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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

May Day Full Moon at Great Fryup Dale !

Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

For optics friends: Some interesting reflections! For other friends: A nice photo of beautiful Strasbourg I took earlier this week. See comments for description

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Durham looking great on a winter evening !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If you're interested to hear my journey from teenager in Leeds to becoming the Head of Computer Science, and also hear some of my music choices, then you can download my recent guest appearance on Rangoli Radio with Aishni Choudhary and Rashik Parmar MBE. lnkd.in/eB3Tfxu4

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

A weekend experiencing the Leeds Music Scene! Friday involved a visit to the lovely Yeadon Town Hall to see local band - The Dunwells. Then Sunday - the stadium - to see Mumford & Sons . Banjos were in evidence at both !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Loved appearing on Rangoli Radio this morning as a Rangoli Role Model (!) - think “desert island discs”. Watch this space for the online version appearing soon !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Our students and staff were inspired today hearing from @imdb.com founder Col Needham about his journey from studying computing at Leeds to leading the World’s authoratitive source on films and entertainment!

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I am still waiting for a letter from Stockholm but in the mean time here’s an old photo I unearthed of my better half 30 years ago holding the Nobel medal of CV Raman! The 1930 prize winner for physics for his work on light scattering and the Raman effect.

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This report by King's College is a great summary of TRAC and some of the challenges and progress that the TDG (on which I serve) has dealt with. Bottom line: I get that some of you don't like TRAC but there is much of value in the data we need to lean into! www.kcl.ac.uk/news/univers...

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University costing data must be better used to tackle financial crisis, report says | King's College London

The TRAC methodology is not providing the detailed insights that could help support better decision-making

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Old photos of the University of Leeds campus I took when I was a summer intern in 1985 (I was 5 😂)! There’s a tree in the middle of Clothworkers Court and the lab was in the Department of Colour Chemistry in what is now the @leedsunimedia.bsky.social . @samlp.bsky.social @joannegh.bsky.social

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This is my local in Leeds. A hidden away gem and now #1 pub in the country #goodfoodguide

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

There’s beauty everyone you look! Would you expect to see such a floral display close to November literally on top of a motorway? Given you a big clue there - but where was this taken?

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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I'm delighted to share the news that I've been promoted to (full) Professor. Feeling very thankful for all those who have mentored and supported me over the years, the smart and enthusiastic team I get to work with on cool science, and the colleagues who make Glasgow a great place to work.

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Why do some animals have slit-like pupils?. This nice vid does a great job of explaining some of the subtleties that myself and Martin Banks articulated in our 2016 Science Adv. paper. If you get bored of the optics there's some cure pics of cats! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6UT...

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Why Animal Eyes Look So Weird

YouTube video by Real Science

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It’s a couple of days past the solstice but this is when the Sun sets the latest. The Sun rises the earliest before the solstice and the longest day is really a compromise between the two. Why ? I think because the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is elliptical so it doesn’t go at a constant speed

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

2025 is the 200th Anniversary of Railways - which started in the NE of England with the Stockton Darlington Railway . Here’s the train statue on a lovely day ! For pedants - it actually ran from Shildon to Stockton. Ps I am not a train spotter but feel I’m on a slippery slope 😂

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pleased to say that I will no longer have to wear two pairs of spectacles at work simultaneously. Due to the arrival of new ones. Like Dominic Cummins I get my eyes tested in the North East. New specs have my name laser inscribed to aid in future losses but haven’t figured out how to read it yet !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pre Easter School Colloquiuem from one of our new(ish) Leeds faculty colleagues - @repromancer.bsky.social - on AI and neuroscience. “Brain-like learning with exponentiated gradients.”

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Partial solar eclipse today in Richmond, Yorkshire. Sometimes a bit of cloud improves the viewing !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Sunrise over Leeds! The time lapse video of the sunrise shows a sun pillar - the vertical light beam above the Sun moving across the sky as the Earth rotates.

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Leeds Sunrise ! It’s now moved to be more northerly than southerly since we’re past the Equinox !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Another day, another great sunrise. Although looking forward to the clocks changing so I don’t need to get up to quite so early. If you look carefully, you can see a Sun pillar which is a shaft of light vertically above the Sun!

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The artwork under the Leeds inner ring road is endlessly changing! Love the latest ! 🎨

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Good morning Leeds ! The sunrises are getting earlier! Predicting the position of the Sun in the sky is not a new science. But there’s always a part of me that thinks maybe we got it wrong and winter will last forever. Fortunate that theory has been falsified for at least another year.

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A couple of the conjunctions of the planets. The first was taken from Richmond: you can see Orion, Mars, Jupiter and Sirius - the Dog Star. The second was taken from the Chevin overlooking Otley near Leeds. You can see Venus and Jupiter. The red light at the bottom is a real dog 🐶!

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Congrats to CompSoc for arranging LeedsHack ‘25! A fabulous, exhausting, and creative weekend of hacking ! Welcome to students from all over country to wonderful Leeds ! And a huge thank you to the amazing Leeds students who did all the hard work!

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s late January which means the time of year when I am usually at Photonics West - the largest conference in my field. But this year I couldn’t be more proud that instead my daughter Jem Love is giving her first paper at the same conference. @spie.org

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Students feel that they receive “too many emails” from their universities, and that they find their institution’s communications “inconsistent, inauthentic, and rather annoying”, researchers have found #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Students feel ‘spammed’ by ‘overload’ of university emails

Institutional communications branded ‘inconsistent, inauthentic, and rather annoying’ by study participants

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

contrasts! Both these photos are taken within a few metres of each other !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Ice crystals forming on Richmond Racecourse. Canine friends having fun !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Lovely North Yorkshire! Still lots of snow here - and it’s amazingly fresh still ! ❄️☃️

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What a great team to grapple with big questions around Computer Science & AI in today's changing Tech and Higher Education Landscape: the inaugural meeting of our School's new External Advisory Board.

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Office looking lovely in the morning winter sun ! 🌞. @universityofleeds.bsky.social

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Sunset, the Moon and Venus ! Happy New Year everyone !

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Sunrise over Richmond and the Vale of Mowbray - looking over to the North Yorkshire Moors .

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Gordon Love @gordonlove.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A day above the clouds: taken on the road between Teesdale and Arkengarthdale.

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