Marnie Chesterton

Strong work. Meanwhile, I will buy some and not get around to sending them. Then consign them to the cupboard of no return

Dear maths people: How would you say this equation in words? X.sum()%2 (friend of mine narrating a book wants to know)

I picked out the chickpeas and had an okay curry

Thank you- this is it exactly

Help! Does anyone know what this is? I bought it at my local south Asian veg store because they didn’t have any spinach. The guy said it was something that sounds like “hosu hosu” but I clearly misheard. Anyway, I tried a bit of stem and it felt like I’d put a nettle in my mouth.

Arrived in Brooklyn just in time for Mamdani’s victory. Hilarious scenes as the cars slow down to shout at the cheering crowds. Car1: “I love socialism” Car2: “Fuck you, commies”

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Huuuuge discussions about this , because we corrected last week, and someone corrected our correction, and answering that has taken us to a medieval town called Troyes, and some books in the British Museum’s archives. And some maps of whether that bit of France was in the English realm at the time.

Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.

It's a very interesting development because i know many in the industry expected to see chocolate substitutes / alternatives come in more gradually / subtly than this.

But taking the "🎵if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club!🎵" bar is a surprise.

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I'm recording a World Service show with a guest in Bengaluru.... and Diwali has kicked off big time - every time he talks, it sounds like there's a war zone in the back ground! 🎆

Just about to do Inside Science on Radio 4, featuring @pennysarchet.bsky.social talking fit mice, the moon & Shackleton; comedian @josielong.bsky.social on Megafauna and @philipcball.bsky.social unpicks the quantum in the Nobel Prize for Physics

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Imogen was a novella about a pasty lumpen teenager who accidentally goes on holiday with a glamorous St Tropez gang. Pasty lumpen teenage me loved it. Even with the terrible puns.

My Queen is dead. Jilly Cooper is gone 💔

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Are embryos made from skin cells the future of fertility treatment? Scientists have made early-stage human embryos using skin cell DNA fertilised with sperm

Right now, I’m on Radio 4’s Inside Science with @amsterdammed.bsky.social, chatting about my favourite science news:

🪐 potential signs exoplanet Trappist 1e could be habitable
🐨 a new vaccine for koala chlamydia

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Just discovered that Jane Goodall like this! We discuss her life and legacy on Inside Science tomorrow. #RIPJaneGoodall

“Utter bastards” yes please

Someone, or some group, has cable-tied 16 union jacks around the BBC. Which feels excessive. I’d love to know if any outfit has a flag budget?

Double yup to this!

Is …. That bad? It feels like double what you’d get in the Uk?

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central. Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window. Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot. Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform. Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dear internet- if I’m doing a science show about trains for the World Service, what should I absolutely cover, topic-wise?

I can’t read this as anything other than sarcastic trolling from the NYT puzzle bot

BBC Inside Science - What does caffeine do to our bodies? - BBC Sounds The evidence on whether high caffeine energy drinks affect our health.

Last week, I joined @amsterdammed.bsky.social on Radio 4’s Inside Science to chat about my favourite science news:

🌋 How a volcanic eruption might have sparked the French Revolution
☀️ A new way to detect worrying solar storms
🐕 Dogs can thrive on a vegan diet

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After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab

‘On 18 August, judicial police showed up at the Research Institute in Health Sciences (IRSS) in Bobo-Dioulasso, a key partner in Target Malaria, to stage what scientists described as a “brutal, humiliating” raid.’

My story on mosquitoes, malaria and misinformation in @science.org 🧪

Alert for Train Fans: I’m doing a special episode of Unexpected Elements for the 200th anniversary of passenger trains. It’s for the BBC World Service and is science themed, so any stories or experts I should be looking at? Please let me know/retweet

And @carolinesteel.bsky.social and I chat dark matter on Ganymede and strategies for winning Guess Who. Radio 4 now