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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 2d

I was younger then!

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 2d

The River, Scary Monsters, Be Happy.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 2d

I owned three from each list. The same three.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 2d

Stir up Sunday and the Christmas puddings are made.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 3d

Hmmmm.

‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist

The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered up

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 4d

Government launches major push for AI-driven science.

Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding.

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Government launches major push for AI-driven science - Research Professional News

Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 4d

No wonder he’s laughing…

David Bowman @dlbowman76.com · 5d

The simplest definition of "enshittification" is this:

Google has made it ridiculously difficult to google things and get a genuinely useful result.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 5d

I’m reminded of how, thirty odd years ago, I applied for AHRC funding for a project on science and culture in nineteenth century Ireland. The reviewers were unanimous that there was nothing there to study. Good to see that times have changed!

Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 5d

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory:

Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 5d

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory:

Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, dark money fans the flames, but sheesh, was the kindling dry.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 6d

So the pusillanimity of institutions like the Royal Society or the National Academy of Sciences have no bearing on the erosion of trust? Or the bleating of self appointed leaders about keeping politics out of science?

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 6d

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 6d

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 6d

Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People, for the earlier part.

David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 7d

Major UK project launched to tackle drug-resistant superbugs with AI. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Major AI project to tackle drug-resistant superbugs

The UK turns to artificial intelligence (AI) to reverse the rising numbers of infections that shrug off antibiotics.

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 8d

There's no 'if' about it, surely. Bursting is what bubbles do.

Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts

Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 8d

posted by a friend who is Professor of Molecular Biophysics. PM me if you have any ideas and want to be put in touch.

Seeking suggestions or connections for work opportunities for a young woman recently arrived in the UK from Gaza who is doing a masters in Genomic Medicine at Oxford.

She is a medical laboratory technician with a undergrad and masters degree in Medical Laboratory Science.

She is looking for up to 20 hours/week of medical/science work, either in Oxford or remotely (during term time), or anywhere in the holidays, in anything from sample collection, phlebotomy, haematology, clinical chemistry, microbiology, research assistant, or any laboratory-related or suitable office work, translation (Arabic-English) etc. Please spread the word among your networks.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 9d

We had a bit of a pumpkin crop this year.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 11d

It does rather reek of a dawning realization that they don't really have a leg to stand on!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts

Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists

www.theguardian.com

Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 19d

Actually, folks, this is not phrenology (feeling the bumps on the skull) as people are saying in comments, it is physiognomy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiog... a similarly exploded 'science'. (What it is to be C19th quackery nerd.)

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 22d

New issue alert!

‘Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices’, guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth is now freely available online at 19.bbk.ac.uk. @openlibhums.org

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 23d

I don’t *think* it was me. Or at least I don’t remember!

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 25d

Nos Galan.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 25d

This should make for an interesting year.

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Aberystwyth named Wales' first Unesco City of Literature

The town and Ceredigion county was chosen due to its

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 27d

Machlud haul yn Aberystwyth/Aberystwyth sunset.

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Oct 25

Y gwir yn erbyn y byd.
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How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth

Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Oct 22

They’re probably wrong about that!

Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Oct 22

They’re presumably assuming that most people won’t make that calculation.

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Oct 17

The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal!

Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD

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