TIL there's an Institute of Corrosion - advancing corrosion science and engineering www.icorr.org Been around since 1976!

Landscape, by Joan Miró, 1968, 📸 by @EricEvansPhoto

TV Life stories: biographical films and how to make them Filmmaker Leo Burley explores his changing approach to biographical documentaries & addresses recent concerns about how much influence well-known subjects have on films abt them. 30 Sep 2025, 8:00pm, Highgate / 🖥 hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/tv-...

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Now with added 'Hello World' podcast from Raspberry Pi www.raspberrypi.org/hello-world/... (computing education and digital making)

Today, 2pm is the Guiness record attempt.

Several computing-themed podcasts you might enjoy. First one is aimed at computing educators (schools & universities etc), second interviews ppl about their computing careers, third about how to get jobs in software dev (web mostly) and rest are news etc teachinglondoncomputing.org/2025/09/27/c...

Do I absolutely have to keep my e-ID card on my incredibly portable, stealable mobile phone which can rapidly be sold, for cash? I'd much rather keep it on my Government Gateway ID.

I can pronounce most words sight unseen but I'm not actually sure which syllable is stressed in acetaminophen (or even if it's pronounced differently in UK / US) so I find myself in unusual territory, having some sympathy for Donald Trump. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Could some kind soul in the US share a screenshot of what's supposed to be visible here (but not to me, as am in UK)? This is Peter Tilden & @i-jasonalexander.bsky.social's podcast (currently on hiatus - LA fires). I can listen to it fine on pod apps but can't see this reallynoreally.com/episodes/

Something positive for a change www.worldofmoose.com/products/civ...

Found today's 3.5/5 difficulty level Squaredle with 31 target words almost impossible, but in my desperation to find words I ended up finding 17 of the 74 bonus words. In other news, the sleepwear on ST:TNG is *terrible* - does anyone ever cosplay in that?! Yikes. squaredle.app

How to create looping animated gifs with FREE Gimp. 1. File, open as layer (import your frames) 2. Export as Gif, as animation, adjust delay between frames howtodotechystuff.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/h...

Diaries of Note - from Shaun Usher (Letters of Note), Matt Berry, Louise Brealey and other guests reading bits of people's diaries and encouraging audience members to share theirs. Monday 13 October 2025, 7.30pm - ~£30-50 + bkg fee cadoganhall.com/whats-on/sha...

Peckham Digital: Festival of Creative Computing - Copeland Gallery, SE15 - 16-19 October 2025, tickets www.tickettailor.com/events/peckh...

Online free STEM career talks aimed at 8-17 year olds (1st & 3rd aimed at 14+) www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j..., from AFBE, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers www.afbe.org.uk/events

@i-jasonalexander.bsky.social Happy birthday :) I hope you've seen Detectorists, here's a scene that made me laugh www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uem3...

I set up FlightRadar24 filters for this sort of thing - advance warning of favourite aircraft likely to enter my airspace. Depending on it not changing direction too dramatically en route to Belfast Londoners might hear this 4 engine plane thundering over soon www.flightradar24.com/CVK7042/3c55...

Muted a whole bunch of words and phrases for 7 days today, because it was driving me a little bit nuts. You can do that too! You should do that too! You definitely have better things to read. Look at that lovely, lovely book over there.

In about an hour and 10 mins people in Gloucester may be able to hear (and possibly see) a Piaggio Avanti P180 coming in to land www.flightradar24.com/2COOL/3c53609b - they're not exceptionally rare but equally they're not that common either. They make a heck of a din :)

Free lunchtime seminar tomorrow. A bit outside my usual field but looks intrstng. "Hidden Talents: Core Competencies of Knowledge Mobilisers" - connecting academia & policy. Tuesday, September 23 · 12:30 - 2pm BST Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-tal... PDF: upen.ac.uk/resources/hi...

It's all gone a bit Oberammergau Passion Play but with commemorative wristbands. Chyron highlights: "Text merch to 717xx to receive a link to the official TPUSA merch store." "For a gift of any amount receive a "we are Charlie Kirk" wristband".

Been playing with Inkscape's Spiro Path tool which is quite fun. You can create a set of motifs then apply them to a longer stretched line to get a nice effect, building up to (in this example) creating a scroll pattern. Source info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZTQ...

