Always my first move at a conference. Helps people who forget who you are check your name less obviously!

Guy's Entire Job Just Asking People If They Have Time For A Quick Chat https://theonion.com/guys-entire-job-just-asking-people-if-they-have-time-fo-1819574667/

What kind of maniac left aligns the list numbers and right aligns the text?

🚨Exciting data alert!🚨

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

And now baseball season is on deck.

Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt #Sunday

Labour just needs to close its eyes, elect Angela Rayner or Ed Miliband as leader now, and hope for the best. No one is going to emerge from this broken government as a better alternative than them so you're only wasting valuable time until the inevitable happens

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. -Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -Quantum Physics III -Supreme Court & Civil Liberties -Statistical Physics I -Playwriting from memory

This is particularly important to remember when what you are attending to is not paperwork, but horrors on your phone. Your kids always need you more than the internet does.

As National Security Adviser, I was often at the UK’s HQ in Helmand, Camp Bastion. Too often, the tannoy would announce medevac helicopters inbound. The huge base w’d fall silent, out of respect for the young men or women who were fighting for their lives. No, they had not stayed a little back.

We have a webinar next week with @ukbiobank.bsky.social on the Nightingale metabolomics data. We did a table read today, and it is shaping up really nicely. Please do come! 300 people have registered already and there are only np.inf spaces left! www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/use-our-data...

My quote of the day The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln

You could look that up on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artific...

The muddy Charles. youtu.be/62XRy-jFCm8?... RT with your home river.

Well now I know what mnemonic I will use going forward!

Does anyone know how Wikipedia (which is a miracle in 2026) is not overrun with AI slop?

fed chair with the steel chair

Get a moment's enjoyment by interpreting (as I did) the second sentence to refer directly to the photograph

ICYMI in the mad rush before the winter holidays, we published a paper looking at integrated risk prediction of cardiovascular disease and modelling both targeted and population-wide intervention in the UK. I was honestly surprised at the potential benefits 👇

The AI-enshittification of the internet is accelerating quickly. Searching for the standard tuning of a guitar, but the results are awful AI garbage. The page I eventually used to get the tiny piece of info I needed recommended the "popular mnemonic" for EADGBE: "an old lady went to eat herring" 🤪

Kindergarten drop off traffic in Finland.

The photo I needed, exactly when I needed it ♥️

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Kindergarten drop off traffic in Finland.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.” 🧵⬇️

I also got this, but I thought it was kind of interesting, and did their survey to see how well it did (spoiler: it was bad). As I mention in a reply to the OP, I don't see an obvious problem with the research (other than that their AI is bad at doing the thing they want it to do).

Some further background on Mark Kelly, for your information. bsky.app/profile/muel...

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

What is the podcast business model? I‘ve been really enjoying Season 2 of “Shell Game”, but 100% of the ads are for other podcasts?? (Check it out, both insightful and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny: www.shellgame.co)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Dems, it's OK to go off message when the President is committing war crimes. Maybe even more than OK. Maybe statements like this make you sound completely disconnected from reality!

To be fair, good and persistent questions related to this from the handpicked press, which tells you just how crazy and out-of-the-blue the "running Venezuela" part is.

Rubio looks like he’s going to vomit

Maybe not favorite, but most memorable (and in this case meta-appropriate as post hoc commentary) youtu.be/wTP2RUD_cL0?...

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Interesting example of the writing advice thread genre, in that it does not provide any advice on writing per se! (And yet is still thought provoking)

It's strange how rarely journalists covering this space can ask "Hey, but is it bullshit?". CEO's whose companies are over-leveraged, bubbly, and unprofitable promise a major breakthrough that will justify their fragile position and no one seems to *consider* they may be lying. It's Theranos 2.0.

Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...

Felt Beard Taped To Child’s Face Hanging On For Dear Life With Entire Christmas Pageant To Go

Ever wondered why the earliest sunset / latest sunrise comes days away the shortest day of the year? Here is a _fabulous_ explanation. And it is presented in the style of the internet of my adolescence. ❤️ larry.denenberg.com/earliest-sun...

gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr

Wow the Crimson is on fire. Volunteer journalism seems more immune from enshittification than the corporate kind.

This is an all-timer. The fucking snow plow at the end always makes me lose it.

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

'The Forest' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

If you’re wondering what December in Finland is like…

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE