Archaeologist at Cardiff University, directs Teffont Archaeology. Views my own not my institution's.
David Roberts
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1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing.
If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
A long account in @lrb.co.uk by Stefan Collini of the causes of what feels like a death spiral for UK Universities. Recent estimates are that UK HE contributes >£130Bn annually to the UK economy, resulting in >750 000 jobs across all regions of the UK
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/higher-educa...
Good summary. One interesting nugget is that there are currently around 2.8 million students, which seems to me a staggering number and yet more proof of the importance of the ‘industry’. If the solution to the crisis is more collaboration I’m not sure how it happens with that scale in mind.
This week: an evening at Society of Antiquaries, London, for a celebration of the Low Ham publication as part of their summer soiree. Here's us authors (@davidrobertsarch.bsky.social, Roger Leech and me) posing with the hard copy from Pen & Sword books but it's also open access - link in comments 👇
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions
of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
Work for a UK university? Want to see how below-inflation settlements have eroded your pay? @bparsia.bsky.social has produced a handy tool. Put in your spine point, starting date... then get angry all over again about how even this massive, sustained pay cut hasn't been enough to keep sector afloat
John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past.
theconversation.com/six-reasons-...
If you work in development-led archaeology in England, whether it's curatorial advice, consultancy or running projects, Historic England and Reading University would welcome your feedback on HE's guidance on the Palaeolithic 🦣🏺
Please follow this link to access a short online survey: bit.ly/3PcKMul
Note: relatively stable institution; HAPP's a supportive (even harmonious) School; there's another Ancient History colleague; and pay at Queen's is now relatively high (starting salary is junior; post confirmation-in-post, lecturer starts c. £52k, SL starts c. £66k).
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP030/l...
Carl T. Bergstrom
Ed Zitron
Ben Sheldon
The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Ancient History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
How do we enhance the engagement of history students in their degree programmes?
A new article - 'Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments' - bit.ly/4viEKru, by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow offers discipline-specific proposals.
Latest Open Access article in 'Transactions' 1/2
Rachel Cubitt
William Carruthers
Alice Roberts
Jonathan Last
Adam Golberg
Royal Historical Society
Tom Hulme
‘The truth is that both ministers and vice-chancellors are locked into a financial model whose premise is misconceived and whose side effects are profoundly damaging for higher education.’
Stefan Collini on the UK’s university problems, online now from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Very good, if extremely depressing, piece by Stefan Collini to explain what has been and is being done to this country’s universities. If interested to find out, I recommend reading it.
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
Hey #UCU,
I just released v1 of another @ucucommons.org project: JNCHES vs Inflation.
Site: jnchesvinflation.streamlit.app
Blog post: ucucommons.org/project-jnches-vs-inflation/
It's depressing but may be helpful!
Mark Berry
We're happy to announce a new UCU Commons Project: JNCHES vs. Inflation. We've extracted pay spine point data going back to 2005 and plotted it in a number of ways against several inflation measures.
