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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Curious, all the more so because Times Higher don’t seem bothered to contest or comment on the allegations. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I actually think the AI Agent debate is now - and for the foreseeable future - much simpler than this. Given the havoc created by successive civilisations of nefarious AI agents and the evident inability of the AI firms to lock them down, they should simply be outlawed.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

glaring monochrome that's how the cameras were calibrated

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yes but It’s insane to judge the entire process on early results. And personally I don’t need this advice. I keep everything on a very even keel anyway. But ultimately maybe this amounts to simply feeling less. Is that actually good?

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Trying out the new and now settled in @theobserveruk.bsky.social this Sunday. “Vronsky redux, anyone?” is how the page of editorials (p3, before the news) concludes. I like re-reading Anna Karenina as much as anyone, but I have no idea what or who is intended by this.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Saw Sambizanga last night at the BFI. An unforgettable film that you watch as much for the verité as the drama. It’s an amazingly immersive dive into a particular place and time (Luanda 1972). It’s on again in the coming weeks so go if you can!

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is how the nuclear industry petred out in failure throughout many countries in the 1980s and 90s

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An experiment has observed an energy flash comparable to that of the long-sought weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP. Article: Davide Castelvecchi @nature.com 2/3

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Is this the first glimpse of dark matter? Data point excites physicists

An experiment spots an energy flash similar to that of the long-sought weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I know. It was a really dispiriting watch.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I think a lot of what is described as tactics or attitude these days is actually choices about how much energy to use in different phases of the match. Players can’t manage 100% for 90. So teams manage it all the time. In this case their calibration was massively off and they left a lot in the tank.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Well she had to hand Buckingham the tape of her 10 minute composition so that he could orchestrate the guitars etc. some moment

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What I will say about the US-Canada trade spat is that time is on Carney’s side. Every day this goes on is a day that Americans are reminded that they don’t like Trump fucking with their longtime friends in Canada. And the midterms are coming.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We need a systematic mapping of what, for want of a better word, we could call Big Anti-Science.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For example, there are two places that could be re-flooded and entirely new, water-based resorts or cities created - the Fens and the Rye-Dungeness bit in Sussex.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Aren't you in fact making the case for a hospitality sectoral strategy? If we want a sector like Spain, it won't come just from those things. Eg we would need to rezone and redevelop large swathes of land, probably requiring rethinking national legislation passed when the tradeoffs were v different.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hezza's approach to industries is strikingly similar to Burnham's to regions, eg with his decision to send civil servants out from the centre.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

a) no industry will be understood when the government doesn't have an industrial strategy; the whole point of the Thatcher settlement was to not understand. b) True. c) Whether the government in reality develops an industrial strategy remains up in the air, in my view.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yes. Although wrong about a standalone department, he can be right in seeing that the state doesn’t understand the hospitality industry and could be a more constructive actor. This is what happens when you haven’t had an industrial strategy for 40 years.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Waiting in Moquette Fun photography of Andreya wearing a classic London Underground patterned moquette dress & socks whilst waiting for a train at Bank station. #photography

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Bakerloo Line Moquette Tattoo I'm a big fan of the moquette patterns that you can find on London Transport, especially underground trains. So it was an absolute pleasure meeting Liz who had a very detailed Bakerloo line Tattoo. #tattoo #photography #railway

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Fun selfie in the Victoria Line PlayStation carriage! I couldn't resist wearing my Victoria line moquette Jacket.

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Cule @cule.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Un peu chelou l'hôtel ici mais là moquette est très classe.

Une moquette à motifs géométriques hexagonaux orange, noir et rouge.

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Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Emily's wonderful performance on Mastermind with specialist subject TfL moquettes - here's a 2009 pic with the top 3 designs in the international competition we at London Underground ran to re-start the process of commissioning designs. Seen against the PPP moquette that kicked it off!

Photo showing three printed moquette fabric designs, on a Piccadilly line train, that were the top three from the 2009/10 international competition for new seating fabrics held by London Underground seen against the PPP Tubelines moquette the off the shelf design that started the quest. The winner"Barman" as it was named and designed by Wallace/Sewell is in the middle seat.

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Sophie Nercessian @bettyparciparla.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Dame Nature a changé la moquette! 🧡🍂

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Plagiarism" is just a word that is never used outside of an academic context, so it screams "academia" to the general reader. Whereas, say, "lied to the empoyer during the recruitment process" is completely generic.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I am wary of flowers as they seem too ... variable.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

AI response: 'The phrase "McDonald's Omega" can refer to a physical McDonald's restaurant location in the Omega business park area of Warrington, UK, vintage corporate-branded Omega wristwatches given to franchise owners, or "McDonald's omega," a statistical measure used in psychological research'

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 21/08/2026

Extremely thorough post on Cofnas case by Sunder here

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My sleep is off because camomile tea is not what it used to be. First Sainsbury’s and now Waitrose bags have lost their punch. Does anyone else who uses this stuff to get through the night have any suggestions?

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In my next life I want to design what I now know are called moquettes.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“For years, governments have wasted money on useless degrees and ungrateful universities when the backbone of Britain, real Britain, the men and women who get up and go to work in the dark and come home in the dark have been ignored,” says a party document outlining the policy.' 2/3

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

a graph of data center support rapidly falling

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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm now at the point where I'm not even sure peer review is doing anything at all. I don't think people in our field understand how prevalent copy-pasting AI output into peer reviews is. It genuinely makes me question what we're all even trying to do anymore. Our field needs to decide what it values

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 21/08/2026

I think the gatekeeping function of peer review is still intact. People still form opinions about papers, even if there's a risk that they increasingly do so based on superficial readings. At the same time, AI can also flag issues that reviewers might previously have overlooked. 1/4

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's basically what you'd expect, right? In the olden days it used to just be called 'doing your child's homework for them' and the results were the same

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't know if it has to be fear of change. We all grow up living a certain way and we're comfortable with that. The music of our teens is an example - but, unlike material reality, the tracks are always available. To be expected to live a different way is intrinsically unsettling.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Acceleration? The familiar fabric of life is ripped away ever faster and the older you are the greater the deviation from the normal of your childhood.

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This should be keeping every scientist awake at night.

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