Amber alert for snow and heavy sleet here Thursday through Friday so have made executive decision that it is date night tonight instead and gone out for wing* Wednesday at the local. *deep fried enoki mushrooms. No cauliflower here!

People were all, "You're wrong, this is about the NWS using machine learning to improve forecasts, not AI slop". Fucking idiots.

London book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! I'll be speaking on Thursday 5th May, 6pm, at @linneansociety.bsky.social More info and registration below. A free exhibition, "Wonder" is now on and ends the next day. 1/2 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

The evidenced reality is that normal, non-radicalised cis women have no worries about, or problems with sharing facilities with trans women. Transphobia is a minority bigotry based on lies #NotInMyName

Still, here we are, months after superciliously dismissing any and all concerns about Palantir or Streeting's dodgy associations out of hand, with the company claiming it's in the game to kill all communists.

This is why I’m rather wary of some of the “Bsky is too intolerant”! Thinkpieces. Ofc normal people should be welcomed to talk about hobbies etc here - but Helen’s made it quite clear time and time again her issue is that the “in-group opinions” here are pro trans.

challenge: can you think of a foodstuff that is approx $200/kg? afaik Wagu is too cheap, saffron too expensive.

...and healthcare. I've an older relative who's having to drive daily for 3 hours to get radiatiotherapy. Public transport option is unreliable, difficult, doesn't have good toilet facilities and takes upwards of 5 hours. They live in a *city* - a small one, but still not a rural backwater!

Q: when did this guy become whimsy dril? I don't see him reposted here a lot but every single day there are multiple screenshots of his posts shared with and pushed at me on insta and elsewhere on social media & I'm going 'who is this, why is he everywhere'. Did I miss a memo?

Why is it that even when there's an intervention, they never hit the right notes of the situation? I dunno, The Guardian, maybe ask people who actually know what's going on rather than listen to the I Am Clever soundbite of one VC? At least the conclusion that Labour need to do something is right...

A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.

I've finally* figured out how to connect my ebook to my local library & can now borrow rather than buy all my ebooks** Suddenly I am discovering the strategic drama of a hold, the pressure of fixed periods for reading books! * first tried in 2022 ** in the UK authors still get £ for borrowed books

BREAKING: The Wyoming Supreme Court permanently blocked abortion bans in the state. Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming.

#NoodleTuesday scraping the barrel today as we’ve eaten all the fresh veg in the house and all the frozen prepped veg dishes and the veg box doesn’t turn up until tomorrow. Creamy, spicy, filling food for an icy day 3/5

Applications now open. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/gender-ma

Having one of those days where I've just realised that the person I've been researching around for MONTHS whose name is (f.ex) Timothy Hapsburg Smith, is inexplicably also known by the name 'Derek' and ffs give a historian a breadcrumb now and again.

Important scientific finding: Human poop knives do not work Thank you for your service, researchers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

Super intrigued by the history (and related) academics who basically never write articles, only books and maybe the odd book chapter. Seems much more common in the US which I assume is a combo of tenure/REF pressures. I find they totally go under my rader 1/2

Anyway, just going to petition @deck.blue to somehow (allow you to choose interaction settings when you schedule a post is it even possible?!?!) because then I could set my default to something restricted and not have to worry about my Monday and Friday community scheduled posts being locked down.

How do you stop caring about reply guys? How do you stop wanting to say "no you misunderstand" or "that's not what I said" or "that's not the conversation we're having here" or "you need to learn to 'yes and' better" or "I literally wrote a book about this what is your issue".

chat, should I respond to the CDC survey about immunizations? is it being run by scientists who absolutely need support against the villains, or am I handing over data to the villains?

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

"Evidence Based Policies" except where the evidence makes us do awkward things like have to talk about child poverty or food deserts and housing or suggests we fund school meals properly.

Copilot already only existed to divert some of the ire caused by Teams

Snow makes neighbors of us all.

hey so someone recommended a book to me on twitter & I said "no thanks I tried & didn't get on with it" & then the author replied(!) & to make it worse I knew them(!!) & it was a non-fic book about grieving a parent(!!!) = I was mortified. now it's going to be a movie & I can't escape the trailers

#histSTM 🗃️

The deepest confirmed fish observation occurred at ~8,300 m. I know the shape behind it is another fish’s tail, but my brain insists it looks like the foreground fish is wearing a party hat. #deepsea #marinelife www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

oh no I asked a rhetorical question without restricting replies what a rookie error.

hey so if the health and safety executive issue a formal notice of contravention and tell you you have to share this notice with your employees and you don't share it with your employees is that a bad thing asking for a friend or in relation to a totally hypothetical event obvs.

Hey there. This is an excellent response.

Whenever people spoke about the harms and chilling effect on speech caused by the OSA, these guys were right in with "so you love child porn huh?" Once again: there are no rules, there are no principles, there are no standards. There is just whatever these people want, forever.

If you missed it, series 11 of YOU’RE DEAD TO ME launched on Saturday with an episode about Roman Emperor Nero. Our guests are the superstar double-act of Professor Mary Beard & Patton Oswalt You can listen now in the UK on BBC SOUNDS, or it’ll be out on January 30th on all global podcast apps

first #WorkplaceGratitude of 2026 goes to the copyeditor who somehow turned the mangled frankenstein proofs I was surprise handed on 19th Dec into an almost perfect version based only on my crabby notes because I was unable to use their proprietary proof edits software properly. A HERO.

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

doing a quick lit review and wrote something along the lines of "this was published in 1994 so it is over 20 years old now" and then realised my maths error and did the oblig. crumble into dust.

The light was just perfect this morning (Mr Hat having peanut breakfast on the arch while squirrel looks on)

holiday academic Bluesky (US version): here is a list of everything I accomplished this year plus I had some Thoughts about the humanities holiday academic Bluesky (UK version): I’m 80% brandy butter, 12% brussels sprouts, 8% brisk walk, what’s a university again, also I’ve forgotten how to write

decided to treat myself to writing 750 words for a book chapter before opening my emails. Going in now, wish me luck.

OK deleted the sentiment analysis repost because as lots of people have pointed out it's super dodgy (no info on method of analysis, racist results last time, poster is vague and claiming it as a personal not bsky project but won't say how it's done etc)

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

Thought for a while now that there's a market for *article* length intro texts on topics for UGs. I see a lot of queries like this that *should* have a good answer but don't - key texts are books whose chapters don't always stand alone & we turn to podcasts or interactive websites as alternatives.

I used to work somewhere that had vile staff posting some of the most transphobic things they could about trans colleagues. They absolutely would (and will) use Grok to change people's profile photos, to make them another gender or look ludicrous.

#GardenFlowers / unexpected #SaturdayRoses - I got this yellow vase (KT robbins) for xmas, and inexplicably a yellow rose bloomed in the snow - a frozen droplet of rain slipped out when I brought it indoors. We’ve taken down all the decorations today so bring on spring I guess

Helpful reminder that now is a great time to create a note on your phone or whatever titled “presents” & when a friend or family member mentions they really liked that wine or this face cream or a book or a band etc - write it down. Then when xmas rolls around you have a hint sheet!

Same with scientists. Each "fun" generative AI thing shared makes me a little less confident in the quality of your research.

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..." then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live! people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US. it's MAD.

Update - it WAS bins. I am a champ.