Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems. Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.

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There are some really neat new features here! Better theme settings! Easier ways to set geom defaults! *Labels from labels stored as column attributes* #rstats

You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?

Don’t know why Carragher gets the Everton gigs, but especially this one today It doesn't matter that he was a boyhood Blue Anakin Skywalker was a boyhood Jedi but imagine Darth Vader rocking up on co-comms for the award ceremony at the end of Star Wars

Socks down. Here we go! #utft

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Lovely tribute from @odettes.bsky.social to @srenals.bsky.social - a wonderful colleague who will be missed enormously. #interspeech2025

Great keynote from @rogerkmoore.bsky.social to get #interspeech2025 under way.

Odette Scharenborg (@odettes.bsky.social) getting Interspeech 2025 started. #interspeech2025 @interspeech.bsky.social

Ahoy from Rotterdam. My brain on the first morning of Interspeech 2025:

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

quite wild that ten years ago saying "yeah I'd back myself to do a better job than most senior members of the US government" would have made you sound like one of those dweebs who reckon they could take on Serena Williams in a tennis court, but the answer now is "I mean yeah, duh?"

This is one of the most significant market decisions in years and it's clearly a bunch of crap they pulled together using Wikipedia and AI in a couple of hours. Tariffs on uninhabited islands, separare tariffs on islands that are part of other counties... it's all nonsense.

SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

mlb.tv when their number of users spikes on opening day

never mind banning smartphones for kids, it's absolutely clear that American officials shouldn't be allowed anywhere near them

Don't think I ever expected to get an email from conference organizers in US emphasising that it's still safe for foreign scientists to visit the US. #2025isnotadrill

Thinking about ordinary public servants in the US now, wondering how to do the right thing without losing their jobs

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

That Tim Radford served as both science and literary editor of the Guardian says it all. His knowledge was both broad and deep - and seemingly limitless www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

RIP David Lodge, one of the great comic novelists and a literary critic v committed to public engagement

Happy New Year everyone. A quarter of the way through the 21st century and I'm sure we can all agree everything is going swimmingly.

Bandon Oregon, US

This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).

An umper Boxing Day quiz? I assume the ub-editors were off today.

About to enter the period that demonstrates the relativity of time. There are so many days until the University opens again yet at the same time so very few.

For non-academic readers: This is the worst agreement signed by the German public sector since Nordstream, to which it has a passing resemblance (outsourcing your future to an untrustworthy partner who does not have your best interests at heart).

🔴 Paper submission platform for #Interspeech2025 is now open! www.interspeech2025.org/paper-submis...

PhD fellowships in linguistics-- with multiple possible areas of focus, including multilingualism/ sociolinguistics/ psycholinguistics/ second language acquisition (etc!)--- open at the University of Oslo. Spread the word! www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

3 fave moments in Fairytale of NY: the universality of "but so could anyone"; the emotional touchstone of "I put them with my own", and the golden Christmas morning - like when transformed Scrooge looks out and asks "what day is this, boy?" - as the last chorus gives way to the instrumental refrain.

Exactly two years ago, it snowed in Cambridge

The problem of AI use in assessments on professional degrees. Old fashioned exams will sometimes be the answer, yes. But AI can be a useful tool. Shouldn't we be teaching when and how to use it too?

Hey authors, don’t forget that if you use bookshop.org instead of that great big place, you will be helping out indie bookshops - very few of who make so much they are dabbling with building rockets - you can even choose which bookshop uk.bookshop.org/shop/booksho...

Coverage in @theguardian.com of @deevybee.bsky.social's resignation from @royalsociety.bsky.social - with longer quotes and some more background: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture

Not much blue sky in Liverpool today ☔🌧️😔 📸 - @snapperlane.bsky.social

I've done a starter pack. Here you go.

Elle Cordova strikes again. 🤣

Read our new @daraprojectcity.bsky.social scoping review, free, here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #DataViz #Aphasia #DLD #A11y With @niamhdevane.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social Madeline Cruice Danielle Szafir @jwolondon.bsky.social & @stephwilsoncity.bsky.social

@arthurcdent.bsky.social @ckava.bsky.social Nice to see you here. Chuffed to get a shout out today (ok a month old episode) - only a year or so late 😂 Been wondering if my name was too easy to pronounce. 😉

7th edition of How to Read a Paper is available to preorder: www.wiley.com/en-us/How+to...

Ahem, she was a cracker not a hacker. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is insane.

Badenoch alleges that Young Tories are deliberately marked down. The only way I’d know that an essay was by a ‘Young Tory’ was if they wrote that in the essay. And if they did I wouldn’t know what to do.