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madeline odent
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dunno who needs to know this but corgi is actually just welsh for dwarf dog dwarf (cor) dog (ci, meddal mutation into gi)
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The Londoner
3 days ago
In November 2023, police discovered the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market. She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her. It was as if, in her far too public death, she entered the public record for the first time. Who was she?
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The body in the wheelchair: How did a troubled family get lost by the state?
A decayed corpse was found being wheeled through the centre of Walthamstow. Who was she? And who is to blame for her death?
https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/tracey-turnell-death-wheelchair-walthamstow/
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Tech Brobdingnagian
3 months ago
In my LLM experiments I discovered it was frequently inventing people named “Elara Voss“ or something very similar… This is definitely not an AVERAGE English name! Turns out someone else noticed the same phenomenon and investigated it…
maxread.substack.com/p/who-is-ela...
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Who is Elara Voss?
PLUS: A genealogy of "stomp clap"
https://maxread.substack.com/p/who-is-elara-voss
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí
8 days ago
The pope has been criticizing while simultaneously legitimizing
#bigtech
for a while. In Feb 26 the Vatican launched 2 equity stock indexes „aligned with catholic values“. Who is in? Tesla, apple, NVIDIA, alphabet, meta, amazon
www.businessinsider.com/vatican-bank...
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Want to invest like a Catholic? The Vatican has a new stock index for that.
Vatican Bank announced indexes for both the European and US markets that align with Catholic teachings. Holdings include Meta, Nvidia, Amazon, and ASML.
https://www.businessinsider.com/vatican-bank-catholic-stock-indexes-faith-based-investing-portfolio-morningstar-2026-2
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Michael LaFrance
8 days ago
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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From one source: 'Academics in permanent roles are like faraway stars, whose light takes years to reach us . . . Looking at them, you’re looking into the past.'
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Andy Diggle
9 days ago
Amnesty International report on the organised anti-trans movement in the UK.
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Carausius
9 days ago
It’s international day of the goat (yes, really) so here’s the rightly famous Goat in a Thicket statuette from Ur. It is made from gold, copper alloy, lapis lazuli & shell. It shows naturalistic behaviour for goats as they often seek food in low trees and bushes on their hind legs. 🕰️c2600BC 🏛️📷 BM
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Struck charity shop gold.
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Lancashire hotpot recipe. And there are some of this parish who swear blind that LLMs are good for nothing.
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House & Field Negro Quarterly
9 days ago
the hungry observatory
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Alan
10 days ago
This is the greatest reply I have seen all week
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But England is the mother of parliaments, isn't it?
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Kirsty Grainger
11 days ago
And another one.... £2M IUK call with a ONE MONTH turn around. The point of the budget cannot be to get it out the door as fast as possible. There are other considerations that are more important. The wrong KPI is being used.
www.linkedin.com/posts/kirsty...
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Adding another one to this list: Innovate UK £2M with a one month turn around. How does the community, and more importantly who in the community is able to, respond in these really tight timelines?… ...
Adding another one to this list: Innovate UK £2M with a one month turn around. How does the community, and more importantly who in the community is able to, respond in these really tight timelines? ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kirsty-grainger-718806aa_adding-another-one-to-this-list-innovate-ugcPost-7463569807980826624-PNJI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABdBrIQB6Zzwp50LFweyjRBQMex-0RLJMLE
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Without is three times as common as within. In English fiction, that is. In the English corpus though it didn't overtake within till 2010 and is now only 25% more common. Why such a stark difference between these words in the English and English-fiction corpora?
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Read a petition started by physicists and astronomers against the cuts at the University of Nottingham. It's been signed by a Prof. Heavens.
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j'fais des trous, des p'tits trous, encore des p'tits trous, des p'tits trous, des p'tits trous, toujours des p'tits trous
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Serge Gainsbourg "Le Poinçonneur des Lilas" 1958
YouTube video by chanson defrance
https://youtu.be/uoldELYA_bE?si=VuitnI_2kVRLNucG
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Is this tiny roadkilled bat a common pipistrelle?
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404 Media
16 days ago
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more:
www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
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Dr. Holly Walters
16 days ago
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
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Luke Kennard
16 days ago
The “2 cups / 3 cups / 4 cups / 6 cups” scale on the side of a kettle need to be given an award for ‘Wrongest Thing in the World, 3,000BC - 2026’
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Adam Kucharski
27 days ago
"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis:
kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
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Real signals or artificial stereotypes?
Adventures with a cultural Copilot
https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes
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David Atkinson
24 days ago
Think a 'David' is at risk of becoming the collective noun for sad poems. After yesterday's poem I promised to post a funny poem today This one by Brian Bilston shows the importance of traditional punctuation conventions The audacity of the final stanza 😁
#poetry
#poemoftheday
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Yesterday heard the recorded version of this song Scoubidou sung live here by Distel. It made it to N° 1 in the French charts in 1959. It's got to be part of the origin for Scooby Doo's name, hasn't it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUDg...
