Reposted by Romain TarteseDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lol. Like the Paris Agreement to keep global warming under 1.5°C was morally binding? 316730
Reposted by Romain TarteseDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Free access to museums is one of the most spectacular things about the UK. This is a great decision.lemonde.frUK decides against charging foreigners for museumsThe government announced in March it would explore the idea of charging foreign visitors to boost funding. But after months of consultation, the culture ministry decided against the move, saying it co... 520630
Reposted by Romain TarteseBen Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them 7775250
Reposted by Romain TarteseRiding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm embarrassed. It's embarrassing. 4314
Reposted by Romain TarteseMarkus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I didn't know anything about X so I asked chatGPT." You still don't know anything about X. You have read what a sophisticated summary-generating tool predicts as the answer to your question. You have no critical insight, no direct experience, no awareness of the underlying evidence. Stop talking. 13310
Reposted by Romain TarteseTamir Buchshtav @tamir-buchshtav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The question here is that with Microsoft shoving Copilot down our throats, and with Google shoving Gemini into everything they offer, how long will it be until anything we right down in a Word or Google Docs file will also be targetted? 2212
Reposted by Romain Tartesec0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly. 726589
Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 28/09/2026People die trying to cross the Channel between 2 of the richest countries on Earth. And 2 of the largest colonial empires, which spent centuries fighting wars, stealing resources from all over the world and arbitrarily drawing borders. There really is no excuse to let these people die. 040
Reposted by Romain TarteseDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling* 718589
Reposted by Romain TarteseMadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 15311136
Reposted by Romain TarteseDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/20261/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵 3311153
Reposted by Romain TarteseDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Apparently this is arms-length funding in some way rather than core research council. I don't care. No UKRI money should be or not be disbursed with AI involvement. I cannot believe anyone in that organisation thought it would be okay. 3222
Reposted by Romain TarteseDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026UKRI is using AI to "screen" grant applications? That is beyond awful and we are so very screwed. 32912
Reposted by Romain TarteseChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In case it’s not clear; this is fucking rude and an insult to the people who put actual human effort into writing proposals. How the fuck were these things verified? Nonsense. 5754
Reposted by Romain TarteseTom Gernon @gernon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI language models will favour stuff that it already knows about. So much for pushing the frontiers... 021
Reposted by Romain TarteseJohn Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've seen the future and it's bleak. Coming to an inbox near you soon too I imagine. I don't use LLMs for anything I do and never will but it's depressing that I wrote something that no one ever read before it was rejected. 🧪 #academicsky 425231
Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Every proposal was read (...) by AI models". What on Earth are you doing @ukri.org?! 100
Reposted by Romain TarteseDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentUsually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025. 43948317
Reposted by Romain TarteseDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 23/09/2026Also I should reiterate - my goal is never to turn someone into a geologist, but to reinforce that if you want to understand how our Solar System works, let alone do space exploration, you need to start with a foundation for how planets work. And that's geology, folks!!!!! 1222
Reposted by Romain TarteseGordo! @posting.fan · 23/09/2026the BBC all but ignored this and pushed out a small story at 4am that absolutely soft soaps the blackshirts and frames their concerns as essentially legitimate without ever once mentioning the violence they committedbbc.co.ukDozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west. 716347
Reposted by Romain TarteseJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A) 70/80 hour weeks? Right. When are you working on air con? 9 at night? B) NHS, free education, welfare system, bin collections, roads, wider state services. Go fuck yourself Dave 4763299
Reposted by Romain TarteseEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042175958
Reposted by Romain TarteseEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026USRA continues to suck. Glad I don’t have to go to LPSC at this point in my career. 051
Reposted by Romain TarteseHayley Simpkin @pipkinzoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026One of my unpopular opinions is that roast dinners are vastly overrated. I might have to change my mind because I can't have it that I agree with the telegraph on something 😬 142
