@jeremymoulton
Senior Lecturer in Politics @uoypolitics.bsky.social Board Member @aspirenetwork.bsky.social Regular columnist @alpsblog.bsky.social HEA Senior Fellow Interested in climate action, political myth, the EU, the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
I've written for The Social Change Blog on 'Developing higher education for driving social change'.
It's a short piece inspired by finding a small newspaper cutting at my grandmother's house a few years ago - a front page story about my mum graduating university.
blogs.york.ac.uk/social-chang...
Carney and Macron's comments at Davos make clear that leaders are recognising what others have long suspected - that the international order's previously dominant myths have been shattered in recent years.
The question is now - what will replace them?
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Unlike any sensible person, who keeps up with their blogging duties regularly and in a calm tone of voice, I have saved everything up for a long, generally exuberant, in places slightly moany post right at the end of the year.
activelearningps.com/2025/07/14/w...
@alpsblog.bsky.social
The King's Manor cow sculpture, shown with a slightly shiny nose
We're told it's #CowAppreciationDay and there's only one cow in our hearts.
[That scaping sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel marked 'social media content']
The cover page of the programme for the Green Trade Lab Early Career Researcher Workshop 2025. Entitled 'The Greening of Trade as a way out of the poly-crises? Regress, reforms and rebuilding international cooperation in the environment-trade nexus.'
Great to be a discussant today for a super panel on 'Renewable Energy Transition and Industrial Policy in a
Fragmented World: Justice, Strategy and Structural Constraints'.
Some briliant environmental political economy work by three PhD students.
Whilst there are still institution-to-institution, and even within institution, variations in how these roles are seen and approached, it's clear there is growing recognition and esteem in delivering excellent teaching, scholarship and educational leadership.
Attended my first @issotl.bsky.social session today - to discuss 'Engaging with scholarship on teaching focused roles - what’s changed in the past decade?'.
Met some fantastic teaching-track colleagues and it was great to discuss the progress and change we've seen in these roles.
Great to be here at the Social Sciences SoTL workshop today! Excited to chat about disseminating teaching and learning work.
That's super to hear - thanks for reading!!
New @alpsblog.bsky.social post from me:
'Reference lists: The good, the bad, and the ugly'
I'm proposing an exercise for how we might teach students what sources are worth sourcing...
activelearningps.com/2025/06/20/r...
Looking forward to this presenting my research of Global Education and Social Media next week for @ioe-derc.bsky.social free webinar. @ioe.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
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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
Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.
We are at @mybisa.bsky.social hosting a panel on Pedagogical Scholarship! Join us tomorrow at 4:45 in Amsterdam Room, Europa Hotel #BISA2025 @louisepears.bsky.social @annaplunkett.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social
The Morrell from below, shot from across the road. It looks notably lighter in colour from this angle.
The Fairhurst library under a cloudy blue sky
To quote (probably) @adamkoszary.bsky.social a long time ago, for a different social media account, on a different platform:
It's a beautiful day. Why not spend it indoors, in our library, in the dark.*
*In all fairness it's not actually dark in our library, there's natural light for days
New Post: Redefining Academic Success: Why Career Progression Must Look Beyond Research www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/10/r...
Of course Derwent will always be the Uni of York's #1 beautiful workspace!
I realise “books have been taken out of the library” sounds more grim than it is - this isn’t a long-term general approach to libraries, it’s part of the shift from King’s Manor to the uni’s main campus.
Working from King’s Manor today - first time I’ve seen it since the books have been taken out of the library. Feels very bare!
Do changes in wealth shape voting preferences?
We tried to answer this question using an 11-year panel study in 🇬🇧.
We find no evidence that an increase in assets boosts support for the Conservatives
Great time at the EDI Research Centre’s End-of-Year showcase today.
We were there presenting our research on increasingly student engagement with assessment feedback. Some really good discussions about how to take the work forward and influence practice.
Myself and @jeremymoulton.bsky.social shared some SoTL abstracts, exploring how everyone in attendance understands "good" SoTL work
Finally, though we have already had a great many people sign up - we are keen to find those we have missed. So, even if you are not teaching-track yourself, please do share with any and all colleagues who you think might be interested.
A big thanks to all who have helped and contributed already.
The members list on the ASPIRE website was updated this morning - do check out the brilliant group of academics that are already part of the network and their SoTL interests. Your future teaching & learning collaborations/ co-authors could be there!
www.aspirenetwork.uk/aspire-members
A team photo of people who attended the launch at King’s on Monday.
A picture from a roundtable on the day.
A photo of the ASPIRE network’s board.
A photo of Hillary and Anna introducing the day with a welcome from KCL.
Back in York after a great time in London for the launch of the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social.
Feeling massively motivated now - and really looking forward to the work that will follow with the network in the coming weeks, months and years.
KCL's Department of Political Economy is advertising two permanent Academic Education Pathway (AEP) lectureships (grade 6/7) in politics - one in Research Methods, and one in Comparative Politics.
Hopefully, more AEP posts will follow in the next two years.
Links & further details are below.
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I was very impressed by the community of teaching-track scholars at today's @aspirenetwork.bsky.social conference at KCL.
Inspiring keynote by @teachpolitics.bsky.social (pictured).
(I arrived too late to hear the amazing @profcathyelliott.bsky.social talk about the joy of the teaching track.)
#aspirelaunch such a great group of people brought together to talk all things teaching track and the future of the network.
What a day! Thank you everyone who joined us for the launch of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social, big thank you to our key notes @profcathyelliott.bsky.social @teachpolitics.bsky.social and congrats to my fellow board members 🎉