Alan Rew
@alanrew.bsky.social
UK-based retired software developer. Art, Photography, Science, Music, Economics, Politics, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Architecture, Archaeology I can't send/receive DMs here. Signal: alan.285
Off-label testosterone use may raise cardiovascular risk for men www.healio.com/news/endocri...
Off-label testosterone use may raise cardiovascular risk for men
Men prescribed testosterone therapy despite no symptoms of hypogonadism have higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality than men with hypogonadism using testosterone t...
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This is a sorry affair. I had not heard of Arday before this, but I know Nathan Cofnas is an arse and his output risible and vapid. It strikes me that nether should ever have been employed if good scholarship is important to a serious institution.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 1h agoProf Jason Arday has resigned from Cambridge after the University announced plans to investigate allegations of plagiarism www.theguardian.com/education/20...
London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says
London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says
Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches
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Last week saw yet more wrangling at the high court over how much Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence, Elton John and their fellow claimants will be obliged to pay the publishers of the Daily Mail for the case they so comprehensively lost against them. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
"Corruption is the default setting when one-country-one-vote means an atoll declaring independence will be welcomed into FIDE before the tide’s gone out and with the same voting rights as the US and China." Very instructive comparison between FIFA & FIDE, corrupt institutions.
Jonathan Manley@kingpined.bsky.social · 5h ago#FIFA and #FIDE have much in common. An old article but the main issues haven't changed. www.kingpinchess.net/2013/09/we-a...
#FIFA and #FIDE have much in common. An old article but the main issues haven't changed. www.kingpinchess.net/2013/09/we-a...
Kingpin Chess Magazine » We Are Family
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NEW: This month, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to be launched. It’ll find hidden planets and moons, and uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy. I also found out that it’ll defend Earth from killer asteroids. Me @techreviewjp.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/05/1...
NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well placed to help us spot any dangerous rocks heading our way.
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Smol Paul and his new sidekick Smolla Paula: the wobbly monochrome partnership in crime we all need right now. Thank you so much for contributing to our fundraiser so we could make this happen -- I can't stop laughing at their little faces!
Multi-omic analysis of 1,154 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 showed widespread reactivation of chronic viruses from the Herpesviridae and Anelloviridae families. Evidence of reactivation could be linked to the later presence of LC #LongCovid www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...
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- one of my favourite walls - I stop to look for one moment and a new world appears
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d agoEndometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
“His views could hurt his chances”!? His views are the very reason he won. It’s not money. It’s not legacy. It’s the choice to stand up to defend people’s livelihoods against corporate interests that led him to victory and gives him the best shot at victory in November.
Shaking my head here reading the Jason Arday resignation letter goodlawproject.org/an-update-fr... There's no contrition here. Does he believe he did nothing wrong? Looks like he was hounded by all the wrong people, *and* embellished a lot of what he did, *and* institutions turned a blind eye
An update from Jason Arday | Good Law Project
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In this image that evokes a "Parent and child" scene, are a pair of Goniatite fossils that have lain facing each other in the sediment layers, that make up the Cliffs of Moher, for over 300 million years. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours
Why has Patrick Vallance, former Counsellor at the Tony Blair Institute, been appointed to head the UK's new AI Taskforce? Inside the UK's quiet AI government overhaul 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/at-the-cen...
Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel An independent Scotland joining the EU and Schengen is more likely than this! A #CrossChannelRail quick rant jonworth.eu/forget-it-th...
Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel
There's a higher chance that Scotland becomes independent, and joins the EU and Schengen, than the Caledonian Sleeper is extended through the Channel Tunnel under the current political framework. Rea...
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Most of what we used to rather quaintly call "fake news" was of the negative, destructive nature But there is sort of the opposite The cheery optimistic thing, that nevertheless is still utter guff Sure, a Edinburgh - Paris train would be nice. But the idea is STILL GUFF
Link to English-language version openai.com/research/ver...
Verify OpenAI-generated content
Verify if an image or audio file was generated using OpenAI tools. Upload a file to look for provenance signals like C2PA metadata or SynthID watermarks.
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Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 14h agoPS: If you want to check this image (or others) for OpenAI watermarks, this might actually be helpful openai.com/de-DE/resear...
PS: If you want to check this image (or others) for OpenAI watermarks, this might actually be helpful openai.com/de-DE/resear...
Von OpenAI generierte Inhalte verifizieren
Überprüfe, ob ein Bild oder eine Audiodatei mithilfe von OpenAI-Tools generiert wurde. Lade eine Datei hoch, um nach Herkunftssignalen wie C2PA-Metadaten oder SynthID-Wasserzeichen zu suchen.
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This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/
Reading about the Welsh Star Wars translation for a podcast tomorrow and felt... oddly moved by it? Despite being neither a Star Wars fan nor Welsh?
Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time for S4C broadcast
Rhys Ifans, Matthew Rhys, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Mark Lewis Jones among actors voicing characters from 1977 blockbuster
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Surprise surprise. Ever dodgier financial dealings by the Reform tribe unveiled... www.ft.com/content/4abf... What a cabal of rogues!
Reform repaid Tice loan on same day £1mn donated by mother of Farage aide Cottrell
Transactions fuel criticism of the party’s lack of transparency over its financing
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Jason Arday resigns. Regardless of everything, hard not to feel like he has been repeatedly failed by serial institutions, which failed to instruct him or guide him into reputable academic work, and traded off his story without checking it.
NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta
