So many issues in Digital would be solved with those old fashioned meeting agendas and minutes, but Digital kids are far too cool for that. Only Ceremonies on Miro! Writing things down is for losers!! Let’s do another icebreaker!!!
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Researcher in digital, recovering academic. Data feminist. On about games, books, cats, telly. Always #LWithTheT She/her
I suspect men who do it never spot that they thank women for their work, like they’ve done them a favour, vs praise other men about their work, like they’re impressed by them. But I wonder if the men receiving those compliments, rather than a head pat, ever recognise the discrepancy.
Oh no! Look over there! An AI, which is a thing with intentions, has Gone Rogue!! *quickly throws a blanket over flawed security systems and poor evaluation parameters*
Guy pulled into Sainsbury’s blasting Eminem, with Real Slim Shady decals on his car, and wearing an Eminem T-shirt. He is a mystery. He is unknowable. His likes? His preferences? Who can say. Truly we remain ever a mystery to our fellow man.
Ann Droid was great. I’ve decided it’s the very British answer to Murderbot (which I adored) - instead of fighting aliens it’s robots vs the crumbling social care system, and instead of TV serials it’s got Cotten Eye Joe
They never complain about the historical accuracy of the women they’re meant to fancy having perfect teeth.
The collective blindfold that so many researchers have put on around AI inaccuracy somehow not mattering is full emperors new clothes cliche. Like, that should sink anything as a tool for research. But we just absorb it as needing “better prompts” as if it’s childish to criticise the AI.
The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
I understand reacting to that Hegseth news as “oh so they get gender affirming care!” But what’s being proposed is about forcing unscientific standards of gender onto people. So it’s very much not, and I don’t think it helps to equate it to something nonconsensually enforced on someone else’s whim.
It is homophobic that that the men’s football is STILL on yet there is no I Kissed A Girl reunion episode.
This really nails the problem with a lot of the meet in the middle, stop purity tests chiding that we hear.
Alice Bennett@aliceponderland.bsky.social · 3w agoIt’s not really that political either - it’s never about differing approaches to reducing national debt, it’s usually some moral fundamental like who should have rights.
If the English don't do this they have no banter. They will have lost the Bandate of Heaven
Micah@rincewind.run · 4w agoI will take back every rude thing I have ever said about England if Count Binface beats Nigel Farage in the by-election
Yep, yeah, this is fine. Who needs science communication or GLAM sci when there's a misinformation crisis?
Science Gallery London to close at the end of July - Museums Association
Site's closure follows announcement that international network of science galleries is also shutting down
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"The Hidden History of X" if you dont count the archivists and librarians, and historians who actually made every effort to un-hide the histories
Erratic Reader@randomreader.bsky.social · last mo.It's always interesting how people find things "hidden" in the archives by using a finding aid created for the purpose of helping people find things.
My dog perfectly times her naughty behaviour for just after I’ve started saying “good girl!” about something else.
You know the AI can lie to you about whether it’s lying, right? Like it’s not a foolproof safety mechanism to tell it to be accurate.
Watching Dante’s Peak for some temperature-appropriate nonsense.
“My job is just…prompt.”
Dr Michele V@micheleveldsman.bsky.social · last mo.“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer! Here's how many summers topped 32°C 70s 4 80s 2 90s 8 2000s 6 2010s all of them 2020s all of them And here's how many summers topped 35°C 70s 1 80s 0 90s 2 2000s 2 2010s 3 2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/24: non-binary songbirds
Ah humans. Silly little meatbags always confusing myths with pasta.
Richard Littler@richardlittler.bsky.social · last mo.Just wow. I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"
How my cats act when the bedroom fan briefly passes them
Twister
Alt: Helen Hunt holding on for dear life I the middle of a tornado in Twister
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It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering
Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · last mo.UK to Universities: drop dead archive.is/PN5y7
I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.
Reminds me of the time I got called “ridiculous” by Reg Holdsworth’s wife off Corrie because of a tweet 😂 x
Henry Morris@mrhenrymorris.substack.com · last mo.Twitter is currently great if you need a fix of people talking about "the Summer of 1976" as if it were one of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.
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The Dragon Has Some Complaints
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As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTherapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison