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Nicolas Pugeault

@pugeault.eurosky.social
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Teaching blind robots to see... I am a scientist and Reader at the University of Glasgow, interested in AI, Computer Vision & Robotics.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is extremely reasonable and well-put. It clearly comes from a place of principle but is also strategic. The kind of argument that could have, had Polanski made it, meaningfully shifted the vote on the Zionism is Racism motion. But Zack doesn’t have the range.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
thoughts on AI coding
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Ricardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 07/10/2026
À Montpellier, un CRS vise délibérément la tête d'un jeune avec une grenade lacrymo.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint
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Jean-Marc Lafon @jmlafon.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Notice de la grenade "flash-bang" GL-307, éditée par son fabricant brésilien. En bas à droite, écrite en rouge et illustrée par un dessin, la mention : "La grenade doit être lancée de sorte à exploser à au moins 10 mètres des contrevenants. Elle peut causer des lésions à courte distance."
GL-307/ECO
GRANADA DE LUZ E SOM - OUTDOOR

A granada GL-307/ECO I-REF possui corpo cilíndrico e é constituída de fibra de celulose. Possui grande efeito atordoante provocado pela detonação da carga explosiva associada à luminosidade intensa que ofusca a visão dos agressores por alguns segundos, permitindo uma eficiente ação policial.

ESPECIFICAÇÕES

Material do corpo: Fibra de celulose
Diâmetro: 52mm
Tempo de retardo: 2,0 + 1,5 s
Comprimento: 137mm
Peso: 146g
Tipo de acionador: M201A1
Pico máximo de pressão sonora: 175 dB at 2m

As dimensões e peso do produto possuem tolerância de 10%, para mais e para menos.

DUPLO ESTÁGIO

A fim de evitar que o acionador torne-se um projétil, um sistema de duplo estágio especial permite que o acionador seja ejetado antes da explosão da granada.

Validade: 5 anos a partir da data de fabricação, desde que armazenado na embalagem original, em local fresco, seco e arejado, distante de paredes, teto e chão e ao abrigo da luz solar.

À explosão poderá projetar detritos contidos no solo, dependendo do terreno que for utilizado.

INFORMAÇÃO DE ENVIO

Código ONU (UN): 0452
Descrição para embarque: Granadas para exercício
Classe de risco: 1.4G

[Avertissement en rouge]
A granada deve ser lançada para explodir à uma distância mínima de 10 metros dos infratores da lei. Pode causar lesões à curta distância.

Uso outdoor.

ATENÇÃO

Este produto só deve ser utilizado por pessoas treinadas e legalmente autorizadas. Se mal utilizado, pode causar ferimentos graves, morte e/ou danos materiais.

Todas as especificações estão sujeitas a alterações sem aviso prévio.
Todas as especificações de desempenho são baseadas em testes realizados à temperatura ambiente e sob condições de pressão atmosférica ao nível do mar.
Imagens meramente ilustrativas.

CONDOR S.A. INDÚSTRIA QUÍMICA
Rua Ari Dias Moreira 160, Adrianópolis
Nova Iguaçu - RJ - CEP: 26053-640

