Watching the Heritage Chart show on TPTV and it seems to be largely broken old men in questionable millinery and people you vaguely remember from off The Tube.

I suppose this is as good a time as any to note that the BBC is not BBC News. It's the 95% that is not news, but oddball media Herberts- because they are oddball media Herberts- ascribe more importance to the news bit and would only tune in to the rest if it was "Echo Chambers Under The Hammer".

We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo. We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy! Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX

Trump crediting former newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, for Davie's defenestration at a British institution.

A reminder to the next DG of the BBC that Bargain Hunt has over twice as many viewers than the Daily Mail has readers. Don't fucking forget it. #BBC

A pretty one from sunrise October 31. Cascade foothills. Portland Oregon. Have a beautiful day. 🩷💜🧡

Later, Trump appeared to be "standing on his own two feet" and "using his mouth in a way that some people suggest was similar to talking".

"Appearing to close his eyes"

And the first person that BBC News interviews in its 7pm bulletin is the leader writer of...The Times.

Amol Rajan updating his CV

"We've approached the BBC for comment about the resignation of two BBC employees," says BBC reporter outside the BBC building, "but the BBC has so far declined to comment. Maxine." (BBC person in the BBC studio.)

Frying pan, fire etc but this is a good decision.

Or, more pertinently, 93% of singletons do *not* say they would consider a romance with an AI companion 🙄

This is an interesting table summarising what 819 US teachers of introductory psychology considered the most challenging part of teaching IP. Top of the list: Having enough time to grade and give proper feedback. From 2021.

A leaked copy of planned changes to the GDPR, with critical comments from Max Schrems www.linkedin.com/posts/max-sc...

I think he means Mick Lynch.

@nickabbot.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk "Pentre" is welsh for "village". This is my one and only public service announcement today.

Six episodes into Day Of The Jackal and it is marvellous apart from all that honking music which makes me want to assemble my own rifle and point it at the screen.

What happens when you build some code to detect fake references in publications? The answer will amaze you!* *unlikely. via @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/c...

Well, that's your Christmas present sorted.

Did you miss out on Viz the first time around? Issues 1-4 coming up for auction @ewbankauctions.bsky.social divant tha nuur. cc @chortle.bsky.social

Who remembers the Eight Ronnies?

Easy to find the occult in THE BABADOOK and TWIN PEAKS, but what about JFK or READY PLAYER ONE? In "Hollywood Haunts The World," Robert Guffey finds the hidden gnosticism, surrealism, and taboo in films & TV both in and out of the horror genre. New from @headpress.com headpress.com/product/holl...

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

One for the kids

The Museum of Lost Bookmarks: www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Speck.

Lee Tamahori (1950–2025)

It is because of these terrible people that he had to change his name from Thomas Potatotown

Thinking about how you’d vote today in a general election, how do you feel about the re-introduction of the plague? Very favourable, somewhat favourable, no opinion, somewhat unfavourable, very unfavourable

Absolute peak enshittification, here. Unbelievable. "We've decided to hide the standard functionality of our previous product – you know, the thing you depend on – and put it in a drop-down menu that you're unlikely to find"

The modern website browsing experience:

today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

No idea. How about a "clarity model"?

As an RAE/REF co-ordinator, this article on the shenanigans of panel criteria and submission intentions was very illuminating...

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

this is what they took from us

ALCS article registration deadline imminent! www.alcs.co.uk/how-it-works...

New for Christmas! Whimsical workplace notices for dancers: "You don't have to be mad to twerk here, but it helps".

"I'm a maverick, yeah, you don't get me because my mind isn't just three dimensional chess but three-dimensional chess playing buckaroo on a skateboard. You get me, now,? I'm a problem eviscerator, I Hoover challenge, and box-think the unthinkable. Also, have you noticed David Lammy is black?"

"I can't give you advice. I'm a philosopher."- Character on this @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social film just now which, if you hadn't guessed, is fruitier than Carmen Miranda's headwear "and no mistake see here".

And people moan about Christmas coming earlier every year.

A judge has dismissed a final claim by prominent biologist David Sabatini against his former employer and curtailed Sabatini’s lawsuit directed at the woman who accused him of sexual harassment. https://scim.ag/3JBnQCc

Printed off a meta-analysis. Nineteen pages of text. Twenty six pages of actual references.