David Colquhoun
@davidcolquhoun.bsky.social
Likes #biophysics and #statistics, especially stochastic processes, dislikes pseudo-science.
Twitter refugee: undecided between BlueSky and Mastodon @[email protected]
Blog: https://www.dcscience.net/
Work: https://onemol.org.uk/
Twitter refugee: undecided between BlueSky and Mastodon @[email protected]
Blog: https://www.dcscience.net/
Work: https://onemol.org.uk/
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In all the years I've been campaigning, this is the first where I've feared retaliation - but even X is not above the law. That's why we've referred X to Ofcom for horrific posts that, having taken legal advice, we believe are illegal under the Online Safety Act. goodlaw.social/wk2q
X is not above the law
goodlaw.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In all the years I've been campaigning, this is the first where I've feared retaliation - but even X is not above the law. That's why we've referred X to Ofcom for horrific posts that, having taken legal advice, we believe are illegal under the Online Safety Act. goodlaw.social/wk2q
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November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Freezing income tax thresholds doesn’t “drag more people into higher bands”, people get paid more as a function of time, which is… good? Tax revenue reflects a well-paid workforce.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Freezing income tax thresholds doesn’t “drag more people into higher bands”, people get paid more as a function of time, which is… good? Tax revenue reflects a well-paid workforce.
It's a huge problem of bibliometrics, and especially of AI, that it allows people who are totally ignorant about a subject to masquerade as experts.
#LISbib25
#LISbib25
Horrified to hear that the University of Bath *requires* a bibliometric report for academic promotions. They should be banning them, not requiring them. #LISbib25
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It's a huge problem of bibliometrics, and especially of AI, that it allows people who are totally ignorant about a subject to masquerade as experts.
#LISbib25
#LISbib25
Horrified to hear that the University of Bath *requires* a bibliometric report for academic promotions. They should be banning them, not requiring them. #LISbib25
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Horrified to hear that the University of Bath *requires* a bibliometric report for academic promotions. They should be banning them, not requiring them. #LISbib25
Every day, at a random moment, it pops up and interrupts you. I just hope the bubble bursts soon.
I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Every day, at a random moment, it pops up and interrupts you. I just hope the bubble bursts soon.
The Times talking up Farage again. It used to be a respectable newspaper. Now it's down with the Mail and Telegraph.
🔺ANALYSIS: Why this budget may end up dooming Labour’s election chances
This budget may end up dooming Labour’s election chances
Why this budget may end up dooming Labour’s election chances
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Times talking up Farage again. It used to be a respectable newspaper. Now it's down with the Mail and Telegraph.
AT the LIS Bibliometrics meeting, we were treated to a sales talk from Clarivate who are sponsoring the meeting, I asked "WoS indexes many journals that are designed to sell "alternative medicine" aka quackery", But the Q wasn't answered -I was reprimanded for "inappropriate" comment! #LISbib25
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
AT the LIS Bibliometrics meeting, we were treated to a sales talk from Clarivate who are sponsoring the meeting, I asked "WoS indexes many journals that are designed to sell "alternative medicine" aka quackery", But the Q wasn't answered -I was reprimanded for "inappropriate" comment! #LISbib25
But I loved Amélie Church (Sorbonne University Library, France). Sorbonne has unsubscribed from Science, Nature, Springer, and Web of Science. That's what I call a real university. One of the few that still has principles.
#LISbib25
#LISbib25
Very sad to see that the LIS Bibliometrics meeting, 2025, is being sponsored by Clarivate. I've just suffered a long sales talk from Clarivate, a company that, IMO, profits from corrupting science. #LISbib2025
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
But I loved Amélie Church (Sorbonne University Library, France). Sorbonne has unsubscribed from Science, Nature, Springer, and Web of Science. That's what I call a real university. One of the few that still has principles.
#LISbib25
#LISbib25
Very sad to see that the LIS Bibliometrics meeting, 2025, is being sponsored by Clarivate. I've just suffered a long sales talk from Clarivate, a company that, IMO, profits from corrupting science. #LISbib2025
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Very sad to see that the LIS Bibliometrics meeting, 2025, is being sponsored by Clarivate. I've just suffered a long sales talk from Clarivate, a company that, IMO, profits from corrupting science. #LISbib2025
Fascinating, and VERY depressing, history of fascism in the USA.
Nick Fuentes, the 27-year-old livestreamer with openly antisemitic views, is a master of exploiting the current social media opportunities for extremism, explains a historian of the far right.
Nick Fuentes is a master of exploiting the current social media opportunities for extremism
In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Fascinating, and VERY depressing, history of fascism in the USA.
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Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
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Farage Mocked After Giving Bizarre Reason For Not Investigating Reform Russia Claims | HuffPost www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/fa...
Farage Mocked After Giving Bizarre Reason For Not Investigating Reform Russia Claims
"I haven't got a police force".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Farage Mocked After Giving Bizarre Reason For Not Investigating Reform Russia Claims | HuffPost www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/fa...
The excellent #GillianTett on #BBCNewsnight points out the very depressing thought that there exist people who will vote for Farage because of his admiration for Hitler, not despite it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The excellent #GillianTett on #BBCNewsnight points out the very depressing thought that there exist people who will vote for Farage because of his admiration for Hitler, not despite it.
Listen to the Reith Lectures -very good even in the censored version. Please boost the Streisand effect.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Listen to the Reith Lectures -very good even in the censored version. Please boost the Streisand effect.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The latest BBC apology follows a 17th July interview by Annabel Amos on BBC Radio Northampton, where the Scottish campaigner Andrew Montford was introduced as the ‘Director of the campaign group Net Zero Watch’
No explanation of its funding or allegations of denying climate science was presented.
No explanation of its funding or allegations of denying climate science was presented.
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The latest BBC apology follows a 17th July interview by Annabel Amos on BBC Radio Northampton, where the Scottish campaigner Andrew Montford was introduced as the ‘Director of the campaign group Net Zero Watch’
No explanation of its funding or allegations of denying climate science was presented.
No explanation of its funding or allegations of denying climate science was presented.
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🔴 BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge ‘Dark Money’ Climate-Denial Lobbyist
BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford ‘fell below usual standards’
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford ‘fell below usual standards’
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🔴 BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge ‘Dark Money’ Climate-Denial Lobbyist
BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford ‘fell below usual standards’
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford ‘fell below usual standards’
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
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I find it easy to imagine #farage behaving in the way described. He's that type. Cruel. Cocky. Not at all nice: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I find it easy to imagine #farage behaving in the way described. He's that type. Cruel. Cocky. Not at all nice: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“Gas ‘em all!”, I said. I didn’t single anybody out. Except Hitler, who I agreed with.
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“Gas ‘em all!”, I said. I didn’t single anybody out. Except Hitler, who I agreed with.
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Isn't Deloitte advising the HSE on "AI strategy"?
Canadian governments need to stop sending out tax payer money to these bullshit consultant firms who now seem to just be using LLMs to produce their "reports" fortune.com/2025/11/25/d...
Deloitte just got caught again citing fabricated and potentially AI-generated research—this time in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Isn't Deloitte advising the HSE on "AI strategy"?
Sigh. Chris Mason is on the news, sneering at the government. Again.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Sigh. Chris Mason is on the news, sneering at the government. Again.
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Despite this religion-washing, in terms of their impact upon human thinking, they really *were* Dark Ages. EVERY time in history in which religion was in charge was a Dark Age.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Despite this religion-washing, in terms of their impact upon human thinking, they really *were* Dark Ages. EVERY time in history in which religion was in charge was a Dark Age.