Richard Poynder

The Past and Future of the Medieval Classroom: Teaching the Conflicts in Troubled Times medievalists.net/2026/05/the-pa…

Academics may find themselves in the unexpected position of cheering on Elsevier in its legal battle with Meta because victory for the Facebook owner would signal “open season” on scholars’ rights to control how their work is represented. timeshighereducation.com/news/open-seas…

Is the Scholarly System Breaking Down? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/le…

‘The new era is here’: Fears rise over AI hacking semafor.com/article/05/15/…

Researchers provide "conservative estimate" of nearly 150,000 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

More straw clutching from the free speech absolutists wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/mo…

Canvas hack highlights need for mature digital governance universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

China’s top leader has called for efforts to deepen international collaboration in basic science following a major funding boost that signals the government's strategic priorities for the next phase of its innovation drive. universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

AI for Equity gatesfoundation.org/ideas/progress…

London AI office space leases rise tenfold in year bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech theguardian.com/technology/202…

AI could put people off tech jobs and hurt the economy, warns Raspberry Pi boss bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'Disheartening' to see academic freedom curtailed in the US, Irish minister says irishexaminer.com/business/econo…

Call for EU to leverage academic freedom in global talent race sciencebusiness.net/news/internati…

Cambridge University’s proposed Saudi deal endangers academic freedom theguardian.com/education/2026…

US Library Survey 2025 - Ithaka S+R bsky.app/profile/lisali…

Justice Dept. Accuses Yale Medical School of Discriminating Against White and Asian Applicants | The finding was the second time in eight days that the Trump administration had targeted a major medical school over admissions policies. nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/…

The biggest donor in the midterm elections is not Elon Musk, or George Soros, or any of the other billionaires who are often thought to wield the fattest wallets in politics | It is a venture capital firm: Andreessen Horowitz. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/tec…

AI, private platforms, and the risk to NHS data sovereignty bma.org.uk/news-and-opini…