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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Sunday afternoon stroll on the moors triggered a relapse of my Levellers earworm (“this is where I come when I want to be free… …there’s only one way of life and that’s your own”).

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In particular that the AI simulation's papers focused far more on systematics than the real community's arXiv papers.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kicking myself that I spent the one sunny day of the weekend tidying up the garden.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We didn’t manage to get tickets to watch the basho itself this trip, so instead we watched the rikishi arriving and leaving.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

While the OH went to a J-metal gig (on a Sunday morning!) I had fun at the Olympic museum and set the day’s record on the interactive shooting exhibit (thanks to being the first person to do it).

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A day of Tokyo favourites: micro pigs, another garden and TeamLab Borderless.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A varied day in Tokyo: sumo training at Isegahama stable, Kiyosumi gardens and the museum of contemporary art.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day trip to Naoshima for pumpkins (and other art).

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Took the ropeway to Tairyuji, temple number 21. Saw some henro who were walking all 88 temples (and 1200 km). Was only a little bit jealous.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Left the Iya Valley and headed to Naruto for whirlpools and Ryozenji (temple number one on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage).

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feeding birds in the rain after an ‘interesting’ drive along single track mountain roads with blind bends to scarecrow village.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Ioki cave and the Iya valley.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Daihoji temple and Nakatsu gorge:

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Day 1 of our Shikoku road trip and we’ve accidentally booked a night in a love hotel, in a somewhat chintzy room with a cosplay rental menu…

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Made it out onto the moors to talk to sheep for the first time in 3 months.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I met 'the other A. M. Green' briefly after he attended a public talk I gave in Helsinki. I've never met 'the other Anne Green' in person, but we've exchanged emails while trying to convince the CTA collaboration and also Key Travel that we're 2 different people.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

After years of receiving emails intended for (Australian astronomer) Anne J. Green, today I got one which was meant for Anthony M. Green (a retired British particle theorist who used to work in Helsinki).

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nigel the knee was up to some alpaca feeding:

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'd forgotten that I took the water tank of my espresso machine home for cleaning. And I need regular caffeination to function.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Very strange to be back in the office (after 'running the gauntlet' of the motorway) for the first time in 10 weeks. [I've very much been working for most of that time, including a School Research Strategy meeting with Faculty while propped up on piles of cushions in bed...]

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The women's TDF was more exciting than the men's (in terms of the overall winner at least). And next year it's coming to the UK, including the Peak District.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My first solo trip out in 2 months: a gong bath at a sunflower field.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Freedom! I’m cleared to wean myself off the crutches, and drive. Not wearing the most stylish or flattering t-shirt. But was seeing a different physio than usual and wanted to demonstrate that I’m (in the words of another physio) ‘not an average 50-something woman’.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also say if the line is in fact not currently being answered. Once, after spending 20 min at the front of the queue, I belatedly realised that previous progress was solely due to the people in front of me giving up.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The 'education gap' being a known thing in much of rural or semi-rural Britain, of course. True in Somerset, Dorset, Norfolk, Suffolk (hence UEA exisiting), mid-Wales (Aberystwyth), east Kent (hence University of Kent, CCCU), Cumbria/NW north of Manchester...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Turns out that the people who design and run assessments are quite good at their jobs and also care deeply about not disadvantaging candidates" makes for a very boring story compared with "TEENS IN TEARS", but it has the merit of being true.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

'There has been a 12 percentage point leap in the number of UK universities reporting cutbacks to research, according to a survey carried out this year by Universities UK.' Being a global research power when you're reducing research by 12% in a year may prove a wee bit of a challenge.

researchprofessionalnews.com

Proportion of universities cutting research increases - Research Professional News

Universities UK survey shows worsening picture but more optimism about future backing for research

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Maybe this starts hitting different institutions at different times? Potentially related to restructuring, new computing systems and/or getting in management consultants.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This (and many of the other posts on this substack) has me nodding my head vigorously:

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

OH (on learning how much artisan gongs cost): would gong making be a viable long term side hustle? Me: you're suggesting a theoretical physicist does something involving hot metal...

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Or fesshole is appropriating your ‘content’…

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Enjoying an interesting book (‘Inside the box’ by David Epstein) while enjoying the Sun. But it’s amazing how much the garden has returned to the wild in the last 2 months (and it’s taking a lot of self restraint not to try and sort it out).

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Me (while watching Commonwealth games track cycling on the TV): “we should try tandem track cycling”. OH (who hasn’t ridden a bike since childhood): raises both eyebrows. Me: “asking that during a slow-mo replay of a crash was bad timing.”

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Actually no. The recovery is going really well (‘unprecedented’ in the words of the physio). Work on the other hand is a nightmare on multiple fronts (and I usually rely on movement not just for stress management but also for writing difficult emails in my head).

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This week has been a Week. And unfortunately I disposed of my unused morphine (joke), so instead I’m eating a very sickly dessert.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

arXiv has spun out as an independent non-profit like openRxiv. Today they announce their new CEO and founding Board blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/30/a...

blog.arxiv.org

arXiv welcomes inaugural CEO and founding Board of Directors

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Last night: My head: "fantastic, no more brace wearing, can sleep 'normally'." [normal=lots of moving around and contorting into random pretzel shapes] Nigel* knee: "hang on a moment." * following advice in a book on the mental aspects of recovering from injury, I've named the injured knee.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Walking again! (Albeit very slowly and carefully.)

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There is indeed a grand piano in the background, but the sound plate is on a Meinl table gong stand on the floor. Playing it over the piano string is a neat idea; I'll try that once I can stand on both legs again.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Happy to finally get my birthday present (a Grotta Sonora sound plate) set up so I can sort of play it (sat on the floor with my right leg locked flat and straight in front of me).

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There was a line in UKRI's strategy on Monday that was easily missed, and sounds somewhat innocuous, but I think signals quite a shift for UK research funding By 2030, the funder expects to have completed reform of Research England's quality-related research funding formula 🧵

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

PSA: medical grade compression socks do not provide sufficient Sun protection for (sensitive pale British) skin.

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Pursuing a side interest while working on my tan lines:

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

n.b. Currently limited details on specific projects.

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