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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Wonder how many fans will get mugged. I swore I'd never go there again (and I haven't)

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I once was sworn into court using a copy of Genetic Data Analysis II by Bruce Weir. Seemed appropriate

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

FoS people - I will email Bruce Burns (AD Sustainability) but feel free to do the same

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

#U0AStaff - who do we send this to? Andrew Phipps? Or our sustainability people?

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Billionaire who made his major money from the sale of Yahoo!

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Need to find where to buy this. Amazon.au wasn't helpful:-)

amazon.au

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Have you seen an electric pruner? I got my wife one, and found myself wondering why they hadn't featured yet in a movie...

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I lived at Muriwai until the summer of '81. Feels like a few superficial changes to Helensville, but underneath it's still the same...

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

So the gang headquarters across the road wasn't warning enough? :-)

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I used to wear that on a T-shirt to actual meetings. Went down a treat.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"My life has been an amazing journey...See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” Farewell to Gil Gerard (1943-2025) — star of BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY. #GilGerard #FilmSky

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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Re-upping 🔭 🧪

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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I'm hiring a postdoc -- come and do awesome cosmology with great people in one of the nicest cities in the world (not that I'm biased or anything) 🔭 🧪 cosmology.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2025/12/12/p...

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Post-doc @ Auckland

Looking for a cosmology post-doc at the University of Auckland

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Thank you. Yeah I wondered that too.

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Where did you get your orange chairs from? My wife would love some like that

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I don't know what it says about us as a country that they have to issue traffic warnings for the opening of a chain store...

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

North: Aalborg South: Invercargill

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I gave up early and have the AC running for bed.

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

And I still rate Arcadia very highly having seen it three times :-)

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Might have begged my parents for a pair of Bata Bullets circa 1978 :-)

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

2/2 The album is heavy on instrumentals and light on lyrics. That being said, the songs with lyrics are strong. Tracks 1 and 2 (Alone and And Nothing Is Forever) stand out. It's most comparable to Disintegration and in that regard doesn't come close. I think a solid 3/5 for what is probably the last

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Having listened through Songs of a Lost World by The Cure end to end four times now, I can finally render an opinion. The Cure is probably better called Robert Smith and Band these days. To the best of my knowledge none of the original members apart from Smith remain. 1/2

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

No. So do I. I also like the Sex Pistols and Van Morrison.

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Ever seen Keith Floyd do his Roasted chicken with 40 cloves of garlic?

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

That's probably why she is hanging out at the moment just before the "Divvy" on SH23 :-)

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The "mainland" where no one lives :-) She's actually a Southerlander where the claim that they are all cousins has a ring of truth 😁

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

My wife would agree with you. Mind you she's from the South Island and so you shouldn't believe a word.... :-)

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Australian prisoner sues for his ‘human right’ to eat Vegemite share.google/TeqHrCflCsMe... I'm curious about the yeast part. At one level the manufacturer's claims sound reasonable, on the other it might have some legs

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Australian prisoner sues for his ‘human right’ to eat Vegemite

A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite.

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I think I was over the fastest downhill parts by that point - could have been quite exciting at 57km/h

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I liked it a lot. Especially yesterday when I was riding my bicycle and visibility was down to about 200 m (and even less up close because my riding glasses were also covered in rain) 😁

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My Google Home units no longer seem to be able to retrieve the headline broadcast (just the usual hourly one) from RNZ. This has been going on since last Friday. Anyone else having the same issue?

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Aargh! I'm being subjected to children singing Christmas carols. I hate these things at the best of times!

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Not a huge amount. If you can understand the one dimensional versions of Bayes' Theorem (ideally continuous and discrete) and the fact that the analysis yields a distribution and not a point estimate, then that will carry you a long way

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It depends what you want to get out of it. I usually just read parts of a text book that relate to what I'm interested in at the time

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I heard this on the radio this morning and wondere why it was news. Like Tr*mp giving himself a rating of 12/10 on his conversation Xi

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Turns out 0.5 kg of Kashmiri chili powder is quite a lot

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Mine always goes up Kepa Road instead of just continuing along the Waterfront to Mission Bay.

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Voor mijn Nederlandse volgers. Stem!

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Second day in a row that I have forgotten to tell Uber driver which way to go home. Google maps always takes this absolutely ridiculous route---three times as many lights, uphill when there is no need etc.

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

One of those looks like an air rifle - no firearms license required

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Python Software Foundation got a competitive US research grant, but it came with a condition that they recant and abjure any diversity and inclusion ideas, on penalty of having to repay the money. Obviously this is not desirable or safe, so no grant. Donations would help them not regret this

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I vaguely remember watching it when I was about 5 or 6

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I think you'd agree, if you had a chance to ride on this route, that it gets awarded to the few idiots who are willing to ride on it :-)

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