John E. Richardson
@discodiscourse.bsky.social
University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
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It's a competitive field obviously, but this is a strong entity for stupidest article about AI and universities in the last year or so. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...
Universities risk irrelevance by failing to engage fully with AI
It is difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of IT, says Ian Richardson
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's a competitive field obviously, but this is a strong entity for stupidest article about AI and universities in the last year or so. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...
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Many dictatorships use foreign helpers to influence democracies.
In our new study, we examine why, when, which authoritarian regimes employ Western PR firms - a particularly important type of foreign helper.
Study + summary are open-access 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our new study, we examine why, when, which authoritarian regimes employ Western PR firms - a particularly important type of foreign helper.
Study + summary are open-access 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Many dictatorships use foreign helpers to influence democracies.
In our new study, we examine why, when, which authoritarian regimes employ Western PR firms - a particularly important type of foreign helper.
Study + summary are open-access 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our new study, we examine why, when, which authoritarian regimes employ Western PR firms - a particularly important type of foreign helper.
Study + summary are open-access 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Often people think about the experience of the camps and the ensuing liberation, but not as much about what it feels like to like to carry those memories through the years that followed." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Two Holocaust survivors wrote each other letters for decades. Now they're being shared with the world | CBC News
Jewish London is hosting an event Thursday, Nov. 13 featuring a Canadian woman who came across a collection of her mother's old letters. The correspondence, lasting decades, reveals the experiences of...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"Often people think about the experience of the camps and the ensuing liberation, but not as much about what it feels like to like to carry those memories through the years that followed." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
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Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
NHS staff who care for patients in their own homes fear some areas have become “no-go zones” for them because of the presence of St George’s flags, health leaders have said.
Black and Asian staff have been left feeling “deliberately intimidated” as a result of the flags that were put up in many parts of England during the summer, according to the chief executive of one NHS trust in England, who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 is fueling a wave of AI-generated antisemitism. Videos denying the Holocaust and glorifying Hitler are going viral on Instagram, some racking up hundreds of thousands of likes — all with minimal safeguards in place.
Read more:
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Used To Spread Holocaust Denial and Glorify Hitler
OpenAI’s Sora 2, launched on September 30, faced backlash for generating controversial videos, including antisemitic and misogynistic content.
globalextremism.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is fueling a wave of AI-generated antisemitism. Videos denying the Holocaust and glorifying Hitler are going viral on Instagram, some racking up hundreds of thousands of likes — all with minimal safeguards in place.
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An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
omfg
Is this an attempt to team up with the Fuentes side of the Maga GOP? I mean, this is a Der Stürmer level of AS
Is this an attempt to team up with the Fuentes side of the Maga GOP? I mean, this is a Der Stürmer level of AS
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
omfg
Is this an attempt to team up with the Fuentes side of the Maga GOP? I mean, this is a Der Stürmer level of AS
Is this an attempt to team up with the Fuentes side of the Maga GOP? I mean, this is a Der Stürmer level of AS
This Corsican-Breton Collab wine is amazing
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This Corsican-Breton Collab wine is amazing
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“”The Biden administration deliberately looked the other way in the face of overwhelming evidence that war crimes were being committed with U.S. weapons in Gaza,” @vanhollen.senate.gov
of Maryland, told Reuters.
of Maryland, told Reuters.
US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“”The Biden administration deliberately looked the other way in the face of overwhelming evidence that war crimes were being committed with U.S. weapons in Gaza,” @vanhollen.senate.gov
of Maryland, told Reuters.
of Maryland, told Reuters.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
Tis a day for a Clapton CFC trans solidarity goalkeeper shirt
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Tis a day for a Clapton CFC trans solidarity goalkeeper shirt
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Great piece by my colleague Lorraine Francis, Green councillor for Eastville
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
'It is the greed of a privileged few, not immigration, that is Britain’s problem'
Lorraine Francis urges Bristol to continue to face up to historical hard truths
www.bristol247.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Great piece by my colleague Lorraine Francis, Green councillor for Eastville
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
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In our latest blog piece, Gareth Mulvey argues that it is British elites who most stubbornly refuse to integrate.
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
In our latest blog piece, Gareth Mulvey argues that it is British elites who most stubbornly refuse to integrate.
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible.
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Doctoral Landscape Awards | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible.
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
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For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
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The French department at Nottingham invited me to give a talk early on in my postdoc days and I still have fond memories of that event. Horrible to see those colleagues now suffer from terrible mismanagement.
Oh God. My first lecturing post was in French at Nottingham in 1998. It had one of the best departments in the UK. Just awful.
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The French department at Nottingham invited me to give a talk early on in my postdoc days and I still have fond memories of that event. Horrible to see those colleagues now suffer from terrible mismanagement.
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
...and music and lots of philosophy, to add to American & Canadian Studies, that was suspended a year ago.
If only management hadn't spent millions on a set of buildings in the city, that HMRC left years ago because they were no longer fit for purpose...
If only management hadn't spent millions on a set of buildings in the city, that HMRC left years ago because they were no longer fit for purpose...
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
...and music and lots of philosophy, to add to American & Canadian Studies, that was suspended a year ago.
If only management hadn't spent millions on a set of buildings in the city, that HMRC left years ago because they were no longer fit for purpose...
If only management hadn't spent millions on a set of buildings in the city, that HMRC left years ago because they were no longer fit for purpose...
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Applications are now open for the five-year Research Fellowships. Applications are invited from early career researchers with innovative AI-focused research ideas that address one of the University’s five research frontiers. For more info: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/24/u...
University of Liverpool Research Fellowships open for applications for 2025-2026 - University of Liverpool News
University of Liverpool Research Fellowships open for applications for 2025-2026
news.liverpool.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Applications are now open for the five-year Research Fellowships. Applications are invited from early career researchers with innovative AI-focused research ideas that address one of the University’s five research frontiers. For more info: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/24/u...
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Don’t worry. I spoke to BBC Newsround and said everything was fine 😁
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Don’t worry. I spoke to BBC Newsround and said everything was fine 😁
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The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...