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Just checked: Zotero storage plans are 200MB free, 2GB and 6GB plans for not outrageous pricing. (Or if your institution offers a WebDAV server that could probably host it for free)

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Depending on how you store/sync papers I think Zotero for iPad will work just fine. I originally discounted it during my PhD due to the need for Zotfile and local sync. But using Zotero’s own sync server, I think it’ll work fine? Zotero’s own pdf reading/annotation has massively improved

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I’ve asked for it to be escalated as a complaint because the website should have at least given me the option of purchasing a full fare single/return and didn’t even do that. Can’t say I hold out much hope though.

Yes - the initial rejection was because “wrong type of ticket” after I’d tried the refund via the website - but the rejection proper was from customer service! I‘d explained the situation and supplied the pdf of the replacement ticket, showing times of purchase and trains (1 day before original)

So much for one "directing mind" and "putting passengers and customers first". cc @garethdennis.uk

Under significant time pressure, I ended up booking via Trainline. Tried to claim a refund from LNER (sans £10 fee) - rejected because the replacement was booked via somewhere else. Even though LNER's website wouldn't let me book it when it should have. Fucking TERRIBLE customer experience.

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It also didn't let me book a new ticket for any train that day except diverted ones getting in many hours too late. There were plenty of TPE and Northern/Avanti/Scotrail options, but LNER's website wouldn't let me book them. Not even as an expensive open ticket, which should be unrestricted.

Britain's fragmented railways are UTTERLY infuriating. Booked advance ticket via LNER website for wrong day. Realised day before, when I intended to travel. Tried to rebook via website, usually £10 fee plus fare difference, but it wouldn't offer me that option...

Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 10h

Having gone through the (highly selective/leading) feedback form on the website it turns out you cannot leave anonymous feedback without giving an email address for validation, so I'm assuming mine won't count.

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 10h

Might see you there - I should be visiting my folks then...

Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I fear I might be closer to burning out than I thought. Spent today trying and failing to do something I really needed to do but overcome by lethargy. Sigh.

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Swap them with someone for something you might like better (nice tea/coffee?)

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A man whose driving motivation is adulation, and who happens to be the most powerful man in the worlds. And a sycophantic stochastic parrot, designed to reinforce the grandiose delusions of its users and promote engagement. What could possibly go wrong with this circular dependency?

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Would you like a gift?

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Thank you - I’ll check those as it’ll narrow it down. Yes, I hadn’t realised it until watching the two clips tonight - I’ve only ever seen mashups of the two before. Being 3 at the time it was only as an adult that I heard about it, most likely in the late 2000s/early 2010s with YouTube etc

Thank you - I look forward to reading it. Do you recall approximately when in 1988 you filed the piece, to narrow down the search?

Kate, I hadn’t realised you had interviewed him. How incredible. Is your interview available anywhere?

Ham Roids 🎃 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Look at what one person can do. Think of what you can do where you are, and just do it. Even if it feels so small in the face of such daunting odds. There are people now who need your help, whatever you can do. Live in such a way that you don't grow old wishing you'd done more.

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Do what you can in the face of horror, for its own sake. Be more like Nicholas Winton.

Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, stop harping on. Sorry.

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing that made me pause was in 2018 when I started teaching undergrads born in the 2000s…

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone who last did chemistry at the age of 15, I don’t follow the details of this but can understand just about enough to agree with you!

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Will miss your posts on here, as insta is (obviously) focused on images rather than text. But can understand the reasoning.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The bottom line? Academics have to contend with predatory journals, shoddy conferences, and now "deepfake prestige", as one of my sources called it. AI tools are only turbocharging this behavior and making it harder than ever to detect. Just as fast as one website goes down, another 10 can launch.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com

nature.com

Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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Yep, and accountability should still ultimately resolve back to UKRI

Katherine I @chesneycat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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How does this align with UKRI's policy on applications and assessments? www.ukri.org/publications...

text available at https://www.ukri.org/publications/generative-artificial-intelligence-in-application-and-assessment-policy/use-of-generative-artificial-intelligence-in-application-preparation-and-assessment/

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David Sloan @davesmaths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That must hurt. The part where they talk about two different models as though it's supposed to be somehow reassuring is just an extra kick in the teeth: "We read both tea leaves AND entrails for robustness".

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Louise Platt @drluplatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Grateful for the time and effort you put into your submission” …. But we didn’t give you the same time and effort in actually reading it 🤷‍♀️😩

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I can’t help but think that this kind of use of AI for triage is really not a good look for UKRI (or anyone else).

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Pomp prevails over substance as Donald Trump hosts Xi Jinping

I’m no clinician but his sycophantic fawning over the authoritarian leaders suggests a deeply damaged individual. (To say nothing of being unbecoming of US values and diplomacy, demonstrating strategic weakness, and undermining US a world security) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.com

Fanfare masks some of the US president’s own troubles, including his war in Iran and plummeting domestic popularity

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Yikes “you better believe the other thing it's supposed to do aside from build a picture of your friends and loved ones is to figure out what makes you love to shop. This is actually some of the most nauseating prompt text i have ever read” neuromatch.social/@jonny/11732...

neuromatch.social

Attached: 4 images you better believe the other thing it's supposed to do aside from build a picture of your friends and loved ones is to figure out what makes you love to shop. This is actually some...

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Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quelle surprise. Let’s just say anyone who cares about any kind of privacy will not be using this product or anything like it…