Amy Taggart 🦋

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🐝 All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network Manager
🦉 Honorary Lifetime Member, St Andrews Philosophy Society
⚖️ BPP Law School Survivor 🗡️
🌟 Chief Virtue Signaller (CVS) of The Kallipolis

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Demanding universities ‘put their own finances in order before looking for help from the taxpayer‘ is an awful response to a sector in crisis because their finances are determined by government policy. Not good enough, deeply disappointing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Universities told to manage own budgets after call for bailoutswww.bbc.co.uk Education secretary comments after union says many unis face

Well if we can’t have exciting debates with nazis or the opportunity to humble brag to thousands of followers, they have to give us something. Cheers, all 🥂

So apparently Bluesky is “the social media of the elites”. You’ve all had your cards marked.

Hi friend.

4-5 years for *conspiracy* to cause public nuisance. Back when the UK had a properly functioning legal system, public nuisance was a common law offence used to prosecute the polluters…

Yesterday, five people were imprisoned under the draconian new Tory laws for between 4 and 5 years, for entirely peaceful protest. Longer than many offenders get for major violent crimes. My column this week calls for Labour to repeal those laws. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws | George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com The pernicious, oppressive era of arresting people for holding signs or merely walking down the street must come to an end, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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I caught this Acmon blue butterfly at the right angle where the natural light has caused the scales to iridesce across the entire spectrum of colors, but still dominated by the indigo-blue the species is named for 📷🌈🦋

What would Iris do? #philsky

Answering the question “Do you wish to donate your organs?” while applying for my learners permit is really making me excited to book some driving lessons this summer.

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three (3) iff 3 . you're welcome

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How?

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I think we’ve all had enough of Artificial Intelligence. Anyone working on Artificial Wisdom?

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But without those data centres how will I learn the wrong answers to my questions??

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Academia's original sin is forcing the most knowledgeable, talented, and passionate scientists, educators, and scholars to move every 1 to 4 years chasing postdocs. The kinds of community level changes we need to fight climate change need people who can commit to those communities.

Ruth Davidson keeps referring to what I now realise is “Shy Tory Syndrome” on Sky News…but for a moment I misheard and thought she was being refreshingly honest.

“Political insistence that higher education must operate like a market has led to many of the worst pathologies of market societies.” Time to crack down on ‘low value’ ‘rip off’ Tories 🗳️ 🙌

Long, detailed piece on the ruin of universities under the Tories

How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disasterwww.theguardian.com The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – d...

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Lovely bit of subvertising/culture jamming. I approve!

Nice 😊 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Artists target Wimbledon’s ‘strawberries and cream image’ over link to Barclayswww.theguardian.com Spoof ads with tennis players appear near club in protest against sponsor’s ties to fossil fuels and arms companies

LET’S GOOOOO ✉️

Set your alarm for Thursday.

Perfect reading spot 📖

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I realize that it's indefensible to still be on twitter but where else would you have interactions like this

Loving the old school recommended weather forecast checking methods at this Airbnb.

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, 21/06/2024www.bbc.co.uk Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring and and Fay Dowker consider time with Matthew Sweet.

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Ready for #ShowYourStripes on Friday? 1) Download your own stripes: ShowYourStripes.info 2) Share the graphics widely on 21st June 3) Start conversations about climate risks & actions to take

Show Your Stripesshowyourstripes.info Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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"It's me, I'm the problem, it's me"

Good Evening, Fairy Glen 🧚

"...The overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit..." Sometimes I wish Joe would just say what he really thinks 😆 @fennert.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

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The Trondheim philosophy department is literally a fake barn

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The amazing Merel Talbi, PhD candidate at our ERC project on social epistemology of argumentation, has a new article out! "The epistemic import of narratives" She argues that narratives can help foster common ground in situations of epistemic (& other) diversity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Epistemic Import of Narrativeswww.tandfonline.com In situations of disagreement in a polarized social world, rational argument is not always successful in persuading those who do not share our beliefs. Narratives of personal experiences have empir...

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Kathleen Okruhlik, 1951-2024, and her distinctive feminist voice. Feminist philosopher of science and distinguished university administrator at Western University. youtu.be/tEnQgGi1JV8?...

"Science and Values" Kathleen Okruhlik (Philosophy, Western University)youtu.be Western University recently hosted over 500 Grade 11 students at Arts Days. Over the two days, students were able to participate in mini-lectures by our facu...

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Next Friday (21st June) is #ShowYourStripes day! Join a free-to-attend conversation about the Warming Stripes between myself & Tom Clarke. Learn about how they became a global climate symbol. In person in Reading: whatsonreading.com/venues/conce... Watch online: whatsonreading.com/venues/conce...

From Local to Global (To Attend Online) | What's On Readingwhatsonreading.com From local to global: how the climate stripes spread a message around the world Join us in conversation with Professor Ed Hawkins MBE, climate scientist and IPCC author, and creator of the famous clim...

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At Goldsmiths the redundancy letter still said Kent; the consultants didn't even do a find and replace, which is presumably what they get paid for

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There'll likely be lots of these in the next few years: valedictory events for university departments that have been closed. Quite a good idea, but by God it's sad to see.