www.maptap.gg June 3 95🏆 93🎓 95🏅 95👑 96🔥 Final score: 951 Pleased with that. Some way to improve though...

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Finally holding a hardcopy of 'Media Change' feels great. Many thanks to @nallen2.bsky.social & the team at Wiley who superbly supported the book from proposal to publication. You can order the book at your favorite online bookstore & directly from the publisher, here: tinyurl.com/eyznb67j

I want to mention something nice that happened to me today, in part to document, for my own sake, that good things still happen in this horrible world. It involves the London Underground, an escalator, a small boy and some rubber ducks.

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

"revive the assisted dying bill" is an unfortunate choice of words!

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

Superb work from Birdbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR...

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

Blimey. I've given in to that nagging green bird for 1000 days in a row! #duolingo

After a question from a reader, we’ve looked at bar charts on two Scottish Labour leaflets which show the party ahead of the SNP in Scottish parliamentary constituencies, based on projections from the 2024 general election. Our fact check 👇

Fantastic piece this on neuroscience, brain development and what this tells us about AI in educational settings:

New! Friendlier chatbots make more mistakes. Latest Oxford research published in Nature tested 5 AI models and 400,000+ responses. Warm models made 10–30% more factual errors and were 40% more likely to agree with users' false beliefs, even on medical advice and conspiracy theories. 1/2

I kept seeing clips of this popping up... Watch the whole thing. It is spectacularly good. m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_m...

Congratulations! Really loving "Murder on the Cariad" so far!

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

So this happened www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere... #smbc #comics #math

If my left leg runs 5k and my right leg runs 5k, then I've run 10k, right?

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Talking of banger tweets

We're collaborating with @fullfact.org on tracking ads and holding them accountable for the Scottish, Welsh + local elections in the UK next month. More on that here: fullfact.org/politics/how...

Only eight hours to go till Artemis launches! Live feed from Nasa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

Added some stuff to this post and cleaned it up. SIFT revision. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

This interview is a uniquely valuable perspective. Please watch.

Look what just turned up -- straight on the coffee table with that beauty! Thanks @christhebarker.bsky.social !

This is not just a mic drop, it’s an M&S mic drop.

We’ve added more answers to your questions about the MenB outbreak in Kent. These include a question about whether the MenACWY vaccine provides any protection against MenB. 👇

✅ CORRECTION SECURED. The Guardian’s today written up our latest interventions success - a major correction from the Department of Health and Social Care of a misleading claim about sunbeds. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In any critical health incident, reliable information is essential. That’s why @fullfact.org has crowd-sourced questions on meningitis and will be updating this piece in the coming days. Please get in touch with us if you have something you’d like us to check. fullfact.org/health/menb-...

I hope that if there's one thing that this Iran conflict and the explosion of online misinformation about it has laid bare for most people is the significance of content verification and fact-checking in the digital age. AI cannot replace human verification, at least not just yet.

Amazing blast from the past: Spike Milligan interviewed by David Dimbleby in 1975 about his depression & his joy. I'd say "unflinching" but he flinches a few times and seems genuinely reflective of the questions. So much better than rehearsed anecdotes then "and here's a plug for my new book!"

I thought mail-merge was a solved problem?

What a beatiful creation!

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

We built something that really really worked. Then watched it get switched off because we simply couldn't afford to keep the servers turned on Civic tech is tough just now

I love this from @fryrsquared.bsky.social: we should treat AI tools like they're "an Excel spreadsheet that's really capable." They're not god-like or sentient, but nor are they just spicy auto-complete (anymore). They are powerful tools that can be really, really useful (with many caveats).

i've written a few words about using AI to help my pal with cerebral palsy: www.shardcore.org/spx/2026/02/... i know a lot of you here may find ir difficult to stomach, but AI is not inherently evil, and can be used for good [at least some of the time]

Quite the twist in the (fascinating) tale!

Happy pancakes, to those who celebrate #yumyum

Wow.

Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too

Everyone my age is in their 50's. This doesn't seem right or fair.

In praise of librarians

I got invited to a seminar called "Enrage with facts!" which sounded like a fun challenge. On closer inspection it was "Engage with facts!" which is a lot more... worthy.

sir ian mckellen's incredible performance of an obscure, but eerily relevant, shakespearean monologue youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

Happy February! Welcome to most underrated and fastest improving month. You start in the depths of winter and end waking up in the light to the sound of birds singing, to the sight of snowdrops, daffodils and early blossom in the trees #BigFebruary

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...