Dan Lockton

What would you do if you knew climate breakdown was coming—sooner than the public thinks? Nonlinear Overshoot is a new short story, published today in @thesociologicalreview.org magazine thesociologicalreview.org/fiction/nonl...

Jenrick's brains Weigh a couple of grains Avoirdupois Is his Albatro(i)s

Maybe Living Labs (2017), priced very reasonably at €185, can finally be the BookTok hit of the holiday season that it always promised to be. Thanks Olivia.

I basically think of the "graphic design is my passion" meme as aspirational now, a lodestone of authenticity

gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.

Andy Burn’em

My exhibition "Branching Beneath the Fields" at foodmuseum.org.uk, Stowmarket, until 1/11. Saturday 24th October, 11am-3pm, interactive experiments, drawings and imagination games with @jenmcgaley.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) and @danlockton.com (Institute for Sustainable Worlds, NUA).

This is a thread of hard-won tips and tricks for preventing the brain from falling over - or, at the very least, mitigating any falling over that may still occur, despite best efforts. Please do add yours to the list

Currently, nothing fills my soul with weary loathing like the words "REF impact case study." Does my work have impact? We all like to think our work does. Can we evidence that using REF definitions and criteria? Lol, no.

“Burn it all down” takes seconds to type, and it has become the accelerationist rallying cry of a furious decade. It promises a clean slate, a fantasy especially seductive to those who will never have to clear the rubble. 4/ monikabielskyte.substack.com/p/peace-is-n...

October 10, 1977 – famous scientist Solly Zuckerman writes to top UK Civil Servant, warning about climate change allouryesterdays.info/2022/10/09/o...

I do not like the new REF rule that attributes your work to the institution you were employed by when you wrote it. Especially since most writing is now done in non-work time. Even more than that I hate that journals are making us affiliate to unis that we have long since left …

tired: inbox wired:

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Our October newsletter: buttondown.com/imaginaries/...

If you'd like to learn more about the book Bridging Design and Fandom and hear from some of the chapter authors, I will be holding a launch event on 20th October, in Lancaster and online. Please do come and join us! lancaster-uk.libcal.com/event/4574001

It's really upsetting how many people working on digital products and services have open contempt for the users, and humanity in general. This is all connected.

Life Imitates Art

As much as I despise Elon Musk I also loathe the many journalists and tech and finance professionals who mindlessly enabled his grifting, self-serving bullshit. They facilitated his election interference, his racism and his destruction of USAID. Some continue in their complicity even today.

Posting this @nsousanis.bsky.social mini comic about AI and creative work for no particular reason

every time I see someone post about a story and then add the link in a reply I want to brush away a tear and tell them "we don't have to live this way"

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

The film Meta removed from Instagram… bsky.app/profile/roel...

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

📢**NEW** MANY HEADED MONSTER POST!📢 A little case study where I apply rigorous, critical thinking to a very modern matter 🗃️ #Humanities manyheadedmonster.com/2026/09/22/a...

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

This

Sable Basilisk was always a more intriguing character anyway

How do we 'live with' transformations and transitions? V happy to be part of this by Femke Coops, Kristina Bogner, Timo von Wirth, @jonastorrens.bsky.social, Barbara Kump, Julia Wittmayer, Caroline Hummels, & @floravelino.bsky.social published in new #FuturesReframed journal doi.org/10.63934/ewp...

Can you *imagine* @ukri.org doing anything like this in the UK?

Amazing journey from @jonworth.eu here—hope he makes it!

Just putting this sign in Ipswich (including the fact it's a dead-end road) on here in case anyone needs it to illustrate a future article about private companies buying up more British universities

Abject.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.