another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

"more than a dozen ex-[Tory] MPs and one sitting member have defected to Reform since the election (admittedly to the improvement of both parties)." 🔥 from @financialtimes.com ! www.ft.com/content/d79f...

‼️Two new PhD positions open! One experimental, one modelling, exploring these beautiful collective dynamics in mitochondria across species. 🇳🇴, good pay, full staff benefits. [Shares much appreciated] Lab: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Modelling: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.

PhD position with John King at University of Nottingham @ University of Nottingham, UK Deadline: 9 Jan 2026 www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/...

At the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social faculty of Science Christmas lecture. Here's a sustainability periodic table showing the abundance of the elements.

Can't help but think the best way to assess a research strategy is to assess the research it produces. Are the people that told #REF2029 they need to assess the strategies the same people who create strategies? www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

NEW BLOGPOST Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...

Quite enjoying #StrongMessageHere podcast @aiannucci.bsky.social : I'm an influencer. No you're not. Get to school 🤣

Friends. Comrades. I have QUESTIONS, especially about item 4 there.

📝 Excited to share our latest work, now out at European Heart Journal! We studied 252 SCN5A variants previously found in patients with Brugada Syndrome, an inherited arrhythmia disorder linked to sudden cardiac death. [1/4]

I hope @teamlabouruk.bsky.social are getting some statistical input. If 84% of your landslide-victory voters have unfavourable view of Farage, adopting policies he likes is not going to be a winning strategy (as you can see from how well Davey and Polanski are polling amongst your core vote).

“Enjoy the result you have found by exploratory subgroup analysis, for you will not find it again.” Sayings of Confuseus

Thanks for the email summary #GMail. The only thing is, it is longer than the actual email was. Can we put in some common sense checks before rolling this AI stuff out?!

Postdoc Position (2y) in Physics-informed Model Discovery for Reaction-Diffusion Equations @ Roskilde, Denmark Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Research aims and objectives aren’t the same thing but are related It helps to understand the differences and connections patthomson.net/2025/11/01/r...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Language models are terrible at counting (part 12381...) It's concerning how many workflows/copilots etc. these tools are now creeping into, despite making small numerical errors all over the place (which a causal eye might not catch). Below from GPT-5 and Sonnet-4.5:

Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service. The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS. Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇. Get in touch

So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)

About 50% of my time interacting with #MacOS is navigating to a folder in a "Save As" pop up window to download attachments etc., then doing exactly the same thing in Finder to open it 10 seconds later. Am I missing some workflow that avoids this bluesky-o-sphere!?

That's a "nuh" [N]. Nuh for... Netflix! #ParentingFail

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

Our ForSys method to infer the mechanical state of a tissue in space and time is published now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/iscience/ful... (1/10)

Ultra-processed food - the eternal enemy of the people. And, apparently, testicles. Or...is it? My new piece. gidmk.substack.com/p/is-ultra-p...

"Important update about *Diversity Travel*...for those who don’t already know us, our name doesn’t always make clear what we do....That’s why we’re rebranding as *DGI* " That's a lot clearer, thanks 🤣.

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Down at the #AlanTuringInstitute today to give an afternoon workshop on ion channel and action potential modelling at cvd-net.com/events/cardi... . Great questions from a very engaging audience. Thanks to @michaelclerx.com and Frankie Patten-Elliott who helped deliver the session.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Heilbronn fellowship call now open for researchers in Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Data Science, Number Theory, Probability, and Quantum Information. heilbronn.ac.uk/fellowships/

I have just left a lengthy Pubpeer comment on the autism/Tylenol study being cited by the Trump administration. There appear to be a number of fairly straightforward errors in the paper. pubpeer.com/publications...

Since I've abandoned Twitter, thought I would make a 'Starter Pack' of #cardiac #modellers on here: go.bsky.app/Aetbprg Let me know of anyone to add...

How do cells navigate up gradients of adhesive proteins? 🤔 Termed "Haptotaxis", this effect is ubiquitous in cell migration, but it's mechanism was poorly understood We show that passive friction directs cells & explains complex trajectories on gradients 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 We've written a #primer on #identifiability Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Brief to brilliant co-authors was "everything a PhD student needs to know about identifiability before trying to fit a model" Fig shows how Fisher Info. becomes excellent with lots of data, even for nonlinear models.

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#UoNMaths is launching an MSc in Data Analytics and AI for Sept 2026. 3 streams: stats&AI, business analytics, and modelling and AI for health sciences and pharmacology. We will be helping with model-informed pharmacology Applications open now: www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/cour... Please RT!

Elon Musk's latest intervention in UK politics has caused me to delete my X account. Expect more research updates and random observations on here!

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Job alert! I know a lot of #HPC people follow me here so if any of you are looking for a new gig, maybe this one at MathWorks is for you. lnkd.in/efa8iPkZ You don't even need to know any MATLAB...we can teach you that. Your HPC/parallel chops are what we are looking for.

Just when the world needed him the most www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Opposition to the idea of vaccination existed even before vaccines themselves did - for BBC futures, I explore the strange history of the antivaccine movement. The tropes of antivaccine propaganda are not only meritless, but centuries old www.bbc.com/future/artic...

In #Sheffield today for #FickleHeart2025 meeting on uncertainty quantification in cardiac modelling and simulation

Wagner, Silva et al. @washuengineers.bsky.social show that deleting large sections of the Nav1.5 I–II linker does not affect voltage-dependent gating. But changes to the protein sequence does affect gating, showing how certain variants can alter channel function. rupress.org/jgp/article/...

Un-named academic institution: "We've moved to a new system to pay you expenses. Previously you just gave us your bank details, now we set you up as a 'supplier' on Oracle. Here is a 53 page guide to configuring your supplier profile." [I kid you not, it is 53 pages]

Tell me about it #parenting

New jobs for modellers at at UKHSA: Senior Mathematical Modeller (NIHR HPRU - EPR); Senior Mathematical Modeller / Research Software Engineer. A great team looking at emerging threats. www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v7430503 www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v7397991

The European Convention on Human Rights should provide that in the UK it should be now known as the Winston Churchill Convention on Human Rights.

Fascinating piece on the issues with AI slop in the mathematical research world (spoiler: it's a massive problem). Ping @carlbergstrom.com open.substack.com/pub/bristoli...

We're working on some exciting new features for VisualPDE, but we want to hear from you! Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. It’s a super short survey (promise)! 👇Fill it out here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Enjoying some time up on the West coast of the Highlands. Despite its spectacular situation, and rugged and interesting nature, this is one of those 700m+ ridges ⛰️ that hardly anyone climbs because it's surrounded by Munros and Corbetts. Quite the evening outing. Anyone guess where!?