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Thursday, 27th November (Cambridge)
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, … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 18th November (Richmond)
1. The Cambridge Dictionary ‘word of the year’ is one I’ve never heard or read or used https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-dictionary-reveals-word-of-the-year-2025 Should I be worried, I wonder? 2. The Flipping Book Club “is free and is intended for those who wish to practice … Continue reading
Thursday, 30th October (Cambridge)
1. ‘The more languages you know, the better you are’: learners’ pride in being multilingual and their motivation for language learning is a recent open-access Taylor & Francis article by Giulia Sulis & Sarah Mercer from Graz University and Astrid … Continue reading
Tuesday, 17th June (Richmond)
1. This Thursday, 19th June, at 15:30 UK time there’s the last NATESOL event of this academic year, an interestingly different ‘special panel discussion’ with Robert Merrell from Manchester Adult Education Services and two adult ESOL learners, Rabia and Lul, … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 18th March (Richmond)
1. Two free from this month’s Literary Review: Sea of Troubles, a review by Owen Matthews of a ‘brilliantly written, convincingly argued and compelling book’, Baltic: The Future of Europe by Oliver Moody https://literaryreview.co.uk/sea-of-troubles Death from the Clouds, a review … Continue reading
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Tagged art, baltics, book-reviews, books, colm-toibin, hiroshima, joseph-oneill, writing
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Tuesday, 11th February (Richmond)
1. Time flies! It seems only yesterday I mentioned a Macmillan online teacher festival (but it was November). Their 5th annual Global Teachers’ Festival has rather crept up on me: it started yesterday (it was all recorded, don’t worry!) and … Continue reading
Tuesday, 4th February (Richmond)
Not quite sure what happened on Tuesday! Better late than never? 1. This one has been around the social media block several times but it’s still worth a read, The Anglo-EU Translation Guide https://polish2english.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/55551980-anglo-eu-translation-guide1.pdf Do you hear what I say? … Continue reading
Tuesday, 19th November (Cambridge)
1. Regardless of its easy to use clickable map, I rather doubt this Carbon Brief publication, Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world, will be much read in the Trump White House https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html 2. The Cambridge University … Continue reading
Tuesday, 5th November (Cambridge)
1. Two pieces on Higher Education for a change of sorts: i) A trenchant piece for University World News by Nishat Riaz & Mary Stiasny, Universities have a duty beyond the production of knowledge https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2024102508233637 ii) a cool, detached look … Continue reading
Thursday, 26th September (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. The latest book by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation, has attracted a lot of attention. Here’s his interview with Elise Hu, the host of TED Talks Daily https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_are_smartphones_ruining_childhood?subtitle=en “The Anxious Generation” is shaping cultural … Continue reading
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