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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
My dog is sentient but he doesn't necessarily do things when I ask him
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Let's make up some new ones... GPT-6 Monkey's Paw GPT-6 Whisper in the Night GPT-6 Secret Glance GPT-6 Morbid Obsession GPT-6 Surgical Malpractice
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
" I’d much rather have researchers talking about plausible values for parameters and predictions than talking about significance thresholds and rejection rates."
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
Hmm - America (like other countries) is "hotter than ever before" for a reason and that reason is certainly connected to the Strait of Hormuz but not because we're naming it after a Scottish word for fart
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
Or Spiny Norman
Picture shows Spiny Norman rising above the Trafalgar Square skyline in London. Spiny Norman was a giant hedgehog who featured in a Monty Python sketch about a pair of London gangsters called the Piranha Brothers
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 23/08/2026
📰 Today’s Sunday Times exposes just a fraction of the attacks on jobs in Universities. We know the true picture across the UK is even worse. With record student sign ups this situation is completely untenable. The government must intervene.
This table describes the level of job losses in several universities across the UK.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
Mark Wildman, Dan John, Pat Flynn are all pretty good & worth your time imo
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
your non-significant p-value
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026
I have massive amounts of financial assets especially of certain types.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
But are New Order (who I love) better than what Joy Division could have been from an astonishingly high start? Alas we will never know.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
It's always the whitespace 😱
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026
If you're involved in #REF2029 this is worth a read "Our results demonstrate the necessity of [human judgement] noise audits in high-stakes scientific evaluation"
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
Genesis of the Dhal
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
Quiche Lorraine is a masterpiece that only the B52's could write (but I would have loved a cover but the Cramps), same with Dance This Mess Around
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026
With a shillelagh.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026
The World is Not A Quantum of Solace
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026
Tis a wonderful album. Which whisky have you paired it with?
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026
Sadly not tonight but saw them in Glasgow on Tuesday. They were great! Ferocious & melodic!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026
Gonna be at Barrowlands with my son. We're both looking forward to it!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026
One of the best live albums (mini album maybe) ever released!
Cover of The Cramps mini-LP Smell of Female. One of the best live albums ever released!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026
Front cover of the novel How Sinderby Steeple Wanderers Won the FA cup by J.L. Carr. The book tells the fictional story of how a small town, non-league team win the FA cup.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026
Dinsdale? Dinsdale!
A giant hedgehog named Spiny Norman (which featured in a Monty Python sketch about London gangsters) peeks over a view of Trafalgar Square in London mimicking the image of Donald Trump peaking over a Greenlandic town in the original post.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When the machines generate papers for the machines to review, maybe we can all be free?
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
Hot Tub Crime Machine
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026
Yes! Punky anthem!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026
Scotland first please... we voted to stay!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 12/05/2026
Talk Talking Heads
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026
This is The King, the Mice and the Cheese... but for clothes... and involving a simpleton. An age of wonders indeed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbq6...
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The King, the Mice & the Cheese
YouTube video by The Raconteuse
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026
A bassline for eternity!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026
Finishing your sentence for you... "But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'" has an AI mining the data stored in it.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book: Underpants & socks Lunch
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
"Krupali Parshotam argues that mandatory software carries the same accessibility obligations as any other part of the curriculum – and SPSS fails that test" wonkhe.com/blogs/some-m...
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Some mandatory software is inaccessible
Krupali Parshotam argues that mandatory software carries the same accessibility obligations as any other part of the curriculum – and SPSS fails that test
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Good piece. Especially the point that three quarters of degrees are already “vocational”
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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Terrific article - do read
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The pay premium of the median teacher, or university lecturer, has also fallen
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you have a passion for science, work hard at your research, & get some lucky breaks along the way, you too can achieve your dream of a life dedicated to management & administrative issues.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 23/04/2026
"Average incomes five years after graduating are less than for people who studied nursing" - hmm; arguably how it should be
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Damn, lots of stuff is coming out on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slowdown. Earlier this month, the Xing et al. paper (link in comment) observed it, then another work indicated it's going to go down by 50%. 🧪🌊 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.…
Comparison of OC methods applied to the future AMOC.
Comparison of four OC methods with the MMM method applied to the 2091-to-2100 mean AMOC using either a single observable variable (left columns in solid) or multiple observable variables (right columns in dashed). The scenario considered is SSP2-4.5. linear regression stands for unregularized linear regression, while ridge regression stands for ridge-regularized linear regression. (A) Comparison of the estimates of the different methods and the 90% model uncertainty (±1.64 the SD). (B) Comparison of the mean leave-one-out error, of the different methods. The definition and difference between the model uncertainty and the leave-one-out error can be found in Materials and Methods. The best method in terms of leave-one-out error is shown in bold.
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darktildawn.bsky.social @darktildawn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Great piece (and graphics) by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. PS This is exactly why @pauldwebb.bsky.social and I talked about 'the educated left-behind' when we wrote about the young people who'd followed Corbyn into the Labour Party - and who may well be following Zack Polanski into the Greens.
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Why higher pay hasn’t made young adults feel richer
The aspiration gap has turned everyone into losers, especially graduates
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🗣️"To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable." #AcademicSky #HigherEducation
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Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact
The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026
Yes... that bass at the start is a statement of intent!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026
FIFA FAFO!
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026
If you're starting with make_stancode I'd recommend this (along with parts 2 & 3): solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07...
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Learn Stan with brms, Part I | A. Solomon Kurz
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is a major problem. Certain high-status institutions are hoovering up students for whom they don't have space or teaching capacity. It's not good for students, it's driving other universities to disaster and it has none of the benefits of either a planned or a "market" system.
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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A good use of AI for writing is to let it suggest ideas, substitutions or turns of phrase. Then make sure you never use any of them, as they’ve obviously been used too often before.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026
Conscientious objection in the workplace is a cool way to protest against nonsense like the Palantir NHS involvement.
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026
& this? Hicks, Michael Townsen, James Humphries, and Joe Slater. ‘ChatGPT Is Bullshit’. Ethics and Information Technology 26, no. 2 (2024): 38. doi.org/10.1007/s106....
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ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...
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iainjgallagher.eurosky.social @iainjgallagher.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026
useful? Liang, Kaiqu, Haimin Hu, Xuandong Zhao, Dawn Song, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Jaime Fernández Fisac. ‘Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models’. arXiv:2507.07484. Preprint, arXiv, 10 July 2025. doi.org/10.48550/arX....
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Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models
Bullshit, as conceptualized by philosopher Harry Frankfurt, refers to statements made without regard to their truth value. While previous work has explored large language model (LLM) hallucination and...
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