'Pressures to pay article processing fees on the part of funding agencies and university libraries waste research funding and stymie efforts to establish more sustainable publishing systems. We recommend a total abandonment of author-paid publication fees for academic research'.

Wolf vs ape, in lyrical free verse

I thought we have a big fertility problem. Then I realized it is probably caused by an even bigger harder to fix problem.

@EgeErdil2 The 'post scarcity' people don't seem to understand that in terms of basic survival needs, most of the world is already post scarcity. But in terms of human status needs, which are zero sum, we can never be post scarcity.

Naive hypothesis: A lot of the Gen Z negativity around work arises from the increased load of 'emotional labor' required by a lot of service jobs - smiling, being patient, handling rude customers, tolerating shoplifting, etc. Back in 1983, Arlie Hochschild published her classic

Some of our master' students at our first LIS graduation! Many congratulations to our first cohort of MASc students, master's in Interdisciplinary Practice!

MASc programme director @JamesPCarney conferring one of our first MASc in Interdisciplinary Practice degrees. Congratulations Tiyasha! 🎊 👏 💐

Agree. Three things on this. 1. I love this country; 2. As Dean of the new university @weareLIS I am proud and happy that we have our first graduation ceremony this coming Wednesday; 3. We won't be playing the national anthem.

🛸 Ready for an out-of-this-world experience? Join us for a webinar on decoding messages from alien civilisations! 🔍 Learn how we might crack the code using mathematical methods & computational analysis. Don't miss this out - register now! 🔭 🔗 https://t.co/aSjXAXfUgM

@nadimsadek In conversation at #FutureBook23 are author of My Child, The Algorithm @HannahSilvaUK, computer linguist @JamesPCarney and Footnote Press' @sujoy_r to present a creative case study on writing in collaboration with AI. 🎫 To find out more and book your ticket, follow the link

“It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone" ––J.M. Keynes. Break out of the room; apply for our Master's programme!

How to make £493,964,000 in just 8 hours 30 minutes Easy, get govt to bin nutrient neutrality laws for house builders exactly what the likes of Persimmon PLC, Barrat Developments PLC and Taylor Wimpey PLC did this morning & that's exactly how much richer they are this afternoon.

Irish Family Eating a Meal of Potatoes and Milk, 1917. The "Irish" potato is not originally from Ireland but from South America (specifically Peru and Bolivia), where the Indigenous people have been growing it for thousands of years. After the Spanish conquistadors invaded the

URGENT: We need to talk about the Online Safety Bill. To prevent online harm to children, it's like saving them from drowning by boiling all the water in the UK off into space. It will ruin your experience of the Internet. Guaranteed. (Long - please expand the tweet.) Very

💭 Join this insightful webinar led by James Carney, a computational linguist and Associate Professor at LIS, about how the concept of entropy can help us understand the relationship between culture and anxiety. 🚀 Register now: https://t.co/voU8igkcqA

Thoughts on what artificial general intelligence (AGI) may mean for human survival prospects. TL;DR: evolution by artificial selection will turn us into something we don't recognise and don't want to be. https://t.co/VrLZWYq2mQ #ArtificialIntelligence @RokoMijic @ESYudkowsky

We show that people who struggle with anxiety and/or depression talk about the future differently to healthy controls. They are less certain even though they talk about more proximal future dates. Why? Read the paper to find out:) https://t.co/Xt4Njv2vaG

I don’t know @alexisknox personally, but she’s a decent skin who found my wallet and went to the trouble of finding my address and dropping it to my house. Want to know how to make the world incrementally better? Be like Alexis, that’s how.

We're happy, flattered, and perhaps a little surprised to say that we've experienced more interest in our master's degree than originally anticipated. As such, we've made the decision to move to rolling applications. Submit your application here 👉 https://t.co/6ACe5n87Yy

Maybe it's time not to see the humanities as distinct from other disciplines - after all, it was not always so. What happens to the government's silly metrics if, say, NLP and Eng Lit are taught as one degree programme?