I’m now working at University of Hertfordshire two days a week (still three days a week at Royal Holloway). Hit me up if you are UoH #academicsky

Happy Birthday Alan Turing

The thing is, I don’t remember any of this - there was a day when nobody thought it was an option, then a literal day when it might happen, then it was irreversibly happening. There wasn’t a persuasion phase.

This is what Turing’s statue looks like on his birthday ❤️

Vegan Jamie dodger doughnut

Pizza!

Motorways are long

This is the before of an enormous amount of attacking plants with shears today.

Cleaning is dangerous!

Me, about to do a simple Arduino project: “I spent eight years in C++, four of them squeezing every gram of performance out of it, this will be simple” Me, an hour later: “what is this unwieldy bastard language?” _throws header file across the room_ #academicsky

It's backed-up by research! "samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles" unless "they referred to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities who may be perceived as exceptions to assumed generalizability of the White American population" #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1177/1948...

“vim $(!!)” makes me feel like a genius

Pep Guardiola delivered these comments while receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Manchester yesterday. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Anyone in #academicsky successfully put snippets of lectures onto something like TikTok?

my three year old just invited us onto his podcast be like my three year old: invite me onto your podcast

Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world. They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We should introduce a new:use of colons in formal writing for this purpose.

You're damn right I use commas incorrectly. That's how you know this wasn't written, by AI #academicsky

Today I keep having to write “masters-level” and “3rd year level” and I am constantly thinking this:

I have brought the access cards for three different universities to the university I work at, which is the fourth one.

Wikipedia Once Again Asking for $1 in Exchange For Teaching You Everything You’ve Ever Learned thehardtimes.net/culture/wiki...

tonight’s the night comparing myself to others makes me feel BETTER I can sense it!!!

Comedian Eddie Izzard is so #genderfluid she's taken up every single space on the D&D gender alignment chart!

Pop stars doing their bit.

they’re called hooves, dummy🙄

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Mercy and I were talking about *gestures at the world* this weekend and she said "let's be honest, if the pictures coming out of Palestine and Sudan were of dogs and cats instead of Brown people, white people would be forcing it to stop," and I can't stop thinking about that

Tonight I’m fixing my 3D printer and you guys are keeping me interested during the boring bits.

I will never not think “why are horses there?”

Is the BBC giving too much airtime to Reform UK? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.

A friend sent.

Never gets old.

Not to be in my 40s on main but it amazes me when someone’s introductory post is solely computer games/pieces of media. Sometimes I see it on Reddit “I would like to make more friends, please connect with me through One Specific Game And No Other”

I personally think everybody should have to take a new profile picture everytime they want to post so that we can see what they look like when having these moans.

my son waking me up for some Bluey

Small win - we’ve used our spin bike enought that not only did we wear out the pads, we didn’t notice for long enought that we’ve scored big marks into the flywheel. 🤣💪

I have done my second marking!

He's got it in 1 #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter}}

I know one thing. If I were a young blonde, white woman, and a police officer shot me ON CAMERA, my settlement would be large enough to have its own itemized line on LA's yearly budget.

Quite deliberately shooting at reporters (A UK journalist was shot in the leg, so that's at least two) means you are not The Good Guys

I read literally every other book on the shortlist. 🤣😡🤣

The IMDb is now so actively terrible that I’m amazed it hasn’t been eaten by a leaner replacement.

This is very dumb. I find AI very useful but this is the wrong way to deal with a rapidly evolving technology of any sort. You have no clue what “trained in AI” will look like in 2030.

I just had to go back a full day of #academicsky to find a picture that had alt-text. Has the system changed or do we not do that any more? I’m pretty sure there was a time on Bluesky that leaving off alt-text was considered worse than writing “Elon is a genius” at the end of a post.

Any tips for new academics? Well yes, make sure you have a decent sized kitchen table. #academicsky #marking

Most of the sources for this wiki article are from 25 years ago about a term coined 22 years before that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_... has anyone got any sources I can use to rewrite it? #cybersecurity.

#academicsky - This is a strange thing to look for but I'm interested in finding a dataset of 'initial letter of surname by country' I.e. I am looking to be able to say "only 0.6% of people in France have a surname beginning with H, but 30% of people in Wales have a surname beginning with P"

Saying goodbye now. I'm in hospice care

ok, the comments 😂

This morning I read the 2006 Judge Dredd comic 'The Art of Kenny Who?' about a big corporation which gets robots to copy art styles instead of paying the actual human artists to produce work 👀