Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialJon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Rather excited to see that a cause I believe in coincides with important principles I hold and interests I have. 082
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 26/02/2025Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source. Read how this works ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.ukeastangliabylines.co.ukSunlight to fuel: Cambridge’s new breakthrough in clean energyCambridge scientists have created a solar-powered reactor that turns CO2 from air into sustainable fuel – no batteries required 26368137
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialMallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 14/02/2025Eppur si muove 😓 #Climate #BesserWeiter #CarFree #ShowYourStripes #research #science 033
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/02/2025Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory. 141187226609
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/02/2025RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag. 18795037217610
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Magnificent bronze Art Deco doors with peacock design, originally made by Tiffany in 1925 for a jewellery store, but since moved to the Palmer House hotel in Chicago 724444
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialNick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 13/01/2025 19707253119612
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialBrynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 09/01/2025No mention that Colin is literally Trustee of a Climate Denial outfit. Obviously cut from the report for reasons of concision www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/clim...lincsonline.co.uk‘Climate change is here and now for us - we need more help now’A senior county councillor has urged the government to provide more support after Lincolnshire experienced severe flooding. 3148
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialandyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻 25585971229
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/12/2024"Research from the Centre for Economic Performance, a think tank based at the London School of Economics, said Brexit led to a 6.4 per cent drop in the UK’s global exports and a 3.1 per cent decline in imports into the UK from the rest of the world” www.thetimes.com/business-mon...thetimes.comUK exporters suffer £27bn hit from BrexitSmaller companies bore the brunt of trade barriers with the Continent as trade in services remains resilient 42728334
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialJon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 12/12/2024As someone who works on housing stuff I find these kinds of juxtapositions… intriguing. *Someone* is going to be very wrong. Presumably someone who fancies themselves an expert. (There may, of course, be some incentive to be this wrong…) 013
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialBenedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Another disastrous statistic attributed to Boris Johnson and he wonders why no one wants to buy his book. 24400250
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialArpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Krugman's best pieces: • The babysitting co-op slate.com/business/199... • On modeling web.mit.edu/krugman/www/... • Japan liquidity trap web.mit.edu/krugman/www/... • on zoning www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o... archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog... • how I work web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...web.mit.eduTHE FALL AND RISE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 2127644
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialTobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Musk likes to brag how “X is the world’s #1 source of news”. Yet here he is, quite deliberately (and very obviously) hiding news from you that he doesn’t like. This is why X will ultimately fail, and platforms that don’t censor external links will prosper. 211338
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialFemi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Which SHOULD be the bigger news scandal of the last 5days? Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age". Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch." Which has more coverage? 35879249
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialHIGNFY @hignfy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024TV presenter Gregg Wallace makes another online statement 326045
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history. 11039161127
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialJoe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/... 431065427
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂 10439411591
robinmorphet.bsky.social @robinmorphet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... 010
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialClive Durdle @evilceldrud.bsky.social · 23/11/2024And who has realised that making rail fully accessible also means the range of cargo cycles is increased exponentially? www.velove.se/news/next-st...velove.seNext step in city logistics: Open terminalsOpen terminals are city-owned infrastructure where goods can be shifted from big vehicles to small cargo bikes for intelligent last mile solutions. 153
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialWill Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 23/11/2024There's been a 63% increase in cargo bike use in London - over 70% in some areas - helping cut pollution & congestion. Great to see the Better Bankside BID's new Green Logistics Centre to consolidate deliveries and support local businesses. zagdaily.com/featured/is-th… 718539
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialCraig 'VI' Slee - Crip, More Human Than Human @handle.invalid · 29/11/2023 "A team of researchers primarily from Google’s DeepMind systematically convinced ChatGPT to reveal snippets of the data it was trained on...[this ]showed that there are large amounts of privately identifiable information (PII) in OpenAI’s large language models." www.404media.co/google-resea...404media.coGoogle Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training DataChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia page... 4216145
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialJohn Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 05/11/2024Does Labour have the constitutional radicalism needed to deliver English devolution? With @janicemorphet.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comCentralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English DevolutionThe Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making Englis... 013
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 28/10/2024Russian commentator: "We must destroy NATO. This is important to us. We are worried about Britain and the US ... We are interested in them having problems". And so Brexit and Trump are explained. 1417789
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialPaul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 22/10/2024How bad things were. After a long freedom of information fight @thetimes reveals that when she was Justice Secretary Suella Braverman sent at least 127 official emails to her personal email with 290 attached documents in breach of security rules bit.ly/3Ab91l1 15421
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialChris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 15/10/2024Brexit means taking the same decision as the EU two years later because no one was going to sell us stuff if we decided differently www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/u...theregister.comUK to consider USB-C as charging standardWill it also plug into some common sense? 20375136
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialclementinecttn.bsky.social @clementinecttn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024The special issue that Somwrita, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I coordinated is EPB's current issue! In it you can find 17 stimulating articles to explore the relationship between urban {form, size, infrastructure, mobility} and inequalities all in one place. journals.sagepub.com/toc/epbb/51/7 097
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialCaroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 08/10/2024Signal boost - help a librarian doing a PhD on the social background of librarians in UK universities! My marvellous friend and colleague, the incomparable @patchedelbows.bsky.social, is looking for respondents for a questionnaire - can you help? 📚 sites.google.com/view/librari...sites.google.comHElibrarianssocialbackgroundThank you for considering participating in this research study explore the social backgrounds of UK higher education librarians. This site contains the questionnaire used as part of this study as well... 375131
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/10/2024From our new @ukandeu.bsky.social report. Your regular reminder that that the xenophobic ethnonationalism of Robert Jenrick/Matt Goodwin/Douglas Murray etc is not shared by the vast majority of Brits, whatever their background. ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/mino... 212158
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialclementinecttn.bsky.social @clementinecttn.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Next CASA Seminar with Dr Binbin Lu on geographically weighted models and the `GWmodelS` R package sounds good! Free but mandatory registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/casa-semin...eventbrite.co.ukCASA Seminar Series 2024: Dr Binbin LuHybrid CASA Seminar Series, joined this week by Dr Binbin Lu 053
Reposted by @robinmorphet.bsky.socialSander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 18/09/2024Very sad news. And perplexing in so many ways from where I sit - in Berlin (and Brussels). A new era in EU-UK relations is opening, and this is when they discontinue one of the most important locuses of knowledge on the relationship, even as common challenges loom larger than ever. A real shame. 05022
