Ernesto Priego
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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
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Ernesto Priego
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· Sep 5
💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London!
A heartfelt thank-you to… | E...
💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London!
A heartfelt thank-you to everyone...
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A quick LinkedIn post about @comicsandai.org yesterday- basically thanking everyone- you guys rock. www.linkedin.com/posts/ernest... #ComicsAndAI
Hopefully this won't be followed by hundreds of redundancies or something www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Courtauld to embark on £82m campus project at Somerset House in London
‘Once-in-a-generation transformation’ of Grade-I building will bring teaching spaces under same roof as gallery
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hopefully this won't be followed by hundreds of redundancies or something www.theguardian.com/education/20...
NHS funding faces a Brexit squeeze - BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 26 November 2025) www.bmj.com/content/391/...
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
NHS funding faces a Brexit squeeze - BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 26 November 2025) www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Are you also woken up in the middle of the night by nightmares featuring people who are waiting for something from you (multiple emails, reports, reviews, letters of recommendation, copyedits, articles, completed forms, surveys, spreadsheets, marks, feedback) calling you to your landline to say wtf?
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are you also woken up in the middle of the night by nightmares featuring people who are waiting for something from you (multiple emails, reports, reviews, letters of recommendation, copyedits, articles, completed forms, surveys, spreadsheets, marks, feedback) calling you to your landline to say wtf?
Clear visualisation of, indeed, this doom loop
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Clear visualisation of, indeed, this doom loop
Important, and also quite fundamental to understand when discussing 'developing nations', grants, humanitarian aid, etc. Structural inequality is made worse by colonialist paternalism.
A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Important, and also quite fundamental to understand when discussing 'developing nations', grants, humanitarian aid, etc. Structural inequality is made worse by colonialist paternalism.
If you are into ambient/soundscapes/contemporary/experimental and need an hour to escape put your headphones on and press play- not a playlist, vinyl records recorded in sequence in one go one night of anxious Winter sleeplessness www.mixcloud.com/epriego/wint... #Mixcloud
Winter Chill (Señor Priego Frozen Ambient Session Mixtape)
An ambient mixtape for these Winter days.
" I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands." - Sylvia Plath
Mixtape artwork reuses...
www.mixcloud.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you are into ambient/soundscapes/contemporary/experimental and need an hour to escape put your headphones on and press play- not a playlist, vinyl records recorded in sequence in one go one night of anxious Winter sleeplessness www.mixcloud.com/epriego/wint... #Mixcloud
And young people and adults. It's not only children who get repeatedly infected in classrooms.
There is still no programme of ensuring #cleanair in classrooms. Children continue to get repeatedly infected. #makehopenormal #boldpolitics #Covid #LongCovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And young people and adults. It's not only children who get repeatedly infected in classrooms.
It's gaslighting.
It's a relief after all the migrant-baiting to see a Labour government doing something, however limited, to shift fiscal policy in the right direction
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's gaslighting.
AI Scams Are the Point newrepublic.com/article/1883... via @newrepublic.com
AI Scams Are the Point
Propaganda and deceit are a feature of AI, not its downfall.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
AI Scams Are the Point newrepublic.com/article/1883... via @newrepublic.com
Can we have billboards with this everywhere please. And tote bags.
Yes, definitely. This idea of ultra concentration and specialisation is naive about the way that research is done and how we achieve good outcomes from it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Can we have billboards with this everywhere please. And tote bags.
We got a wee citation here: "Decolonising History Beyond the Curriculum: Student Participation and the Local Lens Towards a 'Reparative History'" - goo.gl/scholar/dXcwek #ScholarAlerts
goo.gl
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We got a wee citation here: "Decolonising History Beyond the Curriculum: Student Participation and the Local Lens Towards a 'Reparative History'" - goo.gl/scholar/dXcwek #ScholarAlerts
Reposted by Ernesto Priego
Go, read.
💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
✍️ @eve.gd
#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Go, read.
Ditto.
Sorry, but why does every single person who thinks of this believe they’re the only person in the world to think of this? FWIW, as others have said, yes, students can and will use LLMs to reflect on the LLM’s initial response. (That’s also not what a primary source is but whatever.)
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Ditto.
Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
"Currently, there is no cure for long-COVID-induced brain fog and fatigue" [July 2024] www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... #LongCovid
Post-COVID-19 condition, brain fog, and fatigue—what do we know now?
“I could not remember how to spell words … [I] also found I was missing words from
sentences and sometimes writing things that did not make sense.”
www.thelancet.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Currently, there is no cure for long-COVID-induced brain fog and fatigue" [July 2024] www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... #LongCovid
Kind reminder this is the type of ads most people (including students; staff) are getting bombarded with online www.youtube.com/watch?v=COlB...
Get it done with Google AI
YouTube video by Google Ads
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Kind reminder this is the type of ads most people (including students; staff) are getting bombarded with online www.youtube.com/watch?v=COlB...
Always interesting there is zero mention on how exactly "AI" works, the resources it requires, the actual social costs of simply replacing "interns" with automation, etc.
In my youth, fall heralded the arrival of new sitcoms and Chevrolets. Now it brings a new Benedict Evans presentation: AI eats the world
www.ben-evans.com/presentations
www.ben-evans.com/presentations
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.
www.ben-evans.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Always interesting there is zero mention on how exactly "AI" works, the resources it requires, the actual social costs of simply replacing "interns" with automation, etc.
"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...
Wish I'd been there www.youtube.com/watch?v=IznG...
My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep (Live at 3 Arena, Dublin 2025)
YouTube video by 021snakey
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Wish I'd been there www.youtube.com/watch?v=IznG...
I concur.
A case that AI in the classroom needs to be addressed as a social issue rather than as an arms race.
joshuapnudell.com/2025/11/22/a...
joshuapnudell.com/2025/11/22/a...
AI in the Classroom is a Social Problem
A case that AI in the classroom needs to be addressed as a social issue rather than as an arms race.
joshuapnudell.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I concur.
"Hardening of anti-immigrant rhetoric in society could drive more foreign doctors away from a “less welcoming” UK, the General Medical Council warns." BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 21 November 2025)
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"Hardening of anti-immigrant rhetoric in society could drive more foreign doctors away from a “less welcoming” UK, the General Medical Council warns." BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 21 November 2025)
Even after all these years I am amazed at how social media has blurred, redefined previous boundaries between the private and the public- stuff you used to tell / ask only your closest and dearest is now posted openly to 52.6K followers and it's considered the norm.
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Even after all these years I am amazed at how social media has blurred, redefined previous boundaries between the private and the public- stuff you used to tell / ask only your closest and dearest is now posted openly to 52.6K followers and it's considered the norm.
"Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins."
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins."