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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 15h

F*** a pay rise, just give colleagues the dignity of a job or voluntary severance!

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 2d

C-RAZY!

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 5d

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary'

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

www.scientificamerican.com

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 6d

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #Ethics #Microscopy #Nanoscience #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Misconduct #Fraud

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing

Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud

www.chemistryworld.com

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 7d

We all need to understand clays better!

Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastic!

I’ll finally get my dream of an ore mineral winning!

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 7d

Hark! What’s that we see on the horizon?

Is it something new? Something mostly metallic, quite heavy, and essential to society? It’s an all-new collaboration with IMA!

Ore Cup: www.mineralcup.org/about-ore-cup

Voting starts Monday November 3. Winner crowned IMA Ore Mineral of the Year

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 7d

Day 3: more placards and a percussion workshop!

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 7d

Day 3: the rain did not stop us!

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for supporting - it is really appreciated!

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 9d

My super-talented tutee there with her balloon skills that says it all.

When I have a moment I’ll do a thread explaining what is going on but in brief LEICESTER IS ON STRIKE!

Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 9d

Pickets in full force on the first day of strike - see you all tomorrow!

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 10d

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 11d

I can imagine the unconformity to the Anthropocene deposit occasionally confusing a student. 😌

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 12d

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy

The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

www.standard.co.uk

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 11d

Highly doubt that Russian secret service Oleg Voloshyn offered bribes to Gill, yet he declined to offer the same to a grifting former Russia Today presenter Farage.

P.S. Here's Farage with Oleg Voloshyn's wife.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 12d

I’ll put money on perovskite never being a viable ore mineral for titanium!

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 12d

A patent does not necessarily mean that there is a viable commercial industrial process - and I’m speaking as a patent holder in metal processing (we are optimistic it will become commercial but that is costing many £millions to scale up the process).

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for these - very interesting papers. But actually underlines my point the perovskite is not a feasible Ti ore. The papers are about perovskite artificially formed in secondary waste products (slags) - so not a natural mineral and therefore not an ore.

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Martin Hajovsky @martinhajovsky.bsky.social · 14d

Boy, is this ever Heartbreak City. I mean, #Haüyne is a blue beauty, but #Hematite has been my favorite since I was a kid here on Earth, while it was also turning Mars red. How can I say no to that? See ya in #MinCup26 haüyne, as I’m pushing hard for hematite in #MinCup25! (Alt text for more.)

Hematite doing its gooey, reflective, Joe Cool flex thing.

Hematite “blueberries” on Mars. Also, the view you’d see if you face-planted on the Red Planet.

Hematite “blueberries” on Mars. Rover tracks for scale.

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 13d

a cartoon character is holding a piece of cheese in his hand .

Alt: Wallace a cartoon character is holding a piece of cheese in his hand and saying “cheese gromit”

media.tenor.com

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 13d

Why I usually flounce off in a huff - ore minerals never get anywhere and people just go on colours.

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 14d

I call these boomerang papers - just keep coming back!

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 15d

That AND no flying cars!

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 16d

Every university in the U.K. is desperately cutting costs, often through shedding staff.

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 18d

Interesting article on public misconceptions about HE, including the value to the economy.

And yet our govt seem happy to sit back and let it all go to shit. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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