A hand holding a white mug on a blue background. In green block capitals on the mug are the words 'I'm a mug for Milton Keynes'.
For #MKMonday we thought we'd share this wonderful mug! While not technically part of our collection, it has pride of place in the archive kitchen. None of us know who brought it in but it's become the default mug for new staff.
It's time to talk about the Anglosphere world after the university era. What we're seeing, if we zoom back, is the end of the attempt to massify the immediate post-war university. That 60 year strategy is rapidly coming apart. What will post-university Higher Ed look like? (1/2)
Welcome to the archives.
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
#booksky
reminding myself once again that written is better than perfect
A fresh week and a new study begins. Are you an employer in the #UK or know of someone who is? Would you like to take part in a study I am conducting with colleagues at The Open University looking at #AISkills and #AILiteracy in the workplace?
Interested? See our LinkedIn post 👇 & pass it on. Thx!
So GenX to be completely forgotten by all the haters.
So much of the normalization of AI, the free labor from crowdsourcing to train its models, and the promotion of its forced insertion into every sector of life has depended upon these seemingly tiny, mundane acts of self engagement. Remember Google’s art selfie project? Same deal.
It does look great! Happy to share that one of our @openuniversity.bsky.social students, Maryam Aswat will present her poster about Soft skills in Software Engineering at this year's colloquium.
Maryam conducted her last summer as an intern, you can read her poster here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
General registration is now open!
If you would like to join us in Glasgow, please sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcswomen-l...
Student tickets are £1
Non-student £30
Supporter tickets (if you want to help us out ) £60
None of these people seem to understand what being human is, what emotions are, and what is terrifying is how they all seem to be trying to work on making "better" "therapeutic" LLMs for vulnerable people with their absolute bloody bullshit
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Governments should be careful about beleiving more tech will reduce costs - it often drives them up. Plus people pay taxes but machines (and their owners) tend to not, so returns to treasury drop making it all less affordable.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
It's late my love, and life
for mice, though short and rife
with sorrows, traps,
and awful things like cats,
has space for quiet moments too.
Tonight my sweet, let's me and you
go tango like we used to do,
under the bench on platform two.
bbc.co.uk/news/science...
Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.” And: “This is beyond politics — this is a matter of national security.” (via @anildash.com) [foreignpolicy.com]
If you want to understand how computer science became more male, you must see Felienne Hermans’ talk at SPLASH. Learn when CS became obsessed with math (1973) and who threw out the social scientists (Dykstra) www.youtube.com/live/-Br66SU... @felienne.bsky.social
I'd be interested in exploring a reimagined public service infrastructure for education, health and civic services that is not powered by vendor supplied commercial software.
Last year I asked a question about the state of tracing JITs, and it led to a wonderful exchange. @cfbolz.bsky.social has written a terrific summary that captures a lot of folk knowledge that would otherwise be lost. Thanks!
pypy.org/posts/2025/0...
Actually by me and @petraboynton.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social and references @uk.theconversation.com - worth a read if you're interested in research and inequality
For years, university humanities departments have been gradually squeezed of funding, with more money funneled into the sciences. With their claims to objectivity and empirically provable results, the sciences tend to command greater respect from funding bodies and the public, which offers an incentive to scholars in the humanities to adopt computational methods.
I've been writing publicly for YEARS about unis starving the humanities of funding & pitching it towards AI. The AI-developed Comp Lit course at UCLA is just some toes in the water. We're going to see much more of this if faculty don't resist. My piece from 2021: theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
My department is hiring! Talk to me if you want to know more.
Senior Lecturer (=Assoc. Prof) in Trustworthy AI: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecturer (=Assist Prof) in AI-powered Augmented & Virtual Reality
www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecture in Mobile / Edge Computing: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
huh, turns out coding is not some magic profession, immune to basic supply and demand dynamics, which can absorb infinite workers with no effects on wages or employment. no one could have predicted www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
guy pointing at himself in the mirror meme, saying "you are still an early career scholar"
Academics in their forties
An 18th century tomb sitting within the grounds of St Michael's Church at Walton Hall, partially covered in ivy and surrounded by red and white tape.
Did you hear about the time that our Senior Archive Assistant, Amanda, discovered an 18th Century tomb at the Walton Hall campus?
Read all about Amanda's exciting archaeological discovery: thehootstudents.com/the-discover...
Important update: Ada Lovelace Day Live to close.
I'm very sorry to say that, due to a significant lack of funding, Ada Lovelace Day is closing. There is a full statement on our website: findingada.com
I came up with the idea for ALD late in 2008, and the first one was held ...
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