Fran Sutherland
@fransez.bsky.social
Educational developer | Senior fellow #Iraqi HE researcher | GenAI comprehender | former Education, Peace & Politics & Nahrein network | mum to a Klementine🍊🥁 | Dabbling here since the Xodus
‘How can you be released, you’re not (even) here’.
By Henrik Andersen
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By Henrik Andersen
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Haunted Life: Sovereignty, Affect, and Impunity in Iraq
The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq unleashed aspirations for democratic governance grounded in human rights and dignity. While some promises have been met, many have not. During the past 20 years, th...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
‘How can you be released, you’re not (even) here’.
By Henrik Andersen
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
By Henrik Andersen
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Feels for all the animals and humans like me who chuffin’ hate fireworks! Cannot believe this day ‘n age we still allow randoms to let off mini bombs for days and hours on end. If anyone knows of any petitions worth signing, please post them for me below 😂🙏🏼
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Feels for all the animals and humans like me who chuffin’ hate fireworks! Cannot believe this day ‘n age we still allow randoms to let off mini bombs for days and hours on end. If anyone knows of any petitions worth signing, please post them for me below 😂🙏🏼
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Join us for #LTHEchat with @dralison.bsky.social and @bethflloyd.bsky.social at 8pm GMT today. Read the blog here:
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LTHE Chat 342: Digital Leadership for Inclusive and Strategic Change
Join us on Bluesky with guest Alison Purvis (@dralison.bsky.social) and Beth Fielding-Lloyd (@bethflloyd.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 5th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT Digital leadership in higher educa…
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November 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Join us for #LTHEchat with @dralison.bsky.social and @bethflloyd.bsky.social at 8pm GMT today. Read the blog here:
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What do cat parents do with a super hungry (greedy?) kitty? My lil beast needs to lose a few grams but - it’s proving impossible. Constantly hungry, scouting for crumbs and pestering Licks sinks and drains if there’s nothing else. Any advice?!
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What do cat parents do with a super hungry (greedy?) kitty? My lil beast needs to lose a few grams but - it’s proving impossible. Constantly hungry, scouting for crumbs and pestering Licks sinks and drains if there’s nothing else. Any advice?!
Indie-pop rockstas The Klementines doing their own gig at new #sheffield venue Mary St Live. Punky Mannequins and folky Scarlett Kirwan supporting. Scan the QR to donate an entry fee in advance. 🎃 dress up optional 👻
October 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Indie-pop rockstas The Klementines doing their own gig at new #sheffield venue Mary St Live. Punky Mannequins and folky Scarlett Kirwan supporting. Scan the QR to donate an entry fee in advance. 🎃 dress up optional 👻
A stunning read finally available open access - by Ben Robin-D’Cruz
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Iraq’s Rhizomatic State and the Politics of Impunity
Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, this article adopts the idea of a ‘rhizomatic state’ to define the struggle for impunity at the heart of contested security in Iraq. This denotes a form of decenter...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A stunning read finally available open access - by Ben Robin-D’Cruz
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Can you help #warpawsrescue in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan? They’ve lost vital funding which means they can’t now feed or support animals affected through the legacy of war and conflict. May have to close by Christmas.
Various donation options below, pls help/share if you can!
Various donation options below, pls help/share if you can!
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Can you help #warpawsrescue in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan? They’ve lost vital funding which means they can’t now feed or support animals affected through the legacy of war and conflict. May have to close by Christmas.
Various donation options below, pls help/share if you can!
Various donation options below, pls help/share if you can!
‘Power without conscience’ is a warning we can’t ignore. We are calling for urgent regulation and human-centred control of military AI systems.
@CDroegeICRC, ICRC chief legal officer, shared at the UN Security Council #UNGA80
www.icrc.org/en/statement...
@CDroegeICRC, ICRC chief legal officer, shared at the UN Security Council #UNGA80
www.icrc.org/en/statement...
UN Security Council: We cannot let AI be deployed on the battlefield without oversight and regulation
www.icrc.org
September 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‘Power without conscience’ is a warning we can’t ignore. We are calling for urgent regulation and human-centred control of military AI systems.
@CDroegeICRC, ICRC chief legal officer, shared at the UN Security Council #UNGA80
www.icrc.org/en/statement...
@CDroegeICRC, ICRC chief legal officer, shared at the UN Security Council #UNGA80
www.icrc.org/en/statement...
