Snails with antlers! Yeah those are some badass snails!

Who amongst us hasn’t had a little nibble on the young people’s productive lives? Nom nom nom. All the humanities and social science students I know have incredible skills. They question the world around them from injustices to mis/disinformation. And most of them work to cover their living costs.

Sometimes I share it in methods teaching. I think it’s really useful for thinking about how different approaches and frameworks will give different projects and results. (Also I can pretend I’m cool).

One great thing about online methods lectures is colleagues give guest lectures who otherwise might not be able to join us. This means I get to feel like a student watching brilliant colleagues share their methodological & storytelling insights. We should watch our colleagues teach more! It’s a joy.

Very niche question for other folks in Scotland who are still entitled to Covid vaccines. Are you getting a really reduced list of locations when you login? Folks entitled to only flu jabs seem to have more options. Is this a Covid jab thing? A health board thing? A Harvey can’t work websites thing?

This makes me really sad. The robots are apparently ‘citing’ my work & they’ve found an article that really carefully plays with temporality and flow of the text using footnotes. It’s meant to be a really fun read. I feel like it being hoovered up by the chatbots means it loses some of that magic.

Brilliant talk on “doomscrolling in a vortex of anti trans content” on trans youth social media use from @drews.bsky.social as part of the Create/Connect Trans & Queer Youth Creativity Community & Resilience Symposium. Similar ideas coming out of our (@paulreilly.bsky.social & Judas) work in Ireland

It was not yet in use! I actually don’t know if they were using it here. They have since disappeared. Maybe they are ghost bustin’!

I just said “I love when you see a ghost buster out in the wild” alone in my own home to myself. I think I was a bit loud. I am now concerned the man with the leaf blower outside heard me. Please keep me safe from the ghosts and/or leaves. I promise never to mock your profession again.

Why not Swindon though? Justice for Swindon!

So I have a “phone voice” which I think is polite. I don’t use it very often. Phone calls are a lot. I just had to phone the repairs company for our flat (joys of renting). And my phone voice has changed! It is both lower and possibly slightly less English. Welcome to dull things I find fascinating.

For the first time in my career I worry about my ability to reach new clients. So many in the engagement/Researcher Development space are flooding socials with well performing ChatGPT content that I feel I’m getting lost in the tide.