Emma Kennedy
@emmakeddev.bsky.social
She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own.
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BOND: "Do you expect me to talk?
GOLDFINGER: "Actually I have more of a comment than a question..."
GOLDFINGER: "Actually I have more of a comment than a question..."
Make a Bond film academic
Diamonds Are Made From Pure Carbon Atoms Crystallized Under Intense Heat And Pressure Deep Within The Earth's Mantle, Then Brought To The Surface By Volcanic Eruptions
Diamonds Are Made From Pure Carbon Atoms Crystallized Under Intense Heat And Pressure Deep Within The Earth's Mantle, Then Brought To The Surface By Volcanic Eruptions
Make a Bond movie academic:
No Time To Diatribe
No Time To Diatribe
December 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
BOND: "Do you expect me to talk?
GOLDFINGER: "Actually I have more of a comment than a question..."
GOLDFINGER: "Actually I have more of a comment than a question..."
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
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@craftycow.bsky.social may be interested to know that Betty claimed the sofa within minutes of it being unwrapped. H/t to @garius.bsky.social for pointing me in the direction of this awesome vendor.
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@craftycow.bsky.social may be interested to know that Betty claimed the sofa within minutes of it being unwrapped. H/t to @garius.bsky.social for pointing me in the direction of this awesome vendor.
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Merry Christmas from Edinburgh Corporation Tramways' 1933 illuminated festive tram and Me. This was a design by students at the College of Art and used 2,000 electric bulbs. It ran daily from 4PM with a slogan of "tram it, don't tramp it" encouraging people to use the tram instead of walk.
December 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Merry Christmas from Edinburgh Corporation Tramways' 1933 illuminated festive tram and Me. This was a design by students at the College of Art and used 2,000 electric bulbs. It ran daily from 4PM with a slogan of "tram it, don't tramp it" encouraging people to use the tram instead of walk.
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Back in the What the Dickens? room this year. Definitely not complaining and expecting the first ghost in three minutes #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Back in the What the Dickens? room this year. Definitely not complaining and expecting the first ghost in three minutes #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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Not sure I qualify for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas now the Thomas the Tank Engine wallpaper has been replaced. But here is my cat settling down for the night. She just found the hot water bottle mum left for us. I don't think she will give up the bed easily.
December 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Not sure I qualify for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas now the Thomas the Tank Engine wallpaper has been replaced. But here is my cat settling down for the night. She just found the hot water bottle mum left for us. I don't think she will give up the bed easily.
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#DuvetKnowItsChristmas @rhodri.biz
My parents are visiting me this year and my dad snores so they sleep separately. I think my mum has done ok here? Sofa bed with proper mattress on top, and festive bedding. Ironing board adds interest....
My parents are visiting me this year and my dad snores so they sleep separately. I think my mum has done ok here? Sofa bed with proper mattress on top, and festive bedding. Ironing board adds interest....
December 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas @rhodri.biz
My parents are visiting me this year and my dad snores so they sleep separately. I think my mum has done ok here? Sofa bed with proper mattress on top, and festive bedding. Ironing board adds interest....
My parents are visiting me this year and my dad snores so they sleep separately. I think my mum has done ok here? Sofa bed with proper mattress on top, and festive bedding. Ironing board adds interest....
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We're certainly not slumming it at my sister's but we do have lounge sleeping, sofa bed, duvet & sleeping bag...and my sister's youngest son who has been evicted (albeit to his girlfriend) for this magic to happen 🎄🥰 #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We're certainly not slumming it at my sister's but we do have lounge sleeping, sofa bed, duvet & sleeping bag...and my sister's youngest son who has been evicted (albeit to his girlfriend) for this magic to happen 🎄🥰 #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
December 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
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Youngest is staying on his cousin's floor, a large number of usual occupants had to be vacated temporarily. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas @rhodri.biz
December 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Youngest is staying on his cousin's floor, a large number of usual occupants had to be vacated temporarily. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas @rhodri.biz
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I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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For those late to all this, Duncan's "Lemon Meringue Prison" from a few years back is the Bohemian Rhapsody of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
.@rhodri my theme this year is 'Lemon Meringue Prison'... https://t.co/CtorUo3Y76
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
For those late to all this, Duncan's "Lemon Meringue Prison" from a few years back is the Bohemian Rhapsody of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.
