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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books

News by and for people with learning disabilities Journalism Today. 6 Feb 2026 Research | Reporting | Fellowships | Leadership 🗞️ Our top story A ground-breaking project.

Today's round-up features pieces on news produced for and by people with learning disabilities, a UK Labour 'think tank' investigating journalists, and an 'excruciating' Trump-NBC interview

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Michael Sheen raises the curtain on the new Welsh National Theatre The arts scene in Wales was left reeling more than a year ago - after funding cuts led to the end of an institution - National Theatre Wales.

Michael Sheen raises the curtain on the new Welsh National Theatre
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register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

This is a quick reminder that Media, War and Conflict will be hosting an ICA preconference on challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan and you can read the full CfA at bit.ly/mwc2026cfa

A picture of a pile of my books which have just arrived, complementary copies destined for copyright holders and kind friends.

They’ve arrived! It’s out!

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

NEW book by Guy Woodward: Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing

features chapter on special forces memoirs including accounts by Fitzroy Maclean and Jasper Rootham of their time in occupied Yugoslavia.

Published today by OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Backing up Spotify We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...

Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

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25 Year Anniversary Special Blog Series: The Future of Soft Power and Strategic Narratives Written By: Ben O’Loughlin …it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance. (Trump, cited in 2025 US AI...

I was asked to give a keynote on the future of soft power and strategic narrative, in a room in DC in 2025 where the intensity and stakes could not be higher. Please read here: blogs.gwu.edu/ipdgcsmartpo...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet

I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting Preconference The journalism of war and conflict is facing extraordinary threats. Israel's ongoing assault in Gaza has killed a historically unprecedented number of journalists at a time when the norms protecting t...

Big CfP: ICA preconference in Cape Town, 3 June 2026, for our Media, War and Conflict journal. Theme: Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting bit.ly/mwcpreconfer... - any questions can be emailed to the organisers at: r.j.stupart@liverpool.ac.uk. Thanks to @icahdq.bsky.social!

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Join us on 19 Nov at our OfcomxTIP in-person workshop on 'Future Directions of Academic Research in Online Safety, Tech & Policy' in London.

Don't miss out on this unique opportunity for networking and future collaborations!

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Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...

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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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Ben Campbell · In the Shoebox: Peter’s Snapshots The snapshots in my father’s book were taken during his first three years in London, after he emigrated from New...

‘The number of Cafe Royal titles has passed seven hundred; together they constitute a singular record of British and Irish vernacular photography between about 1960 and 2010.’

Ben Campbell on a collection of his father Peter’s photographs of London in the early sixties
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Why Trump’s speech to US military top brass was such a disaster | Sidney Blumenthal The president of the United States seemingly does not understand what the military is for

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📘 Public Communication in Freefall: Revisiting the Work of Jay Blumler — edited by Stephen Coleman, Frank Esser @esserfrank.bsky.social, Julie Firmstone, Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social and Chris Paterson. Part of the Palgrave/IAMCR series

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William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

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Teaching and Learning Network Webinar – ‘Prior Attainment Affects Uptake of genAI-Based Learning Activities’ with Dr Barbara Piotrowska | The Political Studies Association (PSA) ‘Prior Attainment Affects Uptake of genAI-Based Learning Activities’ with Dr Barbara Piotrowska, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Policy, Department of Political Economy, King's College…

*PSA EVENT* How do #students with different academic backgrounds engage with #genAI when given equal access? Join us and @bpiotrowska.bsky.social online for this #Teaching & #Learning Network webinar
📆 15 October, 2.30 - 4.30pm
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Yorkshire documentary spotlights artists with learning disabilities and autism Filmmaker Alfie Fox’s new documentary celebrates Leeds arts charity Pyramid and its work supporting artists with learning disabilities

✍️ Yorkshire documentary spotlights artists with learning disabilities and autism

Filmmaker Alfie Fox’s new documentary celebrates Leeds arts charity Pyramid and its work supporting artists with learning disabilities

New job opportunity! Come work with me at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on my major project on the political representation of men.
You: PhD in relevant area, strong quantitative methods skills, interest in representation.
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Race and Media Conference A major international conference exploring how race is constructed, represented and contested in media today, bringing together leading scholars across disciplines and methodologies

New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Political Studies Association Teaching and Learning Network Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA) Theme: Teaching Well4th-5th September 2025 This year’s PSA TLN annual conference will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, Surrey.

*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Programme now online🚨for our Teaching & Learning Network Conference, Bringing together the teaching and learning community to share practices, ideas and experiences @psateach.bsky.social
📆 4 - 5 September @royalholloway.bsky.social.
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PSA Early Career Network - Call for New Committee Members | The Political Studies Association (PSA) Expressions of interest are invited by midday GMT, Monday 7 July Do you want to enhance your project management skills? Grow your professional development? Make new contacts and build your networks?…

*PSA OPPORTUNITY* 🚨 Seeking new members to join PSA Early Career Network Committee. @psaecn.bsky.social‬
📆 7 July for expressions of interest. Open to all.
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