The talk is about the people I met in Austin who know kindness and sincerity. It's about the people I met in Portugal who dream without hesitation. It's about the people in the Netherlands who come from all over because they believe in the possibility of a better University.
Here's me giving a talk at Oxford University yesterday at the Forum for Open Scholarship called A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage.
It's about ways to open a university for more people and more forms of knowledge.
Two people standing at a lectern at Oxford University delivering a brilliant talk
Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26
I'm really looking forward to @deevybee.bsky.social's keynote on the future challenges for open research on Wednesday! (Which follows on from a session featuring Rowan Wilson, @danrdmnn.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, and I looking at community-led approaches to the extant challenges!)
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
It's Ramadan and I am thinking deeply of spirit. And I think a lot about what some call "doomerism" as actually a lot of unprocessed grief mixed with a longing for meaning and purpose in life.
New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices.
@morphss.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social
Only people truly without souls could think they might be able to engineer something that resembles them. Incredible to misunderstand the value of an inner voice and an entire art form in one swing.
What happens when we build a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape?
On this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, @SamuelMoore.org & @HJoseph.bsky.social discuss PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & reimagining open access.
🎧 Tune in ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...
I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
All the “leaders” who think that what they are doing now is safeguarding the long-term health of their institutions really should be asking themselves what someone is going to write about them in a century. It’s not just an abdication of morality — it’s a baaaad look.
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
Regular reminder that research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue.
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
"There are some things we ought not to do even though people will pay us to do them" - Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the ELIZA chat bot in 1965, advising computer scientists on AI. Cited in McCray's README, p. 93.
Read & Let Read doi.org/10.31274/jls... (@aj-boston.bsky.social)
The second, Wikipedia is Resilient Because it is Boring by Josh Dzieza
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The first is Four Frictions: Or, How to Resist AI in Education by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher J. Nygren: www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"Friction too, let it be said, is how fire is made."
Reflecting on a couple great articles on knowledge creation.
bruderrudmann.org/2025/12/17/f...
One time Eric and I were at the Princeton Record Exchange and in the famous two-dollar pins we found a treasure trove of Joe Ely records. We bought them and wow did we get schooled about Texas music. A great and genuine troubadour. We just lost him. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpD...
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
A disrespect for me as an educator means that a basic piece of sociality and trust has been broken and so I don’t owe anyone generous feedback. But I don’t need to be punitive either. That’s what those who are selling these products want. They want to exhaust us into resignation.
The above article is a response to this recent piece of writing in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
"As a late liberal artist, David Foster Wallace, once said, in the day-to-day trenches of adult life there is no such thing as not worshipping: the only choice we get, is what to worship. Liberty and art – or market needs?"
The latest from Bruder & Rudmann bruderrudmann.org/2025/11/30/i...
But what if recognised institutions as a barrier towards mutual aid; institutions are not inherently good or bad, there are historical and scaling effects the abstract efficacies. We don't inherently 'need' "a better matrix". We need better social relations, and the more direct, the less bad?
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
A détournement of the Field of Dreams poster, modified to ' Field of Dramas, with 'you can can't just build it and expect them to come over community needs to be formed, and that's political' added
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