You never know what might be lurking in a Cambridge drawer.

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

Wolfson College, 11 May 2026

Great headline from BBC News

Time to get some work done.

Things brightening up at Wolfson College 🪻💐

Mission complete #LondonMarathon

Tomorrow! 🏃⏳🏁

One week to go 🏁…⏳…🏃‍♂️

11 days...

Trumpington St, Cambridge.

In one month I’ll be running the London Marathon (my first ever marathon) in memory of my parents, raising money for Macmillian Caring Locally. @londonmarathon.bsky.social @justgiving.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/page/matt-fa...

Well, that was fun.

I’ll be honest. I was hoping the Half Marathon would be a break from the day job.

Morning at Wolfson College.

Today @ CamPoS: Dr Milena Ivanova (Cambridge) is presenting 'AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics'. Full details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

Craig Callender, the unreformable Humean, reviews Loewer’s book with lots of cooking and home improvement metaphors. Both delightful and informative #philsci #philsky

All action at Great St Mary’s today. #TodayInCambridge

Fun day talking (and listening) about time at the @iop.org ⏳

Off to talk about Time at this exciting event at the Institute of Physics tomorrow. @iop.org iop.eventsair.com/rems-feb2026/

Course: The Principle of Indifference Background knowledge: None required

Today’s running route turned out to be easier for the swans. 🤿

Today’s fun…

Getting to the stage of marathon training where my watch casually suggests a gentle 24-hour run before work.

Some colour on St Mary’s Street.

More happy with the positioning within the age category than the age category itself, but you can’t have everything. 🏃⌛️ #parkrun #relentlessunfathomablecruelunforgivingpassageoftime

In 100 days I'll be running my first marathon - the London Marathon - in memory of my mum, who we lost a few months ago to cancer. I'm fundraising for Macmillan Caring Locally, the charity that supported her hospice care and those with similar terminal illnesses. www.justgiving.com/page/matt-fa...

In 100 days I'll be running my first marathon - the London Marathon - in memory of my mum, who we lost a few months ago to cancer. I'm fundraising for Macmillan Caring Locally, the charity that supported her hospice care and those with similar terminal illnesses. www.justgiving.com/page/matt-fa...

Chilly morning in Cambridge.

🤘

‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?

Fewer

A resolution I actually managed to keep. Year 4: More improvement! • distance up from 1384km (2024) to 1673km (2025) • New PBs at each distance - 5k: 21:28 ➡️ 20:44 - 10k: 45:12 ➡️ 43:20 - HM: 1:45:49 ➡️ 1:42:29 2026 aims: first marathon, keep getting a bit faster.

Birthday boy 🎁

Christmassy in Cambridge.

The scaffolding is finally down, just in time for Christmas at Wolfson College.

🎉Warmest congratulations to Dr Jessie Munton on the publication of her book, Priority and Prejudice: The Epistemology of Salience and Attention (OUP) 📘 @jessiemunton.bsky.social @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Thanks to the huge work of @milenaivanova.bsky.social history and philosophy of science will now be taught at the Professional and Contunuing Education at Cambridge. Bravo, Milena! Please share so she recuits a strong first cohort to start in autumn 2026. #philsci #histsci #hps

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

As Trump prepares to accept the FIFA Peace Prize (?!) and make the World Cup draw (?!?!), a reminder that he previously did the quarterfinal draw for the 1992 Rumbelows Cup.

This is a really nice discussion about Game Theory, if you can get past the initial coffee slander.

Here’s one for the first lecture of my Probability course next term: India’s men’s cricket team have lost 20 consecutive coin tosses in one-day internationals.

Leftovers?

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

I approve of the cover 👌

Time passes, but Radiohead are still Radiohead.

Merry Ozmas.

And like clockwork, the Catz ginkgo is looking good.

Damn, and Andy Rourke just a couple of years ago.