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Dr. Emily G Simmonds @emilygsimmonds.bsky.social · 21/10/2026

I’m excited to share a PhD opportunity in my group, focussed on ecological forecasting of blue tit population responses to climate change as part of the e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk @edinburghbiology.bsky.social.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Open, here, would indicate the freedom to access, share, use, and reuse the data with minimal or no restrictions. The datasets themselves could be raw or processed, but provided with enough metadata and supporting documentation to facilitate understanding and re-use.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

I can count on one hand the number of PS5 games I've bought since it came out. This generation doesn't feel like it added to the experience over the previous one, and I'm not hopeful the next gen hardware will either. (I got over 'lookit mad grafix' by my third issue of Gamesmaster magazine

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Happy to put you up if you need somewhere to crash for the interview

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Me too. TMN was my favourite of the series and I feel it works works well as a standalone, so I won't be upset if the series doesn't continue. With that said, if they do carry on, I'm curious whether TLTWTW will still be set in the 40s as there doesn't seem to be enough time for TMN to grow up.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

*(observations are that there's already much less anti-progressive shitposting; _early_ analysis suggests this may be circumstantial as the graphics being shared account for all bots and hasn't yet isolated the figures for social media activity)

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

If the anecdotes about the effect the strikes on the botfarms turn out to be true* , I wonder what that effect will be on _all_ the recent cancellations, and whether some of those decisions may be reversed.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Or sonething more nefarius. Imagine throwing all that inti the Smilex recipe:

A man in a ginger wig, wearing a white T-shirt and rainbow braves pointing at the camera. The text reads "See you Jimmy"

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

That thudding sound was my heart sinking when I realised this doesn't actually transform. (On the positive side, I have resisted a £120 impulse buy) transformersbattersea.com/products/pow...

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

*hugs* That's rough, sending all the sympathy your way.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

More importantly, does that mean Sainsbury's will start selling Hendo's outside of Sheffield? (Currently only available near me in Morrison's, and very occasionally in B&M)

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Getting slight Sinestro Corps vibes from the new [MCU] X-Men logo (Something about the way the ring is cut below the upper arms, and above the lower arms of the X)

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't imagine you're the only one with that impulse, follow up on it. (*still sore about the Lampeter Sunday service to Aberystwyth, which the single bus out arrived 10 minutes before the last bus back, while the first train in from the mainland arrived about 30 minutes after it left)

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I went with games that shaped my gaming habits, rather than those that shaped me (comics, books, tv and movies had a much greater influence). Honorable mentions to Batman: The Movie; Jaguar XJ220; and Hexen. my9games.net

Computer Hame cover art from Shadow of the Beast 2; Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (arcade); Fantasy Land Dizzy; Lemmings; Moonstone:A Hard Days Knight; Legend [The Four Crystals of Trazere]; Street Fighter's 2; Baldur's Gate; Mass Effect

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

For all his complaining about not being involved in the Kelvinverse, I'd have thought he'd move the heavens, Earth, and all things besides to take part.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

The problem with issuing invoice#2 to "Contra invoice cancellation invoice#1 | £1000" is that no-one except [you] understands that 'Contra invoice cancellation' in this context means 'cancelling' so now I'm faced with a finance office which needs evidence that invoices 1 and 2 are settled 🤦

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

It depends on who picks it up, but there are a few scenarios I wouldn't be immediately opposed to: 1) No-one picks it up and BBC let it rest for a few years; 2) Paramount pick it up for a single season 3) Apple TV (UK office) fills the Invasion shaped hole in its production schedule.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

The last, is annihilation, where the best we do is launch a shiny monument to our dead civilisation into orbit, while we die off. 🧵3/3

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Six different 'worlds': three looking at the 'word after ours', where civilisation as we know it adapts to the catastrophe, dystopic certainly, but ones mostly built and lived in with an abundance of hope. And two at the tipping point in a near future where we take action to turn it around; 🧵2/3

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

By sheer coincidence I was in London to catch the 'In Other Worlds ' exhibition at The Barbican. Which runs until Sunday 6th. (@alasdairstuart.com, @margueritekenner.bsky.social: I think this might very much be your jam, Jusant/Caravan SandWitch vibes) www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... 🧵1/3

barbican.org.uk

In Other Worlds | Barbican

Step into new worlds as artist Liam Young imagines the various routes we could take, and what our future holds.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

You've raised this before, a series based around Day of the Triffids and a few other plant based horror movies (The Happening, maybe). The Vegemony Saga perhaps?

