Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of flames . Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of flames .

I am trapped in admin hell

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

🌱 Join us to examine the pressures of working on lowland peat soils - highly productive farmland responsible for a significant proportion of agricultural #GHG emissions

Farming the Fens
Thur 9 Apr, 1-2.15pm

With NBSoil, Fenland SOIL, G’s Norfolk & G’s Fresh
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This Life 30th anniversary celebrated on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer Three decades on, its characters, energy and unapologetic honesty remain central to the cultural memory of the 1990s

How is "This Life" 30?!

Anyway...watch it again from 18th March on BBC4

This Life 30th anniversary celebrated on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer share.google/gX5hjzQGyCNO...

Zack walking through the centre of an aisle in Peckham

Camden Green Party altogether in a park

Barnet big crowd in a circle

Haringey greens holding up vote green signs

So energised by our Saturday tour.

Four boroughs in one day - Southwark, Camden, Barnet and Haringey.

In every space: hundreds and hundreds of volunteers joining our Green Party, ready to make hope normal again.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk 💚🙌🏽

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The 'secret' and mysterious world of gathering moss Demand has doubled, with customers buying moss for hanging baskets in spring and wreathes in winter.

I didn't know about this job - until now 👇

#SurfaceStudies

The 'secret' and mysterious world of gathering moss - BBC News share.google/jnpqJcOxToEH...

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BBC Radio 6 Music - Cerys Matthews, All Queens Day: Camilla George, Jesca Hoop and the Women of the Radiophonic Workshop Cerys marks All Queens Day with Camilla George, Jesca Hoop and Radiophonic pioneers.

At 10am... @cerysmatthews.bsky.social 👇

BBC Radio 6 Music - Cerys Matthews, All Queens Day: Camilla George, Jesca Hoop and the Women of the Radiophonic Workshop share.google/x0uhI45l1xAR...

Joyful chat about dill and gherkin crisps right now 😹

#CrispsOnTheRadio

BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie, Music, chat and comedian Sam Campbell share.google/WmNnSmGlUYPz...

a depiction of a thistle with spiky green stalk and leaves made from cut out painted paper and topped with pink flowers

The most beautiful thing you'll see all day: a depiction of a common thistle in watercolour, gouache and cut-out green paper pasted onto paper – the extraordinary work of multi-talented George Sand from 1848 (The Met)

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission The UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright rules. A report by peers has urged ministers to develop a licensing regime for the use of creative works in AI products and abandon proposals to let tech firms use the work of novelists, artists, writers and journalists without permission. Continue reading...

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

RIGHTS. JUSTICE. ACTION FOR ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Today is International Women's Day.

The Green Party celebrates all the incredible women in the Green Party and beyond who are working every day to accelerate action for gender equality.

Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls.

Not in a celebratory mood today. Patriarchy is decimating the earth & ALL her inhabitants.
#InternationalWomensDay

Folio 12: Red Carnation (Dianthus sp.) with a blue, orange and yellow butterfly, illustration.

From Book of Flower Studies, Master of Claude de France, c.1510–1515.

Magnolia Stellata covered in white flowers and buds next to a gravel path

Close up of a white magnolia stellata flower

Isn't she lovely! 🤍🌱

On the discomfort of academic writing 👇👇👇

With thanks to @drlauravarnam.bsky.social for the heads-up

Fantastic to find @patthomson.bsky.social here btw

I haven't read as much @patthomson.bsky.social here as on the other place. This blog post is terrific. Thanks for posting @drlauravarnam.bsky.social

getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

Fantastic blogpost by @patthomson.bsky.social on productive discomfort 👏 ‘Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself.’ patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

If you are in or near Oxford tomorrow evening, tickets are available for my talk on SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS at Balliol College, Massey Room, discussing early modern education, the theatre scene in London, and the influence of Marlowe.

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New report calls for return of human remains – but UK museums lack the resources to act Even with the best of intentions, restitution is not a fast process.

Wrote this on human remains in British museums this time last year and stand by it: it’s a slow process that many collections have been trying to deal with for a while and—above all else—one that needs time and resourcing: theconversation.com/new-report-c...

In-person tickets now open: A Living Planet 🌍

https://gres.hm/living-planet

How much life is on #Earth - and what is it doing? Prof Helen Czerski* explores global biomass, from microbes to wild & domesticated animals, and why #biodiversity is vital for ecosystems and civilisation

*also of UCL

Anna Hirsch-Hennecke's sculpture "Daphne" (Lancaster University Campus) with budding hyacinths and crocuses

Spring comes to "Daphne"

#OvidAlert

why don't conversations about literature or critical theory go viral on here the way they do on twitter?

Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.

I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.

I'd welcome help building a strong application.

Thank you 💙🙏

This is depressing enough as it is, but The Guardian haven't provided any figures to confirm how far it's true, what dropout rates are across the board or anything. Tickell's rhetoric is the usual "what does the public want", forgetting that some of the public want to go to university.