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@bookspotlight.bsky.social A colleague of mine who’d just interviewed a Very Big Name thriller author said that some of that pressure comes from publishers. It’s the same thing as Spotify making musicians get to the hook quicker.

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@bookspotlight.bsky.social … allied with the insistence that writers can only write from their own direct, literal experience. No imagination allowed.

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@jaredgoring.com Also, it’s ‘credibly’ not ‘credible’. It’s an adverb.

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Not to mention the assumption that being ‘ai-native’ (whatever that might be) is a good thing.

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Read: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚As in his ‘Say Nothing’, Keefe clearly disentangles a lot of complicated world views and confabulations to illuminate a particular world, though the overarching story isn’t as sharply defined. #reading #books #booksky

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Read: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 📚Cormac McCarthy with a sense of humour and optimism, and also an editor, and all the more likeable for it. #books #reading #booksky

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@kateheartfield.com Oh, power, order, politics, youth etc. are in there for sure, but to serve a love story, not to make a political point hence the bad analogy. I just don’t think R&J is a good choice to discuss the Orange Toddler’s offences. Seems more like marketing decision.

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@kateheartfield.com It’s been a while for me with R&J so maybe I missed some politics, but beyond the romantic genre tropes, I’d say Shakespeare was mostly talking about youthful ego/impetuosity vs adult calculation. It’s not like WS never wrote about power and authoritarianism, after all.

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@kateheartfield.com Also, trying to ram a love story into a political shape. The M and C conflict is part of the love story, not the entire point of the play, surely? Coriolanus or Richard III would serve a political point better.

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@raevee.bsky.social The logical conclusion of that attitude is that people can only write about personal experiences, but must also write about everybody else’s at the same time.

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@raevee.bsky.social But… but… but… this must mean that everything isn’t always entirely about ME! THIS IS INTOLERABLE! STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social Normally yes…. but you don’t really think any new information was going to emerge from this? TV interviews are a performance and they were both performing. They’re not for information, they’re for spectacle, and analysing the spectacle is the point. Trump the reality TV buffoon knows that.

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Read: Last One Out A Novel by Jane Harper 📚Her usual territory: resident returns to Australian small town and insular relationships (often between 3 male friends) which led to a tragedy a few years before. Realistic characters, well observed interactions, but nothing new. #booksky #reading #books

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@paulbernal.bsky.social The biggest tell is that a student hands in work way above their normal operating level. Pragmatically, you could fail them, wait for the appeal, then make a verbal discussion of their essay part of the appeal. It‘s an implicit second chance, if they want it.

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@emily.space AI is a slippery thing….Sure LLMs are one kind of AI. The algorithms used to analyse scans, or model compounds are also AI. It’s not wrong. The actual education is about getting people to understand that LLM and AI aren’t synonymous.

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@emily.space As one of those communicators… the comms people should make sure the scientists are okay with what they publish. But: mainstream media isn’t for disseminating findings like peer reviewed journals are. It’s for telling nonspecialists. Do you want them to know about your research or not?

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@floatalongfarm.bsky.social Nine year old genius with access to very old memes, apparently.

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@adamjkovac.bsky.social The problem is more about the fast tracking and potential corner cutting than research into psilocybin itself though. There’s some evidence (not clearcut, but legit) that it can help adults with persistent depression for example.

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Read: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚Fantastically researched especially the bits the TV series smoothed over. You do wonder exactly why Adams hasn’t sued over the allegations it makes about him. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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@clarislamauthor.bsky.social An actual grownup response would have been for the students to politely point out it was too much and agree to picking a manageable number, say 30. Maybe that was the learning opportunity on both sides…

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@clarislamauthor.bsky.social 100 short stories in a week is insane. But I can share the frustration of no students doing their assignments. A lot of them act like they’re kids at school, rather than adults who’ve signed up to do the work needed to get a degree. You can’t teach students who refuse to work.

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@bourgwick.bsky.social It could be the equivalent of how UK A-to-Z street maps of cities used to insert fake streets so they could tell if people were using them to make pirated versions.

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Read: Pearl by Siân Hughes 📚Hughes is an award winning poet, and it shows, in a good way as her narator writes intensely and immersively about her mother’s death. As someone who felt no cause to grieve my own mother’s death, it was… informative. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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@mattypenny She’d probably wonder what you were doing in her bath, for a start.

