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Did you manage to persuade them?

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Ed Fortune @edfortune.com · 23/06/2025

I’m now working at University of Hertfordshire two days a week (still three days a week at Royal Holloway). Hit me up if you are UoH #academicsky

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Happy Birthday Alan Turing

The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England. (Just outside Manchester's gay village.) It is a bronze sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Alan is sitting on bench. The memorial is covered in flowers, as it is his birthday today.

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The thing is, I don’t remember any of this - there was a day when nobody thought it was an option, then a literal day when it might happen, then it was irreversibly happening. There wasn’t a persuasion phase.

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This is what Turing’s statue looks like on his birthday ❤️

Alan Turing’s statue in Manchester surrounded by lots of bunches of flowers and some pots of flowers. Most are on the bench and some are on the floor.

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Okay, but isn’t that the opposite of your original post? If 6 out of 10 wish they’d known, and 6 out of 10 wish they’d started, then surely there is nobody left (ignoring rounding) who knew it was important but didn’t read to their kids? Like, that’s amazing result!

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That’s interesting. So 0 of of 10 parents knew it was important but didn’t do it (lack of time, illness, that sort of thing)?

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 18/06/2025

Hang on- the image has a different fact to the post - which is correct?

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This is the before of an enormous amount of attacking plants with shears today.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Cleaning is dangerous!

"One inch in from the bottom and left-hand side of the daguerreotype can be seen the two figures who remained in the same place long enough to be recorded. Daguerre’s image was presented as part of a triptych to King Ludwig I and was displayed from 20 October 1839 at the Arts Association in Munich. The daguerreotype in this book is, obviously, a copy. But a copy is all that it is possible to see of that first photograph of humanity: the original was destroyed when being cleaned at the Munich Fotomuseum around 1974. Only an empty wooden frame with the description remains as a record of the original." From Gardner, John, and David Stewart. “Introduction.” Chapter. In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s, edited by John Gardner and David Stewart, 1–16. Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 12/06/2025

Me, about to do a simple Arduino project: “I spent eight years in C++, four of them squeezing every gram of performance out of it, this will be simple” Me, an hour later: “what is this unwieldy bastard language?” _throws header file across the room_ #academicsky

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In the sense that I do an external persons research in exchange for money. Not that someone pays me to do my own.

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Normally happens the other way around for me.

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It's backed-up by research! "samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles" unless "they referred to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities who may be perceived as exceptions to assumed generalizability of the White American population" #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1177/1948...

Screenshot of a journal article titled "How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples". Authors listed are Bobby K. Cheon, Irene Melani, and Ying-yi Hong. A section is highlighted, stating: "We observed that samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles compared to both other WEIRD and non-WEIRD regions." The abstract concludes that this bias may reflect assumptions of generalizability of White American populations to all humankind.

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“vim $(!!)” makes me feel like a genius

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

That’s super-useful if only because people already doing it at Royal Holloway means I can’t get in trouble for it (so not true)

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Pep Guardiola delivered these comments while receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Manchester yesterday. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola 'so scared' by Israel-Gaza war

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he is

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Anyone in #academicsky successfully put snippets of lectures onto something like TikTok?

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my three year old just invited us onto his podcast be like my three year old: invite me onto your podcast

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world. They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones

The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Reece Barlow @reece-barlow.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We should introduce a new:use of colons in formal writing for this purpose.

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You're damn right I use commas incorrectly. That's how you know this wasn't written, by AI #academicsky

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Today I keep having to write “masters-level” and “3rd year level” and I am constantly thinking this:

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Grace Jarvis @gracejarvisohno.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I have brought the access cards for three different universities to the university I work at, which is the fourth one.

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tonight’s the night comparing myself to others makes me feel BETTER I can sense it!!!

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Vast Hypno 🔝 @ Fist Fest @vasthypno.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Comedian Eddie Izzard is so #genderfluid she's taken up every single space on the D&D gender alignment chart!

Lawful Feminine

Neutral Feminine

Chaotic Feminine

Lawful Androgynous

Neutral Androgynous

Chaotic Androgynous

Lawful Masculine

Neutral Masculine

Chaotic Masculine

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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Pop stars doing their bit.

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

they’re called hooves, dummy🙄

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/06/2025

Mercy and I were talking about *gestures at the world* this weekend and she said "let's be honest, if the pictures coming out of Palestine and Sudan were of dogs and cats instead of Brown people, white people would be forcing it to stop," and I can't stop thinking about that

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The collar around the Bowden tube keeps pushing out. That again sounds like a blockage right?

The collar around the Bowden tube is pushing out.

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Okay, there is a clicking from the feed and the printers are coming out meshy - so that would be classic under extrusion. I’ve done a cold pull (I think) calibrated everything (that helped) but it’s still happening.

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Aggghh! Why are you still clicking!

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Is there a feed for this stuff?

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