Matt Burleigh

I’ve got about as boringly ordinary English accent as it’s possible to have and yet half of America cannot understand me. Even when I’m not being sarcastic. Maybe I should just descend into estuary/cockney and be done with it. Innit.

I can do DIY it seems #newgaff

Interesting insights into the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system

Dumb dumb dumb cricket.

Unsung observatory worker was UK’s first professional female astronomer, experts say Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy is trying to find a photo of Annie Walker, who died in 1940, to give her star billing

Anybody got a picture of Annie Walker? Possibly first British professional astronomer, later moved to Oz. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Captaincy by data analyst is going well

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Theory? Better known as Complete bollox. The man is an imbecile as is everyone who voted for him

I’m convinced Win Predictor is two Aussie backpackers pissed up in a Walkabout bar somewhere in London and getting paid cash in hand to occasionally type bollox to the cricket commentators

A very weird discussion about Alan Border on ICC TV during the lunch break. Completely avoiding exactly why they’re talking about him in a very past tense

Good idea. Apparently you can hire the press facilities at the oval during county champ games. I saw someone do that a few weeks ago as they needed a random meeting room for their team!

Although scoring was painfully slow until these two got together. Possibly part of the reason why both batting line ups have got themselves into trouble

BTW there’s at least one exoplaneteer at Lords today cc @aussiastronomer.bsky.social

Yep. Or possibly around a white dwarf

Don’t forget white dwarf planets, pulsar planets and second generation planets.

Should Australia declare and have a bowl while there’s an hour left under these lights and heavy cloud

Darn - the record has been passed with an hour to spare. Bazball-lite.

My dad says this reminds him of watching tests in the 1960s. Boycott, Barrington, Lawrie….

Looks to me like the fewest number of runs in a 6 hour days Test cricket is 151, Eng v NZ here at lords in 1978. Reckon I got bored and played in the garden. Anyway, c’mon you saffer-Aussies - create some tension and go for it!

A not very subtle threat to the England Test programme there

So here at lords we’ve had a blockathon 127 runs in 2 sessions for 8 wickets on a perfectly ok pitch and in the sunshine. Can’t help thinking there’s a team missing from this final who would be playing very differently….

When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind.

I don't post super often here, but I just came by to share this news article with you (published alongside the paper in Nature yesterday).

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are a couple of sentences in the news article that stuck with me more than anything:

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They were careless people, Elon and Donald. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.

All of Bluesky right now.

finally a worthy Alien vs. Predator installment

Not wanting to give the Grauniad any clicks so here's a grab.

It's EDI on this side of the Atlantic; Blue Labour's handlers are obviously American.

SpaceX loses contact with its Starship on 9th test flight after last 2 went down in flames After back-to-back Starship upper stage failures, SpaceX on Tuesday again launched the world's most powerful rocket, but faced new problems.

Elon can't even get right something we accomplished over 60 years ago... and your tax dollars are paying for it. That's the waste, fraud and abuse.

Was at TB today and Stokes bowled briefly as a mid-over replacement for Bashir, who had injured his hand, and was head and shoulders better than every other bowler in the match. It’s an intensity thing. He’s got it. Australia beware.

So Root just chucked the ball at the batsman’s head and the umpires did nothing. And I’m supposed to implement this new ruling tomorrow….

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Whispering Death.

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