@michaelhobbes.bsky.social presumably many people have said this but “Mindfuck” is so ready for a IBCK that I started reading bits of it in your voice before taking that as A Sign and bailing.
Joe Reddington
@joereddington.com
he/him. Dad. Into: vegan food, collaborative writing, disability, memory palaces, and my code someday working. Runs a charity. Cyber security lecturer at Royal Holloway. Glass sibling.
I’m now working at University of Hertfordshire two days a week (still three days a week at Royal Holloway). Hit me up if you are UoH #academicsky
The thing is, I don’t remember any of this - there was a day when nobody thought it was an option, then a literal day when it might happen, then it was irreversibly happening. There wasn’t a persuasion phase.
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · last yr.If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
This is what Turing’s statue looks like on his birthday ❤️
This is the before of an enormous amount of attacking plants with shears today.
Me, about to do a simple Arduino project: “I spent eight years in C++, four of them squeezing every gram of performance out of it, this will be simple” Me, an hour later: “what is this unwieldy bastard language?” _throws header file across the room_ #academicsky
It's backed-up by research! "samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles" unless "they referred to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities who may be perceived as exceptions to assumed generalizability of the White American population" #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1177/1948...
Aleksandra Lazić, PhD@alelazic.bsky.social · last yr.Editors to underrepresented researchers: Put your country in the title. Global North authors: Don't bother. Everyone else: Cites the US/UK/Australia... study because it *sounds* universal and more generalizable. Result: Underrepresented voices stay invisible. #AcademicSky
Pep Guardiola delivered these comments while receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Manchester yesterday. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola 'so scared' by Israel-Gaza war
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he is
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Anyone in #academicsky successfully put snippets of lectures onto something like TikTok?
my three year old just invited us onto his podcast be like my three year old: invite me onto your podcast
Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world. They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones
The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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We should introduce a new:use of colons in formal writing for this purpose.
Reece Barlow@reece-barlow.bsky.social · last yr.You're damn right I use commas incorrectly. That's how you know this wasn't written, by AI #academicsky
You're damn right I use commas incorrectly. That's how you know this wasn't written, by AI #academicsky
Today I keep having to write “masters-level” and “3rd year level” and I am constantly thinking this:
I have brought the access cards for three different universities to the university I work at, which is the fourth one.
Wikipedia Once Again Asking for $1 in Exchange For Teaching You Everything You’ve Ever Learned thehardtimes.net/culture/wiki...
Wikipedia Once Again Asking for $1 in Exchange For Teaching You Everything You’ve Ever Learned
Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia known for its convenience, comprehensiveness, depth, and reliability on every subject known to man has mustered the nerve to ask for one whole dollar from its users ...
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tonight’s the night comparing myself to others makes me feel BETTER I can sense it!!!
Comedian Eddie Izzard is so #genderfluid she's taken up every single space on the D&D gender alignment chart!
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
Mercy and I were talking about *gestures at the world* this weekend and she said "let's be honest, if the pictures coming out of Palestine and Sudan were of dogs and cats instead of Brown people, white people would be forcing it to stop," and I can't stop thinking about that
Tonight I’m fixing my 3D printer and you guys are keeping me interested during the boring bits.
