My Thinking Through Printing keynote began with this provocation—as an interface for interacting with large language models, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs & the language model systems’ outputs
Come along tomorrow at 5pm BST to this exciting @bars.bsky.social digital event on Romantic drama and contemporary performance that I organised with Chris Bundock, featuring amazing speakers doing very cool work with 18th C and Romantic theatre! Sign up: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6461
ISRF's Dispatches series--views on university crises from academics--continues with a piece on curricular and teaching coercions that come from a seemingly neutral European-wide practice called constructive alignment. troubles of false neutrality. mailinglist.isrf.org/p/pedagogica...
Myself and colleagues from across Higher Ed have gathered under the auspices of @isrfoundation.bsky.social to think about new models for Higher Education... We'll be adding pieces as we go, and we've already published quite a few. We can't go on like this, and we shouldn't.
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Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences
It's just such transparent elitism and shuttering of HE.
And it's nonsense.
Birkbeck English department ranked 2nd in the country for research in the last REF.
Many other success stories from universities that this report would like to dismiss.
Professor of Romantic & 19C literature & visual culture @BirkbeckUoL. author of The Book Unbound (CUP, 2025): cultures of reading, collecting, altered books; exhibitions editor @BlakeQuarterly, associate editor at Word&Image.
Luisa Calè
Ryan Cordell
Archival trip to... ?
Lars Cornelissen argues that the theory of constructive alignment is not a neutral guideline, but rather centres a particular philosophy of learning & teaching which foreclose alternative pedagogies.
So looking forward to discussing Blake's approaches to illustration @blakesociety.bsky.social
Helen Dallas
Glen O'Hara
Universities often encourage academics to leave their ivory towers. Yet such work is veiled in risk assessments and reputational management. In this Dispatch, Eric Lybeck argues for the slow and uneven practice of meaningful civic engagement
Chris Newfield
Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social!
A million pound @cardiffucu.bsky.social alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…
‘Only 22 UK universities should be allowed in REF’, says think tank.
Policy Exchange report arguing most universities should refocus away from research garners right-wing support.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Our June event is here! Blake and Illustration - Monday 15 June, 7:30 PM UK time, on zoom - Professor @luisacale.bsky.social explores the complex world of Blake as a book illustrator. More info and FREE registration at blakesociety.org/product/blak...
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Professor Luisa Calè explores the complex world of Blake as a book illustrator
Really enjoyed William #Kentridge's Mackenzie Lecture, in conversation with Peter McDonald at the Schwarzman yesterday. I am so looking forward to discussing the codex as a moving image technology in "Waiting for the Sibyl" at Textual Ecologies in Passau in July.