CONDOR TECNOLOGIAS NÃO-LETAIS
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Jean-Marc Lafon @jmlafon.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Aucun contexte ne justifie un tir quasi à bout touchant de grenade lacrymogène dans la figure. Aucun contexte ne justifie l'emploi de grenades de désencerclement pour disperser un attroupement qui ne menace personne. Le contexte, c'est l'attachement fétichiste de la Macronie à la violence d'État.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026
TUC President Steve Gillan calls on Congress to join UCU’s lunchtime rally against the University of Brighton’s outrageous plans to derecognise UCU. An attack on trade union rights is an attack on us all. University of Brighton: back down.
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Dr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is Aberdeen. We also have strikes over cost-cutting at Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh, while Strathclyde University announced plans to cut 70 jobs in December. When will the Scottish Government act? See: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Aberdeen University job cuts talks break down after union official dismissal
A £10m savings plan - which could see more than 100 jobs lost - was agreed earlier this year.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is very bad indeed
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026
An article on the solving of the Navier Stokes equations by a mathematician who knows what's going on bms.ulb.ac.be/data/uploads... (Yes it's in LateX I am sorry)
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A lot of news coverage on AI doom based off one tweet on a shitposting platform by a prodigal techbro. Do I fear superintelligence wiping us out? No, I fear incompetence and probably climate disaster, both of which could be somewhat mitigated by making tech companies more responsible & accountable.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)
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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Edinburgh LibDems, Tories, and often Labour, take note!
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026
This cost about $15 million in AI compute to do, a serious amount of money most mathematicians can never reasonably access. One of the troubling aspects is whether frontier labs will move on after using these major mathematical problems for PR without meaningfully improving the field.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
FYI, I'vre revised the English version to account for new information that has surfaced on Harris (and his huge lie), but also the strategy that Cofnas plainly laid out : promote washed out/retired DEI-critics (via FSU etc), and use them to eliminate Black scholars. Link in blog post.
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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday
Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“A systematic review of 31 studies found that open-plan designs were negatively associated with health, satisfaction and productivity, with not a single study measuring productivity finding a positive effect,“ - please tell this to every university estates department.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 27/08/2026
How many signatories of the open letter defending "academic freedom" for white supremacist "race realists" came to the public defense of Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College who was fired for reposting on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet?
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Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
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Marc Welsh @marcwelsh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Interesting piece by Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson on balance sheet issue just today. The balance sheet adjustments seem to make an already unequal system more unequal between the nations. It was ever thus. wonkhe.com/blogs/the-tr...
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The Treasury is bankrupting three nations' universities
With funding reviews underway in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson worry none will examine the hidden accounting rules driving the crisis
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PolGM @polgm.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026
⚠️ La nouvelle mairie d'Avignon veut remettre les bagnoles dans la ville, et elle a commencé - de manière brutale, au milieu de l'été et sans consulter les habitants. C'est clairement un test pour voir "si ça passe". Petit fil, et comment vous pouvez contribuer de chez vous ⤵️
Porte Saint Lazare pour les modes doux
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jason Stanley makes the case that the stuff that was most obviously in fact a lie in Arday's case was also not stuff which academic institutions care about when employing someone, whereas by the metrics academics care about Arday was doing well. jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...
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It sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wronged
The media’s profound ignorance of academia is a deadly problem
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
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orbette @orbette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Well this seems interesting and unsurprising archive.ph/vB0BP
Then there is the claim that ADHD is a social construct, not a neurodevelopmental condition. This is something Pemberton concludes after talking to neuroscientist Katya Rubia at King’s College London. Rubia says that while there is evidence of differences between the brains of people with ADHD and neurotypical people at the group level, it isn’t possible to diagnose ADHD from a brain scan.
She is right, of course. You can’t diagnose ADHD from brain scans. The same can be said for most, if not all, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Most of these, like ADHD, are diagnosed by assessing symptoms and the effect they have on a person’s everyday ability to function. “My interview was hours long and they cherry-picked the bits that suited their push for presenting ADHD as a myth,” Rubia told New Scientist. “Biased programs like this one that push their view of ADHD as a mythical entity are irresponsible and will have detrimental effects.”
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Arday defending himself by filing a police complaint against Dave Harris - a man who had already been formally found to have engaged in bullying misconduct as far back as 1998 - is not something I find extraordinary. What is extraordinary is that Harris's misconduct vanished from news coverage.
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.
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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists
More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
At this point @monicalennon.bsky.social has the support of the two biggest Labour-affiliated unions but only two MPs and two MSPs. She needs one more of each in order to get onto the ballot and stop this leadership election from becoming an all-male, all-anti-trans, all-fossil-fuel-fan stitch-up.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It does not matter if the victim was "guilty". A lynching is a lynching. What cruel, awful times we live in.
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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Batman surveys Edinburgh city from Salisbury Crags last night as the solar eclipse dims the evening light. #solareclipse
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New post: Unpicking the legacy of neoliberalism mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/08/unpi... Defending neoliberalism today beyond the familiar tropes has become so difficult because so many of the claims made for it 40 years ago are questionable at best and in some cases clearly untrue.
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Unpicking the legacy of neoliberalism
Neoliberalism as an overarching ideology for UK government died with the Brexit referendum in 2016, just as it did in the US with Trump’s ...
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This thread is a damning indictment of how many of Scottish Labour's parliamentarians have lost whatever moral compass they once had. It is a damning indictment of the party's near-total capitulation to the sort of politics encouraged and inflamed by gender critical organisations and individuals.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The reaction to these Q Manivannan comments (clipped by someone calling for them to be deported btw) from MSPs is extremely troubling.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Like sorry can we be clear that what’s happened here is that a Green MSP did an interview a year ago where they made the point that lots of different acts constitute rape, and now a bunch of Scottish Labour MSPs are sharing a doctored clip of this claiming it’s rape apologism.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I fear I disagree in three respects here: on the internal eu debate post Brexit, on the internal UK debate pre Brexit and on whether it would have been worth it /1
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Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 06/08/2026
Parce que j’ai osé dire que si X continue à ne pas respecter la loi européenne, il faudra le sanctionner. Et pendant les élections, fermer ce réseau social pourrait être nécessaire, pour se protéger des ingérences. (1/5)
Marine Tondelier : Elon Musk veut m'arrêter pour trahison !

Tweet d'Elon Musk :
I demand that she be shut down for treason against France!
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Rebuttals and discussions need to be reduced an extreme minimal length. CVPR style, 1 single PDF page. No discussion. Else, human ACs and reviewers will have a disadvantage compared to the world of agents out there now.
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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
l'Espagne nous a fait ce que les Bleus ont fait au Maroc. Un piège parfait, qui a bridé toutes les initiatives et les points forts. Rien à dire, à part bravo et merci aux Bleus. Un titre, une finale et une demie en trois éditions, c'est juste monstrueux. Et y aura d'autres titres à aller disputer.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is nonsense. The (tiny) tuition fee rise seen so far is massively offset by over a decade of real terms cuts. Adjusting for inflation tuition fees are lower now than a decade ago - when the teaching grant was much larger.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
UK government visa changes are “driving universities towards a cliff edge”. www.scotsman.com/education/so...
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Glasgow University cuts: Social sciences to see biggest drop in overseas students
Voluntary redundancy scheme to open in August
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
When Nottingham, Exeter, and Glasgow are making cuts, the entire sector is dying. Well done to successive governments for killing one of the few sectors that combines local economies and global influence.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As a migrant, I affirmatively do not care how much you spend on schools if you put Shabana Mahmood's immigration policies into practice. This is a logical and calculated stance that I am tired of pretending is somehow irrational.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Same. I am from an immigrant family, marrying an immigrant, teaching immigrant students. It is *incredibly* hard for me not to see Mahmood's policies as a central and vicious betrayal of core values. This combined with Starmer's own rhetoric on the matter thoroughly disillusioned me on them.
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