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Thursday, 14th August (Cambridge)

Posted on August 14, 2025 by roycross

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. The Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University are offering a free online event with Tony McEnery at 14:00 UK time on Tuesday 19th August, Navigating Challenges in the use of AI and GenAI … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 12th August (Richmond)

Posted on August 12, 2025 by roycross

1. On Life and Death in Gaza: a doctor shares his story by Abdelkareem Alsalqawi https://www.persuasion.community/p/on-life-and-death-in-gaza More than once I have chopped a leg or a forearm or a hand without anaesthesia. I remember one case very well: it was … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 7th August (Cambridge)

Posted on August 7, 2025 by roycross

1. I think the husband-wife ‘Mankeeping’ debate in The Daily Telegraph that I mentioned on Tuesday has been carefully choreographed in advance! Here’s the kept man’s perspective https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/75c944d1cd63e5c1 2. The Guardian’s ‘Audio Long Read’ series ranges very widely: From Sold … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 5th August (Richmond)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by roycross

1. First out of the blocks today, the Cambridge English Generative AI Idea Pack for English language teachers, put together by Jasmin Silver, Jo Szoke & Vicky Saumell https://cambunipress.prod.acquia-sites.com/sites/default/files/media/documents/GenAI-Idea-Pack-for-English-language-teachers.pdf PDF below as well. We have designed this idea pack to … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 31st July

Posted on July 31, 2025 by roycross

1. 10 scenarios for education in 2035 https://edtechhub.org/evidence/10-scenarios-for-education-in-2035/ from the EdTech Hub https://edtechhub.org/ plus, a wealth of weekend reading in their Evidence Library https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/ 2. The August issue of Humanising Language Teaching has just been published https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug25/ It includes: i) … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 29th July (Richmond)

Posted on July 29, 2025 by roycross

1. Edinburgh University’s Review of Race and History has just been published https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/race-review The publication of the University’s Race Review is a significant moment in this ancient institution’s willingness and determination to learn from and repair its past, as well … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 24th July

Posted on July 24, 2025 by roycross

1. A free ‘reading experience’ with which to start today, The Universal Turing Machine: a memoir by Richard Beard https://universalturingmachine.co.uk/ The Universal Turing Machine is a reading experience not a game, a memoir about what it means to live a … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 22nd July (Richmond)

Posted on July 22, 2025 by roycross

1. This one’s a bit nerdy, a bit late, and a bit important. The Open Data Institute is launching its European Data and AI Policy Manifesto at 16:00 UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 23rd July. More info and registration here https://theodi.org/news-and-events/events/odi-european-data-and-ai-policy-manifesto-launch/ … Continue reading →

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Friday, 18th July (on the train from Norwich to Cambridge – or would have been, had Greater Anglia wifi been up to it!)

Posted on July 18, 2025 by roycross

Only one post this week, a bit longer than usual, as I got in a right tiz-woz over some work I had to do for NILE with French school teachers of English yesterday and today. On reflection, the Ted Hughes … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 10th July (Cambridge)

Posted on July 10, 2025 by roycross

An unavoidably vain attempt today to keep up with developments in AI and thinking about AI. 1. The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece by David Brooks, Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber?, about an MIT (Massachusetts … Continue reading →

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