Researchers have been developing new metascience project ideas in the MS Labs at #metascience2025. Maria Aleksandrova developed her idea yesterday and then spent 24 hours interviewing researchers and funders at the conference to make her pitch in the final session today. Heroic effort! 🚀

@dashunwang.bsky.social "my team has been playing around with the science of science" Understatement of #metascience2025?

What is the impact of AI om science is a big question at #metascience2025 Extend your curiosity by finding my colleague @ampudia.bsky.social at tonight's poster session with an excellent study of AlphaFold2's impact on science. Here's a sneak preview... 🧵

Easy to feel you're at the centre of a growing universe at the 4th #metascience2025 with >800 attendees. CASSSP (Chinese Association of Science of Science and Science & Technology Policy) had its 21st conference in 2024 with 1600 attendees. All serving one rapidly growing national ecosystem

At #metascience2025 for day 2 Come find me if you're interested in: - tracking the impact of funding on the direction of science - AI in science - open source code and science

Q at #metascience2025 - Funders create a lot of value just by putting out calls and soliciting great ideas from researchers. How can we capitalise on that? Reminds me of 'research dark matter' and another approach I thought about for capturing it academic-idea-exchange.replit.app

What if researchers could share ideas they might never do, but still get credit for them? What if they could trawl the ideas to discover your what other researchers in their field thought was most impactful? That's possible with a new research idea sharing platform academic-idea-exchange.replit.app

Still think regularly about the talk on coastal plastic pollution I once attended where the speaker was French and said "bitch clean ups" about 50 times and I struggled to hold it together

Planning to embed all 380k of these little galaxy images, put them through UMAP, then sit back and let the insights wash over me www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

TIL the "Labour" in Labour Party actually means making people work. I thought it was something to do with representing labour unions and the working class. Thanks to Shabana Mahmood for the illuminating history lesson.

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@graceblakeley.bsky.social points out importantly in Vulture Capitalism, it's not about states vs markets. It's about using the state for capital accumulation. This move will be about attacking things that hinder profit for Bezos, while he simultaneously pursues gov interventions that benefit him.

Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem really really brought this home to me. The size of space, the extent of time and the almost inevitable impermanence of anything you do. Liberating, inspiring and humbling all at once.

Berkeley is cutting affordable housing from 35% to 12% in its redevelopment of Peckham's Ayleham site. Shocking no one and angering 1000s. In 2023 there were 12,000 households on Southwark's social housing waiting list.

Cannot stand cultural appropriation

The Jam's Smithers-Jones is a top B-side. Most of the the band's social commentary was penned by frontman Paul Weller, but Bruce Foxton succinctly sums up the everyday experience of being working class in this tune. Still relevant today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H85z...

Not talked about enough is the need for taxation to simply curb the wealth of the ultra-rich for the sake of democracy. The political power of a tiny class of individuals can and should be reduced. Something we're getting a hard lesson in atm.

My Anglofuturist vision is old school PE and screen time YIMBYism but with a national board who draw up a list of British voice actors approved to overdub foreign cartoon imports.

Great thread. It's always interesting to think about the balance of True Believers and Cynics that forms a movement. In some way the fascist right seems so dangerous at the moment because they appear to have a coalition of the two, led by actors who are bridging them.

You don't need to have a deep political analysis to see what a terrible idea it has been for the centre to cosy up to capital and denigrate the left for decades. It turns out that the ultra rich you helped create aren't all benign wealth creators and staunch social liberals. What a surprise.

It would be nice to have "Create List from Starter Pack" and "Add Starter Pack to List" features on here

This study confirms what I've always suspected was true. That the drop in traffic I notice around the private school holidays is real not percieved. www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/private...

Just finished screening 101 job applications on our recruitment platform (anonymised, shuffled answers to 3 questions set for candidates). So much AI slop. I read the same template answer over and over again - same points, same order, same vocab. Totally lacking any specificity.

The "shuffle is playing some bangers rn" to "oh it was actually me that made this playlist" pipeline

Eating the last of the chocolate orange frangipane mince pies. Honestly top 5 worst things I've ever eaten. Combinatorial innovation gone mad. So much going on. So confused.

There is no glee to be found in the the apparent backstabbing and political manouvering of fascists and oligarchs. Yes, one possible outcome is ineffective chaos, but the other (and more likely imo) is reorganisation and a consolidation of power in the most ruthless and highly resourced.

I started a new blog to post longer pieces about science, technology and politics, but the first thing I've ended up writing is an homage to my Nan, Carol, who died in 2023. People like her don't get write ups, but she deserves one so here it is georgerichardson.net/blog/posts/0...

Start the new year with all your notifications turned off. Add the ones you need back in as you go 🔔

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

Small thing that winds me up is now having to book everything. Want a swim? Book a 1hr slot. Want to visit a museum? Book your entry ticket. Want to get a train without selling a kidney? Book a month in advance! Want to change your plan? Invite a friend? Live spontaneously? Outta luck!

In 2025, recruit some friends & read Marx together. I've made some free courses to help: • Reading Capital v1 • Reading Capital v2 • Reading the Grundrisse • Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason • The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

Everyone is so grateful if you look after their kid for a couple of hours. But actually, your 3 y/o just came over and entertained mine for the whole afternoon and all it cost me was 50g of pasta pesto and 10 mins of my time pretending to be the Gruffalo.

Made the mistake of listening to @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social in the gym again.

A 6 lane motorway can only carry 4-6k people per hour per direction. A 2 track railway can do up to 70-80k! 🤯 Rarely does a politics podcast give you top tier nuggets & vindicate your childhood obsession like this Novara episode on 🚂 with @garethdennis.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2024/11/24/t...

This title perfectly captures one of the big everyday history myths

When did it become a thing that speakers sound good for music but like grade A bum fudge for voice? The Sony radio/CD player my parents bought me in 2001 does both really nicely.

Did you know just one man is responsible for 73% of global transport emissions?

Heartbreaking story. No recourse to public funds, hostile culture towards the most vulnerable, and a neglect for putting the interests of a child first. Product of austerity on local gov plus immigration policies and rhetoric the Lab gov seems keen to continue. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Parenting gripe: There's no need for books to inform young kids about climate change or turn them into little campaigners. There are *board books* about 'eco-warrior' heroes and activism. The result is usually boring, simplified and not really what a pre-schooler needs to be thinking about.

3yo: Let's play neighbours. I'm pretending to feed my kids. Grandpa: Ok! 3yo: You pretend to be the neighbour and bring over something! Grandpa: Ok, I'll bring over this delicious bottle of juice! 3yo: No. That's Mum's water bottle. Grandpa: 24/7 gaslighting. You can never know the rules.

The food industry is figuring out ways to keep profits up in the face of GLP-1s. Based on recent developments in AI, it's not hard to imagine the role it will play in adjusting industrial foods and discovering new ones. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/m... 1/17