I get that some people don't understand this. Maybe they think the chat function is a legitimate summary of actual websites. But lots of us have been yelling about this for *years* now! The information about how unreliable, thieving, and damaging to the environment is available! Don't. Use. "AI".

Please savor the irony of this coming from a rider on a team sponsored by a petrostate.

Shot fired!

Announcing a 4pm meeting on critical funding cuts with 2hrs notice, in July. <<Chef's kiss>>

Some of the things that will likely be announced in a couple of hours at the STFC townhall, which was only just advertised..

@weareagc.bsky.social's Volume 2 issue 1 is complete! Read all 10 articles for free here: journals.uu.se/AGC/issue/vi... Thanks Jeanne Caumartin, Karim Benzerara and Christophe Tomazo for providing the cover photo!

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

just wanted to read a kids’ menu online and look at all this fucking shit lmao

Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.

See also university league table ranks

A shameless and thoroughly corrupt country.

Wtf is wrong with Paraguay ! 😲

Also: the unspeakable hypocrisy of these people saying refugees should 'pay their way'. We have spent years, decades actually, begging the Home Office to let asylum seekers work so their could have some meaning and material advantage in their life, to no avail.

👏 impose massive road tax and parking fees for owners of range rover, ford ranger and the like.

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

But my university continues to tell us to "embrace AI without fear" and incorporate it into all our classes

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

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And I'm sure the STFC community are interested in how £20m can just be found....

UK Higher Education is a slow motion disaster movie. And no one is coming to save us (or our students) from the decimation. We will look back on this period of destruction in the same way we look back at the Brexit vote. Oooops! I’m so done with this sector 😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

Right now, the US Govt can’t get algae out of a pond, don’t let’s trust anyone on planetary geoengineering.

This is * insane *. STFC council minutes from December have been removed from their website, changed, and reposted. The new version rolls back on funding commitments made explicit in the initial version. I can't think of another adjective other than Trumpian behaviour.

I think that colonizing Mars might one day be possible, but it's hard to see why anyone would be talking about it now, while our knowledge base is so limited. If anyone were serious about it, they'd be funding exploration. They aren't, so one must conclude that it's not serious. It's hype, a scam.

It would seem that @ukri.org has moved on to rewriting history. 🔭🧪

👀 what is going on at STFC!

and all of them are senior university administrators

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

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My hot take is that OpenAi is going public purely as a venture capital liquidity event before everyone figures out this business cannot make any money

Hey, they have a viable business model! As long as they can steal all content everywhere and get major tax credits for data centers...

Living on the US government's dime has made this frog bodied Nazi the richest glob of spoiled tapioca pudding on Earth.

" #STFC ... have worked collaboratively with the sector as this process progresses across many community meetings ... involving many thousands of research colleagues. " Dear 1000's of research colleagues: do you feel "involved" in this "collaborative" process? 😡🙅‍♀️🔭⚛️ ℹ️: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Musk is set to become a trillionaire today. 👀 Location near Tesla’s flagship London store, UK. 🎥 @everyonehateselon.bsky.social

It's hard to express how much this pisses me off. They shove it down your throat AND tell you to do some training! 🤬

Planetary Research Jobs: A new job announcements platform for planetary science https://blog.planetary-research.org/2026/06/08/planetary-research-jobs-a-new-job-announcements-platform-for-planetary-science/

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

A bit disturbing to see @esa.int launch satellites for Amazon's constellation of 3000 satellites, and contribute to screwing ever more our night sky and astronomy observations 🧐

Time to make a Starter Pack for “Academics Who Refuse to Let AI Write for Them”?

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This one hurts. I've really enjoyed Tim's work in the past But let's just be totally bloody clear here: every single person using a text fabrication engine to replace their work, research and writing skills: THIS MOMENT IS COMING FOR YOU TOO It is truly just a matter of time. It's inevitable ⏱️

This is so like the MOOC mania of a decade ago.

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So, the "Wave of the Future" Industry is merely another instance of the ancient business strategy: "The first one is free!"

A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀

Uh ho.. 😲

This thread 👇 is 🎯

(22/38) And that leads to truly astonishing decision-making. We hear politicians say that they are “not afraid to take hard decisions.” In reality, they are afraid to challenge the taboos – very afraid – so instead they penalise the very people they were elected to help.