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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 1d

Managed to make it to the British Museum for Ancient India Exhibition before it closes. These were our favourite pieces.

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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday morning reading in praise of difficult women occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Difficult Women | Athene Donald's Blog

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 1d

The perfect way to start the day; Arome Bakery - the crumbliest yummiest treats and 🍵 latte 😍 #bakery #arome #matcha #sunday

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 3d

As if there isn't enough to worry about already!

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 4d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 4d

Estonia voted the friendliest country in Europe 😍❤️ #estonia #friends #friendliest estonianworld.com/life/apparen...

Apparently, Estonia is the friendliest country in Europe

Readers of Condé Nast Traveler have voted Estonia the friendliest country in Europe – though not everyone may agree.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about OpenAI's ambitious platform play and the Cambridge Analytica flashbacks it inspired. Plus, Sam Altman takes my question about enshittification risk www.platformer.news/openai-dev-d...

At launch, OpenAI is promising a more rigorous approach to data privacy. OpenAI will share only what it needs to with developers, executives said. (They essentially hand-waved through the details, though, so the actual mechanics will bear scrutiny.) Unlike Facebook, though, OpenAI has no friend graph to worry about — whatever might go wrong between you, ChatGPT, and a developer, it will likely not involve giving away the contact information of all of your friends.

At the same time, the AI graph may prove even riskier. ChatGPT stores many users’ most private conversations. Leaky data permissions, either intentional or accidental, could prove disastrous for users and the company. It only took one real privacy disaster to end Facebook’s platform ambitions; I can’t imagine it would take much more to end OpenAI’s.

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Brandon Hurr @bhive01.bsky.social · 7d

I refuse to believe that's not a 5G mini-tower.

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 7d

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 7d

Tree of the day #tree #treepftheday

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 10d

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 13d

Dinner and sunsets #sunsets #sun

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 14d

Good news to start the week 😀 Our paper “A micelle-templated nanoparticle contrast agent enables dynamic microscale X-ray computed tomography imaging of the soil aqueous phase” has been accepted for publication in RSC Applied Polymers 🎉 Funding by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @erc.europa.eu

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 15d

Overheard at Erewhon 😂
GenZ buying smoothies: ooh would it not be wonderful to have hot vegetable smoothies for winter?
Boomer grannie: this would be called soup 😂
#winter #erewhon #smoothies #soup

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Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social · 15d

You are a poster boy @climategordon.bsky.social 😀

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 15d

Our Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships are still open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for outstanding early career scientists who require flexible working circumstances.

#RSGrants

https://royalsociety.org/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/