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stevencurtis.bsky.social
Diplomatic Studies | Public & Diaspora Diplomacy | Higher Education | International Relations | Learning & Teaching in Politics & IR | Film Associate Professor of IR at London Metropolitan University | National Teaching Fellow (2011) | Teaching Specialist
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Hello #EduSky #SocialScience #PoliSciSky. Just finished a month of marking. Anyone else notice uptick in essays with: - long bibliographies, everything published since 2021 - each text cited only once - only general theme of each text mentioned (no detailed understanding) - no quotes Next gen AI?

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Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning after challenging UK policy on Gaza #GI5051 #GI7037

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I enjoyed this little bit of French froth last night (currently available on Prime). Every senior politician should have a philosopher among their advisors

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How would you define an insurrection? “Well, not anything like January 6, no, definitely not that”

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This is painful to watch. The trust they had placed in AI, the way they gradually grope towards an understanding of how LLMs work, how it comes as a revelation to them, how they talk about ChatGPT as if it were a sentient person

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This piece should have been given the title: “This has blown my mind”: News presenters finally begin to understand how system they rely on actually works #ChatGPTisbullshit

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Cuts to BBC World Service funding would ‘make us less safe’, MPs tell ministers #GI7100 #GI5052 #broadcasting

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Funny how Fiona Hill singles out Nigel Farage's divisive politics when discussing the Russian threat to the UK

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6 June 1944. This 54 year old general made the call knowing the potential implication. I can’t imagine the mental & emotional strain. And it’s so very hard to comprehend the sacrifices for a new future that were a result. We cannot waste what happened on that day.

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I’ve always told my students that Model UN is good for their employability. Behold

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This is the sort of thing that will happen when both of the world’s major nuclear powers is run by a thin-skinned moron

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I very much agree with this. As e e cummings wrote in one of his Norton ‘nonlectures’: ‘an intelligent person fights for lost causes,realizing that others are merely effects’

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Teachers grapple with their students using generative AI to cheat www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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A lecturer writes to his students: “A lawyer is more than a prompt engineer.” I would say the same for a political scientist. This is excellent advice #ChatGPTisbullshit

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What’s the war criminal got in mind, the kidnapping of more Ukrainian children?

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The refrain in Malcolm Arnold's flute sonatina (op. 19) seems to be asking "how are you?" A delightful piece

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What better way to end the day than to hear Delphine Seyrig saying naughty things to you

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A neat counterpoint to the argument that Trump is shredding America's soft power and nation brand by @profpaulpoast.bsky.social #GI7100 #GI5052

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1. Don't use it 2. Er 3. That's it

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Yeah, I definitely want them providing my end of life care

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He makes it sound like that would be a bad thing

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Manny’s little wave when he realises it was caught on camera. It’s like he is a schoolboy embarrassed about being told off by his teacher (which, of course, he just was)

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Sunday night listening. Alsop conducting Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms is a beautiful thing. A lovely CD

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Another #hashtag backfires: “Once I heard that I thought: ‘Nah, we can flip this around.’ It’s a very Irish thing to do – you take an insult and you flip it back.” #GI7100 #GI5052

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Yeah! This is the sort of social media content I am here for

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Remembering our former London Met colleague Alasdair MacIntyre

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Diaspora diplomacy, Russian style #GI7100

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Unable to sleep, I pulled Dave Eggers’ latest from my unread pile. His take down of managerial fads is masterful - made me realise how glad I am to have returned to teaching only. I mean, no one has used the word granularity in my presence for 3 years now, when it used to be at least twice a meeting

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The BBC World Service: a boon to the UK, as well as audiences elsewhere #GI7100 #GI5052 #broadcasting

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#GI4059 #sunset

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This has made our day. My daughter and I have been trying to identify all the films we know and love. Thank you for sharing, Joel. I'm sorry you didn't get a better 'gift' in return

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Father Knows Last (series one, episode 15) has some of the greatest lines in all of #Cheers, including this zinger #georgewendt

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