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Julie Cupples
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Geography, media and cultural studies, Latin American studies. Co-author of Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence (Rutgers University Press). Witness to the destruction of the UK university 🏳️‍⚧️ .. more

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 2d
So sad to learn of the death yesterday of Nicaraguan singer Norma Helena Gadea
www.articulo66.com/2025/11/07/f...
Fallece la cantante nicaragüense Norma Helena Gadea
Los familiares de la artista revelaron que Gadea padecía una isquemia cerebral severa. Tras su ingreso a la UCI solicitaron apoyo para cubrir la hospitalización
www.articulo66.com

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 3d
Today’s the day! Cordillera de fuego (Mountains of Fire) – co-produced by the Ixchel research project – has its world premiere 🌎at the 40th Mar del Plata International Film Festival📽️

Read on for the back story of this fascinating new feature >

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 3d
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
A satirical poem about universities. All Staff Assembly Unlike other universities We do not have an emergency However, we must continue To take action with urgency Don't let there be rupture In trust over the new role families This is not a restructure There are always some redundancies We do not work with arms companies We work with engineering firm subsidiaries Who produce dual use technologies That kill people Some of us are paid very differently But this is very good for the university You see, the disparities in our salaries Are contributions to Diversity

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 3d
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 4d
This is so wrong, utterly heartbreaking.
mutablematter.bsky.social Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 4d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 4d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 7d
Taylor and Francis really are reaping what they sow. Selling our work to train AI without our consent, no longer providing funds for human translators because AI. They are promoting AI slop in the world so it's hardly suprising that this has happened.

Reposted by Charles West, Margot C. Finn, Julie Cupples

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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 7d
"Following publication, concerns were raised by a third party regarding the accuracy and validity of many of the references in this article ... the Editor and the Publisher no longer have confidence in the content presented".

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Retracted Article: Strengthening Caribbean Intelligence: Education and Training for Enhanced Intra- and Inter-Agency Collaboration
We, the Editor and Publisher of International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, have retracted the following article:Smith, T., & Short, A. (2025). Strengthening Caribbean Intelligen...
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 8d
Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …

Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 8d
From the University of Woeville: Alternative FAQs for British academics facing redundancy
juliecupples.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/f...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 9d
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 11d
This is nowhere near enough. I just finished Nobody’s Girl and I can’t get what he did to her out of my head
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 11d
Nicaragua: UN Group of Experts urges international community to hold Government accountable for rights violations and protect Nicaraguans in exile www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Nicaragua: UN Group of Experts urges international community to hold Government accountable for rights violations and protect Nicaraguans in exile
NEW YORK – The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua called on the international community to hold Nicaragua’s Government accountable for serious human rights violations and international crim...
www.ohchr.org

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 14d
Delivery from Aotearoa 😊
A book entitled Mana written by Tame Iti

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 16d
I've lost all faith in Labour, but it is good at least that Bridget Phillipson has not been rewarded given her abysmal record on trans kids' right and her total failure to address the crisis in universities.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 16d
"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge..."

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Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
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Reposted by Alan Lester, Julie Cupples, Matthew Waites

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 17d
The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy - a tale of significant fortunes made and how their investments percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society.
Free to download from Univ of London press.
#Glasgow #skystorians #Scotland 📚🗃️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla...
Book jacket for Stephen Mullen's The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy 1775-1838. Background image of ships in a harbour.

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apache/ @apache.be · 17d
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18d
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 18d
Well this is exciting- same band, same venue

Counting Crows, Newcastle City Hall

28 years 5 months 17 days apart

I was there on 7 May 1997 and today 23 October 2025

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 20d
I wish I could get through a whole working day without someone foisting AI on me as if it's a good thing.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 22d
Conflictos en el archipiélago de San Andrés y Rincón del Mar
by Ethel María Bent Castro
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https://www.elisleño.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32295%3A2025-10-19-08-57-10&catid=41%3Aambiental&Itemid=83&fbclid=IwY2xjawNiJuBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHiJ-E2eUVIrJo2Fjo7HYRGAvUznqb3SXOMRYwvDMnfVWJzno_bBwtwSphn8p_aem_ZDogKn5duaZrmG1g4I9-mw

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 23d
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24d
'YouGov asked voters for their views after prime minister Keir Starmer recently scrapped the 50 per cent higher education participation target, saying it was not “right for our times”, in favour of a new target encompassing apprenticeships as well.' 1/3
Nearly half of UK public say university participation is too high
YouGov survey finds big differences in support for universities across different political parties
www.timeshighereducation.com

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 24d
La escritora nicaragüense Gioconda Belli, exiliada en Madrid, ha ganado el Premio Carlos Fuentes por “su capacidad de renovación de la poesía. “Me siento honrada por recibirlo de uno de los eternos de las letras hispanoamericanas”, afirma social.elpais.com/ohmos16
La escritora nicaragüense Gioconda Belli gana el Premio Carlos Fuentes: “Me siento honrada por recibirlo de uno de los eternos de las letras hispanoamericanas”
El jurado ha destacado en su fallo “su capacidad de renovación de la poesía hispanoamericana y la fuerza de su diálogo entre la sociedad, la historia y la literatura”
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24d
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 28d
Tame Iti on racism, te reo Māori, protest and the art that saved him www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3608...
Tāme Iti on racism, te reo Māori, protest and the art that saved him
For over five decades, Tāme Iti has fought for Māori rights - from being silenced as a child to finding strength in protest. Known for both activism and art, he says art saved his life. This kōrero al...
www.stuff.co.nz

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Oct 12
This is so idiotic. Students get exceptional, competent (the vast majority) and mediocre teachers in every single institution. And success depends not on the teacher but on the student and how hard they work
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Oct 11
Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching
Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met
www.thetimes.com