Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
10.03.2026 17:41
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Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
Title Screen of a game with a shadowy cartoon style. Title: Agent Higgs 2: Escape from the Standard Model. Underneath is a scene of a red H wearing groucho-marx glasses hiding among some wooden crates and particles. The particles shown are proton, electron, and muon, all drawn as colorful tiles with letters. Along the left are several UI buttons drawn as file folders: Play, Editor, and About
Cartoony scene of a tall billboard shown outside among grassy hills. There's a happy blue character wearing a red jester's hat, holding out their arms forming a rainbow filled with particles: electron, muon, tau, proton, neutron. The top says: Welcome to the Wonderful World of Particle Physics. The bottom says: Now including the Higgs Boson. The area that would show the Higgs boson is mysteriously missing. The mysterious dark figure in a hat is nearby on a ladder, holding a roll of paper.
Screenshot of a level in the game, titled Electric-8. It's grid-based, with a white floor and wooden tiles forming walls. There are two protons and an electron, with a photon pulling on an electron and proton. Agent Higgs is a tile at the bottom of the level. A mysterious figure wearing a hat is near the top, saying: "The scientists caught you last time... ...but with my help you'll never get trapped again!"
A peek at Agent Higgs 2 -- my particle physics puzzle game coming out this summer... testtubegames.com/blog/
Popping this here for anyone wanting to attend a small science fiction con in Glasgow in May...
nine.satellitex.org.uk/about/news/141 (I'm not affiliated in any way, but considering attending if I'm not away elsewhere!)
simonoxfphys on insta
Wind turbines kill birds, yes but...
1938 not 39 :-D
Thanks for sharing.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Would it help if I made this into a pdf as well, instead of just the blog post?
(I think I've actually answered my own question there...!)
Please do and also have a look at the main project page, there are free downloads of interactives, publications, and game-like explorations of how we attempted to represent this bit of history through a decolonial lens... (Imperfectly!)
sit.gsa.ac.uk/project/deco...
Hopefully useful.
It is yours! I'll change the wording, I got it mixed up with an actual tea towel from a different project! :-)
It took me all day, but I've synthesised all of the resources we used on the Decolonising the British Empire Exhibition of 1938 through Augmented Reality Narratives research project.
Huge list of useful info about #Glasgow #EmpireExhibition 1938:
gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/a...
Narrascope is a conference (June 12th-14th this year in Albany) which gathers "writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative."
I can now announce I am giving a talk:
*The First Year of Japanese Adventure Games*
a history of 12 months
narrascope.org
"Game-Based Approaches for Research Skills Training and Researcher Development: A Survey of Attitudes and Acceptance in Higher Education."
Read full paper: radar.gsa.ac.uk/9707/
2min video abstract:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKqL...
#GBL #Games4Research #HigherEd #Research #LoveLD #academicSky
QUOTE: "I want to be clear: I am not anti-AI. I use AI tools in my work every day. This is not about rejecting technology. It is about rejecting the idea that we have no choice but to fund a company that’s bankrolling authoritarianism."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#AI #ChatGPT
This is such a good article for anyone working in conservation.
One thing overlooked imo is how the size of organizations play a role, with people in small NGOs working twice as much for twice as less with little protections. First hand experience here 😉
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/an-e... 🌏
Logo for Playful Learning conference showing a pacman ghost hiding in some trees. The conference theme is "Into the Woods".
#PlayLearn Conference 👀
Playful Learning 2026 will be held in Brighton, 1st-3rd July at the University of Sussex. The conference theme is "Into the Woods".
The call for sessions has closed but...
👉Registration will open on Weds 11th March.👈
#GBL #academicSky #HigherEd
Reminder that there is a #PlayfulLearning and #GameBasedLearning feed here: bsky.app/profile/dais...
Please share!
#GBL #academicSky @bsky.app @professors-at-play.bsky.social @gamingthepast.bsky.social @gamestudies.bsky.social @gameranthro.bsky.social @gamerlearner.bsky.social #HigherEd #EdTech
A new paper on a carved cement wall at Ponta dos Corvos, Portugal — co-authored by @tmcasimiro.bsky.social — reads 60 years of names, dates and symbols as contemporary rock art and a layered record of collective memory.
How should we study — and preserve — sites like this?
bit.ly/4rcWQsw
A great range of games!
Back in 2018 I went on a hunt and could only find 1 lab based research game so this an excellent curated list.
Can I put you in touch with the project lead? (My role was in supporting the #SeriousGame design whereas she is the expert in Humanitarian Law etc.)
Her longer announcement is here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
No but it could be!
Ceasefire: a toolkit for trainers and educators. Title page showing a range of people interacting with the Ceasefire toolkit.
The CEASEFIRE! Toolkit for #peace educators is here!
Free to download from CEASEFIRE! Peace Game Project, the Toolkit makes it effortless for you to integrate the #PeaceGame into existing curricula.
ceasefire-theta.vercel.app
#FORRT (Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training) now has a #games portal where you can find games to help you teach research skills and also add your own #Games4Research.
Open Research Games Portal
forrt.org/games/
#edtech #openResearch #openScience #HE #ResearcherDevelopment
When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.
The comments by Jim Ratcliffe are not only offensive and harmful but blatantly incorrect, and will stir further hate and division. Working with organisations such as Show Racism the Red Card, Migrant Voice has – as part of the -"Migration. Making Britain Great" campaign -highlighted that the diversity of the Premier League, and migrants playing in it, is a strength that is reflected in Britain's communities. Immigration doesn't undermine a country's character; it enhances it. British culture, including football, is based on migration, on adapting and evolving to new ideas. That is something to be celebrated, not condemned. Nazek Ramadan Director, Migrant Voice
Our Director, Nazek Ramadan, speaks out about Jim Ratcliffe's racist and divisive comments.
"Immigration doesn’t undermine a country’s character; it enhances it. British culture, including football, is based on migration, on adapting and evolving to new ideas."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A buddy, with an excellent track record of intense and intimate games, is running a small LARP in the Scottish Highlands in December and maybe you might be interested?
coffinroadslrp.co.uk/dark-and-lon...
An interesting paper "When work becomes a game: the moral costs of gamified labor" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Gamification
Quantum Tycoon, an educational video game for discovering #quantum computing web.ub.edu/en/web/actua... #GameBasedLearning
if you’re just starting out in games, it’s never been easier to *make little guy walk around*
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Excited to share a new op-ed @insidehighered.com on autism and academic hiring. I argue that sociability and hireability aren’t the same thing, and that universities can take concrete steps to make hiring fairer for autistic scholars.
#Autism #HigherEd
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
