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Jack Stilgoe
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social
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Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk) .. more

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1h
Stand by your radios at 09:00 UK time! I’ll be on R4’s Start the Week with @adamrutherford.bsky.social talking about CRICK. Also with Alison Bashford talking about science and the occult in the history of palmistry and Charlotte Houldcroft describing her work on DNA viruses.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 13h
Someone hasn’t bothered to google transhumanism

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 14h
My nephew, who’s in the Marines, has just told me about Mad Jack Churchill. His Wikipedia entry is worth a look. “He fought in the Second World War with a broadsword, archery, and a set of bagpipes.”
Jack Churchill - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 21h
And if you ask it for more, it gets really excited

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 21h
From Nano Banana Pro in gemini, which is their newest and best

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 21h
This is what I got. Smashing.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1d
Asked ChatGPT for the sheet music to “Jingle Bells.” Okay

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d
Ooh. A summer project on the politics of cricviz? As a rejoinder to that Collins and Evans Hawkeye one?

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d
The thing is, cricket culture is just very, very conservative. The obsession with stats and history is part of this. At the moment, it's exciting because almost every test match is in some way unprecedented. And it makes the blimps angry, because their shelves of Wisden no longer have much value.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d
"The UK has seen a long period of consensus about the role of the state in the R&D landscape... I think it’s not improbable, even quite likely, that this consensus will come to an end in the next few years."
andywestwood.bsky.social Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · 1d
Here is @richardaljones.bsky.social basically telling us how it is. I’ve been thinking about this since listening to him say this stuff out loud at the @royalsociety.org
on Thursday.
softmachines.org?p=3192
UK Science in a post-liberal world – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
softmachines.org

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Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · 1d
Here is @richardaljones.bsky.social basically telling us how it is. I’ve been thinking about this since listening to him say this stuff out loud at the @royalsociety.org
on Thursday.
softmachines.org?p=3192
UK Science in a post-liberal world – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
softmachines.org

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social joins the calls for a bolder approach to the EU. But I'm not convinced. Single market for goods is not on offer. Brexit is not the only reason for our woes - the economy has been misfiring for the best part of 20 years. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1/2
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Still gives me nightmares
scarredforlife.bsky.social Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d
Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2d
Mani’s passing reminded me of this piece of brilliance youtu.be/35mNB234cx4?...
University Challenge The Stone Roses
YouTube video by channelalright
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
These pics of the fallen Russian robot have real pathos. The AI overview when I searched one of them is a bit odd

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Ben's made the classic mistake of offering data to a debate about immigration. A shame, as it's such nice data.
benansell.bsky.social Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d
It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d
It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d
Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Look at this long boi. I'm guessing there are aerodynamic reasons for it looking like this, but we can still laugh.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
“Maximally truth-seeking”

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 3d
The Proclaimers need to do a song about this

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
The old horse-riding-a-man test. Eek!

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
As is the labelled diagram of a drumkit (except the hi-hat/bass drum confusion). Interesting that, as I asked in British English it got the lingo (bass drum, not kick drum, although Brits don't say "throne")

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
And its 'fantasy' map is quite good too

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
OK. Brand new model. Nano Banana Pro. Much, much better. Although "Manston", "Loconaman" etc are odd.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d
Elon Musk > Shakespeare

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
This pleasing thread juxtaposition reveals that Blue Origin have certainly passed their knobology finals

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
Automated message from GP telling me to download an app for my minor shoulder issue. Manymany questions, videos and tips, all of which basically end with “GET BACK TO WORK!” Thanks, apps. #thapps

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 3d
X-59 First Flight Media Resources

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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the result of years of design, integration, and ground testing and begins a new chapter in NASA’s aeronautics research legacy. NASA/Carla Thomas NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the result of years of design, integration, and ground testing and begins a new chapter in NASA’s aeronautics research legacy. NASA/Carla Thomas NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above Palmdale and Edwards, California, on its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, accompanied by a NASA F-15 research aircraft. The F-15 monitored the X-59 during the flight as it traveled to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, where it will begin flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight over land. NASA/Jim Ross NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft cruises above Palmdale and Edwards, California, during its first flight, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. The aircraft will traveled to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA/Lori Losey

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
The ‘error-correction’ process was pretty nuts in this case, if you take Richard Horton’s account in his MMR book. And from memory I thought the paper itself didn’t mention the vaccine? Didn’t Wakefield bring that up just in the press conference?