1. First of three pieces on potential future uses of AI, Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes from Tim O’Brien https://www.oreilly.com/radar/job-for-2027-senior-director-of-million-dollar-regexes/ I don’t understand all of it, not even the title, but I get the gist!

2. Secondly, Learning for Long Lives in the age of AI from Geoff Mulgan https://geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/learning-for-long-lives-in-the-age

I want to end with one final reason why this is going to become a much more important part of the political and policy agenda over the next few years: the evidence on cognitive decline. For most of the last century, there was striking evidence that, overall, IQ was going up across the world, something called the Flynn effect. But around the year 2000 this appears to have hit a maximum and even to have started in decline and since then, there’s been striking evidence that something is going wrong with cognition across the world: PISA test scores in the OECD in mathematics, reading and science have been falling for at least a decade now. There’s evidence from many countries that the share of adults who struggle with numeracy or literacy is rising quite fast, so in the US over a third of people cannot use basic mathematical reasoning to evaluate statements.

Here’s Wikipedia on the Flynn effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

3. Thirdly, what’s sauce for the goose should probably be sauce for the gander, shouldn’t it? Here’s a piece from The Guardian about a stooshie (my favourite Scottish English word) at the University of Staffordshire, ‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/20/university-of-staffordshire-course-taught-in-large-part-by-ai-artificial-intelligence

And here’s the Collins Dictionary entry for stooshie https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stooshie

and the Cambridge Dictionary one for what’s sauce for the goose https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/what-s-sauce-for-the-goose-is-sauce-for-the-gander

4. Language Teaching and English Literature (LTEL) is a new international peer-reviewed journal that will cover the most recent research in English Language Teaching and the study of classical English literature (defined as ‘the body of written work produced in the English Language by the inhabitants of the British Isles from the 7th century to the present day.’) Here’s the call for submissions for the first issue https://www.ubplj.org/index.php/ltel/announcement/view/28

5. And, finally, the website of the new art museum about migration in Rotterdam, Fenix https://www.fenix.nl/en/ Try their ‘suitcase stories’ https://www.fenix.nl/en/suitcase-labyrinth/