Kate Simpson
@kilmun.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the DHI University of Sheffield. Digital Humanist. Specialist in 19th C digital creation and curation. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/people/dhi-staff/kathryn-simpson
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Great story of the constant maintenance work required to keep the Clyde navigable #histSTM
This section of McCulloch's View of Glasgow in 1853 looks almost empty, but it gives us a glimpse of some of the least glamorous yet most essential vessels ever to use the river: the mud punts of the Clyde Navigation Trust.
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February 8, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Great story of the constant maintenance work required to keep the Clyde navigable #histSTM
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The more you know...
ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you don’t like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.
QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
quitgpt.org
February 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The more you know...
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
www.ukri.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
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🛡️ How can AI be adopted safely in defence and beyond?
New research from the Turing highlights AI assurance as key to trust, security and UK growth – potentially adding £18.8bn by 2035: bit.ly/49V7c9H
#AiAssurance #ResponsibleAi #UKinnovation
New research from the Turing highlights AI assurance as key to trust, security and UK growth – potentially adding £18.8bn by 2035: bit.ly/49V7c9H
#AiAssurance #ResponsibleAi #UKinnovation
AI assurance key to unlocking AI adoption in defence and driving UK economic growth
New research has argued that a thriving AI assurance marketplace is esse
bit.ly
January 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM
🛡️ How can AI be adopted safely in defence and beyond?
New research from the Turing highlights AI assurance as key to trust, security and UK growth – potentially adding £18.8bn by 2035: bit.ly/49V7c9H
#AiAssurance #ResponsibleAi #UKinnovation
New research from the Turing highlights AI assurance as key to trust, security and UK growth – potentially adding £18.8bn by 2035: bit.ly/49V7c9H
#AiAssurance #ResponsibleAi #UKinnovation
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EADH 2026 theme is:
🌉Linking Europe: DH Without Borders
We invite proposals regarding:
📌Data, Methods, Modelling
📌AI, Ethics, Governance
📌Infrastructure, Sustainability, Open Science
📌Cultural Heritage, Multilingualism, Diversity
📌Communities and Futures of DH
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
#EADH2026
🌉Linking Europe: DH Without Borders
We invite proposals regarding:
📌Data, Methods, Modelling
📌AI, Ethics, Governance
📌Infrastructure, Sustainability, Open Science
📌Cultural Heritage, Multilingualism, Diversity
📌Communities and Futures of DH
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
#EADH2026
Call for Papers - EADH 2026 - Jagiellońskie Centrum Humanistyki Cyfrowej
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
January 19, 2026 at 11:19 AM
EADH 2026 theme is:
🌉Linking Europe: DH Without Borders
We invite proposals regarding:
📌Data, Methods, Modelling
📌AI, Ethics, Governance
📌Infrastructure, Sustainability, Open Science
📌Cultural Heritage, Multilingualism, Diversity
📌Communities and Futures of DH
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
#EADH2026
🌉Linking Europe: DH Without Borders
We invite proposals regarding:
📌Data, Methods, Modelling
📌AI, Ethics, Governance
📌Infrastructure, Sustainability, Open Science
📌Cultural Heritage, Multilingualism, Diversity
📌Communities and Futures of DH
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
#EADH2026
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Three Palestine Action activists end UK hunger strike https://aje.news/pwpm4z
January 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Three Palestine Action activists end UK hunger strike https://aje.news/pwpm4z
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Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Four more who had paused their strikes choose not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK
Seven Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners have announced the end of their hunger strike after the government decided not to award a £2bn contract to the Israeli arms company subsidiary Elbit Systems UK.
Fears had been growing for the welfare of those taking part in the protest. On Wednesday, Heba Muraisi, 31, would have been on day 73 of refusing food, the same number of days as reached by the Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty, who survived the longest of 10 men who died in a 1981 action. The earliest death among the Irish republicans was after 46 days, raising fears about the risk to life of the prisoners in jail awaiting trial for offences relating to protests claimed by Palestine Action. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
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The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 AM
The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.
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Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
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The politics of university job losses partly rely on an outdated understanding of who goes to university and where universities are importantly. The economic and social lives of industrial towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales often heavily rely on universities.
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 AM
The politics of university job losses partly rely on an outdated understanding of who goes to university and where universities are importantly. The economic and social lives of industrial towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales often heavily rely on universities.
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Applications for our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships close on 5th January 2026, so don't delay! ⏳
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
January 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Applications for our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships close on 5th January 2026, so don't delay! ⏳
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re welcoming applications from scholars from across the globe to work with our unique research collections.
Apply now: glasgow.ac.uk/library/rese...
#UofGLibraryFellows
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"The [IDF] identified the driver as an Israeli reserve soldier... Although there has been a documented rise in killings by Israeli settlers since October 2023, not a single one of those cases has resulted in an indictment, and only about [25%] have resulted in investigations by Israeli authorities."
"Israeli police have released a soldier from custody after he was filmed running his vehicle over a Palestinian man who was praying."
"[S]oldier's weapon has been confiscated and [..] he's been suspended."
"[S]lap on the wrist."
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Apartheid #Incarceration
"[S]oldier's weapon has been confiscated and [..] he's been suspended."
"[S]lap on the wrist."
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Apartheid #Incarceration
Israeli Police Release Settler Filmed Running ATV Over Praying Palestinian in West Bank
A group of Israeli military veterans called his punishment "just a slap on the wrist" and "state-backed impunity for state-backed terror."
www.commondreams.org
December 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"The [IDF] identified the driver as an Israeli reserve soldier... Although there has been a documented rise in killings by Israeli settlers since October 2023, not a single one of those cases has resulted in an indictment, and only about [25%] have resulted in investigations by Israeli authorities."
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Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
bit.ly
December 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
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"The U.K. has immense blood on its hands, sowing the colonial seeds to what is now a fullblown genocide in Gaza ... Now they are leaving young people to die in prison without trial in a hunger strike. These are brave people who stood up and took action for humanity — doing the government's job."
Greta Thunberg, a prominent climate activist, was arrested during a protest in support of Palestinian hunger strikers. Thunberg spoke out in solidarity with the UK hunger strikers, some of whom have endured a 50-day fast.
Greta Thunberg Arrested in Protest Supporting Palestine Action Hunger Strikers
Thunberg spoke out in support of hunger strikers in the UK, some of whom have refused food for over 50 days.
truthout.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
"The U.K. has immense blood on its hands, sowing the colonial seeds to what is now a fullblown genocide in Gaza ... Now they are leaving young people to die in prison without trial in a hunger strike. These are brave people who stood up and took action for humanity — doing the government's job."
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"[T]hese [AI] systems do not actually analyze or understand course content, instead generating answers that sound right based on patterns in their training data. ... [U]sing AI this way could lead to courses being flagged over isolated words and further shift control of teaching away from faculty."
At Texas State, administrators are suggesting faculty use an AI writing assistant to revise course descriptions. They urged professors to drop words such as “dismantling” and “decolonizing” and to rename courses like “Combating Racism in Healthcare” to “Race and Public Health in America.”
Texas Universities Use AI to Rewrite How Courses Mention Race and Gender
Experts say the use of AI could continue to shift control over education away from faculty and toward administrators.
buff.ly
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"[T]hese [AI] systems do not actually analyze or understand course content, instead generating answers that sound right based on patterns in their training data. ... [U]sing AI this way could lead to courses being flagged over isolated words and further shift control of teaching away from faculty."
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'both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Department for Education, which have powers to prosecute, told the BBC they had no recorded offences reaching a first hearing in a magistrate's court under the Skills and Post-16 Education Act.' 1/2
Essay cheating at universities an 'open secret' despite new law
An essay mill owner says he's made millions, while an ex-lecturer says he quit due to rife cheating.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
'both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Department for Education, which have powers to prosecute, told the BBC they had no recorded offences reaching a first hearing in a magistrate's court under the Skills and Post-16 Education Act.' 1/2
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'One in three students in halls of residence – 33% – are lonely or isolated at university often, with another 37% feeling that way occasionally, according to a poll by Opinium commissioned by the student accommodation provider PfP Students.'
‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows
Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social life
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
'One in three students in halls of residence – 33% – are lonely or isolated at university often, with another 37% feeling that way occasionally, according to a poll by Opinium commissioned by the student accommodation provider PfP Students.'
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🚨BREAKING🚨
REF 2029: Research culture metric overhauled (and weighting reduced).
Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated.
All the headlines as the three-month pause ends. Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF 2029: Research culture metric overhauled (and weighting reduced).
Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated.
All the headlines as the three-month pause ends. Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF 2029: research culture metric overhauled - Research Professional News
Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🚨BREAKING🚨
REF 2029: Research culture metric overhauled (and weighting reduced).
Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated.
All the headlines as the three-month pause ends. Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF 2029: Research culture metric overhauled (and weighting reduced).
Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated.
All the headlines as the three-month pause ends. Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.