Civil Service's Fast Stream applications open on 9th Oct 2025 at midday for work beginning next year in Sep 2026 www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/fast-stream/

The sheer half-arsedness of the flag-shaggery is so completely appropriate and the most fantastic satirical metaphor. We are PATRIOTS and our country is FANTASTIC but we can't be ARSED painting this roundabout any better than THIS.

Completely unacceptable to leave a woman stranded like this. WTF are they playing at?

Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Dinah Sheridan and... www.channel4.com/programmes/t... The Sound Barrier (1952) - free to watch on Channel 4 cc @lennylaw.bsky.social #WhatACast

Partner at top libel firm hired ‘in furtherance of fraud’, tribunal rules

LinkedIn's AI will soon be benefitting from my excellent and pithy comments as of 3 Nov 2025. If you'd rather it didn't benefit from yours visit and tweak your settings before then www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi... Pretty sure "content-generating AI" does not do this: "enhances your experience".

Just added Item #14 to my 'Effing WordPress' annoyances log - if you select a word and try and overwrite with a " (to start a quote) then it just wraps a second " at the end of the word and moves the cursor to the right. I'm sure there are scenarios where this is useful but none coincide with me.

How do Heathrow arrivals operations work? Lovely little ~3m cartoon video from Heathrow Airport explaining the choice of runway direction, the four landing stacks and angle of arrival (3 degrees) www.youtube.com/watch?v=q--n...

Like most scicommers ‘of a certain age,’ I crossed paths - if not swords - with Kenward on a few occasions. He was a character, and he got stuff done. Both of which I find admirable. The sector owes him more than many today will know.

In case you’ve ever wondered how they do it… www.worldofmoose.com/products/mum...

Is there anything I can do to stop this person from lifting content from my blog and posting it to theirs. Badly. ? Original: scicommjobs.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/s... 'Processed': web.archive.org/web/20250916... - they've misspelled my name and mangled the text. An article-spinning mess.

Techy talks: big list of upcoming talks and events about computer science and technology, for educators (school and home) as well as non-technical audiences (school children, families, adults). London, UK focus but many are online (+many free too). teachinglondoncomputing.org/2025/09/16/t...

Rejected petition: "change the spelling of field to feild" #RejectedPetition

Sorry to learn that science journalist Michael Kenward has died (I knew him through the Association of British Science Writers and the psci-com mailing list) www.absw.org.uk/articles/the...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Open Justice: the journalists fighting secrecy in the courts www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... Goldsmiths University, London 21 Oct 2025, 5:30pm - 7:00pm LG02, Professor Stuart Hall Building Free. It looks like you just turn up as I can't see a booking link.

Lots of interesting free lunch-time talks on a variety of topics coming up this term at UCL's Lunch Hour Lectures. Dementia, links between slavery & the industrial revolution, how brains learn languages, lost maps, bible's impact on witch hunts, human evolution etc www.ucl.ac.uk/events/lunch...

UPEN: Universities Policy Engagement Network upen.ac.uk My favourite bit so far is the list of Gov consultations academics (+ anyone!) can feed into upen.ac.uk/opportunitie... Around since 2018, discovered today by me*. QMUL is already a member :) *Via www.gov.uk/government/p...

I'm chatting to folk from UKRI this week about improvements to the Gateway to Research website after I completed a survey and they got back in touch. Happy to try and include others' input if you have any. gtr.ukri.org What I sent them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Watching 'Bridge of Spies' on BBC iPlayer having never seen it before. Really enjoying it. Great script, dramatic court scenes, bits with aircraft, building the Berlin Wall, Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, nice Thomas Newman score. Thumbs up. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Calm your feed: features switching off autoplay, avoid media marked sensitive, muting words / phrases (& emoji!), the fab Control Panel for Twitter, chronological Facebook and uBlock Origin for selecting bits of web pages to block from loading.

Tweaking your social media settings so you see more 'nice' and less 'awful' howtodotechystuff.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/t...

There's an option on WordPress dot com sites, in /wp-admin/options-reading.php that lets you toggle ON or OFF whether AIs can hoover up your pithy content. I want AIs to learn from as much of my content as possible (this is largely why I post on Reddit after I heard it gets used in training too).

Teachers! Send us your computing girls! Online - so all welcome Please share 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/unloc... @crestem.bsky.social @peterejkemp.bsky.social @drjessicahamer.bsky.social @jobrodie.bsky.social

9yo's musical instrument choices for Year Five are clarinet, flute, or violin.

Lecturer in Data Science wanted for the School of Music at the University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx..., 50% role.