What a well researched thread!

They better do it.

not to mention a significant group of physicists, whose names are largely still unknown other than Lawrence Krauss. I do know a couple that should be talked about, but it's tricky because they aren't public knowledge and I'm not gonna be the one to break that news.

I love a house with a cat. You just walk in and there's a little hairy naked screaming guy running around and pooping in a box

Watching a cooking show and found a new euphemism for when you get radicalised online into going full TERF

A mate's just had this left on his windscreen. Manchester people, we need to show up on the 21st and tell these fascist cunts to fuck off.

The leaders of four major physics infrastructure projects due to receive over £280m from UKRI were told in December they have “not been prioritised” for funding The projects include an upgrade to the LHC at Cern and a new US particle accelerator ...

Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped, turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the last Dúnedain and Isildur's heir.

Have a cold. Frustrated by my sinuses. Why do we even have these stupid goop capacitors?

Not going to miss Researchfish - obvs for the vampiric business model, but also their deal with UKRI that allowed them to threaten anyone criticising them online with being reported to funders for ‘abuse’, with the obvious implication it would impact on the critic’s prospects for future funding.

I mean ffs, there's a whole chunk of book publications for authors who want to make stuff up.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

Universities and Colleges need to better protect their students and staff from abusers & predators. Heck; any workplace does. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Precedent set 👇🏻 thanks to @goodlawproject.bsky.social 🫶🏻✌🏻

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

This is fucking appalling. This is university-administrators’-heads-should-roll appalling.

I fucking hate this cunt on #bbcqt being anti immigration and islamophobic. When I've hit my worst, the strangers who have checked on me in London and shown love and support have been immigrant Muslims.

Proud of @drjogrady.bsky.social standing up for my sector and more importantly for human rights on #bbcqt

I think I know which player I want to be murdered tonight. Yes, I know this is The Apprentice.

This is a headline in the Telegraph. The article is all about crime. That's not what my friends and I are afraid of in America. It's the government goons.

Good news about Hampstead Ponds, but I fear given this: “In my view the more appropriate person to bring this claim is an individual who says that they have been discriminated against by decisions about access to the ponds.” they'll soon find a stooge to take action.

I didn’t realise things were this bad - 30% cuts are disastrous. This will kill all prospects of the UK being a science superpower since astro is a gateway to science for many. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social this needs fixing urgently.

A New STFC Funding Crisis The outlook for UK astronomy now looks even more bleak than the dark days of the funding crisis following 2008. It looks like a return to the Bad Old Days.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

I’m guessing even less ERFs are gonna be given out. Thank god the UK government are putting £2 billion into their “AI for Science Strategy” instead of directly funding scientists…

"the research council indicates that the budget for particle physics, astronomy and nuclear physics together will drop by around 30%. The letter also asks project teams to plan for scenarios where their funding is reduced by 20%, 40% and 60%." Solidarity with our UK science friends, this sucks.

the way this photo looks like they were asked to see how long they could stand on one leg for, and David Cameron's already lost x

AI companies really have managed to persuade the government that they're Nigerian princes, haven't they? Untold riches await! You unlock them by spending a little of YOUR money...

Reposting the original

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

AI is fantastic for machine learning and data science, picking answers from haystacks full of data. Big raw data -> distilled useful information. Everything shoved down our throats is the opposite: two-sentence prompt -> bucket of slop. There's simply no getting around the basic laws of entropy.

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

Chris is bearing the brunt of this because of the format of Research Notes, but the other journals in our portfolio are also seeing a dramatic rise in vibe-based submissions. Each of them requires careful examination by a PhD. It’s a lot easier for AI to destroy journals than to do science.

You're certainly not going to get the perfect political candidate if you don't loudly ask for it repeatedly.

the use of the algorithms behind what is often called AI has real scientific, engineering and data uses. most people who want or need to be able to use that level will probably not get the training they need from *this* initiative because it is so specific

Let’s take the government at their word and twenty minute taster sessions on Microsoft Copilot is the biggest government investment in adult education in seventy years, what does that tell us about this country?

Because I've been to Auschwitz and there's a whole part of the talk about recognising dehumanisation and the way the state will turn people against a chosen scapegoat. How a lot of people allowed/didn't recognise escalation from keeping people in ghettos, then shipping them off, then killing them.

We’re getting so many journal submissions from people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for.

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

Oh no, more Threads users incoming

Sheeesh, it's absurd isn't it? I'm forever running web traffic through ssh SOCKS proxies to one server or another somewhere.

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too! *Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408

Bah, disk failure means I'm below my absurd number of redundant backups. Off to get a new one then.

Well done, Ian Hislop. Another successful campaign for the Eye!

I am wearing a "some people are trans, get over it" t-shirt, and a man in a cafe just gave me two slices of cheesecake when I only ordered one. I can only assume that, as well as being the morally correct choice, supporting trans people also gets you free cake.

I and many others predicted this long ago. VPNs now headed for UK age gating. Amendment 94a is also massive, given its potential scope. reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-...

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

This is from 2017, but it stands as tall as ever

It wasn’t a cost effective donation but that’s some polish, so I bought a couple of bottles.