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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A new podcast based upon our recent publication about a NLP study of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome. Touches additionally on informed consent, sampling problems, and issues associated with the procedure.

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I recently published a double-blind refereed data science article about the taboo subjects of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome. Following this, The Conversation reached out to write an article about this. It has now been published here: theconversation.com/vasectomy-pa...

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Vasectomy, pain and regret: what online forum Reddit reveals about men’s experiences

Vasectomy is safe for most but a study analysing 11,000 social media comments shows that some men are regretful and in pain months after the procedure.

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory are simply amazing. The sheer discoveries that lie ahead of scientists in the years ahead are, without exaggeration, incredible. Asteroids, variable & moving sources, very low surface brightness relics, cosmology, and more noirlab.edu/public/news/...

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Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory - From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility ...

Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Having been on the UK:LSST board since I returned to the UK, these images are simply amazing. I keep staring at them and finding new exciting galaxies and shapes and thinking about how the next generation of scientists will use and exploit them to advance our understanding of the Universe.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/06/2025

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions.

All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Congratulations to our @uniofhull.bsky.social student, Dr. Sophie Eden, who successfully defended her thesis today; "A search for HI absorption at intermediate redshifts in star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH".

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University of Hull @uniofhull.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Congratulations to Professor Bernie Binks, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, who has been recognised with a prestigious fellowship of the Royal Society! 👏

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The countdown is on to our National Astronomy Meeting this summer! We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️ Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Random request. I'm looking for example images of LARGE-scale "departmental artwork" that might adorn the walls of your department. e.g., massive printouts of galaxies on the walls of physics / astro depts; fish / species / cells prints outs in bio depts; anything more than 2D?

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Great to have Ben Oppenheimer visit @uniofhull.bsky.social E A Milne Centre for a talk about the circumgalactic medium.

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Spring days with sunny skies and blossom on campus at @uniofhull.bsky.social

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In a tight competition, my favourite new arXiv article today is this: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.22786 "A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form." Can't beat the brutal honesty of the abstract making perfectly clear the uselessness of the maths contained therein.

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A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form

Any permutation-invariant function of data points $\vec{r}_i$ can be written in the form $ρ(\sum_iϕ(\vec{r}_i))$ for suitable functions $ρ$ and $ϕ$. This form - known in the machine-learning literatur...

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Very much enjoyed visiting U.Portsmouth last week for a seminar on ChatGPT in assessments and degrees (see pinned publication) and a second seminar on the Hubble tension in cosmology. Off to U.Lancaster today for another invited science talk. Fingers crossed for no swans on the lines today!

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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

DESI's DR2 BAO results are out!! TL;DR... 1/n @desisurvey.bsky.social

A blocky lambda symbol crumbles as it is pulled apart by creatures representing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and supernovae. Caption reads "something has to give..." Credit: Claire Lamman

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University of Hull @uniofhull.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Up-skill this May through our fast-track masters in AI and Data Science is now open for applications. ⭐ No. 1 recruiter in the UK for Data Science & AI students 💻 Access our state of the art facilities 🎓 Graduate at the forefront of data science Apply: www.hull.ac.uk/study...

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A new journal from the IoP: AI for Science. iopscience.iop.org/journal/3050... From 2025 to 2027, authors benefit from a full waiver of the article publication charges, so research can reach a global audience at no cost (and no: I'm not on the board!).

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AI for Science - IOPscienceSearch

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Another #abstract #art Binary acrylic pour using own recipe. Monodirectional controlled feathering. Fully dried. Palette knife & paintbrush edge highlighting in crimson red. Foreground black acrylic paint palette knife appliqué. Probably about 30hours to make. Thoughts & name suggestions welcome!

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 06/03/2025

Scrub a dub 🫧 ...except no scrubbing the delicate observatory optics! We don't use cloths or lens cleaner to clean the giant camera lenses. Instead, our summit staff use a high-speed stream of carbon dioxide "snow" to push debris off of the glass surface. 🔭🧪

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DAIM @daimhulluni.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Oyinkansola, one of our PhD researchers & GTAs is giving a talk at PyCon Lithuania 2025 called "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Culturally Nuanced Emotion Analysis in Nigerian Afrobeats Lyrics" @uniofhull.bsky.social #ai #artificalintelligence #research #student pretalx.com/pycon-lithua...