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm excluding the characters you're not supposed to like, but of the others: I've finally caught up on Andrew Garfield's Amazing Spider-Man films, and his version of Peter Parker is loathsome.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

The one gripe, though, is that there are specified carriages for large bags, so you could end up the opposite end of the train to them. If you're going to do that, then you might as well have a guards van with a proper tag and management system. (Fortunately travelling light today) 🧵2/2

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

First trip on a Lumo train and I'm pleasantly surprised. What made the difference was an abundance of train crew ensuring that everyone sat in the seats they were allocated and that bags were properly stowed. Many other operators... and cinemas for that matter, could learn something. 🧵1/2

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Which isn't far of vegemony... or perhaps hedgemony. I for one welcome our floral overlords

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

Worse still, that's the most stable and reliable route out of Nottingham. A big factor in why I didn't get on with the city was the absolute pain in the arse it was trying to get anywhere by train that wasn't on the London route.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Mostly this, but specifically _Open_ multiplayer, where anyone can waltz in. When Mass Effect 3 had its servers going, I had some fun evenings on closed missions with a few guys I randomly met on the old Green Lantern Corps message board. I also often met my brother for a few rounds of Injustice

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

A second one today I refused to pick up because it arrived at the parcelshop broken in half. 🧵2/2

Picture of a long thin parcel lying on a shop counter, wrapped untidly in a black plastic bin bag and brown parcel tape, and folded in half.
Reader, it was not something that was ever meant to be folded

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Considerimg capping seller reviews at 3 stars /at best/ for any online retailer who gambles on delivery by #Evri. In the last fortnight I've had had one parcel returned to sender because the driver marked it as delivered to a locker before checking there was room in the locker; 🧵1/2

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh, I just thought he was connecting dots, after all, he hears Spider-Man being called Peter earlier in the film

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

I'd yiu see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky. (Not just Bluesky, this is pretty much the energy I bring to everything)

Image collage featuring a man in a suit fearfully brandishing a crucifix; a cartoon boy looking anxious and exasperated; and a terrified wizzard with his hands covering his face, looking through his fingers (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce from Buffy the VampireSlayer; Charlie Brown; Rincewind from the Discworld)

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh, that's just her taking some time off while she guides and manipulates the Holmes-Grayson bloodline

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

On the other hand you could make a continuum of the spectrum eith a perpendicular axis of Dark Season to 'Palace Hill' ... www.imdb.com/title/tt0421...

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

I read something quite recently about someone ('That's TV'?) acquiring the broadcast rights to The Goodies.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Oh hell, A DS9 model, I might actually give in to

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Yes, but which 13th Doctor?: Olivia Wilde or Jodue Whittaker? 😉

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

If we can somehow get Morgan Freeman in: 'Driven by miss Daisy?'

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Countdown to homebrew designs for Cabin in the Woods and Tracy Island in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

I've set an alarm for 100 days. If the Obama->Orange transition has taught anything, it's that changes rushed in, can be rushed out just as quickly.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

Mildly fluffy, emotionally aware Cyclops, who was forced into the role of stoic responsible leader and continues to be gaslit that he was that caricature all along by [figures of authority] (as well as his own fan worship of a certain Captain) fits with the late 90s 'Children of the Atom miniseries.

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

Understood, should the worst ever happen, I'll lower my rat intake.

A screenshot of a Diagram from a Science article. which gas been clipped by Facebook.

A description below the title reads "Dietery lipids boost the production of prostaglandin E <suffix>2 (PGE<suffix> 2), a metabolite that mediates inflammation in mouse lung tumors. This activates vagal sensory nerves, signaling (sic) the brain to promote sickness behaviours such as loss of appetite and cachexia."

The image shows a silhouette of a rat next to a pile of food. An arrow labelled 'dietery lipids' points from these down to am image of a tumor, labelled "Prostaglandin E <suffix>2 (PGE<suffix> 2).
Another arrow points down to a label "Vagal Sensory" the rest is cut off.

At the very top of the image, the tops of the title of the diagram letters of a first line are cut off, so that it could read 'A high-rat diet can worsen the consequences of cancer'

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

There might be a bit more to it given the latest headline: Police have launched a murder investigation

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

A money-grab, but worse than that is if he's re-elected, despite his rarely carrying out ministerial responsibilities in any meaningful way, it solidifies the perceived legitimacy of his platform, rather than just a grifter who got lucky because people needed a protest vote

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Rogan Dixon @hurban-ermit.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

Swiss Chinese collaboration builds a 148 metre tall tower to capture electricity(usin the same principle as hydrokinetic power) We don't need to build a tower. How much effort would it take to shoreup the shafts in the old collieries and install such a system, they run far deeper than 148 metres

boingboing.net

China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete

A 148-meter tower in Jiangsu stores 100 MWh by hoisting 35-ton concrete blocks with surplus wind power.

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