Excellent 🧵 countering uncritical adoption of AI status quo
🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:
📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Excellent 🧵 countering uncritical adoption of AI status quo
Iraq’s system endures not because of its structural efficacy but through the interaction of three mechanisms operating over time: Identity Reconfiguration, Legitimacy Erosion, and Priority Divergence.’ By Kamaran Palani
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How Power-Sharing Endures: Generational Change and Institutional Persistence in Iraq
This article examines how Iraq’s ethno-sectarian power-sharing system has continued despite significant generational change since 2003. Drawing on an online survey alongside structured group discus...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Iraq’s system endures not because of its structural efficacy but through the interaction of three mechanisms operating over time: Identity Reconfiguration, Legitimacy Erosion, and Priority Divergence.’ By Kamaran Palani
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Fundamentally, we are responsible for curriculum design which builds students’ ethical, intellectual and creative development over the course of a whole programme in ways that are relevant to society and future employment.’ - Duna Sabri
This week on Wonkhe: Rather than an assessment arms race, Duna Sabri calls for a response to artificial intelligence grounded in subject knowledge
We cannot address the AI challenge by acting as though assessment is a standalone activity
Rather than an assessment arms race, Duna Sabri calls for a response to artificial intelligence grounded in subject knowledge Rather than an assessment arms race, Duna Sabri calls for a response to artificial...
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September 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
‘Fundamentally, we are responsible for curriculum design which builds students’ ethical, intellectual and creative development over the course of a whole programme in ways that are relevant to society and future employment.’ - Duna Sabri
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“If the tech keeps getting better this quickly, there’s the potential for a large-scale employment impact.”
Jack Clark, co-founder of AI company Anthropic, says the speed of AI’s development is unprecedented and “hard to believe” for many.
@lewisgoodall.com
Jack Clark, co-founder of AI company Anthropic, says the speed of AI’s development is unprecedented and “hard to believe” for many.
@lewisgoodall.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“If the tech keeps getting better this quickly, there’s the potential for a large-scale employment impact.”
Jack Clark, co-founder of AI company Anthropic, says the speed of AI’s development is unprecedented and “hard to believe” for many.
@lewisgoodall.com
Jack Clark, co-founder of AI company Anthropic, says the speed of AI’s development is unprecedented and “hard to believe” for many.
@lewisgoodall.com
Apparently there’s ’stubbornly high wage growth’
a man in a suit is standing in a living room .
ALT: a man in a suit is standing in a living room .
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August 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Apparently there’s ’stubbornly high wage growth’
Really @tramlines is the best all rounder festival. Great layout, crowd, bands…well managed, easy to get good food n drinks. Hope even more good bands want to play next year.
July 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Really @tramlines is the best all rounder festival. Great layout, crowd, bands…well managed, easy to get good food n drinks. Hope even more good bands want to play next year.
If you read one thing about Gen AI today make it this. A bleak short read about the truly exploitative amd extractive nature of tech and capitalism.
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
The Hidden Human Cost of AI Moderation
Training AI often means staring at humanity’s worst atrocities for hours at a time. Workers tasked with this labor endure psychological injury without support — and face legal threats if they speak ab...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If you read one thing about Gen AI today make it this. A bleak short read about the truly exploitative amd extractive nature of tech and capitalism.
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
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All 17 British businesses in a six-month trial of the four-day week said they would continue to have their staff work reduced hours - with no loss of pay.
Trade unions won us the weekend at the start of the last century - next stop, the four-day week! @4dayweek.bsky.social
Trade unions won us the weekend at the start of the last century - next stop, the four-day week! @4dayweek.bsky.social
Nearly 1,000 Britons adopt permanently shorter working week after trial
Nearly 1,000 Britons adopt permanently shorter working week after trial
All 17 businesses in six-month pilot to continue with either four-day week or nine-day fortnight
Nearly 1,000 British workers will adopt a permanently shorter working week, after the latest trial of a four-day week and similar changes to traditional working patterns.
All 17 British businesses in a six-month trial of the four-day week said they would continue with an arrangement consisting of either four days a week or nine days a fortnight. All the employees remained on their full salary. Continue reading...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
All 17 British businesses in a six-month trial of the four-day week said they would continue to have their staff work reduced hours - with no loss of pay.
Trade unions won us the weekend at the start of the last century - next stop, the four-day week! @4dayweek.bsky.social
Trade unions won us the weekend at the start of the last century - next stop, the four-day week! @4dayweek.bsky.social
Reposted by Fran Sutherland
Sudan, ‘no one’s priority’ and the most significant humanitarian catastrophe in the world.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sudan in danger of self-destructing as conflict and famine reign
The war is in strategic stalemate, but Sudan is no-one's priority - an orphan in a region that is ablaze.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Sudan, ‘no one’s priority’ and the most significant humanitarian catastrophe in the world.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
The lost memory of Iraqi female prisoners, and ‘the politics of forgetting’ by Noor Zaidi
1001iraqithoughts.com/2025/06/28/t...
1001iraqithoughts.com/2025/06/28/t...
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June 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The lost memory of Iraqi female prisoners, and ‘the politics of forgetting’ by Noor Zaidi
1001iraqithoughts.com/2025/06/28/t...
1001iraqithoughts.com/2025/06/28/t...
Yes it can be lazy to just compare this to history in Iraq and yes it sounds like history repeating itself.
June 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Yes it can be lazy to just compare this to history in Iraq and yes it sounds like history repeating itself.
Reposted by Fran Sutherland
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
ChatGPT’s Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
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June 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]