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Gary Polhill

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Agent-based modeller in human-natural systems with background in AI and NN. (Very) occasional blog posts at https://ecocyborg-manifesto.blog/ All posts my own views at the time and not necessarily those of my employer or any societies to which I belong. .. more

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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 2d

If they talked too much about the top two causes of death they might lose advertising revenue…

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 2d

More time to think

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 6d

Once spent an entertaining train ride with a nurse who worked in A&E. The stories she had! Which included one of someone who needed an organ transplant being told by the specialist that since it was a nice day out they’d probably have one from a biker in a few hours.

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IAPS 2026 Conference @iaps2026.bsky.social · 8d

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October is here! Time to start thinking about your conference plans for 2026?

In a couple of weeks we’ll be launching our Call for Submissions. Stay tuned to our website: www.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026

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@iaps-association.bsky.social | @eprg-surrey.bsky.social | @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social

IAPS Conference 2026

29 June - Friday 3 July 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. The theme of IAPS 2026 is Sustainability as Wellbeing: Towards healthy, green, and equitable communities.

www.surrey.ac.uk

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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · 9d

🤖🌳 Inspired by a Hutton project, Aberdeen teens Anjishnu Bhaduri, Adwait Sharma & Jayawant Sivarajan built ThistleDroid—a robot that tests land for reforestation & plants seeds!

🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.

👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe

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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 9d

You know when a piece of software does not work when its advocates start saying the problems aren’t with the software, they’re with people.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 12d

Fascinating! Does growing rice on peat keep its carbon locked in?

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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · 15d

⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture!

World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics

📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!

More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj

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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 17d

Or maybe something that messes with the minds of the sorts of people who’d give something up just in case it did cause autism. Whole foods?

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 17d

I’m wondering what else could be found to cause autism and whether any of them are things I don’t like. Cauliflower, for instance.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 17d

Not sure about Apple’s ‘glass’ UI thing in 26.0. But maybe I’m just getting retraumatized from Aero in Windows 20+ years ago.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 19d

Stew: the dish that cannot make up its mind whether it’s the soup or main course.

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Computational Social Science Society of the Americas @computationalsocialscience.org · 20d

CSSSA September Webinar
Join us Wednesday, September 24, at 10 am (ET) or An Open Discussion on Education Needs for Agent-based Simulation with Dr. Rob Axtell and the CSSSA Team. Register here! (www.tickettailor.com/events/compu...)

www.tickettailor.com

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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 23d

Windows and Office are productivity vampires. Fun little UX today in Outlook. A pop-up over a tab that ‘helpfully’ tells you the same text as the tab title (but in a slightly smaller font), obscuring the cursor where I’m typing. Moving the mouse interrupts my train of thought.

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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · Sep 8

🌾 #Flax, once a staple of Scottish agriculture, could play a key role in sustainable textiles and low-impact #farming today.

We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.

More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr

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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 12

So what do you do when you cannot sleep?

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 12

I wonder what that means for CCTV…?

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hmmm. If people put physical posters up everywhere bragging about their luxurious lifestyles, so HMRC wrote code to read the posters on StreetView and check the tax records were commensurate, would we find that as creepy?

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 1

Not sure everyone in Scotland would agree the Oxford Cambridge London area is absolutely optimum as a region where the UK does its R&D.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jul 27

As long as it tastes good I don’t care.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Nov 30

Do you want to know why Britain's university system is imploding? Well, if you do... Make yourself a nice coffee, pull up a chair and take a look at what I wrote back in the summer for Prospect magazine. Please repost if you agree! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Crash course

The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · Jul 21

🌱 What happens when economic theory meets local action?

Ahead of the #TBMacLecture, explore how our speaker, Kate Raworth’s, #DoughnutEconomics is shaping a Swedish town, and join us in Edinburgh to hear more.

🎟️: ow.ly/lAcp50WrKpv

📖 @theguardian.com : ow.ly/mbqo50WrKpt

46th TB Macaulay Lecture - with Kate Raworth

46th TB Macaulay Lecture - Kate Raworth

ow.ly

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · Jul 11

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Horizon Europe project INSPIRI!

Help co-create imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe's ocean and water systems.

Learn more and apply by 31 August: www.stockholmresilience.org/4.aeea46911a...

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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jul 7

For your next trick, go to an Italian restaurant and ask for some ketchup to go on your main course.

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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jul 3

No, I didn’t

The Onion @theonion.com · Jul 3

Sun Thought Pasty Fuck Learned His Lesson Last Summer
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The Onion @theonion.com · Jul 3

Sun Thought Pasty Fuck Learned His Lesson Last Summer
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jun 22

It seems now the sole qualification for being doomed to watch history repeating itself is simply to live long enough

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jun 21

If it would help, I could stand on my doorstep and talk continually about addressing the climate crisis, reducing wealth inequality, and welcoming immigrants — just on the offchance a politician happens to come by who wants to do one or more of those things.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jun 21

Thanks for this and the evidence you backed it up with in the discussion.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jun 19

At least it didn’t include the phrase, “I am an AI language model”