Dr Heidi Colthup
@heidi-colthup.bsky.social
When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators
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Apologies to all the academics following me who were expecting quality discourse on research.
It's all small scale moans, chocolate, cats, video games, and Top of the Pops.
Arguably the last two are Research. The first one is Admin, and the middle two are Teaching.
#Academia #AcademicSky
It's all small scale moans, chocolate, cats, video games, and Top of the Pops.
Arguably the last two are Research. The first one is Admin, and the middle two are Teaching.
#Academia #AcademicSky
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Teaching profs are necessary for retention (keeping tuition and preparing for alumni $, making people who go into politics loyal to their Alma mater, etc) and good teaching is difficult.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Teaching profs are necessary for retention (keeping tuition and preparing for alumni $, making people who go into politics loyal to their Alma mater, etc) and good teaching is difficult.
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I think teaching profs should get paid the same (by the university) as research profs. Teaching is important. It keeps up the rest of the facade of being a university.
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I think teaching profs should get paid the same (by the university) as research profs. Teaching is important. It keeps up the rest of the facade of being a university.
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Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
I actually have a photo of me taken in NYC 25 years ago when I was an art student and wearing a beret 😄
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I actually have a photo of me taken in NYC 25 years ago when I was an art student and wearing a beret 😄
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Eleven essays marked.
My brain is fried for the day.
Another eleven in this batch, and then another 24 in another batch.
It takes a minimum of 20 minutes to mark each one - the ones needing more support take much longer.
So about 12 hours of marking awaits me, or three days.
#AcademicSky
My brain is fried for the day.
Another eleven in this batch, and then another 24 in another batch.
It takes a minimum of 20 minutes to mark each one - the ones needing more support take much longer.
So about 12 hours of marking awaits me, or three days.
#AcademicSky
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Eleven essays marked.
My brain is fried for the day.
Another eleven in this batch, and then another 24 in another batch.
It takes a minimum of 20 minutes to mark each one - the ones needing more support take much longer.
So about 12 hours of marking awaits me, or three days.
#AcademicSky
My brain is fried for the day.
Another eleven in this batch, and then another 24 in another batch.
It takes a minimum of 20 minutes to mark each one - the ones needing more support take much longer.
So about 12 hours of marking awaits me, or three days.
#AcademicSky
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This just made me really sad.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This just made me really sad.
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Got a loved one with a 16th Century warship sitting on bricks in their garage in need of repair?
The Mary Rose Haynes manual - save £5 in our online shop! #GiftIdeas
shop.maryrose.org/products/boo...
The Mary Rose Haynes manual - save £5 in our online shop! #GiftIdeas
shop.maryrose.org/products/boo...
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Got a loved one with a 16th Century warship sitting on bricks in their garage in need of repair?
The Mary Rose Haynes manual - save £5 in our online shop! #GiftIdeas
shop.maryrose.org/products/boo...
The Mary Rose Haynes manual - save £5 in our online shop! #GiftIdeas
shop.maryrose.org/products/boo...
This is bizarre - trying to access the Channel 4 website - want to add a link to a show for some student feedback, but every time (in different browsers too) I'm getting an access denied message.
I'm not using a VPN (probably should now though!), I've just cleared cookies too.
Weird.
I'm not using a VPN (probably should now though!), I've just cleared cookies too.
Weird.
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is bizarre - trying to access the Channel 4 website - want to add a link to a show for some student feedback, but every time (in different browsers too) I'm getting an access denied message.
I'm not using a VPN (probably should now though!), I've just cleared cookies too.
Weird.
I'm not using a VPN (probably should now though!), I've just cleared cookies too.
Weird.
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
Popped out to grab a quick lunch in the local coffee shop and left with a slice of cake for later this afternoon.
The cake is looking at me. It's taunting me.
I must do some more marking first.
#AcademicSky
The cake is looking at me. It's taunting me.
I must do some more marking first.
#AcademicSky
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Popped out to grab a quick lunch in the local coffee shop and left with a slice of cake for later this afternoon.
The cake is looking at me. It's taunting me.
I must do some more marking first.
#AcademicSky
The cake is looking at me. It's taunting me.
I must do some more marking first.
#AcademicSky
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Reposted by Dr Heidi Colthup
I'm conducting research for my prof doc at the Uni of Salford. I'm interested to hear from UK-based healthcare staff who've authored #systematicreviews with or without collaborating with librarians and info professionals. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/re...
#medsky #research #Health
#medsky #research #Health
Researcher version: Librarian Contribution to Systematic Reviews
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm conducting research for my prof doc at the Uni of Salford. I'm interested to hear from UK-based healthcare staff who've authored #systematicreviews with or without collaborating with librarians and info professionals. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/re...
#medsky #research #Health
#medsky #research #Health
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gasping for air here oh my god
I'm fucking cryinj
Worst hold music ever?
YouTube video by Unreasonable Steev
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
gasping for air here oh my god
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It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
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"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Note to self for when marking film student essays -
Don't confuse Wes CRAVEN (Scream) with Wes ANDERSON (Fabulous Mr Fox)
Easily done.
Fortunately I noticed before my line of thinking developed into considering the Wilson brothers carrying out increasingly gory murders in a beautiful colourful USA
Don't confuse Wes CRAVEN (Scream) with Wes ANDERSON (Fabulous Mr Fox)
Easily done.
Fortunately I noticed before my line of thinking developed into considering the Wilson brothers carrying out increasingly gory murders in a beautiful colourful USA
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Note to self for when marking film student essays -
Don't confuse Wes CRAVEN (Scream) with Wes ANDERSON (Fabulous Mr Fox)
Easily done.
Fortunately I noticed before my line of thinking developed into considering the Wilson brothers carrying out increasingly gory murders in a beautiful colourful USA
Don't confuse Wes CRAVEN (Scream) with Wes ANDERSON (Fabulous Mr Fox)
Easily done.
Fortunately I noticed before my line of thinking developed into considering the Wilson brothers carrying out increasingly gory murders in a beautiful colourful USA
I know it's encouraged by exam boards for GCSE and A levels to write in low frequency complex registers - big complex words.
But I really wish simple clear language was encouraged instead. I hate reading essays that feel like they've gone through a thesaurus.
(And they're not AI)
#AcademicSky
But I really wish simple clear language was encouraged instead. I hate reading essays that feel like they've gone through a thesaurus.
(And they're not AI)
#AcademicSky
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I know it's encouraged by exam boards for GCSE and A levels to write in low frequency complex registers - big complex words.
But I really wish simple clear language was encouraged instead. I hate reading essays that feel like they've gone through a thesaurus.
(And they're not AI)
#AcademicSky
But I really wish simple clear language was encouraged instead. I hate reading essays that feel like they've gone through a thesaurus.
(And they're not AI)
#AcademicSky
Aaargh! It's two hours later and I've only marked 5 essays!
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Back to the marking.
Honestly, I'm bribing myself - 10 essays marked and I can go and have some time playing Assassin's Creed.
I know once I get into the marking it becomes interesting and even enjoyable 😄 but actually sitting down to do it....
#AcademicSky
Honestly, I'm bribing myself - 10 essays marked and I can go and have some time playing Assassin's Creed.
I know once I get into the marking it becomes interesting and even enjoyable 😄 but actually sitting down to do it....
#AcademicSky
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Aaargh! It's two hours later and I've only marked 5 essays!
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Back to the marking.
Honestly, I'm bribing myself - 10 essays marked and I can go and have some time playing Assassin's Creed.
I know once I get into the marking it becomes interesting and even enjoyable 😄 but actually sitting down to do it....
#AcademicSky
Honestly, I'm bribing myself - 10 essays marked and I can go and have some time playing Assassin's Creed.
I know once I get into the marking it becomes interesting and even enjoyable 😄 but actually sitting down to do it....
#AcademicSky
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Back to the marking.
Honestly, I'm bribing myself - 10 essays marked and I can go and have some time playing Assassin's Creed.
I know once I get into the marking it becomes interesting and even enjoyable 😄 but actually sitting down to do it....
#AcademicSky
Honestly, I'm bribing myself - 10 essays marked and I can go and have some time playing Assassin's Creed.
I know once I get into the marking it becomes interesting and even enjoyable 😄 but actually sitting down to do it....
#AcademicSky
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UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
www.unitetheunion.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Well, I'll make sure I do mine this week!!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Well, I'll make sure I do mine this week!!
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Consultant Ophthalmologist shares some of the comments he's received after posting that he is featured in Tatler's address book.
Not commenting about the quality of his care, just his skin colour
This is what life is like for many Brits of ethnic minority origin at the moment. Please speak out.
Not commenting about the quality of his care, just his skin colour
This is what life is like for many Brits of ethnic minority origin at the moment. Please speak out.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Consultant Ophthalmologist shares some of the comments he's received after posting that he is featured in Tatler's address book.
Not commenting about the quality of his care, just his skin colour
This is what life is like for many Brits of ethnic minority origin at the moment. Please speak out.
Not commenting about the quality of his care, just his skin colour
This is what life is like for many Brits of ethnic minority origin at the moment. Please speak out.