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Sherrill Stroschein ๐
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐
@sstroschein2
Reader in Politics, UCL. But these are my own views, tweeting in personal capacity. Retweeting not an endorsement. More Politics things in the butterfly place.
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์ผ Haziran 2016
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
These cuts and how they have been implemented undo what it means to do university. The academic community should own the courses, not some external consultant.
Students & Staff need to have a meaningful participation.
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
NOUS has a track record of cutting programmes which lead to cutting jobs & departments.
Their Cookie Cutter University model means the only differentiation is the (superficial) prestige institutions have from simply being old. The strength of academic research&education is gone.
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Management paid nearly a quarter million to the external consultancy NOUS, whose generic 'framework' is now used to turn QMUL into a Cookie Cutter University.
These modules make QMUL. They bring students in contact with the cutting-edge research & widen the scope of academia.
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The plane circles the airport and never lands.
Paul Schleifer@PaulSchleifer
LLMs don't just edit your text. They flatten your meaning, erase your voice, and shift your conclusions toward a bland, neutral center that no human would have chosen. People who relied heavily on AI reported their essays felt less creative and not in their voice, but they were equally satisfied with the final product. The tool makes you worse at expressing yourself, and you don't even notice. The semantic analysis is worse. When researchers embedded essays in vector space, human writing sprawled across a diverse landscape. AI-assisted essays formed a tight little cluster in a region where no human writing had ever been. A new dialect, invented by machines, imposed on people who thought they were just getting grammar help. Even when users asked for "minimal edits" or "just grammar," the AI rewrote their conclusions. An essay about self-driving cars that originally expressed skepticism? The LLM quietly removed the doubts and added enthusiasm. A personal anecdote? Deleted. First-person pronouns? Slashed by 60%. Statistical arguments and expert citations appeared where human voices used to be. The emotional profile shifted too. LLMs increased both positive and negative sentiment, making text more emotionally charged while simultaneously making it more analytical and logical. A paradoxical combination designed not to reflect the writer but to appeal to the broadest possible reader. At a major AI conference, 21% of peer reviews were AI-generated. Those reviews gave scores 10% higher and focused on completely different criteria: reproducibility and scalability instead of clarity and significance. The machine isn't just reviewing papers. It's changing what counts as good science. LLMs are optimized for positive human feedback, not for preserving individual meaning. The result is a language that is broadly convincing but personally hollow. A linguistic monoculture, spreading through every institution, while users happily report they're satisfied with the results. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.18161
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
If you are Clinically Vulnerable, or from a Clinically Vulnerable household, you may like to join us for our online legal team meeting this Wednesday evening.
Book your place ๐
clinicallyvulnerable.org
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
We showed up to the Covid Inquiry masked, carrying our own air filters.
Last week, the healthcare report confirmed everything we said.
Our founder @lara_wong on what we have won - and what comes next...
clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/covid-inqโฆ
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
While the final outcome for BA.3.2 is uncertain, its unique characteristicsโextensively remodeled spike NTD & SD1/SD2, novel S2 muts, & total deletion of ORF7a/7b/8โmake it the best candidate for co-dominance we've seen, which could mark a new era in SARS-2 evolution. 1/
Stefan Pรถhlmann@snpoehlm
BA.3.2 was first detected in South Africa ๐ฟ๐ฆ in November 2024. Never reached dominance, never disappeard. 14 months after its emergence it accounts for 20% of all sequences. Unusual. #BA32
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
Academic staff at Coventry University are being TUPed into a subsidiary, Peopleโs Futures Ltd, listed on Companies House as an โemployment agencyโ. This move onto inferior terms & conditions, raises serious questions about job security and the future of academic employment in HE.
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
โIs there any scenario or situation where someone could produce a droplet without also generating significant amounts of aerosols?โ
Professor Clive Beggs - IPC Expert: โNoโ
Pete ๐ท #COVIDisAirborne@PeteUK7
Seems a common misconception that if far field transmission isn't a major factor then the transmission mode is not airborne. Inhalation of aerosols at close range is still airborne transmission - just near field rather than far field. This is important to understand. 1/๐งต
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
Droplets always become Aerosols...The droplet invention was PoliticalScience an example of an Oxymoron
Cat in the Hat ๐โโฌ ๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ง@_CatintheHat
โIs there any scenario or situation where someone could produce a droplet without also generating significant amounts of aerosols?โ Prof Clive Beggs (independent expert witness to the Covid Inquiry): โNOโ.
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
@kidneycareuk Nurse of 44 years, and co-leader of an infectious disease study group comprised of 100s of scientists.
Your astoundingly ignorant recommendation to not use masks is frankly at the level of criminal negligence. Meningitis is an airborne pathogen. N95 masks save lives. Fix it, NOW.
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
@ShaunLintern When covid hit the media went looking for anti-lockdown "experts" and ended up providing mainstream platforms to anti-vaxxers
Just look at what's put out by GB News, TalkTv, Telegraph and Toby Young's Daily Sceptic in regards to vaccines
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Karam Bales@karamballes
How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established Network mapping the international network's development in 2020, with a particular focus on the UK. open.substack.com/pub/counterdisโฆ
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
The report concluded that:
โIn future, guidance should assume that ALL plausible routes of transmission are possible until sufficient evidence proves otherwise.โ
There are no excuses anymore.
The government MUST NOT make the same mistakes again.
We MUST learn from the past.
Cat in the Hat ๐โโฌ ๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ง@_CatintheHat
COVID INQUIRY: MODULE 3 REPORT โFundamental flaws in the UKโs approach to IPC [infection prevention & control] guidance, for example in relation to the use of PPE, put patients and healthcare workers at risk.โ โ Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Covid Inquiry Read more hereโฆ โฌ๏ธ
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
Absolutely disgusting tactics. Solidarity to our comrades fighting this.
UCU Coventry Uni@CovUCUBranch
Teaching staff being TUPEd over from @covcampus to a company, significantly worse Ts&Cs 4 sick pay, annual leave, workload hours, working week, removed from Teachers Pension scheme, no union recognition @UKLabour using the VC as an advisor. Sign of things to come? @BBCCWR
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
Vaccine update ๐จ@asda Pharmacy offers MenB vaccine at cost price.
We welcome this news after calling for the private MenB vaccine to be available on the high street at a fair price as part of our No Plan B for Men B campaign: bit.ly/43OFhXf
#vaccine #meningitis #MenB
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
12 members of Cardiff University Executive Board received combined total of ยฃ3m
Great to see a student-led movement demanding cuts in salaries & expenses at top
Meanwhile, 170 jobs lost, workloads out of control, some staff considered abortion & suicide
nation.cymru/news/students-โฆ
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
The thing for me about AI is that as a โdoing schoolโ thing, its use by students definitely situates itself within de Certeauโs concept of a โtactic.โ
But that taking up of a societial invitation to use all the AI all the time is not a tactic at all. Itโs just hegemony.
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Sherrill Stroschein ๐ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
Nobody wants to read AI-generated posts.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated emails.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated newsletters.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated reports.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated articles.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated anything.
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky
Nobody wants to read AI-generated books.
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People donโt use genAI โbecause they are stupid.โ They largely use it because of power relations, promises, threats, and requirements. And because the work they are being asked to do holds no value for them. But thatโs a form of requirement, so what I said previously.
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