A few of us were at this event and, well, yes, this just about sums it up.

Media Herbert Vocabulary: a handy guide "existential"- we have no idea "febrile- we have no idea "not fit for purpose"- we have no idea "some might say"- we have no idea "I'm Chris Mason"- we have no idea

Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

"a profound work by one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive and poetic voices" makes me think it's not Porky's 12. Or even any good.

Dr News is knocking at the door. Please, someone, let the man in.

Did AI write etc etc

Lmao

Lovely jubbly.

Happy Easter.

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website. He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

Delivery arrives for Chris Mason.

Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC: with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting. with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions. Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

The angry huffiness of these two having their bad journalism exposed

🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨 Wonderful work from the longitudinal arm of our cannabis-users study showing how brain reward-system function changes over 12 months in regular users. 🧵⬇️ #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A tribute to Rob Grant by his writing partner, Andrew Marshall. www.ganymede.tv/2026/02/abov...

The press has got hold of it! Yes we’re making a #bbcghosts movie.

Back in the day, this would have been a textbook Labour victory speech. cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social

More like MATT BADLOSE AMIRITE

Sky News, the nation's lounger.

"Family voting". The media is so universally and seemingly irredeemably stupid.

Good evening.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fan Yang, Joyita Dutta, et al: Unveiling unified patterns in Alzheimer’s disease subtypes: An SCCA clustering approach integrating PET imaging and genomics data doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Also, their coffee was terrible.

The frequency and content of gambling advertising during the UEFA Euro 2024 Men's football tournament: A comparison with previous tournaments: https://osf.io/p3w6j

What's a line delivery you'll never forget? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGyi...

Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles go.nature.com/4ceKgVF

How does he sleep at night?

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

A fountain of vomiting people. You've got till the end of today to see the 'Fountain of Filth' on the South Bank. It's an installation by Channel 4 to tie in with their new documentary Dirty Business, about the sewage scandal

"Settle back for our late film...featuring sustained violence from the start." Um.

Terrifying in its rapidity - it's taken just 27 years, 2 months and 3 days since scandal first broke.

Am I understanding this right? The standard grading scale in Denmark goes –3, 00, 02, 4, 7, 10, 12 ! This is amazing. I kinda love it. I mean I hate it. But I love it.

Huge thanks to anyone who pre-ordered the book!! Hope you enjoy!

Writing a John Finnemore sketch about news Herberts "effectively" using the word "effectively" effectively. "Simon, what they're effectively saying is..." "I'm sorry, effectively?" "Pardon?" "You mean they are saying this thing in a way that is effective." "Well, no, I mean..."

They used 3 of my examples as case studies. open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu... open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu... open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu... 2/3

In which we learn @acm.org is exceptionally bad at retracting articles that need retracting: arxiv.org/abs/2602.191...

They seem to have written a paper about Iain Dale

This one hits hard.

Ryan Coogler's ‘X-FILES’ series has greenlit for a pilot at Hulu • Coogler will write & direct the pilot • Danielle Deadwyler will officially star • Follows 2 vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
 You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

"Support the free press!" shouts a media Herbert who blocks anyone who even so much as suggests that he is being a tad trivial

This isn't scholarship—it's mimicry. Not science—a performance. When the "writer" understands syntactic patterns but not the underlying meaning, the product loses its soul. Sure, it's in APA format. But under the hood? Slop. Scientific writing isn't just ritual. It's where true creativity resides.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

"This journal does not accept articles featuring words. Articles featuring hieroglyphics should be submitted to the appropriate Associate Editor. Articles submitted by pigeon are especially welcome. However, these should be strictly formatted according to the journal's house* style". *Aceeed.

One of my cartoons for Tuesday's Metro

I'm all for multi-tasking but...

Growing up, it was Hart To Hart and Tales of the Unexpected. Now, see below...