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Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa PyCon Lithuania 2025

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for PyCon Lithuania 2025

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 05/03/2025

THREAD The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW) If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so. Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"? 1/30

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I was contacted by people who were concerned this week about the reports of Asteroid YR4 probability of striking planet Earth increasing. This is normal. Let me explain with a dartboard. Imagine planet Earth is sat on triple 20 as a blue circle.

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Might be a silly question. Is there an “import” feature for people you were following on Twitter for here to attempt to re-assemble things?

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Suggestions for names welcome! #Abstract #art 15cm sq canvas. Acrylic pour (blue, yellow, white) onto a dried black background, then feathering and drip. Final columns added after fully dried in a more normative manner (palette knife). Total creation time of 28 hours. Considering selling.

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DAIM @daimhulluni.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Adewale Tokosi one of our alumni he chatted with Dr. Lara Blythe for our #Alumni series! @uniofhull.bsky.social #AI #DataScience #Hull www.youtube.com/watch?v=EndQ...

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Adewale featured on DAIM Alumni Series

YouTube video by DAIM (Data Science, AI and modelling)

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University of Hull @uniofhull.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Applied to the University of Hull? In September, your life could look like this 👀 There's so much to explore in Hull - and we can't wait for you to discover it. 📸 Steph Downing

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

About a week ago, I provided an interview for the Hull Daily Mail following an independent study demonstrating that U.Hull is the top ranked destination for students wanting to study artificial intelligence! www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/educati...

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Hull leading the way in Artificial Intelligence revolution, new study shows

The University of Hull tops the table for AI course enrolments

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Easy to see why the University of Hull is a great campus. @universityofhull.bsky.social I also enjoyed very briefly wandering in the art gallery @Hull Uni Library this lunch time too.

Winter sunlight on university of Hull campus.

Venn building at the University of Hull in the winter sunlight.

An exhibit at the Adt Gallery within the Hull University Library.

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The paper on “Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree” is now published with the European Journal of Physics (IoP publishing) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Happy to talk to colleagues exploring this issue across academia further / deliver seminars (thanks for the engagement to date!).

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Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees - IOPscienceSearch

Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees, Pimbblet, K A, Morrell, L J

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Can ChatGPT pass an entire degree? iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... There’s been a lot of opinion and talk about the impact of AI on education for a while, so a colleague and I set about to test ChatGPT against an entire BSc in Physics.

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Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees - IOPscienceSearch

Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees, Kevin A Pimbblet, Lesley Morrell

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DAIM @daimhulluni.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@oyinkanchekwas sat down with DAIM alumni Dayo Oyeyemi to talk about his time at the University of Hull in the first of our new #YouTube alumni series! @HullUniScience @hullalumni #Graduate #AI #Hull #DataScience www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdU2...

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🌟 Introducing Our Alumni Series! 🌟

YouTube video by DAIM (Data Science, AI and modelling)

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

#NAM2024 reminder! There are now just two weeks left to submit abstracts for this year's National Astronomy Meeting at Hull Uni from 14-19 July. For more on how to submit, register, or view the timetable, visit: nam2024.hull.ac.uk

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National Astronomy Meeting 2024 - NAM 24

University of Hull, 14-19 July 2024 The Royal Astronomical Society is proud to present the National Astronomy Meeting from 14-19 July 2024 The E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of H...

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I am advertising for the funded DAIM Director's PhD in Physics focusing on Astronomy for next academic year. I am open to the precise area of research, but it must overlap with existing interests. Deadline: 19/Jan/2024. www.hull.ac.uk/study/postgr... Enquiries by email welcome.

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

DAIM has a short term opening for a Curriculum Developer for Python Education. Work at the intersection of Data Science, AI, & education to develop a curriculum for young learners. Apply by Nov 9 - tinyurl.com/ufcff9em

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Kevin Pimbblet @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

So, this is where so many of you went to! Nice to be here.

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