Hi, I'm being made redundant by the University of Southampton at the end of this month. I'm desperately looking for work. I'll consider all offers but have particular skills in policy, strategy and research. I also have a consultancy service I offer. Please let me know if you hear of anything

Always good to see when the parents empowering their children.

The Onion@theonion.com · 6h ago

Bay Area Children Set Up Adrenochrome Stand On Side Of Road https://theonion.com/bay-area-children-set-up-adrenochrome-stand-on-side-of-road/

Russia's ballistic strikes on Ukraine hit a 2026 record in July The barrage mixed Iskander-M, North Korean KN-23, and repurposed S-300/S-400 missiles, the monitoring project Oko Gora found. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/03/t...

And here are the final scores on the doors from today at the Garstang Show- a clear theme emerged once again- we need to #GetBrexitUndone and #RejoinEU!

I'm still amazed that the team which invented the Transformer never got properly rewarded (also google). At the end that kicked off the AI revolution and the chatbots. It might be totally inefficient but that would deserve a Noble Prize. www.ft.com/content/37bb...

Transformers: the Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution

Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models. But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant

ft.com

Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · 5d ago

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

Did nobody use the headline Alpha Folds

Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · 5d ago

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

this is my new favorite diagram

Diane Abbott calls Russia’s full scale invasion against Ukraine, which last night murdered nine civilians and earlier this week killed an 18 month old baby “The NATO campaign against Russia” youtu.be/SMBjoiMskxA?...

Diane Abbott MP

YouTube video by StoptheWarCoalition

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reading the Southport Inquiry into the murder of 3 little girls (+ injury/trauma to many more), and the murderer's online history, and it's noticeable that they literally single out X as the only institution/company that refused to cooperate.

I couldn't believe it so I went in and asked: "Add a herd of Haggis!" and it did.

Thomas Wiegold@wiegold.de · 6d ago

Puh.

That works on various levels!

Darrell Mast@darrellmast.bsky.social · 6d ago

The great fascist bake off.

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Nearly a decade after starting the project, the first major results from our comparative connectomics work is online! Comparing the head direction circuits of the central complex in bees, ants and flies, recapitulating >300million years of evolution.

Age 5.

Remember Gaza@remembergaza.bsky.social · last wk.

In memory of: Nisreen Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Sawalhi / نسرين ابراهيم أحمد الصوالحي Age: 5 We will not forget you.

EPSRC grant submission system reminds me that emojis in the form count as more than one character. 🤓

Erm, shouldn't university research also benefit UK national security? I'm actually proud that the University of Nottingham is part of the Defence Universities Alliance alongside other unis. And you'd think that research investment and careers for our students would be something to champion.

University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · 3w ago

So the financial plan for the university is to gut the humanities for parts and sell ourselves to the war machine? www.gov.uk/government/n...

After Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered.bsky.social a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.

Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm

Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thes…

retractionwatch.com

No. Someone did a TINY trial on 47 overweight people, 26 of whom had restricted eating hours. They presented their non peer reviewed findings at a conference. Science journalists who should know better bigged up the press release. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find

Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests

theguardian.com

Got an e-mail from this "journal" asking me to submit. The charge will only be revealed during submission via this web form: directivepublications.org/submit Exciting! So looked at the "World Neurosurgery Research" and this "mini review" which is so mini that is has just an abstract and intro!

Am Christopher Street Day ist in Berlin am Tiergarten ein Transporter in eine Menschenmenge gefahren. Dabei ist ein Mensch getötet worden, 14 weitere wurden verletzt. Es ist traurig und entsetzlich. Ist es eine politisch motivierte Tat, durch den rechten Kulzurkampf? #CSDBerlin #B2507

CSD in Berlin: Fahrzeug in Menschenmenge gefahren - ein Toter und Verletzte

Der Berliner Christopher Street Day ist abgebrochen worden. Laut Polizei ist ein Fahrzeug in eine Menschenmenge gefahren. Demnach starb ein Mensch, mehrere Menschen wurden verletzt.

tagesschau.de

Kherson resident Kateryna showed how she has to move around the city - under trees, always watching out for drones and praying. People in Kherson don't go outside without an urgent need. Russia is trying to make Kherson uninhabitable. 📹: ekaterina_feniks7/Instagram

We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.

😬

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

You may think you’ve seen the worst edtech product ever, but there’s always tomorrow.

The Nordmende Spectra Color Studio TV System (1973) was the original multiview , letting viewers watch 4 different TV shows at a time.

OpenAI is doing this because Mythos got airtime thanks to the media that does press-release-as-aservice. So now, as one security engineer put it, “something which would have been an embarrassment ten years ago is now repackaged as a capability demo, a heroic AI-vs-AI story and a marketing pitch"

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me · 2w ago

It's totally unprecedented, nothing like the same marketing hype cycle Anthropic did around their model "going rogue" and "breaching containment" recently. Not like that at all

Can we just stop sharing that an Open AI model "went rogue"; it's fearmongering and gaslighting instead of admitting an engineering "we screwed up the permissions in the production code" mistake? "Oh, my cake went rogue, somehow salt appeared in after I put salt in it." #llm #ai #openai #science

That stretcher from the Chinese competition would have come handy.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.

UK could be leading in AI by developing new algorithms which replace the current energy guzzling brute force algorithm called "transformer" and revolutionise the world of AI. But yeah, let's just subscribe to openAI's and Anthopric's API. Let's just become dependent on it as much as possible. 🥳

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2w ago

The AI minister thinks the UK should focus on being the world's best AI adopter, not the world's best AI model builder He said Britain can move "further and faster" than the US in applying AI across healthcare, public services and the wider economy (3/6)

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago