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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Andrew Jackson @yodacomplex.bsky.social · 6d

haha. oh, sorry. I can make it worse... ive recently gone over to native pipe |> over maggritr %>% too...

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 22d

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 9d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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Andrew Jackson @yodacomplex.bsky.social · 9d

“Milibandwidth” : the smallest amount of attention someone will pay to be of their ideas

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19d

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 15d

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts

I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??

here she is at her burrow entrance.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23d

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 23d

Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K.

Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow.

If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25d

Elon Musk, "There's got to be a change of government in Britain"

"We don't have another four years or whenever your next election is, it's too long, something has got to be done"

"There has got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held"

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23d

So you know how there's a running gag about trying to run old school Doom or Wolfenstein on things never intended to run video games?

This guy has managed to code a web server that runs from a disposable vape 🤯

bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

Someone's trash is another person's web server.

bogdanthegeek.github.io

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Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · Aug 27

It suggests early ankylosaur armour could have been used to show off to mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.

Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved.

Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

“Bizarre” armoured dinosaur Spicomellus afer rewrites ankylosaur evolution | Natural History Museum

The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realised.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 20

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

fortune.com

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Aug 19

I am obsessed with this plant.

A species of cucumber, it fruits up to 90cm UNDERGROUND. Why does it do this? Because the only animals known to eat them are AARDVARKS 🤯

THAT'S RIGHT, THIS IS AN AARVARK CUCUMBER. And I got my hands on a specime for the @perfect-specimen.bsky.social 🌿🎙️🧪

A dried plant specimen. It is a long vine, with a few large leaves coming off its side.

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Andrew Jackson @yodacomplex.bsky.social · Aug 18

There was definitely a Wendy's in Dublin (on Grafton St I think near whats now Burger King) in the (early?) 90s. Along with Dunkin Donuts it didnt last. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Corrib Oil to open Wendy's restaurant in Cork in October

Service station and energy company Corrib Oil is opening a Wendy's fast food restaurant in Mahon Point Shopping Centre in Cork in October.

www.rte.ie

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Dr Elsa Panciroli @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social · Aug 14

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Assistant Curator (Vertebrates)

careers.nms.ac.uk

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thread. Can’t wait til there are black-box phylogenetic/popgen programs written with this showing up in papers for review. 🧪

Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · Jul 28

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Job Search

careers.pageuppeople.com

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Andrew Jackson @yodacomplex.bsky.social · Jul 23

What a cool use of fatty acids, stable isotopes and mixing models!

Clare Burke @thesherdnerd.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congrats to the team on this! Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🏺 #archaeology #Neolithic

Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture | PNAS

The dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan from around 3,000 y ago has been well documented through radiocarbon analysis of b...

www.pnas.org

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jul 22

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · Jul 21

The UK’s economic problems are quite deep-rooted. The best summary I can offer is “we don’t make enough valuable, productive stuff and sell it to the world any more”.
Things like planning and energy no doubt play a role in that - but I don’t think they’re enough to fix it on their own

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Andrew Jackson @yodacomplex.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Andrew Jackson @yodacomplex.bsky.social · Jul 15

How is it’s still “normal precautions”?

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · Jul 15

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.

“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’

Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · Jul 15

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.

“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’

Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Jackson @yodacomplex.bsky.social · Jul 15

are they trying to build a company around a database and model to meet the daft age verification rules coming down the line? (which will be a failure)

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