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Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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This year, as a Caird Research Fellow at Royal Museums Greenwich, I developed a new research project on occupational health, disability, and welfare in the British Royal Navy during the French Wars (1793–1815). Read some of my preliminary findings here: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/mari....
Unfit for service: healthcare and welfare in Nelson's Navy
Hidden in the seemingly mundane bureaucratic letters of the Royal Navy lie some fascinating insights into the role of the British state in providing healthcare and welfare to ill and injured seamen.
www.rmg.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This year, as a Caird Research Fellow at Royal Museums Greenwich, I developed a new research project on occupational health, disability, and welfare in the British Royal Navy during the French Wars (1793–1815). Read some of my preliminary findings here: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/mari....
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Your regular reminder that 'Digital Native' is both wrong but also damaging.
A lot of the frustrations here I've heard from staff recently. One of the approaches around some issues is also mentioned - a focus on professionalism.
Several departments are making this more explicit now, expectations.
A lot of the frustrations here I've heard from staff recently. One of the approaches around some issues is also mentioned - a focus on professionalism.
Several departments are making this more explicit now, expectations.
If I hear one more person refer to Gen Z or Gen Alpha as digital natives when the students do not know:
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open .
ALT: the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open .
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Your regular reminder that 'Digital Native' is both wrong but also damaging.
A lot of the frustrations here I've heard from staff recently. One of the approaches around some issues is also mentioned - a focus on professionalism.
Several departments are making this more explicit now, expectations.
A lot of the frustrations here I've heard from staff recently. One of the approaches around some issues is also mentioned - a focus on professionalism.
Several departments are making this more explicit now, expectations.
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Some really (and qualifiedly) good news from Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social :
No redundancies next year, no downgrading of professional services staff.
And all without the need for disruptive industrial action, which nobody at all wants.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
No redundancies next year, no downgrading of professional services staff.
And all without the need for disruptive industrial action, which nobody at all wants.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Cardiff University agrees to no compulsory redundancies in 2026
Martin Shipton Union members at Cardiff University have welcomed “major concessions” from management including no compulsory redundancies in 2026 in an ongoing dispute about job cuts and working condi...
nation.cymru
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Some really (and qualifiedly) good news from Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social :
No redundancies next year, no downgrading of professional services staff.
And all without the need for disruptive industrial action, which nobody at all wants.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
No redundancies next year, no downgrading of professional services staff.
And all without the need for disruptive industrial action, which nobody at all wants.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
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Sadiq gets a lot of stick (some entirely justified) but he’s been an utter zealot for clean air via ULEZ, been re-elected twice, and it’s meant fewer kids dying from asthma, and you can see the stars again.
And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sadiq gets a lot of stick (some entirely justified) but he’s been an utter zealot for clean air via ULEZ, been re-elected twice, and it’s meant fewer kids dying from asthma, and you can see the stars again.
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Just 10 trans Christmas tree pins remaining! It would be amazing if they sold out before Christmas 🥰
And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!
This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!
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This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!
canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Just 10 trans Christmas tree pins remaining! It would be amazing if they sold out before Christmas 🥰
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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If you are in the literature at all you will sooner or later have some bullshit attributed to you by the word-extruder and we are all going to have to just keep doing "no, that wasn't me" whack-a-mole until the heat death of the universe
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If you are in the literature at all you will sooner or later have some bullshit attributed to you by the word-extruder and we are all going to have to just keep doing "no, that wasn't me" whack-a-mole until the heat death of the universe
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.