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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 14h

Pitch idea: hitman movie where he has an intern and thus it is not competency porn.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear auditory researchers. Please stop using global SNR as your approach to target in noise. It's not a perceptual problem/process.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me too, Dwarf Fortress Bugs, me too.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026

truly my most "I am very basic and I don't care if things seem complicated I think they can also just be simple" opinion is that you should buy a house or a flat if you want a place to live in and I just don't really care if price goes up or price goes down, you have a roof! that was the whole point

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jesus wept, trying to find a normal bike pump but they just don't exist anymore? No it's all air compressors and c02 canisters and fast release foot pumps. It's a bike tire!! I just need a pump that screws on, not some fancy nonsense lol.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wake up schatz, new favourite German compound noun dropped.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"what games where most influential on you" ok then. I think you'll also agree this is also a list of bangers cos I have excellent taste.

Half life, disco elysium, Alan wake 2, fallout 2, portal 2, halo, Abe's odyssee, Max Payne, mass effect

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ah good. A game with meta-horror by just reminding me of places I've lived.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am not sure I want to know what it says about me... But maybe my favourite thing in science (after teaching) is arguing with reviewers and editors.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We in science have fundamentally failed to teach inference and argumentation. So much of STEM looks at an argument as solely "provide proof for your point", which is opinion with extra steps.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Midichlorians: A review of the power house of the force.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

...and the penguins don't look altogether that happy about it.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trying to explain The Rookie to my other half "This is a police procedural?" "Yes" "With zombies and a demonic AI?" "Yes, I don't see the issue"

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I swear, computer software has become obsessed with like "dont make someone go more than 2 layers deep into menus", which has led to everything being completely unpredictable as to where it's actually located. I recall a portal where "fees" was not where you paid fees, but instead saw fees.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Biggest thing with AI in the news is my sitting going... "What is al force? Is it news like Al Jazeera? Or comedy like Al Yankovich?"

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me: everyone over interprets my love of turtles. Bluesky: this dude's turtle post will do numbers. The curse continues.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What kills me here is the person talking to the pope, he looks so earnest in his persuasion of the benefits of ORB.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Sauron is seeking Valar investment in new wearable technology startup"

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Final interview today for getting married. Long admission process, so really hoping I don't fail today as it would be well annoying.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Coming into the pro-AI bluesky space is sometimes so depressing just because it's so many people who don't understand why I don't code in my spare time. Like I'm meant to make a use for AI in my life at my own detriment?

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The two pages in Brave New World where Aldous Huxley just absolutely lets loose his hatred of jazz.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Must have been performed via lasso regression.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fe godwn ni eto!! 🎵Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi...

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't like the "out of spoons" analogy, but this one works for me.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Had an absolute blast at the this year's @lcmeeting.bsky.social. Completely exhausted now and I think I entirely ran out of vocabulary on the last day, but socially and scientifically very rewarding!

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible? The Rolling Scones.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Often have that "wow everyone on bluesky is so cultured and clever" thought. Then I remember, most everyone on here knows one thing and is too online about it.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ok I'm not food scientist, but I feel your metric of accuracy for best before date doesn't need to go down to the minute. Round up to the 25th of April, it'll be fine. German punctuality I guess.

Bottle of Bavarian beer with best before of 24/4/2027 23:56

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social just starting everything will swallow you and something jumped out to me... Is the cover meant to be/inspired by this house in the Gower, by worms head? Or coinkydink.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

4 separate phone conversations in this quiet carriage. It's apparently the office work carriage?

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

5 hours on a train... Will I read the book I brought or stare out the window, dissociate, and come to in Innsbruck?

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Noticing that a fundamental difference between people very pro AI and those completely underwhelmed is an assumption about how many people code or are computer power users. Coding is a niche task and working in tech is, to be honest, a socio-cultural insignificant job. Most people don't do that.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remaining 60% spent authenticating and clocking "remember me" for 400th time.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'll be considering PhD applicants for a Fall 2027 start date. I'd love to hear from prospective students interested in critical projects about AI, knowledge production, cultural narratives, and epistemic power. More info about our lab, and how to apply, here: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-...

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Joining the Lab — Crockett Lab

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just had a moment of bewilderment where I realise that I am someone who has to code but absolutely hates the task, making me the ideal person for LLMs if they did what they said. Yet somehow, it's still an unappealing product. It's like making a washing machine and me still choosing to wash by hand

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

oops. Forgot to medicate for my "forgetting to do stuff" condition.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interesting ideas are free and abundant. The most interesting events can be boring to listen to told by an uninspired story teller (or AI). The most mundane things can be moving and beautiful if told correctly.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That's how you do food. God I love cooked breakfasts.

Skillet corn beef hash, topped with two perfectly fried eggs.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The ignobels prizes where an absolute blast to attend. Had a great time and first time I'd felt mirth in science since before PhD.

The ignobel prize for biology being awarded for gently stepping on various parts of various venemous snakes repeatedly, at various temperatures, at various times of day - to try to learn what does and does not induce a snake to bite a human.

Many oddly dressed academics and Nobel laureates on a stage, as part of the award ceremony.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On an MRI headcoil there is a little mirror for the person in the MRI to be able to see a screen outside of the MRI. It's just a little mirror, about 2x4cm on a piece of plastic. It costs 11,500CHF (just over 14,000 USD). it has no electronics, no moving parts. Nothing.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Working from home for I think first time since that single week I was forced to in 2020. Big bonus is that my home computer is wildly more powerful than work so my god is it efficient.

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me: oh god I'm so old, the kids at uni look like they're literally 12. Uni: it's a school visit day! Me: ah good, back to regular mortality.

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