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What Happens When AI Removes the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder?
Much of the debate about AI and employment focuses on which jobs might disappear. But what if the bigger problem is what happens to the people who would once have done them? Entry-level work has traditionally been how people acquire experience, judgement and professional confidence. ...
Are We Creating Two Classes of Employee with AI?
AI may already be creating two classes of worker: those who know how to use it effectively and those who do not. If some employees are quietly multiplying their productivity with AI, do managers really know who is performing better, or simply who has discovered ...
Are AI Job Losses in Universities Hiding in Plain Sight?
We hear constantly that artificial intelligence will replace jobs. Yet universities seem strangely absent from this discussion, even as they introduce AI while reducing staff for other reasons. If a post disappears through restructuring, attrition or a decision not to recruit a replacement, would we ...
You Cannot Lead 650 People the Way You Lead 10
What changes when you move from leading a small team whose jobs you understand to taking responsibility for an organisation of around 650 people, many with specialist expertise far beyond your own? Drawing on my own experience, I consider the transition from managing through personal ...
29 Invitations, 28 Declines: Is Peer Review Running Out of Goodwill?
A struggle to find reviewers prompted editors and academics across disciplines to share remarkably similar experiences. Their responses suggest that peer review is being squeezed by rising submission volumes, invisible workloads and growing resistance to unpaid academic labour. ...
Could You Explain Open Access to a Taxpayer?
Open access is usually presented as an obvious public good. Research becomes freely available, knowledge travels further, and people without expensive university subscriptions can read the latest work. But how would we explain the financial model to an educated taxpayer so that they are happy ...