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Sacha Distel "Scoubidou" (live officiel) | Archive INA
YouTube video by Ina Chansons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUDgGSje4Ew
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W. H. Hudson sees me coming on page 1.
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A party of swifts back at Queen's Park in Loughborough.
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Rebecca Colesworthy
about 1 month ago
AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2026/04/30/ai-slop-is-flooding-academic-journals-a-top-journal-measured-it/
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BeijingPalmer
about 1 month ago
you have to understand that when Richard Dawkins says really dumb things it's because Oxford dons have no natural predators.
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This Many Years Ago
about 1 month ago
273 years ago, on the 1st of May 1753, Carl Linnaeus published the first volume of 'Species Plantarum'. In the full work over 7.300 species of plants are described. This date is seen as the starting point of modern botanical nomenclature.
#otd
#history
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Rob Noble
about 1 month ago
I once watched a recorded lecture in which the US professor added, every time he mentioned Ronald Fisher, the qualifier 'who was evil". I do something similar in my own teaching, leaving it to students to look up the details
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
about 1 month ago
Alas, Shirley’s work has been butchered by the paper’s terrible website, so here it is, restored to its original beauty.
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Tom Roberts
about 1 month ago
That's the west coast mainline for you
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Colleague wondered if a heron might be responsible for the absence today of four goslings from the pond his officer window overlooks. I thought yes. And now I wish I hadn't gone to check on youtube. Don't watch this.
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Heron feeding on baby waterbirds in a compilation of images
YouTube video by Wildirishswan
https://youtu.be/wvtp_GyjO-4?si=c9h5mXvLFng8wNw5
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Victorian Commons
about 1 month ago
For a quick overview of the early history of Hansard (and some of its rivals), see this post from our editor Dr Philip Salmon:
victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/r...
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The Poetry Society
about 1 month ago
Congratulations
@pascalepetit.bsky.social
winner of the 25-26 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize!
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If you go down to the woodes today...
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Henry Morris
about 1 month ago
Who goes fascist? Guessing who in a showdown would go fascist is an interesting and macabre parlour game to play with the neighbourhood WhatsApp group...
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Who Goes Fascist?
In your local WhatsApp chat. With thanks to Dorothy Thompson
https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/who-goes-fascist
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Gareth Penn
about 1 month ago
If the war was needed because Iran still has nuclear ambitions, then Hegseth needs to find out where Iran keeps its ambitions — a warehouse, a silo, or something suited to ambition storage — and bomb it. FWIW, I keep my ambitions in the hall closet.
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Siobhán M
about 1 month ago
My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever
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Ted McCormick
about 1 month ago
I worry quite a bit when I hear “social cohesion” invoked as a justification for studying history, since it’s long been in the mouths of people denouncing (and, in the US, banning) “divisive” accounts of the past — such as those attentive to migration, race, slavery and empire.
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I am going to regret this, I know, however bright the inner glow ignited by handing over only 50 pence for it in a British Heart Foundation emporium. Still, it begins exactly 124 years ago tomorrow.
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Sandra Newman
about 1 month ago
The less flinching the author does, the more flinching the reader does.
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This is most excellent. No doubt because it's the most familiar, I especially love 'The barn owl has not flown away!' (That title is the translation of a two-word sentence in Czech. How so?)
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Margot Finn
about 1 month ago
UKRI open access (journals) update, which presumably will be on their website at some point too. 'Funding will continue to support transitional agreements, but from 2028/29 UKRI funding will focus on fully OA publishing and will no longer be available for hybrid OA.'
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Next phase of open access at UKRI | UK Research and Innovation
Full and immediate Open Access. Since 2022, that has been the UKRI Open Access policy goal for research articles – and together, we’ve made real progress. #OpenAccess (OA) levels for UKRI articles are...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7454463005188210688/
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Tim Riley
about 1 month ago
Filey. High tide.
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Don Moynihan
about 1 month ago
Very cool we are undermining nuclear regulation to enable for AI. No way this could backfire.
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
When DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story:
https://propub.li/3OBQMwk
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
about 1 month ago
The Easter Rising started
#OTD
in 1916 Our digitised collection 'From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922' includes pamphlets, reports, leaflets and postcards on the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War - free online at
cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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David Allsopp
about 1 month ago
Hoping there's another sign at the end labelled </FOOT PATH>
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Ireland against Fascism
about 1 month ago
"Oirish Paytriots " should at the very least know where our counties are FFS 🙄🤬🤬
#TraitorsAndKnuckleheads
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