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Universities became more managed, for good reason, but along the way something of shared endeavour was lost. We need academic governance that can help shape our institutions, with all the responsibilities that entails. @profserious.bsky.social proposes profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...

On Remembering and Forgetting. How do we choose what to remember? There is the person we knew, and the years of losing them. We need room for both. This is about chocolate buttons, and love returned. @profserious.bsky.social reflects profserious.substack.com/p/on-remembe...

On Remembering and Forgetting. How do we choose what to remember? There is the person we knew, and the years of losing them. We need room for both. This is about chocolate buttons, and love returned. @profserious.bsky.social reflects profserious.substack.com/p/on-remembe...

Preparing to be Wrong ... on the conditions for effective action. Principles drawn from the work of John Boyd by @profserious.bsky.social . Systems, management and leadership. profserious.substack.com/p/preparing-...

Regulating What We Do Not Understand: rules founded on speculative harms can entrench assumptions, protect incumbents and obstruct the experimentation needed to understand risk. @profserious.bsky.social considers ... profserious.substack.com/p/regulating...

Regulating What We Do Not Understand: rules founded on speculative harms can entrench assumptions, protect incumbents and obstruct the experimentation needed to understand risk. @profserious.bsky.social considers ... profserious.substack.com/p/regulating...

Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...

Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...

How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...

How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...

I am not good at letting go. Perhaps the trick is to care about things, whilst accepting that neither they nor our relative success in pursuing them can be made permanent. @profserious.bsky.social contemplates ... profserious.substack.com/p/this-too-s...

Leaders of public and third-sector organisations face not only their own organisational politics, but disputes about ideology, authority, and power. This is not comfortable territory for many leaders. @profserious.bsky.social considers … profserious.substack.com/p/leadership...

10 lessons from my time at Imperial College: on science and engineering, hard work, criticism, laughter … and software … @profserious.bsky.social … profserious.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

Building the AI-enabled enterprise is not primarily a technology problem ... it is a strategy, architecture and organisational design problem. Here is the @profserious.bsky.social Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...

Summer Break for @profserious.bsky.social Your usual articles will resume next week. Just to keep you amused, here are 5 (somewhat unusual) books from my recent reading that you might enjoy on the beach ... kick back, relax profserious.substack.com/p/profseriou...

A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...

A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...

On Technical Education ... hard hat and graduation cap. Technical education merits greater recognition. But it is not the opposite of academic education. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/on-technic...

Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...

Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...

So, farewell then DSIT ... from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/so-farewel...

On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...

On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...

Whose cat is this? Does anybody know a good plumber? There is a fox in my garden! Your Guide to the Neighbourhood WhatsApp Group profserious.substack.com/p/your-guide... It is too hot for @profserious.bsky.social to be entirely serious.

University governance is not (just) about oversight ... it is about preserving academic purpose whilst guiding institutions through profound change. @profserious.bsky.social 'On University Governance … beyond assurance' profserious.substack.com/p/on-univers...

Why do sensible interventions so often fail? Why do small changes sometimes have enormous consequences? Why do organisations keep recreating the same problems? Systems dynamics and control offers some answers. profserious.substack.com/p/10-1-lesso...

Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...

Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...

'Emergencies Are Digital' … and why we need a national digital emergency capability @profserious.bsky.social considers digital preparedness as a core component of national resilience profserious.substack.com/p/emergencie...

Poems at Bedtime ... Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. A recollection of childhood, and reading to G. @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/poems-at-b...

"What do you want to be when you grow up, little Johnny?" "A stalwart!" #MissionAccomplished www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...

Quantum Uncertainty … the physics may be clear but the future … not so much. The aim is not to cast doubt on the merits of quantum computing but to place it in context ... here is the @profserious.bsky.social assessment profserious.substack.com/p/quantum-un... #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Tech

On Choosing an Academic Career … what it takes, what it offers, and what it demands profserious.substack.com/p/on-choosin... by @profserious.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Universities

The 'Mythos Moment' ... a guide to its consequences for security practice and policy ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-mythos... #AI #TechTrends #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech #Security #Cyber

Song of the Watchman ... when the duty falls to me ... here near my home profserious.substack.com/p/song-of-wa... ... by @profserious

This reminds me of the Microsoft house with a memory leak in the doorbell...

The Bureaucratic Escalator … and how it operates ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/the-bureau... #HigherEducation #Universities

open.spotify.com/album/2YY0t0... brilliant work by Sam and MOIO

Mindfulness for Professors ... a contemplation ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/mindfulnes... #HigherEducation #Universities

On Your Radar … why the Defence Industrial Strategy matters beyond defence ... how the UK intends to link science, industry and national security capability ... @proserious.bsky.social attempts to spare you some effort with this summary analysis profserious.substack.com/p/on-your-ra...

Lessons from an Innovative Organisation ... what Arizona State University can teach us about institutional innovation … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/lessons-fr... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy #Academic #Innovation

Reading China's 15th 5-Year Plan … (a technology strategy disguised as an economic plan) ... on science, industry, and power … A short guide to what the new plan tells us about China’s technological direction … by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/reading-ch...

Is Your University Financially Sustainable? ... take this simple test ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/is-your-un... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy

A Kerfuffle … UK research funding (and in defence of Sir Ian Chapman) ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/a-kerfuffle

Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an... #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity

Science & Technology in National Security Strategy ... a lens on 4 states and 4 strategies ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/science-an... #NationalSecurity #TechPolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Geopolitics #ResearchSecurity #EconomicSecurity

a really exciting and important job as Director of ResearchPlus www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU125/d...

City St George's v-c @profserious.bsky.social says most UK undergraduate degrees should be shortened in switch to "2+2" integrated master's programmes www.timeshighereducation.com/news/shorten... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Another Modest Proposal: 'being a suggestion for shortening the Bachelor’s degree, improving its efficiency, and rendering it somewhat more useful to students, universities and the publick' by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/another-mo... #HigherEducation #Universities #HEPolicy