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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 2h

Intrigued by photo of computer pioneer Tommy Flowers in Guardian feature today as I have a photo of my father, another who educated himself out of working class life in the 1930s, dressed *exactly* the same.

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 6h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 21h

Review of McKibben’s Here Comes the Sun

Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 22h

there are quite a few pop science books that fit this description, I think - not all about physics...

Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 1d

📚 💙 "Could it be that, through the guise of writing for the layperson, Roger Penrose’s popular books are really addressed to the global community of theoretical physicists?"

Read more here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/exploring-...

⚛️ 🧪 #physics #science #nobelprize #philsci #scicomm #Nobel 🗃️

Photo taken during the filming of a conversation between Roger Penrose and Howard Burton.

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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 22h

hard to believe one of our best science writers has to spend their time reporting on science that can no longer be done, but that is where things are in the USA in 2025

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating take on the current AI hyperbole… ashvardanian.com/posts/llm-ep...

Are LLMs the Epicycles of Intelligence?

I’ve always been fascinated by AI and mega-projects — and as I work on AI infrastructure, you might assume I’m equally fascinated by the current LLM race. In reality, I’m far more skeptical than most....

ashvardanian.com

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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 1d

Or happen to be married to one… :)

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

If you think Professors are absent minded wait until you meet an Emeritus Professor.

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 1d

‘It feels good – and quite strange – to think I could vote for what I believe in…’

@natashawalter.bsky.social reports on why young women are flocking to @greenparty.org.uk, won over by @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s stance on topics such as Palestine, refugee rights and economic injustice 🌱

Photo of Zack Polanski. Text: Natasha Walter: why young women are flocking to the Greens

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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 2d

Because she was evil and did so much damage?

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 3d

Jazz calendar site - new blog post...
bristoljazzlive.co.uk/2025/10/08/j...

Jazz Promotion Network Showcase – Bristol Jazz Live

Bristol Jazz Live:

bristoljazzlive.co.uk

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 5d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 5d

Time for Liz Truss to add PM of France (temp) to her CV, if she has a few days to spare?

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 6d

'Ribbons', a poem by Seamus Heaney, is published for the first time.

The poem appears in The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis. The definitive edition of Heaney's poetry is out on 9 October.

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 8d

I sat down with Prof. Cordelia Fine for an in-depth discussion about her wonderful new book “Patriarchy, Inc.”

She critiques two dominant stories of inequality — the “different but equal” view and the “business case for diversity” — and sets out a richer vision of what equality should mean today.

S5 E10 - Cordelia Fine on

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 03/10/2025 · 53m

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 6d

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...