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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excellent piece. I keep trying to get on LinkedIn more as it's where a lot of colleagues now are, but every time I do I feel completely alienated. "performative statements that were impossible for anyone to disagree with, or which made disagreement come to appear obstructive or taboo." 👈 This!

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So today spent the whole day writing prompts to an LLM to fill in a grant bid application form. Normally would not bother going with the LLM, but it seems the application form itself was designed specifically for LLM use. Lots of small, repetitive sections to fill in, all about 200-300 words...

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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

State of these lovers. Aw bless, did you and your pals play dress up because you're scared of the lickle boats full of brown people

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/09/2026

‘It is perhaps with these early expressions of intent that we might best understand the attitude to science that Anna Atkins absorbed: it was social, it was a means to understand the world and it was a way to expand the human heart.’ Gaby Wood on cyanotypes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Gaby Wood · Translucency: Cyanotypes

I don’t remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years...

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Going to weigh in here with some personal stuff. My son is diagnosed autistic. It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations that allowed him to actually cope and learn there, rather than be categorised as "naughty" in an escalating round of attempted control that

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Every academic outside of a small inner core of universities should consider themselves permanently at risk of redundancy. The sector will operate a rolling redundancy wave from about this point on. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...

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‘Nuclear’ restructure at London South Bank seen as ‘test bed’

University claims its changes will protect academic jobs and strengthen teaching but striking staff say reforms pose an ‘existential’ threat

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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tedius men aged 45-54: count binface is like, so cringe

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

'Evening Light, San Francisco.' Ken Howard was part of the postwar tradition of British painting whose giants include Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney and was sufficiently well-regarded for members of the Royal Academy to elect him to their establishment.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/06/2026

720 Ollie xkcd.com/3264/

Comic. [Person with short hair and a skateboard talking to another person, with an image of Person 1 on a skateboard going over a bump with a line with two swirls behind him.] PERSON 1: Something weird I’ve noticed is that if I do a 360 ollie, I land backward. I have to do a 720 to land going forward. [caption] Tony Hawk discovers that he’s a spin-½ fermion.

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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I am someone whose study AND work career in education have encompassed WEA/Continuing Education programmes, FE colleges (Tile Hill, Hereward), distance learning (OU), post-92 (Wolverhampton), and two Russell Group universities (Leeds + Nottingham who've much less in common than either admits). 1/

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

UK Govt. is out of its depth in contemporary politics On the one side: an international movement, ruthlessly pursuing its interests, buying up the means of communication & mobilising street violence. On the other: just desiccated & outdated language: “It is right that we look seriously at…"

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/

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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Eco-Socialist Economic: strongly collectivist Social: strongly progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: leaning hawkish Authority: strongly libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

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British Political Spectrum Quiz

Find out where you sit on the British political map across six dimensions.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

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“A very serious problem”: No clear government plan for universities risking insolvency, MPs find in new report - Committees - UK Parliament

Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

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What’s the future for our universities?

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Arun Chutia @achutia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I am pleased to share that our special issue on “Surfaces, Interfaces, and Heterogeneous Catalysis” is now live in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Issue link is here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3... #Catalysis #Surfaces #Interfaces @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I forgot! It's trans day of visibility today. Most trans people probably wish they were a little less visible in the current climate; a little less endlessly debated. In recent years I've tried to donate directly to trans people's transition funds. Something worth considering if you can afford it ❤️

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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G W E N @ionceposted.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Still from RTE Canteen 1991.

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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

As I traditionally did on an abandoned platform I would like to point out that International Women's Day is Cynthia Rothrock's birthday. Happy both!

A badass picture of Cynthia Rothrock making fists

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 01/03/2026

If it wasn’t for the heroic efforts of thousands of trees like this, our nation’s rivers would be at a standstill

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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In case the news is causing nothing but despair

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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

'For instance, “Learn how to use the internet” - a free general computer literacy course - is listed as beginner-level. As is a course called “Git Fundamentals”.' 🤦‍♂️

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John Buckeridge @johnbuckeridge.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The article itself even shows those annoying aspects of chatGPT written crap. Every other sentence basically a list. We need a word for it, maybe chatGPGibberish

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

So many of HE’s problems are the product of these efforts to generate market structures that just simply don’t work because the conditions that markets need to work really aren’t there, and all they do is create uncertainty (and financial problems) for students, staff, and institutions.

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Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Dear Sir Paul,

Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct

I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied.

A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial.

I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research.

I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists.

I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Rachel A. Oliver.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Years ago my friend Dave’s then-four-year-old son walked into a room, looked at Dave, and said, “Well, well, well. If it isn’t Mr. Daddy.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/12/2025

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

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ESC Discord @escdiscord.com · 12/12/2025

🇮🇪 #Eurovision 1994 winner Charlie McGettigan will return his trophy to the EBU in protest of Israel's inclusion. "In support of Nemo I would like to return my trophy to the EBU as well. Unfortunately our win was in 1994, but if I do find it I will return [it]". [📹 IPSC]

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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/12/2025

Quantum mechanics has gone from a theory in test to becoming the foundation of new technologies. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective that looks at the last 100 years of #QuantumMechanics: scim.ag/4pVyB1p

Timeline showing the progress of quantum mechanics

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Andy Blip @iamblip.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Ooh, this is some lovely BOC content. youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...

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Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/11/2025

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You asked a question at the end of a work meeting. Prepare to die.

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