Bristolian. Snr Lecturer Digital Geographies, Exeter. RGS-IBG Deputy Chair Digital Geographies Research Group. See also @geocritbot.uk
Sam Kinsley
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media.
'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
There is a horrible irony to this question but(!): will anyone be doing any research on what work (if any) the thousands of academics that are being made redundant or quietly leaving academia go on to do?
Obviously not the first time & won’t be the last, but worthwhile asking the question…
A trillionaire? In this economy? 🤑
Any VC/SMT/Council with the resource and even a small modicum of progressive and strategic sensibility would give this a new home.
BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?”
BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”
Being an academic in the UK is to be told that your research having a real-world impact is hugely important... only for you to wake up every day with the government announcing a new stupid policy clearly devoid of any fact-based evidence or underpinning research to justify it.
What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful.
isrf.org/blog/what-do...
