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Dan Olner @danolner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh balls. Ski Sunday was one of the ways our family got through the darkness of February. Baaaah.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New Origin Story on Section 28: the law which halted progress on gay rights and drove it into reverse. Nearly every moment in this story - the moral panic, the press hysteria, the bad actors, the political cowardice - resembles what is happening now to trans people.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hopefully I can get to membership of one thousand in the next few days on patreon - membership is free as is most of the content www.patreon.com/c/RobinInce

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Robin Ince — conversations and blog posts about creativity

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Christopher Callipygian @chris.clapham.org · 19/08/2026

I don't think Lucy Mangan watched all the way to the end of "The Great ADHD Myth?" before giving it her gushing 4* review. If she had she may have seen these just before the credits; it sure does look like the medication works.

2 Months after filming Mason continued to struggle at school

and after some poor exam results Shauna made the difficul decision to put him back on his medication

Mason's schoolwork has improved he wants to come off his drugs again this summer

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We wondered on @cosmicshambles.com podcast whether Professor Katya Rubin knew how her interview was going to be used , well, surprise surprise (remember this was the documentary that Channel 4 boasted was “science led”)

Expert reaction to the TV show 'The Great ADHD
Myth?'
*NEW COMMENT* Prof Katya Rubia, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, said:
"My own contribution to this programme has been largely misrepresented as my comments were cherry-picked, truncated and presented out of context to make them fit into the programme's narrative that ADHD does not exist and there is no brain basis to the social construct.
The claim that ADHD is not a disorder of the brain
"It is true that with current technology (which might well change in the future) we cannot diagnose ADHD children based on a brain

diagnose ADHD children based on a brain scan and the diagnosis is based on behavioural questionnaires and observations that are subjective. However, this does not mean that there are no neurobiological correlates to ADHD. There are differences in genetic, neurochemical, even immunological features and there is consistent evidence from three decades of neuroimaging research including my own for differences in brain structure and function as well as connectivity between children with and without ADHD. It is true that they are small at a group level, and that some children have no brain differences based on normative modelling studies.
However, part of the reason the differences between ADHD and non-ADHD brains are small at group level is because there is a large heterogeneity, with some children showing large brain differences and other milder cases showing very small differences, so this will bring the average down. There is also substantial evidence for a delay in normal brain maturation in children with ADHD.
Crucially, we need to take into account that the youngest and most severe cases with ADHD have never been scanned and if someone behaves very differently from the norm their brain will also function differently.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is something the 'rising #ADHD diagnoses are just big pharma wanting to sell more meds' arguments seem reluctant to explain. If the whole thing is a huge complex plot to sell pills, why would those pills be so rare and hard to get? Like advertising a restaurant only accessible via jetpack

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some Questions for Channel 4 and its #ADHD Documentary A @cosmicshambles.com podcast, featuring @robinince.bsky.social Sarah Turner, Gina Rippon, and myself, about just how dumb and dangerous the Channel 4 doc really is, even from just the publicity alone podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/s...

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Some Questions for Channel 4 and its ADHD Documentary

Podcast Episode · The Incomplete Shambles Podcast · 14 August · 1hr 2min

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Just Jo (Captain of the USS StaticDust) @ikilledtheradi0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So your reviewer gave a four-star review to a "documentary" that featured a kid with ADHD being taken off his medication because his mom "didn't like" it. Would you give four stars to a program that featured taking a diabetic kid off insulin? Leave ADHD kids alone. What is wrong with you people?

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did the Kent hiring committee do due diligence on Goodwin's claim to have been "the first in his family to go to University" before hiring him? We need an enquiry! (This is satire)

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Dan Olner @danolner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

BLOG POST: 1️⃣ Making the Wild Boids evolution prog (update to 2008 Java assignment) w/ Claude Code. 2️⃣ Why this LLM era is a big deal; reasons why people think it isn’t are instructive. 3️⃣ Why that means we should be wresting LLMtech from the clutches of the f---heads. coveredinbees.org/posts/wildbo...

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Wild boids – COVEREDINBEES / A hive of TLDR & villainy

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.

