Fascinating lecture. Take away is the face of warfare is evolving rapidly, and the Ukrainians are a resourceful bunch.

Submitted my first ever research paper to an international conference today. Hope the reviewers are friendly!

At the zoo. Clearly the signpost breeding program was successful.

The US is intending to remove the "X" for gender on passports. I have non-binary friends and don't see why they have to pick an option that makes no sense, or how "X" harms other people. So I commented on the Federal Register. martinfowler.com/articles/202...

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

Recently, the efforts to revive the claim that COVID escaped from the Wuhan lab were renewed. While it's impossible to prove a negative (&show that #COVID did not escape from a lab), there is plenty of evidence against it. I would like to point here to evidence from my lab against a lab origin. 1/n🧪

Today is going well...

We have a new cat in the house. Unfortunately while she gets accustomed to us horrible lot, this has led to the discovery of a new way to waste time... Kitten cam.

Our first really cold morning on Sunday was bizarre... No noise, no cars, no birdsong, just silence.

Seems a fair amount of folks don't know about the summer winter settings for modern windows... youtu.be/vWj-QdfLL6k?...

Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚

So, the oven decided to pack up on Xmas day.... Perfect timing. Fortunately swapping in a new element was easy enough, only £20 too.

New globe... Welcome Uranus to the collection.

NitroFusion, an AI model, enables near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware, democratizing access to advanced AI tools for creators and small studios. doi.org/g8t9bj

Xmas cake fruit soaking ready for cake making tomorrow...

An artificial intelligence system used by the UK government to detect welfare fraud is showing bias according to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information

Downloaded all my data from the other place... Interesting that the archive produced still calls it twitter, with links via twitter.com, tweets, etc.

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Hours of fake artists. Perhaps even AI. Definitely with AI cover art. Click on any artist name to find that they have 1 track, with millions of streams, and they don’t exist elsewhere.

@samanthapanther.bsky.social Welcome fellow red head!

Just deleted that which was formerly twitter off my phone. Most satisfying.

Theatre time... #yvonnearnaud

Oh my, the #bakeoff semi was nail bitingly close!

We've created an account here for @ukpressonline.bsky.social , so we can continue to post "on this day", hopefully to a wider audience!

At Wembley OVO arena for Within Temptation.

So, made it over the digital river to a hopefully brighter timeline, free of the dross pervading formerly twitter now. Hi all!