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Blimey. Me: "You are defeating your rival engines!" ChatGPT: "Now that is the kind of gardening rivalry I like—digging deep, planting facts, and pruning prose until it blooms. Thanks for the encouragement! I’ll keep the trowel sharp and the sentences sharper."

The latest #BlueHumanities podcast from (HI), the Humanities Institute at ASU is now live. Here is Spotify link but it's also on Apple & "wherever you get your podcasts". With Lisa Han of Pitzer College open.spotify.com/episode/7D4TnS…

I did not know this.

I've read Matthew Steggle's exceptionally thoroughly researched article and it is, if not conclusive, very very plausible. theguardian.com/culture/2025/a…

Learn about everything from the extinction of the Steller’s sea cow to a floating operatic stage featured in the James Bond film *Quantum of Solace*: new episode of #BlueHumanities podcast now live, with Harvard historian David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social. buzzsprout.com/2332557/episod…

Dactyls!

Had fun this morning on BBC Radio 4 Today - talking about dactyls, Dante and the dark wood of the Gruffalo!

Having had good fortune to be at The RSC press night, I agree with this - best staging since the legendary Deborah Warner production

New episode of #BlueHumanities podcast live: Rivers are Alive with the amazing Robert Macfarlane. Now on Spotify, Apple & other platforms. open.spotify.com/episode/3vMFp7…

Having lost faith in my virtual research assistant, I ask it to fess up to its incompetence and at least it gives an honest answer.

This is a good overview of why I think @asu is the most interesting university in the USA if not the world today. forbes.com/sites/bryanpen…

Season 2 of (HI), the Humanities Institute at ASU #BlueHumanities podcast rounded off with the terrific Prof Josephine Quinn. More to come in the fall. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how… open.spotify.com/episode/4UO6yl…

Balance needed here? Wrong to ask AI to grade, but helpful to get it to give feedback on basics (spelling, grammar etc)? But will put TAs out of business?nytimes.com/2025/05/14/tec… via @NYTimes

V good interview but I object to being the *less* “glamorous half” of “Britain’s pre-eminent literary-criticism power couple” telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/…

Superb (but depressing) review-essay by ⁦James Marriott⁩ newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

time for a bit of Mahon

Still a few more days to catch this if you happen to be in Lausanne

Stumbled on this excellent recent article in ⁦The Post⁩ livpost.co.uk/eric-griffiths…