Nicola Kerrison
@nicolakerrison.bsky.social
Cambridge-based biology geek
@cantabkitty found some hexagons for you www.youtube.com/shorts/Rvr0t...
Cracking the code of hexagonal rocks (aka columnar jointing)
YouTube video by Hannah Fry
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June 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
@cantabkitty found some hexagons for you www.youtube.com/shorts/Rvr0t...
paging @cantabkitty, intersection of textile art and religion. www.elystandard.co.uk/news/2516249...
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May 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
paging @cantabkitty, intersection of textile art and religion. www.elystandard.co.uk/news/2516249...
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Yesterday, a colleague alerted me that I had been "quoted" extensively in an article on how to get a "beach body". I was surprised and dismayed as I only have two tips for getting a beach body: 1) have a body 2) wear SPF
April 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Yesterday, a colleague alerted me that I had been "quoted" extensively in an article on how to get a "beach body". I was surprised and dismayed as I only have two tips for getting a beach body: 1) have a body 2) wear SPF
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There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists ....
First they eliminate words.
Then they eliminate people.
First they eliminate words.
Then they eliminate people.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists ....
First they eliminate words.
Then they eliminate people.
First they eliminate words.
Then they eliminate people.
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And it's at this point, after 15 mins of wasted human time and 8000 tokens (goodness knows how much energy that took), the LLM came clean.
It hadn't actually looked up and collated the information I asked linked to specific sources. It made it up and attributed it to plausible sounding sources
It hadn't actually looked up and collated the information I asked linked to specific sources. It made it up and attributed it to plausible sounding sources
February 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
And it's at this point, after 15 mins of wasted human time and 8000 tokens (goodness knows how much energy that took), the LLM came clean.
It hadn't actually looked up and collated the information I asked linked to specific sources. It made it up and attributed it to plausible sounding sources
It hadn't actually looked up and collated the information I asked linked to specific sources. It made it up and attributed it to plausible sounding sources
Just heard a clip of this choir and they sound lovely, thought @cantabkitty might like to know (and they have a come & sing coming up) cambridgeschola.com/services-con...
Cambridge University Schola Cantorum - Services & Concerts
Services & Concerts. Cambridge University Schola Cantorum, a classical group from Cambridge
cambridgeschola.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just heard a clip of this choir and they sound lovely, thought @cantabkitty might like to know (and they have a come & sing coming up) cambridgeschola.com/services-con...
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