Reposted by Romain TarteseDr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Australia to the US: “You run a country where 600k people will sleep on the streets without a home, where 40% of adults cannot cover a $400 emergency expense without borrowing money, where a dose of insulin costs more than a monthly car payment, forcing people to ration their insulin to stay alive 1166
Reposted by Romain TarteseAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"I'm Spartacus." Bellend. Such privilege on display. This prick somehow thinks that by virtue of already huge entitlement he deserves more of it. That he controls a miles-radius round his lilywhite castle. You pay same tax as this douche. Do you get to dictate who lives half a mile down the road? 55444118
Reposted by Romain TarteseJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out. 351442411
Reposted by Romain TarteseTim O'Brien @proftimob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There are repeated statements of "Jodrell Bank is not closing". Jodrell Bank is the name of a hamlet from which Jodrell Bank Observatory took its name. This decision means Jodrell Bank Observatory will no longer be an observatory, in my view that is effectively closure... 2174
Reposted by Romain TarteseBBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“When scientists tell you there is a chance that it could have a cataclysmic impact on humanity, you’ve got to be a moron not to say slow it down” US Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking to @faisalislam.bsky.social, urges caution around the development of AI. #Newsnight 1317150
Reposted by Romain TarteseEAG @eageo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New on the EAG Blog: "Sponsored Student Moni Boruah presents her Lunar Volatile Research at the 11th European Lunar Symposium". Read more here: buff.ly/FYGqQLdeagblog.orgEAG Sponsored Student Moni Boruah presents her Lunar Volatile Research at the 11th European Lunar Symposium - EAG BlogThis year, with the generous support of the EAG Student Sponsorship Programme, I was able to attend the 11th European Lunar Symposium organised at the Aquarium Museum of Nancy, France, from June… 001
Reposted by Romain TarteseMrCheeze @mrcheeze.github.io · 08/09/2026This makes for a confusing asterisk in the "LLMs are just plagiarism machines" debate 1847
Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 05/09/2026static.klipy.comPlaying a Tiny ViolinALT: Playing a Tiny Violin 020
Reposted by Romain TarteseByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal. 531038400
Reposted by Romain Tarteseonlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25. 3829771280
Reposted by Romain TarteseHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it 491635374
Reposted by Romain TarteseHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards? 12815252
Reposted by Romain TarteseJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nature is healing 16112
Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Lol. You'd thought by now that people know that LLM are just BS probability models 🙄 010
Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In the UK, APC is paid by the taxpayers, via Research Council funding to individuals and universities. Billions directly into the pockets of publishers. Funders should not allow paying for APC - this money could be used to fund STFC facilities for example. Researchers, support Diamond Open Access! 100
Reposted by Romain TarteseGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026You have to choose. You can't be nice to everyone. Appeasing corporations and billionaires means abandoning everyone else. When it comes to policy, it's us or them. And for far too long political leaders in this country have sided with them. If Burnham is to survive, this is what he needs to change. 20569103
Reposted by Romain TarteseJames Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 26/08/2026Sorry for shouting but... THE ENTIRE POINT OF CCS IS TO ENABLE MORE FOSSIL FUEL USE. That it captures jack shit doesn't matter. All fossil fuel interests need to do is claim that the emissions their extraction produces will be removed from the atmosphere. At some point. Somehow. 16340131
Reposted by Romain TarteseColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Protecting the people who abuse everyone around them is how Dr. Arday was driven to his death. Stop letting these (mostly) men be horrible. Tenure is not a free pass for abuse. Academic freedom is not a free pass for abuse. PERIOD. 1394
Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 24/08/2026www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 000
Reposted by Romain TarteseDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I think there is an actively curated and reinforced misunderstanding of 'academia' in the UK. There's a particular set of politicians and journalists whose undergraduate oxford days carry way too much weight. They don't bother to understand the sector and they don't report on its huge problems. 210522
Reposted by Romain TarteseKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Struck by the percentage of people signing on who are men, if guessing by names means anything (90% plus?). Also the percentage who are losers (1000% at least). 251037109