Why you should be very careful installing packages from Github: github.com/BerriAI/lite...

More Nathan Newby's please, would sort this world right out. And as a Leeds born woman, I hope that man never has to buy his own pint in the city again.

I can help create new memories for them. Memories of scents and sounds and sights. Things they'll forget and remember years from now when they serve someone else a warm bowl on a cold night. Home is in our most pleasant memories. Maybe they'll help others remember home.

One bit of good news from the Glasgow fire disaster- engineers took advantage of Glasgow Central Station being closed to do maintenance and renewal work in a few days which would normally have taken ten months www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/major-e...

"And then Laocoon, who has been very nasty and very rude, he says, the horse, it's not a good idea, it's a bad, but right out of the water, the biggest snakes you've ever seen, just huge, and they really give him and his sons the business. But we're looking into the horse very strongly."

These studies were dubious enough to begin with, even without dodgy "data"...

Two studies looking at the link between the microbiome and the brain contain data duplications, casting doubt on the findings, says researcher @deevybee.bsky.social. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/academia/dat...

"And are those Iranian negotiators... here with us in the room now?" (Bang on the money, @lectrr.bsky.social )

i still think about this daily

The good news is that we have made staggering progress on renewables. Now we need to get clean, cheap, reliable European energy into our homes and businesses and transport. My thanks to the @theguardian.com for speaking with me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

incisive essay by @eugenie-reich.bsky.social on corrections that should have been retractions retractionwatch.com/2026/03/23/g...

Where on earth is the Office for Students. These courses have been advertised, applicants have been engaging with the advertised material. The Consumer Protection Law as applied to #UKHE (🤢) declares that universities have to be accurate in their information from the first contact with applicants.

Agentic AI & vast reams of available data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers. @aidybarnett.bsky.social & Matt Spick argue that without fundamental reforms to research culture, these tools will damage research integrity @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Moonlight (2020) by American painter, illustrator, and designer, Vasilisa Romanenko (born in 1987). The artist works primarily in acrylics on canvas. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

BREAKING: DUCKLINGS FOUND, BECOMING TOO LORGE TO HIDE UNDER MAMA! Will quote post with some more videos and stills. Incredible 1.5 hour long session at sunset! 🪶 🐣

Update: Motion to dismiss denied today, the lawsuit can move forward! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A wonderfully weird creature you'll find deep in the endangered Chocó Rainforest of Ecuador. It's a moss-mimic walking stick insect (Trychopeplus laciniatus). #insect #camouflage #rainforest

The deadliest foe in the 1980s was not the Terminator

Behold the giant puffball! This fungus sits on lawns & meadows, absorbing nutrients from the soil. Its trillions of tiny spores emerge as a puff of "smoke" when the mushroom is disturbed. Photo: sandiphillips, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

Absolutely INSANE twilight aurora just now from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. Incredible motion and color, one of the best of the season. Watch until the end, wow!

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

One of the Netherlands best daily spectacles is the school run: every weekday at around 08:00, streets in cities, towns, villages, as well as in the countryside, fill up with children cycling to school. Made possible by safe, seamless bike infrastructure and plentiful school bike parking.

Let’s talk ✨constructive friction✨ in educational design! Yes, many students adopt AI as a rational response to assessment where thinking isn’t required for success @wonkhe.bsky.social But let’s talk about cases where friction makes something hard to do, and the by-product is learning! 🧵

One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.

I looked out of the window yesterday morning to see a man on a cargo bike with 2 beagles in the front. A v cheering start to the day.

OTD in 2024 ISIS attacked a theatre in Moscow. 🇺🇸: ISIS is about to attack you 🇷🇺: LIARS!! ISIS: We attacked you 🇷🇺: it was 🇺🇦 🇺🇦: It wasn’t us ISIS: It was us 🇷🇺: Here is van with 🇺🇦 plates! Everyone: The van is from 🇧🇾 ISIS: It was us 🇷🇺: It was 🇺🇸&🇺🇦 ISIS: For fuck's sake!!

Who would have thought that Baron Lebedev of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation, would treat his lawmaking duties so casually? 🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Finally, if you ever wake up from a coma and you aren't sure what time of year it is, here is a helpful calendar👇 We are right on schedule this year!🤣🙄 18/

I contribute a few £ a month to @ledbydonkeys.org - money well spent.

🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action

Looks like the navy's on a recruitment drive by showing life can be fun at sea.

In the train station early so I thought Bluesky might enjoy seeing the oldest postbox in Ireland (and older than any in the UK I believe)

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught on camera. The clear sea creature was filmed by an underwater robot during an expedition off of the Phoenix Islands more than 3,200 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia. Original post

"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

Loving this from the fabulous @monkemma.bsky.social a seasonal special 😂❤️☀️

Trying to rationalise kitchen utensils. Rule 1; if neither OH nor I knows what it is for, reject Rule 2: if neither OH nor I has used it since moving here in 2020, reject Rule 3: if rejected but clean give to Oxfam, else bin. Have successfully purged a good 10% of stuff. 😀

A golden March sunrise 🌅 📷 Instagram | Juncao_Oxford (March, 2025)

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

by Shari Vincent

and another paper from the same collection has “stupendous normal” for “grand average”. pubpeer.com/publications...

some choice tortured phrases identified by @elisabethbik.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

I had a job to do in South Queensferry yesterday , and I left home in brilliant sunshine. However, when I arrived in South Queensferry, it was shrouded in haar. Not to be deterred, I went back to North Queensferry, found a nice vantage point, and waited for this to unfold in front of me.

How you stretch when you know the next thing on your agenda is lunch, followed by nap, then another nap, then some light birdwatching before dinner 😸 #caturday

I just completed a 'survey' on 'AI' use in higher education, via Canvas On multiple questions, it was *not possible* to answer without selecting at least one way in which you *will* or *do* use 'AI' Instead of "I do not use AI" you were forced to say "I do not understand 'AI'" Free comments: 🤬🤢