"ChatGPT isn't really new but simply an iteration of the class war that's been waged since the start of the industrial revolution. That... commentators can infer that [it] will be used for "cutting staff workloads" rather than for further staff cuts illustrates a general failure to understand AI as a political project."

🔥 from @danmcquillan
https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

I wrote this post about my experience striking for the first time as an early career researcher

https://thompsonj.github.io/strikes

Despite the stress and unpleasantness, I've found immense inspiration in the strikes.

#OxfordUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ecrchat

How to be an academic in a world on fire?

As scientists concerned about the climate crisis, @clarekelly and I set out to rethink the role and goals of the university in tackling the 21st century's challenges. Inspired by Raworth's Doughnut Economics, we propose seven new ways to thinking - not only to help us think, but also to act.

Read the paper: Urai AE, Kelly C (2023) Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. eLife 12:e84991. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84991
Join us for a discussion at Growing Up in Science Global on 11 April: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoc-GsqT8uGNXniBIHPo9u4ibfDwxysLkI

... and let us know your thoughts!

I have eaten
the planet
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for your grandchildren

Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so profitable