Does the educational purpose of video change with AI? The purpose of video in education is undergoing a fundamental transformation in the age of artificial intelligence. This medium, long established in digital learning environments, is changing not just in how we consume it, but in its very role within the learning process.

With apologies to Andrew Marvell. If you haven’t read “To His Coy Mistress”, I fear this won’t make much sense. Had we but funding enough and time, This coyness, founder, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To build, and pass our slow run-rate’s day. Thou by the Potomac’s side Shouldst SBIRs find; I by the tide Of El Segundo would complain.

In a previous post I demonstrated how to set up a local LLM that you can run through either a command line interface (Ollama) or a graphical user interface (Open WebUI and others), and quickly demonstrated how to “chat with your documents” with a local model using LMStudio. In that previous post I simply attached a few documents to a one-off chat.

I could write – and have written – the past twenty years as a string of successes for my linguistics career: I have presented my work at many conferences on linguistics, digital humanities and literature, in several countries. My pioneering work in computational sign linguistics continues to be cited on a regular basis. In 2008 I was hired to teach linguistics at Saint John’s University, where I developed an introductory linguistics curriculum.

Regular readers will have heard the news that TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.

As my title suggests, the focus of this essay is not drones per se, but rather the wider turn to algorithmic warfare that they enable and of which they remain a key part, from surveillance operations to targeted assassination.

Somewhere in Germany there is a securitized data server that holds one of the world’s most comprehensive archives of propaganda videos produced by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), an extremist jihadist militant group that gained international notoriety in the mid-2010s for its sensationalist use of media violence to spread its ideology.

Last week, Kim Akass blogged about how the US press response to Adolescence (Netflix, 2025) made visible certain blind spots in a culture seemingly unable to identify that a particular kind of masculinity might be a problem. Akass read this very much through a prism of Trump, and I here want to continue this focus in order to add further consideration to the question of why a convicted felon was elected president by the American people.

Franziska Boehm, Ellen Euler, Paul Klimpel, Fabian Rack, John Weitzmann (Hrsg.): Creative Commons Public License (CCPL). Kommentar und Handbuch für die Rechtspraxis . Berlin: Carl Grossmann Verlag, 2024 (direkt zum PDF-Download) Die richtige Anwendung von Creative-Commons-Lizenzen für offene Inhalte ist eine der häufigsten Fragen, die in der Open-Access-Praxis auftauchen.

The Invisible Hands It wasn’t the speed that surprised me—it was how natural it felt. For years, regulatory submissions had been a slow and painstaking process. Teams of specialists labored over every sentence, every data table, every response to agency questions.

A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Two months ago, Stephen Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to explain how Musk’s activities and pronouncements can be considered compatible with the Society’s code of conduct.