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📝 Yesterday, we along with other UK union's delivered Keir Starmer an urgent letter at 10 Downing Street. 📣 The Climate and Nature Bill would protect and safeguard nature while creating 1000’s of jobs, bringing social and economic justice to communities across the county.

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"Leading technology companies including Google, Microsoft, IBM, SAS, Accenture, Sage, Barclays, BT, Amazon, Intuit, and Salesforce have signed up to the partnership." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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One of the issues with undergrad students is that - despite all the “digital natives” hype - their online literacy is often quite poor. In two academic offences panels this week a student was totally perplexed when asked why an AI made up quote was in their essay: “it was the 1st result on Google.”

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Full schedule for the AI Art & Design Education Practice Sharing Day totallyrewired.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/f...

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New UK AI datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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It takes a lot of companies to keep an apartheid regime afloat. Several banks finance Israeli settlements, weapons, and military, which contributes to human rights abuses in Palestine. In this article we look at which UK current account providers are most and least complicit: bit.ly/4kJGl46

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Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

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UK Govt AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat, 242 to 116 votes. Copyright holders must be able to see when their work has been used and by whom. Tech firms need to be licensed to use the work and pay. Govt disagrees. I voted against the govt.

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Looking for more GenAI syllabus policies across higher ed! In particular: STEM, Business, & Health courses Gen Ed (Writing, Speech, Psych) Prof/vocational programs 📥 Submit/update: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📚 Browse: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #HigherEd #GenAI #Syllabi

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What it’s like to be in the graduating class of 2025 in Gaza | Nadera Mushtha www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

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👀 Who's been using AI to write health policy? MAHA = GIGO 🧪 #healthpolicy via @duncanrobertson.bsky.social

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After yesterday's long-awaited rain, my garden smells fresh and the Old Roses have begun to bloom

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Misuse of AI, in my classroom, seems to be down compared to last year. I believe implementing this framework is at least partially responsible. mrblairsclass.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...

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Tom Gauld on choosing your seat at a literary festival event – cartoon www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

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All you nerds thought I was joking... I WAS ONLY HALF JOKING!

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At #CSAI2025, I discussed the latest redevelopments to my Academic Integrity in STEMM interdisciplinary undergraduate research module, the first module of its type in the world. Here are some highlights of that presentation.

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Yet another nail in Labour's coffin. Shameful disregard for the planet we share with all living beings www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

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Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Just a three-hour drive from #Gaza, food for 200,000 people, medicine for 1.6 million, blankets, hygiene kits and school supplies sit waiting. Meanwhile, people in Gaza are in need of everything. Supplies need to enter. Now.

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An unreliable study from a male wellness company convinced MPs and the media that the UK had the 12th largest ‘female health gap’ in the world. Our investigation into this claim has now secured a series of high-profile corrections - and seen the original research deleted. We unpick what went wrong.

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The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna review – debunking myths of the AI revolution www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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‘Likability labour’ – why it’s time for women to stop being nice at work www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Loving this live webcam of puffins from the Farne Islands @nationaltrust.org.uk Via @oohgpwales.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...

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www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #AcWri #AcademicWriting

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🌍 Want #REALChange? Warmer homes, cleaner rivers, cheaper energy bills, thriving wildlife? 🌿 Things CAN get better—if the Government follows the science. ✍️ Sign the open letter—tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament. 👉 action.zerohour.uk #CANBill

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UK artist Sue Austin, 'Creating the Spectacle!' (2012) underwater performance in her specially adapted wheelchair #womensart #Fridayfeeling

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#MYFest25 registration is open! myfest.equityunbound.org Join us for a recharge and renewal experience in June, July, August thinking/talking about teaching and learning with imagination, yes, AI (critical perspectives and more pragmatic perspectives), social justice, wellbeing and joy...

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Dawn over the Northumberland coast.

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This interesting post was shared today at the @jisc.bsky.social AI in HE community meetup. The DfE rationale for stopping funding tools like Grammarly is questionable. They say... (1/-)

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🚀New paper! ChatGPT's wildfire-like spread has led millions to develop new literacies to navigate this AI wilderness. Our open-access paper in Computers & Composition analyzes the emerging rhetorics of one such literacy: prompt writing on X/Twitter 🧵 (1) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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With more people turning to GenAI systems for therapy, a new risk has emerged of vulnerable users using systems like #ChatGPT to channel their inner beliefs, declaring themselves as messiahs, and retreating from partners, children, and friends. The stories can be harrowing.

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International students are being lured to UK universities by recruitment agents paid for by universities who are making false promises to students, reports the Financial Times (link to original article in first reply). This is worrying. An #academicintegrity thread.

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