All I want for Christmas is a functional COVID inquiry #1 • Or rather, a functional effort to get us ready for next time & other crises

Sci/Tech - New paper on Lovelace Disruptive Invention Labs led by Laura Ryan & Alvin Djajadikerta • An argument for a new approach to technoscientific research in the UK

Letby trials #2 - New strong evidence that Lucy Letby is innocent on at least one count • BBC and TriedByStats both now reporting serious new flaws in Letby trials [5 minute read]

Letby trials #1 - Lucy Letby’s right to a fair trial must be defended • Some background on becoming involved in the trials of Lucy Letby

Vignettes (HT5) - New blog series - Metascience, a new Society of Technological Advancement (SOTA), and silencing of biosafety

Rising political activism in prestige scientific journals and magazines • A preliminary look at the change in political content of some prestige scientific journals and magazines over time

New applied metascience lab - Future House announced + some thoughts on UK applied metascience

UCL Talk - Government, science, and the need for creative destruction • ARIA, Lovelace, UK Tech position, Government reform - my talk at UCL and the Research on Research Institute

A New National Purpose: AI • Blair-Hague report #2

S&T: 'A conversation with Sydney Brenner: How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation' - Elizabeth Dzeng's 2014 Interview

Neuroscience/AI - Can rats ‘think’? A paper by Chongxi Lai and colleagues on cognitive teleportation in rats [8 min read] • Chongxi Lai’s thesis work, Jedi rats, and brain-machine interfaces.

Responses to comments on our democratic control of AGI paper

Securing Liberal Democratic Control of AGI through UK Leadership

S&T - Is the UK a world leader in science? • With Professor Paul Nightingale - Looking at the top 100 papers in different priority tech fields to assess the UK position at the cutting edge

S&T - A New National Purpose: a joint report by Tony Blair and William Hague • Leadership in innovation through science and technology as the core of national success.

S&T - New Horizons: The UK’s Global Science Strategy Beyond Horizon Europe (Jan 2023) • Comments at the UK Onward event on UK Science Strategy

Body-mind: An Emergent I Prologue - A Semi-Monocular I • A story of an unusual body:mind disorder

S&T - Lovelace vision document: ARIA's proposed twin - a network of new research laboratories using different organisational principles • ‘You will not concede me Philosophical poetry. Invert the order! Will you give me poetical philosophy, poetical science?’ Ada Lovelace