Tell me this kind of faunal disrespect hasn't always passed without the sticking in of the proverbial boot. They're *ravens*, Elizabeth. And she isn't the only one. Paulin's done the same. A minimum of 12 points on the poet's licence.
Free watts from stuffed bras? That's global warming sorted then. 'concern over riders wearing over-sized bras stuffed with padding in the quest for free watts' velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra...
Bra Boosters Are Causing a Clothing Controversy at the Tour de France Femmes
Wielerflits reports teams are urging the UCI to implement checks for riders illegally 'bra-maxxing' for aero advantage at the Tour de France Femmes.
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A chalice of sorts? Or a 'rare opportunity to lead one of the most significant organisational transformation programmes within [UKRI]. As the [STFC] Transformation Director, you will provide strategic leadership for STFC's transformation'? uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a...
Transformation Programme Director - Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) - Swindon - Indeed.com
UK Research and Innovation
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When a US publisher produces the US edition of a memoir published first in the UK, does it normally replace simple past with historical present? At nearly every opportunity in ‘A Year on the Wing’, Simon & Schuster’s ed of Tim Dee's ‘The Running Sky’, pub'd in UK by Jonathan Cape, it does this.
As a historian of Jodrell Bank, I agree! And the reason it is important is that it has been made to mean different things to different people at different times. Who's up for a mega thread on how and why? (I'm off for lunch now, but I'll do it after. I'll need the energy...)
John Grindrod@grindrod.bsky.social · last wk.Really one of the most important postwar sites in Britain
909. Je me souviens que Raymond Queneau fit entrer Patrick Modiano dans le monde littéraire après lui avoir donné des leçons particulières de mathématiques.
Watched a juv great crested grebe being fed by parent from high enough to see, through polaroid glasses, just how ridiculously far back the legs are attached to the body. They aren't legs at all, are they?
Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
Every day’s a school day… there’s a great paper in the @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social 2024 Report by Mark Cocker, on mimicry in Common Redstarts. He recorded 56(!) species in Redstart songs in 2025 - listen to a sample here and see how many you can get! #UKbirding #ornithology xeno-canto.org/1048967
XC1048967 Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
I examined the recording for mimicry. And suggest the following examples in the course of the nine + minutes. The intitial numbers 1-63 refer to the song units in sequence. A question mark immediatel...
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what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.
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/
As an Egyptian, I am only ever going to say this once: We feel for you, England.
I'm not watching but I can hear a lot of folk cheering in the West End of Glasgow so I think that's good
In this episode, we wonder what kind of reader Melville was, and conclude - with the help of the incredible 'Melville's Marginalia Online' project - that the answer is "an angry one". Here he is slagging off an illustration he doesn't like in Thomas Beale's 1839 'Natural History of the Sperm Whale'
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored
EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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Tracks. 5 years ago our little education technology journal got 300 submissions in a year. Today we passed 900 in 6 months. It's not all LLMs of course, but that is an infuriating part of the problem...
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · last mo.I've heard in the past few days from three journals in different fields that submissions have increased 40-50% in the past few years. Not great...
Didn't realize John Berger put the entirety of WAYS OF SEEING online for free, but it sure seems he did: www.ways-of-seeing.com
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a seminal text based on the 1972 BBC series of the same name, which explores the role of art in western civilization and how it has shaped how the world is seen.
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That was my first thought. I wondered if I had slipped down the wrong trouser leg of Time.
Got a look tother day at Nottingham's new Trent bridge, a newtork arch bridge for pedestrians and cyclists connecting Lady Bay to the Trent basin.
Summer was glorious in Thetford this year.
BirdTrack@birdtrack.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreen Sandpiper seen by @sconebirding.bsky.social at BTO HQ in Thetford this morning - the start of autumn migration! Mid-June is a typical date for first returners from Fennoscandian breeding grounds, before autumn migration peaks in August #ukbirding Photo: Allan Drewitt / BTO
One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“The installation, unveiled in February 2024, allows guests to ask Douglass questions through an iPad. Using a closed database of Douglass’s autobiographies and speeches, the artificial intelligence generates responses based solely on Douglass’s recorded words.”
TIL cormorants are not mute. How did it take this long to learn that? A singleton swimming and diving in the Trent near Derby city centre produced a brief sax-like note that resounded in the space under a low bridge, then repeated it just after surfacing from a dive. And again. Weird.
Ominous phrase heard in a recent meeting: "the AI-powered student". I suppose it's more concise than the term I'd use, which is "a case brought under section 29(c) of the Academic Misconduct Procedure".
