Adam Standring

I'm happy to share my newest publication with Rolf Lidskog, our article "Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC" is now out open access in Climatic Change. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When your university's policy on AI use was written using AI.

for how many years did the 10p mix exist? I'm 42 and it was definitely a thing from c. 1989-1995

As cynical as we can be about students and AI and the future of teaching/learning, I still love the sight of them opening an exam, the momentary confusion, then the concentration and the creativity kick in.

Me and some mates still talk about packing it all in and opening a pub together....

Nice to have a bit of good news for a change!

I think I saw this on here but there are only two kinds of social science paper: 1) all these small things are actually one big thing 2) this big thing is actually made up of lots of little things

We live in the worst of all timelines

This is a barefaced (and frankly cack-handed) bit of copaganda - basically, "aren't the French police awful, but how wonderful our police are different" As though Orgreave, Hillsborough, spycops, etc. etc. Haven't shown perfectly clearly how the British police have been agents of state power.

I find it very annoying when people say that if you don’t use LLMs you’re “not engaging with the issue and sticking your head in the sand”. Making an informed rejection of something is very much not “sticking your head in the sand”. It’s just saying no.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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This means that military emissions reporting is getting worse while military spending rises and the climate crisis intensifies: more emissions, less data, a blind spot for #ClimateSecurity, and a black hole in global #ClimateAction. Read more ceobs.org/analysis-rev...

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

Rugby's not a big sport. Expansion is hampered by short sighted leadership at the international and national level. But it doesn't help when sports writers can't be bothered to write a para or two about the tier two countries. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...

Out of cite, out of mind.

What matters is what works* *to get us elected

Tbh, I don't think anti-intellectualism in Britain is the preserve of the populists and Far Right. We don't have to go back many years to see how the centre sneered at the left

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Yet another symptom that academia is fundamentally broken. Even taking into account the AI slop flooding into applications, this represents a massive amount of person hours in the drafting and evaluating of these proposals. And to what end? A dysfunctional job market.

Which is why I have an apparently hard-line and 'extreme' position on AI - never use it, zero tolerance for its use. It's increasingly difficult to maintain this position without serious pushback in academia.

Ed Sheeran as a case of hyperpolitics. In this essay, I will....

If you wake up every morning hating your job, dreading going into the office, crippled by feelings of the absolute pointlessness of it all... remember that Lisa Nandy is feeling ten times worse

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

My personal favourite genre of UK political commentary is the very sensible commentator who absolutely acknowledges the need for radical social change and demands it right up to the point when there is a political figure or movement ready to supply it... and then it's just not sensible.

Just another day in the normalisation of fascist hate speech. I'm browsing the magazine shelves in my local bookshop and spot The European Conservative. Inside the front cover is an advert for open race replacement conspiracy theory

Dolly ❤️

how odd that our gilded age would also see a dramatic rise in racism and eugenics, what a strange coincidence

I stand by this. We (academics) are participants, complicit or otherwise, in a system which produces tragic conditions like this. The British media though... They can get in the bin.

Trump's getting his steam room guys from Mar a Lago to reinstall the steam catapults

There are worse places to be listening to Adam Tooze on the sorry state of the world

We've been watching the series DTF St Louis so the algorithm believes I have some... specific interests...

I don't have anything substantial to say about the current scandal rocking the academy other than we should abolish star professors.

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

The Lisbon Ripper

Idea for a podcast: two failed politicians, who have spent decades telling us change is impossible, spend an hour each week smugly mocking any attempt to do politics differently.