Prof Jason Arday has resigned from Cambridge after the University announced plans to investigate allegations of plagiarism www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Cambridge professor Jason Arday resigns amid accusations of plagiarism

Sociology professor to stand down after university announces investigation into his qualifications and career

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i can't believe they fucking threw Ireland into the sun

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 4h ago

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

genuinely why doesn't Google Maps have a setting you can tick that says "I will not in fact die on the spot if I have to walk for over 20 minutes and would prefer a walk and a tube to somehow seventeen buses"

This is what AI should do. It's obvious I'm going to the services FGS ! Why not give me recommendations as to which coffee is the best rather than incessantly telling me to turn around?

Andy Kingdon 🔶️@andygeology.bsky.social · 9h ago

I'd also add a "just nipping into the services for a wee" button to Google maps driving directions. So you don't get bombarded with instructions to "make a u turn" back onto the motorway when you have the temerity to want to empty your bladder.

I'd also add a "just nipping into the services for a wee" button to Google maps driving directions. So you don't get bombarded with instructions to "make a u turn" back onto the motorway when you have the temerity to want to empty your bladder.

I think there is a big difference between people who just say (and write) 'bad things' and people who want to be voted in to make 'bad things' actually happen. In general Bluesky doesn't seem to agree with me.

“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Alright the Jason Arday stuff has barely penetrated BlueSky obviously but holy guacamole you guys

We just need one more post about right wing hypocrisy & they're sure to come round.

saying this not as a dig to Paul but as a general point, but it does worry me that we've ended up in a world where the two options are seemingly "leftist bubble" or "oh hey the nazis are here" - surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc?

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d ago

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'

In my feed over on X rn FYI. Tik tok of wheelchair user, walking up station steps when lift out of service. Jason Arday plagiarism. Tributes to Rod Liddle.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a 4th-century Roman gold ring with an openwork ‘pelta’ design from Corbridge Roman Town at the English Heritage site museum. Perhaps pelta motifs were a popular ornamental shape for Late Roman jewellery, hence Venus’s pelta-shaped diadem?

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

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I'm convinced my house has become a battle ground between moths and spiders

Only 12.5% of the accommodation in this hotel is occupied, which makes one ruminate.

I think if we really put our heads together we can probably solve Covid policy in the next few hours here on Bluesky

Go over to X and look up Spokane

Your regular reminder that this is only the early stages of climate change and if we don't act soon we will trigger changes that no-one can limit or control as feedback loops kick in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert

Some 19 major Italian cities - including Rome, Milan and Naples - are already on red alert, and by Monday all but two will be.

bbc.co.uk

Trip up to coldstream in the van yesterday and a journey on a light railway. Kids were buzzing.

Are you going to look at how to improve prospects for those children - as it is worth reporting on? Here’s one issue from transport (our interest). We know that 20mph makes it easier for children to play out & travel independently (so good for mental & physical health) yet adults are against it.

"They want to make car use more difficult": Critics slam 20mph plan for England | Autocar

MPs accused of wanting to "make car use more difficult" over proposal for 20mph default limit

autocar.co.uk

Simply love the reopened North Bridge, where Edinburgh Council took advantage of eight years of works to put active travel and pedestrians first

Duddo Stone Circle in Northumberland. The circle is incomplete with a sixth stone now missing on the circle’s western side. Excavations in 2008 suggest a construction date during the early Bronze Age. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Northumberland

St. Cuthbert’s Cave - Reputed to be one of the resting places for the body of St. Cuthbert on its journey from Lindisfarne to Durham during the 11th century. The cave is situated in the Kyloe Hills near Holburn in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Northumberland #Cuthbert

The problem of manipulation is on the table. Stealing the current books, buying the old books, and cooperating with large archives and collections and libraries, like in Oxford, is part of the same agenda. It is about controlling the information of the future. That’s what is really on the table.

Text mining before the age of LLM training.

It is hard to get a nuanced conversation about it. As a class teacher at the time I hated what it did to schools and the kids. I couldn't wait to get back. But I was never really at risk, and colleagues that were, were terrified. With hindsight there was a better way. At the time, we did our best

(I get that Bluesky is very obviously the Wow We Loved Lockdowns website but I think it's absolutely fine, five years after the fact, to wonder if we got the balance right between "protecting older people" and "making sure younger people weren't getting entirely shafted", arguments are allowed)

The righteous vitriol that Bluesky sometimes generates, viewed dispassionately, is a very curious psychosocial phenomenon.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

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