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Luke Windsor
@wlukewindsor.bsky.social
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Professor of Music Psychology/Dean of the Leeds Doctoral College. He/Him. Also at https://c.im/@wlukewindsor on Mastodon.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6291-3057

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NwNRc2oAAAAJ&hl=en
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societal.bsky.social
We are Leeds Institute for Societal Futures – find out what we do at societal.leeds.ac.uk

#Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #LISF #HealthInequality #Polarisation #Trust #SocialCohesion
Fist punching the air - box with text saying polarisation, trust and social cohesion
September 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
Holiday, holiday, I declare a holiday.
Father and daughter riding a Bakfiets down a Swedish gravel road.
August 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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diervilla.bsky.social
I love this so much. Something to think about…
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
It’s been quite a day - my highlight was listening to two PGRs from this wonderful city talking about their experiences earlier today, but it was good to catch up with peers to discuss some current challenges. #UKCGEAC
ukcge.bsky.social UK Council for Graduate Education @ukcge.bsky.social · Jul 3
UKCGE Trustees Luke Windsor and Rachel Arnold chair a session for the Deans & Directors’ Network. Discussion underway on overseas PGRs. #UKCGEAC
July 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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econ-observatory.bsky.social
How much does the UK spend on welfare?

🇪🇺 Relatively little compared to Europe: just 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including sickness & disability benefits, pensions, etc.).

Meanwhile, 🇫🇮Finland spends 25.7% of GDP & 🇫🇷France 23.8%.

#ChartOfTheDay #Welfare
July 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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profdamienpage.bsky.social
Every UK resident is £355 better off per year as a result of international students.

Even for those who are not convinced by the immense cultural and intellectual contribution of international students, even for those unaware of the cross-subsidy ground breaking research they allow, 1/
June 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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leedsunilibraries.bsky.social
@adamrutherford.bsky.social finishes our day with a flourish, with a history of people giving their most personal data, their genome, to private organisations, and how data is manipulated for racism & eugenics. "Data is never neutral. Science is always political. Race is social construct" #LKFS2025
Adam Rutherford at a podium in front of a screen saying: Data is never neutral. Science is always political. Data checklist Who is acquiring the Data? How is it being acquired? Who owns and curates the Data? Who is using the Data and for what purposes? Whom does it represent and were they involved in its collection? Who vendors from its use?
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
Now @adamrutherford.bsky.social is back to provoke us #LKSF2025 looking forward to this…
Adam Rutherford (@adamrutherford.bsky.social)
I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
adamrutherford.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
I’ve been finding today a bit much so in an unusual step I have been playing along with Masters of Reality in a break between sessions… (the seminar is great BTW it’s the other stuff ;-))
June 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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christophersmith.bsky.social
here's my presentation to the super #LKFS2025; super important conversations. Many thanks to @masudk.com and colleagues for showing the way to knowledge futures. and here's Allan Ginsberg on the library dancefloor!

anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/k...
Knowledge Futures
I want to start in a singular place of culture, the British Museum. From the Great Court one can now peer into that symbol of human knowledge, the round reading room.  We all somehow have it i…
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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masudk.com
The final panel session on “International Perspectives on Knowledge” starts now. Chaired and beautifully started by @jsendall.bsky.social and with wonderful panel members including Jonathan Bengtson, Dr. Rangashri Kishore, Patti Cheung, and Lindiwe Soyizwapi. #LKFS2025
June 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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openresleeds.bsky.social
Hugely entertaining talk from @adamrutherford.bsky.social at #LKFS2025

“Information transfer is definitional human”

(unlike e.g. toolmaking, use of fire)
June 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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masudk.com
I am delighted that @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social and @lulgalleries.bsky.social are hosting the inaugural Knowledge Futures Symposium today. An amazing speaker lineup discussing the future of knowledge in a world full of mis/dis-information, fake news, and other contemporary challenges. #LKFS2025
June 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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horizonsinstitute.bsky.social
Fantastic to see this - wonderful to work with @whiteroseuc.bsky.social on delivering this exciting programme - and with such a lovely group too!
whiteroseuc.bsky.social White Rose University Consortium @whiteroseuc.bsky.social · Jun 26
Curious about the power of collaboration? We caught up with @truzaar.bsky.social from @york.ac.uk, a participant in our #CrucibleProgramme.

