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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pleased to see my pied a terre getting a nice write-up

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The really cool thing about meeting note-taking apps is that now, every time I have a meeting, about six different apps ask if I want to take notes, which makes things very efficient.

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Brb I'm just about to post on LinkedIn about how my broken wrist helps us understand synergies in large organizations

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are (obviously) legitimate concerns around AI capabilities. But Sky News choosing earnestly to report on an AI agent applying for a job is stupid af...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Live scenes from the APSA fourth day beers

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 31/08/2026

i don't even know what to say, if you're freaked out about code requesting admin privileges i just don't know what to say.

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Currently setting up human annotation loop for a large scale LLM eval and some of the outputs read like avant-garde poetry:

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My niece just sent me a video of an AI generated banjo song on Spotify being played from a phone to an iPad where an animated cat was listening to the song then repeating it back in a funny voice. Somebody filmed this and it has 527 thousand likes anyway I'm going to live in the woods now bye

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just an enormous cost to the US economy that is hard to communicate politically because intangible. But such utter lunacy. International scholars drawn to the US are part of what makes the sector great. It should continue

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Who wants to play a game of spot the absolute bloody legend

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you tap the thumbs up, you get more citations FYI

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Best non fiction recommendations for my holibobs?

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Is there any data behind this "Gen Z are workshy and immature" stuff or is this just vibes FM stuff again?

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"I've created a bluesky account for my solar panels" is about as bluesky as bluesky gets Hats off to you, @jamesomalley.co.uk

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We want to hire a new, more techy AI person in the lab. Think mechanistic interpretability, fine tuning, large-scale evals that kind of thing. If you're interested and have Qs, lmk! interfolio.com/181820

interfolio.com

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Absolutely gutted for Argentina. They seem like a really lovely bunch of blokes too

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm actually something of a Who's Who myself

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Comte Tete-de-poubelle is actually my old man's preferred cheese

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Do I know anyone who works at YouGov?

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Trying to explain to US colleagues why Nigel Farage is in a two-way election contest against a malevolent spaceman from the future with a bin on his head

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Michael Scott: Explain Like I'm Five

ALT: Michael Scott: Explain Like I'm Five

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is why I left UK HE... Few realize how low the standards are even in some prestigious universities. Culture and morale are shot. This is not a way to manage a potentially vital source of growth

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Starmer to FIFA Pres. is the banter timeline

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's honestly a real shame because the USA was almost universally liked before this whole Balogun thing

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"We appreciate that you must be busy with other commitments, particularly in light of the disruptions caused by the novel coronavirus." says a review request I just got when I woke up and I had to check the date to make sure I wasn't in some horrible inception dream tunnel

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ben Stokes is the best thing that has happened to English cricket. What a gift to the game he has been. Thank you, Ben

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

To the man who just ordered a Guinness at Stansted Wetherspoons and made sure to specify "a big one, please": bless you

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Can someone explain to me the phenomenon of Instagram content creators talking about how important it is we stop spending so much time looking at our phones? Have I just discovered screentimewashing?

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am back in London and it remains extraordinary how absolute bollocks the 5G is here

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today I ran 30km then had an absolutely massive curry not sure I could be happier

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm actually still driving my mum's old gpt 3.5 turbo. Still goes

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

World Cup Status: Just sent the YouTube link to Vindaloo by Fat Les to the NYU all sociology mailing list

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

These days, if you're a teenager in the UK and you use YouTube to revise for your GCSEs you'll get locked up and thrown in jail

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Now if a teenager wants to go on YouTube to revise for their GCSEs they won't be able to because of progress

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There are no jobs you say and this generation is going to be worse off than the last and the last one before that? How about: ban on YouTube?

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In the UK you can begin training in the armed forces at age 16 but you can't go on Instagram in the evening this is fine and normal

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The really cool thing about the social media ban is it won't work but it will make loads of money for creepy automated age ID companies

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