Ed Hollox

Faking it without making it: The de-extinction disinfo campaign manager’s history of hype. How Colossal Biosciences’ CEO Ben Lamm keeps the hype cycle going. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

To be fair, emotionally-manipulative sentimental pap sums up Dickens quite well!

Ftom angry PE teacher to emergency klaxon in nuclear facility. Lock screen is now "All staff are required to report a personal data breach immediately". Presumably only if one has actually occurred, but such detail is omitted...

Jammie dodgers are clearly a sister taxa to custard creams. Thier addition of jam and polymorphic derived loss of the custard middle means thier phenotypic divergence is notable, but no way are they a pseudobiscuit. What an insult.

Palatino

REF2029 pause ends today, with UUK conference talks starting at 10:00 and embargo lifted at 11:00. Register to listen online. (There is also a Q&A session).

Next manuscript :"Some have even said they have never seen such Strong results."

Pouring a DGGE gel...

UK hasn't had tenure for many years. Easier now for universities to sack people who do not show "strategic fit", no easier apparently for universities to sack someone for being a bully or a sex pest...

It's not him, but looks a bit like David Gower

Maybe to assist but not replace a human reviewer. I have no idea about whether it will prevent 'novelty'. Novelty in itself not necessarily valuable, the novel idea might be bad. But then I think grants should be awarded by lot, then followed by constructive review...

Somebody will do it.

An excellent piece here. ' It can sometimes look as though the biggest crime in science is to create an unseemly fuss, especially on a topic deemed “political”. ' Indeed.

Recently I've read a number of books and articles expressing net-nostalgia, about how better everything was online in the 90s. For those who missed it, let me explain how literature searches worked back then. Thread 👇

White background, red ribbon. Text says “World AIDS Day”.

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

Reminds me of the time I sent an Italian colleague into seven fits of fury because I said that mortadella was a bit like spam.

A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.

"An old saying about such follies is that “six months in the lab can you save you an afternoon in the library”; here we may have wasted a trillion dollars and several years to rediscover what cognitive science already knew."

garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...

Expanding CIRdb, a comprehensive catalog of whole-exome sequencing data of Canary Islanders Within the intricate European genetic diversity landscape, Canary Islanders exhibit a unique genetic admixture, comprising European (EUR), North African (NAF), and sub-Saharan African (SSA) ancestries...

Taken together, CIRdb presents a valuable resource of exome-wide genetic variation in a population at the edge of Southwestern European genetic diversity. Check it out! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...

“Analysis of 87 ancient & modern cat genomes suggests that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers. Conversely, they were introduced to Europe around 2000 years ago, probably from North Africa....“ De Martino et al in @science.org. Ancient DNA + cats = science purrfection. 🧬🐱🧪

My frymnbial has be playing up recently, doc. Like the proud rat, i find these so funny I just cannot be annoyed.

3 - me, 2 PhD students at the moment. Not including undergrads or MScs, normally 2-3 of those.

Only if you frame earning more money as a punishment.

Can't beat a bit of old Shakey. Read it out, that change of pace (meter?) in the penultimate line.

I'm not sure what you mean by low return degrees, but if you mean degrees whose holders *on average* go on to lower paid jobs, surely they are the ones that *should* be subsidised?

Top 10 rare British road signs Here are 10 of the most uncommon road signs in the UK. While rare, it's a good idea to get acquainted with them, just in case.

Ah. You see, adverse camber is not so arcane in uk english. And hard curve would just get sniggers. Venture out of London you will see these, all genuine. www.startrescue.co.uk/news/top-10/...

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1979: Steeplejack FRED DIBNAH takes down a MASSIVE chimney BRICK by BRICK | BBC Archive

anyway my favorite channel of late is the BBC Archive. they don't make lads like this anymore youtu.be/NKPApAsJbj4...

Genuinely curious in what others see in our everyday, what is particularly good about it?