No women aged 20-24 in England have died from cervical cancer for the first time, thanks to the HPV vaccine.
A landmark study funded by Cancer Research
UK shows the HPV vaccine is making cervical cancer increasingly preventable, with researchers highlighting a major milestone: between 2020 and 2024, no women aged 20-24 in England died from the disease.

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Brexit is costing us £2 billion a week Let’s ditch it and fund Britain instead and get freedoms to travel, work, study in Europe again. #BreJoinEU #RejoinEU #Breturn

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/06/2026

Fleeing your home country, and everything you know, because of war, violence or persecution takes incredible courage. To everyone who has recently arrived in London seeking safety: you are welcome here.

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is how communities show up for each other. Do read this by Nicola Browne from Act Now👇

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A group of literally hundreds of people has sprung into action, coordinating, donating, providing lifts for families to get somewhere safe for the night, bringing food to those who don’t want to leave the house, offering shelter, car seats, toys and arts supplies for children. Ordinary people from every background, community and colour are carrying out thousands of acts of care and repair, looking after people they do not know, and showing clearly that none of this is in their name.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

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Dan Olner @danolner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Peter Bradshaw’s @theguardian.com review of Disclosure Day manages to get a spoiler into the first six words of the subtitle. Impressive. Why do I look??

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New Swingometer! The Makerfield by-election: High risk, high return. I take a look at the seat on which this Parliament turns open.substack.com/pub/swingome...

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The Makerfield by-election: High risk, high return

Can the Manchester Mayor turn back the teal tide in Wigan?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My favourite stat on this is people consistently told pollsters (in surveys commissioned by the Home Office) that immigration from the Caribbean in the 1980s was “too high” when imm from the Caribbean on that period was strongly net negative!

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'm not sure what kind of economic model you get to where a wealth tax is existential for the future of economic growth but zero net immigration is just vibes and social cohesion. When I did economics they taught us that you needed inputs if you wanted outputs but I guess the literature has moved on

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
Thomas G. Dietterich
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Tin Robot @robotswillrule.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"I can't be bought by anybody"... says the man who would say anything you wanted, for a paltry £70 on cameo. If £70 gets an "up the ra!" what does £5m get?

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

At a No 10 briefing today we heard about the government's commitment to "a whole-of-society response to antisemitism”. Asked if this might involve the government leaving X, where antisemitism is not only rife but monetlised, were were told it is "something we always keep under review." So: no.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

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Dan Olner @danolner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Yeah no nige isn’t at all racist is he?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is my favourite graphic. It's incredible how far DAYTIME solar has already come with almost no batteries. Just think how this will change with batteries, when instead of daytime solar, we get DISPATCHABLE solar. The solar boom is only just starting...

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Reform, in theory, could have been a gift to Labour: they divided the Right-wing vote. All Labour had to do was govern in a way that held their Center-Left coalition together Instead, they chose to act foolishly and blow up their own coalition in pursuit of a voting base with no interest in them

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This distinction between research & writing tool is crucial, for journalism at least. That seems to me utterly intuitive and obvious. It's excessive to criticise its use in research, as long as it is carefully deployed, and barbaric to advocate its use in writing, no matter how it is deployed.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm thrilled to have no professional news whatsoever

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another. A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Gorton and Denton results. labour comes third. Ouch. Greens: 14,980 Reform: 10,578 Labour: 9,364

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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All good things come to an end

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Was just about to say the same thing. Sometime around 2040 every person in the world will simultaneously become cabinet secretary, and also get sacked. Could have implications for Whitehall.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 16/02/2026

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 16/02/2026

Unsung Britain has faced crushing costs in recent years. Explore our findings today, to learn how the living standards slowdown precedes the cost of living crisis ⤵️ buff.ly/a300OG4

Everyone’s used to prices going up a bit, but they’re not used to prices going up and the quantity getting reduced as well.

Between December 2019 and September 2025, annualised inflation experienced by the poorest families ran at a rate that was 0.7 percentage points faster than for the richest families. The cumulative effect of this has been to drag down incomes for the very lowest income relative to those at the top by more than 3 per cent.

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