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Last light of the day and the last #autumn leaves on the acers at #Bodnant Gardens Tal-y-Cafn @nationaltrust.org.uk 🍂🍁🍂

If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it. Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

Long live terrestrial, linear TV. Tonight would have been shite and, quite frankly, impossible without it. #TheCelebrityTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

The early flu season in England continues to build, while the latest Covid wave continues to recede. Latest UKHSA hospital admission data up to 27 Oct.

Come and work with my wonderful colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social! Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology #AcademicSky jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I'm recently noticing a pattern emerging in how my research on young fathers gets received and whether or not it is deemed to ‘count’ and have impact. A short thread 🧵🧵🧵

This reveals something fundamental about what we've come to accept as evidence in that quantitative data are still being considered the most useful form of evidence that counts; that scale cross nationally is still prioritised over scale temporally.

Yet mainstream parties and policy-makers are still there. 🤷🏼‍♂️ (also, re-read @drjennings.bsky.social’s piece observer.co.uk/news/opinion...)

More useful material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow. Though I’m still struggling to understand how a society that claims to value scientific rigour continues to honour someone who spreads so much disinformation.

Interesting thread and discussion on team teaching #AcademicSky

I hope Starmer as much as Farage is watching this.

From Gaza to Sudan, and Syria to Ukraine, the long-standing idea that health should not be targeted in conflict is being increasingly undermined. In a new World Report, Sharmila Devi explores the erosion of medical neutrality: tinyurl.com/3j3sjb3f

Sheffield Hallam apologises after halting academic’s China research. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

#Autumn trunk and branch lines #Loughborough 🍂

I’ve just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

we had a good run while it lasted, academia, and you let me write a few books, dozens of articles etc., win prizes, secure a million and a bit more of funding for research projects, and you let me work as a professor in 4 cities for the the last 11 years, but you never invited me to stay for good.

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Volvo Prize, @naomioreskes.bsky.social! Naomi's work addresses vital issues such as why we need to trust science; a topic that becomes even more important with every new day. Read more here: www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...

'“Chatroom contributions are given equal status with serious academic work,” [Richard] Evans, an expert on the Third Reich, told the Guardian, after being invited to test out Grokipedia. “AI just hoovers up everything.”'

'New...analysis of graduate outcomes data reveals that 91 per cent of STEM graduates from high-tariff, research-intensive universities enter an IS-8 sector within five years of completing their first degrees – but so do 85 per cent of non-science graduates (the combined figure is 87 per cent).' 2/3

'Study in SHAPE disciplines – social sciences, humanities and the arts – develops the skills that underpin a modern workforce: critical thinking, communication and creativity. These are not peripheral to the industrial strategy but essential to it.' 1/3

Very important article: Elon Musk’s attempts to hijack the world’s knowledge base and make us all think like fascists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Every flag left flying and every case quietly dropped tells extremists they’re winning. The authorities’ fear has become the far right’s fuel – and it’s ordinary people who pay the price. eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it. Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found". So sad.

Our new paper: Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A precautionary framework dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep....

Pretty extraordinary story here www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok. And leave X.

Think your LLMs “understand” words like although/but/therefore? Think again! They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession

A new low, even by Goodwin's increasingly awful standards. Anxiety (no scare quotes are needed) takes many forms. And using his social media bully pulpit to punch down is despicable.

"Being Anti-Trump is probably illegal" 3 minutes on things that have happened in America over the weekend, concentrating on violating Democratic norms. youtu.be/40OBi4acYYI

This guy is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. The system is truly broken.

Blazing colours through the trees and paths of The Outwoods and Beacon Hill #Loughborough #AutumnScrolling 🍂

It seems sometimes that all the good, basic researched journalism is now being done by independent outfits while MSM just recycles social media memes

Dutch anti-Muslim populist Geert Wilders goes full Trump, claiming on X after he lost the election that there are reports of vote fraud. Also claimed the election authority was not neutral. Tearing down the pillars of Dutch democracy. nos.nl/l/2588722

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

#Autumn perfection at Beacon Hill #Loughborough #MorningRun 🍂

Emma Thompson is not fond of AI writing tools.

Malaysian PM to Trump, "We share a lot of things in common. I was in prison but you almost got there" #HIGNFY

How do I dislike this idea.

if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher #chi2026

The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.

I am in the office with unlimited access to email

NEW! Hot off the press. Recorded just two days ago in one of our favourite spots in Dorset. This is a return to the wonder that is Chesil Beach. Episode 285 - Late October on Chesil Beach (sleep safe) 32 minutes. Just the sound of the waves and the pebbles. No one else around. bit.ly/LenChesil3

Remember all these pieces about Bluesky facing extinction a few months back?

A case study in far right propaganda success. Tory governments run down public services over decades & then the the populist right breeds in ruined communities by scapegoating Black & brown immigrants. Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

I love the contrast between bright #autumn colours and pale grey days #Outwoods #Loughborough 🍂🍄