They shared how the programme is enriching their research and fostering new ways of thinking.

whiterose.ac.uk/news/spotlig...
The greatest value of Crucible comes from the unexpected connections and they ways your own research will be stretched and transformed by others." Truzaar Dordi
June 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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eua.eu
Professionals who work to support doctoral candidates, whether in managerial or academic roles, have key roles to play in embedding inclusive practice to support gender equity in universities.

Read this EUACDE #DoctoralDebate article at buff.ly/tTpzYjO

@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
The Doctoral Debate
The Doctoral Debate: commentary and analysis on trends in doctoral education
buff.ly
June 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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leedsims.bsky.social
Our PhD alumnus Dr Yinwen Mai reflected on his experience of the International Medieval Congress last year ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/new.... Attendance is free for our students. Looking forward to seeing everyone this year. Come to the IMS reception on 7 July at 6 pm #medievalsky #IMC2025
IMS alumnus Dr Yinwen Mai reflects on the International Medieval Congress 2024
The International Medieval Congress for 2024 took place 01-04 July. Here, Institute for Medieval Studies alumnus Dr Yinwen Mai discuses his experience of attending and participating in the Congress.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
I may be revisiting the recording of today’s launch - which was packed full of insights… @ukcge.bsky.social @annabull.bsky.social @the1752group.bsky.social
ukcge.bsky.social UK Council for Graduate Education @ukcge.bsky.social · Jun 11
We've just published a free toolkit in collaboration with Dr Anna Bull, Dr Kelly Prince and @the1752group.bsky.social‬. It covers how reports of harassment and sexual misconduct by postgraduate researchers should be addressed by universities. bit.ly/3ZYPi1q
Addressing harassment and sexual misconduct experienced by…
From August 1st 2025, higher education institutions in England will be required by the regulator, the Office for Students, to comply with a set of…
bit.ly
June 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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ukcge.bsky.social
Have you booked yet for our Annual Conference: Transitions and Transformations in Postgraduate Education? It takes place in Glasgow in July and the programme is now available online. ukcge.ac.uk/events/a...
UKCGE | Annual Conference 2025
Higher education is undergoing a period of significant change, accelerated by the current financial crisis, declining international student numbers, new…
ukcge.ac.uk
June 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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ukcge.bsky.social
Read Dr Anna Bull's comment piece in Nature about the toolkit for addressing harassment and sexual misconduct experienced by PGRs (it's available for free download on both the UKCGE and the 1752 Group websites). www.nature.com/artic...
PhD students face high risk of sexual harassment — can universities stop perpetrators?
Nature - A toolkit outlines how academia can prevent various forms of misconduct.
www.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social
With Leeds IMC 2025 less than a month away, this rough guide I wrote a couple of years ago may be of use to some of the new faces #IMC2025 #medievalsky

salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/05/18/a...
A Rough Guide to Leeds International Medieval Congress
Normally on the blog we try to pitch our posts to a reasonably broad audience. We want what we write to be interesting and useful to people inside and outside the academy. Whether we always succeed…
salutemmundo.wordpress.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rsos... < user beware
Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research | Royal Society Open Science
Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scientific research, as they can quickly summarize complex scientific information in accessible terms. However, when ...
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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davidhiggins.bsky.social
Cuckoo flower (I think) has spontaneously appeared on our unmown lawn along with quite a lot of cuckoo spit. No actual cuckoo so far. #wildflowerhour
Long green grass out of focus. Group of flowers in the centre (from one stem), each with four white petals.
May 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
University of Leeds PhD Alumnus Matthew Bourne hiding behind a microphone and messing with his sampler before his gig tonight at the Howard Assembly Rooms with Keeley Forsyth.

Good to shake his hand again: it’s been too long.
May 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
wlukewindsor.bsky.social
On our way to #BeCurious fueled by a ginger bear.

www.leeds.ac.uk/becurious
Child’s hand holding ginger bear.
May 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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wonkhe.bsky.social
NEW on Wonkhe: Paul Gratrick's research on student perceptions of value sheds new light on the very old question of value for money buff.ly/wGkU6rM
May 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM