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Interesting to hear about an ongoing partnership between Adobe and universities around the use of Adobe Express. There's a lot of cynicism (often justified) about private sector vendors in univs, but the evidence here is of genuine mutual benefit. #DigiFest25 @cbthomson.bsky.social

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New to me (although not that new), this podcast from JISC: the Education 4.0 podcast open.spotify.com/show/4mp2SPZ...

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Up next at #DigiFest25, some reflections on this recent JISC work on digital transformation and libraries www.jisc.ac.uk/innovation/p...

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Still free to read, though it isn't supposed to be. #IrisMurdoch

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On the way to sunny Brum for #digiFest #digiFest25. Hoping to catch up with a few HE edtech colleagues.

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🔊 The @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar is back in London on Tuesday 11 March at 17:30 UK-time welcoming @julialilinoe.bsky.social to discuss "Syon Abbey and Women’s Reading and Community as a Model for Bibliographic Network Analysis". Do join us! ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...

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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

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A slightly oblique angle on how (and when) we lost the sense of the liturgical, both in church and outside.

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Well, this is unexpected, and strangely encouraging.

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Incidentally, my article on Iris Mudoch and her Anglicans seems to be freely available, although for how long I don't know: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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New post this morning, the first bit of fresh writing for some time, that isn't derived from a published article. Some mixed feelings about the changing landscape for obscure bloggers after GenAI. But I've realised that I'm writing for my own purposes; if anyone else wants to read it too, great.

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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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A reminder that Ukraine was once the third largest nuclear power in the world and voluntarily gave up those weapons. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum. www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...

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Brexit starting to look like a stroke of geopolitical genius. Just not by the UK.

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Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

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Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:

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Where my historical and local interests collide: details of a 1920 historical pageant at West Quay, Southampton, on the tercentenary of the Mayflower. At least one university academic involved in the various committees, and a future bishop too. historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1196/

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Excited to receive our book Teaching & Learning About Religious Diversity Past and Present. Dedicated to the colleagues & 'docutubes' students who worked on the project! Ideal for secondary classroom or HE. Works with our online RETOPEA sources #skystorians #TeamRE @religiousstudiesou.bsky.social

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From 1935, part of an 'Ode for the opening of a new University Library' [...] A lofty tower of passionate thought: Above the clouds it rears its head Into the vast and shining skies : Leave the confusion and the cries Of this small earth, ascend and dare To breathe Eternity’s pure air.

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Do others feel slightly uneasy using the term 'my team' in this type of context? As if it implies some kind of possession? What I mean is 'the excellent group of people, whose thriving it is my pleasure and responsibility to promote', but it seems a bit long-winded.

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My team have been working hard to improve the way we communicate about all the good things they're doing. Here's my colleague Matt Phillips on the business of reprocessing twenty years' worth of OCR. library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...

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And while we're on the subject:

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As the process of appointing a new archbishop of Canterbury begins, I realise with a jolt that it is now ten years since my own book on Michael Ramsey (1961-74) was published. I can't say it set the world alight, but I'm quite proud of it still, my first book. peterwebster.me/archbishop-m...

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While seeing what Copilot could tell me about some characters in twentieth century novels, a new idea presents itself. It hallucinates (which we knew) but in some quite revealing ways.

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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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Circulating on behalf of my colleague Anna-Maria Sichani, CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: focus group on Responsible AI for cultural heritage community forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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And so the day is here, when I can catch the 0712 and feel as if it's light. Happy new year!

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The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man. The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.

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In the most technologically-advanced nation in history, the govt's response to the threat of climate change is to stop people talking about or researching it. It's like Basil Fawlty took over the free world, goose-stepping around yelling "Don't mention the climate!" www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

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It is quite simply unhinged. Not just a joke, not a subtle negotiating tactic, just bonkers.

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Has it been anyone’s experience that breaking trust with a friend or family member is a matter easily repaired? No, even buried hatchets leave scars. And it is not different among allies.

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Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose. This is insanity.

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It seems to me that we're seeing an odd, but very alarming thing: an elective coup.

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A little side-project, exploring Christian approaches to finance and investment: it's theological, (a little) historical, but mostly practical. It's studiously amateur, so do read it in that light. substack.com/@christianva...

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As per earlier, compare and contrast.

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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The contrast in tone and manner with the orange bloke tells you all you need to know.

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Our recent event, 'Researching Belarusian-Jewish history in impossible circumstances', is now available to watch on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/MDLKQ4GkC9k

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Remember: when a university scrubs a job, cuts a course, closes a department, or merges a faculty, it leads the institution not towards safety, but closer to failure. It's so simple, but it's sometimes hard to grasp or see - a bit like regression or calculus. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-a...

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A bonfire of the humanities. Desperate stuff.

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