♀️ @ruthwestoby.bsky.social @jimmallinson.bsky.social @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social @wedossett@bsky.social @philipdeslippe.bsky.social @aledjllthomas.bsky.social
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Craig DiLouie: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the children of red peak Guillermo del Toro: ah! you mean DiLouie: no DiLouie: no i don't mean DiLouie: people keep making that mistake but i don't mean
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BASR Annual Conference 2025
Religion, Space and Place Friday 5th September, 2025. Online, hosted by the Open University. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: Click Here The BASR is pleased to be supporting the quinquennial IAHR confe…
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now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities
We did a thing! and when I say 'we', I mean a lot of good people helped write a book on the academic study of Yoga that is accessible and useful to non specialist scholars and practitioners alike. I'm really proud of this one!
Equinox Publishing Ltd@equinoxpub.bsky.social · last yr.Just published! Info & order at 25% off quoting code YOGA bit.ly/405HNWP #yogastudies @ruthwestoby.bsky.social @jimmallinson.bsky.social @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social @theowildcroft.bsky.social @wedossett@bsky.social @philipdeslippe.bsky.social @aledjllthomas.bsky.social
New redundancies in Higher Education at: *Anglia Ruskin *Birmingham City *Bristol *De Montfort *Derby *Goldsmiths (yet again) *Greenwich *Hertfordshire *Lancaster *Leicester Every single day in HE is like this. Nothing will be done.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A lovely, responsible book on Trans lives, co-written by one of my colleagues, is at the centre of this hate campaign in Kent. It was nowhere near the children's section. Apparently the book simply existing is somehow a 'safeguarding' risk for children. What on earth.
Backlash after trans books removed from children's library section
KCC says the move came after a
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NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Who Will Count as Disabled Tomorrow?
The dangerous redefinition of welfare disguised as Labour's compassionate reform.
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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
maybe doctors could save money by treating fewer patients | maybe firefighters could save money by choosing the fires they put out more judiciously | maybe the bbc should save money by limiting broadcasts to 4 hours per day. in fact why don’t we all do the most cost-effective thing & simply give up
Robin Bisson@robinbisson.bsky.social · last yr.Two senior @ukri.org figures this week have suggested unis could reduce how much research they do “Concentrating on unique and high contributions & concentrating on less research, has the potential to bring the amount of activity into balance with research funding,” Steven Hill told #ARMA25 (1/2)
Happy solstice, loves. It's George's first time at Uffington for dawn. He was very confused by the sitting down and waiting bit, but very much enjoyed the walk
The summer solstice is just a made-up holiday to sell more henges.
My understanding is that the core mechanics of a LLM means it can never be taught to be right. That's just not what an LLM does or will ever be able to do. It can only be more convincing while it is wrong, which is why they're fundamentally useless
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last yr.I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.
What you definitely want in the mountains is a nav app which isn’t actually deriving its advice from the real world. 🤦♂️
Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · last yr."AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."
Latest news in an unfolding self-inflicted disaster, not just for UK universities but for the UK itself. One of our genuinely world-class sectors is being trashed, with all that means for UK economy, soft power, scientific & cultural life. 'World-class' isn't, for once, blimpish hyperbole ... 1/2
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last yr.The university cutting jobs today is Lancaster, which may lose about 400 more roles. Every single day in Higher Education is like this. Why won't someone stop the madness? www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/education/la...
I would like to thank @marthasadie.bsky.social for sharing the single best article anyone has ever written about AI. tl;dr ELVIS can recognise donkeys from behind www.countypress.co.uk/news/2524403...
New AI app to identify Isle of Wight donkeys from every angle
The project aims to support visitors and adopters in identifying their chosen donkey more easily through a mobile app, while also improving animal…
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american watching british panel shows: it’s just funnier. and more human. they know how to laugh at themselves brit watching british panel shows: he’s a terf. everyone here went to cambridge, he’s married to the producer. he should be in jail for tax evasion. the wrong guy on 8 out of 10 cats died
Something isn't right when children need food banks in such a wealthy country like ours. Re-post if you agree
Hi @technogym.bsky.social. Quick question - when you made inputting your weight an unskippable part of registering for your app, did you know that you were making all your exercise centres inaccessible for anyone with a history of eating disorders? /1