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Gary Polhill
@garypolhill.bsky.social
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Agent-based modeller in human-natural systems with background in AI and NN. (Very) occasional blog posts at https://ecocyborg-manifesto.blog/ All posts my own views at the time and not necessarily those of my employer or any societies to which I belong.
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 16h
If they talked too much about the top two causes of death they might lose advertising revenue…
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 16h
More time to think
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 4d
Once spent an entertaining train ride with a nurse who worked in A&E. The stories she had! Which included one of someone who needed an organ transplant being told by the specialist that since it was a nice day out they’d probably have one from a biker in a few hours.
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IAPS 2026 Conference @iaps2026.bsky.social · 7d
🍂🌞

October is here! Time to start thinking about your conference plans for 2026?

In a couple of weeks we’ll be launching our Call for Submissions. Stay tuned to our website: www.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026

🍁🍃

@iaps-association.bsky.social | @eprg-surrey.bsky.social | @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social
IAPS Conference 2026
29 June - Friday 3 July 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. The theme of IAPS 2026 is Sustainability as Wellbeing: Towards healthy, green, and equitable communities.
www.surrey.ac.uk
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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · 7d
🤖🌳 Inspired by a Hutton project, Aberdeen teens Anjishnu Bhaduri, Adwait Sharma & Jayawant Sivarajan built ThistleDroid—a robot that tests land for reforestation & plants seeds!

🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.

👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 7d
You know when a piece of software does not work when its advocates start saying the problems aren’t with the software, they’re with people.
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 10d
Fascinating! Does growing rice on peat keep its carbon locked in?
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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · 13d
⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture!

World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics

📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!

More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 15d
Or maybe something that messes with the minds of the sorts of people who’d give something up just in case it did cause autism. Whole foods?
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 15d
I’m wondering what else could be found to cause autism and whether any of them are things I don’t like. Cauliflower, for instance.
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 15d
Not sure about Apple’s ‘glass’ UI thing in 26.0. But maybe I’m just getting retraumatized from Aero in Windows 20+ years ago.
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 17d
Stew: the dish that cannot make up its mind whether it’s the soup or main course.
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Computational Social Science Society of the Americas @computationalsocialscience.org · 18d
CSSSA September Webinar
Join us Wednesday, September 24, at 10 am (ET) or An Open Discussion on Education Needs for Agent-based Simulation with Dr. Rob Axtell and the CSSSA Team. Register here! (www.tickettailor.com/events/compu...)
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 21d
Windows and Office are productivity vampires. Fun little UX today in Outlook. A pop-up over a tab that ‘helpfully’ tells you the same text as the tab title (but in a slightly smaller font), obscuring the cursor where I’m typing. Moving the mouse interrupts my train of thought.
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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · Sep 8
🌾 #Flax, once a staple of Scottish agriculture, could play a key role in sustainable textiles and low-impact #farming today.

We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.

More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 12
So what do you do when you cannot sleep?
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 12
I wonder what that means for CCTV…?
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 11
Hmmm. If people put physical posters up everywhere bragging about their luxurious lifestyles, so HMRC wrote code to read the posters on StreetView and check the tax records were commensurate, would we find that as creepy?
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 1
Not sure everyone in Scotland would agree the Oxford Cambridge London area is absolutely optimum as a region where the UK does its R&D.
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jul 27
As long as it tastes good I don’t care.
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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · Jul 21
🌱 What happens when economic theory meets local action?

Ahead of the #TBMacLecture, explore how our speaker, Kate Raworth’s, #DoughnutEconomics is shaping a Swedish town, and join us in Edinburgh to hear more.

🎟️: ow.ly/lAcp50WrKpv

📖 @theguardian.com : ow.ly/mbqo50WrKpt
46th TB Macaulay Lecture - with Kate Raworth
46th TB Macaulay Lecture - Kate Raworth
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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · Jul 11
We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Horizon Europe project INSPIRI!

Help co-create imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe's ocean and water systems.

Learn more and apply by 31 August: www.stockholmresilience.org/4.aeea46911a...
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jul 7
For your next trick, go to an Italian restaurant and ask for some ketchup to go on your main course.
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jul 3
No, I didn’t
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The Onion @theonion.com · Jul 3
Sun Thought Pasty Fuck Learned His Lesson Last Summer
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Sun Thought Pasty Fuck Learned His Lesson Last Summer
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Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Jun 22
It seems now the sole qualification for being doomed to watch history repeating itself is simply to live long enough