Pseud’s Council
No time for a proper post today – busy busy busy with Week 1 business – but I couldn’t resist passing on the news that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has finally made the headlines in a positive way – by appearing in the esteemed column Pseud’s Corner of the high-impact academic journal Private Eye.
This honour arose as a result of the following advertisement:
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites expressions of interest from eligible individuals to attend a five-day interactive sandpit on the theme of digital personhood.
I would have applied had I seen it in time but although I’m a bachelor there’s a strong possibility I wouldn’t have been eligible.
Follow @telescoper
In the Dark 
October 4, 2012 at 3:52 pm
My friends generally tell me that I’m illegible.
O, what bullshit!
October 4, 2012 at 4:06 pm
I should compile a book of useful phrases. It would include
“My sandpit is full of bullshit”
January 22, 2013 at 4:59 pm
I am just now applying for a PhD where the fees are paid for by the EPSRC on this very topic. The potential supervisor is interested in my proposal and has suggested I look at their strategic research plan on digital personhood the better to beef up my application with their preferred phraseology.
Just about had a bloody brain hemorrhage reading their stuff. And my background is Cultural Theory, so you’d think I would have a head start on bullshit. I wouldn’t doubt for a moment they’d make it into Pseud’s Corner.