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@willoremus.com You’re right about the loss of a shared truth. I do think the US has more noble idea of the media than the UK though. The yellow press has always been with us and the earliest journalists were paid spinners. Newspapers have never been a reliable source of truth.

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@willoremus.com That really is an idealisation of the newspaper business.

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@cash4questions.bsky.social I’d go for unit. It’s often outside investigators’ expertise, and wider communities can be built for recruitment across studies and issues that cut across more than one area.

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@cash4questions.bsky.social BRI can also be good for engagement and comms, because leaving it to individual projects gets inefficient and often researchers don’t get the best benefit from it.

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@whstancil.bsky.social Often the same people who ‘don’t put chemicals in their bodies’…

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@paulbernal.bsky.social Thank you.

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@paulbernal.bsky.social Always happy to come across academics truly committed to educatin.

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Read: Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell 📚Big, detailed, accurate and gruesome. Also a cracking story (though not exactly genre-expanding). Great for immersion… #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚Freshman outrage at the shock of big companies being unscrupulous about how they make money. Nothing you can’t hear him perform any day of the week for free. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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Guardian top 100 novels of all time I’ve read 25/100 and given up on a lot more on the list. Maybe I tried them too young. Also… no Hemingway? And I really don’t think Middlemarch (one of my DNFs) is the best novel of all time. #booksky

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Read: Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius 📚Drips realism and apparently the CIA uses it as an exemplar of Middle Eastern espionage. The detail draws you in and the conflicts between ethnicities and sects is tragically still relevant. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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People complained that the printing press meant people wouldn't put in the effort to learn things off by heart. matthewhurst.talqix.cloud

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Read: Golden Hill by Francis Spufford 📚Dark smart pastiche of Fielding, Sterne, etc, in late 18th century New York, but there’s more to it than just quality fanfiction. The characters are ludicrously alive and you can smell the horse shit and ambition. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd 📚 Juicy atmospheric procedural set in Paris just after the Germans marched in during June 1940. Not spies, but feels like Furst, Gerlis, Robert Harris. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Baseball. Invented by BF Skinner: matthewhurst.talqix.cloud

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Read: The Pariah by Dan Fesperman 📚Happily facetious palate freshener involving the a murderous Eastern European dictator, metoo’d American comedian, chimney cakes (whatever they are), delicate egos and many violent deaths. #booksky #books

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Read: All the Sinners Bleed A Novel by S. A. Cosby 📚Nails the atmosphere of Deep(ish) South small town revenge, tangled up in barely hidden racism, fully developed characters. Solid genre procedural but stands in its own right too. #booksky #books

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My latest ’excursion’ into podcasting is up - an interview with spy writer Michael Dylan about his latest book The New Spy, for @spybrary. Find it where-ever you get your etc. etc. spybrary.com/the-new-s… #booksky #authorsky

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Trump: I want Iran’s oil

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ATTACKS IRAN

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Media: Let us ponder why Trump is attacking Iran.

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I mean. Come on.

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Read: There There by Tommy Orange 📚Most of the book is perceptively drawn scenes of disparate cast in the runup to a powwow in Oakland. When tragic violence explodes there, it’s both the point and beside the point that they’re all native American. #booksky #books

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Read: The Fraud by Zadie Smith 📚Meaty and slightly meandering like the 19th century English novels it pastiches, with a nuanced human take on slavery’s effects rather than performative shouty self righteousness. #booksky #books

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Saw #onebattleafteranother. Self indulgent self righteous simplistic mess congealed by four over privileged stars riffing cringey stoner ‘humour’ on Pynchon pretension for spurious intellectual validation and only winning #Oscars because everything else is even worse.

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I use AI a lot in writing, to get over blank screen paralysis. I get it to generate a bunch of words which I know will be so infuriatingly bad I’ll be forced to rewrite them entirely till none of its version remains and I have created my first draft #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersky

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Read: Everything We Do Is Music How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by @elizabethalker.bsky.social 📚Wonderfully nerdy cross referencing of pop music with ‘serious’ avant garde, which took my listening down many weird and, it transpired, joyously unlistenable rabbitholes. #booksky

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Read: Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie 📚Fergie/Andrew bio- readable etc. but most of it’s been in the media already. Brings together the astonishing extent of their ligging and fosters a sense of righteous outrage. #booksky

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Down a snow-drifted alley a tipped up wheelie bin wide open like a pm’d corpse and a cheap suitcase ripped apart with cheap clothes scattered in the slush. Like a proxy for a murder victim. #writingcommunity

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