Glad that science is starting to fill in the gaps on how Circe's magic worked.
I guess this is why Lancelot and Guinevere were so keen to find that grail. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt
Interesting take on Palantir NHS contracts arguing: 1. Federated data platform is what the NHS needs to realise benefits of AI 2. contracting to Palantir creates UK health data ownership contradictions because US CLOUD act allows US to demand data from any US company www.bmj.com/content/394/...
The CLOUD Act: NHS data must be safeguarded from US interests
The potential for foreign access to NHS data reminds us why sovereignty must underpin the federated data platform, writes David Strain The NHS is on the brink of something important. The federated d...
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Feeling deprived of academic talks over the summer? This Thursday I'm presenting new work with @zparolin.bsky.social for the Oxford Metrics & Models seminar. Online talk and all are welcome! 2pm Oxford time, 7am Colorado time. Happy to share the MS Teams link with you. metrics-and-models.github.io
Messi and lamine are going to reenact that bathing photo for the halftime show, right?
I cannot look at pickford without seeing spongebobs pineapple house.
Pronatalist policies are rising as birth rates fall. In The Lancet, LCDS researcher @sanderwagner.bsky.social says support should focus on autonomy, fertility care, childcare and parental leave — not pressure. Read: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Concerns over reproductive rights as pronatalism increases
“It is time to reflect on whether or not to have a child.” That will be the opening line of a government letter being sent to 29-year-olds in France in June, 2026. Aiming to address infertility, the l...
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This. Is. England.
Adaptive Relief UK@adaptiverelief.bsky.social · last mo.Unbelievable. In a game he played zero minutes in, Jordan Henderson got himself a yellow card and then needed to be stretchered off after injuring himself falling over the advertising board while singing #Wonderwall #MexEng *Just after the 55 second mark
I think Trump should have just called Gianni and asked him to hand the cup to the US team for the fourth of july celebrations. Asking for Balogun to be unsuspended is such a weak start to the negotiations. Whatever happened to "the art of the deal"?
This is such a bad game. Both teams should lose, ideally.
AI models exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom, due to biases in training data www.nature.com/articles/s41...
State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Harmonising French and German administrative DADS-EDP and SIAB data: A practical guide on how to create comparable data sets on maternal employment doi.org/10.1186/s126... Paper in Journal for Labour Market Research by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @sanderwagner.bsky.social et al.
Next week we are co-hosting the Gender, Family and Work Inequalities workshop together with @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Check out the full program and write yourself in if you want to follow sessions in hybrid format. sandapanda.github.io/gender-famil...
Gender, Family, and Work Inequalities — Nuffield College, Oxford, 23–24 June 2026
A two-day workshop on gender, family, and work inequalities at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. 23–24 June 2026. Organised by Juliana de Castro Galvão and Sander Wagner.
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In the three body problem there is a civilization with these long historical periods were everybody dehydrates to then rehydrate and continue history after some hundred years again. This is what gianni infantino has turned football into.
My wife went to the Harry Styles concert this weekend and told me "he copied your hairy style" afterwards. First time the mini-mullet got marital approval. Thank you Harry!
I am very cautious to pronounce myself too much on "AI effects on job market". But I consider the worries expressed here that highly female service sector jobs might be affected a reasonable potential avenue to watch out for in the data.
Group stage is sooo boring in this new format were its just extremely hard to get eliminated.
Wait the san antonio spurs were up 29 points and still lost? So being "spursy" truly is a universal and not just a tottenham quality... www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kni...
Knicks shock Spurs with largest comeback in NBA Finals history: The biggest numbers behind unbelievable Game 4
OG Anunoby's tip-in with 1.2 seconds left completed New York's 29-point comeback and put the Knicks one win away from a title
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Have to predict who will win the world cup in the friends betting pool and to my surprise the two countries I am stuck with having to chose between after a lot of deliberation are England and Portugal.
Update: I finally had my official graduation ceremony and didn't want this beautiful photo with my wonderful friends @thegargiulian.bsky.social and @andreatilstra.bsky.social go unnoticed. 👩👩👦 Thanks to our photographer @sanderwagner.bsky.social! 📸
Antonino Polizzi@polizzan.bsky.social · last yr.Feeling bittersweet as I read this wonderful thread and reflect on my time at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, + @sociologyoxford.bsky.social coming to a close. Immensely grateful to my supervisors, assessors, colleagues, + friends for making this journey so meaningful. 👨🎓📜
🚨👩🎓 We're hiring a Full Professor in Macrosociology! 👩🏫🚨 Join us in beautiful Heidelberg 🏰 starting April 1, 2027. Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions regarding the position www.mwi.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #Sociology #sociologyjobs #AcademicSky
Job vacancy: Full Professorship (W3) in “Sociology, specializing in Macrosociology” (f/m/d) - Max Weber Institute of Sociology
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On the one hand its a bit sad how barcelona is letting its most extraordinary team fall apart. On the other hand as a WSL fan, it brings so much talent to our league. Almost certain that there will be more barcelona to wsl moves this summer.
Tom Garry@tomjgarry.bsky.social · 2mo agoExclusive for @sport.theguardian.com: Alexia Putellas has agreed personal terms with London City Lionesses. More on this remarkable move here. #BarclaysWSL www.theguardian.com/football/202...