A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

When you misparse the parcel

Seeing a lot of people share this with praise. It is not real, it is a prank.

I am obsessed with the sumo wrestlers currently living their best lives in London

Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving @seatsixtyone.bsky.social

This paper should be required reading for all editors, publishers, teachers, and anyone who has asked 'why don't you just use an AI detector to filter out AI-generated submissions/work?' osf.io/preprints/ed...

This is England

Toulouse is outrageously photogenic

I want to meet the people who built this wall

Do you like sitting in the middle of your loving room and staring at the walls? Have a lot of visitors who you don't want to look at? Bid now!

Played Russian Omelette and now having cheesy mash potato for lunch (aligot)

Vive la France

Show us the last four albums you listened to.

The Eurostar security staff addressing confused non-English people as 'boss' does not help the confusion

Pierce Brosnan about to walk into the Crucible for a first round match against Zhao Xintong

When analysing the length of beaver dams, you have to use a log scale

@sentimentbot.bsky.social tell me of my joys

ChatGPT, write me a manuscript about quantum technology - but in the style of Von Deyen's albums. pubpeer.com/publications... Pubpeerified by Jian Peng Chan.

What a name for a restaurant

In an excellent secondhand bookshop

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Something incredible could happen over the weekend

Delighted to calculate that Michelangelo's David would wear a UK size 69 shoe

Always wonder who would buy stuff like this from a charity shop. Great name though.

Hungry men create lunch times, lunch times create sleepy men, sleepy men create nap times, nap times create hungry men

If you need some cardio, may I recommend wrestling a king size mattress up a narrow staircase with a 180° turn on a summer's day

Is this a threat?

Perfect example of generative AI that in the launch video for GPT5 they include this famous but wrong explanation for how wings work.

2.5 years after telling @retractionwatch.com that he was no longer in the authorship business, Salim Kallel continues as before. If you replied to @reeserichardson.bsky.social's article yday with 'papermills only publish in junk journals', is IF 8.5 junk? retractionwatch.com/2023/03/13/a...

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

@simonhammann.bsky.social this is new

See you at 5pm, bring your own loaf.

The Cambridge Uni IT team have emailed thousands of people, via two mailing lists not in bcc, that they're changing how password recovery works, and that everyone has to take action by the 15th of August. It's going as well as you might expect.

Actually my favorite bird etymology is that in 1400s England they gave human nicknames to birds (Jenny Wren, Tom Tit) but some of them stuck. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie. With Robin Redbreast they just dropped the original name of the bird entirely.

A joy to hear Tom Lehrer singing the Masochism Tango on Radio 3

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

You: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Ah yes. The best article title ever

Time for the protest bbq

I have too many hours in EU4 not to be excited by seeing the armour of a winged hussar.

A better painting and a much better experience than the Mona Lisa

Saw a very good dog