Very nice talk by @garymarcus.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh this morning

This is beautiful on so many levels. It names clearly and directly one of the insidious tactics that tech uses to evade effective regulation. It exemplifies a way in which humanistic scholarship provides critically important insight. >> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Can’t wait to play this youtu.be/avpTgTNadh4?...

@ijcai.org 2026 review has been ridiculous, especially considering the newly implemented policy of charging 100USD per submission to "improve peer review quality". With positive reviews and an acceptance recommendation, the PC decision has been to reject it without providing any further explanation.

Shima Enaga, also known as the Japanese Snow Fairy, which is a subspecies of the long-tailed tit

Today’s the 25th anniversary of one of my favourite series. Looking forward to a new game for the Switch 2🤞🏽

This makes me very sad, and I hope Dundee doesn’t go down that path. Universities should focus on carrying out cutting-edge research and they shouldn’t be run like a business at all (especially by people who don’t care about research)...

"'It helps you read 50 papers in a month rather than 50 in a year.'" What's lost when a goal of graduate school is volume rather than careful reading? A few things. I learned to write academic papers by learning to read academic papers and attend to their structure and authors' rhetorical moves. 🧵

Sharing year of birth with a game series you love is great and makes you feel more attached to it, although this year is particularly painful 🥲. Happy 30th anniversary!

Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.

This older piece from Anthropic's CEO on developing a creator-compensation economic model is incredible to see. Disagree with some things, but it's fantastic to see this level of thinking at the intersection of ethics and profit. Source: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...

Video games completed: 2026 edition (here we go again)

Today I’m a little more Scottish. (There was a miscalculation with the amount of food in the hot pot lunch yesterday so we had to delay Burns haggis 1 day 😅)

All ready for the start of the semester next week. I’m looking forward to it! 😁

Today was a curry day

Bon any! 🎉

Random picture of mt. Fuji in 2022 I just found in my phone

Ja feia anys que no en cuinava una…

Great film!

It is always a good time to rewatch a Jia Zhangke film.

I missed Metroid Prime so much and I hadn't even realised it

"Initial Analysis of OpenReview API Security Incident" from OpenReview

I promise this is not an AI-generated bird. You can see them at 未名湖 in Peking University.

苏州

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Luckin coffee X Kimetsu

青岛市

INVESTIGACIÓN | '¿Dónde estaba Mazón?' Casi un año después de la tragedia que acabó con la vida de cientos de personas, publicamos en exclusiva el documental inédito que rehace los pasos del presidente el día de la dana

Woke up in Silent Hill today

Yōtei’s art direction is astonishing

🇪🇺🤝🇯🇵 The EU and Japan are strengthening research & innovation ties. Talks on Japan’s association to #HorizonEurope will conclude by end-2025. By sharing our talent and technology, we’ll drive breakthroughs in climate, energy, mobility, digital, industry, space & health. link.europa.eu/YFYdGg

Back from the 5th European Conference on Argumentation with lots of interesting talks and insightful discussions. John, Zlata, and I presented our recent work on the analysis of argumentation schemes in dialogue, extending the results from our recent ACL paper. aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

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I think all the late reviewers made OpenReview so sad, so it decided to better crash completely 😢

I am very happy to share that the paper I have been working on with Haorui and Qiufeng about the use of multimodal LLMs to help us interpret art from different cultural perspectives has been accepted at the findings of the EMNLP 2025 🎉 🎊